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by the-rc 7y ago
Does the poster actually live in NYC? It's one of the few places where drivers are actually already intimidated by pedestrians. As soon as car traffic at a crossing slows down, jaywalkers take over despite their red light and pass thr
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by the-rc 7y ago
> They passed muster with Mayo (a deal that no doubt had to pass muster with Shulkin among other world-renown physicians and administrators I used to work at both Mayo and Google. Mayo isn't shy about the need to protect their name
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by the-rc 7y ago
It also inspired one of Talk Talk's hits, Such a shame.
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by the-rc 7y ago
Even if you managed to get direct access to production through the special room's direct link, you'd still need a special kind of credentials to send RPCs to any service. There was a video with some of the datacenter security meas
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by the-rc 7y ago
Aren't the venture investment losses probably due to Uber's stock price? They owned a sizable chunk. I'm not sure if they sold it all.
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by the-rc 7y ago
Gels are palatable?!? No matter the flavour, I find them disgusting and, ultimately, a necessary evil. Agreed on the ease of packing. You'll still need additional water to wash them down, though. On the other hand, although potatoes ar
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by the-rc 7y ago
There's a hosted Bazel in an early access preview. Tensorflow uses it.
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by the-rc 7y ago
I'm from Southern Italy and I had tomatoes in Iceland years ago. I wouldn't call them particularly juicy. Or flavorful, for that matter. I've often noticed how the further North you go, the least flavor in the produce. Maybe
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by the-rc 7y ago
One could also argue that it also provided law enforcement with another potential target for blanket, large scale search warrants.
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by the-rc 7y ago
Sun actually approached Commodore about using Amiga technology for 680x0 workstations, while they were focusing on SPARC, but Mehdi Ali told them to go away. He also was nasty toward (IIRC) Epson during final negotiations for a large deal f
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by the-rc 7y ago
Yeah, George Robbins stopped working on the C900 and went on to design the A500, A600 and A1200, sticking references to songs by the B52's on their motherboards. A lot of people don't realize that Commodore had about 200 engineers
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by the-rc 7y ago
I know this "no man", had to work on an approval from him once, and I actually saw the infamous code change that implemented this. I don't remember him reviewing it. IIRC it was sent to a mailing list, to which he might have
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by the-rc 7y ago
You're right. There were also not a lot of AMD boards at first, to the point that services had to prove "Opteron worthiness". Unless your load tests showed improvements of 70% or faster, presumably what the most important pro
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by the-rc 7y ago
Most sales people at Google wouldn't even know where to start looking. They're more familiar with the ad systems. Heck, a lot of engineers couldn't tell you on the spot where to look or whom to inquire about ranking bugs. Add
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by the-rc 7y ago
I worked in a photography store in Italy in the summer 30 years ago or so. That's not always what was happening. Neither I nor anyone else working there ever looked at anyone's private pictures, but the guy delivering them from th
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by the-rc 7y ago
The numbers at the top are misleading. Are they the average over the graph's time interval? Average over June? Not clear, but I suspect the latter. If you switch the graph to daily, you see that it passed 51% on June 10th, i.e. in four
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by the-rc 7y ago
The fix has been available for almost two months. Don't iOS updates hit the 50% adoption mark within two weeks?
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by the-rc 7y ago
Nitpick: Chrome, or at least ChromeOS, already uses Wayland, in order to run Android and Linux apps.
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by the-rc 7y ago
The Mountain View warehouse is massive, but even "smaller" offices like NYC, which is not that small, have been screening mail for years. It's not just a security measure: employees can relocate from one building to another a
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by the-rc 7y ago
Uh, interesting Easter egg in there, Europe's The Final Countdown...
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What IA is doing is their business. I don't see Google linking or redirecting to them ever, for many reasons: security, (mostly) opening themselves to litigation from random users, etc. Why shouldn't it be served as dynamic conten
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by the-rc 7y ago
Talin! I was always a bit amused that people like him, who wrote The Faery Tale Adventure, Music-X or the Amiga Installer, would work on a social network. Same with Andy Hertzfeld.
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by the-rc 7y ago
It's not static content. It would have been expensive to keep the services running. Not just in terms of computing and storage, but also for the headcount. Speaking of the latter, who would want to work on maintaining a read-only versi
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by the-rc 7y ago
Ok, three parties... And it wasn't a shady link in the airline's email? https://support.google.com/calendar/forum/AAAAd3GaXpEb0_0F6e...
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by the-rc 7y ago
This is not "advertising and deception from Google", it's a spam/scam/phishing campaign. https://www.wired.com/story/phishing-links-google-calendar-i... Similar attacks have been directed at iC
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by the-rc 7y ago
Years ago, a vendor revealed that the largest buyer of tapes on the planet was Google, not some enterprise.
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by the-rc 7y ago
Plus he's from near Pisa. Historically, modern Tuscany had the reputation of a communist/leftist stronghold where people might go to Sunday Mass, but still swear a lot and not follow the church blindly (when they weren't outr
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by the-rc 7y ago
??? The original GFS paper, which the chat references repeatedly, was clear about the semantics not being POSIX-like. The interview mentions that, too, along with stuff like snapshots. Colossus is basically the same, with increased scalabil
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by the-rc 7y ago
Colossus is actually the only project I can think of for which they had one of the leaders sit down with Kirk McKusick and have a chat for ACM Queue, instead of a paper. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1594206
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by the-rc 7y ago
Especially at Google, you first see the same problem appearing and getting solved in multiple products, then someone tries to come up with a more generic solution that works for most projects and, just as importantly, can serve more traffic

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