ploxiln

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811.
by ploxiln 11y ago
That's true, but if it's sitting in your datacenter which is stably attached to some point on the surface of the earth, that's a well defined frame of reference.
812.
by ploxiln 11y ago
it would be a real problem if they drifted at all ... that's kinda the point of atomic clocks, no?
813.
by ploxiln 11y ago
It's fair to criticize my somewhat harsh and yet hard-analysis-free critique. But let me explain why it matters to me, and what the relation to Redis Sentinel is: "Redlock" is a fancy name, involves multiple nodes and some si
814.
by ploxiln 11y ago
The quality of your C code running on a single node is by all accounts really good. But you sometimes speak about distributed systems in a way that is not correct to people who have really spent a lot of time making these things work at sca
815.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Oh yes. No one is any better than anyone else at anything. In fact, github isn't a better hosted SCM/code review/issue tracking platform than any other. Which makes sense, because none of their employees are better at doing a
816.
by ploxiln 11y ago
It seems like economies of scale have steamrolled quality. If one company can sell 1000x the volume to people who don't know better, then even those who do know better will often find the high-volume choice more practical due to cost a
817.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Layer IDs were random UUIDs before.
818.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Same experience here. But: I've had luck complaining with a few well-chose hashtags and mentions on twitter, getting the attention of a tech lead related to a particular AWS service. One example: redshift. Had an expensive temporary cl
819.
by ploxiln 11y ago
No one bothered to watch the watchers (most of us just uninstalled commercial anti-virus/anti-malware crap, or moved to other OSes). Until now, when Tavis Ormandy decides to do this frustrating unpleasant work as a service to humanity.
820.
by ploxiln 11y ago
It's also worth mentioning that it uses the USB-CDC ("communications device class") standard driver, which is long supported/included in windows and linux and intended for use by arbitrary manufacturers. The situation is
821.
by ploxiln 11y ago
I feel for those people, I do. But in this market, you can't get something which does the right thing, without hours doing the opposite of "automatic". Such an offering does not exist. You can live with a system that has vari
822.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Yes, firmware blobs suck, no argument there. But forget about that aspect for a moment, and consider the firmware a mostly unchangeable part of the hardware. Hardware has bugs. A lot of hardware has had bugs for a long time. Linux has had t
823.
by ploxiln 11y ago
CMake seems more difficult for the person building the software. I'm familiar with autoconf's configure options like --prefix and variables like CXXFLAGS, and if not I can see a reasonably short listing and explanation of them wit
824.
by ploxiln 11y ago
File attributes need to be implemented by the filesystem. efivars is a pseudo-filesystem which does not implement them. It could, but that is one of the more needlessly complicated solutions...
825.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Speech recognition could help. In fact some doctors already make (very quick) voice-recording notes and have an assistant transcribe them. But... we already have much more advanced technology than we had 30, 20, or even 15 years ago. And th
826.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Really, for video, 1080p is absolutely fine, if the video is not over-compressed. Even around 20mbps, 4k won't look better than 1080p, for full-motion full-color video content. Typical movie theaters use 4k today, and 2k (very close to
827.
by ploxiln 11y ago
I think it's interesting to consider the reasons why that is. Why are backends typically slowly upgraded while maintaining a compatible API, while front-ends undergo big re-designs and re-writes from scratch just about every year? At c
828.
by ploxiln 11y ago
While that's true, this blog post points out that to make a dent in the market, you need some factories. You can't just have Foxconn assemble your cars with key parts from Samsung. I don't think Apple can pull a rabbit out of
829.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Unbootable within days? As in, you install a linux distro and it can boot, you switch between using it and using windows for a few days, and then after a few days linux can't boot? That's very strange; I've never seen that in
830.
by ploxiln 11y ago
There can often be issues with managing pools of tcp connections in clients - locking around accessing the pool, corner cases in state/lifetime of a connection in the pool, etc. In my experience with other databases and languages anywa
831.
by ploxiln 11y ago
meh - the second amendment isn't very popular these days, and outside the US (well of course it doesn't apply but additionally) people really don't seem to appreciate it
832.
by ploxiln 11y ago
You must use Firefox on Android. I did as well. Apparently they're aware and working on a fix, but for now it works better in a webkit based browser on a phone. (Including Chrome on Android.)
833.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Don't you want startups to fail and waste the money of wealthy investors in the process? That would reduce economic inequality, would it not?
834.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Maybe wireless ISPs, maybe wired ISPs in Asia, but not wired ISPs in the US or Europe.
835.
by ploxiln 11y ago
>> No doubt even this version leaves some room. And in the unlikely event I left no holes, some will say I’m backpedalling or doing “damage control.” But anyone who wants to can test that claim by comparing this to the original. >
836.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Your 100% vs 25% is for completely different metrics. Insurers will pay out over 100% of premiums for some small percentage of people, but will pay out less than 100% of what they take in premiums overall, or else they go out of business. I
837.
by ploxiln 11y ago
but see, that's not "insurance"
838.
by ploxiln 11y ago
from TFA: > For 2016 and beyond, the penalty will be $695 per adult or 2.5 percent of household income, up from $325 per adult or 2 percent of household income last year. The difference is that health care costs in the US are nonsensical
839.
by ploxiln 11y ago
Well, that's not traditionally how health insurance works in the US, but it's how all types of "insurance" should work - it should not be for routine costs. Insurance, generally, should be for unlikely unexpected cos
840.
by ploxiln 11y ago
I got the text message (and of course I'd read about it in tech news for weeks before), but I've never seen the option where it's supposed to be. It's just not there under "Other Services" for me. Wasn't t

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