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by kyrra 3y ago
Google has had a very visible tool internally for this for years. It lists every single person that leaves on a given day. It even has a system set up where the person leaving can email it, and the note would be attached to their leaving no
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by kyrra 3y ago
If you watch the background, you'll see one guy has hits pants change color. And also, some of the guys are absolute giants compared to people around them.
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by kyrra 3y ago
See: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generat... > Gemini 1.5 Pro comes with a standard 128,000 token context window. But starting today, a limited group of developers and enterprise custome
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by kyrra 3y ago
The UK did a good job writing this up in a security report. It's not just a baseless attack, Huawei has poor software engineering practices. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-secu...
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by kyrra 3y ago
As a reminder for those that don't follow this in detail: One of the main pushes of this bill would be requiring at least 2 people on all freight trains to "help improve safety". Can you guess how many engineers there were o
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by kyrra 3y ago
A bit ignorant to think we don't need oil anymore. Only about 40% of a barrel of oil is used towards gasoline. Many important things in our world, including parts used in electric cars, wind turbines, and solar panels, all have some pa
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by kyrra 3y ago
Sounds like a failure of not enforcing a broken windows policy.
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by kyrra 3y ago
I wonder if it's the difficulty of laying wires. The number of permits that need to be pulled when wiring a city just makes it prohibitive.
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by kyrra 3y ago
One nice thing about go is that it ships with an AST package for parsing go code. It allows building of tooling really easily. https://pkg.go.dev/go/ast
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by kyrra 3y ago
One possible reason is due to Section 174 tax issues. See: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/20/taxes-irs-startups-section1...
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by kyrra 3y ago
This doesn't fix the section 174 problem at all. It also doesn't fix how Congress would operate. Our politics have become ridiculously polarized and Congress won't even work behind doors together. Many people go to Congress t
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by kyrra 3y ago
This is just a screenshot of this LinkedIn Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dhtheriault_my-hot-take-googl...
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by kyrra 3y ago
I've been using Sourcehut for a couple years now. One thing this outage taught me about the service that I didn't know is that Mercurial (hg) is community maintained: > We also did our best with hg.sr.ht, but it is community m
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by kyrra 3y ago
Eric leaving. Larry and Sergey stepping back. And the hiring of Ruth Porat as CFO. My money is on Ruth being the biggest change to Google.
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by kyrra 3y ago
The general principle of the current administration is that big is bad. https://www.wsj.com/articles/unfortunately-big-is-bad-is-bac... We have seen this with of the merger challenges that have happened since Biden too
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by kyrra 3y ago
I joined Google 11 years into my career. So while I had taken an algorithms class recently, I just reread the algorithm book I used in college and spent a bunch of time studying all of them. I actually found it a lot of fun, as it was a goo
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by kyrra 3y ago
Goland collapses this to a single line, and vscode is looking into it too. https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/issues/2311 It papers over the issue, but helps some.
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by kyrra 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I agree? Business ideas regularly don't happen because it's to expensive to operate in a given field. Children's toys and equipment is an example. They have lots of regulation around re
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by kyrra 3y ago
As a reminder, minimum wage is not what the government sets it at, it's zero ($0). If a company doesn't feel they get enough value out of hiring someone for a position for the government mandated minimum wage, they just won'
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by kyrra 3y ago
GN talked about this 8 months ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc9oRKexV_s&t=4m15s That timestamp is where they address this issue. It seems the argument is that in sleep mode (low power modes), the system wil
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by kyrra 3y ago
That still requires semi decent translators. Otherwise you get some pretty silly dialog like "You spoony bard!": https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/You_spoony_bard !
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by kyrra 3y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. Every thing deployed at Google has all kinds of frameworks and shared libraries and tooling. There are many policies in place to get insure they get newer versions of shared code, such as: https://op
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by kyrra 3y ago
I would argue that AMD is not the reason they are more power efficient, it's TSMC. Intel bet on a fabrication process that did not succeed. I will bet in the next 2 years Intel will be on par with AMD again.
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Google to Pay $700M in Play Store Settlement(wsj.com)
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by kyrra 3y ago
Phones can do that today, with things like Family Link: https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103340?hl=en Or there is a purpose-built phone for people that don't want to figure it out: https:/&#x
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by kyrra 3y ago
This is hard, as was talked about 8 months ago here (and other threads): "Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35307647 "PornHub blocks users in Utah,
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by kyrra 3y ago
While I understand your point, emacs is changing very specific behavior, that was intended, to do something new now. So I would say you're xkcd comment is slightly off.
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by kyrra 3y ago
You forget that Google was worried about other XMPP services stealing user data. If I remember right, some services (maybe it was FB) was not sending out all data to Google in the federation system (I forget if it was names or friends lists
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by kyrra 3y ago
EVs generate a bunch more carbon during their manufacturing process. > As of 2022, Woodley's research showed that aggregate use of EVs below 55,749 miles may — in the U.S., at least — fail to generate any emissions benefit over gas-
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by kyrra 3y ago
It is driven entirely by battery life. Android used to allow 3rd party apps to receive push notifications, and it caused battery life to be terrible compared to Apple. Forcing a single path was done for that reason. Btw, here's the te

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