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Re:In 2024, please switch to Firefox on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:44PM (#38807850)
This extension alone is sufficient justification to shift to Firefox.
Wow, what a great idea. This is incredibly fun.
Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web on Sunday November 05, 2017 @01:02AM (#15628361)
This setting is not available in my Facebook video settings.
Re:Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:14PM (#14973689)
I think you're understating how tough it can be.

There are applications that

  * are mature and complex

  * with 100s of tables

  * serving millions of users

  * have to be broken into multiple micro-services

  * have developer resource constraints
So you're easily looking at a 1-2 year project, not 1-8 weeks.

You've also ignored some of the complexities, such as resharding (moving data between shards), which may significantly add to the cost of the project.

Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @01:26PM (#13697990)
These perspectives are very negative. An alternative view is that there are tons of interesting problems and projects and applications to be worked on, and to some degree at least you get a say in which ones you work on.
USA has 93%. Both figures include plea bargains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
This gets no comments? Oracle cloud engineers will be a little disappointed I'm sure.
Re:Why Inequality Matters on Friday October 17, 2014 @11:50AM (#8471541)
So Gates wants heavy taxes on consumers, but no taxes on entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Interesting. I wonder which of these categories applies to Gates?
ASIC's consume very little power compared to a PC. One watt per gigahash is a rough value, although most promise quite a bit less. You'd need about 100 PC's, at 300W each, to produce a gigahash, using the assumptions in this article.
Re:REST Client for Google Chrome on Friday June 07, 2013 @08:39AM (#5838512)
Typing the below

GET XUsername:ADMIN https://localhost:443/resources/myresource/1 HTTP/1.1 Host: target

gives an error in the REST: "Your request contains errors"

Re:REST Client for Google Chrome on Thursday June 06, 2013 @07:14AM (#5831651)
Could not figure out how to add request headers.