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by toast0 10d ago
> Frankly at this point I wouldn't be surprised if attending the game required receiving a free tattoo of a sponsor's logo. You don't have your BIM mark? https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49069-the-appl
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by toast0 10d ago
I abandoned levi's in mid-late 200x. They didn't last nearly long enough in the style I prefer (at the time, 501s were still reportedly durable maybe just the special tab ones, but I won't wear button fly). Plus the whole dea
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by toast0 11d ago
Physical sims are as obsolete as 3.5mm headphones. They both continue to work and have different tradeoffs than 'modern' alternatives and you have a different selection of devices to work with.
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by toast0 11d ago
> To actually do the hard thing that the trump admin wants, we need to send in boots on the ground. And even then, we've seen how totally ineffective that is with Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't think the trump admin has communic
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by toast0 11d ago
> But steering an incoming projectile is way harder. It's usually much easier to steer an outgoing projectile. :P
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by toast0 11d ago
> Only the OS does not know the context, so it prioritises both streams equally. Of course there's prioritization options on socket APIs since forever (DSCP), but usage is limited, because it requires coordination and coordination
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by toast0 11d ago
> There is this command called 'ping' that tells you that. Ping tells you the round trip latency. As I mentioned, asymmetric routing is common and very difficult to measure. > But in my example, I included the network topolo
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by toast0 11d ago
You can certainly chunk things and interleave/multiplex interactive and bulk data. But it's easy to end up with low throughput, because you limit how much unacked bulk data you send, because you don't want to overqueue bulk
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by toast0 11d ago
SOAP is terrible[1], but if the whole country is on board, change is very difficult and you're not going to move to anything simpler because it would either be too simple to actually satisfy the need or too simple to satisfy the select
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by toast0 11d ago
>>t's not hard to > LOOOOOOOOL ? I've done it a few times. It worked fine on Nokia S40 and the version of J2ME they run can't even seek backwards in files. It's a three part recipe: a) send a request to upload w
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by toast0 11d ago
> "I'm adding this to my shopping cart and clicking the buy button and then it said I bought it" If there's only one of the item to buy and two users wanted to buy it at the same time, it can only be shipped to one of
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by toast0 11d ago
I'm still confused. Do you just get the commands and have to run the launcher to shoot where some unseen player tells you? "Missile Command, but you launch the attack" would be way clearer.
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by toast0 11d ago
How do you know the latency of the path if you haven't synchronized the clocks... You might be able to control the latency on a LAN, but once you have servers in different locations, good luck. (GPS helps a lot, of course...)
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by toast0 11d ago
lol well yeah. This book has fields for website, and A-Z legends, so presumably you put your Amazon password in the A section, and your hacker news password in the H section, and it's useful. But I've been helping my MIL with some
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by toast0 12d ago
That forms a basis for the difficulty. But then there's additional layers of difficulty in real networks where the path between nodes is often asymmetric, and you may also observe that elapsed time (A -> B -> A) is sometimes grea
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by toast0 12d ago
>> But Erlang/OTP can replace a lot of expensive kludges. > If you can convince your employer of that. It's probably easier to find an employer that's already convinced. But that's not easy either. :P I'm w
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by toast0 12d ago
> the relations between events happening in a distributed system, is more fundamental than their absolute ordering The important thing in most distributed systems is having an order. Having a single observer serialize events as it receiv
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by toast0 12d ago
Write it down in the book: https://www.amazon.com/What-Fuck-Password-Other-Remember/dp/... Keep the book in the office by the laptop.
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by toast0 12d ago
There's still a lot of WhatsApp Erlang tooling being published, so I'm pretty sure it's mostly still Erlang. I think I still know a couple people who would share with me if it was rewritten, although I left in 2019. Erlang is
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by toast0 12d ago
Having media out of band causes some problems but eases others. Having a separate tcp window for media and messages is pretty valuable. Additionally, if media is separate, you might run it in different locations than chat. HTTP may not have
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by toast0 12d ago
> XEP-0357 from 2015 Taking a quick look, this one is marked deferred; I don't know what that means, but it sounds like it's not an accepted standard?. It requires the application push server to be an XMPP server (which I susp
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by toast0 12d ago
This should be solvable, although maybe a little meh. Client developers on platforms without unrestricted background connections need to run a server for push notifications. And server developers need to accept and use a push url from the c
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by toast0 12d ago
Is it surprising or an indictment against democracy that reminding people the election is in N days makes them more likely to vote? If you only remind people who are likely to vote the way you want, that's likely to swing the vote a li
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by toast0 12d ago
> but I certainly can't imagine trying to do a company that solves this problem. or I should say I keep trying to and just seeing failure. Yep, I don't think a system for this is something you can sell by itself, unless you&#x2
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by toast0 13d ago
I've used systems with bits and pieces of this and IMHO, it feels pretty tempting to build this... But yeah, the real question is what application do you or will you run that requires it and is it worth the cost to build? Especially
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by toast0 13d ago
I feel like if you have a single system image, process migration is easy (or at least tractible), but without that, it's going to be pretty challenging. Live migration of VMs across hypervisors is more approachable than migrating a pro
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by toast0 13d ago
AMD and even Intel have reasonable to good performance / watt for most of the curve... But they do let you explore the top side of the curve where you get a little more performance for a lot more power. This is mostly because of how In
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by toast0 14d ago
> There’s always a gradual refarming of the spectrum into the next G. Not necessarily for 4G to 5G. 5G can run a 4G compatible control channel and timeslices can be 4G or 5G. > Usually the most penetrating frequencies (ie lowest) are
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by toast0 14d ago
> More people think they need a hundred thousand threads than actually do. This is fair, but is a hundred thousand OS threads really a reasonable load on reasonable OSes? I've (helped to) run systems with millions of Erlang processe
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by toast0 14d ago
> async/await is one product of a long line of thought that says "threads are too hard for programmers to get right". Having used both threads and async/await and using them both in the same program, I don't see

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