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ssambros

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    Comment #25393906

    Could this hint to the fact the Zodiac committed suicide in the end?

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    Comment #25368033

    Mafia coming to you for protection money since "bad things happen" is not extortion. They just ask nicely. The fact that your building burned down after you didn't pay is totally u…

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    Comment #25349770

    I had an issue with R constantly not connecting. Ended up replacing under the warranty and now have zero issues.

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    Comment #25154241

    > So, you are rejecting the premise that a lot of misinformation is spread and it has much wider reach than in the past? No, but how do we jump to conclusion that government, gover…

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    Comment #24874016

    > How is it that Google create/rebrand/close so many music and chat services over the years. It's not a rebrand. It's a rewrite. People need them promos. In many cases, however, re…

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    Comment #22260638

    if you run Redis you need at least 25% of extra RAM on top the instance memorysize if you want to avoid a lot of nasty OOM scenarios. Memorystore gives this memory by default and i…

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    Comment #22256658

    To be fair, it seems Memorystore instance is not the same gb-for-gb as Elasticache, since Memorystore gives you extra memory overhead, and on aws you have to manage it yourself. Me…

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    Comment #21569926

    > join a megacorp? How will that help with the noise problem?

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    Comment #21229505

    "Air Moorea didn’t know it had both types in its fleet, it replaced all its control cables on the interval specified for carbon steel cables — about once a year." Did they just ord…

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    Comment #21218916

    With it's pros being the ability to know how close the points are just having the 2 coordinates and arbitrary precision. Who knows how far away epic.region.music and epic.global.mu…

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    Comment #20559908

    > It tells you the intent. A good unit test that tries to load with jit_enable=false and expects false in return will communicate intent even better.

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    Comment #20044946

    > Now obviously Uber is a private company No, they are not. Uber went public this month. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...

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    Comment #19792727

    > Google could have made a much less obnoxious social network Even today, I think YouTube has a great potential for becoming a better social network, than G+ ever was.

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    Comment #19733153

    Indeed not all locations have it, but I believe the major ones, like Santa Monica, should have it available by now.

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    Comment #19732705

    > For the phone interview, it will be on a Google document, and for the onsite interview, it will be writing code on a whiteboard. That part is not completely correct. At onsite ca…

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    Comment #19609066

    Would you prefer the government to take your money by force and give it to Wikimedia instead of them 'begging' for money?

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    Comment #19383378

    Engines are also very different between 737 Original and Classic, so having different thrust vectors between generations is not happening for the first time.

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    Comment #19375942

    If anyone is interested: Memorystore for Redis is experiencing intermittent failures during instance creation. Existing instances are not affected.

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    Comment #19213422

    You keep confusing the terms. You say "privilege to vote" in one sentence and "right to vote" in another. Constitution sees due process as a right of "persons", and ability to vote…

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    Comment #18869251

    oneof thingy { repeated string first_option; string second_option; } Not the most beautiful solution, but I've seen it in production and it works fine.

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    Comment #18820985

    > it's the same reason that convex mirrors in America must have the text Precisely. S5.4.2 Each convex mirror shall have permanently and indelibly marked at the lower edge of the m…

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    Comment #18820787

    People who drove cars in the EU and in the USA: did you ever notice how the blind spot problem almost completely disappears in the EU? That's because US enforces in the Federal Mot…

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    Comment #18720121

    Not that much anymore. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-...

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    Comment #18673726

    Prop 13. They can't just increase property taxes.