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by rb2k_ 7y ago
I've switched a lot of my existing light automation over to esphome [0]. I flashed it on various cheap LED Wifi bulbs that have been 'liberated' via tuya convert [1] After going through zigbee and zwave, I feel like I finally
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by rb2k_ 7y ago
Fair point. I guess there were only 2 months left in 2019 :D
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by rb2k_ 7y ago
"Today, Apple also announced that the all-new Mac Pro" "Mac Pro starts at $5,999 and Pro Display XDR starts at $4,999. Both will be available to order in December through apple.com." They keep announcing it, yet you stil
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by rb2k_ 7y ago
They tend to be the first to e.g. introduce OTA updates, map updates over wifi/lte, ... They are also one of the very few manufacturers that maintain their cars and even do somewhat major UI upgrades for years after the original releas
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by rb2k_ 7y ago
Having worked at a German company (in Germany) that creates tooling for that kind of software development. They had a huge smalltalk program that created embedded C code (AUTOSAR/MISRA if I remember correctly). Tests only ran manually
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by rb2k_ 7y ago
The title makes it sound like this is a Germany wide thing. It's 'only' the state of Hesse which is around 6 million people. The responsibility for the education system in Germany lies primarily with the states.
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by rb2k_ 7y ago
Read https://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
The referenced 2017 paper is also super interesting: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn.2017.55 Especially the section about the impact on "Reward and incentive processing" had some fun insights.
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
That's not how the regressive tax system works. Your effeective tax rate is around 38% A nice 2 bed 2 bath is 4k, not 6k I don't even know how you would spend 3k a month in living expenses. All of those numbers are seem pretty off
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
Tell them that you signed an NDA and can't send them internal paperwork of a competitor. Talking about salary is one thing, but giving them the documents themselves is different.
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
I don't think copy-on-write is related (I don't know though)
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
The "how" consists mostly of reasonably up-to-date kernels that track main line as much as possible. As far as why, https://code.fb.com/open-source/linux/ has a nice quote: "Btrfs has played a role
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
Does anyone have experiences with enclose.io? http://enclose.io/ https://github.com/pmq20/ruby-packer I only used it once to test something and it worked nicely. These days I do a lot more python and x
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
In production tests I've seen the synthetic "wear out level" go down to 1% and the machine still writing Petabytes of data without any issues. That being said, I would only do that on machines that are mostly disposable :)
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
It’s barely workable once you hit a few thousand machines. That being said, most people don’t end up in that situation. Any large company doing IOS CI with 100+ developers however will encounter issues with the demise of network booting&#x2
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
Any comparisons to rclone's gdrive integration? Seems that rclone probably has the biggest userbase of the "google drive fuse mount" tools.
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
The amount of filesystem/networking issues I've seen fixed and all the performance improvements I got from just updating a kernel probably make up for the time that it caused issues. I guess it needs a critical mass + certain inf
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
No sources or benchmarks? Also: > But unless you’re using Fedora, your servers aren’t gonna taste it soon. Just by bad timing, the new Ubuntu LTS (18.04) due out next week will still use 4.15, which it will support for 5 years. Since Cen
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
From: https://github.com/alibaba/Dragonfly/blob/master/src/README.... - supernode(Java) - dfdaemon(GoLang) - getter(Python) Interesting distribution of languages in what seems to be a somewhat self-
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
Yeah, the 100k number was supposed to be rent and other things (food, child care, ...)
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
> if living with a family simply costs so much more there. Being from Germany myself, the additional salary in the Bay Area usually compensates for the higher cost of living unless you're fresh out of University. At least that'
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
from the article: "That's total compensation, which includes salary, bonus, and stock grants."
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by rb2k_ 8y ago
Somewhat hilariously, half of Germany is blurred on Street View. People can just request it in some countries.
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
Eh, it's not THAT bad. Back when I had T-mobile I had > 100 mbit/s LTE and worldwide (albeit slow outside of Canada or Mexico) data roaming for $50 I also still have 250 mbit/s internet with Comcast for $50 (slow upload th
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
I wonder when people will start just renting a 99 Euro server with a GTX 1080 from https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu and sell it for $367.2 / month on Vectordash
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
I'm German and I work in Silicon Valley and we get plenty of visitors from the German legislature. One of them always tends to ask me about what it would "to get people like me to come back to Germany". I usually just tell th
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
I wonder how feasible this would be to trick Plex into transparently 'mounting' a remote server's media files. (e.g. a VPS that can burst CPU to re-encode data once/twice a day and another one with barely any CPU but lar
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
> Digital can be maddening because it alternates between crystal-clear and OFF, which ultimately I think is worse. Some streaming services will also decide to auto-next-song after the slightest glitch which is annoying too. I wonder if t
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
No
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by rb2k_ 9y ago
Some of the best engineers that I worked with have been Linguists, Music/Composition majors or Physicists.

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