mvgoogler

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by mvgoogler 1y ago
Kodak film products are (confusingly) handled by Kodak-Alaris, which is a separate company that spun out of Eastman Kodak around 2012-ish and shares the Kodak brand with Eastman Kodak. Despite the similar names they are entirely separate co
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by mvgoogler 2y ago
Im assuming you are referencing this paper [1], which is about competetive breath hold diving - diving to hundreds of feet on a single breath. I've never heard of seals doing that kind of training. [1] https://faseb.onlineli
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by mvgoogler 2y ago
I felt it in Boston, albeit very faintly
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Watch Hyundai's Wild Crab-Walking Ioniq 5 Perform a Perfect Park Job(roadandtrack.com)
2 points by mvgoogler 3y ago|1 comments
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by mvgoogler 4y ago
> The title of the submission is also "Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage" Yeah, but the title is made up. There is noting in the official report about this being "nationwide". The report only states that there i
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by mvgoogler 4y ago
Full list of reporting stations is here: https://www.aviationweather.gov/docs/metar/stations.txt The report is that 167 are missing. That would be roughly 5% of US stations or 0.2% of worldwide stations. I was ab
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by mvgoogler 4y ago
Is the Aptera doing this? I remember them talking about having the motors in the wheels but I'm not sure if it's what you're proposing.
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by mvgoogler 4y ago
I go every year.
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by mvgoogler 4y ago
It's up to $12,000 now. https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview
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by mvgoogler 4y ago
I would ask the interviewer and use it as an opportunity to show your knowledge of data structures and your ability to reason about trade-offs and talk through priorities. I would say something like: "I think a balanced tree, such as
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by mvgoogler 4y ago
Where I live in semi-rural Maine, probably 90+% of the houses are on private roads on private land. If they weren't listed as routes in map services nobody would be able to find us.
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by mvgoogler 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character
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by mvgoogler 5y ago
Those prices are likely body-only. By the time you add lenses and other accessories you're probably looking at 2-4x the price of the body.
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National Ignition Facility puts researchers at threshold of fusion ignition(llnl.gov)
2 points by mvgoogler 5y ago|0 comments
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by mvgoogler 5y ago
Prodkernel is not in the monorepo - it's in a separate git repo and uses it's own systems for building and qualifying new releases. There is a system for using git* in conjunction with the monorepo that some developers use, but th
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Fossil footprints reveal humans in North America earlier than previously thought(usgs.gov)
99 points by mvgoogler 5y ago|77 comments
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Criminal indictment imminent for former Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot(seattletimes.com)
19 points by mvgoogler 5y ago|5 comments
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Mathematical model predicts best way to build muscle(phys.org)
4 points by mvgoogler 5y ago|0 comments
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Google will require employees to be vaccinated before returning to offices(theverge.com)
36 points by mvgoogler 5y ago|11 comments
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
From the HN guidelines: 'Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."' It doesn't add any
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New Method Is Proven to Accelerate Elimination of Alcohol from the Body(scitechdaily.com)
20 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|6 comments
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
Deleted photos, accounts, etc are definitely deleted and purged from our systems. We have teams at Google whose sole purpose is to ensure that data that should be deleted is deleted in a timely manner (as defined by TOS and the law). Basica
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
I am very confident that photos metadata is not used for ad targeting. I know enough about the infrastructure and the folks that run it that it would take a seriously tin-foil-hat type scenario for this to be happening without the team&#x27
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
It's in the press release: https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/ "And, as always, we uphold our commitment to not use information in Google Photos for advertising purposes" http
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
Photos doesn't show ads or allow your photos to be used for ad targeting. <I've worked on Google Photos since before it was launched>
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
Google One family subscriptions would be a good fit here. You can manage the subscription and just add your mother to the plan. It's what our family does. <disclaimer - I work on Google Photos>
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
That is supported on at least Android (I think it is on iOS as well, but I'm not 100% sure). When you switch the backup options from High-Quality to Original quality you should get a prompt asking if you want to re-upload the photos on
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by mvgoogler 6y ago
A new tool will launch on June 1 that will make it easier to manage quota usage. The goal is to make it easier to understand what is using quota and reduce the amount of quota that is used. It will show things like your largest photos and l
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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021(theverge.com)
664 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|626 comments
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Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future(blog.google)
113 points by mvgoogler 6y ago|1 comments

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