rbirkby

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by rbirkby 8y ago
Although the 3a+ is great, the ram is underwhelming. Would love a “3a+ Master” with the exact specs of the 3a+ but with 2GB RAM.
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by rbirkby 8y ago
Good points. Also, the strange case of access-control-allow-origin containing a list of origins. Or rather the lack of support for the whole standard.
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by rbirkby 8y ago
Shock! Wikipedia is wrong! The first AWS service was AWIS, still going strong today, although only usable by root accounts, not IAM. This misinformation is perpetuated by AWS evangelists who claim SQS was the first service. https:/&#x
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by rbirkby 8y ago
Their self driving unit - mobileye - uses MIPS.
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by rbirkby 8y ago
Apple's GPU is designed just down the road from Imaginations HQ. Guess where the designers previously worked...
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by rbirkby 9y ago
March 2017. http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/brondesbury-park-bomb-saf...
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by rbirkby 9y ago
Tesla & smart energy meters. Don't they both do this?
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by rbirkby 10y ago
Can anyone get Alexa to play music? Is this related?
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by rbirkby 10y ago
Wait until you see a Turing complete DSL programming language stored line-by-line in rows in a database table and executed by pl/SQL using cursors, locking the entire execution to prevent concurrency.
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by rbirkby 10y ago
Except if you need to use AWS services such as AWIS which requires root account access keys...
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by rbirkby 10y ago
Blast radius reduction. Especially when different agencies build systems for the same company.
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by rbirkby 10y ago
Check out the encoding of the tetrominoes in this implementation: https://github.com/jakesgordon/javascript-tetris My subsequent port to C and Arduino was very natural: http://youtu.be/t3QOeQbEHVs
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by rbirkby 10y ago
The architects at Foster + Partners designing the Apple campus use Revit and being architects they want the coolest tech. Surface Studio hits that sweetspot better than anything from Apple at the moment.
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by rbirkby 10y ago
Should have used RxJS https://xgrommx.github.io/rx-book/content/getting_started_wi...
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by rbirkby 12y ago
I remember reading 20 years ago about Lotus developing fake engine noise using an Esprit mule vehicle containing a tiny compact engine. The Esprit was historically a 4-pot, so never sounded that great. Until they added the V8 and it was a m
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by rbirkby 12y ago
Ten out of ten.
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by rbirkby 12y ago
Pop quiz: Which space vehicle does that article misspell. And why?
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by rbirkby 13y ago
And fixed: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink/trunk/Source/core/svg/g...
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by rbirkby 13y ago
Visual Studio since 2002 (.Net 1.0) has been partly written in C#/WinForms and then C#/WPF. Visual Interdev (from which the current Visual Studio lineage descends) was partly written in VJ++. It was these bits that were ported to
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by rbirkby 13y ago
A Chrome/Blink issue has already been raised for this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=253091
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by rbirkby 13y ago
Adding #container {-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);} puts the whole div as a texture onto the GPU as a composited layer. This improves scrolling massively, but interestingly SVG still has a little bit more jank than the PNG version. See h
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by rbirkby 14y ago
Why does a site limit password lengths at all? Because at some point, some other limit will be exceeded. For example, HTTP POST size or even working-set size. But the question is specifically about low maximum password lengths. This boils
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by rbirkby 20y ago
Sorry to be really anal and pedantic, but you can have more than 1 language in a .Net DLL (assembly). You compile the code for each language to a .Net module, then bind these together with a manifest into a .Net assembly. I told you it was