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541.
by puzzle 9y ago
They compared TPU v1 with server hardware available at the time (2015, i.e. K80 and Haswell). Are the cards you mention from 2015? Are they for gaming or servers? Do they use ECC? If not, that rules them out right away. You can find the pap
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by puzzle 9y ago
When will the AppEngine pricing change from six years ago stop being relevant? Has there been another hike since? Pricing AE is very different from pricing bandwidth. Even more concretely, there weren't historical data or industry tren
543.
by puzzle 9y ago
They did, of course. Little known fact: Google is one of the largest tenants in Chelsea Market, which used to be the factory were Oreos were first made.
544.
by puzzle 9y ago
There's no such thing as a partial account removal. It's like your LDAP or AD account: you disable it and all services stop working, without having to worry about how each of them does access control on the front end as well as th
545.
by puzzle 9y ago
If they reply like that when turning down appeals, it's usually for something very egregious that might have legal ramifications. Look up "thomasmonopoly" for a case at the very edge of legality that made it to HN years ago.
546.
by puzzle 9y ago
Only Google can explain their rationale, but it's fairly safe to expect that they won't, at least until the whole application process is done. Your interpretation is one of the plausible scenarios here. It's one in which Goog
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by puzzle 9y ago
The 500 and 1000 had the same external expansion port, but it was on opposite sides of the machine, so some devices might look funny when installed. The A500 had also a trapdoor port under the keyboard to double the 512KB of RAM that was on
548.
by puzzle 9y ago
I meant that you do it on the device itself, not remotely. The article is about temporarily disabling fingerprint unlocking and that's what you can achieve with the Android app (does Apple's let you lock the device you're hol
549.
by puzzle 9y ago
On Android, you can do the same by running Google's Find My Device app and locking the phone. It will then require a password/passcode to unlock. It feels a bit funny to lock the very device you are holding in your hands, but it&#
550.
by puzzle 9y ago
Rigidity when it comes to tenancy and lack of groups were two of the reasons why Google went with its own LOAS instead of Kerberos for the production environment. The even bigger one was performance.
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by puzzle 9y ago
That's a great talk. Thanks a lot!
552.
by puzzle 9y ago
And groundhogs... Those damn groundhogs.
553.
by puzzle 9y ago
Google has its own GPGPU compiler: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45226.html
554.
by puzzle 9y ago
You also have the issue that you might be dropping new requests, but there's so much backlog that old requests eventually time out in droves, too. You might end up spending a lot of CPU cycles doing partial work on some requests, only
555.
by puzzle 9y ago
You claim it's petty policy, but it's more like an intersection of employment laws and being a public company, with a sprinkle of unfortunate past events.
556.
by puzzle 9y ago
You sure? At Google, network storage has been faster and more reliable than local disks, for years. See bradfitz' talks about the dl.google.com rewrite.
557.
by puzzle 9y ago
I have no idea where that number comes from. I seem to remember that a naive implementation would have required 10x or so the existing resources (proportional to the characters in the average query at the time... We know they've been g
558.
by puzzle 9y ago
Two different user bases. Also, Google Maps is tuned for simpler directions (e.g. fewer turns), even if that adds an extra minute or two.
559.
by puzzle 9y ago
You're right to some degree, but there were lots of user studies done. It was a net positive. One of the amusing things was that users would follow the instant results without necessarily being consciously aware of them. I.e., when des
560.
by puzzle 9y ago
I wouldn't quote numbers (or multipliers) here, but my recollection is that, after a lot of tuning, it was lower than what you mention, at least in the section of the stack that I was involved with. Of course, the board had to give som
561.
by puzzle 9y ago
Of course she wasn't involved in making things work efficiently and reliably, since that never was her responsibility, but the whole reason all of that had to happen was because she decided to turn what normally would be one of the man
562.
by puzzle 9y ago
Yes, part of it was marketing, but there were benefits, too, e.g. for slow typers, which of course do not abound in this corner of the Internet.
563.
by puzzle 9y ago
Well, there was a lot of bottom-up work, but in this case Instant was pushed by Marissa. A lot of infrastructure had to be built, scaled and tuned before launch, so that the demos could actually serve the millions of users, their wonky brow
564.
by puzzle 9y ago
OMG, Census! It's one of the frameworks you miss the most once you no longer can use it. There is some preliminary version of it hidden deep inside gRPC, but it's great to hear that it's becoming a standalone project.
565.
by puzzle 9y ago
Thrift was written at Facebook by an ex Google intern trying to recreate something close to protobuf+Stubby.
566.
by puzzle 9y ago
Borg has so many knobs that Kubernetes still lacks (or always will, by design), but there are already unspecified Google projects running on Kubernetes.
567.
by puzzle 9y ago
Hah. Sadly true, but you'll probably agree that it's less likely.
568.
by puzzle 9y ago
From the article: "The Paris administrative court ruled that Google Ireland Limited was not subject to corporate and value-added taxes for the period 2005-2010". Presumably, GIL has no presence in France and Google France is a sep
569.
by puzzle 9y ago
You can have all the prior art you want and still end up in court, having to make your case, because you're not the one who got the patent. For what it's worth, and slightly related, there are design mocks on the chromium site tha
570.
by puzzle 9y ago
The author also used to work at Microsoft in the performance team...

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