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by putlake 5y ago
This is a great question, and I don't know if the answer is as clear cut as the "No" responses here suggest. With 1TB free, Cloudfront has now removed the incentive for AWS customers (those who use EC2 or S3) to adopt Cloudfl
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by putlake 5y ago
afaik Cloudflare prioritizes its paying customers over those on the free tier e.g. when there are limited resources at a POP. It's not clear whether Cloudfront will do the same -- does anyone know?
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by putlake 5y ago
Thank you for sharing the original Reuters article. In that article it says Amazon helped draft Virginia's privacy bill. So I guess they are making exactly the effort you talked about? But of course Reuters is calling them out on it: &
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by putlake 5y ago
You can ask to see the data Amazon has on you, and for it to be deleted. If you ask for it to be deleted, they will delete it all. And you can keep asking every month if you like. Not to mention no one is forcing you to use Alexa in the fir
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by putlake 5y ago
The cartoon playing out in the media once again reminds me of Gell-Mann Amnesia because I used to work at Alexa. The lengths that they go to for preserving consumer privacy actually seemed absurd to me. Alexa engineers and applied scientist
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by putlake 5y ago
> AMP ads on AMP pages get to render instantly because they are prerendered and only trigger impressions when they are viewed. Non-AMP pages aren't prerendered because they would count as an impression even if they aren't viewe
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by putlake 5y ago
From the article: "So when the coastal ports started getting clogged up last spring due to the impacts of COVID on business everywhere, drivers started refusing to show up. Congestion got so bad that instead of being able to do three l
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by putlake 5y ago
It should be noted that the WSJ is owned by News Corp, which runs an ad network of their own for their properties. This launch announcement even talks about how they combine their first party data about their subscribers with data from Mast
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Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable [pdf](scholar.harvard.edu)
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by putlake 5y ago
China's WuDao model had 1.75T parameters and Google's Switch transformer had 1.6T. How is this the world's largest then?
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by putlake 5y ago
I had this same question when I first learned about social security and saw a non-trivial amount of my paycheck funding the program. So I wrote this comparison (it is about 10 years old but still accurate): https://www.diffen.com
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by putlake 5y ago
OP is very misguided. Cloudflare does not proactively refresh their caches. That's just not how CDNs work. Here is how I would troubleshoot: 1. Look for the X-Forwarded-For header: All requests or the AWS server will come from Cloudfla
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by putlake 5y ago
I regularly use site-specific controls, mostly for Javascript. Let's hope Edge retains it.
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by putlake 5y ago
This isn't insider trading. It's tax fraud.
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by putlake 5y ago
Here's how they structured their affairs to claim long-term capital gains (via Sen. Carl Levin's testimony [0]): The key financial product involved in these fictions is called a ``basket option.'' ...basket option basics
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by putlake 5y ago
Examples for what happens when media ownership is concentrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI And this one I'm not sure if it's just good PR by Amazon or laziness by media outlets or both: https:&#x
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by putlake 5y ago
I tried the beta version before this launch and found a couple of really interesting stocks. Companies that weren't even on my radar.
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Using Cloudflare Workers to improve your Fastly cache hit rate(blog.diffen.com)
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by putlake 6y ago
Perhaps it works at your organization. I've been a PM where engineers and UX had no sense of ownership nor business sense. A PM's role is to understand what is important, how to prioritize, how to validate ideas fast, and how to a
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Chrome Flags for Tooling(github.com)
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by putlake 6y ago
Ben Thompson had a good comparison of messaging apps [1, $] yesterday. He ranked them as follows: 1. Signal Signal encrypts your messages end-to-end, and does not back up your messages to either iCloud or its own servers. This is the most s
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by putlake 6y ago
What's the point of monitoring unless you can get paged about outages?
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by putlake 6y ago
Previous submission with details on how priming works for my use case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24778350
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Ask HN: Would you pay to warm your CDN cache?
2 points by putlake 6y ago|1 comments
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by putlake 6y ago
OP is already paying for them by buying the products they sell.
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by putlake 6y ago
Here are the alternatives: FileMerge - part of Xcode. Free. use opendiff to launch from CLI BBEdit - My go to editor for the Mac. Freemium. Available both on the Mac app store and their website as a download. VS Code - Also free. SourceTree
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by putlake 6y ago
> For example, David Brooks and Ross Douthat write for the New York Times. There’s no equivalent among the Wall St Journal columnists or Fox News hosts. I used to think that too but it's not true. Example: https://www.fox
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by putlake 6y ago
I feel like a big reason for the divide is the filter bubbles[1] the public has trapped themselves in. I wanted to force myself to read news from both sides of the divide rather than simply NPR, which was my go-to source for several years.
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by putlake 6y ago
> This is exacerbated by the fact that 9 out of 10 times a story like this appears it's an algorithm gone rogue which its billion-dollar shepherd assumes is infallible. This. And it happens in all businesses Google is part of. As a
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Priming my CDN cache using another CDN(blog.diffen.com)
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