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Comment · 2 years ago
Or easily re-connect AirPods from the phone to AppleTV and watch at night without waking the whole house.
Comment · 3 years ago
> why isn't that standard operating procedure

That says nothing about system bandwidth: if normally they would approve 10 drugs in N months, but now they threw all available resources on one project to get N/10, it would make sense.

Comment · 3 years ago
> thousands of people, you see in the end credits

if you look closely, those usually on-set people, medics, drivers, catering services - those who have unions. VFX companies in most of the cases have a dozen of entries out of hundreds who actually worked on the title, or just a single line company mention. I could understand this practice in cellulose era, but saving a few megabytes at the cost of disrespect to your workers is simply despicable.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I meant overhead in a broad sense - both packet size and CPU load combined - what end user actually care about.

My test is what I have to do fairly often: use Windows Explorer to copy 70-100gb file from a network NAS to a local drive. Every so often I click on the wrong network share pinned in the Explorer and see slow transfer speed.

Comment · 3 years ago
I observe there's about 37% overhead when using TS connection on a local gigabit network.

Copying large file from Synology DS1821+ NAS (Amd Ryzen V1500B) to Windows PC (i7-6700K) is about 111-113 MB/s when accessing NAS directly and 70-73 MB/s when traffic goes through TS (different large files, so no caching here).

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It looks you can query it further:

  > Show options for intent variable

  Persuasion
  Information
  Anecdote
  Reflection
  Inspiration
  Nostalgia
  Humor
  Heartfelt
  Political
  Spiritual
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Hi Adam! I really enjoy listening to your podcast, but if I may I have some feedback:

* Every time your guest specializes on something low-level - like Rebecca Heineman from most recent episode, David Shayer from last year, and others - you keep saying "yeah, this is a very complicated subject and I don't understand anything about it". Everyone has they own area of expertise, no one knows everything - and that's OK. But when you as a host constantly put yourself down, it leaves a very strange impression on the listener: "well then, invite someone who does".

* When you do a voice over for the interview and queue interviewee responses - the whole sequence feels doctored. It just doesn't sound as a normal conversation, more like out of context clips forced into pre-made narrative. Again, I'm not saying it _is_ out of context, it just feels that way.

Please don't take these two the wrong way, you're doing great job.

Also, I would love to support the show and you seem to have a Patreon account, but prices there are a bit too steep for a casual listener: $6/14.50/36 per month (that's in Canadian dollars). For example, semi-weekly Darknet Diaries has $3/7.50/14.50 tiers.

In the last episode you've announced bonus content with Rebecca, but there's not even an announcement on the Patreon page and it's not clear what tier would allow access to it.

Sorry for the rant, but I hope it provides outside perspective and you might find it useful.

Comment · 3 years ago
It seems to be a third book in a series. Do you need to read Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise before this one?
Comment · 4 years ago
I wonder why that's the case. If you own a DNS name, you can set NS record to point to magic-blah.tailscale.net, so they'll have a chance to geo-locate you and return IP address of the closest VM.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
There Is No Antimemetics Division.

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