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by jsty 7y ago
Admittedly they're a little hard to differentiate at first glance, but is 'hostile' not pushing things a little too far? There's a long history of derivatives of open source tools having similar-ish names, often differin
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> Woe unto the person who doesn't come to support with request IDs. My impression the whole time is "these guys can't see their own response latency?" They can probably see their own latencies at a service level, but
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They'd probably get bad headlines regardless of whether or not they required an in-advance subscription: - Don't allow upgrading after a problem arises to get premium support: "Google won't let me pay to fix my account&q
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Quite a few do require you to have at least two second-factor methods set up, although I think for me only one has ever insisted on setting up phone / text 2FA. If you don't have a spare phone for TOTP or a Yubikey for U2F, phone-
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Whilst that three-turns example sounds a bit extreme, I often plug in routes I could drive without GPS to get traffic / road closure notifications & automatic re-routing around them. There are benefits aside from not knowing where
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"Does it matter how the ship is flagged?" - Probably not for large fleets, see [0] for examples of how this might be applied to the 2020 change. Your ship may be registered to a tiny little island that won't enforce any regul
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Is there any reason to suppose that such "centralised decentralisation" wouldn't end up with a small number of entities managing the centralised control planes thanks to economies of scale?
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"but intriguingly, Amazon says voice profiles can only be created for users 13+, so there's presumably something legal here" Presumably if they're banned from storing and processing the information of under-13s, that inc
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A case for managed and model-less inference serving(blog.acolyer.org)
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There's quite a big difference between voluntarily making a few tweaks to something to keep your client happy, and giving them a legally enforceable right to unlimited and uncompensated re-work until they're satisfied.
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Equally likely they notice the thundering herd of non-subscribers accessing a select few articles through a particular hole in their subscription wall. Surely can't be that hard for them to track.
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In the typical sense of net neutrality[0], not very much - you're effectively bidding for a faster / lower-latency route across the internet. You can already pay for faster routes with e.g. Google's premium networking or Clou
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Slicer: Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications(ai.google)
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A quick search for "google election reaction trump" yielded a "Leaked video shows Google's top brass 'upset' over Trump 2016 win" video by RT on the first page. If there is a clandestine operation to remov
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Would limiting alcohol advertising really have that dramatic an effect on the 'good' wine market? I can't recall the last time I bought a decent bottle of wine because it was advertised.
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"Any medium sized graphics shop could have a full developer on the payroll for a fraction of the repeated licensing costs of proprietary solutions" If the returns to the particular company that employed the developer was higher th
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Don't forget: - "Developer uses one weird trick to reduce cloud bills by 97%. AWS hates him!"
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I think the referenced forum discussions are [0][1] for anyone else trying to find them? [0] https://blenderartists.org/t/introducing-blender-depot-brows... [1] https://blenderartists.org/t/yet-ano
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He explicitly says so in the comments section: "Blender add-ons (Python scripts using the Blender API) have to be GPL license compatible. You pay for the service to download it, not for the software. Never feel bad about harming any GP
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In all fairness on that last point, if you're referring to his "Gitote" project, the author has stated here [0] that it was a fork of Gogs, and seems to have retained the proper copyright notices in the source files: "&#
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They do give p99 latencies in the table on page 10
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Three ways that Big Tech could be broken up(ft.com)
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This is half the reason why many large companies have prohibitions on using AGPL code - no one is quite sure exactly what counts as 'interacting remotely', and thus what would be in scope for the source release requirements. In th
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For someone who’d only toyed around with actix a while ago, this is an amazingly useful summary, thank you!
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It uses the Postgres wire protocol, but isn't based on Postgres under the hood
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Considering this was seemingly a mostly North America-affecting networking issue, and the 10% reduction in views was global, it doesn't sound like YouTube got much of a priority - quite a lot of the videos that were actually view-able
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But considering most app terms allow for transfer of data to the purchaser on buy-out, and the fate of many a 'cool little startup' is to be bought out by a large company, momentary independence isn't really a much greater gu
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If you're looking at kitting out an entire department with these or buying the equivalent rendering firepower in the cloud, the cost of a couple of leased lines and cloud interconnects are probably going to be the least of your worries
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Anecdata - I know several people who are close to getting citizenship, and none of them are top of their field or earning mega £££. Even if the UK moves to a points-based system post-Brexit, I'd imagine a mid- to late-career software d
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Considering half the reason for those conferences is networking, perhaps a 'regional' / distributed conference model would work - you could still choose to attend an in-place event for all the networking benefits (albeit with

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