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If you haven't seen it, you should check out The Big Sick. It was written by him and his wife about when his wife got sick when they first started dating. Obviously it's not a "true story," but a fictional telling of their life. It's pretty good.

You do actually use Amazon products, you just don't know. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/all/

Netflix Workday AirBNB Belkin Citrix Coursera Duolingo FT IMDB King County (their website/services) Naughty Dog

You might not use their retail services, but that's not even their largest money maker any more.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KCG9IM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I purchased that one off Amazon, the ball changes colors when it spins so if you do 2 spins it stays the same color but 1 or 3 it will change. It's stupid but my dog loves watching me do it.

Its not probable, but possible to not know if you are really eating a hotdog. Maybe you want to check your friend if they are a hotdog today.

Its for these compelling reasons I worked with Jian Yang and port his hot dog classifier on snapchat. Let me know what you think!

Here is a link to try the experience: https://www.snapchat.com/unlock/?type=SNAPCODE&uuid=86e977e07e8f407aaa7b5d7374ec94da&metadata=01

VPNs do this. I bought a year of service with Private Internet Access recently when the FCC voted to allow ISPs to sell our data.

Comcast can't see any of my traffic.

There is already a pop of Gilfoyle : https://www.amazon.com/Funko-POP-Television-Silicon-Gilfoyle/dp/B01NBES182/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525272726&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=gilfoyle+pop

• "Sweet dreams" is a way of saying goodnight or sleep well. It just means "have (sweet) good dreams".

• The word "Right" is Jared's way of acknowledging what Richard said, and it literally means "Yes" or "Correct". However Jared is using it in a sarcastic way, because he doesn't agree with Richard that sweet dreams are possible. He's saying "I agree", but being sarcastic, which means he's conveying "I disagree".

• "If only" is a phrase that basically means "I wish that was true". It's a shortened way of saying "If the situation was different, then [I would be happy/I could do something I wanted to do]." Jared responds with "if only" because he knows that he won't have sweet dreams, but he wishes that he could.

So what Jared means when he says "Right, if only" is:

> I find it silly that you are telling me to have good dreams, because I know that I will have nightmares. I wish that I could have good dreams like you're telling me to.

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/use-amazons-snowball-snowballs-unleashes-45-foot-truck-model/

This truck was introduced at AWS reinvent this year. It's purpose is to transport exabytes of data to send to AWS.

> Also I think a lot of people were getting tired of the PP team managing to fuck something up in some way every episode, so to have it happen via this literally impossible circumstance is even more frustrating.

1. Deleting large files can take a long time on most Linux filesystems: http://serverfault.com/questions/425162/why-does-deleting-a-big-file-take-longer

2. You'll have to take my word on this, but it's entirely possible for network file systems like FTP to allow file operations to be processed in parallel.

Together, its entirely feasible for someone to wedge a remote system by issuing hundreds/thousands of batched operations.

And FYI, the "middle-out" compression algo. is literally mathematically impossible. I had to turn my brain off before the first episode was over. Still a great show and I love it!

This is very common. I have loads of friends who "ship" characters and write fanfic. "Slash" = gay fanfic and there is a TON* about our boys (some of which is rather fun). It's just a way (for girls and gay men, I guess) to see the characters in a way they might not be seen in their "reality". You could say Dinesh/Gilfoyle is a lot of fans' "OTP".

Source: I have a lot of friends really into fandoms.

*Click here if you dare: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Silicon%20Valley%20(TV)/works (Filter to "Explicit" if you want the really dirty stuff. I don't write it, I just sometimes read it.)

Here's a link to the beta

Yeah, studied CS and Applied Math. We're using React Native for the app so it's mostly JavaScript.

made by http://www.jpegmini.com/ - company for image compression :D :D

EDIT: It goes deeper! :D jpegmini.com webpage is associated (maybe it's the same company?) with Beamr.com, a video compression company. I guess those companies can be real but them doing Silicon Valley page? Great joke! :D

Not Hotdog, available only in US App Store and Play Store, sadly

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seefoodtechnologies.nothotdog

In that case GoT would be on Amazon by now wouldn't it?

Edit: You're right, according to this article from April

> As time goes by, older seasons of current shows like "Girls" and "The Newsroom" will become available about three years after they air. So, for example, because the first season of "Girls" aired from April to June 2012, it should be available on Prime next year. However, Amazon Prime won't have "Game of Thrones," at least not under this agreement. Nor will it be able to offer "True Detectives." Neither is mentioned in Amazon's press release, and both are huge hits for HBO, which is keeping them firmly behind its moat.

So Silicon Valley might be on Amazon in... 2.5 years...

sigh

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> You do actually use Amazon products, you just don't know. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/all/

Reading this guy's statement that "you can block Amazon pretty easily" made me realize just how much they really don't know about how much Amazon has proliferated.

Amazon provides a list of their entire range of IP addresses. Block those IPs and see just how far you get on the internet.

