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by paulgb 3y ago
> no one thought a safety hatch the can be opened from the inside in emergencies could be useful? It’s quite possible that they considered it and felt that it would compromise the structural integrity and the risk would be higher than no
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by paulgb 3y ago
More traditional satellite networks, I guess? As I understand it, this is what sailors do / did before starlink. This had me curious if I could find coverage maps of satellite operators, and I found this: https://www.satphon
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by paulgb 3y ago
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391053
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by paulgb 3y ago
> Separate enterprise from consumer more clearly (Gsuite/Google Cloud). Yes, this. I'm great with experimentation, but please give us an indication of what services are experiments vs. what we can rely on as critical infrastruc
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by paulgb 3y ago
Thanks! Where did you find that info? I can't find it anywhere.
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by paulgb 3y ago
FWIW I was able to move a bunch of my Google Domains domains over to Google Cloud Domains, but not without a couple hitches: - The default quota is 20 domains per account, so I have to wait to get an increase approved. Surprisingly, they ha
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by paulgb 3y ago
I don’t think this is about competing with Cloudflare. Google Domains is good-enough and likely better for most of their users than Cloudflare, if only because they already have a Google account and know the brand.
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by paulgb 3y ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation! I’ve seen another instance recently that I suspect was the same thing; I wonder if the flamewar detector has false positives when a story happens to be one that a lot of people want to talk about.
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by paulgb 3y ago
Thanks! I couldn’t find that. Notably, no mention of if the GCP Cloud Domains product is affected or the status of Google’s TLDs.
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by paulgb 3y ago
Not just one TLD, I think they have over 40! They must be in the top 3 by number of TLDs owned. You don’t need to be a registrar to own a TLD, but in their case it seemed pretty essential to their strategy.
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by paulgb 3y ago
The comms around this has been weird —- I haven’t been able to find any mention of it from official Google channels. You’d think if they were planning to announce this they’d have a blog post and email to customers ready to go.
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by paulgb 3y ago
Price and features. Squarespace charges $20/year for a .com vs $12 on google and less than that elsewhere. I haven’t used squarespace but I also imagine they don’t have as much of a power-user appeal, given that DNS is not their main p
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by paulgb 3y ago
Apologies for going meta but: is something up with the ranking algorithm lately? I’m surprised that this fell to the second page so quickly given the number of points and recency of submission (there are older articles with less points abov
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by paulgb 3y ago
As a user of GCP it reads as a huge red flag to me that they offloaded this instead of rolling it into GCP. Domains are a pretty core part of cloud infrastructure. The fact that they could have brought domains under GCP and didn’t makes me
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by paulgb 3y ago
Congrats on the launch. Other wasm PaaS services are focused on HTTP endpoints where the wasm modules are run ephemerally, which is cool, but this gets me excited because it's more general. As I understand it, this could replace many o
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by paulgb 3y ago
As I understand it, it’s sort of like a bank acting as an escrow account where the landlord could draw from their account directly with a contractual guarantee from the bank that the funds would be there. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by paulgb 3y ago
You can get GPT 4 access by submitting an eval if gets merged ( https://github.com/openai/evals ). Here's the one that got me access[1] Although from the blog post it looks like they're planning to open up to e
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Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. (2009)(timothyfitz.com)
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by paulgb 3y ago
People should totally make that assessment, I just think the conclusion should be roughly “I will break even”.
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by paulgb 3y ago
By definition that every trade has two parties. Those boomers are now sitting on house wealth for the same reason that millennials without family wealth are priced out of home ownership. If we built more housing, prices would go down for mi
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by paulgb 3y ago
By bad investment I mean bad by the standards of an investment : it’s not something you’d buy because you expect appreciation. I don’t mean that you would expect it to lose value (beyond the usual depreciation of a physical asset). Good po
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by paulgb 3y ago
People will want them for the original reason to want a house: so that you have somewhere to live.
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by paulgb 3y ago
> You're proposing people no longer live in homes? I’m confused by how you got that from what I said. I’m saying that housing should become a bad investment so that people can live in it. If the price of a house doesn’t appreciate
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by paulgb 3y ago
Regulations can only do so much here. By definition, you can either make housing affordable to young people entering the market, or make housing a path to wealth appreciation for homeowners. They are diametrically opposed goals, despite tha
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by paulgb 3y ago
I get that people like blaming Wall St. for prices going up, but isn’t it just as much the other way around? Wall St. invests in homes for the same reason they invest in anything: because they think the price will go up. Housing policy in t
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by paulgb 3y ago
I’ve been pretty happy with Pulumi but have learned that state management can be a pain. I got myself into a situation recently that I could only get out of by using the CLI interactively. I wound up with multiple copies of each resource, w
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by paulgb 3y ago
> This is pretty ideal for a GUI scripting language, and covers most use cases for the web. Yep, fully agreed. This is why I say in the article that JavaScript hasn’t been and won’t be replaced for those use cases. > It is hard to get
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by paulgb 3y ago
> A problem is that the 3 problems that the articles highlights have been fixed with incremental fixes. (author here) - I disagree. If V8 solved performance, we wouldn't see so much of the JS tooling stack being rewritten in Rust. M
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by paulgb 3y ago
That’s a pretty myopic view of what a UI can be used for. I’m all in on IAC but still like having a UI to click around to observe state rather than memorize a bunch of CLI commands.
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by paulgb 3y ago
I agree, but it goes both ways -- you need to reduce congestion to improve transit. In the past NYC has even suspended service around the Holland Tunnel because of gridlock[1] [1] https://www.amny.com/news/mta-bus-traff

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