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Comment · 4 months ago
Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do, and that seems like a reasonable tradeoff to reduce visual clutter
Comment · 6 months ago
What does "a domain that was making about $9k/year in ad revenue" look like? Is this domain one where people randomly stumble upon it and give ad views to a parking page? A website with regular use or other content that people visit for some purpose that is now under different ownership?
Comment · 1 year ago
How much is that? A finger? A foot?
Comment · 1 year ago
I read parent comment "grew 35% last quarter" as (income on 2024-09-30) is 1.35 * (income on 2024-07-01)

The balance sheet shows (income on days from 2024-07-01 through 09-30) is 1.35 * (income on days from 2023-07-01 through 09-30)

These are different because with heavily handwavey math the first is growing 35% in a single quarter and the second is growing 35% annually (by comparing like-for-like quarters)

Comment · 2 years ago
ASCII already has designated bytes for unit, group, and record separators. That aside, a big drawback of using unprintable bytes like these is they're more difficult for humans to read in dumps or type on a keyboard than a newline (provided newline has a strict definition CRLF, LF, etc)
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Does watching a video pause the timeout? If so, hypothetically one could stream or locally create a video with no contents but long duration.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am curious to see benchmark results for the same use cases but with 10ms and 100ms latency added between the client and server. It looks like the bench currently just stays within the same machine.

I do not often operate below application layer, but as I understand it both the HTTP and SSH layers would add back-and-forths from client to server that UDP does not perform. Would UDP over HTTP over SSH have a slowdown steeply (but linearly?) correlated with the ping to the server? And (>linear) increased effects on packet loss? Crowbar seems to only do HTTP, so saves some considerable amount of backs-and-forths... but doesn't have the benefit from websockets...

Comment · 2 years ago
Sent you an email. Could you provide context what that email is associated with? It's unclear whether this is for the athletic program, the evolution and ecology group, a recruiter, or a rogue undergrad.
Comment · 3 years ago
My understanding is that the "disabled" radio option just means the Gnome Tweaks program won't override anything. Caps Lock behavior will be the system default, instead of being changed by Gnome Tweaks. The other one is "Gnome Tweaks will override Caps Lock to disable it"
Comment · 3 years ago
The variance in the 10^i number generation graphs stands out to me. Is number generation really so periodic in performance? I've seen bumpy graphs from O(log2) algorithms recursing additional times near each power of two, for example.

For the last two graphs, is the x-axis "each run"? Maybe there's a better chart for this than a line chart, as you're really trying to show distributions, not the correlation between run # and time. (if the experiments are independent you could rearrange the order of the runs and the meaning shouldn't change)

Comment · 4 years ago
Sounds like hiding IP is going to be opt-in? I'm not sure what the implications are of TURN but what would be the downside of making IP-hiding the default?

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