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Comment #45130528
You don't believe Team Cherry's prior sales of Hollow Knight would reach the bar noted in the docs you linked? Aside, your second point is incorrect. The SteamDB folks have a publi…
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Comment #37054316
I don't mean to support or refuse the author's main points or analysis, but you might like to know that the Chrome team is currently working towards shipping the Topics API. I have…
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Comment #33009553
In my experience with modest specifications, you can source servers from tier 1 vendors (Dell, HPE, etc) with 5 years of support for less than a 1 year commitment for the roughly e…
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Comment #32077816
Most of the stuff that makes the distribution different from Debian Testing is tightly coupled with Google's internal infrastructure and generally uninteresting (or unuseful) to us…
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Comment #29115337
There's a reasonably good FAA sponsored app to help drone owners with this problem: https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_fliers/where_can_i_fly/...
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Comment #27623859
Based on the pictured bezel, it looks like they've got three rows 3.5" 14TB SATA drives up front in 14th generation carriers. Best guess would be something like an R740XD2 which ha…
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Comment #26170730
> Nobody at Google has a need to raise a ticket with some ops group in Bengaluru to partition a Kafka topic, renew a certificate, bridge two VPCs, or any of that type of thing. Exc…
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Comment #25738851
I'm curious about what specific thing is signaling to you that your Steam password has been cracked. (I assume you mean brute forced?) It's significantly more likely that you've be…
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Comment #25735222
Email access is required for self-service account recovery, but there are plenty of other documented methods: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5421-QTF...
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Comment #24902662
Historically at Google the exceptions fell into one of a few buckets: * You used a modified client or client proxy (this was done for e.g. SSH) * You used a remote-desktop protocol…
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Comment #23501217
This is likely aimed at $device_manufacturer that wants to put a cellular modem into their device for remote telemetry (uploading a tiny payload every 24 hours for the lifetime on …
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Comment #21765505
The specific rules for key sales are covered here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3
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Comment #21667668
Do you have a make/model or link for the valve? I went all-in on Z-Wave and am similarly interested in controlling drip-lines.
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Comment #21573842
Sharing without comment: https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1196488999524802562
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Comment #18934331
Depending on how much stock you put into the Steam Hardware Survey, it's worth noting that Nvidia still controls 74% of the market relative to AMD's 15%: https://store.steampowered…
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Comment #17184230
The cost of the Lidar hardware was down to $7,500 well over a year ago and may have come down even more in the intervening time: http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-waymo-reduce…
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Comment #16479851
The iPhone 5C could be attacked this way because it didn't contain the Secure Enclave that shipped as part of the A7 chip. Attacks on devices with the A7 (or newer chips) would be …
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Comment #15392898
The document shows in great detail that Kalanick and Levandowski were already working together closely before work on the truck even began. 2016-01-26 - Levandowski's last day at G…
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Comment #15296276
Cloning? Nest has been shipping their basic outdoor camera since 2016 (which itself is not exactly innovative ). The Ring device appears to have hit the market two months ago. Agre…
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Comment #15258259
Also individual Googlers who want to open source their work without going through the copyright assignment paperwork. A lot of the projects bearing that disclaimer are passion proj…
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Comment #14600182
Google's model allows SSH to "internal machines" over a set of relays that apply the same machine authentication and trust tier logic that's laid out in the papers. So your workflo…
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Comment #14600157
The actual framing is WebSockets over TLS once the session is established and the latency is no worse than SSH over VPN practically speaking. The protocol also supports session res…