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by eitally 3y ago
I had a 2001 GTI and it similarly only reliably worked within probably 25' of the vehicle. In contrast, my 2017 F150 fob works as much as 150-200' from the vehicle. I tremendously appreciate this, especially with remote start to
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by eitally 3y ago
You're not wrong, but I'm wondering how many of those top 50 schools (by wealth) already have guaranteed scholarships/grants that are income based. Stanford, for example, guarantees free tuition (not sure if this covers room
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by eitally 3y ago
Arguably, if the five year old was reading hacker news, they might. :) Point taken, though, but honestly this doesn't seem like the place to simplify things to quite to 5Yo level.
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by eitally 3y ago
ELI5: For any sufficiently complex enterprise system (e.g. LinkedIn, or Google), any plain vanilla architecture is infeasible for lift & shift. Moreover, the vanilla services may not comply with internal security requirements, or play
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by eitally 3y ago
I had a team like that once. It was glorious. And ultimately, I'm convinced it led to overall faster development cycles because the baseline code quality & documentation was so much better than it would have been without such a g
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by eitally 3y ago
They did this a few times over the years (most recently, I believe, with Pay + Wallet apps, where in the US and Singapore, there was a forced transition from Wallet to Pay because of how Google decided to roll the digital wallet features in
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by eitally 3y ago
If they put slot machines in the cars, or dedicated casino car(s), they could pay for themselves!
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by eitally 3y ago
What I anticipate is that it will require a transfer in Diridon, which is suboptimal but it's also unrealistic to think of HSR going directly to SF (seriously, what route would be conceivable that could support actual high speed rail?)
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by eitally 3y ago
I don't know how they've specifically done it, either, but this is an area where Google has a ridiculous advantage over pure play AI shops. It's highly likely they have architected it for use cases like this from the outset,
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by eitally 3y ago
You're overly angry about something you either don't understand or haven't experienced. The color of the bubble meaningfully signifies that the existence of that person in a chat is degrading the chat experience for everyone
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by eitally 3y ago
It's important here to differentiate between the big cities and the next tier. The big, dense cities (SF, NYC, Boston, London, Tokyo, etc) have accumulated wealth and privilege within the city and lower income folks are on the perim
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by eitally 3y ago
A lot of that has to do with the fact that you chose your friend group during public high school and he chose his during university, which itself already selects for the upper socioeconomic statuses.
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by eitally 3y ago
Telegram does allow sharing full-res (both photos and videos)... but you're at the mercy of the end user to select that option at upload time, and I'm not confident this is reasonable.
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by eitally 3y ago
I read through and believe they are being earnest. It's still a one-sided take, but it's a side we hadn't yet heard and it makes sense. It also reinforces today's general line of thinking vis-a-vis Microsoft's inv
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by eitally 3y ago
Yes, and this is a logical jump. Almost certainly -- I would be my own money on it -- any contract Microsoft would have signed would have contingencies around breach and force majeure that would either 1) directly license or assign OpenAI
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by eitally 3y ago
Different departments but still Google (rather than different Alphabet entities, which is much less trivial). Cross-PA GTM collaboration has been a priority for years now, and the two places they've made serious inroads have been Ads
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by eitally 3y ago
Take a look at my post further up. I think something similar was done for Niantic, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of these publishers also have sweetheart Play deals: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/games
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by eitally 3y ago
Spotify is a long time Google Cloud customer, from the days when Google was essentially buying logos, so it would not at all surprise me to find out that the Play Store deal was tied to a massive GCP commit from Spotify (much like Niantic f
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by eitally 3y ago
The problem most people (in my experience) have is that they don't actually start training with any intention of becoming half decent, which both psychologically and physiologically limits their potential outcomes.
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by eitally 3y ago
I'm still like that -- sort of. I'm a busy dad of three active kids and have always been athletic and active, but sometimes family obligations prevent consistency for periods of time. When restarting from a low fitness level (wh
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by eitally 3y ago
GenAI absolutely will make them more useful. Even just for normal Q&A functions. I installed a shortcut to Bard on my phone and several times have compared the results when I ask the Google Assistant a question (on a Google Home) with
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by eitally 3y ago
I think it's more that print magazines aren't really a thing anymore. Yes, they exist, but if you have a computer you're far more likely to consume publishers' content by going to their site and either generating advert
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by eitally 3y ago
I agree. Solving #3 is terrific (because it frequently bites you when the sender is someone you don't know particularly well... certainly not well enough to ask them to resend using a third party messaging app). I don't really c
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by eitally 3y ago
1. Kids care about it. Why? Because you can use iMessage via iPad without needing a phone number, and this is how lots of tweens get started with messaging. 2. Any Android users with iPhone friends trying to use iMessage for group chat car
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by eitally 3y ago
Media quality would be a start, at least. The only other thing I'd love for them to "fix" is the inability to add non-iPhone users to existing group chats. With those two things I -- and probably most Android users -- would
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by eitally 3y ago
To be fair to Google, though, they did not intend to operate this as a SaaS. They fully expected carriers to run their own RCS servers but almost none did, so stepping in to fill the void was a follow-on decision from Google (which was hon
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by eitally 3y ago
Try this one on for size: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-...
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by eitally 3y ago
I saw this happen at Google, too, but in a slightly different (and arguably better... maybe? ... way), where a senior manager (in the cases I saw, a director and an MD) promoted people in their org explicitly so they could become managers o
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by eitally 3y ago
This is true in the US, too, but selectively and only really enforced in a meaningful way by a few states (including California). If you spend 30+ days in California for work reasons (visiting a employer's office would count, even if y
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by eitally 3y ago
I was at Google from 2015-2023 and not really. Even large acquisitions like Apigee, Looker and Fitbit were multi-year "integrations" fraught with all sorts of pain & suffering. Smaller acquisitions like Stratozone, Orbitera,

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