SuperQue

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by SuperQue 3mo ago
> Many phone cameras are already quite good. Of course, you and I know that. But most people just listen to the marketing material. My mother's most used feature on her phone is the camera. She asked me about getting a new phone whe
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by SuperQue 11mo ago
Yup, I had an issue filed against an open source project I work on. Was a crazy weird crash. The reporter actually spent the effort to track it down, turns out it _was_ a Go compiler bug. ( https://github.com/golang/go&#
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by SuperQue 3y ago
Also, it's not always about vulnerabilities directly, but how well / fast things are patched.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Cheap pans. Thin-walled that doesn't distribute heat evenly. So hot spots burn the pasta to the walls. Secondly, not stirring at all. Boiling will do some circulation, but you have to keep some amount of stirring to prevent a small sti
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by SuperQue 4y ago
> "none, loyalty goes only one way and trust me when I tell you that no-one is safe" Yup, I know someone who had been there since 2006 that was laid off. Not even high scores on Perf will save you. I have no idea what methodolo
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Many "blind" people are not 100% blind. Visual impairment is a sliding scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPymLgfXSY
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Most of the water use is in evaporative cooling. Not really a way to re-use water that's now in the air. This, in part, is how Google gets an average PUE of 1.1. Which is _really_ good compared to typical.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
In Finland, time of day electric use meters have existed for something like 20 years. Someone I know who lived north of the arctic circle had a home heating system that would heat up an energy storage box (I forget if it was an oil tank or
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Yea, it was great. But it was more lack of maintenance than anything. The original chat devs were passionate about open federation. The new devs were not. Add to that it was a big source of spam that nobody wanted to deal with. Apparently t
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Google ended up with a bunch of chat apps because the culture promotes building new over keeping things running. The first chat was basically an XMPP service. It was decent, it federated outside of Google, it was fully functional. It even s
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by SuperQue 4y ago
This is spot on. The issue was a culture of new over improve. It had the upside of making some things more integrated. MR and issues and CI work much better together than GitHub or atlassian. But it had the down side of expanding into featu
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Ugh, speedbumps are so dangerous. Sure, they make you slow down for them. But drivers now want to "make up" for that slow down. So they drive even faster between them.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
> garden leave It's called the same thing in Germany. The term also applies to when you quit, but the employer wants to cut your access to the company ahead of your contract termination date. It's typical to have 1-3 months of
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by SuperQue 4y ago
This is functionally how it works in Germany. Usually reserved for C-level types. It's also done because it not allowed to have anti-poaching clauses IIRC.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Bonus points for the menu PDF file being hundreds of megabytes because it's their high res file for the printing company. Double bonus if their restaurant is a mobile service dead zone.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
The fix is to make it so you aren't left stranded in life without a car. Car dependency is just as bad a disease as any. Cars give you the freedom to go anywhere, but take away the freedom to do anything without them.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Not 100% silent, but lots of new projectors are based on LED/laser lamps, which produce a lot less waste heat. Plus there's now ultra-short-throw projectors that sit in the front of the room, rather than above / behind you. U
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Yea, people are nuts with some of that stuff. My "Computer speakers" are a bit crazy, but all together cost me sub $3k for a Neumann nearfield monitor + sub + DAC combo.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
I needed to source food for an event with 500 people. Burger meat was 0.80€ person for 125g, not organic/bio. But good quality from a German butcher. I got Beyond burgers for the veg option. Best price I could get wholesale was 2.00€ p
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Dynamic Range Compression. Pretty much every HT system has had it for 15+ years.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Kids these days and their electricity. They'll never learn to be a good barrel cooper.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Yes. But it depends a bit on the climate where you live. What you're looking for is an air-to-air heat pump. Basically it replaces the outside unit of your traditional air conditioner. But it can heat or cool. For example: https:&#x2F
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by SuperQue 4y ago
That seems unlikely. Driving testing is like a lot of public certifications. You fail because you're unsafe. https://yogov.org/blog/most-common-reasons-people-fail-their... https://www.insurethebox.com&
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Hundreds of petabytes and billions of files in a single filesystem are now "easy mode". That was 10+ years ago. (Former GFS/Colossus/Borg SRE)
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Atomic clocks are not required. That's a misunderstanding of what they're used for. The atomic clock thing helps improve performance of Spanner, by tightening the SLO of node-to-node and continent-to-continent clock drift.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
And that's part of what others are saying. Some class of developers want POSIX, but POSIX is _terrible_ to horizontally scale. I've tried a couple times at different companies to get developers to stop assuming POSIX and switch to
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Ahh yea, I was an SRE back when Colossus was still bootstrapping on GFS. Bigtables all the way down. Ceph is still largely based on the original GFS last I looked at the architecture.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
Except, modern AC is pretty efficient. I have a decent monoblock cooler in our apartment in Berlin. I also have a 1-second sampling power meter. The AC unit uses about 700 watts when active cooling, but of course it cycles so that's no
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by SuperQue 4y ago
No, it really is pretty easy. I learned on a '85 VW Jetta manual. Took a couple tries to figure out, then it wasn't an issue. There are some cars that have very touchy clutches, but most are just fine.
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by SuperQue 4y ago
There's also a latency component. Since CPUs are fast enough to deflate in real-time now, your bottleneck for a read is your storage/network. Reducing the bytes read from storage improves the IO latency.

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