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verst commented on US Tech Force   techforce.gov/... · Posted by u/purple_ferret
verst · 2 days ago
How is this different from 18F (a group within GSA which Elon killed), US Digital Service (which Elon kind of converted to DOGE) or Defense Digital Service (DDS)?

Is the only difference that the current government can claim they started this (completely ignoring they dismantled the previous programs)?

verst commented on Days since last GitHub incident   github-incidents.pages.de... · Posted by u/AquiGorka
bastardoperator · 6 days ago
They do, it's called GHES.

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.19/admin/over...

"GitHub Enterprise Server is a self-hosted version of the GitHub platform"

verst · 6 days ago
That does not include the Copilot related APIs though.
verst commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels   bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
ghaff · 20 days ago
I was a bit surprised that a Marriott property I was staying in in NYC a couple weeks ago actually had daily housekeeping service. I didn't really care but hadn't seen that in a while.
verst · 20 days ago
Very common. Every Autograph Collection, Luxury Collection, JW Marriott, Marriott, Westin, W, St Regis, Le Meridien, etc has daily housekeeping - and many of those brands / collections have turn down service too.
verst commented on Google Antigravity   antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi
senbrow · a month ago
As someone who used to work there, Google will never get product releases right in general because of how bureaucratic and heavyweight their launch processes are.

They force the developing team to have a huge number of meetings and email threads that they must steer themselves to check off a ridiculously large list of "must haves" that are usually well outside their domain expertise.

The result is that any non-critical or internally contentious features get cut ruthlessly in order to make the launch date (so that the team can make sure it happens before their next performance review).

It's too hard to get the "approving" teams to work with the actual developers to iron these issues out ahead of time, so they just don't.

Buck passed, product launched.

verst · a month ago
As someone who just GA'd an Azure service - things aren't all that different in Azure. Not sure how AWS does service launches but it would be interesting to contrast with GCP and Azure.
verst commented on Google Antigravity   antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi
Maxatar · a month ago
And VSCode is based on Chromium (a fact you won't find on VS Code's website other than related to updates).
verst · a month ago
It uses Electron which itself uses the Chromium rendering engine.
verst commented on Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
paxys · 2 months ago
Remember that Cambridge Analytica was "research" as well. Laws like these sound good on paper, but it's the company that has to deal with the fallout when the data is used improperly. Unless the government can also come up with a fool proof framework for data sharing and enforce adequate protections, it's always going to be better for the companies to just say no and eat the fines.
verst · 2 months ago
As I recall it Cambridge Analytica was a ton of OAuth apps (mostly games and quizzes) requesting all or most account permissions and then sharing this account data (the access for which had been expressly (foolishly) granted by the user) with a third-party data aggregator, namely Cambridge Analytica. Only this re-sharing of data with a third party was against Facebook Terms of Service.

I would not classify Cambridge Analytica as research. They were a data broker that used the data for political polling.

verst commented on Tell HN: Azure outage    · Posted by u/tartieret
mystcb · 2 months ago
Yeah, I am guessing it's just a placeholder till they get more info. I thought I saw somewhere that internally within Microsoft it's seen as a "Sev 1" with "all hands on deck" - Annoyingly I can't remember where I saw it, so if someone spots it before I do, please credit that person :D

Edit: Typo!

verst · 2 months ago
It's a Sev 0 actually (as one would expect - this isn't a big secret). I was on the engineering bridge call earlier for a bit. The Azure service I work on was minimally impacted (our customer facing dashboard could not load, but APIs and data layer were not impacted) but we found a workaround.
verst commented on Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism   journals.asm.org/doi/10.1... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
mmmpetrichor · 4 months ago
I'll drink to that!
verst · 4 months ago
Makes me wonder whether Makgeolli (a low alcohol fermented traditional Korean beverage) contains this too.
verst commented on How we built Bluey’s world   itsnicethat.com/features/... · Posted by u/skrebbel
giann · 4 months ago
When my son was in the last stages of leukemia, Bluey was on repeat all day. He was completely immersed in that world and we, his parents were there with him too.

Now, 5 years after his death, he's little brother is also in love with the show and we watch an episode at least once a day.

There will never be another TV show like this one for those personal reasons and also because it's just too good.

verst · 4 months ago
My wife and I watched the episode about infertility with our little niece who kept asking when she'd have a cousin. Despite its subtlety it completely broke me. It addresses the subject in the best of ways. Well here we are 7 IVF cycles later and still trying.

u/verst

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