daviddumenil

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A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions(arstechnica.com)
3 points by daviddumenil 11mo ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 2y ago
In the case of the BMW i3, European legislation was introduced that made manufacturers accountable for the recyclability of their cars. Something the article completely sidesteps when talking about metals versus composites :-) Cost versus s
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The 10x Development Environment(dev.37signals.com)
3 points by daviddumenil 4y ago|0 comments
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A light-powered catalyst could be key for hydrogen economy(phys.org)
3 points by daviddumenil 4y ago|0 comments
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Shunned by the West, Russia’s IT sector goes on the defensive(aljazeera.com)
5 points by daviddumenil 4y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 4y ago
Portugal's +1500 makes most sense in the context of Brazil's -2500. I'd love to know if that's a longer term trend for Brazil or if their wealthy are spooked by something.
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by daviddumenil 5y ago
The GDA process for for the Chinese-developed reactor planned for the UK [1] took four and a half years [2] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell_B_nuclear_power_stati... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by daviddumenil 5y ago
Related: Have an Enemy https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.5-have-an-enemy
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by daviddumenil 5y ago
> It seems that FIFA isn't exactly free of corruption John Oliver has made a great summary of FIFA's darker side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I
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Was Famed Samson and Delilah Painted by Rubens? No, Says AI(theguardian.com)
1 points by daviddumenil 5y ago|0 comments
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Summary of Apple’s App Store Settlement(twitter.com)
3 points by daviddumenil 5y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures(arstechnica.com)
6 points by daviddumenil 6y ago|1 comments
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CIA Opens Competition for Lucrative Cloud Deals to Amazon Rivals(bloomberg.com)
1 points by daviddumenil 7y ago|0 comments
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Empathy-Driven Development: How Engineers Can Tap into This Critical Skill(firstround.com)
3 points by daviddumenil 7y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 7y ago
This is a misleading title. The UK government gave access to US companies. There's currently no suggestion that the data moved to the US. More details here: https://euobserver.com/justice/145530
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by daviddumenil 7y ago
After privatisation people flocked back to UK rail. Volumes that had been largely static for more than fifty years have doubled since privatisation. A Virgin Pendolino is a far more pleasant experience than the old British Rail equivalent.
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5 books I loved in 2018(gatesnotes.com)
2 points by daviddumenil 8y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 8y ago
RF tracking was even more sophisticated in WWII. The Gestapo developed a man-portable set worn under a trenchcoat: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/df/gurtelpeiler/index.htm
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On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars(theoatmeal.com)
9 points by daviddumenil 8y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 8y ago
A better phrase might be 'multinational partnership'. Big accountancy and legal firms have good historical reasons for those corporate structures.
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How we monitor Monzo(monzo.com)
1 points by daviddumenil 8y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 8y ago
Could this approach be applied to a metric monitoring framework to give earlier/more accurate notifications if when a threshold would be crossed? Typically these are triggered when e.g. 90% of a threshold has been crossed.
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Opportunity Rover on Mars Still Silent 2 Months into Epic Dust Storm(space.com)
2 points by daviddumenil 8y ago|0 comments
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H-1B use skyrocketed among Bay Area tech giants(phys.org)
33 points by daviddumenil 8y ago|2 comments
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by daviddumenil 8y ago
I think it was more a case that Google had a large existing investment in CPU-based compute. A lot of Dean's initial work was getting models effectively training on that kind of hardware using distributed SGD.
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Lawsplainer: Michael Cohen's Attempt to Delay the Stormy Daniels Litigation(popehat.com)
2 points by daviddumenil 8y ago|0 comments
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Apache Spark 2.3 with Native Kubernetes Support(blog.kubernetes.io)
2 points by daviddumenil 9y ago|0 comments
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by daviddumenil 9y ago
Can someone shed some light on why Apple would release this with only Apple Music as a music source?
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by daviddumenil 9y ago
A gentle contradiction in the article: "a full-scale break-up would cripple the platforms’ economies of scale" but later: "Trustbusters should scrutinise mergers to gauge whether a deal is likely to neutralise a potential lon
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OpenCensus with Prometheus and Kubernetes(kausal.co)
1 points by daviddumenil 9y ago|0 comments

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