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An AWS Data Center Tour(aboutamazon.com)
2 points by xhroot 3y ago|0 comments
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by xhroot 4y ago
There was a guy who made a forum bet he could land a Cessna 172 - first try - with nothing but MS Flight Simulator experience. Here: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/pro... And outcome: ht
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Amazon names Adam Selipsky the incoming CEO of its $40B cloud business(businessinsider.com)
2 points by xhroot 5y ago|0 comments
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by xhroot 6y ago
Huh, it's pretty good at lassoing the intended subject. Even picks out a computer rendered vehicle well: https://xhroot.s3.amazonaws.com/roci.png Original here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles&#
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by xhroot 6y ago
So if I go down the IOT aisle at Best Buy and say "Ok, who is reading a city in Montana a letter?" everything will light up?
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by xhroot 6y ago
Seems temporary: > Amazon Europe has requested we temporarily shut down operations in order to lighten their burden while they try to get necessary products into peoples hands. > So, as of now, and likely until the end of the COVID-19
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by xhroot 7y ago
Maybe they should have gone with a slight tweak of the 1963 version https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BMW_logo_... and scored retro-nostalgia points with the older crowd, too.
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by xhroot 7y ago
Heh, the icon is named "audible": "displayName": "Dynamic command execution", "detectedIcon": "fab fa-audible" It's probably unintentionally used by an engineer unfamiliar
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by xhroot 7y ago
> IronPython, IronRuby "IronRust" would be amusing
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by xhroot 7y ago
I-1000 is literally called "Affirmative Action and Diversity Commission Measure" https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat...
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by xhroot 7y ago
Javascript in FF/Chrome: > (-80538738812075974n)**3n + 80435758145817515n**3n + 12602123297335631n**3n 42n https://caniuse.com/#search=bigint
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Microsoft hikes cost of licensing its software on rival public clouds(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by xhroot 7y ago|0 comments
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Miraculous Tools for React Developers in 2019(dev.to)
2 points by xhroot 7y ago|0 comments
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Flutter looks good, but is painful(medium.com)
208 points by xhroot 7y ago|188 comments
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by xhroot 7y ago
And my favorite: Coloring CD edges with a green marker to improve sound https://www.stereophile.com/reference/590jitter/index.html
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by xhroot 9y ago
Yeah, I filed https://github.com/google/boardgame.io/issues/9 . The source in github does check if the cell is filled [1] but the demo code must be from an earlier version that didn't. [1] https:/&
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by xhroot 12y ago
As were the originally proposed names "Cadabra" and "Relentless" ( http://www.relentless.com still redirects to Amazon).
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by xhroot 13y ago
https://s3.amazonaws.com/xhroot/world.html Happy?
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by xhroot 13y ago
Presumably, one could download the eBook to every book they've purchased on Amazon, even if they no longer own the print version (e.g., resold or lost). I'm hoping O'Reilly, Manning, and Apress get on board with this, but I
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by xhroot 13y ago
It's because Firefox doesn't support mp3 via the HTML5 <audio> tag due to licensing IIRC. IE supports mp3 but not ogg. Chrome supports both.
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by xhroot 14y ago
In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins proposed that grandparents - obviously well beyond child bearing - can affect their gene propagation by caring for their grandchildren, at least indirectly. What a true scientist; most people are content to thin
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ASP.NET MVC Now Accepting Pull Requests(haacked.com)
52 points by xhroot 14y ago|18 comments
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by xhroot 15y ago
http://ssl.gstatic.com/gb/js/pwm_377e54339fe6909b01c5d023b52... uses goog.structs.SimplePool, so you know at least that part uses Closure, http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/class_goog_st... .
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by xhroot 15y ago
What's supposed to trigger this sound? http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/static/punch-go.mp3