altgoogler

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by altgoogler 2y ago
They didn't get a terrian warning because they were landing. Being close to the ground is what they expected. They have both radar & pressure altimeters. What might have happened is that due to the poor weather they thought they
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by altgoogler 2y ago
Mining yellowstone for its geothermal power in order to prevent a volcanic eruption would be a Kardashev Scale Type I accomplishment. In other words, such a thing is completely infeasible given our current understanding of science and techn
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by altgoogler 3y ago
The current Waymo driver uses cameras, RADAR and LIDAR, which are meant to compliment each other's capabilities. https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-the...
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by altgoogler 3y ago
https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safet...
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by altgoogler 3y ago
Googler here. L4 requires experience. New grad hires are L3.
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by altgoogler 3y ago
When you take off, you're going up at a rate of 500 fpm to 2000 fpm. Even if you go from +1000 fpm to -1000 fpm over the course of several seconds, you aren't going to feel much. At cruise altitude, you're moving along at 50
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by altgoogler 4y ago
Almost all aircraft are equipped with ADS-B transponders, which transmit their tail number and location continuously. Anybody can buy a ADS-B receiver and see info for aircraft flying near them. In good internet fashion, people figured out
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by altgoogler 4y ago
I can't help but think this is the only sensible approach. Persistant performance related issues are management's responsibility. It's unfair to withhold their vesting mere weeks from their vest date when management should&#x
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by altgoogler 4y ago
Here's the source talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs#t=2480s
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by altgoogler 5y ago
Take a look at the map. Chernobyl sits right on the border of Belarus, 130km to Kyiv on the western side of Dnieper river. They didn't take Chernobyl to take the reactor, they took it because it is extremely strategic if the goal is t
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by altgoogler 5y ago
I think the article was pretty well-informed and sourced analysis. Yes, as you point out, NATO has undertaken offensive campaigns. I think the author made a mistake of saying "alliance" here when they meant to say "treaty&q
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by altgoogler 5y ago
There are a number of HN readers: * https://hckrnews.com/ -> my favorite thread browser * https://hackerweb.app/ -> a mobile focused app w/ dark mode
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by altgoogler 5y ago
Disclaimer: am googler, my opinions are my own. I have no non-public knowledge on this topic. It's not clear to me what the House committee is asking for. From what I read in their letters it's basically, "We think you have
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by altgoogler 5y ago
Disclaimer: am Googler. Self-hosting is a good option, especially when mixed with multi-cloud offerings. The big rub is that it's really hard to approach the same level of availability the cloud offerings already give you. Depending o
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by altgoogler 5y ago
> In June, Google told rank-and-file employees it would reduce the pay of those who choose to work remotely or move farther from the office. To echo the statement from the other Googler who posted, this quote from the article is simply n
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by altgoogler 5y ago
It's not clear to you how standard business practices aren't some sort of Google-specific Orwellian new-speak?
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by altgoogler 5y ago
Googler here. My opinions are my own. I would do this if the company provided the hardware and I only had to use the device to do work things during work hours. (As other pointed out Google does in fact provide hardware to employees needin
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by altgoogler 6y ago
The approach described here is very lossy, and very inefficient since you have to search a huge number of permutations to find reasonable results. It would be an interesting experiment to implement lossless compression, but it likely wouldn
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by altgoogler 6y ago
Hi Wes! I'm a big fan of Pandas, and didn't know about Arrow. I've been considering do a talk advocating for a consistent data-frame api across languages since IMHO, it's the next fundamental data structure that should
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by altgoogler 6y ago
Another anon Googler here (with a slightly older account). Your experience matches mine. I think it might even be somewhere in the mandatory periodic training. Doing a patent search as a software engineer can only hurt you. Better just to
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by altgoogler 6y ago
Hi Malte! Great article. I've agree that design docs are great part of what defines engineering culture at Google. I'd recommend to anybody who will listen that their company should do it also. Lots of people in this thread were
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by altgoogler 6y ago
"When you delete data in your Google account, we immediately start the process of removing it from the product and our systems." https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention See also: https:/&#x2F
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by altgoogler 6y ago
Unofficial Googler here. I have no non-public information on this topic and my opinions here are my own. The Web & App activity is described a help page article [1]. There are different settings for Android, Desktop and iOS. If you f
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by altgoogler 6y ago
(Disclaimer - am Googler; these opinions are my own) It's not an either or decision. One can do both. https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/comm...
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by altgoogler 6y ago
That is a good suggestion. Done.
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by altgoogler 6y ago
Because it's not clear why the channel was taken down in the first place. I don't have any insider information in that regard. I don't have access to the system that would tell me the reason. It's possible (however u
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by altgoogler 6y ago
To clarify, I have no insider knowledge of this matter, I don't speak in any official context and all of my opinions are my own. I consider adding that to every Google related comment, but it gets tiring.
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by altgoogler 6y ago
Indeed, the question is what should be done, or how should it have been done differently? Should YT have grown more slowly? FWIW, I don't think money is the limiting factor here. If there was a known good solution, but it took $10B t
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by altgoogler 6y ago
The BBFA and MPAA, if I understand correctly, watch every second of content they rate. They have a back-and-forth with creators when there are disputes. They can afford to communicate, well, this is one f-bomb too many and usless you remo
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by altgoogler 6y ago
Sometimes simple suggestions are complex to implement or have wide reaching implications. For example, it is very hard to come up with a sort list of clear content rules. There are all sorts of ambiguities. For example, when is nudity ok?

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