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by lrem 5y ago
Why would you want that?
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by lrem 5y ago
Do they even have to betray anything? It's not like Apple has been using interoperability as a selling point...
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by lrem 5y ago
Thankfully that was a market with good competition. They might have hoped to capitalise on some of that anti-American, anti-BigTech sentiment. But everyone I knew who used them was pissed at these shenanigans. Hilariously enough, I switched
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by lrem 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle is a fear commonly cited in Google. We have this superbly outperforming L4, but what if they would get burnt out by the L5 requirements?
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by lrem 5y ago
A decade ago I was with an ISP who took a stand for "Google should pay us for the priviledge of having our users watch YouTube". I believe I wasn't the only one who decided that's the last straw and moved to an ISP that
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by lrem 5y ago
Wasn't that all of ancient Grece?
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by lrem 5y ago
I work in Google and it's nothing like this (as long as by "the users" you mean the two-four teams you interface with, not the one-two billion humans using the end product). Your approach to problems would fit right in and th
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by lrem 5y ago
My current car uses about half of what the previous did though. Old Toyota Avensis 1.6, new Toyota Corolla 1.8 HSD.
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by lrem 5y ago
I'm a hobbyist photographer. Not enough energy for the hobby to learn new software, so I'm stuck with Lightroom. And since I didn't want another Mac, I'm on Windows now for my personal laptop. It's ok. Not as snazzy
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by lrem 5y ago
Of course they're the slowest and flakiest - they include the most sources of slowness and flakiness that you have. But, if you want to make your production fast and reliable, they're pretty good gauges if you're headed for s
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by lrem 5y ago
Apple complied by adding a free dongle to every iPhone sold in the EU.
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by lrem 5y ago
> for which you need essentially just the brightness and distance Parallax, which I mentioned, can be used for measuring the distance. I'm asking if there are better alternatives for getting the distance. For objects that are suffic
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by lrem 5y ago
If you're happy with what you're getting, are you being exploited? Personally: I've reached the point where I don't want to know what my colleagues make. I know many of them make significantly more, but that's fine.
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by lrem 5y ago
Asking why they leave is risky. You might learn things you don't want to learn.
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by lrem 5y ago
> if there's anything huge enough to destroy ALL the stars you've colonized, you probably can tell with billions of years in advance I can't think of any phenomena that could come close to doing such a thing. But if there
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by lrem 5y ago
How can you get that kind of confidence? I imagine a slightly more advanced civilisation than ours can send a telescope far enough to use parallax. Are there better options?
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by lrem 5y ago
Now I'm very thankful Apple never got that kind of adoption in Europe.
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by lrem 5y ago
What is "the blue bubble"?
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by lrem 5y ago
Alternatives to what exactly? A lot of people have reached the point of needing an iPhone. Nope, Android won't do, because it's not an iPhone. Too much friction and learning curve to ever use anything else than an iPhone. Game ove
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by lrem 5y ago
I'm a Googler working on an internal-only product. We do have an internal-only support forum and I can tell you: one can't give good expert answers to everyone even at three orders of magnitude smaller audience. Being a TL working
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by lrem 5y ago
I like to think of it as Ruth's blog ;)
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by lrem 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, but thankfully not dealing with any of this. Well, it won't stop the police. But the accuracy is lower, increasing the number of people that match the geofence. That changes the cost-benefit of asking
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by lrem 5y ago
Privacy concerns are real, but possibly misguided. Mesh networking will obviously reveal much more to people around you than the centralised model. But in return you get shrouded from centralised infrastructure. It's a legitimate trade
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by lrem 5y ago
Was there ever a time people would trust a piece of paper in isolation? Let us look at the example of Solidarność (the first independent trade union that managed to survive in the Warsaw pact; 30% of society being members). Unlike Stasi, Po
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by lrem 5y ago
Frankly: Google is only now-ish regaining the balance from the hiring slowdown COVID brought. It isn't far-fetched that some team went short-staffed until recently. And then, updating notices was not their top priority.
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by lrem 5y ago
There was a movie about a person searching their Irish ancestors. Ended with the protagonist confronting their father, who admitted they made it up to win votes. The movie must be decades old now.
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by lrem 5y ago
You've made four claims and thus far provided a source for the first one. Any chance for the other four?
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by lrem 5y ago
What happens in practice: researchers are usually free to share the draft they had before the publishing process. Which means you can read the text before every sentence was wordsmithed in huge pain to make the paper a quarter page shorter.
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by lrem 5y ago
Hot word detection misfires are a thing.
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by lrem 5y ago
Banking apps provide a nearly unbeatable 3FA for your real computer. There are other services where a similar setup is beneficial. I, an exclusive Android user, am actually considering buying an iPhone to serve only as a 3FA.

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