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by uncertainrhymes 2y ago
That's a fair point. My (untested) assumption would be that it would be cumbersome and weird, and I wouldn't be 'swimming'. If I were to guess at their motivations, it might be 'what could make me go faster in the w
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by uncertainrhymes 2y ago
I swim because I enjoy it, not because I'm trying to get somewhere fast. This seems awkward and I bet you have to use your arms just to counterbalance the twist you'd get on each 'stroke' of the leg. So even though I thi
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A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback(wired.com)
145 points by uncertainrhymes 2y ago|147 comments
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by uncertainrhymes 2y ago
No specifically for video, but I've always had a soft spot for this site: https://tiffzhang.com/startup/ It semi-randomly creates the site of a recently-launched startup. It is nine years old now, and completely n
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
Several times my flight from LA to Sydney would get a good tailwind, arrive early, then just circle out in the ocean so they could land after 6:30 am and avoid a giant fine.
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
I work with SPF and DMARC, and still learned things from this recent post on HN. https://simonandrews.ca/articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmar... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712634 It hon
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
I find these posts infuriating... and given how old this one is, it seems to be the template for all those to follow. "How did I get to be a world class marathoner? I avoided anything that wasn't running, and then on race day, I w
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240313052508/https://www.nytim... "What’s the bigger lesson from all this?" "There are two: One, if you want to do seismic analysis, it’s ideal if you check w
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
You should be able to connect to a different network (e.g. Verizon) and make a 911 call even without a plan. You won't be authenticated to the network for data, but 911 is supposed to still work.
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
This particular comment became the first Google search result (or 'featured snippet') for me for "What is Android Baseband" -- weirdly claiming to be posted four hours ago when this comment was two hours old. That is min
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
I suspect this is because they don't have contracts with enforceable SLAs yet. When they do, you will see more 'degraded performance'. People get credits for 'outages', but if it is sometimes working for someone
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
I strongly believe you will get exactly the behavior you incentivize for. I used to apply this mostly to sales people -- if their bonus depends on new business, you will get a large number of soon-to-be-unhappy customers. It works more gene
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Except from Michael Lewis Book on FTX and Bankman-Fried(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by uncertainrhymes 3y ago|0 comments
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
If you have easy access to an arbitrarily large file (or an online random file generator) curl has timing variables that can be exposed via the -w flag. e.g. Create a format file named curltime.txt containing: time_namelookup: %{time_namel
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
The level of detail is very nice, I wish more tools exposed this as easily. That said, please remember this is a test of you through your ISP to a (hopefully) nearby Cloudflare node. It isn't necessarily testing 'the Internet&#x27
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
Twitter is terrible ... except it is still the best real-time broadcast tool available to governments and those without IT staff and budgets. Most local groups around me just stopped trying, or reverted to Facebook. They used it because it
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
I've met many people who love beer and think they should start a brewery. All I can tell them: I hope you like cleaning. Really like it, because that is what 90% of the job is.
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
I only came across TCL as the scripting language used internally by the F5 (BigIP) load balancer. Writing irules was fine because they are usually one and done. It was tempting to try to do complicated things until you realized that was exa
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Paul Ford gzips his father's life(wired.com)
9 points by uncertainrhymes 3y ago|1 comments
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
I don't have first-hand knowledge of this, but my understanding is most cargo ships already have electric engines to drive the propellers. The fuel is only there to run the generators. Fuel aside, might be less of a retrofit than we th
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
There are several comments about "oh well, whatever species replaces us will have a new chance". Unless the cockroaches want to wait 300 million years, they won't have the easy coal and oil reserves to jumpstart them to an &#
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
That is a good list -- interestingly, only Gannett (USA Today, amongst many other papers) and Reuters don't have paywalls. That isn't a criticism, just recognition that even though the other sites are still ad supported, that alon
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
That is the measured air temperature, but it isn't used the way we normally think about it. At very high altitudes, the atmosphere is very sparse (i.e. very low pressure). There are not very many molecules of air, but those few do get
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by uncertainrhymes 3y ago
It is still quite common in Mexico and Latin America. It can even be somewhat civilized, where if both sides play by the rules it turns out fine. Common in the sense that most people are never kidnapped, but everyone knows someone who has b
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
When I worked in NYC (mid 2010s) we were on the top floor of our building and one day a service guy came through needing access to the roof from our suite. Turns out he was there to update some cameras on the roof that pointed out to Union
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
Your example servers have 16-32 GB of memory, which is basically nothing. If you ever ramp to real world traffic the peer will be constantly evicting objects (if you use a normal LRU). Even if you backstop that with a mid-tier belonging to
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
There are several red flags here, not the least of which is that a CDN isn't just about bandwidth, it is about disk . If a cache node doesn't have the object, it has to go to origin to get it. That has a cost at origin, which mos
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
What a strange thing to say. Cloudflare: Revenue: Total revenue of $975.2 million representing an increase of 49% year-over-year. GAAP net loss was $193.4 million compared to $260.3 million for fiscal 2021. GAAP net loss per basic and dilut
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Devs face 6 months of crunch to launch Diablo IV(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by uncertainrhymes 4y ago|0 comments
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
Edited the title to add '(by design)', and even 'account for' was poorly phrased. My intent wasn't to be misleading, it was a function of my surprise that I didn't know that. UTC plays a big part of my professi

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