sly010

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   by sly010 9y ago

   Btw anyone ever measured that gamer shaped wifi routers with fancy remote apps sell better? I was going to buy into Google's Wifi solution until I realized you manage it with an App. Is that really what customers want or is it just the
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   by sly010 9y ago

   Imho this is a much better solution than 2to3. If python3 adoption is the goal, python3 should be the input and not the output.
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   by sly010 9y ago

   I don't typically use assistants and voice based interfaces beyond "Alexa, what's the weather" which is arguably not that impressive. However... I welcome 3rd party, independent applications of this type, because I find
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   by sly010 9y ago

   Apple tax to me also means the average ~$1000/year I have to spend on replacing otherwise completely perfect Apple hardware that gets conveniently software upgraded to be too old for normal daily functions :)
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   by sly010 10y ago

   I don't have the link, but I remember reading that in the US energy requirements peaked somewhere 5-10 years ago.
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   by sly010 10y ago

   Won't this just delay the adoption of IPv6?
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   by sly010 10y ago

   The examples in the article are all kind of acceptable, but I have asked google some very factual question (e.g. can covariance be negative) where it picked out the wrong answer from stack overflow that was clearly the opposite of the truth
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   by sly010 10y ago

   I proposed my wife in front of the "original" Geyser (actually the functioning one right next to it) in Iceland. The night we posted a photo a friend of mine emailed me asking if I was the a7le who threw the red paint into the Gey
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   by sly010 10y ago

   AWS is the Salesforce of computing. Salesforce "consultants" routinely charge $10K+ for setting up an account and configuring a few triggers. We will not loose your job, it might just look a little different. Perhaps instead of wr
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    by sly010 10y ago

    Off-topic: When broadband came to my hometown around 2003 it was build out by a local guy so I managed to ask him to provide us a static IP address. I am always amused when I visit my parents that their IP address is still the same. Off-off
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    by sly010 10y ago

    Scala is very powerful. Too powerful. There are too many ways to do the same thing and no idiomatic way. Some people also abuse Scala to create DSLs with horrific syntax that is very hard to comprehend. I love and use Scala, but I can total
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    by sly010 10y ago

    I am sure there are APIs for postcards. Heck, there are APIs for handwritten postcards ;)
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    by sly010 10y ago

    Google keeps coming up with ways to use machine learning to do autofills, suggestions, etc. A month ago Allo [0], then that article in Verge about computational photography [1], then cameras without lenses [2] and now this. There is no ques
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    by sly010 10y ago

    Will you change the name to mainstreamhackers.com?
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    by sly010 10y ago

    My main problem with recycling as done today in most cities I just don't know what do they expect from me. In London my district had different bins for different colors of glass. I live in NYC now, where I hear they have a 2 stream sys
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    by sly010 10y ago

    > This password is then destroyed by both parties. I don't quite understand this. Won't the email client need the need the password every time to auth with IMAP?
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    by sly010 10y ago

    It is how most databases, filesystems and distributed systems work, so we know how to build those things, we don't even need merkle trees. And despite the fact that many real world problems can be better modeled with an append only log
18. 408.▲
    by sly010 10y ago

    Is there a tiny housing bubble?
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    by sly010 10y ago

    Or just happen to receive dividends...
20. 410.▲
    by sly010 10y ago

    "1040EZ" is an eaaasssy version of 1040. He is specifially talking about filling "1040".
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    by sly010 10y ago

    I feel like this comes up every March :)
22. 412.▲
    by sly010 10y ago

    And will be the year of the Linux Desktop.
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    by sly010 10y ago

    > At first the compiler was about 20 lines long, and the only thing that was able to do is to read an integer from the standard input and then emit a program that immediately exits with the integer as exit code. I always find it hard to
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    by sly010 10y ago

    Looks more like "my-stack web development".
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    by sly010 10y ago

    I did an experiment once. Searched for some random stuff on Google and Duck Duck Go. Of the 10 topics 7 of them showed relevant topic on Duck Duck Go while only news articles on Google.
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    by sly010 10y ago

    I agree on AWS it's a hard move. On GCE, however, you would be buying CPU and memory units, not machines, which to me is much more appealing. Even if the the price drops 50% every year, i would break even.
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    by sly010 10y ago

    The simplest one might be to convince a company to reserve 3 years worth of AWS resources and paying upfront. I am in this situation right now, but and it's a tough pill to swallow. I decided that all of my personal projects will be GC
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    by sly010 10y ago

    All that stack and overhead to serve what is basically static data? Come on, if this was released ~2 weeks from now it would be funny... It kind of reminds me when all bitcoin private keys were leaked: http://directory.io/
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    by sly010 10y ago

    > I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant That is probably due to the choice of musical scale more than due to Pi. I believe the output of randint(0,10) on the same musical scale would sound jus
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    by sly010 10y ago

    Pretty cool. I did look at my calendar quickly to see that it's not April 1. The "How we made this" part makes for a great parody of cloud computing.