physhster

Nope, seemingly geo blocked...

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I guess I'm not reading this...

Google is PDT-centric, and never grew out of it. Everything is Mountain View time internally and it's so jarring.

Might be the first GPU, but they made video cards well before the GeForce era... Riva 128 was their first card with 3D acceleration if I remember correctly?

All I'd get is pigeons and seagulls...

Bunch of idiots with space weapons. Great!

Seems to be blocking users outside of the US, FWIW...

I think, perhaps, Japanese paramedics shouldn't take their shoes off...

Android had (has?) a similar issue with the hotspot feature where it will not turn on in a region where 5 GHz is more regulated than in the US but will also not give you any warning about it.

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Sounds like Wireless CarPlay lag. I've experienced it a few times. They should really fix it. Wired CarPlay is great!

At this point it's very easy: no CarPlay, no buy. So no Tesla (obv), no Rivian.

I use DNS-level blocking and audit, a bit like Pi-hole, but as a commercial service I can use anywhere. Definitely blocks a lot of trackers, but probably not all.

Complicated question... Do you have marketable skills that could land you a job in demand with a visa? Or sufficient savings to "buy" residency somewhere?

You can criticize all you want on memegen, people will upvote but nothing will change.

^ this! Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people who decide to work there make the statement that they are ok with it. Same with Palantir, X, Grok, Tesla etc

Apple Maps only works well in North America, possibly just the US. The same way a lot of happy paths in Apple products are designed for California/Single Culture/Single Language/Single Residence.

You're confusing colos and first-party data centers. A colo mostly relies on its customers for installs and maintenance. Google, MS, FB, Apple etc own the entire building so all the functions are local: server install and maintenance, network install and maintenance, generator maintenance, electricians, water treatment in some cases... That's very easily in the hundreds if not thousands for big sites.

Count the cars here: 36.242186561973, -95.32619746715035

You have no idea how much maintenance is required. Just replacing hard drives, not even counting server repairs, new servers installation, network infrastructure installation and maintenance, power distribution, generator engineering, water treatment etc etc

Data centers are hardly new technology... For the longest time, people had no idea where the cloud was because the footprint was pretty small. It's another golden goose moment where everyone is going to build DCs and we might end up like in the dotcom bubble where way too much fiber was deployed for what was necessary at the time.

Less than 30 makes no sense. It's easily in the hundred if you account for shifts and the specialized jobs required.

Thanks for that, now I have a rock-solid argument when people say "oh we're already Microsoft customers, we'll just use Azure, it's easier, and they have Active Directory!!"

This reads like Google culture too...

Some airlines and/or local aviation authorities have additional restrictions. China wants CCC certified power banks, Thailand has a strict 160 Wh limit. Both are very strictly enforced.

Is this an ad for comma.ai? Because it sure reads like one...

Better than not having solar panels at all...

So does Pichai... Every time there is something new, he forces Google to pivot, upending everything without much to show for it.

A C seems pretty generous...

For cheap bulk compute, it's probably ok, but where would you serve your actual critical prod from?