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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Erlang is a terrific platform, but it isn't very accessible to the wider population. Timely, here's antirez on this topic when Redis was announced on HN ten years ago [0]: > There are a lot of projects similar to Redis in Erla
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
The whole point of the arrogance / humility axis is the awareness that there is not a destination to be arrived at named "expert". The DK graph goes up and to the right, to infinity and beyond. We must merely try to do our be
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Signal doesn't support vcard which makes it a non-starter for many people [0][1]. [0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6520#issu... [1]: https://github.com/signalapp&#x
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
I saw this earlier today scrolling through in card view mode, except what I saw was an image macro with text about how I'm using an ad blocker. I was amused, the irony of a transparency report being blocked because of an ad blocker. I
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
It might be called 'victim of a crime'. > The term 'deep fake' means an audiovisual record created or altered in a manner that the record would falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record of the
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Heinlein explored this idea of Fair Witness as a profession in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. https://lccn.loc.gov/61011702
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Transit Gateway was announced at re:invent 2018. That's a few months ago. DirectConnect Gateway and Transit VPC were announced the year before. I would guess about nobody is currently in production with Transit Gateway.
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
yep squirt emoji was my first reaction, glad I'm not the only one. Unlike Grafana and Loki I don't expect they're gonna see these comments and amend it in the next couple hours.
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
A significant advantage of chunked (DASH, HLS) is bandwidth adaptation. This is done with substantial magic on the encode side to produce chunks of various bitrate all aligned. Then the client can move to a higher or lower bandwidth stream
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
> fines to need to be much higher. louder for the people in the back muuuch higher.
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Your parent comment mentioned "one of your users" which I can only take as disingenuous since the full second sentence of Bird's letter to the mutants begins "Specifically, one of your users, Cory Doctorow, is promoting
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
gotta rep Tru Thoughts, I'm listening to the latest Unfold [0] and reading here about dear Walt, selector dishes up this gem: Homeboy Sandman & Edan - #NeverUseTheInternetAgain (Stones Throw) life imitates art! [0] https:/&#x
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
If you would like to customize your Firefox tab experience, install Waterfox [0] and then install Tab Mix Plus. [0] https://www.waterfoxproject.org
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
"The best bike is the one you ride."
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
If this is interesting to you, I just started reading "Tangled Tree" [1] which examines the history of phylogeny and molecular bio and the current state if the art, I recommend it. I want to go home and read it right now but alas,
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Zero rating isn't free, there are bits transiting the network in all cases. That transit costs actual resource and is paid for. It's a trope when someone points out that google isn't free, and if you are getting something for
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
The first diagram labeled "Normal Topology" shows Master in East and no other master. Later they acknowledge that lots of stuff doesn't work if Master is not in East because of latency. So then there's all this Orchestra
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Akiyoshi's site [0] has been serving mindwarp since .. forever? (says since 2002) That's gotta be hand wrought html - dig the hitcounter! I used to have some of these tiled on my desktop so that in true BOFH style when someone cam
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
I keep an old iphone 5 with a busted screen for this reason - I would dispose of it but there’s no way to clean up the data. What’s that you say, it’s encrypted so the data looks like noise? Welp TFA says that’s not a problem since the scre
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
"The best bike is the one you ride."
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Me too. I haven't tried any of this but here's a suggestion: https://akomljen.com/protect-kubernetes-external-endpoints-w...
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
"pork bellies..." This is famously the Eddie Murphy rule - it was a crime to steal the briefcase, but not to trade on the knowledge gained from the contents of said briefcase. iirc 'Trading Places' is on netflix, and Pla
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Is this not a repost? Quick search for the magic word 'ruggedized' turns this up from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17754079
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
Last I checked, you cannot originate a message on whatsapp on android without giving whatsapp permission to your contacts. Another user can originate a message to you and you can then reply while maintaining no permission for contacts. In m
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
As a long time Mozilla user, I recently found Waterfox[1] and it is terrific! I found out about it here on HN so here I am spreading the Good News. [1]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
I never liked this term because debt as we commonly relate to it, especially in business, is a quantifiable obligation that can be discharged. In contrast "tech debt" is not a thing with a quantity, no one can know when or even if
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
What's that NANOG .sig about 'always carry a piece of fiber, that way if you get lost just bury it and when the backhoe comes by to dig it up you can get directions back to civilization.' "I always bring a length of fibe
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
My grandfather won a Cadillac, it was the 60's in San Francisco, and Regal gas stations ran a contest, grand prize a shiny new Cadillac. The details are lost, but as far as my dad knows it was a plain enter-to-win raffle, and his dad w
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
There's no mention in TFA or here about Compact mode. Get into Preferences, in "Messages & Media", in section "Theme" switch to "Compact". Now your slack is more Lego and less Duplo.
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by tlynchpin 8y ago
If this is interesting to you, I recommend the book 1491 by Charles Mann [1]. I found it from a recommendation in a comment on HN so now's my turn. It is an informative survey of the current knowledge about pre-Columbian humanity in

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