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by the-rc 2y ago
Except that they don't keep it very secret: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/ "the autonomous driver can reach out to a human fleet response agent for additional information to con
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by the-rc 2y ago
Are you saying that there are times when a Waymo car's ability to respond to events is at the mercy of a random Internet connection? What happens if the safety driver is steering remotely, from another town, and there's packet los
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by the-rc 2y ago
It's actually harder to do synchronous floppy I/O on the Amiga. Data transfer is done over DMA, then you perform MFM decoding. The latter can be done by the CPU, or, asynchronously again, by the blitter, in which case you can&#x27
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by the-rc 2y ago
To me the problem with high speed is primarily safety for pedestrians and other bikes. Given also that the state has just given the city the green light to reduce the speed limit on most streets to 20MPH, the delivery guys will stand out ev
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by the-rc 2y ago
We have multiple issues: * Delivery guys need to charge batteries a lot * Not all batteries are safe and we have too many deadly fires * Delivery guys go too fast * Citibike batteries need to swapped in, rather than charged at the station i
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by the-rc 2y ago
Citibikes were recently capped from 20mph down to 18mph (29km/h). Delivery guys are another story.
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by the-rc 3y ago
Even before the economic divide, there might be mental issues at play, but the article goes there only very briefly, when mentioning identity. I don't know this Turchin guy, but you can't always explain everything with just number
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by the-rc 3y ago
They update the data on a regular basis, like they had to do in Japan in 2011 after the tsunami. They even flew planes to capture imagery in the immediate aftermath.
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by the-rc 3y ago
Actually, there is an old paper about this: https://research.google/pubs/using-a-market-economy-to-provi...
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by the-rc 3y ago
BigTable did have coprocessors, but they were only ever described with not a lot of detail in a Jeff Dean talk. That didn't stop HBase from implementing their own take. See https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis
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by the-rc 3y ago
Instead of using five masters like GFS, which typically ran on five machines dedicated to the purpose, Colossus uses a variable number of so called curators to handle all the metadata work (think of directory entries and inodes in Unix, sep
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by the-rc 3y ago
Among other things, GFS ran outside of Borg, so you couldn't just donate quota to let it run with more resources, as you found out. Conversely, given that Colossus ran on Borg, part of the migration involved an elaborate system that mi
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by the-rc 3y ago
Fresh off the (pre)press: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.23.581779v1
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by the-rc 3y ago
Those all pale compared to Buffett taking Gates to McDonald's while they were in Hong Kong. And paying with coupons.
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by the-rc 3y ago
You're kinda making my case against "downtown" Florence. I should have been clearer. The countryside and most of the rest of Tuscany is more pleasant and doesn't trap heat in the summer like the city does. Even there, th
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by the-rc 3y ago
I'm from Italy and used to live in Tuscany (mostly Pisa, but also the "mountains" outside Florence). I might have been a bit unfair, "downtown" Florence is probably only 0.75 Venices, my unit of measure for tourist
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by the-rc 3y ago
Then you should be aware that, for the longest time, Google was against multiple floors, until they suddenly switched to four floors in many locations: https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/cloud/article/11431213&#x2F
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by the-rc 3y ago
Mapping as in.. drawing the outlines of buildings and computing the square footage yourself?
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by the-rc 3y ago
Does the square footage take into account multiple floors? What's the source? It can be misleading, because you don't know the compute density of what's inside. Using just public data, power is a more accurate proxy. Until at
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by the-rc 3y ago
Those are almost lost in the noise, compared to the big datacenters. (I've been inside two Atlanta facilities, one leased and one built from scratch, and the old Savvis one in Sunnyvale).
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by the-rc 3y ago
Don't spend more than the bare minimum in crowded tourist traps Florence and Pisa. Say, no longer than two days and half a day, respectively. Rather, wind down in places like Lucca and Siena. Except the latter for a few days in July an
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by the-rc 3y ago
The two phones might have similar or even identical memory chips, but that doesn't mean the carving of the address space is the same. A more meaningful comparison would be looking at how much of those 8GB are pinned by the various comp
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by the-rc 3y ago
There could be other secondary factors. Perhaps it's something to do with e.g. computational photography, where the Google Camera app needs to quickly allocate a ton of memory for all the HDR frames it stacks. Or the fancy call screeni
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A generic noninvasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction(biorxiv.org)
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by the-rc 3y ago
That is not entirely accurate or complete. The other week I dug up not one, not two, but three Google Wallet credit cards, from Discover and MasterCard, made between 10/2012 and 10/2013. The one from April 2013 even has NFC. They
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by the-rc 3y ago
Google didn't invent the Clos network, either, but it took years before they started talking about its adoption and with what kind of proprietary twists. Same with power supplies. You're right, a PCIe switch is not special, unless
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by the-rc 3y ago
Although it used them for years, the first mention by Google of PCIe switches was probably in the 2022 Aquila paper, which doesn't really talk about storage anyway...
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by the-rc 3y ago
It did materialize. https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/ezv3us/google_a... Or the comments under https://youtu.be/-RHG5DFAjp8 It's probably hard to trigger these days becau
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by the-rc 3y ago
Soon after the acquisition, Google, really Google X, started working with Motorola on a new watch, prototyping it on existing hardware (Motoactv?). Within a few weeks, the whole thing got cancelled. Not sure if that was because of the Samsu
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by the-rc 3y ago
We can dunk on Ballmer all we want, but he was an early employee and he did negotiate for 10% of equity and profits, at a time when software was not an industry. If that's not taking risks...

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