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It may be close, but back then we didn't "know". They were still exploring and figuring out what works. Pretty brave.

boredinballardon Western Digital Announces Ultrastar He12 12 TB and 14 TB HDDs

RAID is fine. As long as it's RAID 10 haha.

boredinballardon Qubes OS Begins Commercialization and Community Funding Efforts

I've actually been able to run Qubes in a VM.

You just need a host that supports nested virtualization. I can't recall what I used, it was either VMware workstation or VirtualBox.

It may have been the hardware I was running on that helped, it was a Dell workstation. Skylake CPU and all that.

boredinballardon More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan

That's a good idea! I may start doing that.

boredinballardon Cars are getting weird

Works for drum brakes.

boredinballardon Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]

This person is apparently from Washington, I've gotten the same Lyft driver that drives his Tesla. It'd be funny if it was the same guy.

From my sample size of one, college kids that invested their entire savings into Tesla very early then cashed out some to buy a Tesla are the kind of Uber/Lyft driver to own a Tesla.

boredinballardon TSA Master Keys

http://www.lockwiki.com/index.php/Impressioning

boredinballardon The Promise of 5G

Includes tethering, for me at least. I use the $30/month prepaid which has a similar data plan structure. As far as I know, T-Mobile let's you do whatever you want with your phone and data.

boredinballardon Grooveshark Shuts Down

I got off Grooveshark years ago because it was obvious it wasn't going to be around forever, I am actually pretty darn surprised they lasted as long as they did. Either you ignored the signs or were blissfully unaware.

boredinballardon The photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras

To be fair in regards to vinyl, it does sound different. And to some people that sounds better.

boredinballardon Ask HN: Who is on your shit-list of frustrating Enterprise Software?

Symantec, not a fan of their backup software.

boredinballardon Holdout

I remember when this was all happening with Edith. She was pretty much the only person in Ballard that didn't sell when offered.

boredinballardon Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft

I also use Lyft and Uber in Seattle, and I much prefer Lyft.

It's interesting, there are two totally different cultures when it comes to Lyft and Uber drivers. Lyft drivers are always happy to talk and love it when you sit in the front seat. Uber drivers are always pretty friendly but often encourage sitting in the back like a taxi. There are drivers that are both on Uber and Lyft and they are always great and seem to be more like a typical Lyft driver than an Uber driver.

boredinballardon Reddit Advertising: Results of a 1-Week Campaign

Yup, I had this same issue before. Changing my campaign dates around would allow me to do a campaign. Sometimes I would have to start the campaign a couple weeks out.

boredinballardon Lyft is offering as much as $10,000 a month to commercial drivers in NYC

Very interesting. My experience with Lyft in Seattle has been far better than my experiences with Uber/UberX. I've yet to have an Uber driver be nearly as nice and friendly as a Lyft driver. I do think the price can be lower on Uber sometimes though. Also Uber cars seem to be available more often. I still try Lyft first though.

boredinballardon DigitalOcean down (site, admin panels)

I hosted a website a while back on Ramnode[1], it was like $7.50 for a SSD based VPS. Prices have actually gone down to $5 since I used it. Pretty similar specs compared to Digital Ocean. But I also used Google's pagespeed service[2] which caches everything on their servers so it was super fast to load wherever. Then I had a backup on another Ramnode VPS on the other side of the country. Never had any downtime.

I'm not super savvy in regards to hosting websites and services and what not, but it worked well for me. I don't know what would be required to host a service like Minimal Reader so this may not even work for you.

[1] https://ramnode.com/

[2] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

boredinballardon Verizon's accidental mea culpa

Interesting. I'm going to have to start trying Netflix and Youtube over IPv6.

boredinballardon Hacking into Internet-Connected Light Bulbs

The dvbt dongles can usually only make it up to 2.2ghz max.

boredinballardon Google Domains

Google does indeed have customer support, for paid products. Very good support in my opinion, I've called them for Google Apps support and Adwords, they were very helpful and hold times were super short.

boredinballardon Mastering Bitcoin

That does sound a bit high, they should have media mail from USPS as an option, it's pretty much the cheapest way to ship books. Shipping 1lb is about $3, and material should be at max $1. They should easily be able to ship a book for around $4.

Media Mail is pretty freaking slow though.

boredinballardon Sony Digital Paper e-ink PDF tablet for notes and forms

Don't know about the screen or cover, but it does have a Micro USB port and transferring files is done through file explorer. Simple drag and drop stuff.

boredinballardon Nvidia Unveils First Mobile Supercomputer for Embedded Systems

I wonder how many pmks it could get through per second in Pyrit. I imagine it's a bit more power efficient than a bunch of GPUs going through pmks.

boredinballardon A decentralized anonymous marketplace

There is a project called BitMarket that runs a market on the bitmessage platform, really neat.

https://github.com/AyrA/BitMarket

https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php?topic=3549.0

boredinballardon Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin

Is that the greenfire campus or whatever in Ballard?