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nateguchi··on IPv6 Excuses
ISPs can always (and sometimes do) use NAT, Then they only need a few IPs. I know most mobile providers do this.
nateguchi··on “No Man’s Sky” Displayed on the Amiga 1000
Could someone explain why there is such a cult following behind these old Amiga machines? I see them mentioned a lot on HN and would like to understand the interest...
nateguchi··on Slack's bait and switch
> Slack's business model is to record everything said in a workspace and then to sell you access to their record of your conversations.

Whilst this is partially true, One of the key features enterprises need and that Slack supplies is the ability to fully export messages for transfer and compliance purposes.

One of the main differentiators between paid and unpaid slack is message retention. To my knowledge, I don't think the XMPP and IRC were used by anyone to overcome this limit but I'm pretty sure it's been done using their API.

They haven't shut of usage of their API for this purpose so I'm pretty sure that lost sales is the motivation behind this change.

The OP talks about the relevant ways Slack can implement features into their XMPP and IRC endpoints to allow new features. But this probably generates a lot of technical debt for a feature that isn't used by many people. (Also, anecdotally, I've found very few XMPP clients that actually support any of the proposed extensions).

nateguchi··on UPS is working on a fleet of 50 custom-built electric delivery trucks
Royal Mail (in the UK) is currently trialling an electric post van [1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/08/23/royal-mail-new-electric-auton...

nateguchi··on TI introduces DLP for headlights
I'm currently in the annoying situation where I need to replace the "Adaptive" LED headlights on my BMW, these units cost ~£3000 which is significantly more than the alternative (bulbs)....
nateguchi··on How Not to Design a Microwave
Most microwaves I've seen now seem to have the same (annoying) interface/software where you have to first select the power (always 100%), press start (it doesn't start), then select then time and press start (actually starts then).

What ever happened to the microwaves where you could key in a time and just press start?

nateguchi··on The Crash of ’87, from the Wall Street Players Who Lived It
This happened just after the Great Storm of 1987 which hit the UK on the 15th-16th October. Wikipedia has the following slightly unbelievable snippet:

"Following the storm few dealers made it to their desks and stock market trading was suspended twice and the market closed early at 12.30pm. The disruption meant the City was unable to respond to the late dealings at the beginning of the Wall Street fall-out on Friday 16 October, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded its biggest-ever one-day slide at the time, a fall of 108.36. City traders and investors spent the weekend, 17–18 October, repairing damaged gardens in between trying to guess market reaction and assessing the damage. 19 October, Black Monday, was memorable as being the first business day of the London markets after the Great Storm.

nateguchi··on Upload Images to S3 in GraphQL Using Rails and Paperclip
Surely Multipart is a more standard way to achieve this?
nateguchi··on How to Use the ZFS Filesystem on Ubuntu Linux
Will there be a time when ZFS is the defacto standard on Linux or is it only suited to specific use cases?
nateguchi··on Photos of Soviet control rooms
Does anyone know what the circular indicators in the middle of some of these control rooms are for?

Right in the centre of the indicator wall here: (http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09...)

nateguchi··on How Shazam Works (2015)
For those interested in audio fingerprinting, There was a company called Echo Nest that open sourced a full audio fingerprinting stack (server + client) called Echoprint [1] but it seems they've been bought by Spotify now and there's been no development since on echoprint.

I used it back in the day and I recall it working very well.

There's also a paper on the technology [2]

[1] https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=echoprint&type=

[2] http://mediatechnology.leiden.edu/images/uploads/docs/wt2015...

nateguchi··on Amazon Echo Spot
Ah, this reminds me of the Chumby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby) from 2008, I'm sure with voice recognition and video call capabilities, the Echo is hopefully a bit more useful.
nateguchi··on Tesla Model S battery degradation data
If the car has a Mass Airflow Sensor (MAF), then it can more accurately calculate the fuel usage. The majority of older / cheaper cars use a Manifold Absolute Pressure Sensor (MAP) and have to make some guesses at what the actual fuel usage is.
nateguchi··on The Crisis of Connected Cars: When Vulnerabilities Affect the CAN Standard
I know that Volvos have two separate CAN buses, one for important safety critical systems and one for interior functions and infotainment.

They are joined with a proxy/firewall that provides separation and limits the functionality available between the two.

I'm guessing this attack would only work in this case if the attacker could physically access the OBD port to gain entry to the safety critical bus.

nateguchi··on JrGQL, a GraphQL alternative
Is the fact that GraphQL is typed really a negative?
nateguchi··on How a Large Customer Can Kill a Startup
Large companies have big legal resources: if you mess up a contract with a big company, it could be game over for yours
nateguchi··on A Constructive Look at TempleOS (2015)
Something like an inline HTML & XML markup (like iXBRL[0]) would be appropriate for this - both machine and human readable, and formatted.

[0] iXBRL is a markup language used for company accounts (I think it might be a requirement for submitting company accounts in the UK). Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL Example: http://www.xbrl.org.uk/techguidance/bbbbb-ltd.html

nateguchi··on They Used To Last 50 Years
NEC makes some commercial displays designed like this [1] - they have a Raspberry Pi compute module slot where you can install the latest version of the compute module.

Not sure about the longevity of that standard though...

(also another thing to note about commercial displays is that as they are usually on constantly, they frequently suffer heavy burn-in after a few years,so not sure if replaceable parts is such a big sell)

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-nec-display-...

nateguchi··on Inside the Tesla 100kWh Battery Pack
My car can do 260 miles on a tank of petrol and very rarely have I had to refill it more than once in a day...
nateguchi··on Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets
It seems ridiculous now that you can get 4K TV sets for a reasonable price now and yet all the cinemas are touting their "New" 4K projection technology. Either bring back film or start projecting at 8K+.
nateguchi··on Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]
It works really well (not): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y5qwU0hwB0
nateguchi··on Uber Freight
I personally travel 20k miles a year, and that's just to and from work!
nateguchi··on A homemade receiver for GPS and GLONASS satellites
That must be one of the most professional looking electronics DIY project I've seen for a while.
nateguchi··on “Emoji composer is now at 100% on Twitter”
Without the background story, it's hard to tell whether this is a ridiculous or justified amount of time.

Does anyone know the full story?

nateguchi··on A French Grocery Chain Is Trolling Amazon Go
I wonder what the difference between the cost of Amazon's technology is vs Monoprix's service?

Monoprix may have found that they can make more money / save on initial outlay of shop fitting by offering a similar service, but without the technology.

nateguchi··on 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
Now that would be an interesting alternate timeline!

/ MacBook Pro with Blinkenlights bar /

nateguchi··on SQL Server on Linux public preview
> We have seen strong reception for the private preview to date with more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies applying for the private preview

wow

nateguchi··on Kaspersky OS
> not even the slightest smell of Linux

Interesting to see if this catches on in the embedded / IoT space, I guess it's a bit of a leap writing drivers / software for a different OS

nateguchi··on Search Results are officially AMP’d
This happens to me fairly frequently in a desktop web browser after typing a search query in chrome.

Obviously not optimised for poor internet

nateguchi··on Elevated error rates on applications and deployments
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