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by gundmc 7y ago
~90% of PC gamers still play at 1080p or below according to Steam's hardware survey [1]. With Stadia offering a free 1080p tier across multiple devices I think it'll be a lot more popular than tech/gaming enthusiasts anticipa
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Totally unrelated to this topic which revolves around the "Right to be forgotten".
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Login from incognito works for me so I assumed one of my extensions was causing an issue somehow and started disabling them. I'm sorry I doubted you, extensions.
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Google only complies with ~60% of government requests and frequently pushes back against suspect orders. https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...
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by gundmc 7y ago
Waymo claimed to be able to produce lidar sensors for 10% of market price back in January of 2017 (estimated $7500/unit). If true, it'll be critical to their scaling and success. https://techcrunch.com/2019/03
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by gundmc 7y ago
The political advertising section is fascinating. You can see exactly what ads each entity ran, when, and how many impressions they received. Surprising to see the GOP dominate the spending overall! I could spend hours here.
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They also prompt you to install additional browsers during setup. This just states they will change the default search behavior within Chrome if chrome is installed as well. Not sure I get your comment.
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China's manufacturing firms add a ton of value in the tech supply chain. It's not like fashion where processes are lower-skill and can easily be transitioned between countries and regions based on shifting headwinds. It will be ve
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Really incredible machines. Additive manufacturing has gotten all of the hype lately because it's new and quickly developing, it's equally exciting to see cutting edge developments in traditional subtractive manufacturing.
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Google should just disallow political ads entirely. This is a no-win proposition. Being too lax leads to election meddling, trying to flag suspicious activity is censorship. You're just an easy punching bag. They've already stoppe
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Fantastic and intuitive explanation. Thank you for this!
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Google did show it to everyone. If you follow the link and read his "analysis", his argument boils down to the assertion that Google users overall are left of center so reminding Google users to vote unfairly benefits Democrats. F
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Bingo, Firefox mobile has << 1% of the mobile browser user base. It's hard to justify the resources to test every change and feature to ensure a good user experience for such a small number of users.
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Some sites offer certain select articles for free and put the rest behind a paywall. Or only make articles accessible via a referral link. There are options beyond what we have today. Abusing an API loophole to detect incognito browsing was
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Oops, you're right! That's the one I was thinking of, just got the names reversed.
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I used to drive past this facility often. The towers are shockingly bright from the highway. Never thought about using the mirrors for an art installation, really cool idea! I wonder how Google convinced Tonopah to be onboard.
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It blows my mind that Google and Facebook have been demonized by the wider media as "surveillance capitalism" while Palantir, who for all intents and purposes is literally a surveillance tech giant, has largely escaped public cons
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If you're using Chrome 74+, you can set a flag that prevents sites from detecting that you're using Incognito mode. Go to chrome://flags and enable "Filesystem API in Incognito". That's it! Sites won'
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Sounds like the Gell-Mann amnesia effect[1]. We notice the innacuracies in the fields we are familiar with and then readily believe stories outside of our expertise. Disclaimer - reporting is critically important and by and large journalist
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by gundmc 7y ago
Ah! Thanks for expanding on that. It looks like the PDF version is available at the top of your linked page under the link "Download PDF" ( https://www.gstatic.com/policies/privacy/pdf/20190122/f
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by gundmc 7y ago
Can you clarify your comment? I don't see anything I would classify as a footnote in either linked policy.
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Code is reviewed, but I'm not aware of any companies where terminal commands are reviewed before each execution (though maybe they should be - it seems like every major cloud outage is config related). It sounds like the change was re
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Any cloud provider offering those terms would go out of business VERY quickly. Outages happen, all providers are incentivized to minimize the frequency and severity of disruptions - not just from the financial hit of breaching SLA (which f
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A couple more hours and everyone will get 25% off for June.
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Thanks for clarifying! TIL
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"Here we experimentally demonstrate the factorization of two bi-primes, 4088459 and 966887 using IBM's 5- and 16-qubit quantum processors, hence making those the largest numbers that have been factorized on a quantum device."
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Props to Amazon for listening to feedback and altering course.
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by gundmc 8y ago
Integral transformations are the "rest of the fucking owl"[1] of the STEM world. [1] - https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/572/078/d6d...
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We'll have to wait for details about connected sheets, but BQ itself caches queries by default for 24 hours and you're not charged for cache hits. I assume something similar applies.
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by gundmc 8y ago
Article is from January, Previous discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19028081

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