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by pradn 4y ago
I recall some one say we should write poems in the every day - on receipts, post-it notes, anywhere anytime. Programmers do this sometimes for things that help us along, or just for the joy of it - a script to watch for reservations at a re
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Did you know they actual pump artificial engine noise into the cabin of some cars? I bet they can make it feel and sound pretty good as they iterate on it. https://www.thedrive.com/news/31105/listen-to-the-fake-eng
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by pradn 4y ago
A hundred acres being modest is still astounding to me. In India, the average is something like 6 acres. The vast majority of farming families have less than 20 acres. Of course, the differences in farming population (something like 700 mil
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I think it's ok to have horizontal monitors even for "top-to-bottom" scripts. That's simply because it's less taxing for us to use. Plus, mouse scrollwheels work just as well so it's not problem to navigate.
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Yes! The website of the president of Mongolia has three versions, including one with the traditional top-to-bottom script. It's quite well-designed! You can see web-design features that make sense for this script: the nav-bar being on
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by pradn 4y ago
Why would YouTube not get Borg charge-backs? YouTube does pay for the infra it uses. And it's likely much cheaper than it would be if it were an independent company with its own data centers.
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What exactly is the "file block" API? I can't find docs for it. Does anyone know?
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The flaw worked against both KataGo and LeelaZero.
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It’s worth getting a TV antenna for events like this. If you don’t have a TV, YouTube TV is a good option but expensive.
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This is one of those old school things I missed when I moved from Microsoft to Google, another being having a private office. (Though Microsoft is switching to open plan offices as well as a cost saving measure.) The Microsoft library had t
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It's not perfect, but it's not terrible either. Millions of creators and billions of users generally have a good experience on YouTube. There's been no "let's try Mastodon" moment.
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Positives: * Presided over a vast increase in revenue, from $4 to $29 billion * Steered the ship through a number of content controversies * Anecdotally, the brand value of YouTube remains good * YouTube Premium seems to have good uptake *
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by pradn 4y ago
Actually, you can do another cool thing, too. The IPFS ecosystem has IPNS, which generates a public/private-key-back hash-name, which can point to another IPFS hash. So this way, a shadow librarian group can have one IPNS hash that alw
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Thank you! This looks promising!
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You bring up a great insight - that blockchain/pinning are on opposite ends of the spectrum of what one can choose to store, if one participates in the system at all. We do have a good example of this already I think: torrent client pe
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That's a great idea, and also amusing. :) It's amazing that we can refer to data in a globally-unique way with small content-based hashes. Hash collisions aren't usually worth worrying about. Another benefit is that its easy
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Yes! Anna has been active in helping duplicate Zlib, among other efforts. No one person can do it all. We need to pitch in!
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by pradn 4y ago
1. You're absolutely right that IPFS alone isn't a good way to guarantee durability. I think you'd need a second level of archiving done in bulk. Thousands of books collated into various torrents that people can help seed. Th
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by pradn 4y ago
Current shadow libraries (zlib, libgen, scihub) suffer from centralized data hosting and opaque librarians/custodians (who modify metadata and gate inclusion/exclusion of content). We already have the tools to solve this. 1. Files
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I went on a diet a few years ago. I obsessively recorded every food I ate in MyFitnessPal. To this day, I know roughly how many calories pretty much everything I eat is. So, I've learned from the process and don't need the process
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Honestly just fiddling with quotes and parens takes forever - this is a nice usage.
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I'd say the following factors added up: 1. A reason to create coal-driven machines in the first place (to pump water from mines, when labor and other fuel sources like timer were low), to kick-start the process of mechanical innovation
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by pradn 4y ago
As I recall, when I was there 5+ years ago, people didn't actually report vacation days taken in a lot of teams. It was pretty informal.
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There's a game mode in AoE2DE where everyone's behind strong walls at the start. It takes a while to be able to bring them down. So you get to turtle for a while. A game mode like this is what you'd like to play.
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The new West Side Story is incredible. It's what a 100-million dollar musical looks like. Every frame is planned out, the actors are vulnerable, the songs are touching and super fun. The dance numbers are exuberant, some of the best ev
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They word their announcement carefully. > For users who opt in, Advanced Data Protection keeps most iCloud data protected even in the case of a data breach in the cloud. Here, "cloud" is treated generically - as if Apple doesn&
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As long as there's a clear UI separation, there's no harm in providing both first and third party servers for brand perception & user experience. A similar issue is content provenance. In StarCraft II, for example, official ma
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Again, I can only speak for Cloud. I find product changes are reviewed by a dozen people at least and take months to finalize. It can be slow, but usually we're sure why we're making the decisions, and where risks lie. A large wei
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It's a substantial part of the company. There are as many employees in Google Cloud as there were in all of Google a few years ago.
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Google suffers from a perception problem for consumer-oriented products, agreed. I don't think anyone faults Google for haphazardly closing down enterprise products. The enterprise world runs differently - deprecations have long timeli

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