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by tech2 7y ago
I tried the charge3 and the step and stairs-climbed counters both read wildly incorrectly. It also had a tendency to track steps taken when driving. They also hadn't got the pulse-ox sensor doing anything at the time I returned it. The
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by tech2 8y ago
Except, of course, they are rarely thrown out :)
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by tech2 8y ago
Thank you for an opportunity to revive this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yW5cyXXRc
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by tech2 8y ago
Did you ever use the QNX demo-disk? A bootable Unix-like with GUI on a single 1.44MB floppy. I agree it's unrealistic these days, but it was an impressive statement-piece.
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by tech2 8y ago
"Amusingly" this is almost exactly what EU Article 11 & 13 are likely to result in (for slightly different reasons). One can but hope sense is seen soon.
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by tech2 8y ago
One of my all time favourites was Xinu (Xinu is not Unix), much more so than the doubly-weird Hurd.
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by tech2 8y ago
Likewise don't bother with `activate`, just use the tools from the virtualenv directly `venv/bin/pip`, `venv/bin/python` etc.
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by tech2 8y ago
actix/r2d2 on the Rust side (I haven't worked out bb8 yet), aiohttp/uvloop/asyncpg/gunicorn on the Python side (Postgres for the DB). This kinda _is_ the cache at present, it's a distillation of a lot of other
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by tech2 8y ago
I have multiple instances to keep the latency down overall (and for security should we lose an availability zone or whatever else). But, as others have mentioned, instances cost, I'd like to be able to reduce that to the minimum if pos
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by tech2 8y ago
I suspect the reason it's not faster is one of the following: 1. backend DB at its query limit 2. this is basically my first rust program and I've done something stupid 3. ab/wrk aren't scaling properly either (I
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by tech2 8y ago
The system's peak _usage_ is 60kreq/min (avg 1k/s), the Python code it's written in can handle maybe 850/s per instance at 100% CPU. Rust is fine, rust is managing almost 2k/s on the same hardware. And this is
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by tech2 8y ago
I kinda felt similarly until I found one of my existing web services wasn't quite fast enough (currently serving around 1000req/s at peak). I could either go for a third rewrite in yet another framework hoping to increase performa
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by tech2 8y ago
I stand corrected. Thank you.
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by tech2 8y ago
The emulation route was 68k to PPC (classic apps running on OS X), for x86 they went with fat binaries, unless I'm misunderstanding you?
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by tech2 8y ago
They might not. The product-owners however (in consultation with marketing etc.) combined with word from on-high.
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by tech2 8y ago
You mean something like this: https://i.imgur.com/EoNd3ev.gifv I hate the ones that have permanent non-scrolling header/footer (title and social media buttons generally) taking up a significant fraction of my phone&#x2
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by tech2 8y ago
I don't think the taste of the fish is necessarily quota-based, more to do with water temperature. Cold water fish are either "tasteless" (like cod, haddock, etc.) or oily (like herring and similar). As for chips, I think we&
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by tech2 8y ago
I always find it amusing how much the fish and chips is lauded in the UK when most of it is terrible compared to NZ/Aus. The fish is tasteless, the chips are (generally) cooked in too low a temperature oil leaving them stodgy. Add to t
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by tech2 8y ago
Before they added the POSIX layer and got desperate. Their OO framework the entire OS supported was amazing, but POSIX just meant it was another also-ran: Oh, look, we can run GIMP too... great Be, bravo... sigh
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by tech2 8y ago
I had a similar issue with Sony/PSN recently. Someone had registered their account and even though I received a validation email I didn't click the link. I then got a welcome-to email a few days later. PSN's emails don't
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by tech2 9y ago
For me it was "How to learn more" with a fair bit of "how to work with others" and a lot of the theory. The how to learn bit is (and has been, for the last 20 years for me) massively helpful. It's rare that I think
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by tech2 9y ago
Oh how I miss that game. Robot Imana 665C, Clones in space, Daisy-R-YLW. Good times (and by that I mean a lot of shouting, name-calling, insinuations about mutant powers and secret affiliations...). Yeah, good times :)
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by tech2 9y ago
Just because I'm curious, CygnusEd?
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by tech2 9y ago
Four principles of internet usage were codified (but not made law) by the FCC in 2005; these kinda represent what we commonly consider "net neutrality". In 2010 the Open Internet Order was put in place, making these principles law
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by tech2 9y ago
I was never too sure about the POSIX compatibility being a good thing. Sure, it meant that BeOS got more software more easily from other (Linux) sources. But it meant that people didn't write for the OO API, POSIX threading was worse,
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by tech2 9y ago
It's not just Facetime, there's all manner of related stuff. https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio... Each time I see a NN post I'm generally too late and it's
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by tech2 9y ago
Try southern England - http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/southern-rail - it's comically bad.
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by tech2 9y ago
Regarding the big-endian nature of it: kinda, but also kinda not. Network endianness is generally big, so it'd work well in those instance without needing to do any juggling. Plus (speaking from experience many decades ago on the 68k)
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by tech2 9y ago
Allow me to introduce you to the wizards of the Unseen University...
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by tech2 9y ago
Within the first year or so of having installed Linux (mid-90's), I made the mistake of accidentally deleting /etc (wrote a script to tidy /tmp at boot, but it hadn't cd'd correctly). That was possibly the best unix

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