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by vhold 9y ago
Aurora read replicas are just compute heads decoupled from the storage. They increase availability and read performance, but don't do anything for the reliability of the storage. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora&
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by vhold 9y ago
> Some Pacific Bell employees wrote to their congressmen about Kroning. Newspapers ran damning stories with headlines such as “Phone company dabbles in mysticism” https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/03/24&#x2
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by vhold 9y ago
Agreed, heck, I still lament low latency dial-up shell access. Even at 9600 baud it was still more responsive and felt like using a computer in the same room. Chatting with somebody like that, in talk/ytalk/etc, where you could
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by vhold 9y ago
On the flip side was getting busy signals because of there not being enough capacity somewhere between you and the person you were calling, and also cross-talk issues, where you could hear other peoples' phone conversations on your lin
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by vhold 9y ago
I can think of one advantage.. it makes it difficult for somebody to attack you with a typo attack. If all your buckets having a consistent naming scheme that is very strict, then somebody else could make a bucket very similar to one of yo
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by vhold 9y ago
Maybe it's precisely only billing for cpu and memory consumed, so if your workload has a small footprint and is mostly waiting around a lot for other services to respond it would be really cheap?
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by vhold 9y ago
There was a lot of poor implementations of 3D TVs that are probably primarily responsible for the failure, but to me this was the final nail in the coffin: https://gizmodo.com/5715733/why-does-it-cost-300-to-buy-avat...
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by vhold 9y ago
I think the devs of Fantastic Contraption acknowledged this partially, and several months after releasing the game they added the ability to rescale and move the world, so you could play even while sitting. https://www.youtube.co
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by vhold 9y ago
Maybe the button should just scan for nearby bluetooth activity and if there is none it just assumes the person operating the button is old and gives them more time.
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by vhold 9y ago
I think that's a good comparison. The difference between the first portable computers and what we have today is massive. If AR/VR technologies evolve that way then what we'll have 30 years from now will be almost totally un
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by vhold 9y ago
I only found one column to have multiple solutions, and saved it for last, at which point only one option made sense.
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by vhold 9y ago
It's also the exact same cost, $5 per terabyte read.
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by vhold 10y ago
We don't have to get to level 5 to start automating trucking. In fact level 4 would likely be better than many drivers on that road now. Level 5 is an ideal we probably won't reach for decades, self driving cars better or equal
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by vhold 10y ago
They muse about the reason behind the sentiment neuron in the paper. "It is an open question why our model recovers the concept of sentiment in such a precise, disentangled, interpretable, and manipulable way. It is possible that senti
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by vhold 10y ago
I think the runaway smash success of Call of Duty changed the direction of FPS games considerably. The focus on advancing AI was replaced with spectacle.
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by vhold 10y ago
It's because of one of the most influential "prepper"s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Saxon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poor_Man%27s_James_Bond
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by vhold 10y ago
Yeah I immediately tried to uninstall it after seeing it required a login and had no preview functionality, and then immediately ran into the persistent process problem. Any application that puts a service like that on my system without my
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by vhold 10y ago
It then goes on to describe really basic problems billions of humans are naturally really good at, things we have no actual problem with in our real life, as opposed to say things that we are not good at, and therefore are real problems we
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by vhold 10y ago
I'm going to guess you live in or near San Francisco? Your view of golf is going to be skewed by that. While the Bay Area has extremely expensive and exclusive golf courses, it also uniquely has .. relatively.. affordable ones. But c
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by vhold 10y ago
The fact there is a high barrier of entry might be one of the only appeals golf has at all? Playing it is a status symbol. Although, I think maybe that elite status symbols themselves may be on a downswing, maybe because of the growing aw
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by vhold 10y ago
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Nintendo Classic is a device made out of the opportunity of some really cheap discontinued parts that were being totally liquidated and that's why they can't just easily increase ma
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by vhold 10y ago
Yeah I dabbled super briefly with VR development and what I actually struggled with is how annoying it is to have to keep taking off and putting on the HMD to do iterative development. I really want something I can keep on my head and flip
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by vhold 10y ago
Amazon's recommendation engine more or less falls under the umbrella of AI, it's just not one that consumers are really even aware they are interacting with.
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by vhold 10y ago
I think it's implied throughout all their predictions only apply up to 2030, so I think that is a fairly safe bet. Giving this the headline of "One Hundred Year Study.." was confusing. That's the name of the ongoing eff
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by vhold 10y ago
With Lambda you pay per 100ms / per-1-million-requests. So, yes, it's very proprietary at the moment, but for any service that sits idle most of the time it can be very cheap. https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
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by vhold 10y ago
Does the Alexa app actually let you use voice to ask questions and issue commands, or is it just an app to configure your Alexa devices?
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by vhold 10y ago
I kind of wonder if Tesla figures "Hey, once a few crashes happen people will figure it out."
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by vhold 10y ago
What wodenokoto said, and also look up "Word Embeddings", word2vec is a popular method. https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/tutorials/word2vec/... There's a bunch of blogs, tutorials,
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by vhold 10y ago
Geezus he included the hostnames and IPs? This is so insanely irresponsible.
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by vhold 10y ago
I think you're coming it at it from the perspective that making Lee Sedol was free? Imagine how many calories, all the fuel used to create those calories, his own direct transportation footprint, the time and money spent across creati

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