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by urlgrey 10mo ago
in 1997 I saw Linus Torvalds speak at UC Berkeley following his move to California to work at Transmeta. I was a computer science undergrad at UC Davis, and took Amtrak to Berkeley along with some friends to see Linus in person. Linux was b
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Modern Image Formats at Discord: Supporting WebP and AVIF(discord.com)
3 points by urlgrey 1y ago|0 comments
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by urlgrey 2y ago
Another important feature: HEVC playback on Mac OS X. An increasing amount of video content, especially content recorded on mobile phones, uses HEVC. Inconsistent playback support represents a real barrier to HEVC adoption (among other thin
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by urlgrey 3y ago
There are several options from Amazon, try searching for "Clip-on Ferrite Ring".
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by urlgrey 3y ago
Author here, would love to discuss!
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Scaling data processing with the BadgerDB KV Store(mux.com)
3 points by urlgrey 3y ago|1 comments
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by urlgrey 5y ago
I'm amazed that their architecture doesn't include a CDN. These days I expect nearly all high traffic websites to make use of a CDN for all kinds of content, even content that's not cached. They cited Cloudflare not being use
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by urlgrey 6y ago
This literally cost me sleep last night, paging me for new Kubernetes nodes that failed to transition to 'Ready' because they were unable to pull Calico images during bootstrapping. After some duct-taping to get those initial node
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Stateful Stream Processing with Kafka and Go(mux.com)
2 points by urlgrey 7y ago|0 comments
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How Mux Routed Around a Major Network Outage(mux.com)
1 points by urlgrey 7y ago|0 comments
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How Mux Routed Around a Major Network Outage(mux.com)
1 points by urlgrey 7y ago|0 comments
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When Good Certificates Go Bad: Monitoring for Expired TLS Certificates(mux.com)
1 points by urlgrey 7y ago|0 comments
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by urlgrey 8y ago
At Mux we use Cedexis Openmix to dynamically select between Fastly and Highwinds (now Stackpath) CDNs to stream a lot of video. The end-user experience with a CDN is going to vary dramatically depending on where your users are located aro
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Multi-CDN support in Mux Video for improved performance and reliability(mux.com)
1 points by urlgrey 8y ago|0 comments
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Video Access Log Processing with Apache Flink(mux.com)
2 points by urlgrey 8y ago|0 comments
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by urlgrey 8y ago
> As of 2012, videos that didn’t load in two seconds had little hope of going viral. This finding aligns with the results of a survey of users of the Mux video analytics service. We asked them "Which of the following streaming video
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Securing Video Content with Signed URLs(mux.com)
1 points by urlgrey 8y ago|0 comments
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by urlgrey 8y ago
Very short segment durations are effective only when latency is more important than quality. Each TS segment must start with a key-frame, and the GOP size can't exceed the duration of a segment (e.g. one second). Lowering the segment d
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by urlgrey 8y ago
Periscope developed a Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LHLS) technique that relies on HTTP chunked transfer-encoding to stream video bytes as they are encoded at the origin. This is still subject to TCP packet retransmission overhead, but t
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by urlgrey 8y ago
The breach notice indicates that hashed passwords were compromised but doesn't mention whether a salt was used when computing the hashes. Use of a salt makes all the difference, guarding against the use of rainbow tables to look up pre
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by urlgrey 9y ago
Watch the "Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution" video: https://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA It's a great example of how trying to design a product that works well for every stakeholder in every scenari
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by urlgrey 9y ago
Crawlers & scrapers that rely on headless browsers like Chrome often initiate playback of video on the pages they access. The company I work for (Mux) has a product that collects user-experience metrics for video playback in browsers &a
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by urlgrey 9y ago
Great question! There was a fairly even distribution of slow-performing requests across the many user-agent strings coming from the Facebook ASN. My hunch is that the Facebook crawlers send user-agent strings that Facebook has seen in reque
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by urlgrey 9y ago
Post author here: this post was written in June 2017, and the subject has become increasingly relevant since the MySpace video advertising bot fraud reported by BuzzFeed on October 27, 2017: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsil
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Triggering Video Playback with Bots and Crawlers(mux.com)
42 points by urlgrey 9y ago|4 comments
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by urlgrey 9y ago
The USDA partnered with industry to develop a process for increasing Vitamin D levels in mushrooms by simply exposing them to ultraviolet light. Monterey Mushrooms has a video showing how this step was added to the packaging process: http:
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by urlgrey 9y ago
Two years ago I integrated CoderPad into a technical-screening-as-a-service product I was involved with; Vincent's responsiveness and focus were very impressive. I'm thrilled to see him making such progress! In the event that some
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by urlgrey 9y ago
Crawlers & bots trigger video playback on the websites they visit, though it's probably unintentional in most cases. At Mux we have taken steps to identify such video views to limit their impact on aggregate video view performance
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Do Androids Watch Videos of Electric Sheep? How Bots React to Web Video(mux.com)
1 points by urlgrey 9y ago|0 comments
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Do Androids Watch Videos of Electric Sheep? How Bots React to Web Video(mux.com)
2 points by urlgrey 9y ago|0 comments

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