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Re: VPS Showdown - April 2019 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr

ylluminate — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:25:13 -0000

Really? For some reason from what I was seeing on their site they didn't have Chicago clearly visible. That's not bad - still not quite as good of latency as I'd like, but really not bad at all. Thanks for clarifying! I hate the idea of a move from Linode and just love the Linode folks, support and management system, but this is definitely something to keep an eye on. I'm more apt to use them once they do get a true East Coast network center since I could still interoperate with our existing Linode infrastructure.

Re: Hanami – Ruby Web Framework [Review]

ylluminate — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:46:53 -0000

Pakyow is also interesting (https://www.pakyow.org) as far as a realtime / reactive perspective is concerned.

Re: Teenage Coders? Technology Education Among Kids Can Lead to Success

ylluminate — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:13:57 -0000

This is a great article. My son is 17 and has been developing software for 6 years now. He's doing great and is about to release a game to market and will be worth more when he graduates high school than any recent college graduate I've met (meaning getting a degree w/o the work experience). Going to an online school (ECOT) that encourages students to design custom courses has been remarkable as he's effectively taken self-guided advanced CS courses and gotten graduation credit for them. Using a programming context to teach himself math has been pinnacle and placed him ahead of every math major I knew in a Big Ten college I was in in terms of practical application and rubber-on-road usage of math. Pretty remarkable and makes me mourn my 4 yr CS degree!

You might note, at age 15 he was already contributing meaningful work to the Ruby community: https://rubygems.org/gems/o...

Re: Create a Filesystem with Ruby and FUSE

ylluminate — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:38:51 -0000

Great tutorial! Really have been wanting to dig into Fuse dev. Having some problems on macOS with missing Fuse dev libs. Any ideas on getting full Fuse dev libs in place on macOS?

I've gone ahead and put a request for some input here: https://github.com/osxfuse/...

Re: Cognitive Enhancement For Beginners

ylluminate — Sun, 07 May 2017 14:19:06 -0000

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing and I'd most definitely like to see that information.

Re: Cognitive Enhancement For Beginners

ylluminate — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:31:23 -0000

Your remark about nicotine being "the only substance that reliably increases working memory" is quite an intriguing invitation. Have you ever seen any discussion about ways to dose with nicotine so as to minimize or eliminate the addictive qualities of it? I've never even dreamed of the potentiality of using this in such a way, but it is interesting.

Re: Why Bacopa Is My Favorite Nootropic

ylluminate — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:50:18 -0000

Hmm, that is very interesting. I wonder if that has positive or negative ramifications ultimately. Clearly it would indicate a false assumption, but it doesn't necessarily directly translate into it being bad at the same time.

Have you seen anything that does have a directly synergistic effect with bacopa?

Further, I have been finding research in the area of longitudinal / compression waves in relation to electricity to be fascinating. I have long perceived the brain as more of an antenna than an actual data storage unit. Through time I've come to think of it as both in the sense that our bodies are effectively robots, and, with a CS bg myself, I would want a "robot," if it were remotely controlled, to have a robust temporary memory and decision / logic facility that then transmits data back and forth very rapidly. Given that the brain has roughly 17 quadrillion electrical events per minute, it has the potential of transmitting ENORMOUS amounts of data via this longitudinal wave path. This is similar to what Tesla and some other researchers who successfully created longitudinal instantaneous communicative devices for the Navy in the early 20th century (albeit their devices were only in the kilohertz range and thus only usable for voice transmission). Not an easy feat, but remarkable how naturally our brain fits into this. I think Wai H. Tsang is really onto something with this fractal brain theory, but I need to dig into his work more to see where he's gone with it.

The bottom line is that if it does induce water collection, that may or may not have positive benefits. Given that very, very thin water aggregations (according to some research) become crystalline (talking about the very thin barriers at a cellular level), there is some real potential with regards to how water is used in the brain, especially given some of the potentialities above. This could effectively make our bodies liquid crystal structures that would especially have profound implications on the nervous system.

At any rate, droning on here. Interesting stuff and perhaps we may be able to tie some things back together. I'm all for figuring out how to speed up the "clock rate" of our minds.

Re: $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr

ylluminate — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:35:24 -0000

So I dug a bit more into benchmarking and even got some feedback from Linode (especially since I was seeing better performance from New Jersey and California vs Texas; but even California kept barely edging out over New Jersey's Linode):

"This doesn't have as much to do with location as it has to do with the hosts you've landed on for your benchmarks. Both the Fremont hosts you've tested with were under significantly less load than the ones you used in the other datacenters. Also one of the Fremont hosts you tested with was added last month so it had newer hardware than the rest while having less Linodes on it and a newer version of KVM.

"If you wanted more consistent results across datacenters, I would recommend maybe using the API (https://www.linode.com/api) to automatically spin up, benchmark, and then tear down Linodes between the three; you need a much larger sample size than just 4 hosts to get an accurate representation of how each perform. However, we really don't do things differently in one datacenter vs another so en masse the only major difference you're going to be seeing is latency and maybe bandwidth capacity.

"All in all, no datacenter is going to be better than another when it comes to CPU benchmarks; and if there are differences they're likely to change as we roll out new hardware and as host allocation changes."

Re: $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr

ylluminate — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:44:41 -0000

One of the failings so far of Linode (which should be resolved in the next couple months from what I'm gathering), is the lack of block storage.

Have you had any experience with various storage options on Linode that would minimize the impact for those of us who need quite a bit more than they currently provide at lower prices? Right now I'm looking at DreamObjects, S3, and a few others to see which, if any, are acceptable speeds for our needs.

