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Re:Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking
on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:44AM (#21377957)
The actual paper, where their TLS certificate is not yet expired, is https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
Re:Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking
on Monday October 28, 2019 @11:43AM (#21377944)
At many companies rolling out a new kernel in a month would be an outright miracle.
Re:My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:08PM (#21359737)
Any equity that is offered with secret terms should be valued at zero. In my experience nobody will tell you, so always go for market rate salaries.
Re:My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:06PM (#21359720)
This is why you should get a proper salary even if you are working at a "hot startup". Were you expecting a $1m gross payout from owning 1% of a $100m company? That's the kind of gross income you'd get every 2 years of working at Googbookagramazon. Consider opportunity costs carefully.
Re:Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the US, 1979-2016
on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:40PM (#21348418)
But that's not what the graphs show. There is a diagonal that clearly tracks a birth year cohort, not an age.
Re:Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the US, 1979-2016
on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:55PM (#21347942)
Interesting that there seems to be a consistent age cohort born before (I guess from the heat maps) 1950 that just aren't into this stuff.
Re:Stripe to move to South San Francisco
on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:19PM (#21346820)
In the way of not having a payroll tax.
Re:Stripe to move to South San Francisco
on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:18PM (#21346806)
Google and Facebook have both contracted ferries (water taxis, technically) in the past.
Re:Why Garmin watches have become common in some segments of tactical ...
on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:39PM (#21336934)
These watches don't have anywhere near 12 day life with the GPS enabled. Depending on the watch and the temperature it is anywhere from 2 to 30 hours.
Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:07PM (#21250400)
They shared it and someone reported it, 100% of the time. Complaints are verified by special contractors whose mental health is sacrificed for child safety.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/reyhan/tech-confessiona...
Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:03PM (#21249728)
I used to work with Google's account abuse team. The company will never comment on suspensions, so you are right that you only get 1 side. Every consumer account suspension I ever looked into was due to severe abuse on the part of the account holder: folders full of child porn, account being used to spam or distribute viruses, etc. Every advertiser account that some jerk whined about being "wrongly suspended for no reason omg google is satan" was actually due to either click fraud or advertisers' sites distributing malware. Whenever you see one of these complaints you should reach for a massive, galaxy-scale grain of salt.
In this case however the account holder is being totally up front about their activities: they were using a proxy network to rip off YouTube. This is a bit like Trump committing treason on live TV and then later whining about impeachment on Twitter. What's in question is not the facts but the policy.
Re:Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way”
on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:26PM (#21209672)
Tesla will "ping" you straight into a concrete wall at full speed.
Re:Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way”
on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:23PM (#21209651)
Not sure there is enough evidence in support of those claims about Tesla. Tesla doesn't collect anywhere near enough data from its customer fleet to support the kind of massive training being claimed. In contrast Waymo and Cruise vehicles are regularly in the depot where each car offloads terabytes of data. Who has the bigger training set?
Re:Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way”
on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:17PM (#21209612)
Sure but specifically the staying in its lane feature doesn't work.
Re:Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way”
on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:04PM (#21209532)
Waymo is so far ahead in this game. Tesla has the biggest online cheerleading section and an "autopilot" that behaves as a low-budget adaptive cruise control with lane keeping that sometimes works, and a pretty big body count. Uber has a dead pedestrian and a major lawsuit. Cruise has a lot of people on staff but virtually nothing to show for it. Lyft exists. Waymo is in production revenue service.
Re:Elevating original reporting in Search
on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:11PM (#20964747)
These results are neither hermetic nor repeatable since the ranking will be polluted by searches and clicks coming from your browser in the past, you account on other browsers, other people using your IP, other people in your region, etc. There is no pure function mapping a search term to a result list, and the desire for such a thing is too silly to take seriously.
Re:Supermicro server BMCs left exposed to remote attack by any USB device
on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:47PM (#20871536)
How? The BMC can intercept and inject any ethernet frames that it cares to inject.
Re:IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linu...
on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:55AM (#20839786)
Original was just "google". There was also "google5" but not 4.
Re:Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussio...
on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:30AM (#20835986)
I don't know why you keep arguing this. You said that motorcycle helmets are "never" to be worn by bicyclists. I point out that there is not just one but -several- different companies cross-marketing DOT-approved motorcycle helmets for bicycle sports. Now you are talking about the "average" bike rider. I think you just have a narrow, inaccurate conception of the universe of all cycle sports and you've probably never been anywhere near a motorcycle. Look at these BMX kids, then look at the motocross kids.
https://crazybmxer.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/bmx-racing.jp... https://i1.wp.com/www.njmotocross.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
Re:Software made me loathe my car
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:08PM (#20834196)
And the system sucks and is unreliable, so people who pay the rent are regularly told they aren't entitled to use CarPlay.
Re:Software made me loathe my car
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:05PM (#20834176)
Not sure why you think BT and GPS are sufficient for Android Auto compatibility. AA and CarPlay require the ability to use your car's display as a peripheral.
Re:Software made me loathe my car
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:03PM (#20834163)
The Tesla map tiles are from Google but the implementation of the app sucks. It doesn't preload tiles along your route so if you go out of mobile coverage it just draws blank rectangles which is hideous. There are many other defects.
Re:Software made me loathe my car
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:01PM (#20834149)
They're both miles ahead of what you get from Tesla.
Re:Software made me loathe my car
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @05:58PM (#20834127)
Yes, but that has no bearing on the ability of your car to run Android Auto. You cannot run it on the hardware that's built into the car. If you want Android Auto you must project it from a phone or tablet onto the display.
Re:IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linu...
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:39AM (#20830457)
Sorry for the jargon. google3 is the name of their perforce repository that contains all of their backend code, everything that runs in their datacenters.
Re:IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linu...
on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:06PM (#20826327)
I'm sure all the effort Google put into being able to compile google3 for Power resulted in significant price concessions from Intel, which I imagine was the point of the project in the first place.
Re:Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussio...
on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:51PM (#20826258)
That seems like a bad take to me. There is a lot of overlap between motorcycle sports events speeds and bicycle event speeds. A bicycle downhill racer will be going a lot faster than a motorcycle enduro rider. That is why, as an example, Bell helmets marketed to enduro riders and downhillers are the same helmet.
Re:Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussio...
on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:01PM (#20825701)
These guys make full-face helmets and of course you can always just wear a motorcycle helmet.
https://bike.kaliprotectives.com/helmets/
But it's a tradeoff. Full-faced helmets give the helmet another point of leverage on which to break your neck. On the other hand they won't erase your face, which is nice.
Re:Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:59PM (#20825692)
It's unlimited in scope so it's pretty broad. There could have been any number of people passing through that area of space/time. A good standard for such warrants is when the police suspect a particular person and want to search for evidence of their whereabouts. A fishing expedition where the police have no suspects and just want to grind all available data is almost the definition of "vague and broad", if not that of "over-broad". In this case it seems that the police did not even have a concrete reason to believe that the perpetrator carried phones or used Google services.
Re:Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:30PM (#20824723)
I wonder why. Mine doesn't work, it says location could not be determined. iPhone 7, iOS 12.4.