petilon

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   by petilon 4y ago

   Covid is not over. But the pandemic is over.
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   by petilon 4y ago

   Not all of it is "copycat". During the pandemic consumer spending moved online. People purchased hardware to work from home, ordered more from Amazon and other online stores as opposed to physical stores, used online services such
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   by petilon 4y ago

   Wouldn't that mean Elizabeth Holmes was a fine CEO as well?
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   by petilon 4y ago

   It should be noted that Mercedes accepts liability for accidents involving their self-driving cars [1]. This is a very different approach from Tesla [2]. Tesla's irresponsible approach is impacting other more responsible companies beca
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   by petilon 4y ago

   Why not use AirTable? That's what they are trying to copy.
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   by petilon 4y ago

   Virtually everyone is trying to copy AirTable... and failing. Microsoft is trying with Lists ( https://lists.live.com ). They released the public preview a year ago, missing key features, and failed to release final version. Amazo
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   by petilon 4y ago

   ChatGPT will call humans OI (Organic Intelligence) which will be inferior to MI (Machine Intelligence).
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   by petilon 4y ago

   Artificial Intelligence has been around for ages. It is even referenced in Greek mythology [1]. The definition of AI changes with time. When calculators were first invented it was considered AI, because back then anything that could do arit
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   by petilon 4y ago

   Calibri was designed for low-res screens [1]. "De Groot created Calibri in the early 2000s, as part of a collection of fonts for enhanced screen reading. “I designed it in quite a hurry,” he says." Even Microsoft is moving on from
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    by petilon 4y ago

    Gold standard? Even though serious bugs are not fixed [1] because "the code is too fragile to touch at this point"? Looks like Android uses HarfBuzz, if so it can't be that bad. [1] https://github.com/harfbuzz
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    by petilon 4y ago

    That's not how it works. You won't be told 60 days before you are let go. You will be let go and then given pay for 60 days.
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    by petilon 4y ago

    The hard part of PDF generation is support for complex script (Arabic, Indian languages etc.), including embedding a font subset. On Windows this is usually accomplished using the Uniscribe library (which is not available on Linux). QuestPD
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    by petilon 4y ago

    It is a poorly executed process: "... the reduction of our overall workforce by 10,000 jobs through the end of FY23 Q3". So employees will have to live with uncertainty for the next three months!
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    by petilon 4y ago

    Here are the facts about women in India: Technology firms in India have a better female to male staff ratio than the tech giants of Silicon Valley [1]. India has a much better male-to-female ratio compared with the U.S. Engineering male-fem
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    by petilon 4y ago

    Exactly, so take the lawsuits with a grain of salt.
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    by petilon 4y ago

    Look, if someone files a racial discrimination lawsuit against your company then does that prove that everyone in your company is racist?
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    by petilon 4y ago

    If someone finds a way to make a buck through a lawsuit they will do it. Just because someone filed a lawsuit doesn't make it true.
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    by petilon 4y ago

    Untrue. You can get people to complain about anything, that doesn't make it true.
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    by petilon 4y ago

    There may be pockets in India where caste still impacts your life (mostly poor, uneducated and backward villages), but in major cities where people are educated and modern, caste is not significant. More on that here: https://www
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    by petilon 4y ago

    UX Designer. I have seen some horrible ones thrive - including a Director of Design - because the management can't tell a good one from a bad one.
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    A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom(nytimes.com)

    4 points by petilon 4y ago|1 comments
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    by petilon 4y ago

    I think that in 30 years, humans will not work. AI will replace software developers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, finance, etc. Robots will replace surgeons, gardeners, cooks, cleaners, construction workers, manufacturing workers, etc. Al
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    by petilon 4y ago

    If you were to make an ad like that today, what would your predictions be?
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    by petilon 4y ago

    It can't solve quadratic equations.
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    by petilon 4y ago

    Related: Latency Numbers Everyone Should Know https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//st...
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    by petilon 4y ago

    Musk confronted Bill Gates for shorting Tesla [1] then proceeded to sell tons of TSLA himself. What a hypocrite! He is still selling TSLA, most recent sale was 12 days ago for $3.6 billion. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022&#x2F
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    by petilon 4y ago

    You can use https://airforms.com/ as a replacement for Access, for the forms side of things. It doesn't have reporting though.
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    by petilon 4y ago

    It is Simplified Chinese. English doesn't work.
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    by petilon 4y ago

    Microsoft is a new company since Satya Nadella took over. But one thing hasn't changed: shameless, mindless copying. If they copied well then that would be one thing. But they don't copy well either. In Windows 10 (and 11 too) if
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    Tesla ‘full self-driving’ triggered an eight-car crash, a driver tells police(cnn.com)

    78 points by petilon 4y ago|63 comments