Edit: Further reading suggests that the OP's anger is misplaced, but not entirely unfounded. Skyrocketing costs-of-living, massive wage gaps, increasing homelessness (and not just the tent-city kind), some people who think the world of themselves and look down on others, etc. This ain't too far from what's been happening in San Francisco.

Gizmodo has an article for Alphabet and it has a tesla with doors that open like this.

I found this interesting website and the font that matches the most seems to be Tenby Five Regular, probably Tenby Five light

Scroll a little further to check it out: click "Custom text..." and try it

While people are true that most multi monitor setups are 1 computer with 2, 3, 4 monitors. There are also ways to run two desktops at once. This app https://symless.com/synergy lets you seemlessly share your keyboard, mouse and clipboard between multiple workstations, in my case Linux and Windows, but for other people Windows and Mac is a common combo,

I'm running 4 monitors 2 for each desktop with 1 keyboard. lets me run linux programming natively while still running some obligatory windows apps and web browsing on windows.

Honestly it looks like it was pulled from this clip.

Also, someone else used the same background.

Also one of the writers on the show for a few seasons (I think seasons 2 and 3 at least) was Dan Lyons, who covered the industry as a reporter for a long time and then went and worked at a tech startup for a couple years. He wrote a book about it called Disrupted (which I highly recommend) and many of his anecdotes made it into the show.

> The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later". This idea is known as Brooks' law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.

Honestly, I hate this crap.

1. None of that is proven, 90% of all business literature is just something someone did at some place that worked and then it's assumed that this is the case everywhere. Basically business literature behaves as if statistics wouldn't exist. Sample size is one and they see that as a proof. I'm not even exaggerating, even in an MBA at Harvard you do case studies all the time.

2. It's absolutely bizarre to call something a "law". That makes it sound like "the laws of physics", so basically something universal that exists permanently when in fact that's just some bullshit someone observed once. Also, if it would be a law then competition in markets would make it a permanent reality because everyone would be considering it (or go out of business instead). So clearly it's bullshit.

Thanks! It might never be finished but we launched an MVP like 2 months ago so you can try it out on iOS or android.

Yeah, Folding At Home has been around for 17 years.

http://folding.stanford.edu

I have an old cell phone that's been running https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc and donating CPU cycles for 2 years now.

It’s facebook: https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/04/13/facebooks-seattle-office-has-the-coolest-conference-room-names-youll-ever-see/

Although I think these are from the menlo park office (it says MPK in the room name)

Well, it should be easier than that. According to this post, the library will take YUV and output YUV so you should be able to directly see what the changes of the library are.

The basis of ZPEG seems to be in some stuff from the mid-90s (originally called XYZ compression) also by Raymond Westwater. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3338515_Multimedia_broadcasting_over_the_Internet_Part_III_-_Video_compression

I don't have the background to evaluate the paper though for it's plausibility though. That said I did used to work in video processing in a big internet company, so I followed when Google bought On2 for $100m+ and have contacts that could evaluate these claims. I'm not convinced right now so I don't want to waste their time until I see more evidence.

I'm not sure this is right, but I think his point was that things would theoretically be compressed better as they scale up, so the GOT video would have the larger color space.

Also, it seems that the author was mainly looking at the idea of middle-out based on Richard's explanation of it during his presentation. The show's tech advisor wrote a paper based on the middle-out idea that may have more clues about how middle-out could work:

Optimal Tip-to-Tip Effichancy: a model for male audience stimulation by Dinesh Chugtai and Bertram Gilfoyle

Yeah, the concept of the show is to put someone who doesn't really have experience in improv with a team of UCB folks.

I don't use tumblr, but the Snowpants tumblr has pictures of a bunch of the guests

When the show started they thought about what could be done but hasn't been figured out. It's possible to get better lossless compression but when noone knows.

However last year this happened https://github.com/google/guetzli/ Google figured out how to get 20-30% more compression out of jpg images (which is lossy). So I guess it did happen just lossy instead of lossless. Lossless is more harder and means the compression doesn't lose data. You don't need an image to be pixel perfect but you need a file to be byte perfect

You know Richard's decentralized internet sounds too similar to Ethereum and some of Ethereum tokens.

There's a network announced on Ethereum few hours ago which is almost exactly the same thing- Status Network. https://blog.status.im/announcing-the-status-network-c6dd18e770e

Technical whitepaper

Let's remember a CEO is hired to bring value to the board and shareholders and that's exactly what he has in mind. It's a known fact that every hired CEO compromises long term benefit and values for short term appreciations in the Company's stock price. That's why most new CEOs layoff staff. Same reason why Apple under Tim Cook is nowhere near Apple under Steve Jobs.

Explained well in Peter Thiel's 'Zero to One' book.

We have a beta for international users, if you're on android you can find it here. For iOS i'll need your email so that I can add you to testflight (you can PM me)

Ik old comment but just incase here. 100% Blue + Yellow(Others random)
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I use to use Tasker to send a sweet message to my girlfriend once my phone connected to the WiFi when I arrived at work.

