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by dx034 6y ago
EternalBlue was probably the biggest backdoor used by the US government for years and even Microsoft (at least officially) didn't know about it. Finding and not reporting bugs is much easier than getting a company to put in backdoors w
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by dx034 6y ago
I agree with Spyware but resource hog? Everyday performance is certainly better than on earlier Windows versions.
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by dx034 6y ago
I believe auto updates aren't malicious. Microsoft had a huge problem with worms infecting millions of computers that used outdated Windows version. It made Windows less secure in public opinion, even though these issues had often been
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by dx034 6y ago
Windows 10 has become much less open for non enterprise customers. It't incredibly hard to change settings or disable features such as Onedrive, Cortana, and others.
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by dx034 6y ago
But we're talking about energy storage close to consumers, not in remote locations I thought? For deployment in Europe, I don't think it'd be possible to find areas where ground water is that deep (luckily). And pumped storag
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by dx034 6y ago
Doesn't solve the problem of multiple machines for me. I started using code-server before WSL2 came out. given the low cost, I don't see why I should switch to WSL2 locally now.
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by dx034 6y ago
No it isn't. I have it on a machine about 5ms away, never experience lag.
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by dx034 6y ago
I use it a lot. It's really nice having one environment if you use different dev machines from time to time (in my case a PC and a laptop), develop on the target OS (I don't have Linux installed on all my computers but only develo
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by dx034 6y ago
That's what ARES promised 4 years ago. But their website looks abandoned. [1] [1] https://www.aresnorthamerica.com/
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by dx034 6y ago
Also, hasn't digging become much cheaper in recent years with new technologies from the oil industry? I'm sure some of that efficiency gain can be used for those shafts (they're obviously bigger than a bore hole for oil).
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by dx034 6y ago
The vertical train approach of terrament (linked above) could theoretically work with that. But we'll probably have to wait for the first prototype to see if it can really work with existing infrastructure.
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by dx034 6y ago
How do you and Gravitricity deal with ground water? Wouldn't you require constant pumping to keep water out, using additional energy? Or can they be sealed that well to work for decades without maintenance?
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by dx034 6y ago
Pumped hydro is great but unrealistic in many countries. You need hills or mountains with space for new lakes. All obvious places already have them, for the others the ecological impact often is quite significant.
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by dx034 6y ago
But if they can choose between saving 10% on infrastructure or adding 5% ad revenue (through more optimizations), the additional revenue is worth more. Just running Facebook, Instagram & Co as a platform would probably be much cheaper
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by dx034 6y ago
There will always be a spammer with connections to a large company or university.
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by dx034 6y ago
Voice assisted search probably won't give you much feedback. With a web based search engine, users provide feedback by ignoring some results and clicking others. Therefore releasing a search engine could help them improving it and deli
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by dx034 6y ago
Google's results are already pretty clean. Search results are heavily filtered (e.g. copyright, adult content) so I don't think Apple would filter more. If anything, filtering more than Google could deteriorate results. But the SE
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by dx034 6y ago
Let's see if Apple is the first one to nail it. I love using DDG but their results are not close to the same quality as Google for me, especially with localized results and unspecific requests. And DDG is backed by Microsoft's Bin
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by dx034 6y ago
With 1b pages per day I guess you needed 1gbit/s connections on each of those machines? Especially if they also wrote back to centralized storage. I guess there are not many places where you can easily get 4GB/s sustained throughp
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by dx034 6y ago
Another point that doesn't get mentioned in the article is noise. Laminar flow with a 59% reduction would make the aircraft much quieter, especially during approach. Aerodynamic drag is the primary source of landing planes, reducing th
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by dx034 6y ago
If the design works there's no reason it shouldn't work on a A320/B737 size. But without a small prototype, the billions for developing a completely new plane and engine are not worth it. I'm sure Airbus & Boeing are
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by dx034 6y ago
Probably because while private jet sounds great, the actual money will come from the military and cargo. A small plane at the efficiency of large cargo planes that can fly between most US airports would be a game changer for Fedex & UPS
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by dx034 6y ago
It won't make sense to buy for any individual. But if you run it close to 24/7 renting it out, fuel efficiency matters much more. You could have it on some kind of a scheduled service but sell out flights as a whole for businesses
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by dx034 6y ago
You can offset your short with a long in a competitor. That takes out the market beta. However, it isn't free and it can take a long time until a bad company goes under (not saying Asana is one, haven't used their product). Wireca
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by dx034 6y ago
Maybe a surge in IPOs for HN crowd? An IPO of a construction company won't make the front page but Asana does. Maybe VCs increase pressure to cash out or management is motivated by other successful IPOs of the recent past. I don't
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by dx034 6y ago
And you don't plan IPOs depending on polls. They're way too expensive and complex for that. You can accelerate the process or delay it if markets aren't receptive but the general decision to IPO won't be made because the
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by dx034 6y ago
At Google or Facebook that makes sense. If you encounter much larger scale than pretty much any other company, it's hard to find libraries that work for you. So the observation was correct but they should've concluded that this is
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by dx034 6y ago
It's also about the kind of features you implement. At the start you implement all the easy features, that's no problem. Once you mature and want to get B2B sales, you need to start supporting all kinds of connectors to legacy Ent
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by dx034 6y ago
For most companies I've seen, enterprise sales is what costs most money. It's worth it in the end but there's nothing you can automate around all the calls, forms and processes you have to go through to get a big enterprise c
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by dx034 6y ago
Companies saving money on backups pay for it at some later date. Also, you won't/shouldn't really pass any audit without sound processes in place. Billing is easy until you have to serve 200 countries, each with their own reg

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