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bt848 commented on Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte techradar.com/news/theres... · Posted by u/jaytaylor

userbinator · 6 years ago

IMO one of the worst parts about LTO is that it's another one of those formats with "open" in its name, but you can't just download a PDF of the standard or even buy it from something like ISO/IEC. There's some convoluted licensing process involved. Only the first generation was actually open, but I guess they decided to close it after that:

https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...

bt848 · 6 years ago

What would you do with a totally open specification?

bt848 commented on Performance metrics for web apps blog.superhuman.com/perfo... · Posted by u/yarapavan

tbrock · 6 years ago

Email is beautifully asynchronous so the time spent interacting with the underlying API is not important unless it’s horrifically sabotaged for third party clients.

bt848 · 6 years ago

You are absolutely correct, which is why the bulk of Gmail’s client code is dedicated to hiding latency.

bt848 commented on Performance metrics for web apps blog.superhuman.com/perfo... · Posted by u/yarapavan

bt848 · 6 years ago

I’m curious how they do competitive analysis. They want to be faster than gmail but how do they measure? I tried to take a high-speed video of gmail navigating from thread list to thread but it was not conclusive. Gmail collects a ton of client-side timing data and I wonder if anyone has ever just intercepted that.

bt848 commented on Vox Media Acquires New York Magazine nytimes.com/2019/09/24/bu... · Posted by u/sbuccini

bt848 · 6 years ago

It’s wild that Vox is an amateur baseball blog that mushroomed into a billion-dollar media conglomerate.

bt848 commented on Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte techradar.com/news/theres... · Posted by u/jaytaylor

koolba · 6 years ago

Which one wins on long term storage durability, shock proof, and water damage?

bt848 · 6 years ago

LTO doesn't suffer from those things. Shock can destroy the case and dislodge the leader pin of an LTO cartridge but AFAIK it can't damage the data on the tape. Water is bad for the transport but as long as you dry your tapes out they should still work. The operating specs for LTO are crazy, you can read and write them under all practical atmospheric conditions.

bt848 commented on Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911 seattletimes.com/seattle-... · Posted by u/throwaway413

amiantos · 6 years ago

Please name this competitor that had fall detection ('for ages') that automatically messages emergency services for you?

bt848 · 6 years ago

Garmin. You know, the brand that is 100x more popular among bicyclists.

bt848 commented on Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911 seattletimes.com/seattle-... · Posted by u/throwaway413

bt848 · 6 years ago

Apple marketing machine in action: get local press to write up as a novelty feature that main competitor has had for ages.

bt848 commented on Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize vice.com/en_us/article/8x... · Posted by u/Frondo

mrosett · 6 years ago

The contractors in question aren't necessarily white collar. Most contractors at Google work in the cafes or in maintenance roles, etc.

bt848 · 6 years ago

You're right but it says that the contractors who unionized work for an IT outsourcing firm.

Google has kind of a random relationship with various classes of employees. There are contract cooks and janitors and whatnot but they made the physical security guards full-time.

bt848 commented on Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize vice.com/en_us/article/8x... · Posted by u/Frondo

iscrewyou · 6 years ago

The article answers all these questions.

bt848 · 6 years ago

It doesn't. Where does the USW come into the picture, if PATP is affiliate of the DPE, considering that USW is _also_ an affiliate of DPE? I don't get it and I wished the article explained it.

bt848 commented on Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize vice.com/en_us/article/8x... · Posted by u/Frondo

tynpeddler · 6 years ago

White collar unions aren't a new phenomenon though they are less known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Professional_Engine...

Is there a precedence for contractors unionizing? I'm curious what prevents Google from simply not renewing their contract since they will presumably be requesting much higher wages.

bt848 · 6 years ago

Considering that they work for a third party I imagine it is the third party's problem.

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