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   by tpmx 4y ago

   https://www.wired.com/2008/10/google-ceo-call/ Speaking to a group of magazine executives at the Google headquarters, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday that the Internet is becoming a breeding ground fo
2. 1172.▲
   by tpmx 4y ago

   Their 2021 revenue was $25M.
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   by tpmx 4y ago

   I think you prefer silence over noise. Most people do.
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   by tpmx 4y ago

   Do you like noise?
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   by tpmx 4y ago

   No, for bringing down the cost of moving that file to a competing cloud service provider.
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   by tpmx 4y ago

   Anti-competitive practices ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices ) don't require a monopoly.
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   by tpmx 4y ago

   I think this would be an excellent area for regulation since it anti-competitive (portability is dramatically reduced since it has been made artifically expensive to move the data to another cloud service) and the cloud services haven'
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   by tpmx 4y ago

   There was also a TV series with that premise in 2014, as a late plot twist. I guess naming it would spoil it.
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   by tpmx 4y ago

   I just tried out the AWS offering for CI/CD (CodePipeline/CodeBuild) and was disappointed with time-from-commit-to-deploy (to ECS, although it's the launch/build time I'm primarily concerned with here). It appears t
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    Made using 35 of these modules: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/broadcom-limited/... Price per module: $44 @ 1, $35 @ 10
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    https://www.cio.com/article/191244/how-one-cio-and-hockey-co... (2021) Veteran CIO provides his team with accountability, board exposure, and continual feedback to turn them into tomorrow’s IT leaders.
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    You don't see that /~username/ pattern in URLs so often these days. I always liked it.
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    I love the skeuomorphic design of the Boya Gongdao Robot Technology Robo-Shark shown in the article. Looks like they anodized it into a Space Gray shade too for that extra touch, at least in the render. Expectation: https://spect
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    Their first prototype used a grid of off-the-shelf portable "pico projectors" (half a million pixels per projector was mentioned, so perhaps each pixel had 800x600 "rays"). https://youtu.be/p1b3wEsFlCY?t=
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    If you have a craving: Many of the various kinds of salamis from Kotivara (Finnish) have horse meat in them, including the very nice pepperoni one: https://www.kotivara.se/vara-salamis/salamis/pepperonisalami...
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    After loading your site and I giving it my address it told me I should be able to see the ISS in a few minutes, with just 11% chance of cloud cover. I looked outside through a window.. and yeah, there it was! It moved across the sky exactly
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    ...bans Google Workspace use by municipalities until data transfer aspects etc have been properly documented. The rest of the article does not support the clickbait headline.
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    This story from four months ago? https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/21/jobfished-bbc-doc-on-madbird-... (It was the UK.)
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    I guess you're probably thinking about someone like me - someone who got started in 90s, or perhaps even earlier. I don't hate the competent developers at Microsoft (of course they exist, there have been source code leaks) - I jus
20. 1190.▲
    by tpmx 4y ago

    I'd argue that the old-school criterium for a "successful" Pixar movie was that it needed to be great, not just good.
21. 1191.▲
    by tpmx 4y ago

    Still worth it. Unlike 2750 GBP + VAT.
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    "£2750 plus VAT"
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    > Meet & Assist Executive €200. Now we're talking!
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    This is some next-gen level bait. Gotta admire it.
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    Yes, 1.48% of a very large number is still a large number.
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    HN needs to work on this, IMO. It works way too well here. Should I flag this post? Feels a bit over the top. At the same time I can't downvote it. shrug
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    "a reduction in the current passenger cap from 101,500 to 100,000" Doesn't seem that dramatic?
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    Ah. Might have to watch it then. After a number of duds I gave up on watching new Pixar movies except for those made by Brad Bird, or especially recommended.
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    > it's happening! Okay...
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    by tpmx 4y ago

    Inside out was good, but not great, IMO. Counter-counterpoints: Cars 2, Brave, Monsters University, The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory, Cars 3, Coco, Onward, Luca, Turning Red, Lightyear. The (not very original) point is: You can no longer c