chatterbeak

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by chatterbeak 8y ago
The entire NIST budget is pretty large. This is one of the most visible things they do. By threatening to cut this if their budget shrinks, perhaps they're hoping to preserve their original budget request.
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by chatterbeak 8y ago
Also, the drones may never have existed.
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The Chemistry of VX Nerve Agent(youtube.com)
2 points by chatterbeak 10y ago|1 comments
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by chatterbeak 10y ago
With that much RAM, you'd be insane not to use ECC, which is another good reason for Xeon.
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by chatterbeak 10y ago
Really? I won't use a computer without it for production work. You get one bit-flip/GB/year. With 128GB or more in most of our desktops, it's not worth the risk.
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Why Apple's Critics Are Right This Time(wsj.com)
1 points by chatterbeak 10y ago|0 comments
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The IRS Believes All Bitcoin Users Are Tax Cheats(cato.org)
6 points by chatterbeak 10y ago|0 comments
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by chatterbeak 10y ago
Here's how we do it: All the databases and other data are backed up to s3. For mysql, we use the python mysql-to-s3 backup scripts. But the machines themselves are "backed up" by virtue of being able to be rebuilt with saltst
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by chatterbeak 10y ago
We routinely run 5MM simultaneous TCP/IP connections on a single 12-core box (with Erlang!). There's no reason for Twitter to need all those employees and all that hardware. If someone can get it at a fire sale price, and reduce i
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by chatterbeak 11y ago
What's their business model? Why would I type my thoughts there instead of, say, "google docs." Or putting text files in a dropbox. I like the idea of quiet and uncluttered. But it's hard to trust my writing to some new
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by chatterbeak 11y ago
LAX is the second largest (by passenger boarding) airport in the country. So until ATL allows Uber, I guess this is true.
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by chatterbeak 11y ago
Wikipedia says the data rate from Pluto is effectively about 1 KBit/second. That's why it takes so long to get the photos.... I'd like to find more detailed information about the hardware and software on this thing. It's
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by chatterbeak 11y ago
I like the concept; you wonder why Dropbox didn't enter this space.
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by chatterbeak 11y ago
There's a chance that reddit is simply not a viable business, and just because you amass a large audience doesn't mean it's monetizable. Cut through all the drama, and maybe it's really about that. A weak, messy platform