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by tgma 2y ago
> Starlink is a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX. Starlink is not a separate entity — it's a division of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. From Terms of Service[1]: > Your order for two-way satellite-based internet service (“
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by tgma 2y ago
> But it still tightly couples itself to other parts of HTTP, particularly HTTP 3 Incorrect. In fact, gRPC's primary implementation is HTTP/2 not /3. There are alternative implementation on top of QUIC, and other folks hav
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by tgma 2y ago
Increasing hand-offs by 7x is sub-optimal and interferes with folks wanting to take continuous vacation time. Again, I can see for ops teams that could be true, but very much disagree that on-call should be a "natural" thing for d
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by tgma 2y ago
Daily might be okay for more ops/SRE types, but it is a hell for a primarily dev team. Can't focus on building shit.
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by tgma 2y ago
> I think most people assume that gRPC is what Google is built on, therefore it must be good. Dropbox[1], Netflix[2], Apple[3], Microsoft[4], Slack[5], and lots more are all either built on, or heavily use, and/or contribute to vari
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by tgma 2y ago
While you are correct the majority of Google services internally are Stubby-based, it isn't correct to say gRPC is not utilized inside Google. Cloud and external APIs are an obvious use case but also internal stuff that are also used i
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by tgma 2y ago
> COM can run over the network (DCOM) Ah the good ol' Blaster worm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)
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by tgma 2y ago
>The only reason for this port placement is a marketing and anti-consumer one - to prevent people using mouse permanently plugged in. I think you are reading way too much into this. That is likely not the reason. The previous iteration o
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by tgma 2y ago
Sounds like they need therapy for anxiety, not a different mouse.
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by tgma 2y ago
> if your UI only needs one mouse button Have you tried adjusting the Mouse settings? You can certainly enable right-click. The multitouch gestures + inertial scrolling is actually quite magical compared to a dumb fixed-offset scrollwhee
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by tgma 2y ago
More like once every 3-6 months, so a total non-issue except for the social media. Ergo isn't great but the multitouch gestures are dope though.
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by tgma 2y ago
Do you have any references for Thiel supporting Lina Khan's position on antitrust? Thiel does not appear to love Google and sees them as somewhat of a formidable opposing force, and that sometimes shows, so I can see he would enjoy his
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by tgma 2y ago
She will be gone for symbolism if nothing else. Some of the policies attacking big tech (read: Google) may remain, but hardline acquisition ban will get relaxed for sure.
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by tgma 2y ago
Even if it were, the article is written like a farewell email the employee sends to their group, not from Keras standpoint. I bet a couple rando VPs are writing self-promotional material to increase their visibility and they had nothing bet
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by tgma 2y ago
Strange. Had never read blog posts about individual engineers leaving Google on official Google Developers Blog before. Is this a first? Every day someone prominent leaves Google... Sounds like a big self-own if Google starts to post this k
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by tgma 2y ago
Almost certainly at their scale they are the risk bearer of their primary employee health insurance offering and pay flat fees for administration of the plan. No negotiations necessary, just internal modeling.
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by tgma 2y ago
We recently had a similar problem with BestBuy. We had a launch day order of a Google Pixel 9 XL but we got the base non-Pro model inside the box. Tracking showed it as delivered, obviously. Chat told me to go to store. I went to store and
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by tgma 2y ago
I cited the actual source. You can do the analysis yourself to verify. I'm sorry I don't have time to manually distill it further for you. That said, I also don't think my specific claim is commonly disputed by the other side
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by tgma 2y ago
BLS data is public and can be crunched from here https://www.bls.gov , but posing the basic question to ChatGPT: Wage Growth: Obama: Modest but steady wage growth, particularly from 2015 onwards. Real wage growth averaged 0.5%–1.
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by tgma 2y ago
Poorer and poorer? Hard fact is that Trump presidency delivered actual (i.e. inflation adjusted) wage growth for people in many years, so your perception of reality might not be accurate as what media propagates and makes people believe. As
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by tgma 2y ago
False. Immigrants are eligible for various social benefits, food stamps, health care, etc.
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by tgma 2y ago
This is written as an indictment of Perf Review process. I think it is an indictment of most managers. Where possible, they should be axed and replaced with software. There are way more "evil" or "useless" managers than
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by tgma 2y ago
Intel HR was one of the chief sources of senior DEI HR staff that infiltrated the rest of the Valley. While it is sad to see such an iconic company fade, go woke, go broke.
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by tgma 2y ago
Macs have had internet recovery even in Intel days (command+option+R). On Apple silicon they also have a nice erase process which quickly erases (effacable storage) as you describe but doesn’t quite as quickly install. In my experience DFU
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by tgma 2y ago
That is an iCloud lock thing that you need to worry about, but aside from antitheft issue, it’s actually quite nice to reinstall the OS on an Apple Silicon Mac because it behaves like an iOS device. You can simply use Apple Configurator or
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by tgma 2y ago
Weird that some ads are hidden on that page indicating "policy violations." You'd think in the ads transparency section they would be particularly interested in such ads or at least the reason for their violation for investig
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by tgma 2y ago
> He literally writes "people introduced new ``AAAA records'' into the DNS protocol, creating several unnecessary complications in DNS software." He says, right there, that AAAA records are an "unnecessary compli
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by tgma 2y ago
> He was speaking outside his wheelhouse here He has written relatively well-known mail and DNS servers so I would not be that dismissive about him knowing a thing or two about internet RFCs. I think the GP is taking the AAAA record over
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by tgma 2y ago
> I'm sure he can update his software and systems but what about the thousands of other programs and billions of other machines. Well, empirically, we can see what we have now is that the software on billions of machines have been u
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by tgma 2y ago
Huh? It is not a rationale for avoiding IPv6. Quite the contrary. It is a critique on how IPv6 was designed without being interoperable with IPv4 address space. It is very clear that he was right given there are 22 more years of evidence of

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