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The percent of the general population that gets Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? This isn't a naturally occurring phenomena. It's the cumulative result of repetitive skull impacts and concussions.
Re:MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH on Monday July 27, 2026 @02:16PM (#49073515)
I do hope they also use it to that effect.
Re:GitHub Public Roadmap on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:22AM (#23983733)
For the time being all public commitments, release notes, and deprecation notices can be found in one or both of:

- Release notes: https://cloud.google.com/release-notes

- GCP Blog: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp

Re:GitHub Public Roadmap on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:14AM (#23983698)
Thank you! We work really hard on the GCP roadmap program, keeping it fully accountable, and pushing against interesting transparency limits.

A public GCP roadmap is also in longer plans but there's a few internal flows we want to improve first. I'm especially trying to reduce the number of sites people need to visit, and want to ultimately see it land in a common place where authenticated users also see the non-public / NDA aspects.

And seconding this advice on access. If you are a GCP customer, your account manager is able to add your account for access. My contact info is in my profile and I can reach your account team if you have difficulties.

Re:GitHub Public Roadmap on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:58AM (#23983639)
Yeah. All Cloud deprecations have a minimum of a year notice, usually as an email, ahead of multiple follow up emails as the year draws close. It's in the terms.

Additionally, you can also get this information in the public release notes https://cloud.google.com/release-notes twice-monthly GCP newsletter, and for G Suite administrators in their news area. "Sigh."

Re:macOS 10.16 is all about tools and maturity on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:09PM (#23470333)
Maybe it is. I feel like this is the narrative on every second cycle since 10.6 (Snow Leopard, to 10.5's Leopard), that "this" is the one where things get more reliable and nature.
The answer is found in System Preferences > Mission Control. Uncheck the “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use” box :)
Generally "Europe, the Middle East and Africa"
Re:I feel like im talking to the borg on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:09AM (#20704820)
Poor 20-something grandfather Rafael also identifies as a nana and as a middle-aged woman.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKenChilds/status/1161847717397...

> To obtain a library card in any state in the U.S., the applicant must be the person who will ultimately be controlling/using the card, and a significant amount of identifying information must be provided by the person to the state in order to obtain the library card.

This is nonsesne, or at least was here in Sunnyvale California. I walked in with a phone bill. No ID, nothing else. In hindsight it probably could have been anyone's bill, or even a fake.

Re:Google's New Manager Student Workbook on Sunday May 26, 2019 @03:21PM (#20016869)
This is not what Google uses, but shares many similarities, so the title of "Google's" isn't fully correct.

This is an example from https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/

'Major' is up to personal definition and will distract people here no doubt. Metafiter has been my long-time lighthouse for this kind of gauge, though obviously not as big as its peak.

https://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi

- Anyone can view the site and its content

- Very clearly putting their rules of the road up (link above) before you can 'join'

- Commenting/posting/membership is a $5, one time fee

- A one-week wait before you can post

- Paid moderation

And it works.

Re:Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017) on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:15AM (#20013753)
In the instance of these headphones, the app allows you to adjust the level of active noise cancellation as well as choose which sources can send audio to the headphones. Neither of which are set up to be done directly via the device.
Re:Google Fights Back on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:53PM (#19860708)
You seem fixated on the word "promise," which I've never once heard said.

Assistant calling and Duplex appointment booking were both available within the year, across most of the United States, but you claim neither work.

Great, another thing they deprecate, my own history. /s
Re:Flutter desktop shells on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:07AM (#19748940)
Nah. The number of issues on any project is not an indication of project quality but community activity and imagination for improvements. This is the wrong number to point to if you're trying to make this point.
Re:Your Android Phone Is a Security Key on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:54PM (#19628196)
But looking at a web page nearly made his body vomit!
Re:Cloud Run beta pricing on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:43PM (#19611583)
Google Cloud? Which two?
Re:Cloud Run beta pricing on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:38PM (#19611560)
It is an important question, but Google services which are largely consumer-based and no cost are a very different world from Google Cloud. People get a lot of Internet Cool Guy points these days from falsely conflating the two.

I'm not the to make commitments but our history has been solid, and our deprecation policy is embedded in our terms of service for every Cloud user.

The only product I can remember us deprecating in GCP was Prediction API in favor of the much-preferred Cloud Machine Learning Engine, and with that came communication to every single affected admin and a _year_ before cut-off.

https://cloud.google.com/terms/

Re:Google Cloud Outage on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:34PM (#19578524)
Yeah, looks like 52 minutes for a routing issue in one zone in a single region. Not that downtime is fun for anyone.

Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud

Re:Too much information as an impediment for action on Sunday March 31, 2019 @09:08PM (#19539596)
+1

One area I've found helpful is focusing on sources of clarity. With the volume of information/data of all levels of quality becoming so abundant to the point of being overwhelming, and that volume used to influence, the more I can identify the answer to these two points with what is being shoved my way, the better I feel about what I do ultimately select:

- What supposed truth is this information trying to uphold or undermine?

- Is this information trying to make me more or less active on the previous point?

Increasingly I'm getting out of the habit of accepting "I've heard something like this a LOT lately" as a positive sign of influence or motivation toward a next step. Any idiot can buy out the podcast ad inventory to sell their buddy's brain genius pills, it doesn't make consumption wise.

(The poster linked to their own blog post, so maybe they'll add their own opinion to either, rather than summarizing two quotes from David Allen.)

Off-topic slightly but was curious- this works 'correctly' on my Pixelbook using its trackpad. Neat test/concept, though.
Re:Tesla Model Y on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:45AM (#19396659)
Are there any photos of the Model Y with seven adults inside?
Is this not just a repost of the flagged post from yesterday?
Re:Life of a Pixel 2018 on Friday March 01, 2019 @05:52PM (#19286100)
Google Cloud world class tech support™: Hit S for speaker notes or the gear icon for the menu item (yes, under any amount of load)
Re:Google .dev domain early access on Saturday February 16, 2019 @11:46AM (#19179451)
Thank you for mentioning this. Memories are increasingly short, and this is nothing new!
Re:Google Docs gets an API for task automation on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:34PM (#19138557)
I've also found visiting https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r/settings

and setting date format there useful. Not sure if it's a universal setting like the previous, though.

Re:Google Docs gets an API for task automation on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:01PM (#19138302)
I suspect you have tried this, but if not,

- visit https://myaccount.google.com/language

- click on (re-choose) English

- click on New Zealand as the 'sub-language'

should set your locale across the board, rather than doing it on a per-sheet basis. If it doesn't work, as a Canadian, I empathize with your troubles and apologize.

Re:Google Edge TPU Devices on Monday February 11, 2019 @11:33AM (#19135656)
We do sell access to a huge variety of NVIDIA GPU via Google Cloud Platform[1], which is maybe where the poster's confusion came from. Shrug.

1: https://cloud.google.com/gpu

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