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721.
by tgtweak 6y ago
The plastic acts like a rebar, allowing the brick to absorb and mitigate fractures that would ordinarily crack the brick and compromise it's integrity. They would not have the same compressive strength as a cement brick, but would lik
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by tgtweak 6y ago
Finally - this is great news - I hope they put a lot of design staff here too, not just fab workers.
723.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Those sneaky netrunners
724.
by tgtweak 6y ago
I tried to contact nest to order a replacement plug/harness (for a 1 year old $150 smoke detector...) and after getting run around for 10+ emails I was finally told "sorry we can't supply that part" and you're shit
725.
by tgtweak 6y ago
I don't think it really matters - they intentionally leave no ways of getting to a human or even getting to a system that can help.
726.
by tgtweak 6y ago
There is no excuse for the laziness/ambiguity surrounding bans like this. I have witnessed, in 1 degree of separation, 3 separate Facebook business account bans in the last 12 months alone - the only reason cited is "you violated
727.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Not travelling through 20 routers in the process tends to help. Again it would be good to get a tangible idea of how much better this is vs just stating the obvious about peak theoretical throughput.
728.
by tgtweak 6y ago
No mention of latency improvements? Seems crazy since oversea transit (tcp & single-channel) is usually latency (or loss) bound. I would expect it's better than going over public transit and legacy subsea fiber, but it would have b
729.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Makes sense if you only need it for an hour every day to do a build and/or run a QA automation test. The billing on it is per-second. Worth noting that they require 1 day minimum to play ball, so kicking the tires is not a per-hour op
730.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Stadia sucks, don't put me on the pro-stadia side of the debate, but: Google generally operates with 5+ years of foresight. If you think at all that cloud gaming will become viable in the next 5-ish years then you should not ignore or
731.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Yeah the shield can also receive from your gaming PC provided it has an nvidia card. It's a really nice device in general.
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by tgtweak 6y ago
PS Now is the continuation of gaikai (purchased by Sony in 2012) - at the time the lead developer of x264 was working there. They (gaikai) - even earlier than 2012 - had a very smooth gaming experience considering the general state of conne
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by tgtweak 6y ago
Efficiency. Consider a semi truck as a server. Belonging to UPS it's a dedicated server - when UPS doesn't need it, it's idling for the most part. When it belongs to TFI it's offered as a VPS. If it's sitting in a
734.
by tgtweak 6y ago
They essentially operated it at cost with themselves as the main client. As is often the case with internal business units operating as cost centers and not forced to be externally competitive, they attrition over time and become less attra
735.
by tgtweak 6y ago
I think it's closer to the "shed dead weight" theory of any common sense business. TFI is a machine in this space and has acquired double-digit numbers of regional trucking services over the last 5 years. They own enough of
736.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Guaranteed there was a collective facepalm from all engineers working at facebook when they announced those "privacy changes" to WhatsApp. Who makes these decisions? Surely it's from people higher to the top than the bottom a
737.
by tgtweak 6y ago
This is certainly wishy-washy regarding timelines and commitments.
738.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Somebody showHN'd pop.com a few weeks back and it had a similar vibe.
739.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Divine intervention is required to put things on the right path. Hopefully this happens for the sake of consumers getting some innovation.
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by tgtweak 6y ago
Cat cologne missed opportunity tbh
741.
by tgtweak 6y ago
You should cache the cidr ranges and arin responses for a decent amount of time since they seldom change.
742.
by tgtweak 6y ago
It's still within that circle. Samsung is a great fab, probably the only real contender to TSMC. Samsung is 17% global semiconductor demand vs TSMC at 50%+. Included in that 17% is all of Samsung's demand (Exynos, SSD/st
743.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Global Foundries has stopped at 12nm and I don't see any plans to go beyond that. A notable amount of their fabs are in South Korea anyway so they would fall into the same bucket.
744.
by tgtweak 6y ago
I don't feel that there is a meaningful TSMC alternative today. Samsung, Intel and GlobalFoundries are not suitable replacements for TSMC with regards to throughput or technology. The world does need some meaningful fabs outside of Ta
745.
by tgtweak 6y ago
40 hours and not a single mention of the fact that the chat interface on signal is far less condensed than WhatsApp (you get 3-4 messages+ a thumbnail per screen on signal to WhatsApp's 7-8). This compounds the difficulty of telling w
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by tgtweak 6y ago
I think part of the tactic is to go for more non-dating. If I'm reading this s1 properly however there doesn't seem to be much traction there and majority of activity seems to be on the dating side.
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by tgtweak 6y ago
Philosophically: I've seen some "bespoke" systems like this that live long enough for a nice off-the-shelf solution to come around that solves the problem much more elegantly and efficiently than the "bespoke" one
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by tgtweak 6y ago
Putting 503 as the intro screen really ups the difficulty.
749.
by tgtweak 6y ago
Hopefully they loosen the coin collateral requirement for nodes also.
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by tgtweak 6y ago
Internally maybe, but AWS external connectivity is so shakey I wonder if it's intentional. From a cisco ASA firewall to AWS vpg - there is weekly and even daily issues with things either plain timing out or experiencing latency spiking

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