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by the-rc 4y ago
Fripp did Vista...
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by the-rc 4y ago
No, he used SSEYO's Koan software
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by the-rc 4y ago
Maybe he meant Jesper Kyd's Space Song, which also happens to be in my top 3 MODs ever? Great tool AND great taste.
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by the-rc 4y ago
The very first StreetView was a relatively slow-paced one-two hour tape with Larry, Marissa, Schwim (I think) and a fourth (?) person driving around town in 2000 or 2001. Larry then took the tape to Stanford and a while later the project go
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by the-rc 4y ago
I was amused that he recalled a lot of other details, but kept stating that C64 sprites are 16x16, when they're actually the larger, odder and —to me— much more memorable 24x21, thanks to some clever addressing.
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by the-rc 4y ago
> As I remember, we had at least one Borg cluster to ourselves for indexing. Our quota was a cluster. > Also, the indexing system's quota is huge. Well, it might no longer be the case, but for a number of years the indexing clust
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by the-rc 4y ago
Yeah, that might have made it sound as if he's always like that. To his credit, he was one of those that had to be involved when things got desperate, e.g. the insane and massive data recovery to prevent the index from growing stale du
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by the-rc 5y ago
> For a super low priority job, why should reading be multiple times as expensive as writing? Because the particular aggregate mix of storage helps drive down overall costs. Changing that mix affects the entire stack, as well as capacity
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by the-rc 5y ago
If you're doing disaster recovery, do you really want to wait a day for your data? I don't understand why you want Google to slow things down. Why can't Amazon get cold data faster? It's fairly simple: all Google storage
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by the-rc 5y ago
Neither. It only means that hot and cold storage live right next to each other and pricing is used as a carrot/stick, as well as a signal, so that the two classes tend to stay the same (mainly to prevent cold from getting hot, of cours
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by the-rc 5y ago
I don't know the state of the Borg fleet or how Google Maps serves vector maps for SK today. That's why I said upfront that I was talking about the state a decade ago. Back then, what I heard was very specific, about restrictions
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by the-rc 5y ago
The law as I recall it a decade ago was a bit more specific: you could only store and process the data in South Korea. Thus, the whole planet's tiles were rendered in production on Borg, except for SK, whose tiles had to be rendered on
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by the-rc 5y ago
2012: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/courts-will-deci...
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by the-rc 5y ago
Wasn't the interlaced video patent asserted against Microsoft, along with a bunch of other H264 stuff?
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by the-rc 5y ago
Definitely the Sansevero Chapel Museum, the National Archeological Museum, the San Carlo Opera House, Underground Naples and the Santa Chiara church/cloisters. The downtown subway stations have unique designs and art of all sorts, too.
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by the-rc 5y ago
> I think this is because it can only search on whole words. This is provably not true. Gmail supports stemming. If you search for [subject:does], you'll get plenty of emails with just "do" in the subject. Same with singul
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by the-rc 5y ago
Actually, images that do not exist will return the appropriate error within a few seconds, so it's really timing out when talking to the storage layer or similar.
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by the-rc 5y ago
You can get new tokens. Image pulling times out after ~30s, which tells me that maybe ECR is actually up, but it can't verify the caller's credentials or access image metadata from some other internal service. It's probably s
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by the-rc 5y ago
14th Street is much nicer now that it's only for pedestrians, bikes, buses and local traffic. And for the past few weeks the city has been taking away from cars the west lane on 8th Avenue in midtown (30th to 42nd St, maybe? Basically,
170.
by the-rc 5y ago
It's worse than that. Not only they don't jaywalk, they stand or wander randomly all over the sidewalk/corner, getting in the way of those who are trying to get somewhere. Downtown SJ might be the winner, though. Even at noon
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by the-rc 5y ago
I know the service! The folks in NY had the state flag by their cubicle. My team in 2007-2011 was probably one of the largest users and I think I donated machines to y'all in the old Groningen cluster, before quotas were automated. GFS
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by the-rc 5y ago
Borgmon and Borg are different things, but yes, before the latter, machines were owned by teams. Brian Grant talks a bit about the predecessors, Babysitter and GWQ: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/04/27&#
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by the-rc 5y ago
Hah, I think that at least at the beginning, the tools wanted to steamroll the Bigtable service, too. As the one that had to vet the changes every week, I had to go explain that it wasn't really neither our quota nor our usage. For Co
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by the-rc 5y ago
Hah, I was the one that played along and made you keep going ("May you be gifted with a long, healthy life and an exquisite taste in ties"?). And I think SAD was one of the teams that occasionally helped us find resources in this
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by the-rc 5y ago
Or converting between priority levels or users that were under your product. If you ran a large enough service, there was also begging your users for spare quota or warning them that their recent donation couldn't be fully deployed bec
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by the-rc 5y ago
It was easier to mint and carve out Colossus quota than e.g. Bigtable. I seem to remember that flex for Borg existed, but only in a few locations with enough capacity to back it. You couldn't just retrofit it in clusters where existing
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by the-rc 5y ago
It wasn't that there was a crunch — that had always existed. There just wasn't all the tooling to implement anything like flex. At least this video was made after "buying Borg quota" was a normal thing. Before it, you ha
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by the-rc 5y ago
Jones and Tanner created clip mapping, first in SGI hardware, then in software. That's what made Keyhole and thus Google Earth possible on consumer machines. Is the allegation that it was all stolen? They could have invalidated SGI&#x2
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by the-rc 5y ago
That didn't run on a PC, it ran on Onyx servers, which had over 10 graphic processors.
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by the-rc 5y ago
I have two or three of those in that state in a box somewhere... plus the glass back was so slippery that it would slide across most surfaces that were not perfectly flat! The same could happen with the front, too: https://youtu.

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