stephbu
No user record in our sample, but stephbu has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but stephbu has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
Yeah me too in 1982, using the Melbourne House Z80 reference, aged a young 10 years old. Working with POKE and no macro-assembler, I wrote mnemonics then translated them to machine-code by hand. A baptism of fire that…
Ironically the power per cycle is decreasing - power and thermal dissipation are really the limits NVIDIA is exploring. It’s what the software does with those cycles that is leaping exponentially.
Landlords -> lobbyists of large real estate investment corporations. One of the biggest social crimes is enabling housing ownership companies to become large investment vehicles.
Post-production QA is an industry problem in general - the difference between systems is who does the QA. In the dealership model - after transit, they do a once over and post-production/transit repairs before the car…
Datacenter mode - ~11yrs in the making - nice find
“Remove my details” that asks that I sign-in to Google. Privacy-washing.
Consider what the Union goal is - expansion of membership and increased funding/power/leverage. Uber’s goal is brand-washing. Fighting employment law is a cynical win-win for the Union and Uber in this instance - member…
Funny thing is this cycle seems broken. So many deep pocketed competitors have stomped in and skewed the content market by showering money on all the producers. In turn this has drove up the pricing, enabled…
I spend more time on Netflix looking for things to watch than watching things. This isn't necessarily a Netflix thing - it's a streaming industry problem - driven by short supply and high demand with having multiple…
At 550km altitude, each Starlink satellite in low-earth orbit has a visible horizon of only about 700mi, and I suspect usable range that is much smaller, probably low 100’s of miles. To extend range to a ground-station…
Maybe in 1,700yrs they'll see us...
Used magnet for years - absolutely gamechanging for OS/X when coming from Windows/snap-window
Came here to write the same - that was amazing...
I spent a couple of decades in big-tech, and of-that did adtech for about 5yrs - we captured, aggregated, cooked out activity streams from billions of toolbar, browser, and beacon events per day, for real-time, long and…
Ads is just one of their businesses, consider FBLogin and 3rd party data-access e.g. full-name, date-of-birth, email address, friends, the list goes on...
Pretty much every cellphone/app user dimension is available for a price on the open market. What you do think Facebook et.al, sells when an app user allows background tracking? Is it unethical to study behavior of the…
Headline feels a little misleading, they didn’t track phones per se, they bought data from one of the dozens of cellphone data-brokers that continue to operate despite legislation and congressional action/in-action.
At what point are "eyewitness testimonies" and "identity parades" going to legitimately be called out as questionable. The science certainly points towards their lack of credibility in many many circumstances. I guess…
They already do - Residential Energy Code - 402.1.1 TLDR - R21 in the walls, R49 in the roof, R30 in the floors. It’s paired with credits for retrofitting to a reasonable level.
It feels like Google’s attention span, leadership longevity, and product development patience is roughly 3 years. Any product that survives longer than that probably has transcended beyond being a “pet project/toy” into…
I think I covered those poin in calling out the cost model elements - renting the “bottom third” of the costs via managed facilities, BMaaS etc. helps in terms of reducing or eliminating capital expenses and some human…
Fair point, I guess the point is that unallocated resources - space/power/servers etc. can become huge stealth money sinks, eating budget every hour of every day. Being cognizant of the consumption economics before you…
I broadly agree with the statement that owning an OS in general is toil that applies any of these IaaS/VPS/BM scenarios. Owning a BM server different toil - server parts fail, the network it attaches to needs control…
It’s pretty hard to generalize this without qualifiers. Electricity can be the most expensive problem, but it requires carefully planned control of the other factors - e.g large scale with highly automated servers,…
Watching the “Making of the Interstellar Soundtrack” is quite simply inspiring. The process and mechanics of making such moving art with such primative tools is amazing. “On the Nature of Daylight” by Max Richter used…