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Location: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: DevOps (AWS, Kubernetes, Python) Resume/CV: http://ianburrell.com/resume/ Email: ianburrell@gmail.com Good …

The thing that sucks about Google Music is that they could have merged them but kept the good parts of both. Youtube Music is still missing features of Google Music. It would have …

USB4 includes standardization of Thunderbolt 3. It allows tunneling USB data, DisplayPort, and PCIe. It also adds 40Gbps and 80Gbps speeds. Thunderbolt 4 is profile with USB4 tunne…

Energy density doesn't matter for electricity since the storage batteries don't move and there is plenty of space for them. Cost per energy stored is what matters. Density is impor…

I think this shows the flaws in doing agentic designed apps. This is a really specific market that would be hard to make money from. Many people aren't going to think of using diar…

Stop saying IPv6 when talking about new protocol. IPv6 already exists and is better than potential IPv4 extension. There was a window twenty years ago for alternative but now IPv6 …

An alternate to IPv6 would have been to store the NAT addresses in IPv4 somehwere. But the IPv4 options are fragile and normal NAT would likely destroy them. It would still require…

The proper way to do ULA is to generate random 40-bit ID. Then your ULA are likely unique. Which means that if you want to connect or merge with another company, the networks are d…

Instead of FAT32, use the flash drive mapping. Flash drive contain mapping from sectors to blocks. This is used to deal with flash erasure, wear leveling, and failures. Custom firm…

Nobody can agree how big UBI should be, and people talk past each other. Small UBI, like poverty level, could replace welfare but wouldn't be enough to survive on without doing som…

Company scrip was company currency and employees were required to be paid in it and could only be used in company stores. Employee stock is getting some of your pay, voluntarily, i…

Those aren't the only two options. There are non-Turing complete config languages like Cue, Dhall, and Jsonnet that are designed to complete and be consistent. They work well when …

USB-C is a connector. Part of the confusion is that USB specification versions have come to be associated with the protocols and speeds defined there. The basic division is between…

Relativistic starships are impossible because they require impossible amounts of fuel. "If you can create a ship that is capable of 1g acceleration" is doing a lot of heavy lifting…

USB-C uses resistors to signal the power level for 5V. There is 5.1k for USB legacy, and I forget for 7.5W and 15W. Lots of cheap devices leave out the 5.1k resistors and depend on…

One reason is that Lightning couldn't do the faster speeds or extra modes like USB-C. There were USB3 and display adapters but they were sort of hacks. USB-C was used for MacBooks …

More used keys like enter, backspace, arrow keys, and number pad are under the dominant hand. It isn't a big deal since most people are ambidextrous with keyboards. But there are l…

Later Polynesians used double-hulled voyaging canoes. Calling them canoe is stretching the word since they were large. We would call them catamarans. But can see the progression fr…

Spacetime isn't quantized as far as we know. We don't know since we don't have quantum gravity or ability to probe Planck scale. Quantum fields are continuous, it is excitations in…

I think we need to accept that calendars and clocks are different. Calendars are based on years and days of planets, planets are different, and they don't divide evenly. Clocks are…

Pro: Database is perfectly secure. Con: The database no longer exists. Also, there is more to security than memory errors. SQL injection, authentication, and access rules matter. I…

Same here. I realized that will never be good at precise games.

Anything that isn't symmetrical. Mice and keyboards. Circular saws. Tape measures. Box cutters. Folding knives. Garden tools. Those are just ones that impacted me recently. Some ha…

Republic back then meant commonwealth with any form of government. The Dutch Republic was loose union of seven provinces. Republic changed to mean democratic government by represen…

There USB over IP. I think Linux supports it. It could be possible to have Pico implementation, use WiFi like this, and connect to computer or another dongle.