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189 points by spudlyo 12y ago|210 comments
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by spudlyo 12y ago
I have a fanless Haswell NUC from Logic Supply[0] that I use for a MythTV frontend that I really love. Boots super fast off the 32G SSD, and the HD-4400 GPU (with VAAPI) handles with aplomb every kind of video I've thrown at it. [0]:
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by spudlyo 12y ago
It's interesting how opinions about Ready Player One can be so polarized. As someone who spent their formative years living through the 80s, this book was a non-stop cringe-fest of embarrassment for me, made even worse by Wil Wheaton
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by spudlyo 12y ago
I have two original PC/AT keyboards, and I love them, not just for their correct placement of the CONTROL key, but because they are if anything, even louder and more tactile than the model M. To connect them to my Mac I have to use two
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by spudlyo 12y ago
Testing is actually pretty easy, you can get a fairly comprehensive test kit from dancesafe.org[0] for $65.00. [0]: http://www.dancesafe.org/product/coomplete-adulterant-screen...
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by spudlyo 12y ago
Cassandra was used at Twitter[0] to store quite a lot of time series data. A typical production instance of the time series database is based on four distinct Cassandra clusters, each responsible for a different dimension (real-time, histo
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by spudlyo 12y ago
I love the consistency of the HR data I get from my old-school Polar watch and band, but you're right, after a few hours the band is pretty uncomfortable. I was quite disappointed with the Basis watch. Even when it did work my HR would
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by spudlyo 12y ago
The watch isn't meant to compete with your phone for content consumption, it's for subtle notifications and alerts. Who is calling me? What meeting am I going to in 10 minutes? Who just texted me? I see myself getting a completely
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by spudlyo 12y ago
Lacking even a basic keyword search, I'm afraid this product falls well short of its tagline. Can you call it a search engine without a search feature? I do appreciate the ability to see jobs in a given category across all regions, but
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by spudlyo 12y ago
I don't know how anyone could argue they're under-resourced for the task of maintaining and improving a mature product. You mean Jeremy Cole, the guy you're arguing with, who led the effort at Google to standardize on Maria
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by spudlyo 12y ago
Obvious troll is obvious. MySQL professional here. I'm quite pleased with Oracle's 5.5 and 5.6 releases, and feel that they're doing a pretty good job. While they've not been perfect stewards, I feel they have done bet
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by spudlyo 12y ago
A snippet of that song is on YouTube from that documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afACnAMG9iM You can also hear 'Ever Onward' from the songbook here, which I am oddly drawn to. https://www.you
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by spudlyo 12y ago
If a function be advertised to return an error code in the event of difficulties, thou shalt check for that code, yea, even though the checks triple the size of thy code and produce aches in thy typing fingers, for if thou thinkest "i
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by spudlyo 12y ago
If any of the thousands of unemployed devops & sysadmin types out there are reading this: Twitter is looking to fill five open SRE positions in San Francisco[1] and two in Seattle[2]. [1] https://about.twitter.com/career
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by spudlyo 12y ago
Your nickname reminder isn't working. Try a post-it note on your monitor.
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by spudlyo 12y ago
The DB won't require manual fixes. Losing a transaction that was committed upstream can lead to a bunch of manual fixes in replicated database clusters. What happens if rows inserted in that lost transaction are eventually updated?
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by spudlyo 12y ago
I seem to remember that Venus image came with Deluxe Paint. Adding a third eye to it seems like something fun you might do when messing around with cut & paste. You can watch him on stage working with Deluxe Paint here: http:/&#
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by spudlyo 12y ago
I simply can't resist downvoting you, but alas, see what will happen to you if you joke about others misery? On the serious note though, there is this thing called "empathy" where a person has the capacity to recognize emotio
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Sounds like you need to fire the person who curates your Twitter feed.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Wow, I also have fond memories of playing games on an HP 2000 running timeshared BASIC, except it was the mid 80s for me. A bit of Star Trek, but a lot of Angband, Advent, an ASCII first person rendered Dungeon crawl, and a ton of time spen
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by spudlyo 13y ago
You've essentially just waved your hands. Conditional complication is not an issue at all; anyone working on a large portable program is going to have large swaths of conditionally compiled code. Phrases like "resource management
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by spudlyo 13y ago
I must be missing something. Why doesn't PostgreSQL use O_DIRECT when doing non-journaled writes to the data blocks? I know there are alignment restrictions on the userspace buffers used to do the reads and writes, but these don'
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Both releases (5.5 and 5.6) since Oracle acquired MySQL have been mostly pain-free and have brought excellent scalability and performance improvements. If you remember the fiasco that Sun gave us with MySQL 5.1, I think you'd find Orac
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by spudlyo 13y ago
They've included only one of the Twitter patches that I know of -- Jeremy Cole's NUMA pre-allocation and interleaving work. Percona contributes a lot of great stuff to the MySQL community, but their focus has always been supportin
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by spudlyo 13y ago
Heh, a buddy of mine always picks a female username when on freenode IRC looking for help with a technical problem. He says sometimes dudes fight over who has the better solution. Don't fight over me boys!
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by spudlyo 13y ago
I made a screencast showing a practical example of how to use strace to debug PHP/Apache issues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-p--AH37E
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by spudlyo 13y ago
My old Sun workstation of that vintage had an AUI[1] port that could be connected to either a 10Base-T, 10Base-5, or 10Base-2 transceiver. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_Unit_Interface
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by spudlyo 13y ago
If you think Postfix is hard to set up, you've probably never had to deal with Sendmail.
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by spudlyo 13y ago
I wondered that myself, to my ear it sounds a bit like Blackalicious, one of my favorite underground hip-hop acts. Turns out it's Wax Tailor's Positively Inclined. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv44r3q6zgo Dope!
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by spudlyo 13y ago
You should really take advantage of those lovely left side thumb buttons on the Kinesis. I have control and meta on the two largest left thumb buttons, which works great for me.

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