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by rtsil 6y ago
Building, deploying and getting something that works fine isn't that complicated, but in my experience, without a strong background of the tech (the 100s of hours required), you will lose a significant amount of time, compounded by a h
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by rtsil 6y ago
App engine (and Google's cloud in general) is pretty fantastic. I find it much easier to navigate and use than AWS (as someone whose day job isn't running infra on clouds), and I would have gladly put my side projects in there and
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by rtsil 6y ago
They have a team member in charge of marketing. Surely that counts as spending a dime (or two).
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by rtsil 6y ago
That's not luddite thinking, that's a politician thinking. Ariane, just like SLS, is mostly a job program for large companies with huge workforces and thousands of small subcontactor shops. Manufacturing less rockets without a via
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by rtsil 6y ago
The emails asked me if I still want "less secure apps access" to be on for a couple of gmail accounts so I'm pretty sure they were wrong in that case.
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by rtsil 6y ago
We're not that far. I've had emails sent by google classified as spam by gmail.
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by rtsil 6y ago
The most painful thing for me, but not to ordinary users, is that the formulas are localized in the user's language.
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by rtsil 6y ago
I shared the same opinion, before I saw all of my acquaintances (which are as removed from the HN bubble as you can find) install Signal en masse in a matter of two weeks. It's purely anecdotal of course, but I never expected this type
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by rtsil 6y ago
> There will be a tremendous amount of cultural difference between a black Senegalese who is a first generation immigrant and someone from the Reunion whose great grand parents were already all French citizens. To which I will also add t
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by rtsil 6y ago
At least since October 2020 for the new deadline. > On 1 October 2020, EURid has notified by email all UK registrants and their registrars that they will lose their eligibility as of 1 January 2021 unless they demonstrate their complianc
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by rtsil 6y ago
I think I just found my new source of procrastination for the coming weeks with your videos.
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by rtsil 6y ago
At least accessory to crime if the exploit is used in a criminal activity, I presume?
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by rtsil 6y ago
The article author replied to a comment below by saying that they corrected ("fixed") the article.
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by rtsil 6y ago
That supposes that we've reached the flattening upper section of the S-curve of technology, right about now. There's nothing that suggests that. Various techs do reach that stage periodically, but nothing indicates that technology
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by rtsil 6y ago
> Interestingly, for those labs to exist, being a monopolistic megacorp is a requirement. It appears to me that today's FAANG monopoly allowed the creation of Google Deepmind and OpenAI, AFAIK OpenAI is still independent, despite i
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by rtsil 6y ago
> Industry cares about results, its more meritocratic Industry cares about positive results. If you're not allowed to fail, you will be afraid to explore. That's what Academia is. Then, the industry reaps the fruit of that exp
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by rtsil 6y ago
Social status is as much important and significant in the West as in other societies. Designer clothes, fancy cars, fancy watches are all used to signal that you belong (or you pretend to belong) to a certain social class, just like the way
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by rtsil 6y ago
There is no dispute that the Soviet state-driven economy was totally inadequate in providing for the needs of its people and that led to its collapse. I think there is also no dispute that the wave of privatizations that followed the end of
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by rtsil 6y ago
Cycling usage and mass transit are strongly related to the culture of society. I believe funding self-driving is more cost-effective than getting Americans to get rid of their cars and use mass transit (and I say this as a non-American that
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by rtsil 6y ago
Not omitted, but the deaths and/or illnesses resulting from drug trials are almost never widely publicized. Conversely, any improvement brought by a new drug will be drummed up everywhere (and for just reason).
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by rtsil 6y ago
The thing is these are not the "absolute worst-case human driver", these are the absolute average human drivers. People get easily distracted, get excited, get tired, all of which are propitious to bad decision-making. Many human
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by rtsil 6y ago
I stand corrected. The ballot says "do not fill more than one oval for each candidate", but apparently doing so does not invalidate the vote.
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by rtsil 6y ago
I'm far from an expert on this, but the reason could be that back then, "democracy" and free market without State intervention were presented as inseparable parts of the same package.
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by rtsil 6y ago
No you can't, your ballot will be invalid. The ballot shown in the article explicitly says "Fill in no more than one oval for each candidate".
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by rtsil 6y ago
And you cannot play a single song that you've just searched, everything is in an auto-generated playlist. Including normal YT videos that it detects as music just because there are some music playing in it. It's awful and I won&#x
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by rtsil 6y ago
Over here (France), ad-free Youtube comes only with Youtube Premium, not Youtube Music Premium (great branding!).
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by rtsil 6y ago
Because although they may be treating merchants as crap, as a customer/buyer they've got my back, so I always favor a seller offering Paypal to the other who doesn't.
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by rtsil 6y ago
I'm not sure about the other EU countries, but in France at least, the law actually requires a dealership (and any other seller) to sell a vehicle/product/service to any private customer. You either sell your product to anyon
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by rtsil 6y ago
They are indeed more important than technique, but technique is a given. Without solid technique, musicality does not matter. Technique is what gives you confidence, it allows you to experiment and fine tune your artistic skills. To work on
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by rtsil 6y ago
Google Play Music was perfect for my needs. Once it's closed, I'm going to test Qobuz and its CD-quality streams. It's probably either them or Deezer.

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