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by greiskul 3y ago
> You could also just do all of your development with fake PHI, but I've learned not to tell health people what to do. Yeah, software companies like Google also lock user private data like crazy. But you can have root access (or at
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by greiskul 3y ago
Google has had internal Stackoverflow for many years already. And so many Google engineers work with Google specific technology, that Stackoverflow is way less useful for them. You are not going to find how to use Borg on stack overflow.
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by greiskul 3y ago
So you are saying that you are completely fine with 5 more people being killed, if their family gets money? I don't think thats as ethical a position as you think it is. You are putting human burocracy ahead of human lives.
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by greiskul 3y ago
For Google Search, the sad part, is that the search algorithm hasn't gotten worse. But the web itself has. There is so much more spam, with actual human generated content being siloed more and more in walled gardens, that it starts to
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yup. If we are being pedantic, and I am sure the author of this loves being pedantic, any number of factors could cause this algorithm to be incorrect. Put it in a slow enough cpu for instance, and it will output the wrong answer. And corre
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by greiskul 3y ago
In both FAANG jobs I had I was expected to design systems solo, and then review them with my team. If the system is complex enough, I would probably whiteboard it first with some teammates while I was designing it. It is something that was
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by greiskul 3y ago
My understanding is that this is not the case any more for the more junior software engineer positions in Google and in Amazon, which are expected to them learn system design before being promoted. If you are applying to a more senior posit
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yeah, I live in an apartment building. When I met my neighbor for the first time, she apologized for the noise her kid made. The walls here are of such a good quality, that I didn't even know she had a kid. Can't hear a thing.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Google used css sprites for Google+. They cared a lot about speed, specially for the stream, with even some CSS constructs that were known to be slow were banned from use for rendering posts. For css sprites, you could submit an image to a
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by greiskul 3y ago
A credit card generally is meant to give a person credit. In third world countries, lots of people are poor, and do not have access to credit. The credit cards that they do have access to charge absurdly high interest rate, and most working
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by greiskul 3y ago
As a Brazilian that moved to Canada, and used both systems. Pix is way more advanced than Interac. The UX is better, the adoption is way higher. I have paid cab drivers in Brazil with Pix, since transfers are instant. It is used by MANY as
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by greiskul 3y ago
iPhones and iPods gave Steve Jobs the benefit of the doubt. And I doubt that he was involved in the Vision Pro.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Mission is a perfectly valid word for describing an outing of a submarine, specially when most of the discussion is surrounding the technical aspects of it. Do you also get angry when a business describes something as mission critical?
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yes. In a 2022 interview with CBC, Rush added the Bluetooth game controllers were durable — “it’s meant for a 16 year old to throw it around,” he said, tossing the controller to the floor — and that they kept spares on board “just in case.”
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by greiskul 3y ago
They had spare controllers. Part of the idea of using off the shelf components like this, is the ease of replacement. If you have a 100k controller, and it fails, you need to think how to fix it. If your controller costs 30 bucks, throw it
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by greiskul 3y ago
Any ship needs to fly the flag of a country. They do so by registering with a country, following the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. By doing so, the ship has to follow the laws of the registered country. If a ship or subma
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by greiskul 3y ago
MSTR bought out it's own Silvergate loan when it collapsed. So depending on the the loan, you might be able to buy it so you can pay it off at a discount.
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by greiskul 3y ago
> strip mined the earth So... If you are complaining about destruction of habits for animals, and global warming, then yeah. If you are complaining about us extracting minerals... Rocks don't have feelings, they don't get a vot
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by greiskul 3y ago
Who cares about population growth? We know human population will stabilize pretty soon. Malthusian arguments are meaningless when the very premise of unlimited population growth is false.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Sorry, I did not mean doctors in North America. But if you go to rural Brazil, or to India, that's the living style that many doctors can and do afford.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Welcome to the Brazilianization of the world ( https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianizat... ). As social inequality increases, people with more money start being able to afford services much more
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by greiskul 3y ago
Youtube gives you the option. Do you want no ads? Pay for Youtube Premium. I do not need to engage in a hostile user vs platform agaisnt Youtube, with me searching for better adblocks, and youtube trying to figure out how to block the adblo
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by greiskul 3y ago
Design patterns are missing language features. http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
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by greiskul 3y ago
Google controls Googles services. They know what they do with the data or not. It is very common in big companies, that you do not copy company data into any 'online service' that the company does not have a contract with.
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by greiskul 3y ago
I have literally paid for the Reddit app that I use. And I would not mind paying a recurring fee if it was reasonable. Users for third party apps are most likely to be the most addicted users of reddit. If investors can't tell that, th
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by greiskul 3y ago
Any machine in a company needs to be able to be unplugged and thrown out of a window, without leading to significant data loss, only the inconvenience of the price of a new machine and setup time. There are very few machines in the world th
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by greiskul 3y ago
Reddit was literally running an experiment on disabling their mobile web site for some users: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/comment/jim40... I would not be surprised if there are pe
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by greiskul 3y ago
Agreed. The tech world keeps facing this problem, where to justify the valuations that companies end up getting, they need to keep trying to "take over the world". Sometimes it works, and we get stuff like youtube migrating away f
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by greiskul 3y ago
Lol, good luck doing that during a recession, and after pissing users off. They might have tricked me into buying it before this fiasco, but definitely they lost me now.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Anyone that I know that has worked in Big tech in the past decade knows that. There has nothing that managed to capture the slice of life absurdity that Big Tech can be at some times than that show.

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