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by lost_name 4y ago
Maybe a little off the topic, but I was thinking just the other day that Alexa/Google Home/Siri could be made significantly better if it accepted instructions the way ChatGPT does.
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by lost_name 6y ago
Your statement made me wonder if someone else had done this, and sure enough I found something -- https://www.cloudcomparisontool.com/ Look for "Object Storange" for instance and in the row will be links to all th
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by lost_name 7y ago
> "Scalable" no idea what it means. Generally refers to the idea that a microservice should be designed to scale horizontally (with more instances) vs. vertically (more compute power). If you can scale horizontally you're
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by lost_name 7y ago
In firefox, if I put something in the search box, press enter, it will search. If I press enter a second time (taking no other action) it will display json.
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by lost_name 7y ago
Kind of a tangent, but I was traveling in Portugal last year, and one day as I was headed to a train station I felt my phone buzz. I picked it up and it had a failed Bluetooth file transfer. In the settings, the device name had changed from
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by lost_name 7y ago
For what it's worth, my banks have these features other than Daily Cash. That feature is something I don't think I've seen before. > It just looks like an Apple branded version of what I've already had for years. It i
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by lost_name 7y ago
Well, for what it's worth, they rent their own scooters as well as license out their platform. Perhaps some of the value comes from that. https://www.bird.co/platform/
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by lost_name 9y ago
> It seems that everybody knows everything. I think about this from time to time -- how people build up this sense of personality related to a forum or site. I think what tends to happen for an individual is that when you're talking
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by lost_name 9y ago
Wouldn't this be true for any open source application you don't compile from the source?
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by lost_name 9y ago
I agree and was curious why they picked it. I guess their reasoning is as good as any. > Steem is a form of esteem, which means to prize or value. Steem is also a homophone for steam, which is frequently associated with power, and a step
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by lost_name 9y ago
I don't, sorry. I'm seem to recall that he worked with a state government.
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by lost_name 9y ago
Not that this is really any help, but an acquaintance of mine works for HPE and notified he was being laid off yesterday, and his last day is today. He was with HP (now HPE) for maybe 4-6 years.
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by lost_name 9y ago
It's interesting to say that $8B of new value was created, since no one could supply that money if anyone asked for it. How did the cryptocurrency markets handle that, anyway?
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by lost_name 9y ago
Is there any reason why people were (seemingly) expecting this, or was it just an idea that gained momentum that AMD never actually suggested or considered?
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by lost_name 9y ago
> They also appear to have plagiarized the terms of use from other sites. Well, if so, they have a lot of company: https://goo.gl/zfz0pp The entire document is all over the web. If it gets off the ground I would expect i
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Allrecipes Notice of Data Breach(wecare.allrecipes.com)
2 points by lost_name 9y ago|0 comments
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by lost_name 10y ago
It seems it's more nuanced. Try the following searches: how long does it take to caramelize onions how long does it take to caramelise onions (note the typo) how long to caramelize an onion (not a typo but still wrong) how lo
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by lost_name 10y ago
There was a very good documentary on the NatGeo channel here in the US just this week that did an excellent job of explaining all of it to me. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/gender-revolution-a-jo... One thing I foun
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Oracle finally targets Java non-payers – six years after plucking Sun(theregister.co.uk)
136 points by lost_name 10y ago|44 comments
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by lost_name 10y ago
Nothing in my department yet, but we actually have a guy actively looking for a reason to implement some kind of ML so we can say our product "has it" I guess.
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by lost_name 10y ago
Oof... like, 9/12 of those describe my team. I don't kid myself into thinking I'm doing anything meaningful here, but to have so much of process put so bluntly is eye opening. I suppose it's comforting to know that it&#x
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by lost_name 10y ago
Just for fun, have a look at the comments about the iPod announcement: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.50... There's always people with something to say.
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by lost_name 10y ago
I'm afraid I won't be a lot of help in terms of gaining traction, but I can say that here at Big Corp this is a regular problem I have as a team lead. I don't know if the size of the company has anything to do with it, but I
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by lost_name 10y ago
https://www.justwatch.com (not my site, just a handy tool)
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by lost_name 10y ago
I believe they've previously discussed Hangouts becoming business focused. Allo, I think, has the potential to replace the default SMS app (similar to iMessage).
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by lost_name 10y ago
I wonder if the WhatsApp "problem" Brazil has been having somehow influenced the change of stance of encryption?
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by lost_name 10y ago
Indeed. This one has proven popular as well. https://unity3d.com/showcase/case-stories/hearthstone
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by lost_name 10y ago
> Does it matter? Well, yes because that's the accusation, but no because you're correct in the sense is that you have to assume the worst if they aren't making it clear. Once the catch-all is in place they can do what the
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by lost_name 10y ago
For what it's worth, I have my doubts that this applies to a generic call/sms on any old Android device. I would think it's more likely to apply to services such as the Hangouts calling or Google Voice, and probably Google Fi
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by lost_name 10y ago
You can get service from a 're-shipper' to mask your address and use gift cards or other prepaid cards to hide the credit card info.

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