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Last night I was testing DO managed Kubernetes cluster with persistent volume claim and the volume took 15 minutes to reattach after the pod is rescheduled to another host. I thought it was just some weird hiccup and went to bed.

The incident report indicated the problem started 4 hours ago (around 9pm GMT) but I was having problem around 4pm. It's definitely not a 2-hour incident.

Your blog posts are interesting, thank you for that. I have questions though: Since you are using both Terraform and Packer from HashiCorp, do you happen to use Nomad too? If you do, what is your experience with it? Can you compare Nomad vs. Kubernetes?

Just yesterday I built an Android app to cast audio-only (ogg format) from YouTube to Chromecast. Had to do it because:

1. Baby needs her white noise to sleep

2. No other sites have those "8 hours womb sounds" as good as YouTube

3. The YouTube app refuses to cast to Google Home mini

Came across ydls[1] which uses youtube-dl and ffmpeg to download then transcode media on-the-fly. It's not very effective but works great! We no longer have to turn on the TV in our baby room. Check out the source code[2] if you are also a new parent.

1: https://github.com/wader/ydls

2: https://github.com/daohoangson/android-ydls

Our team worked on a similar idea and the test phone speakers died pretty fast, probably 2 out of 3 within a month. The cause may be (1) we over-stressed them too much (2) they were cheap Samsung phones and (3) we used frequency around 20kHz to avoid annoying human users (this library seems to operate at 17+kHz at most). Our conclusion at the time was consumer speakers and microphones are not good enough. Would love to hear whether Quiet has the same issue.

VLC 3.0 release 8 years ago

I was running 1.9.6, after an auto update to 1.10.something subtitles stopped working on Chromecast. I looked around and found a thread[1] with many people reporting the issue with many versions of Plex. One guy said he reverted to have it working again so I tried that and... it worked! I haven't updated Plex since then. Good to know that you have subtitles working with the latest version, maybe I will update when I get home, fingers crossed!

[1]https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/288806/plex-losing-subtitl...

VLC 3.0 release 8 years ago

I have been jumping between Videostream, Plex and VLC nightly in the last few months. They seem to play all kind of video files but subtitles remain to be a hard problem. VLC simply doesn't support it (or I didn't figure out how to enable subtitles). Videostream is buggy. Plex works with a specific version only (had to downgrade to get back subtitles)... The search continues I guess.

I relocated to HCMC 2 years ago from Hanoi. Many of my friends have also decided to move southward, especially those studied abroad. It's quite an obvious choice because HCMC economy is way more dynamic than Hanoi with lots of interesting jobs and higher pay. HCMC also has good food, lots of places to hang out, everything is generally cheap. Last but not least, the weather is much better than the capital.

I have a company with a few (local) friends. We build contents solution for web and mobile.

I'm using this app Kuvva and it works pretty well. What is the difference from yours? Your app does look much better though.

I have just redeemed the code in my DO account and it worked on the first attempt. I think they have fixed the issue. To any students out there: try first before reaching out to support, they are busy men/women.

I really appreciate the performance boost. We have a quite complicated sheet before and adding 20 more rows at a time is annoying. Yes I know there are ways to add 20+ but the default low limit shows how slow it is. With this new system, Google is confident enough to allow user to add 1000 rows at a time (default value). Scrolling seems to be very smooth too. Overall a great upgrade!

Some mobile app does that on purpose because people tend to make typo when the password is masked. I think it is not a very bad practice considering you entered it a few times already. People who want your password can look at your fingers to guess it anyway.

It's worth noting that I'm not related in anyway to Instagram. I also haven't downloaded the app, yet. I was speaking in common sense.

SteamMachines 13 years ago

I have kernel panic with this driver unfortunately. Wired XBox 360 with iMac 2011 and MacBook Pro 2012. Not sure what caused the issue... Because of it, I installed Windows via BootCamp and play all games over there, a bit inconvenient.