andrewxdiamond

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by andrewxdiamond 4mo ago
I think the complaint about Google specifically is that they seem to do these things and commit to what seem to be whole lines of business without an actual business plan to make it viable. It’s one thing to take risks. It’s another thing t
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by andrewxdiamond 7mo ago
you can use a company that is self hosted like Unifi and have complete control over your data, still have remote access, and not pay a subscription. “self hosted” scares people off but its literally a box you plug in and forget about. Prett
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by andrewxdiamond 8mo ago
It does it quicker if you already have this tool installed. nmap is everywhere.
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by andrewxdiamond 9mo ago
We use nanosecond precision driven by GPS clocks. That timestamp in conjunction with star tracker systems gives us reliable positioning information for orbital entities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker
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by andrewxdiamond 10mo ago
They also have one displayed at the Cleveland Clinic main campus _cafeteria_ Imo focusing in “showing off” instead of “providing value” is a bit of a product-smell. Maybe thats just the point tho, IBM seems to prioritize impressing C-suites
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A tool for dealing with GPS time in Ns(andrew.diamonds)
5 points by andrewxdiamond 10mo ago|2 comments
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by andrewxdiamond 10mo ago
and also by ‘some countries’ they mean about 4% of the earth’s population, or 1 in 25 people.
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Amazon Leo(leo.amazon.com)
3 points by andrewxdiamond 10mo ago|7 comments
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by andrewxdiamond 11mo ago
I would throw Rimworld into that list as well. A fine game by itself, if a bit simplistic. But the mods make the game massively customizable and lets the player do basically whatever they want
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by andrewxdiamond 1y ago
motivated to show you results that get sales, not that are the best solution to the problem
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by andrewxdiamond 1y ago
Target had been pandering to the LGBTQ community for a long time, they released many shirts and ads that tried to present itself as inclusive and forward thinking. But the very second things change on the top, they flip. Yes quite a few peo
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
Well no, because they are employees / contractors of the film studio, who presumably claim all copyright of what they captured. However, the camera operators likely do own the pictures they take with their own cameras on-set, provided
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
You’re basically describing Roblox.
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
Another perspective is Google is stifling American innovation by its megalithic presence in markets. Suppressing local growth in exchange for short term profitability. Separately, why is having tech giants a pure advantage? These companies
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
Well an un-hardened flash drive would probably stop working within minutes of being exposed to all those rads, but I’m just being pedantic :p
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
> access to unclassified data in every government agency. Is this even meaningful? We have the FoIA, can’t any company acquire unclassified data any time they want? I suppose it’s an ease-of-access thing, but for a large corp it seems y
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
If I want to produce a device, am I required to put work in to maintaining it forever? An iPhone 8 is really old by this point, honestly I’m impressed it still works. What timeline would you recommend that is fair to both consumers and prod
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
Ironically the _lack_ of dogfooding GCP products at google is often quoted as one of the reasons AWS beat GCP to defining the Cloud market. Amazon builds AWS on AWS as much as possible, Google has only somewhat recently pushed for this
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
> won't try to fetch the default path until after the <head> section of the page loads for HTML content That's a really interesting optimization. How did you discover this? Reading source?
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
In my understanding, a high rate of lethality is very counter-productive for viruses. If you kill the host, it can’t really spread.
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
I have to ask what motivates that. Defender has been extremely unproblematic and pretty good as far as MS software goes, for my experience at least.
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
> I also like to make things in Rust Seems like a good enough reason to use it to me, but perhaps I’m just another cult member. > we use Rust in production because we thought it would be easier (well safer) to teach to interpreted lan
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
Ah yes, following the winning strategy of Fire devices
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
I think it’s likely we have passed the peak of R/D spend on ICE, but the momentum of research that has gone into it for decades is going to continue to produce innovations for a while longer.
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
As long as you dont loose your backup codes and your MFA device at the same time, you're safe.
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
I found the link to the actual filling. I can’t really read legalise but it seem like this is accurate. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25041321-disney-arbi...
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
Amazon sales and business teams are constantly focused on reducing costs for customers and they celebrate this internally too. I have seen dozens of big ticket “we saved this customer $xxxK/year” posts on slack and other internal venue
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
Yes and the fact that my software’s UI looks like Windows 95 makes it vulnerable to all the same security vulnerabilities. /s The systems don’t run on W95, they look like W95
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
Lost? Nothing has been deprecated, Java edition is still supported and kept in feature parity with Bedrock aka MS Edition. Yes, Bedrock is not mod friendly like Java, but the modding community hasn't stopped. And yes they moved the lic
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by andrewxdiamond 2y ago
The total cost of ownership differences between asphalt and concrete roads is astronomical. A single pothole in concrete is a very invasive fix with significant amount of debris, but asphalt can be almost infinitely recycled. Replacing asph

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