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soccerdave··on Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs
The mistake was the trash can, they locked themselves in to a physical design that doesn't allow upgrading easily. Graphics cards come in different shapes and sizes.
soccerdave··on 'Legitimate' US healthcare pricing could reduce costs by a third
When I needed an MRI, I called five different places and only one of them would actually tell me a price. All of the others said "we don't know the price until we submit the claim to insurance". Not sure if they were telling the truth or just being lazy at their jobs. Either way, getting a price in advance is not as simple as just asking.
soccerdave··on Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
This is very appealing to me just because of the amount of bandwidth that is included. I currently serve 20TB/month of static assets for only $160 spread among Softlayer, Digital Ocean and Linode VPSs. If I can host my static assets on the same network as AWS for the same price then that is a huge win, especially since all new Softlayer VPSs only come with a measly amount of bandwidth.
soccerdave··on Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
Last time I checked it isn't possible to deploy from Xcode to an iPhone wirelessly
soccerdave··on HP: the pros are moving from Mac to Z
So for $2700 you get a computer that doesn't even have an SSD but comes with a 7200 rpm SATA drive
soccerdave··on October Special Event Keynote [video]
It makes sense to use on an iphone where typing is difficult, it doesn't make sense to touch any of those when i can type faster than reading those suggestions. That's obviously just my opinion.
soccerdave··on October Special Event Keynote [video]
I have a friend that has unusually sweaty hands and can never get the touch id on the iphone to work. Will that person be able to turn the laptop on?
soccerdave··on October Special Event Keynote [video]
Did you watch him typing an email and clicking the 'auto-suggested' words that were showing up?

I do concede that there are some good uses for it though.

When your hands are on the keyboard are you looking down at them to see where you are typing? Now you are going to take your eyes off the screen and see if the touch bar has something useful for you. I would imagine you are going to keep using the same keyboard shortcuts that you have used for years.

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soccerdave··on October Special Event Keynote [video]
This is beyond laughable. I am genuinely so sad that they finally ruined the MBP. Watching him tap the auto-suggested words on the 'Touch Bar' is so sad. I have a 3 year old MBP and I was looking forward to upgrading it, but not anymore.
soccerdave··on The 2016 Election
There is most likely a large portion of voters that are also voting 'against' Hillary. The only realistic vote against Hillary is unfortunately a vote for Trump.
soccerdave··on The 2016 Election
> I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. But I’d like to find out

So, have you not sat down with Thiel and asked him why he supports Trump? If so, what were his reasons.

soccerdave··on WTF is a container?
Imagine you run 3 different ruby (or whatever other language) and they all run on different versions of ruby. Containers allow you to easily isolate the whole stack including the individual version of ruby and install only the packages needed for that app to run in its own container. Of course it's still possible to do this without containers, my company handles it by building our own custom rpms for each ruby version and sticking them in /opt.
soccerdave··on MacOS Sierra
I would be more concerned about security updates. Does Apple still publish security updates for those old versions or even for 10.10 since El Capitan has been out for a year?
soccerdave··on Andreessen Horowitz’s Returns Trail Venture-Capital Elite
It doesn't sound like you are accounting for the re-invested dividends which will put a 10 year investment well above that 50% return you mentioned. This quick site that I found says the DJIA is up 110% over the last 10 years if you reinvest dividends.

https://dqydj.com/dow-jones-return-calculator/

soccerdave··on OpenBSD 6.0 released
What happens if your cd that comes in the mail is swapped out for a different cd by a malicious actor?
soccerdave··on New peak for US health care spending: $10,345 per person
"National health expenditures will hit $3.35 trillion this year, which works out to $10,345 for every man, woman and child."

This is over $10,000 per person on health care costs in one year.

soccerdave··on GCE vs. AWS: Why You Should Never Use Amazon
Which instance type were you using when you experienced throttling? This is a documented "feature" on a few of the instances. They give you the ability to burst for a certain amount of time but you can't burst forever.
soccerdave··on Tesla Model S adaptive cruise control crashes into van
As the driver said in his comments, when he'd seen the system stop 1,000 times in the past he had a false sense of security that it was actually going to stop for him like it was supposed to.
soccerdave··on Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5
Because conveniently several of them are Google properties. If their sites weren't top 10, but top 20, then we would see the top 20 sites exempt.
soccerdave··on “it seems that Fenix finally reached Twitter tokens limit”
I have developed several apps on the Facebook platform without any special contracts that have reached well over 1 million total users. I know that the Twitter thing is a "known" issue but I also saw them a couple of months ago saying they were trying to revive developer relations. This is just why I wouldn't touch creating a Twitter app with a ten foot pole!
soccerdave··on “it seems that Fenix finally reached Twitter tokens limit”
Why should "they" have to give Twitter a call, and from my experience how are you actually supposed to even call someone at one of the big companies. Twitter should be reaching out to them prior to cutting off their access and letting them know how they need to proceed. I've developed lots of huge apps on FB platform and this is why I would never touch Twitter platform.
soccerdave··on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
I wonder how big the installation of Amazon Linux is? They are still not on systemd. Also, CentOS 6 still has support for 4 more years so probably can't throw away all the bash yet.
soccerdave··on Growing up with MySQL: How we scaled our primary datastore
Really enjoyed your post. I had a question about your usage of ProxySQL.

1) Do you have to update the ProxySQL configuration on your application servers when you do a slave promotion or is that handled automatically?

2) I didn't fully understand how you know which database host has a shard (i.e. shard 22). Is that also part of your ProxySQL configuration?

soccerdave··on Apple's aging Mac Pro is falling behind Windows rivals
Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold your breath. It's sad that they are lagging so far behind on internal updates, but at this point I think they care more about how it looks then performance. I'm just hoping they don't ruin the Macbook Pro next.
soccerdave··on OpenBSD 5.9 released early
Hopefully I didn't come across as bashing OpenBSD because that was not my intention. I was just providing a potential users perspective.
soccerdave··on OpenBSD 5.9 released early
Great to see FreeBSD doing this! I knew cperciva had been building them but didn't realize FreeBSD had incorporated it into official images. That's great!
soccerdave··on OpenBSD 5.9 released early
My point is that if they DID provide an official AMI then they would possibly see even more adoption. I know for myself, I am going to go with the company that provides the best support on AWS, which at the moment is Ubuntu.
soccerdave··on OpenBSD 5.9 released early
The release notes mention good support for running on AWS. I would love to see more distributions embrace building AMIs, or at the least provide good documentation to get it running. Ubuntu probably has the best support by building AMIs for all the regions, it would be awesome to see some others do the same thing. I think this is probably an overlooked area that could provide more growth for the BSDs.
soccerdave··on Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer
I've had ~25-30 instances running for the past 3 years and only had 1 or 2 instances have hardware issues, never had issues with EBS. Running on us-west-2 but it seems like more issues happen in us-east-1.
soccerdave··on Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management buyout
I'm curious how you are organizing your data. Do you have one file per account (checking, credit card) or is it all in one big file? I've looked at ledger a few times and get a little overwhelmed, part of it though is because Quicken is so easy since it downloads everything.
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