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541.
by vl 5y ago
There was underreported shortage of cash since the start of pandemic. My branch for a while wouldn’t give out more than a $1000. Before the pandemic $10000 were fine.
542.
by vl 5y ago
When I was at Google I never heard Norvig’s name in connection with anything. At any internal AI conferences Jeff Dean would be present, Kurzweil, etc., but never Norvig.
543.
by vl 5y ago
Most Google apps pre-date Flutter by far, and teams developing them (rightfully so) are not going to port them to Flutter.
544.
by vl 5y ago
I run Jupyter Lab locally, so it would be nice to run it as separate app, but I need it to run from me env, of course.
545.
by vl 5y ago
This is just badly written announcement, which doesn’t answer basic questions: 1) How is JupyterLab App different from the JupyterLab? Is it just the same thing packaged in the electron app? 2) It comes with it’s own conda environment. But
546.
by vl 5y ago
This is excellent explanation. People, who consistently advocate for market regulation or removal, do not understand that our standard of living, historically highest ever, is literally on this level because of market forces, and removing t
547.
by vl 5y ago
All it means that it is working as intended. Few years ago YT switched to life-time-value optimization. But when you get it to the logical end, ideal consumer for Google is a healthy person with disposable income that spends all of it. Sinc
548.
by vl 5y ago
It would be nice of them to tell us what the actual problem was and provide breakdown of $5000 and $22000.
549.
by vl 5y ago
But how exactly paper ill-fitted masks protect against aerosol-spread virus?
550.
by vl 5y ago
Another simple way to address this is to remove uninteresting videos from history, then recommendations go back to normal. We have to do it on our kids account periodically.
551.
by vl 5y ago
You need to run fiber from somewhere, and something tells me there is no connection office in few hundred miles.
552.
by vl 5y ago
But you also have to assess risks. Joe is a prime candidate for getting canceled. Being on YouTube carries this risk for him. On Spotify not only he got some cash upfront, but also significantly mitigated this risk, since platform is way mo
553.
by vl 5y ago
The photons from the stars behind you travel at c in your reference frame…
554.
by vl 5y ago
My guess would be that the main reason is that in the event of the earthquake you would survive in the second and die in the first.
555.
by vl 5y ago
>Volume increases exponentially as diameter increases. Cubically.
556.
by vl 5y ago
I live in a community, where Verizon FIOS (later sold to Frontier) put down fiber in the ground, and then didn’t connect houses! So this fiber is there for 10 years now, unconnected…
557.
by vl 5y ago
BTW, there are replacement rubber feet sold on Amazon.
558.
by vl 5y ago
Well, Urs actually gave answer at all-hands meeting, when everything became “cloud, cloud, cloud”. Clouds grow so fast, that Google would eventually stop being hardware purchaser #1 in the world, loose best discounts, which would make Sea
559.
by vl 5y ago
Urs is an engineer who imagines that he can run business and manage people, neither of which is actually true.
560.
by vl 5y ago
> The good news about climate change is that I never have to worry about the pipes freezing any more. As they recently learned in Texas.
561.
by vl 5y ago
Or he is well-versed in classics - this is exactly what happens in “How to Steal a Million” with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole.
562.
by vl 5y ago
Taking a high-level employee which may turn out not to be a good fit is a huge risk for any manager. So unless your specialization is a good fit and on top of that you have stellar feedback (or they just can’t find any people at all) they a
563.
by vl 5y ago
It’s interesting that Google had a built-in mechanism to combat bad decisions called “being Googly”. Basically default mode of operation and decision making was to “be Googly”. So this cultural pressure created culture of collaboration and
564.
by vl 5y ago
> because I can’t figure out how that could happen and not be trivial to fix. Oh, there are many ways this could be non-trivial to fix. For example, at Google, there is a section of review that employees don’t see. It’s visible only to m
565.
by vl 5y ago
America is many states, laws like this are state-level, so there are 50 different laws in this regard and my guess is that most states don’t have a law covering this scenario due to it’s rarity.
566.
by vl 5y ago
But this is the problem, it’s not this place anymore. Unlimited money corrupt absolutely. At some moment you just look at all these projects and they are moat to defend ads/search and napalm any even remote competition. With such prior
567.
by vl 5y ago
But on other hand Google grows so fast and has so much churn that it used to be you would be in like 50% percentile in a year and it top percentile in few years. Which it turn means that on any given moment most employees are not veterans.
568.
by vl 5y ago
This is even a problem (for many people surprisingly) at L6: you have your specialization, and very few directors will agree to get L6 with unmatching specialization. But there could be only so many Android projects, or iPhone projects, or
569.
by vl 5y ago
Google is notoriously stupid about remote work. While bunch of people did it under the rag or by special arrangements, default policy was “no”. They run infamous “defrags” by trying consolidating projects in fewer location in process fuckin
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by vl 5y ago
But if it’s not government, why would anyone ever pay fines to them then?

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