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What's the back-end equivalent of "free scaling?" For example, with the front-end, if you have a SPA or a website that's completely static, you can serve static files and JavaScript in a way that scales horizontally for free.

Is there a back-end designed (with compromises and all) in a way where scaling horizontally is free, at the expense of compute power or some other sacrifice? I want to say Erlang/Elixir, but I haven't played around with it enough to say for sure.
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That's assuming that:

- GCP will always have a margin that high

- Snapchat is paying the advertised rate

- They can find the requisite talent in a reasonable timeframe
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Though I am a huge fan of SQLite, I am not sure if the incredible test coverage necessarily leads to success :

"Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software-development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't just test more; develop better."(McConnell, Steve (2009-11-30). Code Complete (Kindle Location 16276). Microsoft Press. Kindle Edition)

Another unique aspect of SQLite code base is total sticking to KISS(http://www.jarchitect.com/Blog/?p=2392)
Docker doesn't work for desktop gui apps. Also it doesn't provide great security sandboxing. Also docker is not the first containerisation solution why not LXC?
One thing is not knowing how to be brief, as he says, and another one is not wanting to reach the point. What's the TL;DR?
Transfer learning is fairly well studied. However we have seen lot of companies facing problems that can be solved using this technique but can't because of lack of knowledge, pretrained models availability, engineering challenges involved. We are just trying to make the process easier for them.
Probably things like spectrograms, waveforms, etc. For a lot of effects it doesn't really pay to GPU accelerate their drawing - in this case looks like REAPER is using custom drawing code into an image, but the compositing these image widgets together with native Apple drawing functions onto the final window plane. Doing the final compositing step with the GPU and shader color conversion is one option. Two other options I'm surprised weren't mentioned were drawing the image widgets in the final colorspace to avoid the conversion step, and specifically requesting an 8-bit sRGB window for system compositor-side conversion (I'm not sure if OS X supports the latter).
ah good point. I'll add that in
Your units are off.

If I push 1 GB per month, https://www.google.com/search?q=1GB%2Fmonth+in+mbps&oq=1GB%2...

You can assume they are not paying list rate when they buy $400M of service.

If they push ~40gbps on average, that's 13PB - https://www.google.com/search?q=40gbps+*+30+days+in+PB&oq=40...

13PB is 13M GB. 13M GB @ .08/GB = $1.04M

$1.04M/40gbps = 1.04M/40000 = $26/Mbps.

I pay less than a 10th of that outside.
Yep, agreed. Snap only has 1900 employees.
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Why does someone need to know how to change the oil in their car, or how a 4-stroke engine works? The information is readily available if you should ever need it, but what's wrong with paying someone who does know that stuff?
IMO, it's not okay because the strict alternative is the patient must choose death. Pace makers are very invasive. They're not generally installed unless absolutely needed.

In this case, it's very similar to saying. "If you don't let us install this device that the government can use to know exactly what you were doing every hour of every day; you'll die."

It's not quite the fact that it's medical history, but it's very detailed, personal medical history. "He had gout some time in the last few weeks/months" vs "He was running 14 times in the last 21 days, and heres' the exact minute he started and ended"

> but their medical history showed they actually required frequent treatment at a local hospital? Should that be inadmissible?

That they acquired treatment? Maybe. That they were treated for an STI? Yes, that should be inadmissible. Because as a medical person, I don't want you avoiding ANY treatment because you scared the information about the treatment would be used against you.
Agreed. I've become immured to paint the least rosy picture that makes the point.
Makes a good argument for the inheritance tax
You assume that the truth will set you free, and not to an interment camp, or lose you your refugee status.
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> The ending of Mass Effect for me was like the ending of Lost, where [you] became aware that they really didn't know where they were going the whole time and they'd kind of just been making things up.

Finally someone who says clearly how embarrassingly bad the Lost ending really was.
Assuming that large companies can't be wrong is the reason why we have Enron and Bear Stearns
The journalists definitely got their facts wrong here, but they missed the overarching story. Why is Mozilla acting like a tech company/startup, and not as a non-profit here to push Firefox and other projects under their management to new heights?

Mozilla has basically ignored Firefox for the past few years and let it languish as a single threaded browser in a multi-threaded world, where the other 3 major competitors are highly optimizing their browsers to the respective laptop/tablet/phones. Google with Chromebooks (shipping more than Macbooks[1]) & Android, Microsoft with Surface, Apple with iOS (where they have an illicit monopoly) & on Macbooks.

