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I write software (mostly in Go), watch soccer, play video games, and read books of questionable quality. German in Texas.

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www.macrumors.com 1y ago

Apple Aiming to Launch Tabletop Robotic Home Device as Soon as 2026

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

DART's Impact with Asteroid Dimorphos (Official NASA Broadcast)

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www.sentinelone.com 3y ago

Metador, an Unattributed Threat Hiding in Telcos/ISPs/Universities

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github.com 3y ago

John Carmack .plan Archive

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www.forbes.com 4y ago

Dbt Labs Raises at $4.2B Valuation, $2B Less Than First Planned

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9to5mac.com 5y ago

iOS 14.4 patches 3 security flaws that ‘may have been actively exploited’

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www.sdxcentral.com 9y ago

VMware buys monitoring company wavefront

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www.bitcasa.com 9y ago

Bitcasa shuts down

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medium.com 9y ago

Cohort – A New Professional Social Graph

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vapor.codes 9y ago

Vapor – Swift Based Web Framework

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github.com 9y ago

Vulcan: An API-compatible alternative to Prometheus

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hyperterm.org 10y ago

HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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cloud.google.com 10y ago

Google Cloud Container Builder

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www.scientificamerican.com 10y ago

How the Survivor Bias Distorts Reality

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

IBM Acquires Cleversafe

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www.unrealengine.com 10y ago

Unreal is giving developers the InfinityBlade Assets Collection for free

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

CrowdStrike Scores $100M Led by Google Capital and Rackspace

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blog.klauspost.com 11y ago

Fast Reed-Solomon Coding in Go

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recode.net 11y ago

Bitcoin Brokerage Circle Gets $50M Investment

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thinkaurelius.com 11y ago

Aurelius Acquired by DataStax

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www.washingtonpost.com 11y ago

CENTCOM social media accounts apparently hacked by Islamic State sympathizers

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venturebeat.com 11y ago

Inside Trello, the venture-backed task-list app thats determined to get big fast

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blog.cloudflare.com 11y ago

Kyoto Tycoon Secure Replication

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venturebeat.com 11y ago

Nginx gets $20M, because an open-source web server is just the beginning

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gigaom.com 11y ago

Medium open sources its data visualization tool

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blog.chartbeat.com 11y ago

Chartbeat: Opening Up Our Measurement Process

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www.bloomberg.com 11y ago

Zuckerberg's New Secret Weapon for Deal-Making: WhatsApp

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www.hashicorp.com 11y ago

Terraform

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github.com 12y ago

Cockroachdb – A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore

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arstechnica.com 12y ago

How US satellites pinpointed source of missile that shot down airliner

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Sure Amazon was a big established co at the dawn of the cloud, and a little bit of an unexpected dark horse. None of the managed hosting providers saw Amazon coming. Also ran's like Rackspace and the like where also pretty established by that point.

But there was also cool stuff happening at smaller places like Joyent, Heroku, Slicehost, Linode, Backblaze, iron.io, etc.

no bidirectional power, no integration with solar or smart home systems, and no ability to manage home energy dynamically. They tend to be boxy, ruggedized, meant to be moved around, not seamlessly integrated into your living space. On top of that, many use e-mobility battery chemistries, which are great for delivering high power on demand but wear out faster when cycled daily for home energy use.

I already use an Ecoflow as quasi-UPS in my networking closet and one for a chest freezer and its worked great for that. They advertise a ~25ms switch over. I think (could be wrong) they also have features like scheduled tasks to managed recharge/discharge schedules.

Is the main difference between an Ecoflow and this basically the form factor?

I could swear I've also gotten data sync's while in limited connectivity situations, but to be fair could be that occasionally it was just able to phone in enough to do its thing.

Service is back up, so just testing real quick, at least on IOS , turning off wifi/cellular (not airplane mode) - my fenix at least seems to still be streaming heart rate data to the app. Not entirely sure what else will update from local data though (if anything).

Same! (but more side gig for me) It was pandemic hobby. Started out just making a chefy with a custom handle for my wife from a premade blank. Did the next one by hand with a file and a little home made forge, then went all in on a belt grinder, evenheat kiln etc.

