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by lrem 5y ago
Three European accounts I sometimes use for online payments, each from a different country, don't make me miserable like that. Apparently one of these banks was founded early in Abraham Lincoln's presidency, so it's not a mat
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by lrem 5y ago
Do you think any of the large players will get into crypto? Or, any of the crypto players will build a business steady enough, to try developing something so ambitious?
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by lrem 5y ago
A local company here is offering an insurance whose whole point is to handle the claims with your real insurance. I wish they were joking.
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by lrem 5y ago
And if that control becomes too tight, RISC-V takes it place.
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by lrem 5y ago
Marshmallow study? Is the finding about "wait 5 minutes to get two sweets - success in life" debunked, or are you referring to another thing?
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by lrem 5y ago
I've been an interviewer in Google for quite a few years now. I know my favourite question inside-out, implemented it in a couple languages, know the theory behind the advanced follow-ups for theorists, know the realities of running th
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by lrem 5y ago
Just average the winning move of betting everything on Greenspan Put over the past couple years and ignore anything that happened before ;)
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by lrem 5y ago
> I've always had this pointless desire to get a non-synchronous transmission truck driver's licence. I just think it'd be fun learning to drive an 18 speed crash box with double clutching and clutch brakes - something I
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by lrem 5y ago
Everyone I know in Google on 80% (which is surprisingly many people) has started full time. I imagine some full week trainings you might want to start with would be quite awkward if part of participants would be skipping a random day of the
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by lrem 5y ago
You can't effectively ban the collection. Bing needs to get your search query to be able to answer it. You can muck around retention and what kind of processing can be done... But this approach seems to be simpler and more robust. Sinc
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by lrem 5y ago
As someone with 8 years of experience in SRE in Google: I wouldn't be so sure about that. Most outages require only rudimentary understanding of the particular service. Pretty much "have you tried turning it off and on?", wit
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by lrem 5y ago
> Just don't upload that CSV containing all of your customers to Microsoft, that shouldn't be too hard. Have you ever worked in a large organization?
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by lrem 5y ago
Whoah, why is Sony group valued so low? They do a lot of things... Their P/E is half of Microsoft. But they're bleeding money, so something is amiss there.
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by lrem 5y ago
Denaturation of proteins? ;)
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by lrem 5y ago
I'm L6 at Google. My work week is the 40 hours of my choosing. I spend Wednesday afternoons with my kids.
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by lrem 5y ago
Now, this brings an interesting question. The host and likely copyright holder of TFA doesn't want me reading it, unless I create a "paid or free" account. The archive link allows me to ignore those conditions. Is that a good
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by lrem 5y ago
May be localised bubbles. But both experiences are genuine. Note that what I mean by crime is "actual threat to anyone's safety", not "kids throwing a TV out of a window when moving out" (which apparently was a loca
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by lrem 5y ago
These used to be virtually crime-free countries. My sister lived in central Sweden for a year, coming from another EU country, and was genuinely shocked how crime was effectively an alien concept to the locals. And that was an university to
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by lrem 5y ago
Do not use a smartphone seems to be the only answer. NSO seems to have the skill and resources to keep that pipeline of 0days going.
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by lrem 5y ago
Early money have always been things people believed to have intrinsic value. It started with carefully-measured containers of highest-value grains. Then gems and precious metals. It took thousands of years and support from people with guns
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by lrem 5y ago
There's a critical difference here in intent. When I buy a game on Steam, I want to play it once and then forget about it. Same for a book on a Kindle. People buying NFTs seem to hope for some permanent value instead.
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by lrem 5y ago
Well, the important skill is saying no. While you won't get far saying no to the employer, all those other things on the todo list got there somehow. I'm now fighting the good fight of getting my own time back. I suggest trying th
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by lrem 5y ago
Follow the spirit of the law? CRAZY TALK!
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by lrem 5y ago
So likely you won't meet the "better than placebo" threshold.
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by lrem 5y ago
Could be good for some hobbyist deployments though.
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by lrem 5y ago
Why are you talking about the experimental upcoming version though? ;)
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by lrem 5y ago
Aren't they aiming to do that for plants that will be using synthetic methane as alternative to battery storage?
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by lrem 5y ago
In Google we have a bunch of researchers on anonymity and that whole thing is _hard_. I vaguely remember supporting, a couple years ago, a pipeline where logs stripped out of "all PII" came at one end, aggregated data out of the m
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by lrem 5y ago
Lucky enough to live in a properly wired house. Dying at home from electrocution is very rare, at least in the developed world, up to the point that almost all the data I found bundled it into "misc". This one source puts it at 0.
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by lrem 5y ago
I guess my secret is having almost no writes (the couple things I deployed with SQLite would see a dozen writes per month).

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