rifung

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Google Cloud offers most accessible scale for ML training(cloud.google.com)
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> The problem isn’t politics itself. It’s dysfunction, aka “dark patterns” aka antisocial behavior. One thing I commonly see and wouldn't consider antisocial behavior is the competition for promotions. In smaller companies this may
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Besides iOS developers and maybe open source developers, people don't and aren't allowed to have code on their laptops at Google. You have to ssh into your desktop so presumably there's no reason to have Homebrew unless you&#
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That was my first thought too. However, the downside of that solution is that the failure signal relies on correctness of the machine. In the current system, the failure signal is guaranteed to occur during failure with a zero false negativ
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> But that’s a non answer in any practical terms, and telling someone their suffering is all in their head is rarely a solution for anything. Hm I disagree with this but am open to be shown why I'm wrong. > This person made a ser
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> In what is ostensibly the best country in the world, and a massive proponent of free speech and human rights, you think it's bold to write a letter on the internet to your extraordinarily famous employer? Free speech only applies
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> That’s good info about #1, because it seems to be an O(n * m) problem where n is number of existing copyrighted works and m is the number of uploads. This is likely very naive of me to ask but is it actually O(n*m)? I don't know h
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> Just because you work on something interesting does not absolve you of the moral responsibility you have to yourself. I agree and am not sure why you think I thought otherwise. The person I was replying to said "I don't think
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> I don’t think I have any ideological objections to Facebook, but the product itself doesn’t interest me and I’m not a user. I don't work at FB but I'm sure for a product of that scale even if you don't use or care about
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Is it weird that when reading this I just think how nice it must be to be able to turn down such a high paying job when many people are just trying to make ends meet? Don't get me wrong I am happy now working at Google but I am sure I
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That's fair I should have prefaced by saying I have only used the Pixelbook and my experience on Linux is limited to Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Mint, and Slack. I've only really used a Thinkpad and MBP for the laptops so of course your
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> Also... you've got to treat a laptop pretty gingerly to have one last more than 5 years. Well it's 5 years from launch which is a big problem in my opinion. For example, they didn't replace the Pixelbook so if you are, l
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Disclaimer I work at Google My own personal reason is that I have never had an ideal experience running Linux on laptops. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy tinkering and it was fun when I was in school, but nowadays I don't have much ti
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Would they be able to get past a credit check? I'm not saying they wouldn't; I honestly don't know but I imagine these are the kinds of problems that they deal with which are difficult for people who aren't homeless to e
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> I think it's unfair that I get paid more than my equally productive colleague, just because I happen to live in SF and he happens to live in Indiana. I mean you can extend that to it being unfair to be paid less because you didn&#
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I would be very surprised if they decide to monetize this with ads. My impression is that the executives very much want to diversify income streams. You can see this with Cloud, GSuite, Chrome OS, hardware, etc. It doesn't make sense (
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> Can you name any end user desktop issues for Linux? I've installed Linux on like 5 of my desktops/laptops. The best way to describe my issues with it are "death by a thousand cuts". Namely that random stuff just doe
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> What is the objection supposed to be? I work at Google; opinions are my own. I believe the objection is that it's an unfair competitive advantage and hurts competition. The reasoning is similar to that given when Google was fined
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> Microsoft has been taking their shot for years, and so far it isn't working, but that's not because of barriers to entry. It's because they do not execute as well as Google does. I think that's a little unfair to Mi
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> HN and Reddit arent that different from other social media sites. I guess it depends on what you are measuring them by. I'd argue they are quite different and did something similar to the previous commenter. To me, FB and Instagra
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> No mention of the employee representative on the board, either. Can someone who knows better than me explain whether this is actually a reasonable request? It sounded ridiculous to me but I admit I am not knowledgeable in these matters
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> The atomic bomb is one obvious example of a technology that seems to be inherently bad not only for humanity, but for biological life itself. Is it really inherently bad if it's just generating a lot of energy? Couldn't that
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Here you go: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-... "Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitu
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Absolutely it's not even a contest. Even an upright will sound much better than an electric. I've bought one of the best electric pianos you can buy (Yamaha N1 which has the same action as a grand piano) and it still didn't c
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That's a totally valid point of view to have. I used to be the same and care a lot about objective comparisons but I realized when I just listened to those I usually regretted my purchase. For me personally, the subjective things like
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This is so true. People keep comparing the specs with competitors but they're missing the point. Apple's strength, be it when they are doing it well or not, has always been UX.
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I mean it technically can be equivalent but the experience is significantly worse. One huge problem is that you can't add people's emails with just their name. Another problem is that there's no concept of accepting a friend
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It is but they are overlapping ranges so it's entirely possible for a level N to make more than an N+1
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Most engineers at Google will retire as L5; they are pretty rare. I have only ever worked with one and he was one of the first engineers on GCS and Kubernetes.
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> Depends on the persons age and maturity level too. At some point shiny new cars and other trinkets are not really what makes you happy... I don't know if I agree with that. Just because those things don't make you happy doesn

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