The implication is that fast.com is owned by Netflix, and if that operates at full speed, Netflix obviously operates at full speed. If fast.com results are consistently lower than others, THAT would imply that Netflix traffic is being treated differently. And this way I, as an asshole ISP, could say "Fast.com is run by Netflix, if it's showing you good speed, and videos aren't playing well, then it must be an issue with Netflix's servers"
Except if I was an ISP and we throttled Netflix, I'd specifically whitelist fast.com (and other speed tests). I wouldn't use this as any sort of proof that throttling is or is not happening.
They are prepared to take on almost anything and have a go, even if it ultimately fails (see the Fire Phone). Meanwhile much of the rest of the corporate world is taking the low risk, slow growth route powered by financial engineering where execs are more concerned with pointless mergers and restructuring than about actually doing anything concrete.
This.
There are (to make everything absolute and binary) two ways to deal with risk. 1: don't do it. 2: do it really fucking well. Amazon seems to prefer number 2.
My own company, now over 50,000 employees, has restructured at LEAST 3 times in the two years I've been here...granted, there have been large acquisitions causing 2 of them...but all that time spent restructuring is time NOT spent doing actual work that pays the bills.
MGRS DOES have additional information I left out. It was originally a paper map system. So there are what's called Map Sheet Designators. Each Map Sheet Designator is good for something like 100km x 100km or something like that. And then the coordinate pairs in there refer to the region of that map sheet. So 3456 7834 alone wouldn't be clear, you'd need to know which map it went to. Can easily read up more on Wikipedia, but it looks like I got the basics right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Map sheet designators can have letters such as o or i (capitalized, of course), but all coordinate pairs are numeric, so there is little chance to confuse those.
In all honesty, a grid system is the simplest, and breaking it down into as few characters to remember as possible is I think all that Google's accomplished.
Yes, I left it out for brevity. Thought it would be understood. Theoretically, you can go to 12, 14, 16, etc....can even go down as low as 2 digit if you really want to.
Yup, MGRS: Military Grid Reference System. Used by NATO, actually. If I recall correctly, 4 digit is 1000m x 1000m, 6 digit is 100m x 100m, and your 10 digit is 1m x 1m.
I guess MGRS isn't "cool" enough. "Plus codes" are "hip" and "cool" or whatever the kids are saying these days.
That's probably exactly what they're trying to figure out. Only 3 years of data doesn't seem like much to get anything definitive, especially since those first students haven't even graduated yet. I image with a few more years of data they can refine it more and get something more definitive.
but last winter UPS outfitted about 2,500 of them with scanning devices and $8 Bluetooth headphones that issue one-word directions, such as "Green," "Red," or "Blue." The colors correspond to specific conveyor belts, which then transport the packages to other parts of the building for further processing.
I had this, sans Bluetooth, over 10 years ago working in Office Depot's Returns Consolidation Center in Kent, WA. Items would come off the pallet, I'd scan them, the wrist computer would indicate Yellow, Red, Green, or Blue, and down that line they'd go.
I didn't RTFA, but I do hope UPS is doing something more advanced, but TFS makes it sound like child's play.
I like Postbox, myself. Been using it for about 10 years now. I miss the Sunbird integration...having the calendar and E-mail in the same program was nifty.
They don't affect his achievements. But maybe if humans collectively stop glorifying, rewarding and celebrating known shitheads for their shithead behavior...
No one's glorifying, rewarding, or celebrating his shithead behavior here. Hell, I'm sure most of us never even heard of any of this.
>> Mazda powertrain chief Mitsuo Hitomi said that the main goal with Skyactiv-3 is to increase the engine's thermal efficiency to roughly 56 percent.
Yeah. Not really.
A typical gasoline engine may have an efficiency of 20-30% at best.
The maximum efficency of an otto cycle gasoline engine is 40-47%, which is limited by physics.
More would mean a different cycle needs to be used.
I'm pretty excited about having hot swappable organs all ready for my old age stored in my lobotomized clone body.
They already tried; it was discovered that the bodies need to really live for the organs to be healthy. There's a nice documentary on it called The Island.
My data was old, my mistake. And wrong. I'd last heard they were 2%-4%, with most around the high 3's...but that was some years ago. A quick google search proves myself wrong. Still, a valid point, I think: we often pay fees to use our money every day.
The only conflicts are 50 US Senators, 435 Representa^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the millions of citizen voters who don't vote out these "representatives" that continually erode our rights.
Besides, we don't need this security. Think of the children! What about terrorists!? Do you want those terrorists blowing up kidnapped children!?
A poor Archer meme just came to mind (be warned, this is terrible, but I laughed!). 4th Amendment: Do you want terrorists blowing up children? Because this is how you get terrorists blowing up children!
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No, I'd let those speedtests run at full speed.
The implication is that fast.com is owned by Netflix, and if that operates at full speed, Netflix obviously operates at full speed. If fast.com results are consistently lower than others, THAT would imply that Netflix traffic is being treated differently. And this way I, as an asshole ISP, could say "Fast.com is run by Netflix, if it's showing you good speed, and videos aren't playing well, then it must be an issue with Netflix's servers"
Except if I was an ISP and we throttled Netflix, I'd specifically whitelist fast.com (and other speed tests). I wouldn't use this as any sort of proof that throttling is or is not happening.
