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by kyrra 5y ago
And is asking for OPEC to produce more oil[0]. EDIT: updated the linked article. I originally linked to an opinion piece rather than a news piece. [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-urges-opec-to-boost... ol
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by kyrra 5y ago
Total guess: Slows down transmission. Those that are asymptomatic should have a lower viral load, which results in fewer cases.
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by kyrra 5y ago
(googler, opinions are my own). Google allows for normal desktop IDEs, plus having a web based one. The funny thing is, many people move to the web based one because it is so good. But Google is also unique in how piper/citc[0] (our s
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by kyrra 5y ago
I was playing around with this with some friends and I have to say that anything involving animals of any kind in the generation leads to really weird results. I haven't tried other AI art programs, so I don't know of this is sor
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by kyrra 5y ago
(googler, opinions are my own). I really wish we would have stayed with the Google Wallet moniker. Seeing that you can add student IDs, Walgreens Card[0], Vaccine status/card[1], various metro cards (like Japan's Suica[2]), it is
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by kyrra 5y ago
There also tends to be an increase in gun sales with the election of a democrat to the presidency. Happened with Obama and is happening now with Biden (building on the things you listed). Even if the reaction isn't 100% founded on any
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by kyrra 5y ago
https://nodejs.org/ru/blog/release/v10.13.0/ > This release marks the transition of Node.js 10.x into Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename 'Dubnium'. The 10.x release line now moves in
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by kyrra 5y ago
Trigrams are amazing. I was doing a sideproject where I wanted to allow for substring searching, and trigrams seemed to be the only way to do it (easily/well) in postgres. Gitlab did a great writeup on this a few years ago that reall
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by kyrra 5y ago
Not available in the US?
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by kyrra 5y ago
Not sure about Activision side, but Blizzard has long had an Austin office: https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/austin It started out mainly to hire more GMs for World Of Warcraft (had a few people in my larger
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by kyrra 5y ago
I read a good opinion on this here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/convincing-the-skepti... There are a lot of factors that you need to take in account when talking about vaccine hesitant people. Some big
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by kyrra 5y ago
Yelling fire in a crowded theater is protected under the first amendment. That phrase came out of a 1919 SCOTUS ruling[0]. The limitations on speech were slowly restored over the next 50 years, with Brandenburg v Ohio[1] (1969) ultimately
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by kyrra 5y ago
Correct link: https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/ Yours doesn't load. For those wondering, you can find the link to this site on IRS's website. https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-fil
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by kyrra 5y ago
Reading that, I don't see anything about the copyright holder being able to manually terminate a license. Rather the copyright holder can notify a party that is violating other sections of the GPL3, and then the party can either remed
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. My corner of the world has ~100 people working on it and we do a mix of unit tests and integration tests. We definitely use mocks, but prefer fakes where possible. I really like our unit tests to poke and pro
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by kyrra 5y ago
Nice quote from Hacker News's favorite judge: > “No doubt, DoorDash never expected that so many would actually seek arbitration,” U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote in an order last February. “Instead, in irony upon irony, Door
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by kyrra 5y ago
Google v Oracle took 11 years to reach conclusion.
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by kyrra 5y ago
Sorry, I deleted that part of the comment as it didn't apply to this topic at hand. Multiple companies have dropped subscription support in india or changed things due to the recent RBI rules around mandates. https://gadget
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by kyrra 5y ago
Yes, it is. You either need to entirely fork your operation to have it operate entirely within India, or be extremely careful with how you store your data, and store the data only in India, but process it in other data centers without ever
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by kyrra 5y ago
FYI, American Express and Diners Club have already been banned from adding new customers in India due to the same thing. https://www.reuters.com/article/india-banking-american-expre...
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by kyrra 5y ago
As an aside, go 1.16.6 was also released today to fix a CVE that can panic tls clients. https://mobile.twitter.com/golang/status/1414721238224838666 EDIT: TLS clients, not server.
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by kyrra 5y ago
I know its probably not your fault, but this is a sysadmin best practice (though, if you read /r/sysadmin, you'll see they regularly don't do this either). Backups are useless unless you regularly validate them. Backup
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by kyrra 5y ago
atomic.Value can work pretty well as well, their example docs show how to do it as well: https://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/#example_Value_config DBPool gets a bit more interesting. In Java world you can you
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by kyrra 5y ago
What was wrong with that change that allowed them to get hacked? Edit, can I guess that this isn't how to do proper sql parameterized input? > s.account_id = #{@id} I don't know ruby at all...
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by kyrra 5y ago
There is the possibility of grpc, but there hasn't been a case for it yet (hence why none of our docs even mention it). Google also loves talking grpc/stubby internally, so any Google internal application to application calls woul
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. I work in payment and idempotency is always a discussion point. This draft links to one of our docs (though the draft points to a 404 URL, the correct link being[0]). As the draft calls out, Google Standard Pa
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by kyrra 5y ago
Agreed. Terrorism seems like it is unneeded.
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by kyrra 5y ago
I agree that without Section 230 a company is effectively a publisher and takes responsibility for all content on the sites they host. I feel like that section should somehow be tailored to promote the First Amendment to let people say what
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by kyrra 5y ago
A possibile solution is changes to section 230. I saw a good approach last year that you can read about here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/washington-can-put-a-... The key bit was a recommendation from t
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by kyrra 5y ago
To pile on, here's a copy/paste from when this was asked a few days ago: Googler, opinions are my own. Over in payments, we use micros regularly, as documented here: https://developers.google.com/standard-payments&

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