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New comment by jdyyc in "Replacement PCB Replicates Early 80s Modem"

jdyyc — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:28:54 +0000

Oooo... The functionality isn't unique but the implementation is awesome. I love the big red leds and hardware power switch etc... Very clean.

Now I want one that fits in a USR Courier case.

New comment by jdyyc in "Retroactive: Run Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes on macOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur"

jdyyc — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:57:01 +0000

I don't dislike photo editing necessarily but I miss Aperture.

I've never been in to photo editing and whatnot but when Aperture came out I decided to spend time learning it, organizing my library, tagging things and figuring all that stuff out.

I invested a lot of time and even bought some ebooks and whatnot to learn it better.

Then the EOL'd it and I just have never recovered. I have to sit down and spend time learning Lightroom, redoing all my libary and reworking my storage.... and I just have never had the desire to do it. Many of my photos are sitting in an old Aperture library tar'd up on my NAS.

New comment by jdyyc in "Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)"

jdyyc — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 02:01:44 +0000

I read something a while back that was the same for hockey. When you see NHL players passing the puck around the average person has no idea the incredible wrist and arm strength required to make and take those passes.

I think it might have been a reddit thread where a commenter said that a guy came and played on their rec league that had played semi-pro hockey (maybe AHL) and even then nobody on the team could handle his passes. The commenter said it felt like his wrists were going to break.

New comment by jdyyc in "Startup is selling tech to make call center workers sound like white Americans"

jdyyc — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:47:12 +0000

A company I worked for heavily invested in having all its call center staff based in the Philippines partly for the reason of accents. It's an accent that is, as you say "non-distinct" and generally considered pretty neutral by western ears.

New comment by jdyyc in "Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]"

jdyyc — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:23:17 +0000

I work on a very technically trivial service at a large company.

It's the kind of thing that people run at home on a raspberry pi, docker container or linux server and it consumes almost no resources.

But at our organization this needs to scale up to millions of users in an extremely reliable way. It turns out this is incredibly hard and expensive and takes a team of people and a bucket of money to pull it off correctly.

When I tell people what I work on they only think about their tiny implementation of it, not the difficulty of doing it at an extreme scale.

New comment by jdyyc in "Travel photos are underrated (2019)"

jdyyc — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 04:17:35 +0000

That's actually what I would add to the original article.

Regarding photos of monuments and natural scenes, I can always just go to Google and find better pictures of that than I can take myself, but photos of PEOPLE and what I experienced there, is where personal photos shine.

A photo of Niagara Falls: meh.

A photo of Niagara Falls with my wife: Gold.