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by the-rc 3y ago
Uh, very few folks outside of Cupertino know better than Mike how much of a total shitshow Apple were a decade or more ago. His team had to deal with their insanity on a regular basis. : - ) Since then, though, they have cleaned up their ac
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by the-rc 3y ago
On the Amiga, you had to write to a blitter control register (BLTSIZE?) twice with the same value or it wouldn't do anything. This might be the same, only a lot more paranoid. But it might also be a backdoor, intended or not.
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by the-rc 3y ago
If you read the complaint, you will see that, among others, paragraphs and paragraphs of NYT articles are reproduced verbatim or almost verbatim.
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by the-rc 3y ago
On one hand: just two formats? There are more, e.g. H264. And there can be multiple resolutions. On the same hand: there might be or might have been contractual obligations to always deliver certain resolutions in certain formats. On the ot
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by the-rc 3y ago
Apple themselves say no for a totally different reason. I haven't seen anyone making this argument other than random posters on the Internet.
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by the-rc 3y ago
If you send an iMessage to an iPhone user, that has paid them, is there really much difference? This is more and more of a stretch.
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by the-rc 3y ago
You can serve my browser some JavaScript and then consume my memory and CPU, right now. This is inherent in communication over the Internet: there are costs borne by both sides. But mining Bitcoin is quite different from routing messages an
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by the-rc 3y ago
That was a problem with foreign Visa cards only, no? AMEX and MasterCard worked. It was the same on Apple devices, but it might be fixed in the latest iOS update.
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by the-rc 3y ago
As far as I know, you still can't tap to pay with e.g. a Pixel unless you bought it in Japan or it was flashed with a JP image. https://atadistance.net/2023/10/05/the-state-of-pixel-global...
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by the-rc 3y ago
Why would people who don't pay Apple a dime have some right to get their emails delivered to iCloud accounts? Why would people who don't pay Apple a dime have some right to look at public pictures hosted on iCloud Photos? Perhaps
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by the-rc 3y ago
It's not bad for the entire nation, though, right? Wasn't the change made to compensate for the Trump tax cuts? Someone somewhere else did benefit, mainly the top bracket, especially folks in states not really affected by SALT, an
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by the-rc 3y ago
If anyone is into musical mysteries, there's a bunch of Zappa fragments that might be quotes from his or others' works, something that he did all the time: https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/mystery.html Ever
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by the-rc 3y ago
You sure? I remember him being an engineer at Google. See this from July https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/pac-tom-pittsburgh-proje...
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by the-rc 3y ago
If you think that teams who find bugs in CPUs or understand some aspects of them better than the engineers at Intel and AMD aren't competent enough to fix verbatim search, I'm not sure what to tell you. It's not about excuses
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by the-rc 3y ago
Maybe the exact match is in metadata or in hyperlink anchors pointing to the page. More in general, each search will hit thousands of machines and there will be always approximate behavior. It's not just about what you are searching an
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by the-rc 3y ago
If DDG or Kagi had an index large enough to cover the long tail of the web like Bing and Google do, we'd know about it. They'd have large data centers of their own, not to mention the papers and patents covering all the optimizati
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by the-rc 3y ago
The problem is that you're assuming search is deterministic.
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by the-rc 3y ago
Concrete question: how does the query rewriting service talk to the ads DB to do what's alleged?
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by the-rc 3y ago
To think of it in programming terms: the original vaccines had code with a length of 4000-4300 nucleotides. Yes, that protein might trigger reactions after injection. But, then, what would you expect from the virus, which has almost 30,000
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by the-rc 3y ago
In the early days of Google, that would have been getting rid of the expensive, building- or cluster-wide UPS and adding batteries to the power supplies. Later, they switched to a rack-level UPS.
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by the-rc 3y ago
Not sure about the Mountain View headquarters, but that sounds a lot like one of the wild rumors about the main NYC building.
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by the-rc 3y ago
So incredibly sad. No more arguments over the pronunciation of "kubectl". RIP.
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by the-rc 3y ago
Isn't that what Form 211 does? You can get up to 30% of what the IRS collects. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/form-211.asp "In 2021, it was reported that 645 claims were submitted, resulting in 179
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by the-rc 3y ago
I know someone who ran it on one kidney and, the first time, the support car broke down around 90 miles, so the organizers were forced to stop her... The previous year, she had had to bail out one week before the race in order to donate the
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by the-rc 3y ago
Wait until you read about the Badwater 135 https://www.badwater.com/event/badwater-135/
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by the-rc 3y ago
Not just frontend developers. The backend should serve a 429 or 503 error, complete with a Retry-After header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... That would give the ser
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by the-rc 4y ago
They are not all the same chips; some use different processes, for one. I assume that it would eat into any large volume efficiency claims. I am sure there are more A100s than TPUv4 chips out there, but I would hesitate to say the scale is
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by the-rc 4y ago
I always managed to miss him live, to my regret. I have his COVID-era box set with a fragment of the plate that he hand painted, broke and recorded, but it feels so sad to never have been in the same room or crossed his path randomly in NYC
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by the-rc 4y ago
Recently, he also streamed multiple times over a weekend this one hour "concert", actually a compilation of pieces he played with obvious difficulty in a Tokyo studio, over an entire week. There's supposed to be a release of
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by the-rc 4y ago
No, if anyone, that would have been his first wife Akiko Yano, who is a jazz piano player and singer. She can be seen in footage from live YMO performances, as an additional band member.

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