Let’s determine if our “N52” magnets are really graded N52, or if they are the fifty-percent-weaker N35 magnets. Then, let’s demonstrate to dispute services, specifically on AliExpress, that received magnets are maladvertized (or the seller made an honest shipping mistake) in order to apply for a partial refund.
I’d like to make an ultrasonic whistling sound to recall my dog. Am I successful? Let’s see how easy it is to record ultrasound with an ordinary condenser microphone.
Efficiently transport integer-based financial time-series data to dedicated machines and research partners by experimenting with the smallest data transport format(s) among Avro, Parquet, and compressed CSVs.
This exercise gave me the opportunity to re-read the docs on the SQLite parameters and confirm their advice with imperial testing. I was able to identify a good page size and understand how the WAL journal works better with the normal synchronous mode. My applications are already running faster.
Given a cluster computing rig of twenty-eight processors, each can have either a USB 2.0 or microSD local flash storage. Which type of flash and maker is the fastest? Make the wrong choice and the cluster is painfully slow. Not all microSD cards or USB drives are made the same, and interestingly random read and write speeds vary wildly. Here I test several storage configurations with striking benchmark results.
My newer-model Panasonic microwave oven stopped working. To get it working I needed to get past anti-tamper screws and “special” fuses. I suspect Panasonic wants us to buy another microwave instead. Not this time!
For the cluster computing project I’m working on, I need 28 microSD cards. There was an AliExpress sale with good reviews, so I ordered a batch of 30 microSD cards, and at a great price point at the time. As long as the cards are Class 10 and work then we should be good, right? Results: Half are fake or defective. The rest are painfully slow. No refunds.
Things break. Just the other day through a series of seemingly unrelated events, a new Microsoft x509 certificate made its way into a security handshake process which went unnoticed until current single sign-on sessions began to expire. Had we also had automated security testing, we would have caught this one-off. I’ll explain how I set […]
With PHPUnit I need to mock a class that is declared deep, deep in an arrangement of other classes. I’ll show you how easy it is with class_alias() and the right PHPUnit annotations. Background A given class spins up a headless Chrome instance. I don’t want to fire up and close a real Chrome instance […]