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I wonder how many of those important business decisions/discussions are made during the lunch breaks.

Who else noticed the Winamp icon at one of the diagrams?

https://thehftguy.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/tdoa.png?w=300...

As a fun fact a lot of the people who live there believe(d) that Nikola Tesla was a Czech/Slovak due to the (at the time) prevalent domestic 'Tesla' brand name on various electronics (including popular TVs).

As as side note this was the first time in over a decade that I've seen Honeywell mentioned or HTML Map tags in use.

One thing that immediately comes to mind it: storage locality. S3 will by design always be at fixed (known) distances to the retriever. On the other hand distributed storage may end up having better locality (depending on where in the world you are accessing the data from).

What I really wonder is when this chip would have been released if AMD didn't come out with Ryzen line up in 2017.

There is one thing missing for a complete experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

I know that this is entirely off-topic but I wish Google made their services a lot more visible than they are. For example I completely forgot about sites.google.com until I saw this link and the service has been there since ~2009.

Commercial racks and datacenter products have optional features that can be utilised in earthquake prone environments. What you see in the video is not only those rack features but also structure of the building itself (both are important and neither one is sufficient for certain areas).

For example see: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXN8P/com.ibm.s...

Without employing these techniques, you'd get something similar to this: https://i.imgur.com/Sb2M5Qo.jpg

Furthermore Simple English tends to be the very high level TL;DR version of associated article.

I've always thought that the Simple English article versions of Wikipedia were always useful for non-native English speakers. https://simple.wikipedia.org/

Most people seem to be unaware of this Wikipedia aspect.

It will be interesting to see the followup article where the author will focus on IBM and Oracle which are arguably targeting a different market share to AWS, Microsoft and Google.

Few years ago the same argument went for OpenStack which was dubbed "the new Linux".

The single most effective thing I've done to speed up my web browsing is to install an advertisement blocker extension/plugin/addon.

Based on this I wonder whether web browser benchmarks should be based on how fast they are after adverts are blocked, not only their rendering engine per se.

For macOS users, at least, there is another option: select text and drag and drop it from password manager text field to a website input field.

From what I gather this should use IPC between applications, rather than the clipboard itself.

I would like to know whether the decrypted data can be trusted again in case the contents have been somewhat changed. Then again it is much better than not having any data at all in some cases...

Separate to cloud providers, there is a whole market for home servers, especially storage/NAS devices. AMD could tap into this, not only the datacenter.

Found this[1] via the Wikipedia's Talk page for the robots.txt article. It showcases that early on robots.txt was designated to help maintain bandwidth performance of web servers. Back then it would have been due to bandwidth contention, today it may be bandwidth cost to some operators which robots.txt help mitigate.

[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=377285&cid=21554125

That's practically one way to speed up browsing performance without changing the underlying technology itself.

Cygwin (64bit) didn't work for me in the latest creators update (actually I think it broke even before that). Now I am trying things using WSL itself, so far it has been a productive move.

File permissions and security descriptors proved to be quite a hassle when removing Cygwin requiring multiple takeown and cacls hacks to remove some of the files.

On the flip side I saved some disk space too.

Based on my own anecdotal observations within IT, few examples:

- Relative size of CS departments (enrolments) and how standalone they are as a faculty now vs 10-15 years ago

- Observations of how many parents who work in IT recommend to their kids to pursue alternative fields of study

Statistically I am not sure how this fits in with other non-IT fields.

Personally I would love to see the points above greatly improved upon as computers are here to stay, so having self-sufficiency and cross-generational (family) expertise would be very complementary and competitive.

I would distinguish between PhD and IT work when it comes to 457 visas. In practice 457, within the IT field at least, has rarely served its intended purpose and often been misused. Likewise it has deterred many locals from considering IT as an area of study.

On the other hand PhD applicants are much closer to the intended purposes of the 457. For example research cannot be developed in the same manner and quantity as IT.

Testing himalayan pink salt within this study would have been good for comparison (sea vs non-sea source of salt).

aafire(1) is fun too, especially in colour with fixed term font.

Likewise aaxine(1) which renders videos in ASCII art.

I am sure that Chrome users have similar if not higher level of history analytics/statistics but most of it seems to be only available to Google itself and not the end user.

Yes there is the web history Google provides but it is very basic level of access.

Some of the dual metal build coins suffer from faults when they are exposed to cold environments. Once can test for this by placing the coin inside a freezer and observing one of the metals shrink to the point where it disconnects from the other part of the coin.

There are much older examples of latent image technology on coins, for example Russian 10 ruble circa year 2000 (look at the middle area of the '0' character): https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/coin-rubles-russian-commemor...

Good info. Just to add onto the speculation as to why so many new places are vacant at Docklands I would say that it has to do with foreign owners who want to park (secure) their money outside of their country. We've never had so many empty properties and at the same time so many homeless people around the city area (there seems to be direct correlation between the two).

Here is another review link which is a good complement to the Anandtech's hardware:

http://techreport.com/review/31366/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-ryzen-7...

That page ought to have a list of TV series in addition to Mr. Robot: X-Files and more so its spinoff show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen

No Mr. Robot?