The material science side of the blade is a blast - but one of my favorite bits is actually all the variety in handle materials. https://gcarta.bigcartel.com/products has some amazing patterns.

Cato's a pretty well-known libertarian think tank. Not saying they are right or wrong or that your choice of words was intentional, but calling them "The conservative Cato Institute" feels a little iffy.

"Libertarian think tank says Texas sucks for personal freedom" has very different vibe than "Conservative think tank says Texas sucks for personal freedom"

but also, never trust Cato - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/never-trust-the-cato-...

What's a good pet insurance carrier/plan, that's not just a straight up scam that just cover's the yearly stuff and some select things? Legit asking because with two super active GSD's I'd sign up in a heart beat if I found one.

is that the case? They sold a bunch early on but theres been lots of press about the lousy 40 series sales volume this year and their struggle to get people buy 4080/70's.

In Feb they artifically constrained 4090 volume to try and push 4080s no one wanted. The 4070 was dead on arrival and had production cut by April.

They've near stopped production now - theoretically because the AI stuff is so lucrative, but if they were really "shipping a ton of units" of the 40 series and didn't have excess inventory i doubt they'd have done that.

- https://www.dexerto.com/tech/nvidia-rtx-4070-production-repo... - https://www.dexerto.com/tech/nvidia-rtx-40-series-production...

Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell. It's not a grand epic space opera - its more like a grand "learn what life on a space freighter is like" opera. The books are strangely relaxing and calming.

Love throwing on an "ambient spaceship sounds" youtube and re-reading these.

Meltano | Senior Frontend Engineer | Remote | Full Time

Meltano's all-remote team and community of thousands are on a mission to enable everyone to realize the full potential of their data. To this end, we are bringing software engineering best practices to data teams in the form of an open source DataOps platform that we envision becoming the foundation of every team's ideal data stack.

Our public company handbook (https://handbook.meltano.com/) has all the details on our values, all-remote work, where we hire, compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work with us in general.

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineering to join our team to help build out our managed platform: https://boards.greenhouse.io/meltano/jobs/4659228004

Plasma Bigscreen 4 years ago

Its not like it doesn't have cons:

- 60Hz refresh rate - 8,000:1 contrast ratio with local dimming on - 500 cd/m2 brightness and "HDR compatibilty" - 86% DCI coverage

Meltano | Staff Platform Architect | Remote | Full-time | https://boards.greenhouse.io/meltano/jobs/4578152004

Meltano's all-remote team and community of thousands are on a mission to enable everyone to realize the full potential of their data. To this end, we are bringing software engineering best practices to data teams in the form of an open source DataOps platform that we envision becoming the foundation of every team's ideal data stack.

Our public company handbook (https://handbook.meltano.com/) has all the details on our values, all-remote work, where we hire, compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work with us in general.

We are looking for a great SRE/Platform Architect to join our team and help design, build, and orchestrate a robust managed DataOps platform. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in cloud platform architecture, cloud network routing, container monitoring, container lifecycle management, and other best practice design patterns.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/meltano/jobs/4578152004

Nintendo is the only winner, and i suspect Apple in the coming years will be the only one competing with Nintendo, since Sony abandoned the handheld market, and Microsoft has no interests in the mobile market

Valve? MS will compete that way indirectly. I snagged a SteamDeck - I haven't played games this much in a long time. Since getting it I've played through a bunch of triple A games (God of War, replayed the mass effect trilogy, etc), and a whole host of Nintendo exclusives via emulation.

The fact that Nintendo lawyers are working overtime taking down youtube SteamDeck videos that barely even mention emulation feels like an admission that they know the steamdeck is a threat. They sure didn't seem to work as hard to take down videos showing emulation for other platforms like the Aya Neo.

A geographic region where the local culture heavily identifies with a cuisine that's heavily focused on the various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke to cook the food?

I was huge fan of Factor but at least at the time (before the pandemic) their packaging was iffy and I'd often get a delivery where more than half of the meal trays where busted. I did Trifecta for a bit after, they've got robust packaging but the food wasn't nearly as good as Factor's.