jpatokal

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by jpatokal 8y ago
You are mixing availability (access at any given moment) with durability (not losing data). From the FAQ: Cloud Storage is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) annual durability, which is appropriate for even primary storage and b
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Ah, I see what you mean: that's referring to users on the customer's side, not Google's. You also can adjust the number & role of users on the fly, so you can create another production support user if somebody else needs
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Does your codebase date from 1995? Because some of Yahoo's does. Time to send Jerry a nastygram about not adequately preparing the codebase for arbitrary color changes 25 years ago?
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Google Cloud Announces New Regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City(cloud.google.com)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If you purchase Google production support, with credits or otherwise, it's available 24/7 and not tied to a single "contact person". In addition, billing support (which includes things like being suspended for fraud or
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by jpatokal 8y ago
That report is estimating "application workloads" and doesn't explain how it comes up with that number. Here's another analyst report from Feb 2019 that estimates shares based on dollars of revenue at 32.2%, 16.5% and 9.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Here's a simple way of looking at it: Norway has converted its resources into a $1 trillion pot of funds, while Australia has, to a first approximation and over a longer time frame, zero or less (the country runs a budget deficit).
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Does it? To my admittedly untutored eye the first impression is Helvetica aka Switzerland, although it's not quite as stripped down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica This, on the other hand, screams Americ
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by jpatokal 8y ago
In Australia, you can also call a home visiting doctor outside business hours & on weekends, they'll come to your house in O(hours) and diagnose you for free. If you have some private health plans on top, they'll dispense bas
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by jpatokal 8y ago
This was launched last year: https://www.blog.google/products/google-cloud/google-cloud-h...
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Cloud Messaging was technically an Android API, not a part of GCP. (The admittedly confusing name predates the launch of the GCP brand.)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Given that Micronesia has a population of 100k, I wouldn't worry too much about their secret service. I presume OP meant FSM as in Flying Spaghetti Monster as a stand-in for any organization that might wish to spy on you with its noodl
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Indian-made pickles are surprisingly common these days, and quite good as well, particularly given that Western-style pickles have very little in common with Indian ones. General grumble: the way this article (and the US) conflate "pic
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FlyZoo, Alibaba's fully automated staffless hotel(alizila.com)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Um, they do? Endless simulator drills of various emergency scenarios is a large part of becoming a pilot and staying certified.
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Vancouver Shuns Uber While Chinese-Language App Kabu Thrives(skift.com)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Per the friendly article, "Pilots "repeatedly" followed procedures recommended by Boeing before the crash, according to the first official report into the disaster."
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I'm not saying I'd want to try to a catch Komodo dragon, but they're still less half the size of a saltwater crocodile, which can go over 6m! Here's one tackling a wildebeest: https://video.nationalgeograph
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Oscar Wilde summed fox hunting up best: "The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable."
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Given the choice, I'd take a Komodo dragon over a crocodile any day. They're large for a lizard, but much smaller and less murderous than crocs, and generally not an active threat to adult humans.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I think you're being rather generous here. By all accounts, Stalin did not wake up to the seriousness of the German threat and the unpreparedness of the Soviet Army until the Winter War against Finland in late 1939, and even this didn&
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Sure, I'll buy that Mathematica has its niche in (surprise!) math, but that's very different from the friendly article's claim that Wolfram has a superior approach to, well, everything: Wolfram’s vision for computation is mu
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The very concept of unified computation has been largely led by Wolfram. For "unified", try sandboxed, walled harden or evolutionary dead end. Just look at this literal Hello World example: GeoGraphics[Text[Style["Hello!&q
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I'm not aware of any metro system in the world that has scheduled headways of under a minute. The Moscow Metro was tops for a long time with 95-second headways on some lines at peak (without full automation, mind you), but Paris Metro
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I have seen full or near-full buses skip scheduled stops to alleviate this. Although from a waiting passenger's POV, having an already delayed bus that has space left zoom past you without stopping is pretty infuriating...!
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> after the recent occupation ??? Taiwan citizens can get two flavors of PRC passport-equivalents for travel to the PRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Travel_Document https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by jpatokal 8y ago
From the friendly article: The benefits will not extend to independent contractors, who are self-employed, but they will extend to "vendors," employees that work for companies that are under contract with Google. "Vendors&qu
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Your link goes back to this page?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There is existing right-of-way into both SF and LA Union station though, and the HSR plans intend(ed) to use this. Sure, you can't run the HSR at full speed on existing track, but this alone is not necessarily a deal-breaker.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The difference is that in India nobody uses the traditional calendars outside religious contexts, while in Japan the nengo dates are used for everything from yogurt expiry dates to government forms.

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