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by yafbum 4y ago
Works until you have young kids in school or daycare or other places where you drop them off without a cell phone. Then you really need to be able to pick them up when the caretakers or friends' parents call you up.
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Layoffs will continue until the metaverse strategy is a roaring success?
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Dumb question perhaps - I'm going to be shopping for an HVAC system for an area that needs heating in the winter and AC in the summer. Any chance that heat pumps can serve both cases? I mean, we're just compressing gas at one end
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Pretty cool demo, what I wonder about is how the quality is and how long they can keep updating their tiles. My experience last time I did something similar was that the OSM data grows fast, the import and rendering takes longer and longer,
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Are there any phone apps that do this kind of head tracking using the front-facing camera? I imagine this would simplify the camera calibration setup since most phones have a known geometry relating the camera to the screen location, unlike
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This is a potent argument for some interpretations of the "Chinese room experiment"
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The practical way that people deal with this is putting a swarm of auditors all up in the processors' business. It used to be this way for telecom as well: to know whether comms were secure, you needed to walk the length of the cable a
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by yafbum 4y ago
The application domain for this stuff is so negligible... Who's going to pay for this huge added cost? Either the customer whose data is being handled trusts the service provider enough to let it handle unencrypted data, in which case
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by yafbum 4y ago
This is something people are living with because it's very rare to use exact equality tests on floats in BI applications to begin with. Far more people want to look at the sum of order amounts, or at orders where the amount is within a
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? The most watched news media in America is Fox News. The leading party in Congress is the Republican party. In actual statistical terms and in actual political power terms, that's the definition of mainstream, but somehow those who ha
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Plot twist: our culture is defined by our collective values, not by our leaders. Leaders who tap into narratives of victimhood are only enabled to rise because enough of us like to see themselves as an aggrieved victim of oppression. Includ
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Bucket Gatorade bottle (the dude even had his own supply according to TFA) Worst case, on deck near the drain holes, then wash it off
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Here's a header that fixes it: "We at Garmin believe it's essential for our products to be easy to use, and can be lifesaving. Here's a story that illustrates it." Not hard to add instead of starting it like your ju
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It would be much better to own up the pitch upfront. Like, start with a line at the top saying something like "We at Garmin believe it's essential for our products to be easy to use, and can be lifesaving. Here's a story that
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by yafbum 4y ago
It's a great story but kind of gross the way Garmin slides in an ad for its products being supposedly easy to use even for people who haven't used them before
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And the automobile, and the interstate, etc
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I worked for managers with outstanding cognitive ability, and for others who were certainly smart but not as much. The ones with high cognitive ability didn't necessarily make the best business leaders - they had so much cognitive band
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by yafbum 4y ago
Just talking about my experience in cities like Los Angeles - grand buildings, little passenger traffic, many people there sitting around like they're just using the station as shelter.
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I did this once (different trip, but similar distance) and freaking hated it. The beautiful buildings in downtown are full of vagrants and the restaurants there suck. The train kept being stopped to let freight go first on single track sect
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Because the people publishing them love to pack them with ads, and long-windedness causes more ad impressions.
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by yafbum 4y ago
Pichai didn't completely inherit the cash cow? He led Chrome to quiet dominance, on the basis of a better product, in the face of entrenched and better funded competitors. That is quite different from Ballmer. One difference with the p
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by yafbum 4y ago
Depends a lot on career and how mobile you want to be. What do you do when your career is promising according to your diploma but there's a stubborn local economic downturn? Or when opportunity for making twice the money in a more inte
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by yafbum 4y ago
Home ownership at a young age is an overrated fetish. A home is just a box to keep you and your family warm and dry. Getting attached to a box is silly. For my first 15 years out of school, renting was the best. Every year I would run the n
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by yafbum 4y ago
It's always politics but the triangulation seems like poor decision making.
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> Then most of it got tossed Surely someone "took responsibility" for that one
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Exactly. So why not a 85% cut from 400 to 50, instead of 16%? What strategic purpose does a reduction in workforce serve it it's not materially realigning staffing on updated business priorities, such as putting the effort on a very cl
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by yafbum 4y ago
> I’m just making assumptions here, but the higher ups almost definitely had many meetings with the management and product teams to decide what was and wasn’t needed and who was “expendable” (I hate HR terms/dehumanization, but this
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by yafbum 4y ago
Ok maybe not 100% but 300 people aren't needed to do the occasional security patch for some kind of smart speaker. Sounds like the future of this project is towards the trashcan then.
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Maybe. Unless it's a separate area that is purely speculative (within a business that is already a long shot itself), losing >10% of an org with no notice, no knowledge transfer, is a hard thing to adjust to, even if it's some
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by yafbum 4y ago
From my contacts at Google, the cuts don't appear to be strongly correlated to poor performance, rest & vest attitude, negativity, etc. It has been messaged by company leaders as "role eliminations", not as "droppin

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