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by don-code 5y ago
When I last tried, it, AWS RDS still required EBS-backed disks. It may be acceptable for 99% of use cases, but that means there's a ceiling around 60k IOPS, even with PIOPS disks. Outside of RDS, you're afforded a bit more creativ
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by don-code 5y ago
I'm waiting for someone to get our corporate VPN on a blacklist just by clicking the button and hitting a honeypot. Granted, it's what I get for hitting the button without reading the code, so, shame on me?
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by don-code 5y ago
You can get pretty close to an HDTV with nothing but a dumb VGA monitor. Context: as late as 2012, I had nothing but two Sun Microsystems (rebranded Sony) 19" Trinitron CRTs. The picture quality on these monitors was _phenominal_, and
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by don-code 5y ago
This happened to me once at an old job. I discovered a race condition between the process that sanitized data out of the staging environment as it was (continuously) refreshed in from a production fork, and the process that sent notificatio
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by don-code 5y ago
There doesn't seem to be any context on whether this was an intentional feature, intended to be used by userspace programs, or something entirely undocumented that wasn't intended to see widespread use. What's more, it doesn&
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by don-code 5y ago
This seems on point. The conversation at the dawn of personal computing would have been: > Where's file X for project A? > On the floppy disk for project A. And that more or less continued for most users through the 90s, but then
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by don-code 5y ago
I'd love to give this a try as a replacement for FreeDOS. I've used FreeDOS for a couple of silly embedded projects (the clock in my living room, for one), and the biggest limiting factors are: 1) Network support - it's glitc
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by don-code 5y ago
Not counting a home: my favorite purchase has been a good stereo for my home office. Nothing that broke the bank, either - I picked up an older Technics receiver and a pair of Advent Legacy floor-standing speakers for under $200. Now that I
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by don-code 5y ago
> yeah, eventually you just cut off those friends still working at McDonald's That's profound. As "the friend in tech", I've never had this said to my face, but have definitely felt it. There's an us-versus-
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by don-code 5y ago
Best: be open to the proposed solutions of those under you. They aren't tainted by your own preconceived notions of how things should be. Worst: be open to integrating the solutions of other teams, that may conflict with your own. Puri
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by don-code 5y ago
I don't see the TI-series graphing calculators as a general purpose computing device. If I need more horsepower than an old Z80 for some specific use case, TI actually has me covered, in the 68k-powered TI-89 and the ARM-powered TI nSp
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by don-code 5y ago
The author here has a good point. Social media may encourage us to write in summary. My tweet can go viral if it's funny and captures an emotion - here, that product requirements suffer as soon as making progress becomes difficult. It&
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by don-code 5y ago
Yes and no - something that TI-BASIC on the TI-83 series has going for it is that it's tokenized, so directives like `While` or `ClrHome` are actually options, rather than full words. So I don't have to type "While" on t
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by don-code 5y ago
The thing I appreciate the most about a device like this is that it's largely self-contained. I can program my phone in Python, sure, but I largely can't program my phone in Python on the phone . There are tools which do this, bu
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by don-code 5y ago
There was a time that some Microsoft software was free for evaluation for college students, but in fact, anyone with a .edu domain name was able to sign up. While I took advantage of this as a high school student, I assume faculty and non-t
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by don-code 5y ago
I'd love if someone broke down _reasons_ for vaccine hesitancy. It seems like the strategies we should develop for addressing them would be different, and that there shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all strategy, as we're trying
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by don-code 5y ago
I ended up doing something very similar, if for different reasons. There was an elongated period of time when I had no home Internet service. It was more or less a nonissue, since I had 5GB of LTE-speed tethering, and most of my devices spo
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by don-code 5y ago
I bet you just answered my question - we aren't talking about a 5mbps video uploaded after the fact on home Wi-Fi, but a 384kbps video shoved down a 512kbps, TCP-unfriendly pipe as it's being shot. Thank you for that!
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by don-code 5y ago
It seems like Facebook does a thing that doesn't scale, in the interest of time: feed a minimally processed video until other streams are available. That makes sense, but I wonder if it also means that video quality on Facebook general
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by don-code 5y ago
I won't disagree that the physical security of the last mile is quite fragile, but I'm not sure the same holds true for the global Internet. There's no single topology of the Internet, but if I had to try and sum it up: it ap
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by don-code 5y ago
You'd need some really great moderators for this kind of conversation. No conversation is perfectly linear - new ideas lead to forks, and a large group needs to somehow choose whether or not to take one. But if there's a queue of
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by don-code 5y ago
We sort of know what to expect with powertrain longevity on used vehicles, but I'm not sure we know the same for electric vehicles just yet. Consider: I had my last car purchase (which I knew would be used) between a BMW 4 Series, a VW
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by don-code 5y ago
Something that this article doesn't address is that "uprootedness" is not new. Some cultures have been conquered, then conquered again, to the point where "whose god are we worshiping this particular century?" might
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by don-code 5y ago
Case in point: Terminator 2 Extreme, purchased in 2003. I figured that having the physical media meant I could play this forever long as I owned the discs. I haven't been able to play those discs since 2008, when the license servers we
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by don-code 5y ago
The fact that you're asking this question leads me to believe you are not, in fact, "not smart enough". That level of self-awareness only seems to come to those with intelligence - leading to effects like Dunning-Kruger and i
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by don-code 5y ago
What's interesting to me is that, in spite of the site having been online since 1998, the site has been updated long after that - on the same platform. There are new box sets from 2009 for sale, for instance. My naive assumption is tha
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by don-code 5y ago
I didn't quite glean a thorough understanding of the model from the article. It sounds like it's: 1) Public funds provide capital to build a new dwelling; individuals move in at rates similar to market rent. 2) Rather than rents p
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by don-code 5y ago
This is amazing - and incidentally has given me a solution to a very real problem. My grandmother is suffering from dementia, and within the last few months has forgotten how to tune a radio. She's an avid radio listener, so I worked a
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by don-code 5y ago
There actually are several good reasons to run in us-east-1. Something I hear a good lot is the latency argument - if you're a startup based in Boston, and your roundtrip to us-west-2 is 80ms (this is actually my roundtrip to us-west 2
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by don-code 5y ago
Possibly that 32-bit values on the Alpha were automatically sign-extended to 64 bits? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170807-00/?p=96...

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