Then I needed to take my car into the shop, and she offered to give me a ride to work. I wasn't two steps out of the car and she got the automated text message! I was busted.

> I think you're vastly underestimating how long the "long tail" of the internet is.

I think you're just overestimating it. Take a look here, these top websites are not decentralized and they represent the traffic of the whole internet. Remember the Intersite deal? It's true that porn websites represent 40% of Internet traffic. Now think about the others. Do you think Google + Facebook + Twitter + Amazon don't represents (combined together) at least 30% of Internet traffic?

When I asked if you can shut down the Internet maybe I put it in a wrong way.

> No, you can't.

Big doesn't mean decentralized

The problem is not how many servers Google has around the globe, the problem is how Google is structured. I hope to make it clearer with this example: Google is centralized, meaning that, if you pull the plug on America servers, American people can't no longer browse the web with Google. If Google was decentralized there's no plug to pull. It can happen a blackout, but that's something that can affect both a centralized and a decentralized network. Big companies have only the resources to never go down but that's a money problem not a structural problem.

Check out 'Betas' on Amazon, it's actually a very similar concept.

Two big differences are characters and humor.

It's not quite as funny, but the character development is better. I loved it, but it was unfortunately only one season.

Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency - Jerking Scene, then show them the paper Mike Judge got a Stanford professor and his graduate student to write.

Not at the moment it seems. Contact them and see if they have a date for it being available again. I think they also had GoT unavailable for a period so it's just them being stingy or something. They are poor compared to Netflix and Amazon and...other streaming services.

Reply to this comment if you get a response! :3

> ICQ was in beta from the time it was conceived

I don't remember that being so. And it definitely isn't in beta now. What is your source for this claim? general ref: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/icq/

Hey guys, after some requests from the Tesla community, I got this shirt back online. You can buy it HERE if you want. (This link will give you free shipping)

So much of this show comes from the world of FOSS, yet it presents "the industry" as only that...an industry :( Personally, the only thing that really bothers me, where I think at least attribution of some form should be given, is the fact that "New Net" and "New New Net" actually already exist; It's GNU Net, a project that could surely use some more contribution.
//edit: added, well tried to, add pic of protest banner https://www.flickr.com/photos/greenoid/9693327611

https://www.amazon.com/icepc-Industrial-Waterproof-Connector-Extension/dp/B08CXXS9M1/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=USB+bulkhead&qid=1628396717&sr=8-4

Yep, USB Bulkheads. Kinda handy if you're the creative project type.

I hear where you’re coming from but her post has a valid question that’s definitely tone-deaf, but despite her political leanings actually a bipartisan one. It’s discussed in a short but excellent read, “How Do You Kill 11 Million People?”. From the book’s description:

-Which is more dangerous: politicians with ill intent, or the too-trusting population that allows such people to lead them? -How are we supposed to tell the difference between the “good guys" and the “bad guys”?

How is it do you think that Jews were demonized in Nazi Germany? Do you think Germans just woke up one day and felt like purging? No. It was taught and conditioned by government leaders.

Study history and you’ll find that populations have been manipulated to think and do terrible things to each other. Watch CNN and Fox News today to see how the other side is constantly ridiculed and belittled, and it’s no wonder how politics are infused into our identities, and now a hard qualifier of someone’s character.

Again: it was poor taste to compare conservatives to Jews being beaten in the streets. But if you think Americans, both on the left and right, aren’t being pitted against one another for political gain you’re either naive or ignorant of history.

Lol. I think Richard sold it... And now anyone can buy it online. I couldn't find the exact link, but here's a close match.

Amazon

I got me one of these!

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https://www.amazon.com/Hoberman-Switch-Ball-1-Colors-Styles/dp/B003KCG9IM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=13S45HJ7KS512&dchild=1&keywords=toss+to+flip+colors&qid=1601587200&sprefix=toss+to+flip%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-1

Depending where you are in the world, I found for me in the UK the cheapest place was Amazon US as they deal with any customs fees for you at checkout. I purchased this and it cost me £12 delivered which to say you cannot find one anywhere for sale in the UK was reasonable. Looks like if I bought now it'd be about £19.

Honestly it depends on where you're from. You could try Aliexpress but expect fakes, or eBay. You could try contacting some online US independent toy stores that stock them and asking how much it'd be to ship to your country but expect potential customs fees.

Tthere seems to be a few about him. Would you recommend this one?

Use a 4 way monitor mount. Like this - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H07NHEM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_27p7zbXNS2PJ0

Of course as people have mentioned make sure that your computer can support 4 displays. There are some funky USB adapters that can allow your computer to output from USB to hdmi (essentially creating another display) but they're crap.

Somebody read show writer Dan Lyons' 'Disrupted'

There is detailed analysis of Millenials' use of language, and this term in particular

Yeah, was probably a limited time offer, but Amazon has it for 185

We need more time to work on internationalizing it properly. For now you can try the beta. If you have android you can get it here, for iOS I'll need your email.

Can you try this beta link.

We plan on making the app available everywhere once we handle all of the internationalization issues.