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by rrdharan 3y ago
> Almost certainly overtaken by both disk controller logic, file systems cache, striping and RAID and increasing memory sizes. In practice this might be true if the defaults settings of each layer happen to align sympathetically and&#x2F
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by rrdharan 3y ago
They’re not wrong… PHP7+ is blazing fast, has a huge library, gradual typing support, etc. If starting a new project in the space where they all “compete”, I would choose PHP7 or PHP8 with Laravel or Symfony (or maybe even WordPress) over R
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Good guess but it’s slightly different: - 1 work laptop at office - 1 work laptop at home - 1 work laptop in second home - 1 work desktop in second home - 1 personal/shared laptop (mostly primary home) - 1 personal/shared desktop
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by rrdharan 3y ago
> If a one-person outfit happens to be skimming the logs and notices "Oh, neat, that's a lot of IP addresses from Germany," did they just do analytics? Yes. However enforcement is intentionally discretionary and selective
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by rrdharan 3y ago
You’re probably talking about this guy: https://medium.com/immersedteam/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d... I read this every few months for a certain kind of amusement. I remain utterly unconvinced of any merits…
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by rrdharan 3y ago
I use at least 9 devices (four laptops, a desktop, watch, two phones, tablet) with Maps on them and very much appreciate having the location data synced serverside.
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Heh, that’s great: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Birmingham,_Alabama (Dunno how to link to the actual comment in question from mobile but it’s near the bottom there)
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by rrdharan 3y ago
How so? I thought they had terrible monetization?
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Statistically you're at such a higher risk on the road than anywhere else, it's best to minimize the amount of time spent in a motor vehicle. This is why I don't waste time putting on my seatbelt, run all red lights, and alwa
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by rrdharan 3y ago
BigQuery
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Amazon also has an ad network. A fast growing one.
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by rrdharan 3y ago
This looks great, thanks!
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Come on pretty mama..
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by rrdharan 3y ago
What would stop a pair of people from colluding such that one defames the other with good SEO, they extract money from Google, and split the difference?
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Yet somehow sophisticated and well informed enough to keep their keys secure and not get scammed.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Their profit motives are entirely aligned with reducing spam. I don’t understand why people always think hard problems aren’t solved because of some deep conspiracy. Sometimes they’re just hard.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
There are at least two other hugely important use cases you missed: - automatic security / vendoring updates (e.g. https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate ) - automated cross-repo syncs, e.g. Google has processes a
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by rrdharan 4y ago
That might be clear (perhaps even tautological) for wealth inequality; as others are discussing, it’s much less “clear” for poverty. You can certainly draw connections - wealth inequality leading to housing inequality leading to homelessnes
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Came expecting it was one of those classic Linux themes like Chicago95 or Redmond 95. Left educated and disappointed.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Yet another possibility is that it’s an entirely credible, accurate and valid statement based on meaningful data.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
> and potentially enable the Office 365 credential theft of millions of Bing users. These credentials in turn granted access to users’ private emails and documents. Wow.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
1. Azure has the worst security of the major cloud providers; multiple insanely terrible RCE and open readable DB exposures. 2. Azure infrastructure still likely has far better security/privacy by virtue of all their compliance, (HIPAA
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Amazon’s drone business can’t get off the ground(cnbc.com)
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Picking up suitcases full of cash in front of a toothbrush is more what the poster was going for I imagine..
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by rrdharan 4y ago
> higher profitability than Google Search Smaller and simpler I buy. Higher profitability I don't. Every serious analysis of this has suggested that ChatGPT is a loss leader, for example. I'd similarly be very skeptical of clai
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Uber had the decency (or foresight, shame, acceptance of reality) to give up on autonomous driving not too long after that.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
> To even detect this, I needed the patience and discipline to verify the checksum on a 500GB file! Imagine how much more time I could have wasted if I didn't bother to verify the checksum and made use of an important business docu
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by rrdharan 4y ago
If you’re a PRISM target wanting to protect yourself from the NSA you’re gonna need a lot more OpSec than just switching from VSCode to Emacs.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Why would you think that puts upward rather than downward pressure on wages?
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by rrdharan 4y ago
> literally millions of cryptocurrencies I believe that's literally not true. I think it's thousands.

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