samcrawford

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by samcrawford 16d ago
I switched from Spotify to Amazon Music about 9 months ago, and cancelled Spotify Premium as a result (due to price, not bugs). Amazon Music is so much worse. 1. If you have no connectivity, the app will frequently get stuck in the offlin
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by samcrawford 2y ago
This is indeed sad. We are/were a customer, and one of the earliest edge computing customers. For a long time they've been the only provider truly offering the ability to run native code at the edge. But they've not really ta
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by samcrawford 3y ago
Not included with Prime in the UK
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by samcrawford 4y ago
Great write-up! One question I had was around the use of keepalives. There's no mention in the article of whether keepalives were used between the client and reverse proxy, and no mention of whether it was used between the reverse prox
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by samcrawford 4y ago
That 15Mb/s figure for 4K is out of date by a couple of years. They previously targeted a fixed average bitrate of 15.6Mb/s. They now target a quality level, as scored by VMAF. This makes their average bitrate for 4K variable, but
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by samcrawford 4y ago
The same author has been reporting diligently on Pollen, and has said he will do a write-up on the collapse there. I will be very interested to read that.
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by samcrawford 4y ago
I'm not so sure. If I load a saved map in Google Maps (e.g. someone has saved a route with markers and shared it with me), and then I go offline whilst viewing it, Google Maps on Android will show an error after a while and I'll l
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by samcrawford 4y ago
An amusing side effect of this is that even if I search for the exact title on Spotify, their search does not find the podcast. I eventually found it on Spotify by searching for Berlin airport. To save others from Spotify's search: ht
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by samcrawford 4y ago
There isn't an "official data source" for RDOF evaluation. ISPs are required to carry out measurements in the markets where they've accepted funds. Measurements are carried out on a sampled subset of their customers, and
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by samcrawford 4y ago
My experience with Paypal is the opposite. On multiple occasions I've had someone send me money on Paypal, but then it gets held up in checks and verification for 2-4 weeks, during which time I cannot access it. Sometimes it is instant
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by samcrawford 4y ago
I'd second Mosyle Business. We pay for about 40 licences. It costs us very little and they provide quick support.
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by samcrawford 4y ago
I've been using Gen1 eeros since they were first released in around 2016. They're still getting software updates and they're still rock solid. I'll be first in line to purchase a new set if they offer a model that suppor
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by samcrawford 4y ago
For what it's worth, we run "edge compute" with two separate mid-sized CDNs and pay about $0.005 per GB. This required a bit of negotiation, but has no minimum commitment and is on a monthly term. Yes, even lower fees can be
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by samcrawford 4y ago
Filtering out the spam results is only half the problem. In my experience, a legitimate site's content is cloned by a spam site, and that one appears in a Google search and the legitimate one does not. The example that keeps hitting me
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Teclis – Non-commercial web search(teclis.com)
239 points by samcrawford 4y ago|79 comments
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by samcrawford 5y ago
I also haven't received one. Checked spam too. My server is a 61 EUR/mo, and is a Xeon E5-1650v3 with 256GB RAM. It was only provisioned a few weeks ago.
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by samcrawford 5y ago
Enjoyed reading your bio on your website. Sub 24 hour at Leadville is super impressive! (Coming from someone who has not managed 24 hours at Western States... Yet...)
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by samcrawford 5y ago
I hadn't heard of Tom Lane before. But his prolificness in contributing led me to search for him. And wow. He has quite a history. Co-author or the PNG spec. Major contributor to JPEG's success. Not to mention postgres. At 66 year
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by samcrawford 5y ago
> I would still rather work with Postgres AND have to juggle a connection pooler Is this comment relating to the overhead of idle connections, which has historically necessitated the use of a pooler in front of PG? If so, I believe this
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by samcrawford 5y ago
We use the excellent gdnsd ( https://github.com/gdnsd/gdnsd ), mainly for its geo-DNS configurability. Have been using it for probably 5-6 years now, handling hundreds of millions of queries per day, and never had an iss
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by samcrawford 5y ago
Also check out https://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36 . That has plenty of US hosts at around that price range too
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by samcrawford 5y ago
Kagi.com does this. In closed beta at the moment, but you can email and request access.
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by samcrawford 5y ago
Hetzner's offering is competitive too. 58 EUR/mo at https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple
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by samcrawford 5y ago
https://www.mkdocs.org/ . Probably not the latest or greatest, but it produces nice looking documentation from markdown. Serves my purposes well.
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Atlas 2.0(101.132.96.154)
3 points by samcrawford 5y ago|0 comments
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by samcrawford 6y ago
After I did a Show HN about my OSM-powered project ( https://trailrouter.com ), I saw first hand a little of the positive impact of large corporate involvement in OSM. Two of the very large companies mentioned in the article got i
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by samcrawford 6y ago
In fact, he quite recently sold corp.com for a healthy sum: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-...
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by samcrawford 6y ago
I note the author said: "Note: the servers are oversized for the load we’re currently seeing. The reason for that is that we tried to solve a production issue by increasing the server specs. It didn’t solve the problem, and now we can’
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by samcrawford 6y ago
An amusing anecdote from someone on the other side of this story... A friend of mine has first@fullname.co.uk, and he's forever getting email intended for first@fullname.com (who is someone entirely different, also in the UK, and works
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by samcrawford 6y ago
Received a lot of discussion 3 days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045

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