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by ddalex 5y ago
Zuck laughs all the way to the bank, the primary objectives of expanding the platform footprint and getting the consumer to pay for it are already achieved
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by ddalex 5y ago
Imagine where Romania would be if windows licencing cops would do their jobs and everyone would be forced off to Linux
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by ddalex 5y ago
Maybe it's Maybelline
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by ddalex 5y ago
> Cars do not need that skill. As a driver, I can certainly sense my car smelling funny if something goes wrong :)
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by ddalex 5y ago
not OP, but for the lifetime of the hardware ? or, at least, should be specified in T&C when buying the hardware I am still pissed off that my 2012 Macbook Air is no longer receiving OS updates - compare that to Microsoft that allows me
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by ddalex 5y ago
Not the original googler responding, but I have never experienced what they describe. Postmortems are always blameless in the sense that "Somebody fat fingered it" is not an acceptable explanation for the causes of an incident - t
577.
by ddalex 5y ago
Googler here - my opinions are my own, not representing the company at the lowest level in case of severe outage we resort to IRC, Plain Old Telephone Service and, sometimes, stick-it notes taped to windows...
578.
by ddalex 5y ago
I disagree. The highly specialized monitoring equipment and dual high gains antennas and the plethora of other bits and pieces are NOT required to run a "a meeting" or a "netflix stream". A phone with a sim card usually
579.
by ddalex 5y ago
Eastern will happily pick up the slack on new nuclear power plants and sell that electricity to balance the trade.
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by ddalex 5y ago
In certain societies (Thracians, for example) the type of hat and decorations on it would indicate the social status of the wearer.
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by ddalex 5y ago
No offence, sir, but 6 different ways to connect to the internet is not minimalist. Your priorities lies elsewhere, perhaps not in bowls, forks and knives, but certainly with internet connectivity :)
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by ddalex 5y ago
the dongles are the most stupid thing ever... "our devices are so thin and light..." no shit, half of the device is outside, you just have to carry this bag of dongles with you
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by ddalex 5y ago
Why not both ?
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by ddalex 5y ago
> appetite in Europe to invest tens of billions in building their own chip industry. Why would they. They build the machines that create the chips. TSMC would merely manage the chip building orders and the consumables. In case of nationa
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by ddalex 5y ago
Thus usenet was reinvented
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by ddalex 5y ago
1/3 disagrees - two sets of outputs are converging, one is diverging 2/3 disagrees - all 3 sets of output diverge from each other; there is no clear course of action
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by ddalex 5y ago
Commercial piloting is hours of boredom with few moments of raw sheer terror.
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by ddalex 5y ago
There is trust and there is trust. There was enough trust that the slave did not desert and that they were taking the message to the destination. There was not enough trust that the slave would actually know the CONTENT of the message. As s
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by ddalex 5y ago
The right of ownership of the actual asset, not of a paper in the safe with the written address of the asset :)
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by ddalex 5y ago
It may be getting soaked in SF too, but with different kind of fluids
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by ddalex 5y ago
Wouldnt that be a feature ? I hate broadcasting hires images of myself.
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by ddalex 5y ago
Health and sanity (mental health) are invaluable. I've never heard stories about about how amazing the life/work balance is at Amazon, quite the contrary. I haven't heard them from Google either, but also I haven't heard
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by ddalex 5y ago
I'd not go for AMZN for double the salary I currently have at GOOG....
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by ddalex 5y ago
But isn't this charging also for receiving?
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by ddalex 5y ago
I feel that the internet is doing the full circle again, mediated by rent seekers - 1. all IPs are the same, email for everyone 2. residential IPs cannot into email cause spam 3. consumers don't get into IPs anymore cause CGNAT 3. AWS
596.
by ddalex 5y ago
So that got winners of the C Underhanded Contest working there?
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by ddalex 5y ago
Ehrm we already know niche communities attract lunatics - or, better said, make lunatics more visible; the noise to signal ratio of the content is way worse because idiots are louder. But if you filter through the noise you can get some int
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by ddalex 5y ago
Also see https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Cabal/ I also filter, using RES, all posters and commenters with over 100k karma, and it's like taking a trip back in time when the internet wasn't tuned to inane co
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by ddalex 5y ago
Look at that guy, what an unusual phone he uses
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by ddalex 5y ago
> just zero out the secret memory Or pipe in /dev/urandom for that matter

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