Considering the Oct 7 attack it seems pretty wise of Israel to have not allowed Hamas a more advanced military. It is the professed goal of their government to eliminate Israel.
Yeah for all the possible criticism of Google he's seriously arguing it's that there's too much speculative R&D? Generally companies become irrelevant by trying to hold onto their cash cow and not trying to reinvent / find new revenue streams.
I can think of ways I would have approached some specific instances differently (e.g Waymo), but the existence of speculative projects isn't evidence of waste. The specific callout of retirement accounts is strange too. I'm sure many institutional investors are backed by 401ks but is that actually representative? As a wealthy investor I'm guessing he's thinking more about himself and his dividend than other's retirement accounts.
Ya, the retirement account thing sounds to me like a lame attempt to justify his logic “for the people” or something, when his whole premise is that Google could have made a few rich people richer. I’ve honestly never hated a VC more
If I were considering blowing the whistle on some behavior at Boeing I'd sure think twice now that two people have died. It may be that their testimony was complete but there's still a chilling effect on future whistleblowers.
I meant, some messages will decode fine as UTF-8, but in some other messages there may be letters which don't fit in 7 bits. So some simple testing, especially with English words, will show it to work fine. But as soon as a non-7-bit characters creeps, it will stop working fine.
Yet warmongers on both sides insist on bleeding the armory dry with bottomless support for wars halfway across the world.
I used to think that the old joke about boats being holes in the water that you poured money into was funny, until I realized the fervor with which both major political parties drive American military adventurism.
So... Russia then? Seriously, that's who filled the void when other coup-riddled African nations kicked out the French. Demonstrably these countries do fail to govern themselves effectively in the long run, Chad's last coup was in 1990 iirc, and the last rebel offensive started 3 years ago. They're paralyzed by Islamic terrorism, which is why the US is there, so no I'd say they aren't capable of self-governance.
The reasons why are undoubtedly complex, but the results are not.
I find you can get a good idea of what's going on from reading between the lines of Wyden's statements. As a member of the intelligence committee he cannot directly disclose the operational details, but you can look at where he's concerned.
From the CNN article on this:
>> Another amendment at issue was from Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, a member of the Intelligence Committee. His amendment, which was co-sponsored by several of the most liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in the chamber, would strike a new part of the program that he argued would lead every day Americans into helping the government spy if they have “access to equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store wire or electronic communications.”
On the face of it, any cellphone or smartwatch seems to fit that definition. They could be converting everything into a listening device, recording all of it, and then making it available to intel officers only when they query for it and can argue one party is a foreign national.
So says Morgan Freeman's character Lucius Fox in 2008 in The Dark Knight[0].
The rest of the tech imagined in that scene is plausible today too, considering the density of WiFi/5G and research demonstrating the potential for its use as passive radar [1]. That paper metions a cooperative base station, but I am wondering if there is any value gained in knowing exactly what the traffic is (such as some of the intelligence community does) in modelling how the waves propagate and performing an even more passive observation.
This reads as though they had taken issue with some of the movement away from traditional relational databases in that era. I know it's been retracted, so who knows what the authors opinions are today, but the eureka moment to me was in horizontal scalability - not the map and reduce functions. Until then if you wanted something to go faster you simply bought a bigger computer.
In my work many of the MR use cases didn't necessarily compete with activities you'd expect of a database. For example - take the entire Geo database and generate the map tiles. I also must have written hundreds of MRs that essentially transform the entire dataset. You certainly can do that in a relational database but it seems like the wrong approach. Similarly if I was going to perform a bunch of queries I wouldn't write a new MR each time.
This was not my first programming job and I didn't mean to imply stupidity. Maybe you could give some examples?
I had seen it in some contexts: distcc, networking, seti@home. At least to me it didn't seem as common a tactic as trying to scale up the hardware on the machine or designing a different algorithm. That's generally what I saw at Microsoft in the years before.
Maybe it was more the power of combining it with a "cloud" and containers - being able to change just the value of --mapreduce_machines= to something like 10000 and seeing it happen. That's the first time I had been exposed to that.
Each of those connections needs its own TCP and TLS handshake making a total of 6 trips. Also, although this didn't take off, h2 had push promise which could have been a big help.
Yeah HTTP/2 push is so great that Chrome removed it.
Straight from the horse mouth: "However, it was problematic as Jake Archibald wrote about previously, and the performance benefits were often difficult to realize"
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/removing-push
Are you saying there's ddos potential because UDP itself doesn't have a connection handshake? There's still one on top of UDP. The initial packet could be forged, but so could one from TCP (a SYN flood).
