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by remus 5y ago
From the Scott Manley vid on it, the full scale orbital version is doing 10000g at the tip when it's at full speed. I guess if you didn't want to go as far you could lower that but by the time you're at something tolerable to
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by remus 5y ago
The tricky thing about using a rail gun is that you need to deliver all the power very quickly which is hard and expensive. With this launch system you can spin it up slowly by feeding in energy and then release the projectile once you&#x27
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by remus 5y ago
If you're just counting 'x of y things done' is that really a helpful measure of progress? Say the first 100 items on the list take 1ms except for the last item which takes 30s. your progress bar will be stuck at basically co
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by remus 5y ago
> I've been hearing this for years, but I've never had the mental model for it. Maybe I just have to try it out. Gmail uses tags rather than folders, nice easy way to have a play if you've already got a google account. Con
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by remus 5y ago
It's actually a pretty good example of a PWA which can be installed (depending on whether your platform supports it, works well with chrome and windows, sorta works on iOS but more fiddly. Havent tried firefox).
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by remus 5y ago
How so? If you have a variety of second factors enabled (security key, TOTP, recovery codes) it seems like you can be confident enough in not getting locked out.
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by remus 5y ago
PWAs are websites, just ones with a lot of functionality, so by the letter of apples rules they are not allowed. From an outside perspective it seems a fairly hard rule to enforce though. If you packaged gmails web interface up in to an app
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by remus 5y ago
> The point of the cloud is treating it like a commodity. Is it? The article is pretty unclear on what exactly GCHQ is trying to achieve (not unusual for intelligence agencies of course!) I think it's hard to comment on whether awar
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by remus 5y ago
Looking at it from a naive point of view, could it just be an actual change in what they estimate to be the useful life of their servers? Accounting shenanigans for a (relatively) small bump in revenue seems not really worthwhile.
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by remus 5y ago
> It doesn't sound like you respect your users at all. I think that's a pretty harsh take. At the end of the day issue trackers are a tool for maintainers to help manage the project/codebase and the details are largely up
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by remus 5y ago
I think it's harder than you might think. The New York Stock Exchange was founded in 1792 (229 years ago), there's a lot of things that can wrong over the course of 500 years to mean funding for your project would disappear. Wars,
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by remus 5y ago
> On a more serious tone, the quality of Google search results is continuously degrading. Do you know of any publically available analysis that tries to measure search quality? And that shows that google's results are getting worse
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by remus 5y ago
> There is very little practical use to speeds beyond 10 gigabit for home use Give it a few years and we'll all be wondering how SPA web apps became gigabytes in size and trying to work out how to make 1Tbs/s to the home pract
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by remus 5y ago
Stripe have recently been sending out emails related to problems with recurring payments for customers in India, so I guess it's still an issue.
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by remus 5y ago
Yes. There's a nice example of this in the Google SRE book (I think it may have been their internal paxos service?) If I remember they ended up building in planned downtime so users could learn to degrade gracefully if the service went
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by remus 5y ago
I assume you're talking about cookie consent notices? If so I agree, but they're a relatively small part of what GDPR does. In my opinion the rights[1] and principles[2] it lays out are much more important in giving individuals co
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by remus 5y ago
I think the license to the copyright material is the important part here. In the instagram embedding example, the uploader (i.e. copyright holder) gives IG a broad license to the content that includes giving people the right to embed the IG
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by remus 5y ago
I don't think the theory is really so complicated. If you want to provide products or services within a country then you need to abide by the laws of that country, if you don't then the legal system of that country has various mea
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by remus 5y ago
> In practice almost everyone in and out of the EU violates the GDPR because it is simply not enforced. > Not because it's impossible to hold foreign companies responsible, but because the authorities aren't even trying (exc
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by remus 5y ago
That's interesting...do you know if there's any distinction made between social media embeds and just linking to external resources? I guess you could make a similar tracking argument for images linked from an external site (for e
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by remus 5y ago
Or more simple still, it's a hard problem to solve and when there's billions of emails flowing through the pipeline every hour small mistakes can look big to individual users.
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by remus 5y ago
Next week on hacker news "My 5 year old TV just started sending data to Google servers!"
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by remus 5y ago
I feel like it's less about SQL and more about having an RDBMS holding the state of your infra. That then gets you all the nice relational + ACID stuff.
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by remus 5y ago
> You expect your employer to pay you for not working 40% of the year?! Insanity. Insanity is saying "You have unlimited PTO", when actually it's a very normal 20 days / year or whatever. Unlimited !=20 days. Just say
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by remus 5y ago
As I understand it, the chrome team have tended towards using more memory as a way of improving performance (i.e. trading space for time), with the feeling being that most systems have quite a lot of memory (relatively speaking) so why not
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by remus 5y ago
That seems...sensible. When you start using a new product there's a lot of hidden costs associated with it (backup, failover, load balancing, support, incident management) so you need to take the time to explain why the benefits of tha
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by remus 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the QR codes actually encode your secrets so if you want to print them out you're good to go. Obviously won't include any new ones you add in in the meantime though.
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by remus 5y ago
> The reason the GDPR failed and was more an annoyance than a solution is because of its lack of enforcement and the total incompetence of the ICO. I don't think it is clear that GDPR has failed. Companies actually think about data
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by remus 5y ago
They made it available as an add on for Google workspace so I suspect it'll be around for a few years yet.
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by remus 5y ago
I find it interesting that people have such different experiences with the same tool. I tend to have 2 or 3 hangouts meetings a day and I can't remember the last time there was an issue.

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