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by snom380 9y ago
I got around 10% of our Xen instances scheduled for reboot on Jan 4th, mostly long running instances. It's the first time I've seen that many instances scheduled at once.
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by snom380 9y ago
..and guess how this system is activated? Using traditional FM (some form of RDS, I think). Which is why not all the transmitters have been turned off yet.
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by snom380 9y ago
The original DAB codec had more error protection for the more important parts of the audio data (unequal error protection), so while not the same it would give a more gradual reduction in quality instead of a sharp drop-off. DAB+ doesn&#x27
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by snom380 9y ago
I agree it's a bug, but this is far, far more difficult to test against with a chaos monkey than one might think. With a whole datacenter down, not to speak of multiple availability zones, problems and dependencies will crop up that ar
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by snom380 9y ago
My iPhone 6 is from 2014, next year it'll still run a supported OS that seems to be about as snappy as the previous version. Assuming a yearly iOS release that's 4 years next year (assuming they stop supporting iPhone 6 in iOS 12)
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by snom380 9y ago
That you don't have a revolution like the first iPhone doesn't mean it's ever "done". When you sum up all the boring, evolutionary changes over the last 10 years you end up with something pretty outstanding. Especia
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by snom380 9y ago
Is the sound quality of the lightning to headphone jack adapter inferior to the built-in DAC of previous models?
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by snom380 9y ago
Sure it's our job to do that. The job still gets easier when you have the law backing you up. An excellent example is how many companies are in panic mode right now to get GDPR compliant before next year. There's a lot of security
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by snom380 9y ago
He quoted Alan Kay during the iPhone launch to explain how Apple went about doing things: "If you really care about software, you should build your own hardware." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XAfTXYa36f4
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by snom380 9y ago
Youtube is about user uploaded content, and without a content recognition system in place for video and audio and licensing in place with both the movie and music industry they would have been dead in the water, just like SoundCloud. What o
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by snom380 9y ago
I think it's right to speak publically when called for (for instance with whisteblowers). Without people doing that, we'd actually have much less transparency in our democracy. Companies where employees actually keep secrets do so
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by snom380 9y ago
Does the fact that it's not their core contradict what I'm saying? Youtube is still hugely popular for people to share their own recordings and remixes. I know that it took a long time for YouTube to figure out the licensing stuff
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by snom380 9y ago
I didn't downvote, but: - Presumably the people inside the company has tried for years to pressure for a change. When that doesn't work, and especially once a big layoff happens, it's understandable that employees vent their
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by snom380 9y ago
It's also wishful thinking. If IBM had controlled that, there wouldn't have been a big enough ecosystem around the PC platform for it to become the winner. IBM also tried to grab this back with PS/2 and OS/2 which also f
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by snom380 9y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to compare the risk profile of a hydrogen airship to an airliner that uses kerosene in metal tanks (that are now filled with nitrogen as they empty, just in case) and has fire suppression systems in t
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by snom380 9y ago
I don't think it's given that he's right or wrong. Apple has chosen a very different path (powerful devices with local apps) and they're also extremely successful. The real lesson, I think, is that most people don't
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by snom380 10y ago
The problem is that they still have a pretty small product design department, and they're committed to not shipping "crap" products. What I really don't understand is why they didn't foresee this, and just updated t
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by snom380 10y ago
Same in Norway. Almost all new installations have 3-phase.
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by snom380 10y ago
The diesel engines that Diamond sells now (from Austro Engine) are unrelated to the the old troubled Thielert diesel engines they initially used, IIRC.
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by snom380 10y ago
No, it hasn't. Or, there's been aftermarket options and multiple attempts to make more efficient engines, but many have had reliability problems. When your life depends on it, you're more likely to choose the engine that has
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by snom380 10y ago
There are many ways to make money, one obvious one would be a subscription. Of course, that makes the service less viral since payment would be an obstacle, so in practice the services that win in the marketplace won't use that (at lea
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by snom380 10y ago
"If you don't like it, don't log out" is an easy answer, but for many it's more difficult in practice, especially if your social circle uses FB Messenger or WhatsApp to communicate and plan events. Not to mention ho
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by snom380 10y ago
As a Norwegian, I find it fascinating that Norway has an environmentally friendly image. I wonder how much is the "pristine" fjords, and how much is because of the hydroelectric plants.
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by snom380 10y ago
The nice thing about hydroelectric is that the energy you use from photovoltaics during the summer means you don't have to drain the dams as much during summer, which means you'll have more power in store for winter (unless you&#x
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by snom380 10y ago
Many municipalities already have that in place (for sending out alerts about water quality etc). The problem with cell towers is that the infrastructure is more brittle with more moving parts. There's been cases where fires, power out
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by snom380 10y ago
https://www.google.no/search?q=fjord&tbm=isch
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by snom380 10y ago
The bitrate requirement should be lower for DAB+, although this article seems to contradict that: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2013/11/what-bitrate-is-...
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by snom380 10y ago
It can be set independently per station. As an example, in Norway the NRK Jazz channel transmits at 64 kbit/s, while NRK Klassisk (classical music) transmits at 96 kbit/s.
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by snom380 10y ago
There's a huge marketing / awareness campaign going on right now in Norway to get people to upgrade their FM radios. I wonder if the radio stations will realize too late that they're throwing away their one advantage (ubiquit
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by snom380 10y ago
There are some reviews of different options here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2015/oct/0...

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