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by xen0 2y ago
More like 180,000 full time employees, and probably at least that number again in external and temporary contractors etc.
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by xen0 2y ago
> Their laptops had a 50% failure rate at Linus Media Group, according to Luke during a WAN Show. Linus kept pushing them on his viewers though. Do you have link to that particular show? It's surprising it was mentioned and that Lin
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by xen0 2y ago
That the current team has just been mown by the latest swing of the scythe, doesn't mean the product is being killed. At least in some other cases, other teams are being spun up or being changed to take on these projects. Of course, th
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by xen0 2y ago
People layed off (about 10,000) in Jan 2023 were still on the books in March 2023. Termination didn't take effect until April.
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by xen0 2y ago
That doesn't scale. AFAICT, Google didn't go to the effort of creating vague objectives for people to fail at. Instead they've blanket cut teams regardless of their success or performance.
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by xen0 3y ago
Mostly correct; there's some code that's Blaze only and some that's Bazel only, but the core is the same.
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by xen0 3y ago
Anecdotally, the average member of the team I'm in (in Europe) is probably mid-30s with at least 10 years of experience. Less than 5 years of experience at Google is, to be fair, common. But the company doubled in size over that time,
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by xen0 3y ago
I think one might struggle to pipe clotted cream, or produce anything so 'elegant' with it. It's thick, being mostly fat (often >60%). At least in Cornwall, it's often bought in plastic tubs like ice cream (it will ho
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by xen0 3y ago
As someone from Cornwall, the pictures in the article don't look right. Clotted cream is much thicker; those cakes look like they're made with whipped cream.
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by xen0 3y ago
How many T72s have to be kept outside for 50 years to have one functioning T72 at the end?
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by xen0 3y ago
Not outright illegal, but in some places it's often required that what you're seeing is clearly an advert, or contains advertising. For example, a watermark or logo is shown at the start of a broadcast containing product placement
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by xen0 3y ago
That might be illegal in some jurisdictions.
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by xen0 3y ago
Hope you like firing people.
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by xen0 3y ago
In the UK at least, credit reports largely happen behind the scenes, and potential landlords etc cannot perform a full credit search. With your permission they can perform a 'soft' search (have you declared bankruptcy or do you ha
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by xen0 3y ago
Definitely had those. Just wasn't sure about the Buffer.MemoryCopy function.
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by xen0 3y ago
Couldn't reproduce. But maybe it gave me the wrong answer; I am not a C# expert. But I have had some success in bypassing its moral posturing by asking it in German. It will happily translate for you afterwards.
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by xen0 3y ago
Google are being shy with the numbers. Confirmed 'hundreds'; probably very low thousands? Maybe 1%?
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by xen0 3y ago
As a non-native speaker, I've used it a couple of times at a bakery to make sure I don't get too much of what I'm asking for. Doesn't help when I _do_ want three of something though...
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by xen0 3y ago
Approximately, yes. We talk about 'high energy' because there's an upper limit to speed (the speed of light), but there's no limit to how much energy something can have. The increase in energy increases mass and speed (a
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by xen0 3y ago
> Heck, you wouldn't say that Ken Griffin is full of shit to his face if you met him but you said it on an online forum. They might say it in in-person conversations with their colleagues. Yes there's a level of detachment that
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by xen0 3y ago
> If you want to import a day's worth of access logs into a hash map, you need to take into account not only the time but also the space complexity of this sort of solution. Good thing space complexity is routinely discussed in thes
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by xen0 3y ago
Describing 'throwing a hashmap' at the problem as 'premature optimisation' is a bit reductionist. It wouldn't even occur to me to go with the naive O(n^2) solution because it has such obvious drawbacks with large in
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by xen0 3y ago
The point is is that the value the company derives from targeted advertising against a given user is clearly an order of magnitude less than the headline $200 they ask for not being able to do it.
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by xen0 3y ago
Some quick googling: Estimated users of Facebook: 3 billion. Meta annual revenue: $120 billion 3 billion × $200 is significantly more than Meta's annual revenue. There's paying for a service and there's being ripped off.
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by xen0 3y ago
I don't think his reputation is so tarnished that he can't get other investors to continue to give him money.
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by xen0 3y ago
"12:00:00 + ε" is after noon, but your clock will not show a difference.
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by xen0 3y ago
The normal terminology for the sides of a car are 'nearside' and 'offside', with the nearside being where the kerb is, offside being where other cars would be. So I would suppose 'inside' and 'outside&#x27
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by xen0 3y ago
The equivalent to static linking in Python would be bundling all code into an archive (including transitive dependencies), along with an interpreter. Some shell script can be used to unpack and run. It's possible, just not the norm.
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by xen0 3y ago
You never made a mistake?
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by xen0 3y ago
Meats and animal fats taste distinct from lettuce leaves, and the obsessions we have over the former suggest we find them more desirable. (Sweet things indicate easily broken down sugars, a sub-category of energy rich)

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