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by gerash 3y ago
It’s very difficult to assign credit or blame to outcomes in a large organization. It's like trying to see which weight in a large neural net caused a specific outcome. That said, IMO what Elon Musk did to Twitter can be done to Google
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by gerash 3y ago
This was eye opening
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by gerash 3y ago
I was expecting rigorous analysis in terms of cost of services and the complexity/simplicity of offering, reliability figures, etc. but this fortune 100 company went with feelings
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by gerash 3y ago
who receives this $93 million ?
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by gerash 3y ago
I didn't learn much new information from this post. It could have as well been written by a content farm
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by gerash 3y ago
this is not Chrome bookmarks. This is the "Collections" ( https://www.google.com/saved ) feature
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by gerash 3y ago
There’s something along that line here but I don’t know if it’s the best execution of the idea https://support.google.com/chat/answer/7655908?hl=en
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by gerash 3y ago
Do you think one should be able to advertise Macbook on microsoft.com page or a Pixel phone on apple.com ? how about a giant banner when you enter a Walmart store that reads "Just buy it on Amazon" ?
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SF Gov hates Tech [video](youtube.com)
4 points by gerash 3y ago|0 comments
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by gerash 3y ago
Exactly. once there is a reasonable negative consequence to these actions people will adjust. Why hasn't SFPD arrested anyone yet?
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by gerash 3y ago
do you implement the sort function and the hash map from scratch every time you need them? If not, what's so hard about implementing a sorting algorithm?
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by gerash 3y ago
I'm excited for more usability coming to C++. It's still far from the writability of Python. At the same time the Mojo language is going the other way: creating a system language out of Python.
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by gerash 3y ago
Apple gets away with some anti-competitive practices that is mind boggling. On iOS, their own app (Apple Maps) can draw a large custom notification for their turn by turn navigation but no other apps is allowed to do the same.
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by gerash 3y ago
Exactly, Luxottica is the worst: See this 60 min talk from a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM but that does not bother EC apparently.
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by gerash 3y ago
You could announce it when it's available to at least one user. "In the coming months" kills the excitement.
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by gerash 3y ago
If someone says something controversial without malice they should not be "cancelled".
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by gerash 3y ago
What a great idea! The next step is to give each outlet a sensationalism score and then normalize their headlines according to how they usually sensationalize.
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by gerash 3y ago
hind sight is 20/20. I'm not saying tech CEOs are psychopaths or anything. IMHO they are just incompetent and not worth the salary they receive which is often 500X the average employee. In fact they remind me of financial advisors
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by gerash 3y ago
The promo system I have seen in a FAANG company consistently selected for those who were 1.5X the average employee in terms of competency and 10X the average in terms of greed and shameless-ness. Put this next to the fact that high level ex
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by gerash 3y ago
I'm quite interested in a folding phone but at that price it needs to have the latest and greatest compute power. I'll wait for Pixel Fold 2
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by gerash 3y ago
The patent was granted in 2019. The patented architecture is the Transformer architecture that everyone and their mom is now using for LLMs. Patents in your portfolio help defend against trolls and other hostile entities.
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by gerash 3y ago
Wait, this lets you use your device as the "passkey" to log-in into Google instead of you typing your Google account password. I don't quite follow how your lack of trust in Google password manager is relevant.
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by gerash 3y ago
This reminds me of the "protections" real estate agents provide by taking a "meager" 5% commission on a home sale. Right now it seems practically impossible to sell a house without the involvement of an agency. I wish we
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by gerash 4y ago
Consensus from Microsoft who repackages their work as Edge and profits off of it by setting Bing as the default?
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by gerash 4y ago
I really like the idea. This is touchbar + tactile feedback. This could reduce the mental burden of remembering keyboard shortcuts.
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by gerash 4y ago
I hope Apple's ARM chips (M1, M2, etc.) get supported by XLA.
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by gerash 4y ago
Is this sustainable or will the free content disappear from the web over time? because chatgpt does not generate revenue for the sources of content it uses. OpenAI represents the opposite of open, responsible and non profit: it might as wel
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by gerash 4y ago
yeah I can't get over how easily they changed their branding from a non-profit AI safety to let's take over Google with the new Bing. They come off as greedy to me and might very well try to get everyone locked in in order to milk
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by gerash 4y ago
As if Google or other tech companies don't already have non-stop re-orgs, now Economist's armchair executives are proposing even more re-orgs so all the poor army of engineers spend their next year on migrations .
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by gerash 4y ago
> Our research closely mirrors the 2021 Washington Post investigation into the accuracy of the Apple App Store’s new data privacy labels for apps. The investigation found that not only were many of the labels confusing and incomplete - t

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