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by sparrc 3y ago
In my experience the biggest drawback with EFS is startup time for systems that mount it in. For example a container or EC2 instance might only need a tiny bit of your storage and with s3 can just download what it needs when it needs it. As
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by sparrc 3y ago
yes, a bank's job is to do due diligence, not to blindly believe anything a startup founder says without reading any of their bookkeeping.
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by sparrc 3y ago
> The stock market does not equal the economy. At best, it equals what 1% of the population thinks they can get out of the lower 99%. WeWork's ridiculous valuation was not the stock market, it was VC private investors (mostly SoftBa
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by sparrc 3y ago
> resulted in a complete k8s cluster failure for us, but only the 08 cluster! It worked in the first 7. This actually made me LOL, that's amazing
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by sparrc 3y ago
Nope, the FTC has been historically toothless from 1990-2020 or so. Some people (such as Lina Khan and Joe Biden) are trying to turn that around. Doesn't seem likely to fully turn around as the next Republican president will likely app
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by sparrc 3y ago
They definitely are relevant despite what the armchair experts say on HN. Do you use AWS or GCP or Fastly? These companies don't provide huge sponsorship dollars to Apache out of the goodness of their hearts. Many of the cloud services
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by sparrc 3y ago
1. Please don't email-spam one of the most significant OSS orgs in the world. 2. What has the author done to engage so far? Has Apache responded to their emails? Have they opened any threads in chat forums? 3. Honestly, just who cares?
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by sparrc 3y ago
How much of that was actually generated directly from "Google X"? Seems to me that most of it came out of DeepMind, which was just a run-of-the-mill big company buys innovative startup type of acquisition.
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by sparrc 3y ago
Opposite lots of commenters here deriding the article as "all over the place", I thought it was very well-written and comprehensive. Seems like there are concerns across a wide swath of companies and industries in Germany. Reading
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by sparrc 3y ago
In Seattle there's a company called "Sustainable Living Innovations (SLI)" that a few years ago started this modular apartment building that was supposedly going to fly right up because their modules are so efficient: https:
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by sparrc 3y ago
This is odd to pop up on HN, hasn't this always existed? I've been using it at least 5 years...
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by sparrc 3y ago
> "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it? For me this is half of it, it's also performance. It is MUCH faster at bringing up word suggestions. As in faster than I can even reach
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by sparrc 4y ago
An ARM cpu is groundbreaking? I don't think anyone outside the tech world has even noticed.
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by sparrc 4y ago
I'm not so sure. When is the last time apple came out something groundbreaking? Has there been anything since Tim Cook took over? Siri is still extremely basic and barely usable for anything besides starting a kitchen timer.
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by sparrc 4y ago
6 times? My reading of these prices is that it's 45x more expensive (for 8K) and 90x more expensive (32k)
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by sparrc 4y ago
Bit misleading but I don't think the image is what was actually purchased. That's a concept car from CES. What they've purchased are the "Ford E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicle", which AFAICT look pretty much ident
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by sparrc 4y ago
Do datacenters actually do anything to draw in engineering or a significant number of tech jobs? Beyond just HVAC and a few server operations people. us-west-2 certainly hasn't done much to make The Dalles, Oregon a tech hub (or even P
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by sparrc 4y ago
This is interesting because I recently bought an Apple TV and noticed that the Spotify app on Apple TV does NOT support on-screen lyrics (which the Spotify app on FireTV does support) Wonder if it's related? Could Apple have blocked Sp
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by sparrc 4y ago
AWS and GCP execs must be kicking themselves wondering how this one got away. Azure appears to be years ahead in offering usable AI models to cloud customers.
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by sparrc 4y ago
At Amazon practically everything that’s not AWS falls under “retail”. Including things like prime video and alexa.
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by sparrc 4y ago
You've referenced by far two of the most innovative countries in Europe. What about all the rest? Is it easy to start a small business in Spain and Italy?
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by sparrc 4y ago
Interesting, that does seem like a more useful metric. Where do you find that data?
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by sparrc 4y ago
> Also, most of the ocean plastic comes from a small number of rivers in the less developed world. [1] Rich countries aren't really the problem. That reference isn't exactly justifying your statement. AFAICT that research is ju
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by sparrc 4y ago
> The problem here was that it was a used laptop. How do you know this? I would expect a $500 used lenovo laptop to have decent-enough specs.
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by sparrc 4y ago
> Apple...completely boycotting Google's formats This is not exactly true, they are a "founding member" of AOM: https://aomedia.org/membership/members/ > Apple's stance is especially inte
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by sparrc 4y ago
Anyone have a writeup that doesn't require the browser extension?
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by sparrc 4y ago
Hyundai kona and ioniq, chevy bolt, nissan leaf. These all seem pretty normal to me.
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by sparrc 4y ago
> But in a more chaotic environment riding on the roads in a place that has hills, it's unusable I ride my vanmoof in Seattle (very hilly and urban) and to say the auto-shift is "unusable" is a huge exaggeration IMO. It oc
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by sparrc 4y ago
It's pretty simple. The journalist/editors want to write an article about privacy and web tracking. The business people want ads on the website to keep the lights on. And to be fair to the business people, it's not like they
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by sparrc 4y ago
AWS workmail or Google workspace are both great. Workmail has a better management interface for the admin whereas Google has a better user UI (at least for the webapp).

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