Re: $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr

ylluminate — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:38:42 -0000

Appreciate your updating this post and benchmarks. I'm really curious, why do you think you saw the results that you did with Apache on Linode? For it performing so much better in most other areas, it seems surprising. Perhaps it all boils down to the lower upload bandwidth they seem to have?... Yet that logic doesn't stand up to reason when looking at the other metrics in comparison...

Re: The Man Who Would Tame Cancer - Issue 32: Space - Nautilus

ylluminate — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:33:57 -0000

Sorry, I did not mean 100% of all cases; but rather for a rather goodly number of folks who have used the method. The actual aggregate figure is that ~90% of cancers can be cured in this fashion. The problem with the remainder is the utilization of glutamine as a backup. I don't disagree that we need other vectors, but we do need to start using what DOES work vs what is not working for the majority of cases. The result of using what we do know at present would go an extremely long way of fighting this epidemic.

Re: The Man Who Would Tame Cancer - Issue 32: Space - Nautilus

ylluminate — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:58:07 -0000

This is the medical establishment doing this. And there are clinical trials that you're not aware of going on at present. Talk to the guys I mentioned; they're remarkable and very easy to find and talk to. My son even interviewed one of them and the information that he shared is remarkable. The results for diabetes and mental illness are likewise amazing. Further, please be specific about your friend's death. Put the details on the table here about what he did and let's figure out what happened vs just throwing out accusatory FUD.

Re: The Man Who Would Tame Cancer - Issue 32: Space - Nautilus

ylluminate — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:07:07 -0000

Cancer is a metabolic illness and can already be cured by extreme reduction in glucose levels. Ketogenic diets do remarkably well at the moment. I know of several individuals who have cured their cancers in this fashion; one quite dramatically cured a terminal inoperable brain tumor and the cancer is now entirely gone after 3 years in his most recent MRI scans. Yes, we need additional work from different vectors such as this, but we do already have answers that have worked 100% for quite a few people. See work from Dominic D'Agostino. Thomas Seyfried is also remarkable in this arena. Also Patricia Daly's keto books provide some nice practical starting points.

Re: Directory:Ray McConnell's Magnetic D Gate

ylluminate — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:56:41 -0000

Might be helpful for the community: Could someone post a precise guide for reproduction and a parts list with links to buy the components?

Granted, most of this can be acquired at a Walmart or such, but I think it could be handy to simplify and encourage participation.

Re: Directory:Ray McConnell's Magnetic D Gate

ylluminate — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:45:53 -0000

It would be very interesting to model the field as per Ken Wheeler's input. Here is a recent video with an update to his upcoming 4th edition release of his free book "Uncovering the Missing Secrets of Magnetism": https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: When Should You Not Use Heroku?

ylluminate — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:51:10 -0000

Curious, have you ever considered using heroku for quick dirty static sites and examples where you need a quick host for something simple? Any thoughts on that would be appreciated. I've fiddled around with it, but honestly wasn't happy with it in terms of it being slightly more complex to set it up than I'd like to normally use for such situations.

Re: One Ruby to rule them all

ylluminate — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:01:45 -0000

It's sad, but true. I know 3 people right now that want to get into RM, but can't afford the learning curve. Sadly they are all students as well.

Re: Elixir vs Ruby Showdown - Part One

ylluminate — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 11:29:04 -0000

What about jruby?

Re: Agent: Go-Like Concurrency in Ruby

ylluminate — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:38:21 -0000

Doesn't JRuby offer concurrent parallelism for us rubyists? And as such, can Agent not work within this to facilitate our ability to use it likewise?

Re: "How to Train Your Dragon 2" rocks!

ylluminate — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:30:00 -0000

Big letdown for us after loving part 1. Our entire family went and have a big pit in our hearts after such high expectations. No fans here anymore. :'(

Re: Let’s Write a RubyMotion App (Part 1)

ylluminate — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 19:45:37 -0000

EXCELLENT! Thanks so much. This still tromps all over Swift as far as using Ruby as a ubiquitous language. We have been using Ruby as a team and it is fantastic to share a common language now. With RubyMotion 3 we're going to have live code reload (http://rubymotiondispatch.c... and hopefully someone like JetBrains will step up to implementing playgrounds and time travel debugging (http://youtrack.jetbrains.c....

Re: "Rumors of Ruby's demise are exaggerated but..."

ylluminate — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:14:48 -0000

I've seen some interesting preliminary benchmarks that are indicating that JRuby is bringing Ruby close to Go performance levels. I think we have some exciting developments ahead.

Re: They Say, Ruby, You’re Like a Dream…

ylluminate — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:29:23 -0000

Just give us TorqueBox support via JBoss as it is faster than Passenger:
http://features.cpanel.net/...

Re: Solar Flares Can Disrupt Communications

ylluminate — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:38:06 -0000

You guys should familiarize yourself with what FlareAware.com is doing for everyone.

Additionally, you use the term solar flares somewhat erroneously in your video here. You're really mixing solar flares and coronal mass ejections while these two things are very different events. We have between 1-3 days before a CME hits, which is what's more serious, while yeah, an actual solar flare is just more or less going to impact satellites and very high altitude workers / astronauts.

I realize that for layman and what the news media generally do, they use the two terms interchangeably, but I was thinking that since your'e more science based, you probably want to use the two terms properly or at least educate as to the differential.

Thanks for mentioning such an important topic!

Re: Mobile Payment Pioneer Uses Web-Based Support Software to Square Up With Customers

ylluminate — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:54:09 -0000

I have to agree, ChiliProject integration is paramount for us.