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by taldo 4y ago
Comments mention driving too close to the car in front, or too fast, but I'd like to bring attention to distracted drivers. You can see how late the 4th-8th car apply the brakes, and quite reluctantly too. The first couple of cars behi
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by taldo 4y ago
Besides echoing the survivorship bias warning in other comments, I'd like to point out that just a bit of skill and will can turn the fate of a lot of this 'crap' around. Dull peeler? Sharpen it. Now you have a sharp peeler t
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“THERMONUCLEAR BAD” Covid situation in China getting out of control(twitter.com)
8 points by taldo 4y ago|5 comments
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by taldo 4y ago
It's great design, straight to the point, but I have 2 big issues with it: - It's VERY US centric: I can't get even half of the recommended products where I live. - I'd love to see recommendations for more specific mater
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Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons(evernote.com)
384 points by taldo 4y ago|344 comments
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by taldo 4y ago
nit: it probably works above 62 deg North, only that due to lower satellite density it'll take longer to push/pull the bytes [citation needed]
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by taldo 4y ago
TIL, thanks. I was at Google around the time Curie was being built and coming online (ca. 2018-2019, I think), and it has 4 pairs . I misremembered it being 4 fibers .
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by taldo 4y ago
Subsea cables usually have 4 or so fibers, since they need repeaters every so many km, which drives the cost-per-fiber (the actual strand of glass is approximately free for all practical purposes).
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by taldo 4y ago
So... kind of Google Cloud Tasks, but webhook only? Or EventBridge/CloudWatch Events in AWS-land...
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by taldo 4y ago
Maybe they should've done it the other way around: keep 9% of their workforce, let go 91%
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by taldo 4y ago
When the cost of delivering your product/service is mostly compute or traffic, sure, migrating off of AWS is a must once you reach a certain scale. But for the other 99% [0], where infrastructure is but a small cost, then think really
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by taldo 4y ago
A more down-to-earth example: Evernote is (almost entirely) on MySQL. Since most of the stuff is "yours", it's fairly easy to shard partitioning by user. And the global stuff which is not that much (users/auth/etc)
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by taldo 4y ago
One very important limitation: you run out of hands.
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by taldo 4y ago
These days I use Tailscale + any random VPS I can rent for a while in the region I'm interested (usually DO, sometimes others). The setup is easy (for me): create VPS, install tailscale, cut+paste the setup command, done. Then in the T
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by taldo 4y ago
Google has a couple of small canopies over parking in their campus (near B42 [0]). I vaguely recall someone saying that it was so expensive to get permits and stuff, that they just dropped the idea altogether. [0]: 37.42155847329576,-122.08
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by taldo 4y ago
I'd say it's easier to start with an SDR receiver and passively listening to stuff. Figuring out remote control protocols and whatnot is relatively easy with those cheap tools. If you still enjoy it after playing with that, then j
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by taldo 4y ago
As many others have said: YT these days is mostly entertainment, and, yes, driven by money. There's the few goldmines in their niche topics, but you're not going to have much luck finding them. In particular, I personally find mak
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by taldo 4y ago
And while this refers to parking under an elevated bridge / overpass, parking in an underpass, or even a slightly-under-ground-level pass is probably an even worse idea. They tend to flood.
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by taldo 5y ago
Had they remembered to connect the ground reference for the Bus Pirate, they would've had a much easier time reading the data back :) OTOH: how is that even legal? I can't fully grasp how privacy is perceived as a sacred basic rig
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by taldo 5y ago
I can imagine that someone is going to come up with a way to encrypt the stuff, such that only the holder of the private key "owning" the NFT can decrypt it, or something along those lines.
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by taldo 5y ago
Ah, the laughs (Xoogler since 2020). It was a lot easier, at least last year: you'd use "flex" quota from your PA pool (product area) for Spanner and Borg, write some code for your server, a few configs here and there, and yo
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by taldo 5y ago
The few Mujin videos I watched look a lot like PCB assembly pick-n-place machines. A little bit of computer vision, a little sensing here and there, but overall fairly simple pre-programmed moves, on a pretty controlled environment.
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by taldo 5y ago
Or on a single modern smartphone?
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by taldo 5y ago
I would think they just couldn't fit a standard IEC C-14 AC connector in such a slim package.
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by taldo 6y ago
Their control group was people that had influenza and other respiratory conditions in the same timeframe. The hazard ratios for COVID survivors (over influenza or others) were in the 1-2% range. Meh.
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by taldo 6y ago
For all the effects, having had COVID-19 means about 1-2% higher chance of each of the disorders they were looking at, except for one that was like 5%. IOW, sure, about a third of COVID-19 survivors have some conditions in the following 6 m
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by taldo 6y ago
CAPsMAN is a royal PITA to set up. You have to manually add all the wifi channels, map each AP to the channels it'll use, and a lot of busywork. Once it's set up, though, it works fine, and lets you upgrade all devices from the ma
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by taldo 6y ago
What about a rogue datacenter technician that plugs usb devices into a few servers? Or a wiring contractor that installs a pcie card on your servers while they're conveniently powered off during the weekend while they upgrade something
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by taldo 6y ago
What I don't understand is why it has to be a hamiltonian cycle. It could be simplified to just picking the set of edges in the directed graph that make every vertex have one incoming and one outgoing edge. The naive approach would be
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by taldo 6y ago
$1,337 for watch history + liked videos + watch later disclosure? Requires user to visit a malicious site, yes, but still feels a bit skimpy.

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