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“McDonald’s tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants—giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site. The setup, known as edge computing, can be a faster, cheaper option than sending data to the cloud“

What fresh hell is this?

Yeah. I went through a rigorous exercise with sales last year to try to get a good estimate on what it would cost to run the database for a year for our application. They said it would be around 150k.

I threw all of their configuration advice out the window and run all extra small at 1 minute idle. No issues for my use case and we paid 17k for the year.

I have to expect that snow will change their pricing model soon.

Fascinating. It seems we are keeping a site on standby so that it can “perform an underground nuclear test within 24 to 36 months.”

I hope that is a competitive timeline.

I know what you mean. I recall that installing software from the internet was rather novel in the late 90s.

I installed this on a pc at work when it came out to see what it could do.

I must have forgot to shut it off because there was a gang of security people in my office the next morning.

This link was often cited by fact checkers last year.

“Most tests, like the Broad Institute test used by MIT, use a 40-cycle protocol. If the virus isn’t detected within 40 amplification cycles, the test result is negative. If viral RNA is detected in 40 cycles or less, the PCR machine stops running, and the test is positive. Because you received a positive result, we know that the test detected the virus in your sample by the time it reached its 40-cycle limit.”

https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/11/pcr-test-re...