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Product launches are the vehicle for attaining promotions at Google, allegedly. Maintenance does not get similarly rewarded, nor does launching projects and having them live on to actually be successful.

When the launcher got promoted and moved on, they have to figure out whether to keep the thing around, and the answer is generally going to be no since few things can really compete with the infinite money glitch that is search ads.

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Their scale was also an insignificant fraction of what Netflix has, making the point even more irrelevant.

The best figure I could find on Jetflicks user count was 37k, where as Netflix has 269 million users.

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The cost of storage in this case is more or less irrelevant - traffic is what matters here. You're also not getting any mentionable bulk discount on the servers for that matter.

The key is that you can engineer things in completely different way when you have trivial amounts of traffic hitting your systems - you can do things that will not scale in any way, shape or form.

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At that point, you're basically just listening to podcasts. Leaning into it might be a good choice, since there's no visual element that gets lost when listening to podcasts, as compared to YouTube videos.

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and is a good way to store excess energy from solar and wind.

Is it really that good of a storage method, though? The round-trip efficiency is quite bad when compared to other methods of storage.

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There are some use-cases where hydrogen will be useful, but I don't think storage is one of them. Nor do I think vehicles are a particularly good use-case either, as compared to just iterating on battery technology.

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It's hard to assess the validity of those claims as the article doesn't bring any numbers and the paper itself is paywalled. As the fossil fuel industry is pushing hard towards wedging in hydrogen as a means of keeping themselves alive for a while longer, it's vital to be able to assess the actual claims, lest they are just planted there by the fossil fuel industry.

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I don't see any good reason why the merits of hydrogen for vehicle fuel would be any better than production and disposal of batteries. The other cases I agree that hydrogen will have a useful niche.

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Attempted homicide with a vehicle should probably carry a prison sentence along with a permanent loss of the privilege of driving said vehicles.

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True random shuffle would be a terrible idea. No one wants the same track showing up multiple times in a row, which would not be uncommon in true random shuffle.

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Data takeouts are non-optional under the GDPR, so I would be very surprised if that happens.

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I mean, not really. This is actually a non-trivial topic, and true random is a really bad label for what someone actually wants out of a shuffling algorithm.

See the following engineering blog post on the subject: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/

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The article is talking about killing it from a product usefulness-perspective, not a monkey making-perspective.

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I'll keep it, cheers

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Goonmaxxing

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Yeah, they don't care that senior talent left because that was the whole point.

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The absolute state of U.S road infrastructure. Jesus.

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Popular might be overselling it a bit there, buddy. It exists and some people eat it.

Now kebab pizza, there's a popular pizza for you. With good reason, I might add - it's the god emperor of hangover foods.

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My most McGyvered solution to create a bootable USB was to take a really old Android phone and make it into one. Worked surprisingly well, actually.

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More powerful hardware makes tasks that were previously not considered end-user tasks feasible for end-users, just give it some time.

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For the Beaughpheourght sea

I thought it was called the Beaufort Sea?

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Growing up, there was an association in my area for common ownership of different types of machinery and other equipment for its members. You paid something like $10 a year, and for that you got to borrow all kinds of things you might need as a home owner, like a wood chopper/splitter, high pressure washer, trailers, leaf blowers, cement mixer, scaffolding etc.

I always thought that was brilliant.

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No need to deal with aggressively incompetent management when planting potatoes.

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https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/levels/senior/locations/san-francisco-bay-area

vs

https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/levels/senior/locations/munich-metro-region

Even if you assume that additional labour costs are a bit higher in Germany, there's no way on earth that it could explain the difference of the Bay Area-median being over 3 times higher.

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I wholeheartedly support both rules

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Middling pay? At FAANG-tier companies?

These are some extraordinary claims in need of some extraordinary proof.

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  • General purpose LLMs are starting to replace everyday queries I used to posit to Google. Perplexity can be quite good for this.
  • Copilot as enhanced autocomplete when writing code. A particularly good use-case is writing tests: with a few test cases already written, a sufficiently good test name will most often generate a well-written test case.
  • LLMs for lazy generation of SQL queries can sometimes be quite nice.
  • Writing assistance for things I find myself struggling to get written by myself. A writing unblocking tool, if you will.

It's reducing the effort and time I have to put into some things, and I appreciate that. It's far from perfect, but it doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.

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I've always been sent a text when I connect to the network of a different country. It happened immediately when I crossed over from France to Monaco, for example.

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Idk how much I can trust anything being posted by Reason tbh - it's not exactly what I would call a respectable publication.

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This one is my pet peeve. Please just trust the technology, people will let you know if your screen is not visible.

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It's beneficial to declare that you're going to share your screen, but without waiting for someone to confirm that your screen is visible, as it's more or less frictionless to declare it but high friction to wait for confirmation.

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Google One, Spotify, Netflix and Nebula.

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Not to say that it's a sufficient penalty for the C-suite, but their compensation packages generally consist of stock options in the company, meaning that the share price decline following unexpected negative events translate into a large pay cut for them.

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Arrival

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To discuss: was My Chemical Romance unfairly dunked on during their fame? Was their music actually pretty good when you ignored the memes?

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Ah yes, good old Rubber-hose cryptanalysis.

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Selling to who?

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It's in the form of stock options, which won't be worth any particularly noteworthy amount unless the IPO goes really well.

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This has never been necessary for an IPO.

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Are you talking about writing them off?

Options come with the obligation to pay for the underlying asset, so unless they are valued above the strike price, they are effectively worse than worthless.

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Basically yeah. Cash-out time for the VCs.

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Face value is unlikely to be the amount reported - I doubt the options are granted below the last reported market rate. Hence it's probably relative to the amount of underlying stock the options represent.

You'd have to check the SEC-filings for more accuracy than that.

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Less than worthless would be when exercised, not exercising would be worth 0 - unless you paid for the option contract, in which case not exercising would represent a loss.

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Tyres are unfortunately plastics in this day and age as well.

As for the share of microplastic pollution, both rank about equally as high: 35% for clothes, 28% for tyres (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20181116STO19217/microplastics-sources-effects-and-solutions) - this as a share of directly released particles that make it into the ocean.

Note the interesting fact of fishing nets, plastic bags and bottles making up the vast majority of plastic in the ocean, however.

Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Europeans using Apple, Google and other major tech platforms woke to a new reality Thursday as a landmark law imposed tough new competition rules on the companies — changing European Union citizens’ experience with phones, apps, browsers and more....

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Their attempt to maliciously comply is both against the spirit of the law - making it a violation in the EU regardless - and the letter of the law: the text mentions that they can't charge for this.

Time for a nice 10% of global revenues-fine. That'll do some good in the coffers of the EU.

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I mean, it worked well as a child and teenager, why wouldn't it just continue to work? Kind of unfair if you ask me

Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU (support.apple.com)

As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their "platform policies for security and privacy" even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU...

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1.8B was the fine they got for anticompetitive behaviour with regards to Apple Music, which is not an insignificant amount for that business unit.

The fines for DMA-violations go up to 10% of global revenue for first-time violations and 20% of global revenue for repeat violations. I would love to see Apple continue fucking around and letting Apple find out in the form of a fine of that magnitude. It would be so damn sweet.

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You upload the binary to the App Store, and as a part of the release process they may inspect the binary to figure out what it's doing.

They of course don't do that for everything as it's a bit complicated to do for everything, but it can be an effective means to for example figure out when an app is calling an API in a prohibited manner.

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