Hacker News: chrisbroadfoot

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives"

chrisbroadfoot — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:04:53 +0000

> In the future, I intend to sell internet access via the UniFi Captive Portal

I'm pretty sure Telstra, Optus, Vodafone disallow reselling.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives"

chrisbroadfoot — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:00:03 +0000

That's just what we Australians like you to think. Drop bears are actually not very common.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)"

chrisbroadfoot — Sat, 15 May 2021 21:03:56 +0000

> As a bonus, emscripten/WASM compiled code will also be more efficient in the browser than plain JavaScript or Typescript.

Small gains compared to the cost of implementing. 10-20%. Now you're asking your full-stack developers to know PHP, JS, C, and WASM.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

chrisbroadfoot — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:40:24 +0000

What about that thread shows she's toxic?

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

chrisbroadfoot — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:21:17 +0000

> spilling 'special sauce' information to the public. You never heard of it, and that's a good thing.

okay, cool. That's not what's going on here. We're talking about AI ethics, and the goal is that our (society's) use of AI meets a high bar for ethics and equity.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021"

chrisbroadfoot — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:54:36 +0000

Zero doubt? Wow, wish I had such confidence to make claims about things I know little about.

Each photo's geolocation data is stored. Of course.

It is shown in the UI, as well as indexed so you can search by location.

For example, I can search for "photos of dogs in Portland" and it'll show all the pics of dogs I've taken in Portland.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Pressing YubiKeys"

chrisbroadfoot — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:05:17 +0000

Some policies will disable your Yubikey/U2F key if it goes unused for N days. Usually low enough that it's annoying to keep a backup key.

We've used https://rsc.io/2fa to share TOTP keys between multiple individuals. We store the secret key in a shared password store that's also behind a separate 2FA login.

For U2F, check out https://github.com/github/SoftU2F

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Cloud Traffic"

chrisbroadfoot — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 04:09:50 +0000

Also, correction, the correct import is

    _ "google.golang.org/grpc/xds"

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer"

chrisbroadfoot — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 05:42:02 +0000

"The team also tested their approach on a collection of 30 challenges in DeepMind Lab using a more powerful 36-core 4-GPU machine. The resulting AI significantly outperformed the original AI that DeepMind used to tackle the challenge, which was trained on a large computing cluster."

Well, they presumably tested the same CPU with 4 GPUs (2080 Ti I think) - maybe they wanted to compare.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Oura Ring 2 Teardown"

chrisbroadfoot — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:08:58 +0000

Yep. It's useless for activity tracking.

It thought I was sedentary while I was doing a spin workout.

They still don't have a way to manually start activity tracking via an app.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”"

chrisbroadfoot — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:41:58 +0000

Earth = consumer globe viewer.

Earth Pro = prosumer Google Earth.

Earth Enterprise = private, offline globe.

Earth Engine = research-oriented massively parallelized ML-based imagery analysis platform.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”"

chrisbroadfoot — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:39:54 +0000

Google Earth Enterprise is a very different thing, but is a great call out.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”"

chrisbroadfoot — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:36:43 +0000

The Twitter thread linked at the very top of the page talks about it. https://twitter.com/mouthofmorrison/status/12656350684684861...

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Opinions I have formed about the “geospatial industry”"

chrisbroadfoot — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 05:33:45 +0000

> As for Google Maps. The biggest tell is that there’s almost no geospatial capability in the software. They don’t want you to analyze and understand. They just want you to consume “where is X”. It’s a standard Google vector for ads approach.

It was never meant for that. That is/was Google Earth Pro.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Products First"

chrisbroadfoot — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 23:04:43 +0000

I think that's what GP is saying. Presumably they don't resell, and don't allow resellers, so no counterfeits of their store brand products.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?"

chrisbroadfoot — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:11:48 +0000

> telnet, nc, ftp, ncftp, lftp, wget, curl, lynx, links? Luxury! Gone.

No nc.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)"

chrisbroadfoot — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 21:13:15 +0000

Joy on Demand.

Free to read on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Demand-Discovering-Happiness-With...

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Google Fi Unlimited Plan"

chrisbroadfoot — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 02:42:20 +0000

> at least for months I'm traveling.

note I'm pretty sure it's calls from USA to other countries, and that the rates calling from outside USA to USA and other countries is the same rate as the Flexible plan.

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Verified by Twilio"

chrisbroadfoot — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 03:47:44 +0000

Very cool. How do you route your legacy number? Did you port it to Twilio?

New comment by chrisbroadfoot in "Uber Lays Off 400"

chrisbroadfoot — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:33:15 +0000

Read this sentence as "600+ major markets, internationally".

A "major market" is basically a city/metro.