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by mentat 7y ago
Isobel is writing weekly summaries as "OTel Me More" with the latest here: https://lightstep.com/blog/otel-me-more-opentelemetry-projec...
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by mentat 7y ago
Feels like the buried lede is that all the other companies already sold out all the private information of their riders.
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by mentat 7y ago
Talk to Congress about laws, it's their job to change them.
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by mentat 7y ago
On what basis?
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by mentat 7y ago
It's about writing around pronouns, not using neutral or gendered either way. That was said to be unacceptable.
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by mentat 7y ago
Your proposed solution wouldn't work. You appear to have been unaware and instead of saying "thanks, I didn't realize the limitation existed, that's unfortunate" you instead attack the messenger. All file parsers sh
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by mentat 7y ago
Only in good conditions? Have you seen the videos of the Uber kill? Come on... 95% of humans would have had the same outcome.
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by mentat 7y ago
If you can access using this so can others when you cross borders, are stopped by police, have spying spouse, etc. Those are real and sometimes fatal threat models.
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by mentat 7y ago
Same thing happened when AT&T fiber came into my neighborhood. $70 for unlimited gig put some pressure on them.
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by mentat 7y ago
What could possibly go wrong with that...
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by mentat 7y ago
Which is the OP's point, that they shouldn't be locked.
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by mentat 7y ago
Modern hearing aids work pretty well at least for moderate loss. I tried previous ones and they were not helpful. Have had Oticon OPN and now OPN S for the last 4 years and it's been transformative. Still, it's software which you
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by mentat 7y ago
I believe the Narrowband stuff that Twilio's starting to roll out it's meant to address this.
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by mentat 7y ago
Except those probably both registered just fine...
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by mentat 7y ago
Also makes it so there are harder cultural edges to distinguish groups and people can't move between them as easily either.
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by mentat 7y ago
Water usage combined with weather information likely gives competitive advantage is futures markets.
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by mentat 7y ago
The cost to your business will always be greater than the maximum refund on the SLA, even if it's a full refund. That's why you're using the provider in the first place, since you can make more money than they're chargin
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by mentat 7y ago
Having standard shaped telemetry for SDKs (via OpenTelemetry hopefully now) then allowing opt-in aggregation of customer views, either as an observability product to peers or to the providers is what I've been trying to get interest in
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by mentat 7y ago
How is the browser supposed to reason about "local"?
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by mentat 7y ago
They expected to replicate the findings. They fail to do so. Just because this contradicts your personal politics isn't a reason to ignore or suppress the information. They promoted it, they need to set the record straight.
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by mentat 7y ago
Target accuracy for pool inclusion is not sufficient for many use cases. I've personally seen tens to 100s of ms difference between pool members. With no quality filter that's strict enough, adding more to that pool doesn't h
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by mentat 7y ago
It says there wasn't regional congestion, running a function in europe-west2 going to europe-west2 regional bucket is dependent on US network? That would be surprising.
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by mentat 7y ago
> Google Cloud instances in us-west1, and all European regions and Asian regions, did not experience regional network congestion. Does not appear to be true. Tests I was running on cloud functions in europe-west2 saw impact to europe-wes
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by mentat 7y ago
The jeff@ experience is really poor now. There doesn't seem to be a way to request real review by someone who might care about something other than ticket throughput. I tried it when I got a ding against my account because my wife and
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Google’s June 2nd Outage: Their Status Page Does Not Equal Reality(medium.com)
9 points by mentat 7y ago|1 comments
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by mentat 7y ago
AWS lost data in Australia a few years ago due to a power outage I believe.
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by mentat 7y ago
Make it symmetric, use it to watch the watchers, then we might be talking about something socially viable. Without that, it's about control.
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by mentat 7y ago
Might be nice if the author understood the difference between the CEO and CTO before he went off insulting their positioning.
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by mentat 7y ago
Very good point, thanks for clarifying.
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by mentat 7y ago
Thundering herd has referred to demand spikes in services architectures for at least 8 years[0], probably much longer. 0. https://qconsf.com/sf2011/dl/qcon-sanfran-2011/slides/Siddha...

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