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by pradn 6y ago
I don't think this is fair. This is more of a magazine article than a newspaper article. It's totally valid to draw a general reader in with answering the question of why to even care about this problem in the first place, and the
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by pradn 6y ago
So the plan is to abandon the project? It will work some individuals, but we need something more sustainable for the industry.
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by pradn 6y ago
Was the military given this task?
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by pradn 6y ago
I wonder what the impact of easy-to-use cloud ML tools is going to be on the industry. BigQuery already lets users train models using a simple SQL query. AutoML makes simple ML tasks as easy as run and verify accuracy and run again. Of cour
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by pradn 6y ago
I wonder if we've come to a point where people will watch what's promoted at the top of the streaming services they subscribe to, with the exception of virally popular shows or shows recommended to them by friends and family. A go
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by pradn 6y ago
https://ledoux.itch.io/bitsy "Bitsy is a little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere." Play some Bitsy games he
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by pradn 6y ago
Argentinians do go to Chile to get electronics. We just hear more often about them going to the US. Perhaps more go to the US for tourism, with a side benefit of cheaper electronics.
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by pradn 6y ago
What would the share of responsibility be if we adjust for the potency of the various kinds of opioids?
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by pradn 6y ago
I'm curious: how much revenue can an acre generate where you are?
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by pradn 6y ago
I agree with you. The vast majority of mobile games are trashy slot machines. There are a good number of excellent mobile games though: Monument Valley comes to mind.
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by pradn 6y ago
It's torturous to claim that phones have a "primary commercial purpose of forcing people to look at advertising". Most people would say phones are for talking to loved ones, having fun, getting the news, and playing games. Ju
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by pradn 6y ago
Related: Denis Merigoux used formal methods to find discontinuities in the French tax code. This should be a matter of course, done but the OBM for every proposed tax law change. https://blog.merigoux.fr/en/2019/12
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by pradn 6y ago
You're welcome!
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by pradn 6y ago
It's more like 1) Application sends a message w/ ordering key "abc" (let's call it msg1) 2) Pub/Sub gets msg1. 3) Pub/Sub acknowledges that msg1 was received. Now, you can be secure we have stored this mes
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by pradn 6y ago
Thanks for your explanation. It makes a lot of sense. :)
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by pradn 6y ago
Can you explain your use-case for pattern topics? I'm curious.
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by pradn 6y ago
Cloud Pub/Sub offers global topics/subscriptions that scale automatically and are completely managed for you (no dealing with your own cluster). With the ordering keys feature, there's no need to specify the number or ID of t
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by pradn 6y ago
As my colleague, kamalaboulhosn, posted elsewhere in this thread: "The throughput limitation is 1MB/s per ordering key. The number of unique ordering keys allowed on a topic is limited only by what can be represented by a 1KB stri
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by pradn 6y ago
CPS doesn't use a notion of partitions under the covers like Kinesis. Each ordering key can be thought of constituting a "virtual" partition. You can have as many keys as you'd like, without specifying them ahead of time
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by pradn 6y ago
I can see how this would be useful. You could use the snapshot/seek features to replay messages from a particular point. It'd be useful retain messages for a long time so you could replay messages from any point. I could even imag
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by pradn 6y ago
The ordering keys feature supports a large number of keys (though since the throughput limit is 1 MB/sec per key, many applications shouldn't have issues scaling up on a given key). Imagine you have an order processing system wher
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by pradn 6y ago
Head-of-line blocking has two aspects: crashes and long processing times. If the first message for an ordered key can't be acked because it crashes subscribers, we can't make progress on the messages for that key. If the first mes
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by pradn 6y ago
I can attest that this saying is common in South India (Andhra Pradesh specifically). It doesn't necessarily the guests will arrive immediately after - it can be sometime during that day.
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by pradn 6y ago
I have the same question. I suppose ads billing might have transactional requirements, but that's separate from search itself.
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by pradn 6y ago
GDP is an indicator of economic activity, and company revenue is, too. We can compare those, albeit imprecisely. It's mindboggling that some of the largest companies bring in more revenue than entire countries. Walmart brings in ~$524
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by pradn 6y ago
I see this argument, but it has limits. A seasonal farmworker today has access to Google and Wikipedia, but they are still working 12 hour days. They are less likely to get communicable diseases due to vaccination and disease eradication, b
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by pradn 6y ago
$5 or $10 billion don't seem like much now that Apple is a $2 trillion company...
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by pradn 6y ago
The great thing about plays is that they can be interpreted and reinterpreted again and again by different directors, set designers, composers, and actors. It's possible to bring the play into our own time or to subvert its ostensible
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by pradn 6y ago
It's important to note that, in America, any police enforcement comes with a chance of death or injury. When we make little laws (jaywalking or whatnot), we should be careful to keep this in mind.
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by pradn 6y ago
Kudos to the team for the excellent work and for the flashy, yet useful release page!

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