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This is probably wrong.

What's more likely is you had people in your proximity that you did talk this to, be it work, school, in your home, or even at a random coffee shop. Google (and Meta) can hone in on your trends and habits so easily and so quickly, they'll know what you are going to do before you even do it. This is possible because they have a very deep understanding of social groups with billions of humans in the network.

You're just not as unique as you think you are.

Re:Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:12PM (#49972052)
I think the whole point is for it to be a static site that is easily distributed with little-to-no overhead, as it probably receives a non-trivial amount of traffic.
Re:World Labs is joining AMD on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:46PM (#49887931)
Amusingly, an LLM could probably figure this out in seconds.
Typing this from Zen browser as we speak, can't suggest it enough.
Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @07:28PM (#49190462)
Google's internal tooling is still, hands down, better than anything that exists for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close.

Google's processes, however, is hands down the worst thing to exist for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close.

Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @07:24PM (#49190415)
CEO of <thing> at Google (not Alphabet) was always an informal title. There is no CEO of Cloud, CEO of YouTube, or CEO of DeepMind within Google internally -- it's always been an SVP role.
You don't really need to tmux at all for Claude Code CLI. Claude Code CLI supports streaming json input, and streaming json output; you can use stdin/out as a pipe to control Claude Code CLI.

I'm doing this today in https://github.com/Cidan/ask -- works great.

Re:Google’s in-house desktop Linux on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:35PM (#32312338)
Yeah, agreed. This isn't even close to true, not sure where he got that from.
Re:Google Kubernetes Engine adds support for Arm nodes on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @06:45PM (#32089680)
Also, the PM's are going to do an AMA for this on reddit tomorrow:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/vy8hx3/ama_wit...

Come join us! Also, hi Moles :)

Googler here.

We have very strict and very well engineered data retention systems. When we say data is deleted, we mean it. Various levels of automation ensure the data is purged, and all data is tracked meticulously for violations across every datastore.

It's one of those systems I wish we talked about more -- it's a marvel to behold just how much work goes into retention policies and the automation that drives it.

Many years ago, I worked for a contractor where we required clearance. We hired this one sysadmin "stick it to the man" type of guy that was extremely well educated and talented.

When he got to the part of the form that asked if he has ever consumed drugs, he said "yes" as he should have by being honest. The follow up question asks something along the lines of, "If yes, will you ever consume drugs again?"

The jack-ass decided to answer "I won't not do them again..." We fired him a few days later.

BigQuery on GCP does this as well, without any extra work.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google)

Re:OpenAI Five on Monday June 25, 2018 @02:01PM (#17394346)
(I too work for Google Cloud)

I agree. One of the most amazing things about watching this project unfold is just how quickly it went from 0 to 100 with minimal overhead. It's amazing to watch companies and individuals push the boundaries of what is possible with just the push of a button.

Re:Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:49AM (#16211556)
It already is! It's available in open beta for all customers, with a GA release coming in the near future.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud

Take a look at Google Cloud IAP -- it's essentially a stripped down version of BeyondCorp for public use on Google Cloud. I've used this as a customer of Google's with great success, it really does just work.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

Re:Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @09:42PM (#16057846)
Re:America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:32PM (#15654647)
> Let's make towns have downtowns, with beautiful brick roads, scenic ponds with some ducks, perhaps a waterfall, some nice cafes, a lawn with benches, some parks, some nature, trees, live music, a library and museums.

You would think! I live in Santa Monica, California, and we have exactly that in our downtown area. The retail shop turnover is insane -- a large amount of shops come and go from the area, despite the massive amount of foot traffic the area sees every weekend (and most weekdays during the summer).

Re:GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:51PM (#15598082)
Vendor lock-in is most certainly not the only competing point we have against AWS. From BigQuery, to BigTable, to Spanner, to our private network, to our live migration of compute, to our hosted Kubernetes, the list goes on and on.

AWS does a lot of things right, and we're more than happy to go toe-to-toe with them in the areas they have us beat. Competition is a sign of a healthy economy where everyone benefits. How can you compete if you don't even try to match the people you are competing against?

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

Re:Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:31PM (#14622513)
Came here to post this -- moving our infra from AWS to GCP was the best decision I've ever made.
Re:Improving GCE boot times with custom images on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:22PM (#14421645)
We've accomplished much of the same by using GKE and making artifacts out of containers. New instances scale up within a few seconds (and less than a second if we pre-pull the image).

It's pretty amazing.

Re:Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:45PM (#14370442)
Second this. We just moved our sizable infrastructure to GCP for more or less the exact same reason. GCP makes all of this a breeze -- I don't understand why other providers can't do the same.
You can already adjust the load distribution algorithm when creating the LB, so I imagine this doesn't really change anything.
I haven't done this in AWS yet, but I've been growing mounted block devices/disks Google Cloud for a while now. It's more or less just like growing a disk on a SAN.

You still have to grow the filesystem it self though, so if you're trying to grow the root mount, using a partitioned disk, and not using an abstraction like LVM you will need to reboot to be able to use the full disk.

Glad to see AWS catch up in this area.

Re:GitLab 8.15 Released on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:42PM (#13242894)
Pardon me here, but I don't understand what you mean by "the docker image most people use is unofficial."

I was under the impression that everyone used the fully featured official docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ee/). We've been using this for over a year without issues now. Is there a reason you need the unofficial version? Does it do something different?

Re:Kafka: An End or a Beginning? on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:52PM (#13002745)
My initial thought before reading the article was "Well, Spotify did just move off of it..."
Re:Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:34PM (#12802018)
"...8-node DC1.8XL Amazon Redshift cluster for the tests."

Well, yeah. That's 28,108.80 a month if you're running queries on demand and don't want a delay/coordination in Amazon instance creation/destruction.

BQ may or may not be as fast, but it's truly a managed service; I give it our data and it just works. I don't have to worry about instances, boot up time, maintenance, hourly costs, etc. It's silly to focus just on query speed when there's a whole layer of management and cost that comes with it.

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