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by gundmc 8y ago
The first thing I do when I set up a smart speaker is turn on the accessibility option that chimes when it's listening so I can tell when the mic is active. Coincidentally, this is how my wife discovered and fixed a filler word habit o
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GCP is arguably doing the most among major cloud providers to prevent vendor lock-in and support multicloud implementations. It's really their best play to try to get some business when they're so far behind AWS and Azure in marke
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Hacker News is impossible to please when it comes to Google recently. This is something that is virtually impossible to spin as a bad thing and somehow almost every comment is negative.
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Really appreciated reading your comment. I had a similar realization about the way I consume internet media in the past and your post brought it back into my consciousness. It really is awe-inspiring what NASA has accomplished. They are sti
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by gundmc 8y ago
Have you used YouTube Kids in the last ~6 months? They made a lot of changes and enabled a mode where only human-vetted videos from topics/creators you select can play. I don't have kids but had assumed that problem was largely ad
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by gundmc 8y ago
YouTube Kids is a separate app and it has an option to only allow human-vetted videos. From the support site: "In this setting, your child will only be able to watch videos, channels and collections that you have hand-picked. Collectio
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Have you used YouTube Kids recently? You can set it to "Approved Only Mode" which only allows kids to view human-vetted videos.
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It's much more important to explain your thought process, work through the problem, and come up with any solution than it is to come up with the optimal solution in these interviews. I think that's what people who rail on standard
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"Filter Bubbles" are a real phenomenon to be wary of, particularly for something like YouTube that aggressively suggests videos and autoplays by default or Facebook that injects stories into your news feed. I think what the articl
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Hacker News: LOL! Google has so many messaging apps, their product strategy sucks! Google: They're right, we need to focus our messaging strategy. Let's consolidate our platforms. Hacker News: OMG! Google deprecates everything! Cl
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Isn't "Googlers Write..." misleading? The letter linked in the article says it was written by TVCs (Temps, Vendors, and Contractors). I guess "Contractors Write to CEO Demanding Equal Treatment for Contractors" is l
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Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again.
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No, it isn't. This isn't even an article. It's a reddit post from a French user who had configured Chrome to automatically translate French (this is not a default behavior) and was then horrified when Chrome tried to translat
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Source? Google makes Chrome because they can default the URL bar to search on Google without paying Traffic Acquisition Costs (Google pays browsers _a lot_ of money to have Google be their default search). Google only makes money from Chrom
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by gundmc 8y ago
Not just you. These numbers are seriously inflated. I think it's for a few reasons: 1) Selection bias - people with larger comp packages are more likely to report their earnings. 2) Ego - people tend to embellish their reported wages.