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by eitally 4mo ago
Just FYI, the orange industry in Florida is almost at zero now, due mostly to citrus greening. https://www.npr.org/2026/05/10/nx-s1-5771748/florida-farmers...
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by eitally 4mo ago
Nothing -- I reported it via the consumer Google Maps function. In fact, I've reported several Maps errors over the years and all have been addressed fairly promptly. This includes before I worked at Google, during my time there, and
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by eitally 4mo ago
When I was in grad school (2008-2011), of the 60 people in my program only 5 were American. The vast majority were Indian or Chinese (~50). I wouldn't say there was discrimination, though. The matriculation statistics were interest-
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by eitally 4mo ago
My anecdote is worth just as much as yours. I moved cross-country in early 2016 (for work at Google) and noticed when we closed on our house that the next street over was mis-pronounced by Google Maps. I reported it and it was fixed withi
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by eitally 4mo ago
Sort of. It's the same chipset as in the DGX Spark & DGX Station, which run Ubuntu (NVIDIA's flavor).
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by eitally 5mo ago
Anecdotally, I find Google's AI Search results to be genuinely helpful much of the time, and the box isn't so intrusive that it prevents me from digging into literal search results if I am not satisfied with the AI summary.
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by eitally 5mo ago
Brazil has a huge advantage in that they've required full transaction-level transparency for tax authorities -- with clearly defined technical requirements -- for almost 20 years now. One can argue whether it's a pro or a con to
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by eitally 5mo ago
I would virtually guarantee that any Chromebooks for Education versions of these new devices would be hobbled by restrictive data sharing policies forcing the disabling of the Gemini Intelligence features. Also, most schools purchase the mo
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by eitally 5mo ago
There are quite a few already (though not as many as in the southern part): https://cleanview.co/solar-farms/nevada
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by eitally 5mo ago
Absolutely. I also hand-edited HTML (and XHTML and CGI scripts and Java applets) back in those days and the majority of web pages were no more than a few hundred lines of code long. Regular notepad.exe was absolutely fine at home, and I d
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by eitally 5mo ago
One thing I've been doing lately -- and I'm in a business function, not a technical one, although I have an engineering background -- is pitting LLMs against each other. For example, if I'm structuring a proposal or a contra
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by eitally 5mo ago
It would probably help you to compare what you can do on a phone vs what you can do with desktop software (Lightroom/Photoshop, DxO, Topaz, CaptureOne, etc). It's generally quite good, with the exception of challenging liminal ar
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by eitally 5mo ago
For Android, you can sort of get some of this with Snapseed. I occasionally use it, and it's "ok". I'm more frustrated by the fact that my preferred RAW editor (DxO) doesn't handle Android's DNG files. For m
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by eitally 6mo ago
Meetings are one type of forcing function. Anything with concrete, time-bound deliverables is a forcing function, too. In a well-managed organization with trained & competent staff, it should not require meetings to ensure progress.
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by eitally 6mo ago
I do not envy the stress the partnerships, strat ops and infra teams must be perpetually dealing with at OpenAI & Anthropic.
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by eitally 6mo ago
I have found something similar. I am easily distractible and if I don't have a written task backlog in front of me at all times, I find that when Claude is spinning I'll stop being productive. This is disconcerting for a number
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by eitally 6mo ago
I'm not even sure it's Christianity that makes people less sad (I would argue that it isn't). It's the civic community that churches often create that breed purpose & happiness. Churches aren't the only types
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by eitally 6mo ago
I would suggest that grocery quality is higher in the suburbs than in the city, but restaurant quality typically isn't.
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by eitally 6mo ago
Your labor costs are far lower than coastal US... and that was 10 years ago. Ten years ago in San Jose I got 5.5kW installed for $17k. Because it was that long ago, this is something like 23 panels.
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by eitally 6mo ago
There are so many Vietnamese restaurants in San Jose it's really more similar to the Hanoi recommendation: you just have to experiment until you find the ones that resonate with your personal tastes. I recommend searching reddit for &
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by eitally 6mo ago
You need to consider usage patterns as you evaluate the cost/quality value curve, though. $35 for a Jansport for a school kid who will brutalize their pack regardless is probably a much better value than a $130 Osprey that is objectiv
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by eitally 6mo ago
I still have two Dana Designs packs I purchased in the mid-90s. They're going strong and supremely comfortable (one daypack, one backpacking pack).
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by eitally 6mo ago
I'm also a semi-pro (technically I'm a pro but it's just a side gig) photographer who uses DxO. I really like DxO for color & exposure, as well as denoise, but I've gotten supremely frustrated at it's lack of
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by eitally 6mo ago
I get that, but it's difficult to reconcile this with media's second principle of protecting/anonymizing sources. I don't think it's reasonable for them to have it both ways, especially when exposing an anonymous s
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by eitally 6mo ago
Much better intro article about tree calculus here, vs the actual site: https://olydis.medium.com/a-visual-introduction-to-tree-calc...
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by eitally 6mo ago
It depends on the type of experience that altercation was. If it was you being confronted about photographing their kid without a model release, that's one thing, but if it was a more general unease of a photographer being present at
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by eitally 6mo ago
You need to know the law. That is being careful, but it doesn't mean it's always illegal to photograph children in public.
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by eitally 6mo ago
Same, but not the same. I've also been doing photography for a long time and when I had kids I added some gear & skills to shoot them playing sports. After a few years of this I realized since I was already there I might as well
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by eitally 6mo ago
I think it's also true that many people are wildly out of touch when they think about how "safe" their local municipality is. The Bay Area is objectively safe, for example, yet I constantly run into neighbors in affluent neig
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by eitally 6mo ago
I bought a few things via Drop in the early days, when it was still Massdrop and they weren't exclusively focused on keyboard and headphones. When they shifted their focus... I just wasn't their target audience anymore.

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