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by puzzle 8y ago
Hopefully this will allow applications like VS Code (Electron) to use straight Wayland rather than the slower XWayland as they do now. Of course, it's pretty amusing to have an embedded Chromium app running in a container inside a Chro
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by puzzle 8y ago
Maybe the quoted terms were in page keywords or inbound links.
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by puzzle 8y ago
If you want to know how much of a real, self-sufficient search engine it is, just look at the hardware footprint. You need a lot of computing and storage just for the crawling and indexing (webspam included), let alone the serving.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Sorry, I was being silly and I really meant Cast speaker, which is what a stripped down smart speaker is. AFAIK you still need a license or at least some help from Google to get that working, since the protocols are proprietary.
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by puzzle 8y ago
I agree. It's probably because sales were trending down. That said, nothing stops another company from stepping in and taking a license for a smart speaker without neither the microphone nor the speaker, in a tiny form factor...
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by puzzle 8y ago
You're forgetting the gBikes abandoned at the MTV Caltrain station or outside random stores/parks (not always by Google employees or interns). That and the new restaurants on Castro Street. The former is a net negative, the latter
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by puzzle 8y ago
Surely you mean a 3270 terminal...
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by puzzle 8y ago
Even if you have good vision, a phone is useful when you need to look at something that is in a cramped space, e.g. behind a wall mounted TV.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Dan himself used to work at Google NYC...
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by puzzle 8y ago
I loved the Dreamcast's Bomberman Online. It had multiple play modes, two of which (submarine and ring match) I have never seen in any other incarnation of the game.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Except that Blaze/Bazel share code, are very similar and converging over time. The plan is for Google to use Bazel+extensions at some point in the future. Borg and Kubernetes don't share code (they are written in different languag
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by puzzle 8y ago
As an aside, Google has owned land in Kronstorf for a decade. Presumably they pay property tax on it, even if it's not used? https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/11/21/goog... Anyway, a
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by puzzle 8y ago
I knew people at Google that travelled to data centers very frequently. There are all sorts of indirect extra business and tax revenues from these operations that aren't tied to local employees alone. Mine is just a small example, but
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by puzzle 8y ago
You also know what this means for relationships between Tesla and Waymo. Let the fireworks begin...
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by puzzle 8y ago
A few weeks ago, I asked for a compact rental car, but was given a 2018 or 2019 Chevrolet Equinox. It had an USB-A as well as an USB-C port. I already had Android Auto on my Pixel, so I was up and running in a few instants. I did NOT miss s
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by puzzle 8y ago
The use by YT and GCam has been mentioned, among others, at https://suif.stanford.edu/~courses/cs243/lectures/l14-halide... (last slide) More mentions by Google: https://www.blog.google/produc
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by puzzle 8y ago
The funny thing is that YT itself has been using Halide to process all videos, perhaps as early as when that one was uploaded. And anyone using Google Camera has been running Halide code, from Pixel phones all the way back to Glass, which t
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by puzzle 8y ago
You moved to MS?!? Your about section still mentions your Google address. Good luck!
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by puzzle 8y ago
The article makes more sense if you consider that Google is notorious for statically linking (almost) all its production binaries, something that the Go toolchain supported early on for related reasons.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Not only that, but soon after Google bought the main NYC building, the tax bill went up for a small number of the largest properties in the city, which of course included Google's. The valuation has since fluctuated a number of times b
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by puzzle 8y ago
Years ago, Google announced they'd join OCP. I'd be surprised if even half the fleet made the transition, given how much mileage they like to get out of old hardware. Besides, for special toys like TPU pods it's not clear tha
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by puzzle 8y ago
I haven't been at Google for years and never worked on TPUs, but off the top of my head: They control the system attached to the chips. That includes the kernel and userland (glibc, libstdc++, etc.). Very limited number of configuratio
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by puzzle 8y ago
You are ascribing motives that don't exist. It's not double speak, if you're referring to 1984: it's just that "turning down" is the converse of "turning up". That's a fairly simple and straightf
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by puzzle 8y ago
It might be surprising to outsiders and perhaps it shouldn't spill out, but it's pretty normal lingo inside Google engineering. You turn up things (services, clusters, products) and later turn them down.
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by puzzle 8y ago
The people that wrote that have obviously never run an actual search engine at scale.
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by puzzle 8y ago
The internal Easter egg was basically a random fortune, which cycled through his greatest "hits" (#1: "No"). You really had to know where to look.
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by puzzle 8y ago
In comparing two people's incognito results, you have no idea if they hit the same search clusters. Were they in the same room? Same ISP? Same geographical region? Same continent? If I issue the same search back to back in different wi
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by puzzle 8y ago
Holy moly, a mention of Bogdan! He was a legend of his own. Some of the most consequential changes, like elevating your service to higher QoS levels, which something like e.g. Gmail would require, were gated on his approval and his only. So
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by puzzle 8y ago
Yeah, C: was the virtual volume where commands lived. L: had handlers, S: startup scripts and T: temporary space (think /tmp). There were also longer assignments, e.g. DEVS:, FONTS: and LIBS:.
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by puzzle 8y ago
I doubt it will ever come, especially to Europe. I don't think any international expansion was ever promised. I haven't worked at Google in years, so I don't know anything about current and future plans. It would be a stunnin

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