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by smueller1234 3y ago
Wow really? When did that change? It was 12% as recently (hah) as 2018.
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by smueller1234 3y ago
That's incorrect. It's never been as high as 20%. That's a claim that I've seen frequently over the years on HN, but it was never the case, at least at Booking.com. They have a few mechanisms to try and drive up commissi
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by smueller1234 4y ago
They also sometimes predate k8s and migration is expensive.
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by smueller1234 4y ago
No idea about Zoom scaling but I can say with confidence that Meet works perfectly fine with >200 these days. (I work at Google, use Meet 8+h per day in meetings small and large.)
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by smueller1234 4y ago
One is cache/memory bandwidth, the other "FP32 FMA Vector Throughput", isn't it? If so - not the same thing.
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by smueller1234 4y ago
This is it, 100%. Anything non standard and you get the long forms instead! By the way, I've lived in a few European countries and researched many others. The Netherlands was by far the easiest/most efficient in terms of bureaucra
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by smueller1234 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your experience in that role. That sounds pretty awful. That being said, it also sounds like a toxic overall environment, independent from the middle management role (eg. from MoM to (Senior) Director in big cor
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Cannon Lake: Intel’s Forgotten Generation(chipsandcheese.com)
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by smueller1234 4y ago
You should ask Randall Munroe! :) http://what-if.xkcd.com
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by smueller1234 4y ago
€ 2.298 billion (2020/21) revenue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_SMT 15 years ago, when I was there, Zeiss SMT also did the light sources (discussed elsewhere in the thread), btw, not just supplying th
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by smueller1234 4y ago
Thank you for what you do. Your articles are what I've been scouring the internet for since the demise of RWT!
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by smueller1234 4y ago
It's not quite that simple. If you have customer data that's already encrypted, then compression won't do much because it looks random. But of course by the time you get to your infrastructure layers, that'll be the case
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by smueller1234 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon The "hydrogen" in "hydrogen bomb" relates to fusion. In a nutshell, these types of devices use a fission bomb to create the environment (pressure
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by smueller1234 4y ago
That's because it is. It makes no sense whatsoever to think that could be a deliberate strategy. Managers are happy when they get their hands on a new role to hire into because they all have more projects than they (think that they) ca
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by smueller1234 4y ago
Entirely the same job, same pay. We just want to be open to folks with DIFFERENT yet valuable experience.
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by smueller1234 4y ago
Agreed, that was a legendary acquisition. That being said, I think it was not a mistake for the previous owner(s) to sell at the time. Priceline had cash, and the marketing heavy ("buy ads in January, stay in summer, bill hotel at the
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by smueller1234 4y ago
Carbon X1's are common. It's not exclusively those though.
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by smueller1234 4y ago
Booking.com was acquired by Priceline for 100M in 2005. Now it's >80% of value and revenue of the parent company. By that logic, booking's value peaked over 80b$. I was there from 2010-2017. The philosophy of the holdings was t
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by smueller1234 4y ago
It depends. Look up PUE for data centers. Because I work for Google, I recall, for example, that we build very efficient data centers: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/ Ie. just 10% overhea
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by smueller1234 4y ago
Also time zones for ability to collaborate virtually.
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by smueller1234 4y ago
Not particularly hip anymore, but "Higher Order Perl" was great fun and has a bit of that style both in the incremental construction and also a little bit in the writing style. But it's been over a decade since I last picked
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by smueller1234 4y ago
I can tell you that the stadia team don't look at it like that at all. I've worked on storage, I know their storage system design, and I've discussed it with the SRE team in the past. I'm not involved in any of the ongoi
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by smueller1234 4y ago
That's a very simplistic way to look at the situation. At a large trade show, I once ran into a retired nuclear engineer and we had a long conversation: he had been called back into service by the state out of desperation. There weren&
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by smueller1234 5y ago
If one wanted to make a case for that, arguably it's DrepMind's major infrastructure resource consumption that would give Google some credit. I can certainly point to some colleagues in infrastructure engineering who've helpe
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by smueller1234 5y ago
Yes, thank you, that's the one I was thinking about. Apologies for not naming/linking it in the first place.
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by smueller1234 5y ago
Totally plausible indeed! One of the recent (past decade or so) major mistaken discoveries in particle physics was a cabling issue. And from a different field, but closer to the quip: semiconductor lithography lenses' own weight causes
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by smueller1234 5y ago
At least in Perl 5 (which TFA uses), you can not. Or certainly not expect a useful result. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop#Relational-Operators
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by smueller1234 5y ago
Google employee here. I work in engineering but collaborate very closely with recruiters and executives. While I don't speak for the company nor for all of its countless employees, I can say that in four years of employment, nobody eve
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by smueller1234 5y ago
The state of the art observatory for ultra high energy cosmic rays is the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina (auger.org). Unfortunately the funds for building a 7x larger northern observatory in Colorado were scraped but the NSF during t
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by smueller1234 5y ago
Apologies for directly contradicting you, but it's false that Google don't delete. Google do delete in a timely fashion (which is required by law in many places!), it's just that for technical reasons, it becomes unavailabl

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