steelegbr

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by steelegbr 11mo ago
AWS may be overcharging but it's a balancing act. Going on-prem (well, shared DC) will be cheaper but comes with requirements for either jack of all trades sysadmins or a bunch of specialists. It can work well if your product is simple
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by steelegbr 1y ago
Just get on the road with a 3/4/5G connection on a mobile phone if you want to understand why we still need to design for "iffy" Internet. So many applications have a habit of hanging when the connection isn't forma
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by steelegbr 1y ago
Generally yes and even today, if you've got a twisted pair, it's that down to the exchange. Though party lines were also a thing a very long time ago. There were also specialist circuits (e.g. EPS) where you had a physical line fr
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by steelegbr 1y ago
OpenTherm is a cool idea but even new installations aren't always wired for it. When installing a new smart thermostat I found the installation has been wired as S Plan with the few cables running between the boiler location and valves
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by steelegbr 1y ago
As someone who's been involved with radio and occasionally podcasts for about 20 years... I'm struggling to see the benefit of this one. Yes, prep services have existed in the past and I'm sure continue to exist today. Xtrax
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by steelegbr 1y ago
It's worth remembering that Radio Garden is now gubbed for transatlantic listening from the UK due to music licencing issues. The same problem also impacts TuneIn.
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by steelegbr 1y ago
I was on-call for over a decade, usually in roles where there was no compensation for working out of hours other than maybe TOIL. We're not talking FAANG gigs here - like £20-50k in the UK stuff. It's amazing how much having to ca
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by steelegbr 2y ago
Indeed. The few times I've encountered Rust in the wild it's been for a project that didn't need it (web or IO bound applications) and someone's "My First Rust Project". It's difficult or even at times bey
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by steelegbr 2y ago
Music rights are a bit of a mess across the Atlantic. PRS/PPL licences don't reciprocate with the American equivalents and vice versa. Either it's two sets of licences (and possibly legal entities) or you end up geo blocking.
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by steelegbr 3y ago
It's a real problem they need to get on top of as an organisation. Unceremoniously pulling the plug on services like IoT Core on tight timescales doesn't scream "reliable, sustainable platform I can pitch to my bosses".
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by steelegbr 4y ago
I took the plunge and published some of my old projects over at https://github.com/steelegbr?tab=repositories Yeah, I'm not proud of the way I wrote the code 17 years ago (historic-alldaydj-1) but it's fascinating
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by steelegbr 4y ago
They are and there's old firewalls out there that report Youtube traffic as a UDP DoS attack.
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by steelegbr 4y ago
> A lot of times on-call gets stuck on these folks because they're often treated as second class citizens in the softwarescape. Sadly spot on. For anyone that’s not been the ops side of the fence, you are expected to do major works
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by steelegbr 4y ago
Spot on. It gets messier when a failure in a T1 carrier between your CDN and a customer is causing issues. Neither of you (nor possibly even the CDN) has the power to fix it. Well, other than bypass the CDN and hope the traffic passes throu
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by steelegbr 5y ago
To add another bit of anecdata, if either station has their PI mis-configured, you can get handoff without being in the AF list. 1st and 3rd character matching rings a bell. Seen it happen in the UK with RDS and head units tuning to the hig
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by steelegbr 5y ago
Ooh... reminds me of a throwaway experiment I did a few years back - WebRTC for radio outside broadcasts. It never went far as we ended up going down the SIP path instead. Nice to see the idea going further though there are commerical produ
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by steelegbr 6y ago
A cloud / web based radio playout system. It's a bit of a niche but it'll get rid of the desktop(s) running some web radio streams. We operate as a "voice tracking" service but need to cater for presenters with limi