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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents. It’s not our data.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

Paco Nathan : Frankly, I’d feel a lot more comfortable sending my kids off to school in a self-driving bus if the machine learning models hadn’t been trained solely by Google’s proprietary data. Department of Homeland Security has designated 16 sectors of infrastructure as 'critical', and 14 of them depend on GPS.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) Steven Hoober. 2021-12-15T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-15T13:06:33+00:00.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 20th, 2018

High Scalability

DonHopkins : NeWS differs from the current technology stack in that it was all coherently designed at once by James Gosling and David Rosenthal, by taking several steps back and thinking deeply about all the different problems it was trying to solve together. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand. We ought to heed Collingridge’s warning that technology evolves in uncertain ways. But it is far from alone. It is a predictable economic risk.

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,