Xorlev

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by Xorlev 5y ago
Qualitatively better, or quantitatively? If the latter, do you have some metrics you can share?
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by Xorlev 5y ago
You don't need cellular service to call 911, just signal.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
You're correct, I am opposed to crytocurrencies as implemented today. I'm horrified that we spend tons of resources and energy doing effectively useless work. Maybe a Folding at Home coin would be more palatable. I'd also arg
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by Xorlev 5y ago
"built on top of the only open source database proven at hyper scale, Vitess." Vitess is a sharding layer. Furthermore, I'm sure Cassandra (for all it's flaws) would beg to differ, Netflix had a huge C* deployment. Is hy
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Crytocurrencies are effectively useless without centralized exchanges. Change my mind. Social media doesn't need to interop between centralized and decentralized, but currencies do if they want to be useable. At the end of the day, som
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Netflix runs ~everything but video streaming from AWS. That's more than just lip service.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
And their batch processing. I recall from a talk at Re:Invent forever ago, they had everything on AWS except: - Their CDN, which has to be deployed wherever there's demand. - An old Oracle setup with some ancient software that runs the
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Starlink might be a decent option for you. You said you have satellite, but that has me thinking HughesNet.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Back when IPv4 was enough for everyone, huge blocks of IPs were granted to corporations and governments.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
This is false. Just because the page content isn't sensitive, that doesn't mean that TLS is worthless. TLS prevents your run of the mill MITM scenarios. Like ISPs inserting ads (something Comcast actually did), or public wifi doin
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by Xorlev 5y ago
It takes something that once was made accessible, through active effort, and makes it inaccessible. That's the point.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
What relevance does this have to the article? You could argue this research has military application, but it's pretty far removed from Skynet. It's certainly not the next big research question.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
How do you figure? There's no offramps from Drive or Docs into Search as far as I know. Are you saying that because they're subdomains, it somehow works to get you to ads? Docs and Drive want to sell you storage and collaboration
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by Xorlev 5y ago
That's some very generous speculation. I'll grant you that ads is quite obviously (based on our public filings) profitable, but that doesn't mean every venture seeks to insert ads.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Drive/Docs/Meet. Cloud. Nest. These are a few examples of (though far from the only) products completely orthogonal to ads.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
My Nest devices don't have even tenuous links to advertising.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Sorry, but that's not correct. As a counterexample, Google Cloud is not a "loss leader for ads". The hardware division is not a loss leader for ads. There are a myriad of counterexamples. A loss leader is a product which is u
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Most of Google is not dedicated towards building Ads, surfaces where ads are displayed, or collecting data for ads, despite popular perception.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Table-level and dataset-level security was always a thing. Row-level security acts as a filter for tables and datasets according to your own organization's ACLs.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Came here to link this exact comic. It's heartbreaking to imagine the pain he went through, and he's only one person among many in similar situations. He's still releasing chapters, almost at the end of his stay in Elan.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
This was in response to the AWS status page.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
In large organizations, status boards are "external communications" and this must be handled by a team dedicated to that. It works about as well as you might expect.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
It's clear you didn't even try to read the article. They mapped the distortion effects on visible light thought to be caused by dark matter. They don't know what it is or how it works, but they know _something_ is causing app
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Tesla doesn't claim that it is yet.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
It's an outpouring of the author's thoughts, feelings, and background of the whole space. Through it, you get a sense for how invested she is in a niche space. I can't speak for the author, but it felt like catharsis in blogp
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Sure, but it's nice that Windows is coming along in terms of developer-friendliness.
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by Xorlev 5y ago
Source?
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by Xorlev 5y ago
That's a witch hunt, and is not productive. A bad apple does not spoil the bunch, as it were. It does reflect badly on their graduate program to have retained an advisor with such poor judgement, but that isn't the fault of thousa
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by Xorlev 5y ago
That's still the case.
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by Xorlev 6y ago
And now STM32 are really tough to find for hobby electronics when one used to find them everywhere, and cheap.

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