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by the-rc 4y ago
It could be something as pedestrian as the software writing and later reading back from /tmp/somerandomfile. Or retrying with similar, predictable names.
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by the-rc 4y ago
How much do you think it costs them? How much do you think they should charge?
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by the-rc 4y ago
Many years ago I had all four wisdom teeth removed at once at the Mayo Clinic. No, I wasn't fancy and didn't fly there, I was an employee. They gave me 10 or 20 Vicodin pills and, despite some pain, my choice was to take no more t
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by the-rc 4y ago
I have no clue who hired them, but I heard that the special badge was only ever used for that project and for a number of specific reasons that had more to do with lawyers than finances. (A bunch of us tailgated into that building once, but
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by the-rc 4y ago
Leander? Jim Power? Rick Dangerous?
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by the-rc 4y ago
I have an idea what you're talking about, because I worked with the YT folks to reduce their Colossus costs and on Google storage in general until 2015. Another humbling and iluminating experience was comparing the Borg resources in th
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by the-rc 4y ago
Does it pale? How? AWS is very opaque when it comes to power demand, but you could use that to estimate machine counts and they admitted to Greenpeace that in 2016 they used 500-650MW — a wide range that obviously obfuscates on purpose. See
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by the-rc 4y ago
Yeah, I was wondering how his kind of arrangement could work if one needed or wanted to take weeks/months off at a time. The traditional model based on features or projects might be a better fit, unless one partners with others as you
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by the-rc 4y ago
There are many more bike stations than truck depots. You could conceivably swap batteries multiple times during a 12h shift without having to make detours. And if you know there's going to be a lot of plowing, you could place batteries
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by the-rc 4y ago
There are many stations already, every few blocks. And the company running them, Citibike, already wants to connect them to the grid. Now you have a more tractable problem: when there's snow coming, some of the (many) unused bike racks
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by the-rc 4y ago
The other point I forgot to make is that, during a storm, you could ground a lot of other non-essential electric vehicles, e.g. buses, and place their batteries strategically throughout the city (at a bike station, or empty parking spots).
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by the-rc 4y ago
Citibike wants to connect to the city grid so they don't need to send technicians to every station to swap dead batteries. It's not too much of a stretch to think that, perhaps, the stations could recharge truck batteries, too, at
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by the-rc 4y ago
Aim? Eventual consequence, yes, most likely, but only as a secondary effect. Eric and co., down to the Maps leadership, were on the receiving end of similar outbursts pretty regularly. It wasn't just about hiring. Sometimes it was abou
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by the-rc 4y ago
Yeah, that is puzzling. The image can still be found through Google search and is still hosted on the site, just unlinked: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/494184_29da2642a38540ef8e... Who knows what's going on.
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by the-rc 4y ago
Good old reverse Google image search in Chrome...
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by the-rc 4y ago
Did you see the other staff page? https://fr.receptio.eu/operationalstaff There's a Noemi, who seems to also moonlight as a stock photography model elsewhere: https://www.westend61.de/en/imageView&
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by the-rc 4y ago
I remember 128KB being an issue past mid 2007, which is when that patch was merged. I think that the compression trick actually happened a bit after that. Looking at the patch, it appears that yes, it's one of the temporary hacks I w
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by the-rc 4y ago
As far as I recall, until the plumbing was heavily redone a decade later or so, you could only push (propagate) an updated command line to replicas, not a separate file as well. On top of that, I vaguely remember something about bootstrappi
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by the-rc 4y ago
That was something else. Most command line flags were untouched from the defaults. What was a problem was GFE's command line. For a number of reasons, it had to list every public service and its config. There were many hundreds of thos
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by the-rc 4y ago
> I have to imagine Google HAS to dedup on the server side It's been a decade since I helped with GPM storage, but one thing I can say is that Google won't dedup anything without the OK from lawyers on _both_ sides, with all th
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by the-rc 4y ago
When GPM launched, there was definitely no deduplication in place. Even if two users uploaded the same file, there would be two copies — more if you count replication and RS-encoding. It was so because... somebody ordered so. Perhaps things
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by the-rc 4y ago
I doubt it was PID 1, but I saw RMS' laptop almost 30 years ago and I think it booted into Emacs...
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by the-rc 4y ago
I remember the spiffy demo where the thumbnail in search results morphed into the full Maps UI without reloading. But unification had started even earlier than that. Pretty much since Larry became CEO again, he pushed this mantra of "O
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by the-rc 4y ago
Altivec was Motorola's trademark. IBM worked on it, too, and called it VMX, but didn't make chips using it until the 970/G5. Often lost in the noise is that Apple was the most visible, but not the only customer of Motorola&#x
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by the-rc 4y ago
Neither this page nor the one about the AS extensions seem to describe what happens when storing data to disk. AFAIR, IBM used drives with 520 byte sectors. 512 bytes were the actual data. The remaining 64 bits were used to set tags in memo
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by the-rc 4y ago
BTW, between $1M and $1.1M, NYS tax rates switch to flat, not marginal, and apply to the entire income.
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by the-rc 4y ago
You'd be right about Photoshop, but... https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/cds.html
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by the-rc 4y ago
The truly problematic Colossus clusters usually fell into one of two buckets: a) those with shrinking machine counts (but always increasing traffic) because the hardware was ancient and repairs/upgrades were not viable and b) those whe
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by the-rc 4y ago
Bigtable folks wrote a follow-up paper to the original, but it was turned down by the conference's reviewers for not being novel enough or something like that, so the team just went ”ok, whatever..." and moved on. Years later, the
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by the-rc 4y ago
I did capacity planning for a large user facing service more than a decade ago. Not only we had global N+2 redundancy (we could still serve peak traffic if we lost the two largest clusters worldwide), but I also made sure we had at least N+

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