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Input: Kennedy's Berlin speech

Output:

Honored to be in this incredible city today as a guest of your visionary Mayor—a true leader who embodies the "fighting spirit" of West Berlin on a global stage.

It’s a privilege to visit the Federal Republic alongside your distinguished Chancellor, whose long-term commitment to democracy, freedom, and progress is a masterclass in leadership. Also great to be here with my fellow American, General Clay, a seasoned pro who has navigated this city through its most critical pivots.

2,000 years ago, the ultimate flex was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the ultimate personal brand statement is "Ich bin ein Berliner." (Shoutout to my interpreter for the assist! )

To those who don't see the value proposition of the free world vs. the Communist model: Let them come to Berlin. To those who think communism is the "next big thing": Let them come to Berlin. To those who think we can just "collaborate" with the Communist system: Let them come to Berlin. And to those who claim communism drives economic growth despite its flaws: Lasst sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.

Freedom has its challenges and democracy isn't a perfect product, but we’ve never had to build a wall to keep our "talent" from leaving. On behalf of my team back across the Atlantic, we are incredibly proud to have partnered with you on this 18-year journey. I’ve never seen a city show this much resilience, vitality, and grit under pressure.

The wall is a visible KPI of the Communist system’s failure. But we take no satisfaction in it. As your Mayor said, it’s an offense against humanity—disrupting families, separating teams, and dividing a people who want to scale together.

What’s true for Berlin is true for Germany: we can’t achieve a sustainable, long-term peace in Europe as long as 25% of Germans are denied the basic right to make a free choice. This generation has put in the work and earned the right to be free and united.

You’re living in a "defended island of freedom," but you’re part of a much larger ecosystem. As I wrap up, I challenge you to look beyond today’s roadblocks toward tomorrow’s ROI. Look beyond Berlin and Germany to the global expansion of freedom.

Freedom is indivisible. If one person is enslaved, the whole system is compromised. When everyone is free, we can finally achieve a unified city, country, and continent in a peaceful, hopeful global market. When that day comes, West Berliners can take pride in knowing they were the early adopters on the front lines for two decades.

All free men, regardless of their location, are citizens of Berlin. That’s why, as a free man, I’m proud to say: "Ich bin ein Berliner." #Leadership #Freedom #Resilience #WestBerlin #GlobalImpact #IchBinEinBerliner

I've been using https://httpbin.org/ to so some client testing and so far it has been great. They provide a docker image which makes it easy to run locally.

I had similar issues when I used them while working out and was sweaty. Sometimes, in the case, they wouldn't fully make contact and didn't charge. Cleaning them off periodically fixed that for me.

Well we need edge servers to handle the persistent websocket connections which last through the life the player session.

It does work across multiple Riot regions, however it's meant for applications which can tolerate a little (~1 sec) latency. So we didn't really need to address that concern.

(I work on same team with Michal)

Not the OP, but I work on the same team.

The edge servers are not clustered and share no state. We require at least 2 servers as minimum for fault tolerance.

FWIW, here's a earlier post about chat architecture and talks a bit more about how it uses Erlang.

https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/chat-service-architec...

Sounds good, will check it out. Thanks for posting this.

Agreed. Do you know if lectures will be posted?

For borrowing there's this:

http://neighborgoods.net/

"Facebook, for example, created Cassandra for certain tasks and also uses the Hadoop-based HBase heavily, but it’s still a MySQL shop for much of its core needs."

I like my iPad, but the weakest link is that I can't do any serious typing. Even for small emails, it can be a pain. I need a keyboard I can feel.

Sorry for the snarky remark. I think Xmarks is an excellent service and I've been a happy user for 6 months+. But when you send out an email saying you're done, and I move my bookmarks over to another service...well.....

For the record, Xmarks today is better than Chrome sync. If things work out for them, I'll move back.

Too late. I've already moved to Chrome sync.

The Disney Concert Hall in LA had similar problems.

"Some residents of the neighboring condominiums suffered glare caused by sunlight that was reflected off these surfaces and concentrated in a manner similar to a parabolic mirror. The resulting heat made some rooms of nearby condominiums unbearably warm, caused the air-conditioning costs of these residents to skyrocket and created hot spots on adjacent sidewalks of as much as 60 °C (140 °F). After complaints from neighboring buildings and residents, the owners asked Gehry Partners to come up with a solution. Their response was a computer analysis of the building's surfaces identifying the offending panels. In 2005 these were dulled by lightly sanding the panels to eliminate unwanted glare."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall

I'm the same way. If I'm not currently working in the specific area I'm given a question in, it can take me a few minutes to access that information in my head. And therefore, I look like I don't know the answer.

I recently was in an interview for an iPhone dev job. I was prepared to talk about Objective-C/Apple SDK since I was working with that. However, they started digging into projects I had done at my last job (in Java). I struggled. I just hadn't thought about that work for a few years, and probably came off like I was embellishing my resume. After the interview, once I caught my breath and thought about it, all the details started coming back. Needless to say I was kicking myself for not being able to recall it sooner.

Just the way my mind works....

Probably more comparable to Intel's Pentium fdiv bug.

Sorry about that. Missed it.

Agreed. Even the White image was buried at the end of the list. I don't see this lasting too long.