luhn

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Comment · 4 days ago
What's the difference between regex and regular expression? I always understood the former to be an abbreviation for the latter.
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Comment · 4 months ago
The focus of this seems to be entirely AI agents, but I wonder if there's a future where browsers implement this and us humans can finally get micropayments in the web. It's been tried unsuccessfully many times but always falls prey to the chicken-and-egg problem. Maybe the AI hype will finally give it the push it needs for widespread deployment.
Comment · 4 months ago
I can't tell you why Fargate is so slow, but the reason Lambda containers are so fast is because it doesn't actually load the image. It loads a manifest of the layers and the files in each, and then each file is loaded on-demand from a multi-tier cache. 90% of the image is never loaded, and 90% of the remainder is served from local cache. It's a pretty cool architecture.
Comment · 5 months ago
> So, the "Ai is not the default" claim is bullshit

Where was this claim made? Nowhere in the article says that.

Comment · 7 months ago
I assume Blueberry is a nod to the machine being a Raspberry Pi.
Comment · 7 months ago
I can't make sense of your comment, but whatever you're trying to get at is wrong: Table sugar is sucrose. Corn syrup is mostly glucose and contains no fructose. HFCS is commonly produced at 42% and 55% fructose formulations. I don't think HFCS is meaningfully more or less harmful than any other sugar, but chemically there's a significant difference.
Comment · 9 months ago
It's not quite that dire. Statewide 69% normal to date. Snowpack peaks March-April, so still have a ways to go in the season. https://snow.water.ca.gov

But yeah, snowmelt plays a huge role in supplying water into the summer, so just looking at precipitation totals isn't the full picture.

Comment · 10 months ago
That's hilarious and right on brand for Google that they spend millions developing cutting-edge technology and fumble the ball making a chat app.
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
8kbit/min, you mean.
Comment · 1 year ago
They had a pretty massive one earlier this year. https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

This isn't GCP's fault, but the outage ended up taking down Cloudflare too, so in total impact I think that takes the cake.

Comment · 1 year ago
us-west-1 is the one outlier. us-east-1, us-east-2, and us-west-2 are all priced the same.
Comment · 1 year ago
Case in point is recent-ish Google Cloud downtime, which ended up taking down Cloudflare and half the internet with it.

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