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Google Olympics ad sparks new ire over generative AI(axios.com)
5 points by rurp 2y ago|2 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
> This was a piece that people knew existed How did people know it existed and hadn't been destroyed at some point if no one knew where it was for so many years?
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The unlikely alliance bringing the tech giants to heel(politico.com)
3 points by rurp 2y ago|1 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Temperature records are generally recorded in a controlled way for consistent readings using the same height, shade, etc. There have certainly been points on the earth that have gotten hotter than the official record. Whether that's e
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by rurp 2y ago
Given that there are serial killers, serial rapists, serial abusers, and so on for every other type of violent crime, I would be more surprised if there weren't serial arsonists on occasion.
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by rurp 2y ago
Does changing it to a water pistol actually reduce bullying at all? I suspect not. My bet is that the water pistol change was driven by virtue signaling and corporate risk aversion rather than any real belief that it would do anything usefu
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by rurp 2y ago
If emojis are speech then removing a particular one sure looks like censorship. Many people do consider them a form of speech, both socially and legally. For example, a thumbs up emoji can be considered agreeing to a contract.
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by rurp 2y ago
This line of thinking is both wrong and frightening. Military escalation is always messy and uncertain, and history is full of wars that escalated beyond either side's overall interest. Imperfect information, poor decisions, and tactic
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by rurp 2y ago
Google Maps works pretty well in cities but is terribly unreliable outside of those areas. I have had it route me down all sorts of terrible or nonexistent dirt roads when there were much better options available. There are many stories of
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by rurp 2y ago
Scale matters. The ability to churn out bad writing is increasing by orders of magnitude and could drown out the already small amount of high quality works.
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by rurp 2y ago
It should at least be an option. I called 911 about a situation some miles outside of town far from any street names. But I had the exact GPS coordinates and read them off to the dispatcher. To my surprise that dispatcher seemed to have no
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by rurp 2y ago
Yep I ordered a big jug of cleaning solution that showed up completely destroyed in a soaked and ruined box. Amazon refused to credit me a refund unless I returned the product to them, which was literally impossible. They have gotten big en
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Amazon Sold a Used Diaper. It Tanked a Mom-and-Pop Business(bloomberg.com)
67 points by rurp 2y ago|94 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Yeah that was a weird pivot in the article. I enjoyed it up to that point, but the strident defense of that terrible Haje article seemed out of left field; like I'd switched to reading Twitter for a couple paragraphs. Of all the things
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by rurp 2y ago
I don't think it's even in question that Google de-ranked blogs and other independent sites. I remember Eric Schmidt talking about this publicly back when he was running things, saying that they were intentionally up-ranking large
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by rurp 2y ago
The deal keeps getting worse too. In addition to hoovering up your data for whatever products they want, Google has gotten more aggressive about pushing paid services on top of it. The amount of up-sell nags and ads have increased significa
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by rurp 2y ago
> Mostly no cameras. It's interesting to hear this from others. Years ago I would have expected that camera-on meetings would be more productive on average, but my own experience is the opposite. I have only worked at a few remote c
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by rurp 2y ago
> It's really nice to have reliable tools that you can learn once and continue using a decade to free your mind up to master other parts of the job. I strongly agree, and it's weird how much hostility I encounter from folks who
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by rurp 2y ago
I remember when Jira introduced this exact same text rendering regression. The Kanban board we used at work was hardly packed, it usually less than two dozen tickets on it. I hit ctrl+f to jump to the ticket number I new I wanted and... not
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by rurp 2y ago
One of my big surprises when I started in the business world was how many decisions are driven solely by fads and mimickry. It all gets wrapped in a lot of jargon and fancy presentations to make it look like poeple are being thoughtful and
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by rurp 2y ago
Yes! Being able to open links in new tabs was one of the greatest browser improvements ever, and now we're increasingly throwing away basic functionality that had been shown to be great 20 years ago.
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Tesla reportedly delays highly anticipated robotaxi event, stock tanks(axios.com)
6 points by rurp 2y ago|1 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Intrusive ads are more profitable for the ad company, while the costs are largely born by other parties. A strategy to privatize the gains and socialize the costs is common in a lot of sleazy industries.
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by rurp 2y ago
A generic AI image generated from a simple prompt is kind of the opposite of a deeply researched and well written article. Throwing the two together is incongruous. It doesn't personally bother me as much as some, but I certainly don&#
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by rurp 2y ago
Yeah we should probably stop subsidizing the heaviest water users. Instead we get high profile efforts that get a lot of attention and only save a token amount of water.
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by rurp 2y ago
In addition to this, men value top line salary more than women relative to other benefits like PTO, medical, commute, etc. So in many cases men are actually taking worse jobs but get counted as increasing the wage gap.
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The Washington Post debuts AI chatbot(axios.com)
2 points by rurp 2y ago|2 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Almost every economic system in history has had some impressive wins, but that doesn't mean that they are all perfectly efficient. Modern corporate capitalism isn't the worst system ever but that doesn't mean there aren'
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by rurp 2y ago
Yeah, crazy to think that Google of all companies would track people in unexpected ways :eyeroll:. Your post is evidence that the scrutiny Google gets is actually helping matters. Companies, especially powerful ones, should default to not t
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by rurp 2y ago
I feel like the battery cost issue is being hand-waved by too many people here. For most people driving a car with well over 100k miles, spending $10k to replace a battery is a total non-starter. In addition to batteries degrading, there&#x

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