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by epall 4y ago
This work seems so much more challenging, interesting, and fun compared to what I do as a senior software engineer. Why does hardware engineering pay so much less??
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by epall 4y ago
Most employers in the U.S. over about 1,000 employees are “self-insured”, meaning they hire the insurance company for the network and administration, but the company actually does directly pay out claims. At over 1k employees, I expect Mail
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by epall 5y ago
No mention of permafrost? Yes, the _air_ will be more habitable, but if the _ground_ is a boggy mess, you’re not going to be doing much with this newly habitable land.
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ChaosDB Explained: Azure's Cosmos DB Vulnerability Walkthrough(wiz.io)
1 points by epall 5y ago|0 comments
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by epall 5y ago
This is brilliant! Check out the demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxFad7Rxw7Q
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So just how fast are channels anyway?(syslog.ravelin.com)
2 points by epall 6y ago|0 comments
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by epall 6y ago
I get the sense that hyperscalers don’t give Intel a ton of margin in negotiations, so they already have access to great server chips at competitive prices. And they’re bringing in AMD now to compete. Where M1 really shines is client-side a
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by epall 6y ago
I’m rather happy about buying the recently updated 13” MBP and basically skipping ARM Macs. My last one lasted 8 years, so I expect this one to last roughly as long. By then they’ll _definitely_ have ARM figured out, and in the meantime I c
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by epall 6y ago
This is essentially what RISC-V does with its "Compressed" instruction set, except without the dictionary switching. They pulled a bunch of statistics over real-world machine code, ran it through compression, then reverse-engineer
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by epall 7y ago
Oof. This really hurts. So often when folks complain about Google shutdowns, I defend G with “but that was a consumer product! GCP doesn’t kill off things. It’s different.” But here we have Google Cloud (in my defense, not GCP) killing of
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On Torchships (2010)(rocketpunk-manifesto.com)
1 points by epall 7y ago|0 comments
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by epall 8y ago
I love my ARM-powered Chromebook. True, it can’t teally do native development, but ARM clients aren just coming. They’re here. And wow doesn’t have amazing battery life and an unbrickable OS.
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These new tricks can outsmart deepfake videos(wired.com)
1 points by epall 8y ago|0 comments
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Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit(businessinsider.com)
76 points by epall 8y ago|51 comments
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by epall 8y ago
Check out Tiller! https://www.tillerhq.com/ I tried going down the route of dealing with OFX in GNUCash, and it's just a huge never-ending hassle. Tiller dumps the raw data from Yodlee (the backend that does the gnarly
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by epall 9y ago
Methane deteriorates in the upper atmosphere fairly quickly, whereas CO2 sticks around. Methane is a dramatically better insulator than CO2, so in the short run its impact is higher, but when you stretch out the timescale, your methane is d
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by epall 10y ago
It'll always be missing a bunch. Feel free to add them as proposed edits!
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by epall 10y ago
Great idea! Thank you.
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by epall 10y ago
Thanks! It's in there (row 21), but I got the price wrong.
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by epall 10y ago
Sweet! Another compelling option for sub-$100 SBCs. I've been keeping track of them in a Google Sheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TCugLk0GSukeWjhsLu73... .
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by epall 10y ago
According to CrunchBase, they've only raised $45M. 16x return after 4 years in business. Well done! https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quip#/entity
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by epall 12y ago
The difficult part of separate AWS accounts is that connecting between them is tricky (Security Groups, VPC, etc.). Not impossible, but a pain to get right. The spectrum between dev and prod isn't so clear-cut for a business with petab
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by epall 12y ago
Yeah, we connected with LDAP because that's how AdRoll operates, but we'd like to support a more universal backend eventually. That support just didn't make the cut for open-source release. With a bit of code, you could easil
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by epall 12y ago
Yeah, when we spoke with Amazon, they already had a couple of labels for what hologram is, so it sounds like we at AdRoll are not the only AWS customer who has had to roll it ourselves. Hopefully we'll be the last!
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by epall 12y ago
The hologram server is privileged and should run behind a firewall. It will only hand out keys to successfully authenticated (using an SSH challenge-response) clients, so it could be publicly accessible, but why go to that risk? The hologra
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by epall 12y ago
Yeah, at least for my building (which I'm heading up the internet committee for), the BPON that was installed by AT&T can do max 600 Mbps for about 30 customers on a loop, so that's 20 Mbps each. They should be able to burst h
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Announcing the Binc data interchange format(blog.ugorji.net)
7 points by epall 13y ago|1 comments
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Weekend hack: Local Drunk Lets You Grab A Drink With A Local(techcrunch.com)
3 points by epall 14y ago|0 comments
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by epall 14y ago
I've tried and failed to set up IPv6 on my MBP a few times now. HE seems to provide free tunneling, but I can't figure out if it's compatible with my AT&T U-Verse RG. Is there a way to enable IPv6 tunneling on OS X in a way that doesn't
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by epall 15y ago
They have a web-launched SaaS version, too, and they're trying to get everybody to switch to it because the pricing model is per-user instead of per-machine.

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