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by the-rc 6y ago
The number is probably quite a bit lower. The Strubell paper uses a PUE coefficient of 1.58, while Google datacenters are at 1.1. The figures are for GPUs, but Google uses TPUs, whose power characteristics were not public. Price is a proxim
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by the-rc 6y ago
I dogfooded pretty much everything from the G1 to the N5, Xoom included. Until Lollipop or Marshmallow arrived, we were discouraged or forbidden from having corporate accounts on personal phones, because there weren't the necessary Bla
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by the-rc 6y ago
When you signed your agreement, that Android technology didn't exist, so reserving themselves the right to get root on your devices accessing corporate information was the closest, yet very blunt, approximation. Personal devices were h
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by the-rc 6y ago
I think the far more substantial damage is from Google customers wondering what else the employee or some malicious insider could have done. You can bet that this came up in internal audits and customers' security assessments.
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by the-rc 6y ago
> this crazy "snowstorm" in Austin (it was less than an inch) Coming from MN and NY, that was nothing, but I had only packed t-shirts. The first I was aware of any snow was when walking out of the conference and seeing a BMW c
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by the-rc 6y ago
This is so sad. Dan always found time to talk to you, whether it was at the local NYC meetup or one of the monster Kubecons. No matter how small your company, he tried to get everyone to be active in the community. I have a quick Dan story.
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by the-rc 6y ago
Funny that the page says "I'd rather see folks like Robert Fripp contribute in a one-way fashion than not at all", but there have been remarkable examples of Fripp's two way communication in the days before email, where
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by the-rc 6y ago
What kind of ranking can you do for a page on the internet if you didn't crawl its contents? It has to rely on other signals.
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by the-rc 6y ago
Hah! In the slideshow, you can even see the evolution of their logo in ads. I always wondered if the resemblance to Crate&Barrel was just a coincidence.
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by the-rc 6y ago
Neither Maglev nor GFE are usually tied to a specific service nowadays, so it could still be either of them. Way back when, some teams or services such as Checkout had to run their own private pool of GFEs. Given Urs' mention of backen
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by the-rc 6y ago
I don't know how to compare and control for different population mobility between the two or any other pair of cities in the world, which is why I mentioned that we'll see in a few weeks, i.e. comparing NYC to itself.
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by the-rc 6y ago
I'm one of those who tested positive for IgG antibodies in April. Same in June, August. These were Mount Sinai's quantitative research tests, with a high titer. I donated plasma twice. The only symptoms occurred in mid March. Then
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by the-rc 6y ago
2014: https://twitter.com/akpurtell/status/463747917782589441
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by the-rc 6y ago
His themes were often iconic for their distinctive instrumentation and perhaps The Mission was the clearest example. It's a crime that he lost the Oscar to Herbie Hancock. Although the surf guitar sounds a bit cheesy or dated today, th
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by the-rc 6y ago
Another anecdote from NY. I had mild symptoms in mid March that didn't exactly match what was being described in the press. Spending hours at the hospital trying to get tested seemed riskier, so I was never diagnosed. In late April I g
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by the-rc 6y ago
Maybe a different machine? I meant that it was not in one of the general-purpose clusters: the entire pool was dedicated and a random team couldn't request Borg quota in it. For years, though, half of the Oregon datacenter was special
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by the-rc 6y ago
There used to be a go link for it (same as the machine name), but knowing Google, it might be stale. There's a good chance you can find more on the internal folklore site. If that one is still around, too.
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by the-rc 6y ago
The infamous IBM Deskstars aka Deathstars were made there.
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by the-rc 6y ago
I still remember the machine name. It starts with an l and ends with a 6. Over the course of a couple of years, pretty much all of its components (CPUs, RAM, drives) were replaced at least once. You could look up its maintenance history an
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by the-rc 6y ago
It was made to reference exactly that, down to the attire.
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by the-rc 7y ago
The Cello concerto no. 2 is his first work I listened to and still holds a special place for me: https://youtu.be/ApJU2QbbXpc
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by the-rc 7y ago
Bing, too, follows local laws that could otherwise get people arrested. At some point they didn't even show the Kashmir border as disputed: https://splinternews.com/how-airbnb-google-and-microsoft-vie... The whole situ
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by the-rc 7y ago
Vic was not at Google in 2005, when the Android acquisition happened, and he might have thrown in some hindsight to retrofit the reality of 2007-2010 onto the original decision. Fifteen years ago, Google knew too well about the Microsoft mo
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by the-rc 7y ago
I'll never forget the convoluted story of Bitcoins for his haircuts. I'm no longer at Google, but still wonder from time to time what happened to them. (Long internal story)
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by the-rc 7y ago
To expand: the more a stock has grown since you got it, the higher the tax advantage, because you get to deduct the full market value, not the cash you're left with after capital gain taxes. So pick your lots carefully. Also, if you kn
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by the-rc 7y ago
That hasn't stopped hunters from shooting at optic fiber before...
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by the-rc 7y ago
Until you eventually run out of connections on the DB... And all the workarounds that ensue.
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by the-rc 7y ago
I was only half joking. Yale used to have a cluster with Xserve machines.
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by the-rc 7y ago
Probably somebody at Yale!
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by the-rc 7y ago
As an aside, POSIX/Linux thread names have a limit of 16 bytes, which means 15 characters plus NULL. Speaking from experience, this can and will bite you when you need the names the most, if e.g. they are long, have just one or a handf

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