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Solid is just the technical part. You're also going to need the regulatory part that says it's illegal for a company stores data after you revoke access.

But the technical part is still necessary.
I'll repeat what I said: "the value prop needs to focus on the job at hand: playing a _specific_ game which happens to be your favorite game you play mostly. Thinking of it as some kind of a gaming platform is not the way."

By considering Steam and Epic, you are already looking at this from the perspective of a platform. I am simply saying Stadia is better if the game you love is already there. NFL Madden is the latest Stadia promo right now. If most of your gaming time is consumed playing Madden, Stadia is probably the way to pay for it.
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I was able to buy an ultrasonic humidifier six years ago from Bed Bath and Beyond. I think I had to order it online but it didn't seem to be too rare and it wasn't expensive, or at least it cost a reasonable amount.
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It seemed pretty obvious to everyone. Use a gamepass model so that less content stretches further, or offer a compelling variety of content - especially exclusive content - to make up for users paying full price every time.

They did neither and it's utterly boggling. They were clearly aware of their shortcomings when they dodged the more direct questions in early interviews. I don't know if it was just hubris, or an unwillingness at the top to understand. Or maybe the project started out too big to steer well and they just accepted it because, hey, high level paycheck.

There are probably a lot of now ex-googlers with a ton of I-told-them-so stories.
I too recently started using Starlette for https://sqwok.im and had investigated FastAPI & Responder.

Both look promising but I've found that Starlette on it's own is very lightweight, well-designed, and straightforward to work with (coming from many years of flask/django).

Some nice features of FastAPI are the automatic response type handling, e.g. "return {'json': 'yes'}" vs "return JSONResponse({})", and the flask-like route decorators. I ended up building the former manually into my project.

Both Starlette and FastAPI are worth checking out, especially if you've spent time building python web apis with django or flask in the past.
If you ask mainland Chinese they would tell you that already the Taiwan is part of China, one country two systems deal.
Yeah luck was involved, but Microsoft was at least smart enough to buy a company with a good looking game which had been in development for a while. This brought down the timeline. Bungie had showed off halo at MacWorld and was initially targeted at Mac (with an expected port to PC).

Google could do this, or pay even bigger $ for a timed exclusive from a AAA publisher. Instead google started their own studios, which would likely pay off in the long run, but google doesn't have the attention span to operate like that.
How about an authentic, traditional paella made with water rats and eels?

" ‘The peasants would cook the rice in a frying pan and accompany it with whatever they could find. This would normally be water rats and eels,’ explains respected Valencian chef Rafael Vidal in an interview with El País. ‘These were more like rabbits than the modern sewer rats found in cities’ "[0]

It seems these are actually water voles:

"Water vole meat was one of the main ingredients of early paellas, along with eel and butter beans. Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez described the Valencia custom of eating water voles in Cañas y Barro (1902), a realistic novel about life among the fishermen and peasants near lake Albufera."[1]

[0] https://jbcrocket.medium.com/anyone-for-rat-and-eel-paella-t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paella

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_water_vole
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> Closed source GPU drivers are not ordinary drivers. They have a lot of quirks and workarounds for programs, especially games.

The quirks part is a bit of a meme. Mesa contains a few application-specific overrides here and there: https://github.com/mesa3d/mesa/blob/c62996796cc46f1a1406f365..., https://github.com/mesa3d/mesa/blob/a678ec9b8c057311ed7e9697.... The reason Linux drivers, including the one from Nvidia, have fewer quirks is simply that Linux has fewer 3d applications overall. Those quirks also reside in userspace driver parts and should not affect system stability.

> When you try to port these drivers as-is to another platforms, things get awry.

Again, quirks are a property of a relatively high-level userspace part of the driver. There is nothing hazardous about porting them.
> People being able to use software (which presumably is what gemini is about??) is important for everyone, obviously.

Yes, and a minority of those users are visually impaired, hence it is a niche. Maybe you considered "niche" to mean "preference" or "novelty"?

"
niche, adjective

denoting products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the population.
"
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We've had somewhat of a hard time applying agile to IEC 62304, although it's not impossible.

This document has some useful tips:

AAMI TIR45:2012 (R2018) Guidance On The Use Of AGILE Practices In The Development Of Medical Device Software

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"so I've added an audio output so we can listen to what the clock sounds like" - of course he did :)
Cold outdoor temperatures cause indoor humidity to get extremely low, because cold air can't hold humidity well.