Mozilla can fight this battle and provide a better user experience, but as it stands a few years have been sunk down the drain on Firefox OS and Mozilla isn't even trying to leverage it into a Chromebook killer!

Sure, trying to win on price (which is what Moz tried with Firefox OS) isn't going to be a battle that can be won. Google and others already have the relationships with manufacturers who know they can drive volume, but what they don't have is the community support & buy in that Mozilla has. Create a compelling user experience! Netscape won the war against the monoculture of a decade ago by creating a user experience that people loved, in spite of the IE6 monoculture of the time.

Today, we have a Webkit monoculture, with Edge nipping at its heels. This is a very similar situation to a decade ago, where Deer Park Alpha lead the way out of the shadowy darkness, with flash free video & audio and performance and protocol support that ran circles around the others.

1 - http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outso...
TLDR (for my comment) : Amazon are building their own UPS because they can. Any othe arguments in favor of it be it efficiency or costs are secondary.

Longer version:
Not sure how Amazon deliveries by UPS are in the US but in the U.K. there are carriers which offered far better delivery service than what is known as Amazon Logistics here in the U.K. Once Amazon started using Amazon Logistics, the level of service dropped significantly. False deivery attempts were common and Prime Next Day were not happening next day 3 out of 5 times. I cancelled my Prime membership.

After about a couple of years I have resubscribed to Prime since it is now much better value AND Amazon Logistics have noticably improved. Next day and even Same day deliveries are indeed happening.

They didn't need to setup Amazon Logistics and suffer poor service quality. There were near perfect couriers (for e.g. DPD they even offer tracking your courier driver on a map in near real time).
Did you read the novellas? I've read all the novels but haven't tried the smaller works yet..
Sure, because someone is actively being harmed, or will be harmed in the future. (and is injury that's not easily recouped, i.e. abuse of a minor could be a life long injury, where insurance fraud is build into the cost of premiums)
Yes. (GWX = common shorthand for those "Get Windows 10" updates.)
When it comes to movies, what Rotten Tomatoes has to say is usually more persuasive than a Snapchat lens
My punishment for reading the comments before clicking the link is that now I'll never know what I would have seen.
Everything he says is true because most people don't even fscking care the very least, even if the option were right in their face. Think BOFH dummy mode. People just want a zero-knob appliance for shit to get done. We are the damn exception to the rule.
The problem is that everyone will want to have a jury of their peers.

So drug dealers would want to be judged by a jury of drug dealers, for example.
> because you live in a, relatively, expensive region

If what OP is saying is true, then the company might as well be upfront about it.
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how social media is helpful in SEO ?
> I believe that your supposition is false because reality itself disagrees with you.

You have only even attempted to demonstrate that some private farms are mismanaged -- where have you shown that the damage that objectively occurs on BLM land is less bad?
I think ME3 did a couple of things very right, most prominently the pacing and characters. You never feel like you have a moment to relax, and the game almost forces you to have this huge emotional buy in for the crew of the Normandy. I mean who can honestly say they didn't have a bit of a cry after "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."?

Galactic readiness being half tied to multiplayer was a stupid idea, and the ending, which I thought was good, did feel like it was rushed. I also get the feeling that they wrote themselves into a corner with the Reapers, I mean how the hell is one man supposed to kill something that imposing without having to resort to the old "Destroy the single point of failure"? If they had have given the Reapers some kind of actual weakness, they could have avoided the ending they wound up with.
>The entire point of capitalism is not everyone get's what they want and price how that is decided.

You mean protected capitalism - protected by artificial minimum wages put in place by government?
> Script your stuff out in Ansible or something similar, run it on your own hardware, and use GCloud/EC2 as secondary data centers for failover/backup/support/emergency bursts/whatever. You can have the flexibility without paying through the nose.

Except then you have to run your own networking and when shit fails (as disks, links, and switches are want to do), it's now "your problem". Hybrid clouds and not being a tenant is nice, but not without time and monetary costs -- by the time you have geographically distinct failover, you've also spent a non-trivial amount of opportunity costs making phone calls, flying around, and writing lines of code and config for things customers don't even know exist.
> As I said, the purpose of this letter is to solicit your opinions [...] Namely, I'd like each of you to rate the desirability of each of options (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) as described above
That is not an apt analogy. Unit tests improve code quality: code that is easily testable has high cohesion and low coupling. Tests can also serve as valuable documentation.
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That would be such a limited niche that I can't imagine manufacturers could sell enough to achieve economies of scale. The Nissan Leaf is super cheap and only weighs 3400 lbs so what's the problem there? From a pedestrian collision standpoint the motor vehicle weight is irrelevant; it's the speed and vehicle shape which affect injury/death rates.
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> ME1 was so much more sandboxy than the sequel

Yeah the sequel was as long, boring corridor with virtually no freedom at all. That's a good example of how games have changed throughout the years.
Stateless applications are a big part of the answer. "Serverless" (like AWS Lambda) is an extreme impl of stateless that gets "free scaling".

