azurelogic

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by azurelogic 3y ago
Another vote in favor of disc brakes. There's a greater sense of braking power modulation with disc brakes. If your rims aren't true, you're going to have a bad time with rim brakes. Also, I remember the huge difference in co
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by azurelogic 6y ago
I found myself in a similar position a couple of years back. One of the big things that changed for me is that I had to widen my field of view on a project. I had already worked the "full stack" through previous jobs, but now I wa
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by azurelogic 8y ago
As someone who has been working almost daily with Lambda and other AWS serverless services for close to 2 years, it astounds me to see so much FUD and misinformation among one of the smartest technical communities that I know. Serverless is
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by azurelogic 8y ago
Exactly. With this definition, the phrase "compare and contrast" makes much more sense. The point here was to leap frog the fact that GitHub and GitLab have very comparable feature sets, and instead highlight the things that GitLa
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by azurelogic 8y ago
You're right on the first point. They aren't comparable. GitLab is a community driven, open core product that is far more powerful than GitHub. GitLab has an extremely robust CI system built in. In addition, you can even use them
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by azurelogic 8y ago
If you want to self-host FaaS, there's OpenWhisk. The problem that I have seen with the whole concept of self-hosted FaaS though is that you lose some of the key benefits of "serverless": no maintenance of underlying systems
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by azurelogic 8y ago
This page was immediately taken over by the ad redirects for free iPhones and crap. Can we get this replaced with a not shady source?
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by azurelogic 9y ago
I've been wishing for something like this or a standalone unit for CarPlay. It would be amazing if I could just mount something in the CD slot in my car and plug in to the aux jack. I'm sure Apple would have a cow at the idea thou
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by azurelogic 9y ago
All computers have the potential for slowdown as they age because 2 things naturally happen: cooling systems clog with dust and thermal paste degrades. Both of these eventually reduce the efficiency of the cooling system, resulting in highe
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by azurelogic 9y ago
Maybe the poster is talking about total sunk cost of phone and all of the batteries
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by azurelogic 9y ago
Dust-clogged fans and degraded thermal paste can also be a factor, particularly after 3 years. iFixit guide for removing your heatsink: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Disp... My favorite therma
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by azurelogic 9y ago
This has nothing to do with a monopoly, so antitrust law is totally not applicable here. You might be thinking "class action lawsuit", which someone might attempt. However, if Apple can show that this is actually a mechanism to pr
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by azurelogic 9y ago
It is but you see less screen time instead of degraded performance. The suggestion here is that Apple is throttling the hardware via software in order to prevent reduced screen time. Also, after 3-4 years with a laptop, you typically start
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by azurelogic 9y ago
I don't know enough about the physics, but it could be similar to the difficulty in making glasses-free 3D TVs. Things like the Nintendo 3DS only succeeded because they naturally dictate the viewer's position. I imagine that this
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AWS Lambda Debugger: Remote Debug Live Lambda Functions with Chrome DevTools(trek10.com)
8 points by azurelogic 9y ago|0 comments
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by azurelogic 9y ago
Also, this will only further increase the value of maintainable machines. A machine with good and accessible/serviceable cooling means that redoing the thermal paste after 3-4 years will be both feasible and helpful.
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by azurelogic 9y ago
Thank you. I still have this argument with people today. I think it's laziness for many devs. ASI is an _error correction mechanism_ that Eich added because there was no compile step in JS in 1995. It helped people ship code without ha
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by azurelogic 9y ago
I'm just critiquing the air gap design/claim. Getting a malicious QR code in front of the camera would either require the attacker to gain physical access to the device, at which point it is game over for any device, or they would
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by azurelogic 9y ago
A more "air gap"-ish concept would have been a camera on the Firefly. Take a pic of a QR code on the phone, sign on the device, use the phone to take a pic of the output QR.
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by azurelogic 9y ago
I don't disagree that they could succeed with this method of attack. The problem is that it doesn't solve any problems. Encryption is a thing that humanity knows about. It's not going away. We're not going to stop knowin
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by azurelogic 9y ago
I agree about "right" drug laws, but many of the countries supporting this idea are not "right" drug law kind of places. As for guns, they trot out "terrorism" as the reason for wanting to get rid of encryption
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by azurelogic 9y ago
I doubt that. They very much want to read people's email, etc. At a minimum, they want to do it to find terrorists. The maximum is just corrupt without bound.
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by azurelogic 9y ago
Gun regulations and drug bans do not stop the worst of the worst from getting their hands on those things. They will literally manufacture their own guns and drugs if they have to (see marijuana grow ops and this Vice article on cartel gun
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by azurelogic 9y ago
I'm by no means going to support government attempts to ban encryption, but assuming 100% virtuous purposes (e.g.: counter-terrorism efforts), I can understand why they think this will work. I mean, they think that passing laws on guns
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by azurelogic 9y ago
OP is Satoshi. Case closed. ;)
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by azurelogic 9y ago
There is likely corruption throughout these governments too. They're getting loans at the expense of their citizens, often hurting the poorest the most. I'm not saying it's all the WB/IMF's fault, but helpful loans
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by azurelogic 9y ago
The payday loan analogy is admittedly weak. I just meant to indicate that it's a crap deal. It is actually worse than payday loans. See, with payday loans, you just pay ridiculous interest. With WB/IMF loans, it's more like &
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by azurelogic 9y ago
I remember doing a long research paper on the World Bank and IMF around 2000. They're the equivalent of "pay day loans" for 3rd world countries. It's predatory lending at its finest. For those unfamiliar, they generally
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by azurelogic 9y ago
It made it to 25k by gen 160. Then it deviated an started losing again. Gen 250 was virtually unstoppable, hitting 120k. Watching gen 251 right now, and it just crushed 100k... 150k... 200k... 242k. Wow. And Gen 252 is killing it too. Seems
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by azurelogic 9y ago
This is an unfair comparison. macOS doesn't run at that resolution out of the box. Your max effective resolution is 1680x1050. Even a 15" rMBP has a max effective resolution of 1920x1200. So, 1080p is plenty competitive for dev wo

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