Today where I live, the relative humidity outside is around 50%, and temperature -5c. That puts the absolute humidity around 1.7 grams per cubic metre. At 20c indoor temperature, that equates to around 10% relative humidity. Far too low.
Maybe the concept of the "wall of awful" will help you understand it more. I struggle with it too though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo08uS904Rg
>It's tough to assign blame and responsibility to systems that are inherently probabilistic.

I hear this all the time nowadays, but everything has always been probabilistic. Most of the time, people just don't realize that all problems are fundamentally the same from the perspective of how to approach risk.
Logs, unless specifically being told otherwise, are assumed to be in text format. Even if they may contain binary blobs (which are normally unexpected, and not really conformant), they are still supposed to be text format.

Surely you can store anything on a bytea. However, that won't take you very far if you want to query the logs (partially or completely) from the database --which is indeed extremely useful.

In any case, Postgres always strived for compliance. And here, it is not accepting a UTF-8 valid character, hence is being non-compliant.
Transmeta was reborn as Nvidia Denver... which is not that successful either.
Heating element replacement? The Honeywell HCM-350 I got has a UVC bulb which will eventually need to be replaced, but there's no heating element since it's an evaporative humidifier.
All humidifiers get gross. I’ve found that the ones that use an ultrasonic piezo transducer are less bad than the other types though.

It works well and puts a lot of water into the air. Once a week, I rinse it with a diluted bleach solution out of a spray bottle. Problem solved.
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One of the mistakes that many gaijin make (myself included) is to assume that katakana words are always loan words from their home country. "Hambagoo" is the Japanese take on a Hamburg steak, not an American hamburger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_steak
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I use my Honeywell 24/7 and also find it effective [1] and easy to clean [2], even with our "hard" tap water. It might help that I use a good air filter nearby, which solves the dust problem.

I used to use an ultrasonic humidifier like they suggest but definitely prefer the evaporation-based unit.

The article read a little like one of the clumsy actors in an infomercial. The tank slides out and has a screw top! How can they spill so much while carrying it from the sink that it forms puddles?

[1] It goes through a tank almost every day. That water is going somewhere.

[2] I replace the wick and do a light bleach clean roughly quarterly.
I would also note that (Android Auto, at least) will stop you from doing a number of things.

When the car is parked, you can use the on-screen keyboard to type in your searches; driving, voice search only. If you scroll too deep in your Audible library, past the first five or ten audiobooks, it will be all, "no, you can't browse your media library while driving, what the hell is wrong with you".

It's annoying, but annoying in the kind of way that keeps you from getting in the habit of distracting yourself while driving.
How much assistance/funding/etc does Taiwan's government provide TSMC at this point? Is it basically like Samsung where it is essentially an arm of the government?

I googled some initial funding of course back in the day, but didn't get much info on current day.

TSMC is viewed by some as being so critical to the modern economy and information technology that it basically ensures China won't invade Taiwan because of the extremely strong response that would provoke from all the other countries of the world.

Given China's sustained assertion of its territorial rights and burgeoning power, that becomes more and more important.

And with the huge cost of new-process Fabs in the 10s of billions, that also almost requires governmental coupling if you aren't in a sufficiently large economy.
> It's only been a failure because of the lack of games

Which, to be frank, is the one reason someone would use Stadia - to play games.
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> Valve/Steam is just "behind" in all of this modern gaming crap

Valve is not behind in VR
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They are partnered, it's just not exclusive.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/cloudgaming
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The report button doesn't file a valid DMCA takedown request, so probably not.
Maybe, as soon as I heard it was VR only I stopped paying attention. But the point still stands - Valve is very much a hardware business, has been for years.
I've written something like this before, but I'll say it again:

The difficulty in software is its detachment from physics (when compared to other disciplines categorized as engineering). There are few physical couplings you can make with your transmission system or steering wheel. But with software, your couplings are essentially unbounded. This permits radically unsafe and unmaintainable software, where an equivalent physical system likely wouldn't even move. The nearest, in physical engineering, is electrical systems. But even then you still have to drive power through a constrained system and either can't power everything or set something on fire.

This forces a practical limit on how you design physical systems. A kind of simplicity often falls out as a consequence. But in software, complexity still reigns supreme because it can. Without a deliberate effort, it is easy to develop a complex system that is hard to maintain, hard to verify, hard to validate, and hard to extend.
This looks like an interesting product. We're figuring out our monitoring stack - but have also found Loki/Grafana - and we're looking at Victoria Metrics rather than Cortex. Our hope is that the combination will turn out to be able to scale down as well as up, and be possible to fit in with Docker swarm/compose on-prem and at digital ocean. Also looks like vector might be a good option for collecting data.

