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Amusingly, an LLM could probably figure this out in seconds.

Cidanon Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

Typing this from Zen browser as we speak, can't suggest it enough.

Cidanon Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

Google's internal tooling is still, hands down, better than anything that exists for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close.

Google's processes, however, is hands down the worst thing to exist for the scale they operate at, and it's not even close.

Cidanon Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

CEO of <thing> at Google (not Alphabet) was always an informal title. There is no CEO of Cloud, CEO of YouTube, or CEO of DeepMind within Google internally -- it's always been an SVP role.

Cidanon Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

You don't really need to tmux at all for Claude Code CLI. Claude Code CLI supports streaming json input, and streaming json output; you can use stdin/out as a pipe to control Claude Code CLI.

I'm doing this today in https://github.com/Cidan/ask -- works great.

Cidanon Google’s in-house desktop Linux

Yeah, agreed. This isn't even close to true, not sure where he got that from.

Cidanon Google Kubernetes Engine adds support for Arm nodes

Also, the PM's are going to do an AMA for this on reddit tomorrow:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/vy8hx3/ama_wit...

Come join us! Also, hi Moles :)

Cidanon Google now deleting health clinic searches from location history automatically

Googler here.

We have very strict and very well engineered data retention systems. When we say data is deleted, we mean it. Various levels of automation ensure the data is purged, and all data is tracked meticulously for violations across every datastore.

It's one of those systems I wish we talked about more -- it's a marvel to behold just how much work goes into retention policies and the automation that drives it.

Cidanon A $230k debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China

Many years ago, I worked for a contractor where we required clearance. We hired this one sysadmin "stick it to the man" type of guy that was extremely well educated and talented.

When he got to the part of the form that asked if he has ever consumed drugs, he said "yes" as he should have by being honest. The follow up question asks something along the lines of, "If yes, will you ever consume drugs again?"

The jack-ass decided to answer "I won't not do them again..." We fired him a few days later.

Cidanon Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena

BigQuery on GCP does this as well, without any extra work.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google)

Cidanon OpenAI Five

(I too work for Google Cloud)

I agree. One of the most amazing things about watching this project unfold is just how quickly it went from 0 to 100 with minimal overhead. It's amazing to watch companies and individuals push the boundaries of what is possible with just the push of a button.

Cidanon Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine

It already is! It's available in open beta for all customers, with a GA release coming in the near future.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud

Cidanon BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access

Take a look at Google Cloud IAP -- it's essentially a stripped down version of BeyondCorp for public use on Google Cloud. I've used this as a customer of Google's with great success, it really does just work.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

Cidanon Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

Literally the first three words.

Cidanon America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning

> Let's make towns have downtowns, with beautiful brick roads, scenic ponds with some ducks, perhaps a waterfall, some nice cafes, a lawn with benches, some parks, some nature, trees, live music, a library and museums.

You would think! I live in Santa Monica, California, and we have exactly that in our downtown area. The retail shop turnover is insane -- a large amount of shops come and go from the area, despite the massive amount of foot traffic the area sees every weekend (and most weekdays during the summer).

Cidanon GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region

Vendor lock-in is most certainly not the only competing point we have against AWS. From BigQuery, to BigTable, to Spanner, to our private network, to our live migration of compute, to our hosted Kubernetes, the list goes on and on.

AWS does a lot of things right, and we're more than happy to go toe-to-toe with them in the areas they have us beat. Competition is a sign of a healthy economy where everyone benefits. How can you compete if you don't even try to match the people you are competing against?

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

Cidanon Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory

Came here to post this -- moving our infra from AWS to GCP was the best decision I've ever made.

Cidanon Improving GCE boot times with custom images

We've accomplished much of the same by using GKE and making artifacts out of containers. New instances scale up within a few seconds (and less than a second if we pre-pull the image).

It's pretty amazing.

Cidanon Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces

Second this. We just moved our sizable infrastructure to GCP for more or less the exact same reason. GCP makes all of this a breeze -- I don't understand why other providers can't do the same.

Cidanon Setting Up HTTP(S) Load Balancing – WebSocket proxy support

You can already adjust the load distribution algorithm when creating the LB, so I imagine this doesn't really change anything.

Cidanon Amazon EBS Enables Live Volume Modifications with Elastic Volumes

I haven't done this in AWS yet, but I've been growing mounted block devices/disks Google Cloud for a while now. It's more or less just like growing a disk on a SAN.

You still have to grow the filesystem it self though, so if you're trying to grow the root mount, using a partitioned disk, and not using an abstraction like LVM you will need to reboot to be able to use the full disk.

Glad to see AWS catch up in this area.

Cidanon Two Years of Voice-Based Assistants, Echo and Home

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm

Cidanon GitLab 8.15 Released

Pardon me here, but I don't understand what you mean by "the docker image most people use is unofficial."

I was under the impression that everyone used the fully featured official docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ee/). We've been using this for over a year without issues now. Is there a reason you need the unofficial version? Does it do something different?

Cidanon Kafka: An End or a Beginning?

My initial thought before reading the article was "Well, Spotify did just move off of it..."

Cidanon Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery

"...8-node DC1.8XL Amazon Redshift cluster for the tests."

Well, yeah. That's 28,108.80 a month if you're running queries on demand and don't want a delay/coordination in Amazon instance creation/destruction.

BQ may or may not be as fast, but it's truly a managed service; I give it our data and it just works. I don't have to worry about instances, boot up time, maintenance, hourly costs, etc. It's silly to focus just on query speed when there's a whole layer of management and cost that comes with it.

Cidanon White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers

Yep; these are very specifically crafted situations though, which is why I said most and not all.

Cidanon White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers

Federal legislation can not weaken state legislation in most situations where a state legislation is stricter. A good example of this is minimum wage at the federal and state level.

If legislation at the federal level were to apply a weaker standard for who can not be covered by a non-compete clause, a state can still expand coverage to all jobs.

Cidanon Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud

There's a difference between supplying the infrastructure for a service, and writing the software for a service. Just because Google was able to supply the infrastructure for Niantic, that doesn't mean their software was designed in such a way that they could handle the load.

Cidanon Go 1.7 is released

To be clear, vendor directories are still optional to use, you just don't have to enable them by default.

We use a unirepo for all of our Go work, and being forced to use the vendor directory would be a massive headache.

Cidanon RethinkDB 2.1.5 performance and scalability

We use RethinkDB for our home grown monitoring system; it's incredible. We have several hundred clients connected, inserting monitoring data and doing some pretty complex queries. In the ~2 years we've been using RethinkDB, we have never experienced a failure.

If I could go back in time, I would use RethinkDB for our actual product.