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Changes to Google Workspace storage policies starting June 1, 2021(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
2 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|0 comments
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
Unconscious might be overstating it, but there is a concept called "Time of Useful Consciousness" - which is basically the time frame where you are still able to function. At 40,000 feet, time of useful consciousness is 15-20 seco
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Scientists Discover compound that prevents and treats SARS-CoV2 in Animal Models(pittwire.pitt.edu)
4 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|0 comments
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Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory(elemental.medium.com)
469 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|147 comments
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Otto Aviation Officially Introduces Celera 500L “Bullet Plane”(avweb.com)
6 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|0 comments
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A stitch in time: How a quantum physicist invented new code from old tricks(phys.org)
2 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|0 comments
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
Only 50% of the air on airplanes is recirculated and the recirculated air is filtered through HEPA filters similar to what is used in hospital ICUs. https://www.who.int/ith/mode_of_travel/tcd_aircraft/en/
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New Theory of Everything Unites Quantum Mechanics with Relativity and Much More(discovermagazine.com)
4 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|0 comments
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Scientists pinpoint cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries(phys.org)
7 points by mvgoogler 7y ago|0 comments
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Relive your best memories with new features from Google Photos(blog.google)
2 points by mvgoogler 7y ago|0 comments
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by mvgoogler 7y ago
The hacker news guidelines specifically advise against this kind of comment. 'Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The artic
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by mvgoogler 8y ago
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/is-a-tomato-a-frui... Nope, tomatoes are technically fruits, though they are commonly considered vegetables. Just like pterosaurs are technically not dinosaurs, but are commonl
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Record-breaking fine this week could put Google’s business model at stake(bgr.com)
1 points by mvgoogler 8y ago|0 comments
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by mvgoogler 8y ago
Flippin' Pizza ( https://flippinpizza.com/menu/ ). I used to live less then a mile from one. Pretty solid pizza. FWIW, it always had the feel of a local place. I was surprised that they had 20 locations and used con
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Google’s massive housing and office plan wins approval(mercurynews.com)
1 points by mvgoogler 9y ago|0 comments
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Alphabet announces Q2 earnings(abc.xyz)
4 points by mvgoogler 10y ago|0 comments
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by mvgoogler 10y ago
In the early '90s I wrote the embedded software for the first versions of these hand-held color measurement instruments: https://www.byk.com/en/instruments/products/color-measuremen... From what I can s
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
It's fun to see this data come out. I did some of the early reliability tests for these devices. At the time, Google hadn't publicly announced that we were using SSDs in the data-center so there wasn't really an opportunity t
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
The article talks about ignoring UBER _specs_ the paper doesn't say that (at least that's not what I read). From the paper: We find that UBER (uncorrectable bit error rate), the standard metric to measure uncorrectable e
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
FWIW - single-bit errors are not synonymous with correctable errors in flash. For any given type of flash chip the manufacturer will provide a spec like "you must be able to correct N bits per M bytes". The firmware for a flash dr
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
The actual paper has much more information than the fluffy article that is linked here. From the paper: "The drives in our study are custom designed high performance solid state drives, which are based on commodity flash chips, but use
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
Where do you get the impression that "a gazillion URLs" broke? Picasa Web Albums will continue working until the album archive view is ready. Also, all of the photo from PWA are hosted in Google Photos Backend - and will continue
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
The blogger photo are still there and hosted in Google Photos Backend. The urls will continue to work.
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Moving on from Picasa(googlephotos.blogspot.com)
209 points by mvgoogler 11y ago|234 comments
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
For Google at least, those numbers are pretty much spot on. Source - I'm a mid-level engineer at Google and my total comp is within the stated range.
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
I saw a story that his lawyer did exactly that: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/lawyer-for-ma... I really want it to be true...
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
Am I being overly cynical when I interpret: “We will establish a way to mass-produce the new material shortly ... We are looking to commercialize the technique within five years.” as "We have no clue how to mass-produce this but hope w
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
> Could you tell something about the level of documentation? For instance, > do you have to write a paragraph of documentation for every function that > you add to the system? How about adding preconditions and postconditions, >
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
You always need to get at least _one_ other engineer to review your code. OWNER and readability approvals may require additional reviewers but not always.
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by mvgoogler 11y ago
I used to work in platforms (not networking, but we worked pretty closely with them) and the information in the paper was accurate and surprisingly complete.

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