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by xiii1408 6y ago
My grandmom legit still uses Netscape dial-up as her ISP. She lives in a very rural county in Tennessee, and there are no DSL, cable, or fiber options. Her house is unfortunately also down in a valley, so there's no cell phone recept
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by xiii1408 6y ago
I don't understand how you see a story about terrible treatment of Google contractors, followed by severe retaliation when they try to negotiate better conditions, and your main takeaway is, "Huh, these union people seem to spend
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by xiii1408 6y ago
Would love to hear examples of other platforms.
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by xiii1408 6y ago
Excellent point. There are apparently already Clubhouse bots as well, and it would be trivial to record audio using one (although you'd need a bot per room you want to record). It's probably very difficult to recognize Clubhouse
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by xiii1408 6y ago
You can create an account even without an invite. If you give it access to your contacts, your friends will get a notification to invite you, if they have an invite to give. Once you get an invite, your account will be activated, and you
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by xiii1408 6y ago
> Yet, with no Android app and an increasing amount of competitors copying the hell out of Clubhouse, I can only see this going in the way of Meerkat, Yik Yak and Periscope. (By being shut down) We'll of course have to wait and see,
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by xiii1408 6y ago
EFF seems to think that all modern laser printers have some form of tracking dots, whether or not they've actually been able to detect them [1]. They don't say anything about inkjet, though. Unclear if this is because of a fundam
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by xiii1408 6y ago
They didn't go into too much detail about how the dots are actually printed (what type of ink, how heavy, etc.), but they imply in the article that at least some tracking dots require a UV light to detect. I'd be curious to know h
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by xiii1408 6y ago
Very cool! This reminds me a bit of the installation outside UC Berkeley's Free Speech Cafe, where they display the day's issue of about a dozen world newspapers, including one from exactly 100 years ago to the day [1]. (They sto
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by xiii1408 6y ago
I expected this to be complaining about the loss of complex literary writing in favor of more simple, sensationalist style. It's not. Basically, he pastes part of a New Yorker article in Hemingway, a tool that evaluates the reading le
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by xiii1408 6y ago
One of the benefits of home fiber that people rarely talk about is the low latency. On my fiber connection, I get around ~2ms ping to the nearest data center. On my parents' cable internet, it's around ~25ms ping. (I am not up-
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by xiii1408 6y ago
As a fan of both the text-based browser and the cryptocurrency, I find the name collision humorous. We'll have to bring up the lack of lynx browser support with the devs :)
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Lynx: Power-Efficient Cryptocurrency Using RPi [pdf](cdn.getlynx.io)
31 points by xiii1408 6y ago|17 comments
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by xiii1408 6y ago
That sounds awesome. I would love to see lower latencies. Do you know if anyone's considering these for consumer Internet?
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by xiii1408 6y ago
Also a couple of things to note: 1. Submarine cables can't go in a straight line, since they've got to, you know, go down to the bottom of the ocean. (Which, you may have heard, is quite deep.) Also, a cable with a length of sev
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by xiii1408 6y ago
Minor note---you can get much tighter theoretical minimum latencies than the ones listed in your table. 1. The table's mins divide straight line distance by the speed of light. This gives you the time it takes for light to travel in a
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by xiii1408 6y ago
Yes. e.g., "I work on multiphysics codes." software => codes
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by xiii1408 6y ago
Other than the tracking, would you recommend it? Is LineageOS available? I've been curious about trying a Chinese phone for a while, but would only do it if Lineage is available, since I'm annoyed by anything more busy than stoc
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Why is that? Is each of the participants audio/video going over the server so that you need p^2 bandwidth? Are there cool P2P tricks they are/could be using? I've been wondering about videoconferencing scale, since Zoom see
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Awesome! I've been wondering how to do this, since I normally take calls in a quiet room with headphones, so there's no need for noise canceling. It would be nice if you could enable this on a per-call basis, though.
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by xiii1408 7y ago
It's P2P, like most videoconferencing. The server part is just for session management.
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Back in undergrad (ca 2013) when I got super serious about privacy, I used the Jitsi client to videoconference with friends over my XMPP server [1]. It was pretty much the only open-source VoIP solution I could get working at the time. Th
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by xiii1408 7y ago
This is extremely topical for me, as I'm visiting the Shenzhen electronics market for the first time today. :D My Chinese is okay, although I don't know any of the technical terms. Thanks for the reference! Looking forward to ex
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by xiii1408 7y ago
I have my "snake fight" scheduled for two weeks from now, so this is good to keep in mind. My plan is to prepare numerous backup slides with lots of Python that I can use to distract the snake.
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by xiii1408 7y ago
BeOS is one of those weird "parallel universe" products, where the history of tech could have gone in a very different direction. The old BeOS videos [1] are some of my favorites. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Seems totally reasonable, although perhaps 15 times seems a bit generous. After the book's due, return the book, or else you can't check out any new ones.
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Generally, no. The main requirement to support this is that a RoCE or other RDMA API needs to be exposed inside the cloud VM. This requires (1) the physical boxes have RDMA (likely universal at this point), but also (2) the virtualized net
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by xiii1408 7y ago
RDMA instructions are (1) more expressive than disk operations, from what I understand (support compare-and-swap, fetch-and-add, etc.) and (2) have different latencies and bandwidths (on the order of 1us latency, 20 GB/s BW). This pape
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by xiii1408 7y ago
Disk could be considered a specific form of "far memory." In the context of this paper, though, "far memory" is referring to memory outside the local system that is accessed using RDMA instructions.
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by xiii1408 7y ago
I agree this is generally true, but it definitely depends on the country you're talking about. Many other first-world countries (thinking of EU, etc.) have much stricter rules about food additives, etc. So the bread, for example, tast

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