taeric

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by taeric 4mo ago
More than not being entirely sure what the impact is, I don't see any suggestion at what to do about it?
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by taeric 4mo ago
It would be silly strictly for how strongly worded it is. I should also say that there is nothing wrong with being silly. Someone may actually come up with something some day that meaningfully changes us here. That is, I am not disagreein
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by taeric 4mo ago
This is borderline silly, though. It is clumsy to start. But so is walking. As is running. Have you seen people start out on bicycles? What about writing? Talking? That is to say, all things start out clumsy. And people that are good
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by taeric 4mo ago
Holy crap is that an amusing/depressing video. Assuming the financial shenanigans outlined in it are even partially accurate, how the heck is this getting allowed?
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by taeric 4mo ago
Adding to this, I highly recommend looking up images of wet owls. They look hilarious.
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by taeric 4mo ago
I'm torn. On the one hand, this is not too uncommon of a problem to run into. On the other, poor practices from coworkers are not going to go away thanks to a language filter. So, the question will come down to which causes more grie
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by taeric 5mo ago
Right, I know that dexterity in a hand is largely a teachable thing. And, similarly, I don't think this is unique to hands. It is just that most people don't know what their "dominant" foot or eye are. (I'm now cu
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by taeric 5mo ago
Vision is hilarious as it is more than just a solution looking for a problem. It was also desperately avoiding the current market that exists for it. Anything but games, it seemed.
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by taeric 5mo ago
Right, my question was more meant for how well established that is. And if it is open to influence. My searches made it look like it was not positive that handedness was fixed until a bit later. Still before formal schooling, but not nec
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by taeric 5mo ago
I am curious at what age hand preference develops. And can you exert any influence on that development? In particular, I would expect the influences to be somewhat counter intuitive. With things like having to use the left hand to hold a
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by taeric 5mo ago
I see /təˈdeɪ/ on that page. Per their https://dictionary.cambridge.org/help/phonetics.html page, the eɪ is how they encode what the other site uses ā for. That is, the "ɪ" is not a separate sylla
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by taeric 5mo ago
Are we disagreeing? My point, at large, is that they are able to spend more money on all things than most are. At the level that they spend, it will be easy to build a narrative that makes any particular spend look vital. It would also b
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by taeric 5mo ago
The caveat to that, though, is that "good" is another term that you can frame however you want.
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by taeric 5mo ago
Question is if it got there purely on the merits of the software? Marketing and general infrastructure build out were far more influential in their rise. Again, I am not meaning this as a knock on their strategy. It is valid and is produc
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by taeric 5mo ago
Stadia was yet another platform that Google tried to make and failed. Yes, it was a rounding error in their budget, but that is largely the point! They have become a financing company that is looking for where to spend money to make money.
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by taeric 5mo ago
Similarly, I'm not trying to be overly damning. And again, I don't think what they are doing is necessarily a bad strategy. I just don't think of them when I think of good software practices, sadly. If anything, I think th
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by taeric 5mo ago
Certainly fair. But they have tried some amusingly ambitious projects that make it pretty easy to raise eyebrows. Stadia alone is enough to make me nervous on any efforts they announce that are ambitious.
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by taeric 5mo ago
I mean... First, I don't think acquisitions are automatically a bad thing. And I was largely riffing on the list the post I responded to started. Youtube, Google Docs, and Nest were all acquisitions. As noted, we can add Android. Do
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by taeric 5mo ago
My point on the acquisitions was that a surprising amount of their successful software was not made in house. Again, I don't mean it as a knock against them, necessarily. AI is an odd example. For one, a lot of the research there is
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by taeric 5mo ago
I mean, ads is 73% of revenue. Of the rest, ~60% is Cloud, ~35% is hardware and subscriptions and app store fees. So, sure, lots of spots for software there. But still nothing that would make me think of them as a software company. Or, w
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by taeric 5mo ago
Do they have more success in software products than other companies, though? Most of the software many of us know from them, were acquisitions. They still do heavy acquisitions. Notable that they have double the acquisitions of Amazon.
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by taeric 5mo ago
Most of what they do really really well, though, is accomplished by massive amounts of spending. That isn't a knock on it. Consider that they spend more on trying to build up and support this central IDE than most companies dream of l
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by taeric 5mo ago
The advantages of a single platform are as obvious as the disadvantages. In that they are often whatever you want to frame them as for a narrative. I do think Google will continue to get results out of their tooling, as long as they are in
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by taeric 5mo ago
Ah, I think I see. You actually pronounce the "y" in those words? I'm not familiar with any dialects where that is common. I could see it, though. In general, I would expect the pronunciation for all of those is the same.
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by taeric 5mo ago
Exactly. Apologies if I made it sound like you didn't have a point. I have a pet peeve against the folks that think we don't have a phonetic alphabet. A combination of words that is largely nonsensical. Alphabets are pretty mu
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by taeric 5mo ago
For the example of an account, moving to double entry accounting is probably the correct move. With an external reconciliation process to take action if they don't match. But, that "external" part is what trips up a lot of p
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by taeric 5mo ago
Fair. It would help if the examples didn't always fallback to processes that should have reconciliation procedures to cover when they differ. Double entry accounting combined with the necessary follow on processes can't be &quot
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by taeric 5mo ago
SQL is intended as a declarative query language. That it is not the correct tool for imperative processing of updates feels expected? And mostly fine? Fair that things often grow beyond their original intent.
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by taeric 5mo ago
My apologies if it came across differently; but I'm well aware what a regular orthography is. I do have a bit of a pet peeve on the stance that English doesn't have a phonetic orthography. It absolutely does. To teach kids other
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by taeric 5mo ago
This feels like a strong reason to keep both, to me. People enjoy them, and they enable fun games. :D

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