You will need to keep state somewhere and AWS has some pretty decent solutions for that.
In essence: the publisher (Elsevier) is charging too much for doing too little. As the editorial board, please informally vote on what to do (change to a University publisher, change to ACM publishing, change to a University press publisher, change for-profit publishers, do nothing and keep Elsevier).
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Can snaps be updated automatically?
Yup, apparently 42 of the 100 most played games run on Linux now. I didn't say they all run well, but they run.
> They don't really teach them Math, how to solve thing, they tech them to memorize different algorithms, which they can handle after a while, but don't know what they are doing at all ...

Common Core in the US is supposed to solve this. I've seen some common core math homework for myself and despite the odd outrage most people have towards it, I think both the idea and execution are at least decent, and an improvement.
$1.3M for its COO (Sheryl Sandberg), not CFO.
Octopart is much nicer than http://findchips.com (which has been around about 20 years, searches many more vendors but doesn't consolidate pricing)
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Citizens don't need to be educated, they need to listen to people that are. The problem lately (possibly always) is that the information exchange is being intercepted by special interests.
What are the terms? I'd take that action if we're talking in their current form/focus.
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I know and get that, he is an extremist that believes that the landed gentry deserve to rule over the landless serfs. I oppose that destructive policy, as it is a great way to stifle society as a whole and ensure we slide back towards the dark age.
Yes, many of Google's technical leads working on Kubernetes and Container Engine are former members of the Borg and Omega teams, so Kubernetes and our hosted version, Container Engine, both benefit from what we learned building those other systems. (I think our 5 most-senior engineers have ~40 years of container management systems experience between them now?)

And it's not just the rather-large core team directly on GKE and k8s, nor the related products like Container Registry [1], Container Builder [2], and Container-Optimized OS [3]. GKE and k8s benefit in other ways too: Google's internal kernel team helps debug customer issues when we trace them to the kernel, and people like Kees Cook are helping with the upstream Kernel Self-Protection Project [4] that make container technology more secure. In addition to that kernel work, Google also has rather-decent security teams and they work with us to improve security in other ways too.

Finally, re: toomuchtodo's question, "Why opt for Google if you're going to use containers in Kubernetes?" Because we hope you find that Container Engine is the best place to run Kubernetes -- and benefit from the other parts of Google Cloud Platform. If you ever find GKE is not that place, and you don't derive value from the rest of GCP, then exactly as toomuchtodo puts it: "You can even move to your own datacenter at some point (relatively) easily."

[1] https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/

[2] https://cloud.google.com/container-builder/docs/

[3] https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/

[4] https://www.linux.com/news/google-developer-kees-cook-detail...
The ATA security erase implementations in SSDs frequently lie, and few people know off the top of their heads what tools/procedure use to get to that command in the first place. Nobody knows how to issue this command or knows if this command works on their drive off the top of their heads.

(OTOH I have researched this issue a few times a year despite rarely personally applying the information, so this Google trail is hardly evidence about anything)
I work on Chromium and I test every VS Code version to see how it performs with the Chromium source code (except third_party). This is the first time I'm impressed. My observations:

1. Go to file is a little bit slower than Sublime Text but the extra features in VS Code make that tradeoff worthwhile.
2. The C/C++ extension enables go to definition/header without any extra configuration.
3. I like that it runs on top of Electron which is after all a fork of Chromium.
4. I haven't tried the debugger yet but I'm hopeful that will work fine too.

I'll keep playing around with it and maybe even switch from Sublime Text.
> With enough storage capability, you don't have to produce it at night.

I'm not talking about powering one's home, I'm talking about powering cities and infrastructure - we are far away from having this kind of storage capability, and it's cheaper to produce electricity 24/7 than to build that kind of storage capacity anyway. It's all a matter of ROI.
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That is analogy I copied from
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From the article:

> Access to Google, which currently powers our infrastructure, is restricted in China.

