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by johansch 10y ago
That's indeed possible. But really, if you were to guesstimate the ratio of GPU usage between these items sold to consumers that end up being used by: a) AI/startups b) gamers what would you guess? My guess is somewhere between 1:
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by johansch 10y ago
This is pure and utter bullshit. Their core market is by far gaming, as this PDF (that I found via NVidia IR) shows: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-1XAJD4/341168899... Also: The level of their gross p
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by johansch 10y ago
Sneaky germans.
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Really, I would be equally happy to have them remove my Uber account altogether. Except it's equally cumbersome and non-obvious. There are no immediate actions to do it from within the App or the website: http://www.wikihow.
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by johansch 10y ago
I'm in the EU and I was not able to remove before doing that trick with a virtual CC. What country are you in? (I'm in Sweden.) It's quite possible that officials/bank people in your country made noises about this and th
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by johansch 10y ago
I was just discussing this with a former co-worker. [Here in Europe.] Also: I'm pretty certain that if you had a history of using dark patterns.. that would be seen as basically fraudulent behavior here. Investors would stay far away.
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by johansch 10y ago
Thanks for the tip, that may be useful in the future! I ended up using my bank's "virtual credit card" service to create a virtual CC with a balance of 1 SEK to get rid of my Uber account. Anyway, I think this is shameful of
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by johansch 10y ago
My pet peeve: If you add a credit card to the Uber app there is no way to remove it without replacing it with another valid payment method. If you google solutions to this you get third party recommendations to plead with their customer ser
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by johansch 10y ago
They had very smart but quite junior engineering management. There was a lot of political pressure from investors etc to match the effort of a local competitor - who had sort-of (naturally they missed all the good, non-obvious bits) cloned
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by johansch 10y ago
In my experience: Yes, they are emulating at least parts of SV startup culture. Except that they hire hundreds of people where an American or European company would hire 20-30 people. My guess is that the thinking is that they'll be ab
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by johansch 10y ago
I also did a manual inspection of the data and ended up mostly agreeing with the author of the post.
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by johansch 10y ago
"Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?" (brilliant title, given what follows) http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html "In other words, it appears as if roughly a qu
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by johansch 10y ago
I'm betting there'll be an "open-awesome" or similar within three years.
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by johansch 10y ago
Up until very recently Netflix has been saying that offline viewing is not something they want. Maybe they were just doing a Steve, though.
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by johansch 10y ago
I guess the practical question here is whether that functionality is usable via the javascript API:s.
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by johansch 10y ago
Nice catch.
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by johansch 10y ago
A prenuptial agreement would probably be easier? And cheaper...
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by johansch 10y ago
Does anyone know if e.g. Google's Widevine or Apple's FairPlay support the concept of applying DRM to downloaded files? If they do, they should be able to get this to the web version of Netflix. (Laptop screens are great for watch
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by johansch 10y ago
Well, maybe one take-away from the Snowden movie - in case it's actually accurate - is that by recruiting traditional freedom-loving hackers there will be more potential whistleblowers in the future. Another disparate thought: The NSA
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by johansch 10y ago
...right.
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by johansch 10y ago
I think in most of Europe there's a relatively painful 50/50 balance between passenger and freight traffic. The freight trains run mostly at night. The tracks are used really, really hard, which causes maintenance issues. It'
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by johansch 10y ago
I guess I should have been more explicit. I am not talking about the actual encryption/decryption/data-wrangling stuff in this HTML page. All of this is obviously very neat and very usable. The reason I do think this is a job ad i
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by johansch 10y ago
Why do you think the GCHQ is publishing stuff that appeals the developers/hackers rather than just being secretive? Of course it's similar to a corporate branding exercise. There's a hard fight for tech talent these days.
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by johansch 10y ago
After just having watched Oliver Stone's "Snowden" last night it's hard to avoid wondering if there are any potential Snowdens in the GCHQ... It's also a sobering thought that the people who wrote this stuff (seems
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by johansch 10y ago
> The Federal Railroad Administration likes to think that America is special The concept of "American exceptionalism" is a strange thing that still has lots of real-world consequences, apparently.
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by johansch 10y ago
> Charger may offer cryptographic signatures in the future for authentication against a whitelist at the device. Who would ever expect Apple to do something like that? Oh wait...
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by johansch 10y ago
My native language is Swedish, not English. They are both quite closely related though. I'm really curious to that Swedish sounds like to tonal-language people. It's often described as "sing-songy" by "non-tonal&quo
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by johansch 10y ago
They employ way too many sales and marketing people that would fight against such a straight-forward solution. You would think that the lack of having any actual competitor after AMD more or less folded would make their positions redundant,
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by johansch 10y ago
Every time I hear Thai language spoken I'm reminded that this tonal language inspired the creators of "Mars attacks" to what the fictional language used by the aliens should sound like, just because it sounded so alien. I hav
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by johansch 10y ago
I don't really understand the commotion. Intel have been striking global and local deals like this with much smaller outfits than Google and Facebook for at least a decade. It's an intricate play with variables like marketing oppo

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