skimo8

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by skimo8 4y ago
It’s more a statement of how they operate IMO. I’ve watched them be extremely conservative over the years to see which ideas stick and wait until hardware has matured. My HTC thunderbolt was one of the first “4G” phones, but was barely usea
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by skimo8 4y ago
To be fair, iOS version increments usually aren’t rocket science if you don’t want to take advantage of all the new features right away.
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by skimo8 4y ago
I think the UL/DL is more due to the design of the network (I’m talking about Iridium data packets). The connection isn’t persistent like a computer in many cases. For example, a handset does both passive and active checks at some inte
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by skimo8 4y ago
Thats true, but aircraft engines also run harder, must be lighter, and more reliable. It has been discussed elsewhere, and is a technically harder problem. On top of that, general aviation makes up a much smaller part of the population moto
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by skimo8 4y ago
To be fair, I think ML workloads are quite a bit different than the days of compiling over lunch breaks. What the above post was probably trying to get at is that the ML specific hardware is far more efficient these days than consumer GPUs.
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by skimo8 4y ago
This isn’t entirely true. If you have WiFi calling enabled, you can also send SMS over WiFi if the carrier supports it. I use this extensively when traveling internationally.
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by skimo8 4y ago
I certainly hope not. I've been fully remote working a single job in a tiny, mountain town since 2016 and have been more productive than ever. I'm happy to travel for work, but will never give up my morning coffee on the continen
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by skimo8 4y ago
Cloudfront makes S3 effectively free for hobby applications. That’s what I use for my self hosted version of Imgur.
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by skimo8 4y ago
Throw it behind cloudfront. You now get a terabyte of egress free.
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by skimo8 4y ago
I can answer this for my use case. I often go for a run and leave my wallet/phone at home. I’ll play music off my watch to keep things light and minimal. Sometimes I might take a break for a coffee with friends, and I have used this nu
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by skimo8 4y ago
Apologies - I was indeed referring to the cash back rewards.
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by skimo8 4y ago
I use it for cash back. It helps to significantly offset sales tax for me. Yes, the money is always coming from somewhere and arguably products might be cheaper without credit cards. However, it’s the game we’re in, so why leave money on th
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by skimo8 4y ago
I use a ULAs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address ) for this. I have a private, non-routeable subnet, and another non-stable prefix for globally routable addresses. In effect, it's not much different
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by skimo8 4y ago
Granted I’m rural, but ours took a week and a half to get back online when a forest fire burned a microwave tower. It took out Charter cable to our house & Verizon. I am a fully remote tech worker, and this was bad (I had to work remote
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by skimo8 5y ago
This is why a recently calibrated altimeter is used for the altitude axis on GPS approaches. They also must have a constrained error margin to be certified, and it is factored into the buffered region around the approach.