bigtones

15 ms·

181.
by bigtones 6y ago
From reading the notebook he may be a game developer. Quite a few of the pages look like notes from algorithms on rendering a game, maybe an FPS or RTS game, and he talks about outputting to the console and sprites.
182.
by bigtones 6y ago
No, it's so that if Ticketmaster wants to do in-app purchases for concert tickets, Apple gets 30%
183.
by bigtones 6y ago
One of the most common reason to be denied an ESTA of a Visa to the United States is because of a criminal conviction or a criminal charge in your home country. I'm not saying this is the case here, but that is one of the most common r
184.
by bigtones 6y ago
Epic was a medical records system built up since the 1970's in Verona Wisconsin, first developed to turn paper based medical records into a database computer system. A good 8 minute YouTube video from January this year on the sole fema
185.
by bigtones 6y ago
Speed seems to be almost comparable to a turbine aircraft in cruising speed if you go by their numbers, despite it being V12 piston prop driven. Cruising speed of the 500L is 450 mph and the cruising speed of a Gulfstream IV is 520 mph. Th
186.
by bigtones 6y ago
The real reason Epic Games did this... Money - they were forced to hand over more than $500 Million dollars to Apple and Google in the past 12 months alone. That's $1.3 Million dollars per day. Epic gave Apple over $360 Million dollars
187.
by bigtones 6y ago
None of the three cueing techniques mentioned in the article were used to teach my daughter how to read at school this year, and she has just completed her first year of school in California. We're currently preparing her for the new s
188.
by bigtones 6y ago
Problem for Ebay, which is why they were forced to consider the sale at all. Elliot and Starboard are two of the biggest agitator investors out there, and together they’re formidable. You really don't want them owning a large percentag
189.
by bigtones 6y ago
Named by Eric Meyer, one of the inventors of CSS. His blog posts on Rebecca are heartbreaking: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/rebecca...
190.
by bigtones 6y ago
Yes, I immediately noticed that when I started listening too. You can hear him inhale at the start of a paragraph which is kind of freaky, because his voice is super-robotic. Amazon Polly is in the uncanny valley of text to speech now.
191.
by bigtones 6y ago
Defense is as much about creating and maintaining jobs as it is about building war machines. The military-industrial complex is very politically motivated to keep jobs over any real need for efficiency gains.
192.
by bigtones 6y ago
For comparison, another reference GCP customer is SnapChat who signed a 5 Year $2 Billion dollar contract with Google Cloud, as they disclosed in their IPO Prospectus. At that time (2017) they were by far the largest single customer on the
193.
by bigtones 6y ago
But it can do your washing !
194.
Facebook Said to Consider Banning Political Ads(nytimes.com)
1 points by bigtones 6y ago|0 comments
195.
by bigtones 6y ago
Sure, the blog post below covers it, and the vulnerability was probably CVE-2019-11931. You can do an awful lot with a buffer overflow if you're clever. https://www.okta.com/blog/2020/04/what-the-jeff-bez
196.
by bigtones 6y ago
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, got his phone hacked and embarrassing text messages stolen off it from a vulnerability in the video parsing library in WhatsApp in a message sent to him by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2018. So Amazon a
197.
by bigtones 6y ago
Indian Reservations still have to abide by Federal Law (which the ruling today affirmed) and selling of 'drugs' is illegal at the Federal level. They can use them in a religious service, but they can't sell them.
198.
by bigtones 6y ago
Thanks Antirez, Redis powers my startup and we could not have done it without you ! You and your beautiful release notes essays will be missed.
199.
by bigtones 6y ago
No it's not being misinterpreted, the parent comment is right - the website author has a negative biased agenda against Starlink and Elon Musk, as evidenced from the website's own About page: * No evidence a working starlink netwo
200.
by bigtones 6y ago
This is kinda clickbait - all of the research mentioned was not 'research' at all - all the articles mentioned by the OP as "studies" (apart from the battery section) were from NN, or Nielson Norman Group, which were opi
201.
by bigtones 6y ago
This has a lot of parallels to how Intel incorporated some of the best ideas from RISC processor designs in their x86 CPU’s to produce a better product under intense competiton in the 90’s - they're doing the same thing here with ARM p
202.
by bigtones 6y ago
I was not so impressed with this demo - especially when he was scrunching his potato chip packet, the degradation in his voice quality made it almost impossible to understand what he was saying and his voice sounded very synthesized and pro
203.
by bigtones 6y ago
No, under US law you're required to disclose if you have been paid specifically by a third party to promote their product or service. You don't have to disclose a mear 'relationship'.
204.
by bigtones 6y ago
This is the same way Square's cash app has grown very fast to 50 million users, buy giving away $5 to each new user referred.
205.
by bigtones 6y ago
"The acquisition, which completed on May 1, brings 70 cloud specialists into the wider group”. For comparison, Amazon has 40,000 employees in AWS.
206.
by bigtones 6y ago
The images are so small it's hard to even tell what he is writing about. If you're going to write 1,200 words on your new table design that is only subtlety different to your old table design, maybe show said design at 100% of the
207.
by bigtones 6y ago
Yes, The Red Cross and almost all blood donor clinics sell their blood for hundreds of percent in markup. NPR also had a good series on that too: https://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/136931615/blood-bones-and-o
208.
by bigtones 6y ago
There are many many companies that sell email addresses and phone numbers and even cell numbers of executives - it's a huge business. Google "B2B contact database" for a list but DiscoverOrg, ZoomInfo and UpLead come to mind.
209.
by bigtones 6y ago
Their durability is eleven 9's - 99.999999999% That's the same as Amazon S3. https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/218485257-B2-Re...
210.
by bigtones 6y ago
"Have you ever had a conversation with a professional consultant and they have this weird habit of bragging about waking up at 4am to catch flights to NYC, and the only thing they ever tell you about NYC is how nice the Midtown Marriot

More ›