Will keep an eye out, to see if optrace might be a fit for us.

https://victoriametrics.github.io/
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It's interesting to compare the trajectory of Databricks with Snowflake.

Last February, Snowflake raised its last funding round, $479M at a $12.4B valuation. Snowflake then went on to a gigantic, record breaking IPO in September.

This time it's Databricks, with a 2x investment at a 2x valuation. The eventual IPO will be something to watch.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2020/cloud-data-platform-giant-snow...
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“Not really, at least not in the last 15 or so years.l

I guess I have been out of the for longer than that :(.
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I once browned some ground beef and cookie dough together and thoroughly enjoyed it.
> Obviously you need a strong, steady internet connection for Stadia to shine, but I'd guess that the HN crowd skews towards that.

Sad Australian internet noises.

> don't want to drop $1k+ on a gaming rig, check out Stadia.

Or, or, do buy the gaming rig, because it will still work and you’ll still have the games 3 years after Google inevitably shuts down stadia and you’re left with nothing.
I found that one to be junk too, it grows mold everywhere unless you are super on top of adding chemicals. Maybe I'd have had better luck if I ran distilled water only. I use a warm mist honeywell/vicks one now and it's great cost about $35. But I'm pretty sure that I will add steam to my hvac though next season and be done with it.

The vicks giant bulb thing for $20 that they recommend gets pretty gross because you can't get all the water out and the slag accumulates as it doesn't work with distilled water.
It does when paired with mangum https://github.com/jordaneremieff/mangum
I'm sure Alphabet was really a restructuring to optimise tax returns
There’s a very nice documentary movie titled “Being in the world” (available on YouTube and elsewhere) which introduces the Heideggerian perspective. I’ve also heard good things about Hubert Dreyfus’ interpretation/translation of Heidegger.
> tech (at least to me) feels fine [...] it _could_ be a success but the business side is broken

... said no one about any Google side project before, ever.
What made you decide to show the ratio of male:female?
What kind of indices tho? Every decision ultimately reduces all investment to active management. Like are you holding crypto indices or real estate indices, etc etc.

Index selection is active management.
Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios
Same boat. It's not a magic cure, but my semi-okay-coping mechanism is to make daily to-do lists.

The key though, is not just "making to-do lists".... it's right-sizing the items on them.

Every task should have a finite end state and (this is crucial) shouldn't be longer than 15-20 minutes or so. If they are longer than that, it almost certainly needs to be broken down into constituent tasks.

So even something like "clean my office" probably needs to be broken down a little more -- when I'm on my game I break it down into "vac office", "dust office", "organize desk drawer", etc.

This pairs nicely with the "Pomodoro method" if you've ever tried it.
Google had to solve same problem any new traditional gaming console has to solve -- get publishers interested in creating for that console.

Good luck with that. The moat is so high that even if you have tech from year 2222, the business side trumps technology.
You might want to check this out.

Mangum: AWS Lambda & API Gateway support for ASGI - https://github.com/jordaneremieff/mangum
Same. I work for a US company and have regular 2ams. At least they gave me the opportunity.
Thanks Lenny! And yes, agreed. You should check out Oz Ramos' work: https://handsfree.js.org/
I propably already learned the "don't klick the obvious button asap" lesson pretty early, when websites had like 5 "Download now" buttons (ads) and you had to search for the small text with a link to actually get the download.
The near-universality of BESM proportions in anime probably helps!
The apps on your phone would not have the ability to suck up isolated pieces of data about your usage and combine them into a single profile with your age/gender/etc... if they didn't have a set of shared identifiers that they could use to associate that data across multiple sources.

It seems very relevant to me. The larger privacy problems wouldn't be quite as bad if there was no way to tell what device an app was running on or who was using it. That seems like it would limit data collection in a pretty significant way.
You aren't including the network service to play games online. Factor in another $60 * 10 years. That nearly squares things up. Then you have to think about intangibles. Stadia is a live platform that continuously improves. The $630 you paid for that ps5 and AAA game is frozen in time. You've bought no future value. You can also play anywhere without having to carry around a 4.5kg box that computes math.
Nice of you to keep the same format as the original.

Unfortunately keynav doesn't seem to be working all that well in Ubuntu 20.20, I am a bit interested in fixing this somehow.

The LD_PRELOAD approach might be a good idea actually.

I do have some further ideas on how to do this and some practical use cases as well.