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by rab_oof 12y ago
One would think surveillance audio/video should be sufficiently high resolution to remove reasonable doubt as to identity and circumstances. Then again, it might be that surveillance systems are considered a "bothersome cost of
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Getting tenure is almost like winning the lottery, except more folks have PhDs than buy tickets it seems. (Double-edged sword of university pension commitment cheapness and oversupply of labor to grind out papers.)
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by rab_oof 12y ago
OSX really needs adjtimex or ntp_adjtime for high-precision clock synchronization for PLL loops (unless there's another way). If XNU devs wont do it, I may consider adding a new call to the sysent table via a kext (easier to do becaus
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by rab_oof 12y ago
I'm working on a research language with an extra set "explicit math operators" which expose carry in, carry out, etc. explicitly, and doesn't do type promotions and signals errors on under/ overflow. "+!"
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by rab_oof 12y ago
It's clear LibreSSL is only a half measure. TLS is far too complicated with design-by-committee, special vendor extension sauce nonsense. Heck, the FIPS code was rushed and basically done at the behest of US/Canadian govts. Open
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by rab_oof 12y ago
By contrast, "T-shaped" people are a delight to work with... Centroid of some deep domain knowledge and/or ownership of specific process/es but able to get out their comfort zone and don't really care what the title
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Nodoz (caffeine pills)? A fraction of one will help with the headaches associated with withdrawal vasospasms.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Notes from the trenches: There's a million and N ways to die, both as a company and an individual, if you let them. Basically, expect failure as a default state, don't (or try not to) take it personally. Don't give up on so
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Also, you don't need another computer to use it.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
It's dilettante computing without the phallacy of having a shipping product.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Anyone else have 100% CPU storeaccountd with iBooks offline?
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by rab_oof 12y ago
I agree and thought of that a couple years ago. The issue is that it takes a loong time to converge APIs of desktop and mobile. Plus, there are power and cooling issues. Next, stuffing in a CPU and GPU that can satisfy both requirements
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by rab_oof 12y ago
What use case? They are already loads of TV tuner cards that are cheaper and exist.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
The dirty relationship between life and entropy could be "hoard as much energy as possible, multiply and feel free to waste energy for fun."
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Does Moka5 have something new eg they're still alive? Moka5 was basically running apps on packaged VMware hypervisors on Mac and Windows endpoints, but centrally-managed like Citrix Metaframe. The better approach is simply wrap the app
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Always experiment with pricing. It's easy to misprice ewares optimally by a magnitude of 2.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Be sure that your mfgr isn't running off extra for AliBaba, free markets or other channels. Contract mfgrs are notorious about ripping off IP and product.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Except, the FTC will bankrupt you with false and misleading claims like these. If it is pitched as a toy, that's one thing but you haven't. You're just lying.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Folks gotta eat and have kids to pay for as well. People demanding something for nothing doesn't scale, so it we must settle for something in between: Mutual value.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Thiel would agree. A niche that other people ignore or say "can't be done." Can always widen it later.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
We need a thread about most revenue from least investment ($, time). :)
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Several folks do a few hundred / month with a few ad-supported utility mobile apps. That's enough for gas and food. To get to ramen profitability, either a good mobile or biz SaaS app. B2C should rarely be depended on for boots
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Is it monetizing 1k+/month?
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by rab_oof 12y ago
At scale, compute boxes are rarely upgraded because it's TCO cheaper to invest in newer systems (or CPU, mb, RAM). IOW, it's cheaper to wait and refresh everything, that is unless you're adding RAM, CPUs or disks. If form fa
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Compare oranges-to-oranges or it's a straw man: Using an equal fraction of an efficient server is undoubtedly.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
How many of these sticks, powered hubs and controlling computers would you have to buy to equal one green 1U server? On the order of 64 USB sticks, 15 powered hubs AND one computer... That's 15 cheap bricks and a computer's power
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Yup. If any of this class of product were any good, we'd be using them right now. And even if Intel produced the best of breed, how much computing power can be wringed out of the power supplied by USB (say 10W max, which is generous)
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by rab_oof 12y ago
They're power limited by what a USB port can provide. It would make more sense to buy actual rack-mounted gear. Also, you'll need to setup a cloud cluster... A nontrivial task.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Without metric tons of engineering effort for a questionable use-case. The cheaper and more sensible options are: bigger laptop or run the workload elsewhere.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
The one system image idea is the next logical progression of N screens. The engineering issue is providing enough cooling to a laptop+phone when being used as a desktop/laptop... The entire dock would have to be a heatsink for folks t

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