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by puzzle 8y ago
It's not clear if this was a scheduled vendor security review or if Tomaschik just looked into it out of personal interest. Google has done a lot of the former, for many years, even for physical security. The reports can be brutal. Thi
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by puzzle 8y ago
I'm not sure if that's the best way to describe it. That one employee was Eric Veach, who led the creation of this auction system called AdWords. Then he wrote the first version of SmartAss, the ML system that predicts CTR for AdW
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by puzzle 8y ago
That's funny. Cray came out of UMN. He basically made CDC and Cray Research, which of course made the history of computing.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Well, yeah, my "ATH0" was shorthand for "+++ATH0". All it would take was a hand crafted ping packet and a bad modem on the receiving end. The better modems implemented the Hayes safeguard of checking that no data was sen
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by puzzle 8y ago
Dialup was still a thing in this century, even if it feels like a long, long time ago. You could still reset people's connections by having them echo ATH0 back to you, if they were on a bad setup.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Do they actually care about such rights? I've read somewhere that there are mobs for things such as fairness, where people will even take justice in their own hands if the courts don't do their job, yet the Chinese for the most pa
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by puzzle 8y ago
Or the data is just old. Years ago, the junction between Route 1 and Route 36 in Iceland was very visibly wrong on Google Maps. If you pulled over and looked over the bushes, about a quarter mile south of the intersection, you could see the
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by puzzle 8y ago
Sir, I was at Google before and after the China pullout. You have no idea. All governments, to some degree, will of course side with local companies (tax incentives, etc.), but China is in a league of its own. https://searchengin
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by puzzle 8y ago
Then perhaps the likeliest explanation is that the account was created, then deleted. Google accounts do not get recycled. It should be straightforward to verify that theory, although it might take a month for it to enter a hard-deleted sta
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by puzzle 8y ago
Was the name five characters or less? I don't know what the UI was like at the time you tried. There are Gmail accounts that short, but they have been created by hand, usually for other Google colleagues, by someone on the Gmail team.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Microsoft didn't do much or any work to support PowerPC, actually. It was mostly paid by Motorola, which created a team in Austin to do the port, to be sold for their PowerStack machines: https://www.computer.org/csdl&#
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by puzzle 8y ago
I left years ago and there were serious services using Autopilot. The name is no longer secret, see https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44095 or Tim Hockin's slides from two years ago, where
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by puzzle 8y ago
Funny that you mention the camera. The Pixel 2 has the same sensor (Sony IMX 362) as a bunch of Motorola phones, like the G5+ and the X4. There is the custom Pixel Visual Core, sure, but that's used only by third-party applications tha
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by puzzle 8y ago
You're not a current or former Google employee, are you? There's the legend of the engineer who was a Grindr user and helped them to scale their code (it ran on App Engine, at least at the time).
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by puzzle 8y ago
In high school, I got a summer job at this local accounting firm. I don't even remember what I was hired for —probably paperwork— but pretty soon I was doing some programming for them. The owner was rich, but cheap, so he asked me to w
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by puzzle 8y ago
Google Earth originated from a team that spun off from SGI (twice, kind of), so you probably saw the demos by Michael Jones and co. Nowadays, you can build or buy a Liquid Galaxy to get a better experience than the Origin's, at a fract
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by puzzle 8y ago
It's more complicated than that. Among other things, it led to the open sourcing of Ceres: http://ceres-solver.org/users.html (a few clues on that page) You definitely can't use Street View data alone for objects
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by puzzle 8y ago
It's not elevation data, it's reconstructed geometry.
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by puzzle 8y ago
This was going to launch years ago with the vector rewrite, but it was only enabled for the globe mode (Earth/GL, complete with a simulation of the objects in the sky). Interesting timing.
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by puzzle 8y ago
You're right. The guitar sound in Dire Straits' Money for nothing is an experiment that couldn't be reproduced in another studio in NYC, even when placing microphones and speakers in the same random locations: https:/&#
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by puzzle 8y ago
Indeed. But the Amiga had hard panning: two voices played on the left output (and only there), while the other two on the right. And listening to music on headphones was always awkward because of that. Perhaps the author meant that they use
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by puzzle 8y ago
There is information about Colossus: the original GFS paper, an interview with Sean Quinlan with McKusick on Colossus improvements, as well as a talk by Denis Serenyi on more of the gory details, e.g. rebalancing. There was also a public ta
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by puzzle 8y ago
Can you use local storage and upload local applets to these new keys? The main use case is authenticating under Secure Shell on a Chromebook without having to configure the key on e.g. Linux first: https://groups.google.com/
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by puzzle 8y ago
Don't you need an existing branch to open a PR? I get your second point about updating the PR itself: everything needs to go through PubSub. Edit: I found the changelog ( https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/release
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by puzzle 8y ago
It doesn't appear to be a rebranding, but an upgrade or a rewrite, since the site mentions the first two points (that I checked): https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/ "Set up triggers to automatically build,
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by puzzle 8y ago
I assumed they would punt persistent storage for the first release, kinda like they launched Cloud Filestore with only NFSv3 support and without snapshots. As you say, it's a tough problem to tackle. If they to ship with something, I&#
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by puzzle 8y ago
Exactly. As described, it sounds a bit like magic. Of course, it's not. Thus, one wonders about what happens in the lower layers of the stack, namely who gets to run them (GKE or the HW owners): * DNS (not the Kubernetes in-cluster one
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by puzzle 8y ago
Nest now being part of Google might explain the latter? If that's the case, one wonders where all the new revenue for Other bets comes from.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Not so fast. For years, Google has supported channel binding between GFEs and Chrome. The cookie alone is not enough: you need to steal the private key as well. I can't remember if that's the case, but it would make sense for @goo
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by puzzle 8y ago
Well, for one, it would put the non negligible costs in perspective. Second, it would be an additional data point. More data is usually better than less of it. In this case, though, it's sensitive data, for a number of reasons, which i

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