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by squeed 2y ago
I, too, built almost the same thing for my kids. It plays music, using Spotify, Chromecast, and a whole lot of virtual duct-tape via HomeAssistant. There is also an NFC tag that will turn off all the lights and turn on a disco ball :-).
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by squeed 4y ago
Yeah, we had a lot of construction debris once, and rented a 30 cubic-yard dumpster (one of the big ones). After we tossed what we had, we told the neighbors to bring all they wanted. It was really helpful, especially since there were defin
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by squeed 4y ago
I agree completely. Just look at io_uring and PowerShell, to name some examples. io_uring totally rethinks the notion of a "syscall". It is going to eat the world, and most of us are not even going to realize that it happened. Pow
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by squeed 5y ago
I think you're basically right. I know some people that looked in to building a flow battery (it didn't pan out for other reasons). The utility wanted it for frequency regulation - in other words, extremely short timescale respons
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by squeed 5y ago
Hah, I remember a pallet or the now-empty IA enclosures showing up at Noisebridge. They were super useful - a USB3-SATA adapter. I still have mine for occasional data spelunking.
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by squeed 5y ago
I know you mention the San Francisco DMV, but you cannot get a commercial building connected to the water system in the city without a $10,000 bribe. Its cloaked with "agents" and "consultants" but it's still cash c
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by squeed 5y ago
Yeah, my dad had a tank like that. I dove with it exactly once - never again, yikes. It was coated inside and out so, despite being a steel tank, it was in excellent shape.
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by squeed 6y ago
Argh, that's been my experience too. (I've just rented electric cars). None of the charging stations take credit cards; they all have some byzantine payment method. There are weird resellers abound - some have apps that work, some
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by squeed 6y ago
For sure. Part of being a successful writer is communicating in a way that is most effective for your audience. Rarely is a wall-of-text the right answer. Bullet points, flow diagrams, and examples are all helpful techniques when writing fo
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by squeed 6y ago
Yeah, same here. It turns out I could focus, but it took a lot of brain power to actually and understand text. Getting new glasses lowered the cognitive load.
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by squeed 6y ago
You have to learn to write, and get comfortable doing it. When I was the (de-facto and later de-jure) architect, I was too reliant on in-person synchronous discussions. I neglected my e-mail and design-document skills. The result: everythin
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by squeed 6y ago
Systemd reflects the underlying system it is meant to support: the Linux kernel. And the Linux kernel is neither easy nor complex. That Systemd can make the mania of Linux knobs usable is, IMHO, a huge achievement.
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by squeed 8y ago
They're phasing much of the go and replacing it with rust.
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by squeed 8y ago
Agreed! "Hammock driven development" definitely has stuck with me over the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
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by squeed 8y ago
The phrase "white-collar neo-feudalism" is probably the best characterization I've heard - thanks for that. The metaphor makes me wonder: who is the church - those who convince the masses that there's a bigger meaning to
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by squeed 8y ago
Hmm. I'm not exactly sure if it's what you mean, but in the networking world, we use the term "Goodput" as a shorthand for "actual user-observed bandwidth".
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by squeed 9y ago
Enjoy it! I've had this book for years. It's one of my treasured possessions.
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Venezuelan Pirates Rule the Most Lawless Market on Earth(bloomberg.com)
1 points by squeed 9y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 9y ago
For a similar tale of vDSO getting someone in trouble, check out this fun talk "Really crazy container troubleshooting stories": https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2017-115-really_crazy_container_tr...
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by squeed 9y ago
I was one of the spectators on the Prometheus thread. It took him 2 days. It was insane.
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by squeed 9y ago
Agreed, just seems like marketing vaporspeak. Not exactly a trustworthy source, too. For example, containerd has been moved to the CNCF and made a broader project. Fine, but Docker runs a separate fork of containerd anyways. A neat marketin
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by squeed 9y ago
The real problem is that you can no longer look at a fixed offset for your parameters, which complicates filtering silicon. In other words, if you want to have a firewall rule of "drop tcp 135", in ipv4 you can just look at bytes
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by squeed 9y ago
Indeed, especially as a company that has a reputation for producing unstable APIs that break between minor versions. This is a team that seems to think it is acceptable to return ASCII art and backspaces in their container management APIs:
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by squeed 9y ago
Oh, I totally agree with you; flexibility in design is not intrinsic to Brutalist or non-Brutalist buildings. I don't have direct experience in construction, but in a past life I worked in two academic IT departments; it always pays to
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by squeed 9y ago
I don't disagree with you, but I think there's a further criticism of Brutalist architecture that's worth mentioning. Brutalism does indeed try to value functionality over decoration, but I feel it misses the mark in that reg
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by squeed 9y ago
And yet, three of the four most valuable companies in the world are cloud providers, and none of them have more than rudimentary support for IPv6. This is a disaster. Half the world is not yet online. If we're going to change that, the
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by squeed 9y ago
Is it Akamai? Or is it a single site on Akamai? CDN customers can configure their sites in a million ways. My guess is a single site that was getting DDoS'd added this as an attack signature and forgot about it.
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by squeed 9y ago
Funny that the only serialization format that beat MessagePack in their benchmark was FlatBuffs. I happen to know the maintainer of the Golang FlatBuff project, and he is an absolute master at tuning Golang. It's good to see that vindi
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by squeed 10y ago
Wow, what an amazing article. I wish I'd read this a decade ago.
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by squeed 10y ago
This is the link to the full email: https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/20... I was there when it happened. It's funny now, but it goes to show that "radical inclusivity" has i

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