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lol remember google fiber?quote:Alphabet has shifted hundreds of staff from its internet access unit which is called Access, and includes Google Fiber over to Google, and hired former broadband executive Gregory McCray to head the unit, the company has confirmed.
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Google Fiber has been instrumental making the web faster and better for everyone ok
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Powaqoatse posted:Google Fiber has been instrumental making the web faster and better for everyone it's gotten at&t off their rear end and getting fiber deployed in some areas, so that was nice. that was at least part of their goal.
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yeah but at least google fi is here to stay
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anthonypants posted:yeah but at least google fi is here to stay just like wave, google plus and hangouts
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RIP google wave
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what do you do when google tells you about their newest product? you google wave it goodbye
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Rex-Goliath posted:when i graduated my college was starting to make a very real push to attract more women into the engineering department. i should call up my old professors and see if they got results you should tell your college to ask google for money about it (and to give you a cut)
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qirex posted:lol remember google fiber? Google Handouts
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Citizen Tayne posted:Google Handouts 
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google cloud spanner is in beta now. idk what it's like externally yet, but internally spanner is my fav goog thing. It's a database that Just Works.
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:google cloud spanner is in beta now. idk what it's like externally yet, but internally spanner is my fav goog thing. It's a database that Just Works. thats cool, theyll get it 90% done (the easy stuff) and get to the hard parts that actually require time and effort to solve and make work properly and never do them
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BiohazrD posted:thats cool, theyll get it 90% done (the easy stuff) and get to the hard parts that actually require time and effort to solve and make work properly and never do them it's already done though, at least on the internal version.
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poor google thought about zoning and licensing and died
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BiohazrD posted:thats cool, theyll get it 90% done (the easy stuff) and get to the hard parts that actually require time and effort to solve and make work properly and never do them it's a distributed database that is the backbone of a lot ofg oogle poo poo, it's the kind of thing i actually expect them to finish and have working
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google suggested I review my privacy settings. I checked the analytics section and apparently all I have to do to opt out is install a browser extension from google. what could possibly go wrong
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shitface posted:google suggested I review my privacy settings. I checked the analytics section and apparently all I have to do to opt out is install a browser extension from google. what could possibly go wrong the browser addon better be loving ublock
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smh if u havent nullrouted all google domains
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Powaqoatse posted:smh if u havent nullrouted all domains
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Cocoa Crispies posted:it's a distributed database that is the backbone of a lot ofg oogle poo poo, it's the kind of thing i actually expect them to finish and have working lol
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We have a regional fiber provider here that finally got consistent pole access and they're slinging that poo poo all over the place for $50/mo symmetric gigabit it owns bones suck it gorgle
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:finally got consistent pole access yea, that's why most of us moved to san francisco
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i switched to rcn for gigabit down. it's comically asymetric with 20 mbps up. this is still faster than i had with comcast for less money
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wouldn't the ack traffic alone pretty much saturate the upstream if you ever came close to downloading at full gigabit?
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:We have a regional fiber provider here that finally got consistent pole access and they're slinging that poo poo all over the place for $50/mo symmetric gigabit it owns bones suck it gorgle net neutrality gonna be overturned bruv your state is gonna be lobbied to hell
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:We have a regional fiber provider here that finally got consistent pole access and they're slinging that poo poo all over the place for $50/mo symmetric gigabit it owns bones suck it gorgle i pay 8-ish usd/mo for gigafiber 
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Rex-Goliath posted:net neutrality gonna be overturned bruv your state is gonna be lobbied to hell net neutrality has literally nothing to do with that
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not even joking, I've been hearing hype about spanner for years
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Endless Mike posted:i switched to rcn for gigabit down. it's comically asymetric with 20 mbps up. this is still faster than i had with comcast for less money rcn is cool and you should support them
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Rex-Goliath posted:net neutrality gonna be overturned bruv your state is gonna be lobbied to hell they're private not municipal so they miiiiiight be okay but we shall see
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mishaq posted:rcn is cool and you should support them rcn couldn't fix the line to my building after 10 goddang days
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Endless Mike posted:i switched to rcn for gigabit down. it's comically asymetric with 20 mbps up. this is still faster than i had with comcast for less money when my friends first moved into their apartment they bought the cheapest internet plan from RCN which was of course 3 megabits down and like .5 up. After 6 months of being unable to deal with their yelling when one wanted to watch porn while the other played CoD I grabbed one of their bills and had RCN upgrade them to the next tier which was some comical difference like 30 megs down for $5/mo extra
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fishmech posted:rcn couldn't fix the line to my building after 10 goddang days good
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:they're private not municipal so they miiiiiight be okay but we shall see i guess it comes down to if they're leasing the cables or if they own them or whatever idk how that stuff works good luck!!
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mishaq posted:rcn is cool and you should support them My only complaint is that they don't seem to certify any docsis 3.1 modems as of yet so I have to pay a $15/month equipment charge (granted this is at least partially since there's only like one such modem on the market available to consumers as far as I can tell)
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:wouldn't the ack traffic alone pretty much saturate the upstream if you ever came close to downloading at full gigabit? It's something like 60:1 so gigabit would use around 16mbps which is pretty darn close
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:wouldn't the ack traffic alone pretty much saturate the upstream if you ever came close to downloading at full gigabit? fwiw i had to throttle mine to 20-some megabytes per sec cause my computer kept locking up from exhausting its ram and writing data to disk too slowly
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Powaqoatse posted:fwiw i had to throttle mine to 20-some megabytes per sec cause my computer kept locking up from exhausting its ram and writing data to disk too slowly you should not be disabling write buffer flushing. what you are describing would only happen in windows if that was disabled, which allows the OS to cache in memory disk write ops pretty much until all memory is exhausted instead of keeping a small number of ops in memory and waiting for the disk to catch up before sending more
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:you should not be disabling write buffer flushing. what you are describing would only happen in windows if that was disabled, which allows the OS to cache in memory disk write ops pretty much until all memory is exhausted instead of keeping a small number of ops in memory and waiting for the disk to catch up before sending more thats  to mebut also my computer is a decade old mac so who even knows how to fix that anymore also it didnt actually lock up it just beach balled a lot and was impossible to work with while downloading
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