They are prepared to take on almost anything and have a go, even if it ultimately fails (see the Fire Phone). Meanwhile much of the rest of the corporate world is taking the low risk, slow growth route powered by financial engineering where execs are more concerned with pointless mergers and restructuring than about actually doing anything concrete.
This.
There are (to make everything absolute and binary) two ways to deal with risk. 1: don't do it. 2: do it really fucking well. Amazon seems to prefer number 2.
My own company, now over 50,000 employees, has restructured at LEAST 3 times in the two years I've been here...granted, there have been large acquisitions causing 2 of them...but all that time spent restructuring is time NOT spent doing actual work that pays the bills.
Perhaps. I've not looked into it.
MGRS DOES have additional information I left out. It was originally a paper map system. So there are what's called Map Sheet Designators. Each Map Sheet Designator is good for something like 100km x 100km or something like that. And then the coordinate pairs in there refer to the region of that map sheet. So 3456 7834 alone wouldn't be clear, you'd need to know which map it went to. Can easily read up more on Wikipedia, but it looks like I got the basics right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Map sheet designators can have letters such as o or i (capitalized, of course), but all coordinate pairs are numeric, so there is little chance to confuse those.
In all honesty, a grid system is the simplest, and breaking it down into as few characters to remember as possible is I think all that Google's accomplished.
Still, interesting.
Yes, I left it out for brevity. Thought it would be understood. Theoretically, you can go to 12, 14, 16, etc....can even go down as low as 2 digit if you really want to.
Thank you.
I guess MGRS isn't "cool" enough. "Plus codes" are "hip" and "cool" or whatever the kids are saying these days.
That's probably exactly what they're trying to figure out. Only 3 years of data doesn't seem like much to get anything definitive, especially since those first students haven't even graduated yet. I image with a few more years of data they can refine it more and get something more definitive.
Actually... you know whenever a cosmic ray flips a bit? Alien hackers. That's my explanation from now on.
I'm sold. Screw solar flares, it's all alien hackers. Letting my other IT buddies know of this new amazing updated information!
but last winter UPS outfitted about 2,500 of them with scanning devices and $8 Bluetooth headphones that issue one-word directions, such as "Green," "Red," or "Blue." The colors correspond to specific conveyor belts, which then transport the packages to other parts of the building for further processing.
I had this, sans Bluetooth, over 10 years ago working in Office Depot's Returns Consolidation Center in Kent, WA. Items would come off the pallet, I'd scan them, the wrist computer would indicate Yellow, Red, Green, or Blue, and down that line they'd go.
I didn't RTFA, but I do hope UPS is doing something more advanced, but TFS makes it sound like child's play.
The users are obviously setting it down wrong.
Hell, I pay over 40% of my paycheck to NOT live that close to work!
I like Postbox, myself. Been using it for about 10 years now. I miss the Sunbird integration...having the calendar and E-mail in the same program was nifty.
Come Elon, where's your ambition? Either launch it TO Mars or not at all, I say!
They don't affect his achievements. But maybe if humans collectively stop glorifying, rewarding and celebrating known shitheads for their shithead behavior...
No one's glorifying, rewarding, or celebrating his shithead behavior here. Hell, I'm sure most of us never even heard of any of this.
>> Mazda powertrain chief Mitsuo Hitomi said that the main goal with Skyactiv-3 is to increase the engine's thermal efficiency to roughly 56 percent. Yeah. Not really. A typical gasoline engine may have an efficiency of 20-30% at best. The maximum efficency of an otto cycle gasoline engine is 40-47%, which is limited by physics. More would mean a different cycle needs to be used.
Right. Use the Atkinson cycle. Infinity is: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...
(Not really disagreeing with you, just providing more information) It's exciting times we live in.
I'm pretty excited about having hot swappable organs all ready for my old age stored in my lobotomized clone body.
They already tried; it was discovered that the bodies need to really live for the organs to be healthy. There's a nice documentary on it called The Island.
Thanks.
My data was old, my mistake. And wrong. I'd last heard they were 2%-4%, with most around the high 3's...but that was some years ago. A quick google search proves myself wrong. Still, a valid point, I think: we often pay fees to use our money every day.
My 1% came directly from TFS. Sorry to confuse you by referring to the news summary we're discussing.
Coinbase charges 1%. Credit cards charge 4%.
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It's called hyperbole. If I met someone as dense as you in real life, I'd probably kill them.
Hint: that's also hyperbole.
So what's Constitutional Gerrymandering?
The only conflicts are 50 US Senators, 435 Representa^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the millions of citizen voters who don't vote out these "representatives" that continually erode our rights.
Besides, we don't need this security. Think of the children! What about terrorists!? Do you want those terrorists blowing up kidnapped children!?
A poor Archer meme just came to mind (be warned, this is terrible, but I laughed!). 4th Amendment: Do you want terrorists blowing up children? Because this is how you get terrorists blowing up children!
I'm done now. It's going to be a long day....