dfinlay

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by dfinlay 7mo ago
That VHS was one of my favorites. Me and my sisters would watch it over and over. Love how camp it was.
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by dfinlay 9y ago
Not to mention recognized sovereign with de jure ability to physically regulate activity within its borders.
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by dfinlay 9y ago
Teaching your child statistics is definitively nurture.
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by dfinlay 9y ago
My advice is to follow these steps: 1. Wrote to disk the entire payload actually required/retrieved for the user to be both authenticated and invoke meaningful business logic. 2. Compress each component in a manner representative of th
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by dfinlay 9y ago
Circa 2014(15?), I spent a couple of weeks working on reducing a Universal iOS App's(Trapster) payload size. This was before Asset Catelogs, so everything was in a fat binary. We converted the audio to be monoaural. We did PNG-crush. G
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by dfinlay 9y ago
I take the same approach, listing the (non technical) area of study and years of attendance. People tend to assume this resulted in a BA, which is not the intent. I've struggled with whether this is duplicitous on my part. Generally
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by dfinlay 9y ago
Amazing setup and even better write up. It shames my tiny 2x 4tb setup. My only suggestion would be to try out gaffer tape instead of the duct/masking tape combo. I started using it about a year ago, and haven't looked back. No
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by dfinlay 11y ago
The Starship Robots are really cool. The sort of stuff I dreamt of as a child after staying up too late reading Asimov by flashlight. If I found myself working on a project like that, I would be more than thrilled. I probably came off to
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by dfinlay 11y ago
> This should be a great input for this company making these, actually solves the issue of theft. One robot, one person to follow it from a distance and make sure it does not get lost or, ehem stolen. A one to one relationship doesn&#x27
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by dfinlay 11y ago
As long as the items are low value like groceries, the other 5% probably wouldn't bother. They might be wise to impose a value or insurable limit, at least initially.
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by dfinlay 11y ago
I would be very excited to receive items from one of these robots. However, I don't know if I could bring myself to send anything of import. The risk of en route damage/theft seems really high. The trapping or taunting of them
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by dfinlay 11y ago
I had an issue with my local UPS operation marking packages as 'Undeliverable as Addressed' at 20:00 the day they were supposed arrive, to meet their obligation. They would then arrive the next day without issue. I ended up call
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by dfinlay 11y ago
This is a very exciting project, and it opens the door for quite a bit of analysis and hopefully better city planning/services. For a few years I worked for a company based in Chicago, and had to travel there often. I would stay a par
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by dfinlay 11y ago
Thanks, this is tremendous. I was doing my own comparisons recently, but without a nice aggregated set of benchmarks to check against.
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by dfinlay 11y ago
Adjustable chunk sizes would be beneficial as well.