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Founder of https://www.uclusion.com Learned a lot from HN, figure I should stop lurking and start adding to the discussion.
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bfuclusion··on Understanding Daemons
Yeah, I've done some python daemons in win, and registered with the service control manager, but I was wondering what the "magic" was there.
bfuclusion··on React is becoming a black box
Omg, a promise based render chain? I'm in love.
bfuclusion··on Understanding Daemons
So how does this work in windows? Edit, as for some reason it's getting downvoted: In windows, do you have to do the double fork etc? Do you have to close FDs etc?
bfuclusion··on Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days
$5 says this is stuck in some bureaucratic sinkhole somewhere. Barring a _good_ reason, I'd much rather have Daniel's brain here in the US than anywhere else.
bfuclusion··on FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics
Very very high. What fuels a thunderstorm is large amounts of air rising, and falling very rapidly. When the aircraft encounters those air movements it can very quickly exceed the structural limits of the aircraft.
bfuclusion··on FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics
Question: Where do you see the FARs going with drones like this?
bfuclusion··on Network Coding in P2P Networks
I'll have to go searching (been 13 years), but conceptually building a tornado encoder is a multi stage pipeline with input blocks and output blocks depending on how the bipart graph is set up. Once you have that you extend the bittorent block dictionary a bit and you're pretty much there.
bfuclusion··on Network Coding in P2P Networks
Take a look at tornado codes if you want a rated (instead of rateless) erasure code. It's related to fountain codes (and linked on the wikipedia article), and does basically the same thing as Reed-Solomon but with quasi linear encoding, IIRC n(log*n). I have to check if the patents expired, but my masters work was adapting BitTorrent to be backed by Tornado codes. Works surprisingly well since the original BitTorrent is structured around blocks anyways. I have the Ruby code around somewhere. When I modeled it, when the last seed left you'd need about half to one quarter the number of non-seed nodes in the network to be able to reconstruct the file.
bfuclusion··on Office Drama on macOS
Yeah, but that's like 12 pages of text. 12 pages is a trivial amount to read for a step by step guide on how to own millions of machines.
bfuclusion··on Why did the atomic spy do it?
A few things I like to keep in mind about soviet spies of this era, especially in regard to nukes. 1) The USSR was the UKs and the USs ally in WWII, and all the propaganda was saying as such. 2) It would not be a stretch to think that having only a single nation, no matter how benevolent, with nukes is a bad idea. There's a lot of temptation when you're the only guy with the giant mushroom cloud backing you.
bfuclusion··on Show HN: We're building a virtual meetup platform
I hit this myself all the time with my product. I think the core problem is that we're too close. We know all the little things it can do, so it's hard to pull back and see what the BIG things really look like.
bfuclusion··on You don’t need reproducible builds
Forgive me if someone has already mentioned this, but if I have multiple vendors, why can't I compare the hashes of all of them before I ask for the binary? Then any one vendor is being held to account by the others before I install. No source is required, just the hashes of the source and the hashes of the resultant binary.
bfuclusion··on File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design
Is stat really something you want as an abstraction over all filesystems? You might not even have that information available in all of them.
bfuclusion··on Why there’s so little left of the early internet (2019)
If you compute storage cost vs content creation rate, you would expect that not much would get saved.
bfuclusion··on The challenges of hydrogen for airliners, part 2: ecosystem
Bring back the Zeppelins:) There's lots of missions they can do besides passenger carrying, and they do it better than aircraft.
bfuclusion··on Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
Nice. I have an old Cordata 8088 around somewhere at my parents house. I'll have to boot it up and see if I can get a network card for it.
bfuclusion··on The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished
Ouch. There is _no_ excuse for that. With an a13 you should be able to use 5.1 surround as your ring tone if you want.
bfuclusion··on Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
A 386 w/5mb of ram. Or at least it was when I was doing so in 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC
bfuclusion··on The custom ringtone industry paved the way for the app store and then vanished
I always considered custom ringtone stores a gross abuse of the customer. MIDI existed YEARS earlier, so did MP3 and MOD. There's absolutely no reason why I shouldn't have been able to load my own on the phone and just play it. Some phones had this, most didn't.
bfuclusion··on Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech”
Absolutely that's tech. Metallurgy, force maps, 3d models, computer controlled machining, etc is in fact HIGH technology. To previous generations that's just plain magic, even if the user doesn't spend more than 1/10th of second thinking about it.
bfuclusion··on Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech”
I tried writing this three times, and I'm probably going to screw it up anyways but here's my take on business models and "tech": If the entirety of your approach is an existing model but "on the internet" and you don't spend any effort on what "on the internet" really means, then you might be in "tech". However if you take the time to carefully apply yourself to how the new environment changes your business model and your relationship with customers, and exercise sound technical and product focused expertise in so doing, then you're in tech. Efficiency, expanded markets, better experience, ease of use, etc are real tangible benefits, even if the whole product is just a shell around a 1970s COBOL database.
bfuclusion··on Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech”
Yeah, that one would indeed be "tech":). I meant 100ms of course.
bfuclusion··on Autodesk criticised by architects
Let me clarify. I absolutely, completely, think doing this would be painful and take years. But if it's line of business critical and someone has you by the throat, then you have to make the long term investments to survive. Even better, when you're done nobody can take it away from you. I just think by the time you get to the EU lobbying, regulator rulings, Autodesk dragging their feet, the appeals process, the fines that Autodesk will just build into the cost of the next version, etc, in the end it would be shorter and easier to write the software. Bonus if you make it open source so nobody has to go through this garbage again.
bfuclusion··on Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy
Its an expression in (American) English that means that the amount of change (or number of significant events) in the week was equivalent to a decade in other times.
bfuclusion··on Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech”
From it's own definitions this article is patently false. Quote: "applying scientific knowledge for practical purposes" You're doing that when you try to reduce time to display from 1 second to 1000ms, when trying to chose algorithms that better match your users real usage of the site, to just plain moving a button a few pixels so people see it better. It doesn't have to be the new shiny to make an actual impact.
bfuclusion··on Autodesk criticised by architects
I can 100% believe that Autodesk isn't great at responding to customer requests, but presumably these firms would have enough budget to pay for devs to write a solution that works for them. Including making an open file format, EU specific data centers, etc. It would probably even take less time and money than trying to lobby the EU to legislate what they want.
bfuclusion··on Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
Cheater:)
bfuclusion··on Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
No don't. It'd be then end of civilization as people would never leave their house (not that we can anyways:)).
bfuclusion··on Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
Any motion sickness problems? I'm thinking about getting this for when the weather sucks I can't get in a real plane, but motion sickness isn't my friend.
bfuclusion··on IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Got it. I took another pass through the article and was able to understand it a bit better with everyone's comments. Thanks all.
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