What does this mean exactly? I could read the sentence above in two ways:

A- if a website is on Google infrastructure, then it will not be accessible in China

B- if a website is on Google infrastructure, then the cloud control panel will not be accessible to the IT operations personnel based in China

I think that it's the latter, I find it hard to believe that the scenario described at point A corresponds to reality. If that was the case it would have huge implications in terms of competition between Google and other providers.
Where cloud-hosting costs are recurring, it's something that won't amortize.
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Thanks! That is pretty impressive.
You need to take into account the cost to the environment of burning gasoline. The true cost is closer to something like $8 a gallon. So now it's up to about $1/kWh. As someone else has already mentioned, Tesla's packs are about $190/kWh. You'd only need about 190 cycles before that starts breaking even, which could probably be done in a couple years.
Clearly just a rounding error... ;)
Perl scripts can be vastly more powerful than PS. Perl is a full blown general purpose programming language with a massive collection of libs and frameworks.

It is however very powerful that Perl can be used in bash pipelines. But that is also true for any Unix tool that takes I/O.

So Bash is also very powerful with the help from all its friends that can be used with pipes. Shell native.

And you don't HAVE to code Bash in the most convoluted way possible. Sane code structure and naming goes a long way.
It's not quite the same. I assume you mean donated blood, because otherwise your response doesn't make much sense. So if you are cut, and leave blood behind (yours and the donated blood?) The could be used to convict you because it's something you abandoned.

Where in this case, the got a court order to take information from a device. Not to compare it to a sample they already had, but at a single point of evidence, that will be used to incriminate.

Additionally, that same evidence could be used to prove innocence, where the pacemaker data couldn't be used as evidence to prove innocence.

EDIT, Also, the 4th is protection from unreasonable searches... e.g. if the device I required to live needs extra data to do it's job. IMO, it is an unreasonable search to use that against me because I have no choice in wither or not, I create the data, or use the device. Because the alternative is I choose to die.
Bingo. They aren't paying advertised rates. Google will have margin but not as much as usual. Snap also has google by the balls here. What if snap comes out with a statement saying Gcp sucks and they're moving to aws?
It works for GUI apps, see eg. https://hub.docker.com/r/tomparys/skype/
Well Cerberus isn't racist, they're xenophobic. It's like Shepherd joined the Nazi party or something.
That interpretation would only make sense if TF or Go could only run on Google's "cloud".
I was just thinking of its rogue mode. I remember each person having their own cursor and being able to work independently in the same session with it.
To clear things up:

Effective Military Strength = War Assets (single player) x Readiness Rating (multiplayer). Maximum War Assets is ~7500, so with no multiplayer, you get ~3750 EMS.

Former squadmates aren't worth much, like 25-50 War Assets each. Current squadmates are worth zero, but they can help in other ways (Rannoch). Kaidan/Ashley are only worth points if they don't join your squad. Garrus doesn't affect War Assets at all, and Wrex is actually worth more dead than alive.

Endings are unlocked by having a higher EMS score. The red ending requires no EMS, blue requires 1750, and green needs 2800. So if you are shooting for the green ending you can do it in single player no problem. However, EMS also affects some of the details of what happens in each ending: whether your squadmates survive, whether the Normandy is destroyed, what happens to the Earth... and whether Shepard lives.

Shepard lives if you pick the red ending and have 4000 EMS, which is not possible with single player, until the Extended Cut DLC lowered the requirement to 3100 EMS. This is what people were talking about, besides the fact that the ending is just awful in other ways.
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Here's an example of a very large module for 4.5kV and 1.2kA

https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/power/igbt/igbt-modu...
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Ideally, a company should use a hybrid of cloud and on-prem as a p&l dial to adjust risk and agility.

EDIT: for super scrappy startups playing with on-prem with lab-like reliability, https://unixsurplus.com/ is awesome.
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And when EC2 falls over, like it tends to do a few times a year? Hosts fall over, stuff dies. Something the scale of Snap, you're going to be doing setups that look a lot like cloud anyways. Bringing new systems up either by cloning a disk or through using PXE, setting up clustering, possibly by using the stuff they're already using, etc. You're going to be writing a lot of the same fallover code if you're running on someone else's hardware, so why rent?
Thanks for the summary. I'd suggest everyone to stay away from Snaps. This is Ubuntu being heavyhanded. I've used AppImage and like it because I literally didn't have to do anything.

But the application that I used (powershell) takes a bit to load. Could be powershell, could be AppImage.