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by remus 6y ago
I'm not a fan of products that pretend to be unlimited (because nothing is infinite, so no one can actually offer you unlimited anything), but it's kinda obvious that there's gonna be a long tail of users who's usage is
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by remus 6y ago
Given the anti-trust focus on large tech firms at the moment it seems unlikely, at least in the short term. Windows has a huge market share in desktop (~80% from a quick search) and very substantial share in laptops (~40%) and I can't
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by remus 6y ago
Looking from an outside perspective I would agree, but in practice we don't actually know what this dataset is, so several things rows per test may make sense in the context of this stage of the data processing.
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by remus 6y ago
Same thing that stops them breaking any of the other rules I guess. Fines, race bans, points deductions etc. if it's found out.
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by remus 6y ago
How so? Do you mean there toe in steering setup? If so I don't think that's really cheating as it's a loophole in the rules rather than a contravention of the rules.
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by remus 6y ago
> And would it be so bad for Google/Chrome to simply let the NXDOMAIN hijacking slide? Yes, it would. It's a workaround to a problem created by shitty ISPs, go after the ISPs if you want to solve the problem.
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by remus 6y ago
While I broadly agree with your point, we don't know why these devices were meant to be recycled (and not resold). Apple may have found serious issues with the products which means re-sale wasn't an option.
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by remus 6y ago
What does 'actual status' mean though? If I'm running a website from a single server, the power goes out and the server goes down then it's kinda obvious. I don't think it's so obvious when you have hundreds of
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by remus 6y ago
For things like this, they're generally produced in (large) batches on a line, then once the run is finished the line is retooled for whatever is next on the schedule. If nintendo use a third party manufacturer then I can't imagin
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by remus 6y ago
I think it's worth making the distinction between "nothing to fix" and "nothing to fix in moment.js". Clearly the problem they're trying to solve is still a real one, and there ARE problems with moment, but the
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by remus 6y ago
Doesn't that assume that the value of the slots is directly proportional to the price of the product you sell from those slots? That seems like quite a big assumption. For example, I would speculate that having a product shortfall (bec
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by remus 6y ago
Or to look at the same idea from another angle: Starbucks recognise that it's fashionable to say you're fussy about your coffee (and some small percentage of people actually do care a lot about their coffee), but the majority of t
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by remus 6y ago
I don't think that's a very fair argument. It makes sense to weigh up the legitimate uses of a technology vs. the illegitimate uses and see if the cost is worth the benefit, and if you are unfamiliar with a certain technology then
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by remus 6y ago
That assumes that all pupils have had an equal opportunity to study through lock down. I'd speculate that pupils from poorer backgrounds will not have had the same opportunities to study as those from better off backgrounds, so pupils
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by remus 6y ago
It seems like a classic political no-win situation: if you go with an algorithm then anyone who gets a lower than predicted grade is going to complain (and of course has every right to, as any algorithm is likely to unfairly disadvantage so
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by remus 6y ago
Personally I think this is pretty outdated. I've used w3schools quite a bit over the last 12 months and it's consistently offered a concise reference alongside some examples.
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by remus 6y ago
> If you want to reward excellence, you're by definition looking for the exceptional, the surprising. It might sound good, and surprising discoveries are necessary, but they're not the only thing that's good for science. I
708.
by remus 6y ago
A few years ago the company I was working for ran an advanced SQL course for a few people who were interested. I was skeptical going in, but the chap who ran the course was the real deal. One particularly memorable example he showed was a r
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by remus 6y ago
Presumably it'd be very difficult to set such an exam because pupils will have missed so much of the normal curriculum.
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by remus 6y ago
AWS depreciate things too, though. For example https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-...
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by remus 6y ago
I guess it must have done as Im based in the EU and was signed up for a personal GCP account at one point.
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by remus 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time to list them out, didn't spot those in the article. Personally, I think most of them seem quite sensible. Having a 'support everything forever' approach is obviously going to impose a huge burden on
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by remus 6y ago
I'd be interested in some concrete examples of things GCP have depreciated. I'm an (admittedly fairly light) user of GCP and haven't come across any myself.
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by remus 6y ago
For sure, but this page is also trying to position the US government as a trustworthy provider of equipment for other governments. Given some of the historical work done by the US secret services [1] it's laughable that another governm
715.
by remus 6y ago
I'd bet a lot of money that the NSA didn't just turn off their servers and sit their twiddling their thumbs after the Snowden leaks.
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by remus 6y ago
It would depend on how the websites google are collecting data from operate. For example, somewhere like wikipedia isn't harmed through google's re-use of the facts they collate.
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by remus 6y ago
Unless there's some sort of large scale, organised fraud occurring, or it is so hugely prevalent as to be affecting the bottom line then I'd be very surprised if any action was taken. If you think about the amount of time and effo
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by remus 6y ago
It's not that people don't care, it's that in their eyes these are reasonable trade-offs for the rich capabilities offered by things like google maps, youtube, gmail etc. Im all for getting rid of some of the cruft that has d
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by remus 6y ago
I think the key differentiator is in distribution. If you build a web app it's immediately available to a sizable proportion of the human population (not that they'll necessarily use it). Getting similar reach with something offli
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by remus 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

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