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jdubs··on AnandTech Farewell
Peak PC.
jdubs··on Ask HN: How has Hacker News changed over the years?
We're there always this many dead accounts? It seems like I see dead accounts on almost every thread these days. Most of which are for good reason...
jdubs··on Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
Apple compares picture hashes against a db of known bad hashes.
jdubs··on NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
This isn't for regular people, this is telling third parties what they need, in order for them to try to sell something to the nsa.
jdubs··on Quora User Data Compromised
Install the lastpass binary in addition to the browser plugin. It re-adds that functionality back.
jdubs··on The Making Of Dust (2003)
Countless lan parties which were dominated by either de_dust or bgh.
jdubs··on Happy Sysadmins Day 23 things only 90s Sysadmins will remember
"Wow, awk!? You're old school" ...
jdubs··on Ask HN: If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?
Paying for certs will pale in comparison to paying for inefficient infrastructure costs.
jdubs··on The Open Home Lab Stack (2017)
That's the exact reason I stopped using that stuff. Nothing is worse than the roommate complaining about being unable to watch tv while the raid 5 rebuilds.
jdubs··on Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping
Looks like a future AWS instance type.
jdubs··on How did you launch your service startup?
You probably should have figured out most of these things before you started. Can you leverage your network to get you going?
jdubs··on California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes
From June till September last year(pre solar) my energy bill was near 200. My financing is about 70 dollars a month for the next 20 years... I'm expecting my solar production to cover probably 70% of my bill. Since I'm paying financing plus utility hookup(mandatory $10), plus what ever I use after solar; I will likely not recoup my investment. Imho, it's more feelgood and a hedge against future energy price increases.

I have also noticed that I pay attention more to my consumption. I've debated on buying an energy consumption device like sense, but it seems like a toy...

jdubs··on California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes
The -20 bill was the result of having pleasant weather and not running the AC as frequently in April, plus it was a very sunny April... I'm pretty sure I will not have a negative utility bill in August.
jdubs··on California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes
My system cost about $15,000 via solar city for a 6kwh system. Austin utility paid me about 3000 and I got a 4000 tax credit. Last month my bill was -20 dollars. Looking back on solar, probably not the best financial decision but I think it's pretty cool and I will be able to run the AC this summer at 70 for a reasonable bill.
jdubs··on Ask HN: Why is Docker so popular in comparison to other containerization tech?
They nailed the developer experience which allowed so many people to build upon their interface.
jdubs··on Do you trust Russian purchased platforms and apps?
After the recent political interference, I'm hesitant to trust them.
jdubs··on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
elaborate plz
jdubs··on Ask HN: How much do you sleep?
I'm pretty useless if I get less than 5 hours of sleep. Anymore than that and I'm good to go. I shoot for about 9ish hours of sleep a night, I typically have a sleepless night every 10 days where I'm up at 330 until the next sleep.
jdubs··on Video is Coming to Reddit
Like most new ventures, iterating is key to improving the product.
jdubs··on Amazon Hub
Eventually a mailbox with an ip address?
jdubs··on Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
Complex problems often require complex solutions. I imagine that your suggestion works for some situations but not all. The cynical side of me thinks that one of the few benefits of the disaster will be new technology and robots that will help prevent future disasters. I imagine there's a very high priced market for these kinds of hardened robots.
jdubs··on Introducing Transfer Appliance: Sneakernet for the cloud era
Hotel California model.
jdubs··on Alibaba Cloud
The only European region is in Germany which makes regulatory requirements a bit more difficult. I wonder why they went there rather than Ireland.
jdubs··on Blue Apron May Need to Raise More Money Soon After Shrunken IPO
I don't understand how they will improve their numbers with the scrutiny of the public demanding more share holder value.

I'm having blue apron tonight and I think it's a great product. Add salt and pepper to taste.

jdubs··on AWS Security Primer
Great write up. I knew there was a lot, but visualizing really puts it into perspective, especially for the more niche services like cognito & IOT.

My current job has about 14 different AWS accounts, a few are prod, some are lab and others are meta accounts. I've been thinking about having a dedicated account just for security related stuff but I see the value in collect cloudtrail, config and other stuff but, I'm not 100% sure it's worth the effort to get setup right now. Thoughts?

jdubs··on 32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online
I guess windows 10 is now open source!
jdubs··on AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis
This may be interesting to you. http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-15/container-perfor...
jdubs··on Trump quits Paris climate accord, calling it a “bad deal” for the U.S
Fair enough, but who's to say the reusable energy industry wouldn't absorb those jobs over the next few years? Seems like we're putting that industry on life support and moving future industries out 10 years, which would be more globally competitive.
jdubs··on Trump quits Paris climate accord, calling it a “bad deal” for the U.S
So much lost opportunity for the united states to become a leader in exporting new technology.

At least we have coal.

jdubs··on Memcached-Backed Content Infrastructure at Khan Academy
You should give mcrouter a good look. It has some interesting features like cache warming, fail over and other really interesting features that will save your ass.
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