nanidin

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   by nanidin 5y ago

   I switched to Duck Duck Go on mobile as a direct result of AMP. So not only did AMP fail, but Google lost most of the eyeball time they were getting from me and they're not getting it back any time soon.
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   by nanidin 5y ago

   > Why are you being downvoted? Lack of proper capitalization.
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   by nanidin 5y ago

   Guillain–Barré syndrome[0] is a rare reaction to vaccination that causes the body to attack its own nerves and damage the myelin sheath. Possibly related? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain-Barr%C3%A9_syndrome
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   by nanidin 5y ago

   Guillain–Barré syndrome[0] is a rare reaction to vaccination that causes the body to attack its own nerves and damage the myelin sheath. Possibly related? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain-Barr%C3%A9_syndrome
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   by nanidin 5y ago

   I think it shows a shift in priorities from users to metrics like engagement and profit. Then the prioritized parties are Spotify or investors. It stinks, but it opens the door for competitors that can compete on things like user experience
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   by nanidin 5y ago

   In net terms, you're probably right. But at least the energy used for cryptocurrency is being used toward something that might benefit many (commerce, hoarding, what-have-you), vs against something that might result in the arrest of fe
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   by nanidin 5y ago

   Interesting the various words we use for such behavior: planting, seeding, astroturfing
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   by nanidin 5y ago

   > Apple has over 1 billion devices. Assuming ten scans per device per day, you would reach one trillion scans in ~100 days. People like to complain about the energy wasted mining cryptocurrencies - I wonder how this works out in terms of
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   by nanidin 5y ago

   I imagine this is the result of some sort of negotiation with the US government. US government wants backdoors, Apple doesn't want to provide them. Apple also wants to store pictures on iCloud encrypted, without encryption backdoors. T
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I worked under a director whose resume padding for the job was going to be switching from JIRA to Salesforce for tickets. JIRA worked well for engineers and QA, but management wasn’t getting the types of reports they wanted. Reportedly. Our
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    For a while, Walmart price tags showed $ per unit. I think that helps keep things fair.
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    Hmm. My takeaway from Amdahl's Law is that if one has a parallelizable problem, one can keep throwing processors at it, but eventually there is a slice of overall work that cannot be parallelized. Stepping back and refreshing myself on
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I think I agree with you (RE: make a comprehensive write-up), but I also seem to remember thinking the same thing when I was setting up the latest iteration of the server and then googling it and finding that such a guide already exists :)
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I like the reach for Amdahl's Law, but it's about how fast you can speed something up by doing it in parallel, isn't it? What's to say someone else can't be eliminating the other classes of homelessness in parallel,
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I have thought about this a bit as one of the parks I walk through has a few homeless people and a lot of litter. And I don’t like litter. Picking up litter in a park isn’t a steady job, but it’s something they can do because they’re alread
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I’ve been suffering the same thing over the last few months. A helpful technique for me has been to swap out my smart watch for a dumb watch, and to put my phone in a drawer unless I intend to use it. I also heavily limited the types of thi
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I learned French using the Pimsleur method - basically you listen and repeat things as you hear them in an audio course. As a result, my accent in French threw off native speakers in a way that made them think I was a native speaker. I woul
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, the next best time is today. Maybe it is tough to get trusted by the major providers in a short time period today, but if it’s something you’re interested in, don’t let tha
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I have never had a problem sending to gmail or Microsoft addresses that didn’t involve at least making it to the spam box. I can’t speak with absolute certainty how every email admin handles things, but I have run into issues sending mail t
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    Regardless, “every one I have ever read” is no longer true. “Almost every one I have read”, perhaps? I looked for market share info on Google Fiber but was unable to find it. Mind sharing your source?
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    Google Fiber AUP[0] allows for hosting of anything for non-commercial purposes. Email is allowed as long as the email sent is not "unsolicited bulk commercial email". Time to update that worldview :) Every time we repeat something
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    When mail has gone undelivered due to non-spam reasons, I typically receive a bounce. On my server, when I block a message due to trust, I reject the connection. When I block due to spam, the message is received but goes in the spam folder.
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I have self hosted personal mail for over a decade. There are occasional hiccups with deliverability to new gmail addresses, but that is it. In those cases, once a recipient marks me as not spam once, there aren’t any more problems. I think
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I whistled to the app and it identified the sound as human. I haven't gotten a chance to try it with an actual bird yet. Location (as well as date, time, light, air pressure...) is certainly a factor that should be used when classifyin
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    FYI for anyone reading at Cornell - the donation page fails with "Fund Code This field requires a value." I wanted to make a contribution because a few months ago I was using the iSeek app[0] while hiking and I thought, "You
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    My thoughts: your username starts the same as a very culturally sensitive word for USA. You come in and leave a short comment that does not really contribute to the discussion, just brings about negativity. That's kind of like running
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I'm a westerner, but lived in a village in Indonesia for 6 weeks. I agree the cost of a base station + monthly fees would be exorbitant for most living in the village as currently priced for the US market. Interesting note though, they
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I have a traditional Computer Science background and I'm still intimidated to even apply to Google. I got out of bigCo Software Engineering in part because I wasn't interested in putting myself through the wringer of whiteboarding
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    I highly recommend interested readers to follow through to the Quora page. It’s more or less a public apology, and helped break me out of the echo chamber that occurs here and on Reddit related to interviewing at Google.
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    by nanidin 5y ago

    Home Depot is a monopoly? Here in my midwestern city in addition to Home Depot we have Lowes, Ace, Harbor Freight, plus access to online places like McMaster-Carr.