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by IX-103 2y ago
>Perhaps we should nationalize and shut down Google because Gemini hasn't turned out to be that great. I think you meant that sarcastically, in which case - Welcome to Hacker News! And as for the military side of thing, you wouldn&#
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by IX-103 2y ago
I'm not sure Boeing's problems are entirely due to the bureaucratic horse trading that infests many government acquisition programs. That issue shouldn't have affected their commercial airplanes, which seems to suffer from si
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by IX-103 2y ago
Integer cents implies a specific rounding mode (truncation). That's probably not what you should be using. Floating point cents gets the best of both worlds (if you set the right rounding mode).
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by IX-103 2y ago
YouTube has been profitable in recent years -- thanks to an investment in hardware transcoding reducing costs. So that is potentially separable. One point to mention is that there are two different "Google Ads". Search ads are ver
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by IX-103 2y ago
Splitting ads and search is a nonstarter. Ads on the search page are very different from ads on other pages since search ads can leverage information retrieved during the search. Ads on other pages have to use contextual or remarketing sign
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by IX-103 2y ago
I agree with your premise, but you're example is unfortunate. The manifest v3 thing was due to an API change to improve performance by pulling the renderer out of the critical path for network requests. Adblockers can still block ads (
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by IX-103 2y ago
Or because AdWords was designed and specifically optimized for search and then only later released (in a modified form) as a separate product.
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by IX-103 2y ago
You're not going to see that on an iPhone. Apple doesn't really allow competing browsers. Even Chrome for iPhones is just reskinned Safari.
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by IX-103 2y ago
And SpaceX doesn't? They had the same requirements. Boeing failed to meet the basic standards, but has been given a pass by NASA up til now. Bad welds? Sternly worded letter. Inadequate heat shielding? Well, it didn't get too hot
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by IX-103 2y ago
Yes CHIPS is still a thing. As far as I can tell, nothing changes except that Chrome will not disable third party cookies by default. It will remain a preference that users can choose.
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by IX-103 2y ago
Heh. I'm doing work for a "MegaCorp" right now trying to shave a few milliseconds off of ad render times. We have metrics that show milliseconds do matter. Especially since a few milliseconds on desktop can translate to hun
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by IX-103 2y ago
Caching on the web has gotten worse/more difficult recently since browsers (including Chrome and Edge) have started to partition the cache by top level site. This was necessary to keep trackers from using the cache status of a resource
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by IX-103 2y ago
Natural lighthouse, right? It's got a bright side and a dark side and spins around.
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by IX-103 2y ago
Sounds like they really don't make them like they used to. Most things have moved to stranded wires due to their lower resistance per weight properties, despite their higher likelihood of breaking during bends.
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by IX-103 2y ago
I think the proliferation of SUVs in America is almost completely due to environmental laws. There are different fuel efficiency standards for cars and for trucks. Since the standards for trucks are so much looser, someone had the bright id
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by IX-103 2y ago
LVT ignores that there are other resources that may be hoarded. In particular, companies can hire all the employees with the skills necessary to build a competitor and have them do busy work to avoid having to innovate or compete on the mer
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by IX-103 2y ago
I don't think there is anything that can't be built. It's me a matter of the increased expense and inefficiency making things too expensive to be practical.
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by IX-103 2y ago
In a functional democracy, the state is working in the best interest of the people. And your assertion that GP is arguing that the state is "synonymous with the population" is a straw man, as they didn't say that. Let's
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by IX-103 2y ago
The issue with a super-capacitor is that it leaks. If you put X Joules in there and wait a while then you will only have X/2 Joules. Wait a little longer and you'll only have X/4. So on the other hand, super-capacitors are gr
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by IX-103 2y ago
Some people are using a database for a single user, on a single machine. They don't want or need 1000+QPS, live failover, or massive concurrency. They just want something simple that works. The Chrome browser stores many pieces of the
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by IX-103 2y ago
Or they felt that investors wanted them to have layoffs. From talking to people in the know, the layoffs don't even seem to make sense. Why layoff all the developers in a project and keep the program managers, product managers, and eng
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by IX-103 2y ago
I don't mind Java so much as the types of code people tend to write with it. No one needs a FooReactorFactoryFactory when. There is only a single FooReactor which is always chosen. I've recently learned that it's possible to
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by IX-103 2y ago
"Refuse to use it" like African Americans in the Jim Crow south? Or is there some other context driving their non-participation?
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by IX-103 2y ago
It's not nofollow links. It's content behind a login wall. If the content can't be found with a crawler it might as well not exist. So sites like Facebook and Xitter that block a significant amount content for non-logged in
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by IX-103 2y ago
It's at least as private as third party cookies. And unlike third party cookies there is a path to improve privacy as technology improves. Some of the required technologies (private model training, debuggable trusted execution environm
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by IX-103 2y ago
Hahaha...Oh, you're serious. Let me laugh harder... The CMA has specifically mentioned that just blocking 3rd party cookies would provide Google an unfair competitive advantage because their large web presence allows them to develop be
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by IX-103 2y ago
FPGAs are also reasonably good at breadboarding modules to be added to ASICs. You scale down the timing and you can run the same HDL and perform software integration at the same time as the HDL is optimized. Much cheaper and faster than gat
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by IX-103 3y ago
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by IX-103 3y ago
Google is constantly being sued for nearly everything they do. They create a Chrome Incognito mode like Firefox's private browsing mode and they get sued. They start restricting App permissions on Android, sued. Adding a feature where
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by IX-103 3y ago
They're supposed to do that, but many don't. It's not like the IRS is going to swoop in and bust them for parking less than minimum wage. The employees that take those jobs aren't in a position to make demands and likely

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