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by vl 6y ago
> but its interesting to look back at how we got here. Oh, please, I worked at Google as well, and this is typical Google’s inability to have attention span and coherent leadership for anything longer than 6 months. One VP did one thing,
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by vl 6y ago
While personal ambition is commendable, realistically for inter-stellar colonization this has to be planet-wide project. > suddenly we'll be in other planets. Who is “we” in this case, how does it affect you and me? (The point being
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by vl 6y ago
Basically there is not need and motivation for humans to colonize anything outside the Earth. It's just too far, too expensive and too uncomfortable. Humans evolved specifically to live on Earth, to live somewhere else, they need to be
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by vl 6y ago
The problem is that supply at such places is quite limited (why would there be excess build up if there was no demand?), so it takes just small increase of demand to dry up supply and drive up prices. I know few people who are unsuccessfull
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by vl 6y ago
My point is that they should bite the bullet and ditch Chrome OS altogether. Android already works on tablets, which are nowadays very similar to laptops. And this move will bring first-class app and store support to Chromebooks.
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by vl 6y ago
Well, I don’t count this one. It large companies there are enough “information fluctuations” that some fringe OS projects emerge. Microsoft had super-secret project Genesis, then some managed kernel project I don’t even remember codename of
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by vl 6y ago
Plasma is still matter, in which electrons and atom nuclei are separated. They detect plasma because plasma particles are easy to detect due to being electrically charged. It doesn’t mean that there are no hydrogen and helium atoms out ther
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by vl 6y ago
> That it is not very dense doesn't change much here. It does matter, because at some density there are no sound waves anymore. You can’t have sound waves if particles do not collide with each other. And also speed of sound goes dow
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by vl 6y ago
Original page kinda doesn’t explain the idea in simple terms. This Veritasium video gives detailed “popsci” explanation: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU
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by vl 6y ago
It’s kind of schizophrenic for a company to have two, quite similar, OSes. For years there was a project to bring Android apps to Chrome OS. The question is, of course, is why have Chrome OS at all. The answer is that there was a conflict b
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by vl 6y ago
We use only unsalted butter to reduce sodium - everything else already has to much salt in it.
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by vl 6y ago
Not really obvious. This policy applied only if you didn’t do a test-drive, and anyone I know who bought a Tesla did a test-drive.
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by vl 6y ago
The irony of course is that current very severe R&D limits on testing to reduce spending are significantly reducing competitiveness: if some team already has inferior car, they can’t improve it because they can’t test improvements!
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by vl 6y ago
I feel stupid arguing this, but if you watched F1 during Schumacher era it was obvious that Schumacher is really the best driver. While still at Benetton, he demonstrated his abilities, then with the top car he showed enormous consistency.
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by vl 6y ago
First books had same shockers, but then he run out of characters to kill.
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by vl 6y ago
> Netflix releasing episodes all at once has completely destroyed momentum and build up. Actually, both Netflix and Amazon now release one episode a week for some shows.
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by vl 6y ago
Netflix has terrible recommendations and discovery. I watch Netflix almost every day, and I didn’t know about some shows mentioned in the article! I’m constantly surprised when we watch Netflix through my wife’s profile: she gets completely
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by vl 6y ago
Pitchforks are out, once current election circus is over, they will come for FB, Twitter and YouTube. Politicians on either side are scared and don’t want such strong entities have control over information.
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by vl 6y ago
Yep, they managed to convince me not to order Quest 2. And I already own Quest 1 and Index. Hope Valve is going to ship stand-alone headset, at least their incentives are aligned.
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by vl 6y ago
>I think you are very confused about how availability is tracked. If a class of users is always getting an error this would be investigated. Oh, please, you are confused. I worked at Google, most teams just don’t have metrics like this.
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by vl 6y ago
I live in Seattle and taking 2000 UI daily barely got me to “sligtly deficient”. Now I upgraded to 4000 UI daily hoping to get to the lower part of the normal range. I talked to the doctor and she told me that among blood tests she ordered
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by vl 6y ago
Interesting, Google spun off many companies under Alphabet umbrella, but essentially continues to provide base tooling/compute/IT support to them.
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by vl 6y ago
Oracle tried cloud couple times and failed, and finally they opened huge cloud division in Seattle away from corporate mothership.
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by vl 6y ago
>Tesla is no BMW or Porsche O, please. I own both BMW and Tesla, and while BMW is more refined car, service and quality miles better with Tesla. BMW gets obscure error codes, and then dealership lazily tries to fix it for weeks (this yea
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by vl 6y ago
Argument presented in article about filters and re-touching is mostly self-contradictory: image from modern camera is heavily processed anyway. Anything from color balance, lens distortion to edge enchantment and smoothing is corrected in s
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by vl 6y ago
> how many actually think of their jobs being decades-long certainties though? Anyone with unionized job, or even better, government/public sector unionized job.
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by vl 6y ago
Google is actually notoriously bad at office and capacity planning. Over the years, significant chunks of time, my teams were literally sitting in hallways. Usually it’s impossible to book a meeting room, and so on. Basically problems like
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by vl 6y ago
Many Google offices were really overcrowded before COVID. For example, Kirkland office literally had desks in stairwells (I have no idea how they passed fire safety). This was the new low, but desks in the hallways are typical everywhere.
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by vl 6y ago
Because it makes business sense to hire best of the best. Football clubs have unlimited supply of players, yet they pay ridiculous amounts of money to their players.
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by vl 6y ago
The problem is that frequentist logic doesn’t work if you have only one sample. Effectively we can’t distinguish between “we are just seeing very unlikely scenario”, “it’s just early and we are the first”, and “life is extremely unlikely”.

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