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Loved Christian’s full rebuttal complete with evidence (and receipts to boot). I wish Christian the best in his next endeavor. I’m going to miss Apollo, probably one of the best apps I’ve ever used.
Just in case anyone sees the immediately previous response and takes it seriously, the claim “this is absolutely not how that works” is at best dangerously misleading.

“Unfortunately, it is not always easy to tell which law applies to a communication, especially a phone call. For example, if you and the person you are recording are in different states, then it is difficult to say in advance whether federal or state law applies, and if state law applies which of the two (or more) relevant state laws will control the situation. Therefore, if you record a phone call with participants in more than one state, it is best to play it safe and get the consent of all parties. However, when you and the person you are recording are both located in the same state, then you can rely with greater certainty on the law of that state. In some states, this will mean that you can record with the consent of one party to the communication. In others, you will still need to get everyone’s consent.”

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-c...
What does this have to do with the CSS connector standard?
WFH may be better for the environment but that is a different thing than "the best way of working".

I've been remote for 14 years, I love it, but I've worked with plenty of people who didn't and went back to an office.
As a googler I understand. Leadership is capricious and petty, chasing trends and seems to be flailing. They have nothing left to offer stockholders than cost-saving measures.

Tbh I love the project I work on and I’m still learning tons. But I wish we could have more confidence in our leadership instead of hoping to be insulated from whatever their whims are this month.
Refresh rate is more important than pixel density, the former has a big impact on comfort, lower refresh rates are more likely to cause motion sickness, while a lower pixel density mostly just means that the details are smoothed out.
Reality isn’t fractal. People leaving for a variety of motives, expansion of some offices, closing others… chip away at the edge of known truth.

Entropy forces new relative perspective. Humans need to do better about accepting figurative and literal death and chill. There quite literally is nowhere else to go except insane from repeating ourselves.

A rewrite of philosophical priority is a necessity for anyone under 50 and the species. That has to be taken sincerely and seriously because, well they kind of outnumber the ossified pensioner, and if they’re staring down forced obligation to choke on fire smoke for 60 years or dump gramps overboard, no one around to see it happen will be around long enough to insure it’s a footnote in any discussion of history.

Self proclaimed STEM minded secular people seem just fine ignoring evidence that does not fit the civic life narrative they’ve been spoon fed like it’s immutable truth. Seems to have latched itself onto whatever quirk of biology religion accidentally exploited; like a nihilism cause it’s all gods plan kind of woo.

“Hey look at me, mom! My life goal is making computers do what they were intentionally designed to do!”

That can be automated; any acceptable experience is a finite set of constraints. DOOM is pretty DOOMy. Same for Halo. Email clients. But hey we have figurative career ambitions, man; Google Fellow! Boom goes the dynamite.

Smaller models first; let’s make an AI to replace the CEO by assigning project management to vetted candidates via publicly audited randomizer. Term limits for geniuses who always seem to end up enjoying their own farts.

“I’m sorry general manager of capital intense AI infrastructure, you are tonight’s… weakest link! dropped into literal shark tank”

It’s been a long day. Sorry not sorry for the more unhinged off gassing.
The world is still waiting for a CA-53W backlight mod. Some rdditor seems to be working on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/casio/comments/12qplk8/ca53w_leds_m...
Is that the best tool to delete posts and overwrite comments? I took a look at the developer's comments and last month he said about v 1.4.3 (3 years old) that it still works as it always did, but 2 years ago he was talking about a complete rewrite to fix things, and he never got around to it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite/comments/mgshmh/a_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite/comments/e1zl76/po...

Any opinions on shreddit or Redact?

Is it probably correct that shreddit and Redact depend on the API, but Power Delete Suite does not?
This all falls apart when the people you are working with are geographically distributed anyway, which happens to be the case quite often in companies of this size.
A big company like a FAANG will shift the local market when they open an office.

There are plenty of competent people all over the world that can’t move easily for whatever reason - usually family.
Most of the software profits are on IOS as well.

I think you must know this, so I’m not sure what the angle is you’re playing.
I think you need someone with a steadfast personality like Jobs in order for it to work. Otherwise the CEO just ends up drifting in the wind trying to appease shareholders
None of this is actually a problem with the standard, just typical American companies being mediocre.
Their duty is to keep revenue or profitability up and to the right. Every quarter that they don’t do this, analysts will grill the management team about what happened and what will change. The company is forced into a cycle, quarter by quarter, of underestimating earnings, outperforming estimates, and pleasing investors.
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Real estate is just a slog. It takes years to build new office space. Lease opportunities come up on weird schedules and tend to be long-term too. They're likely offloading the space they started acquiring pre-COVID, or in the first year of (when the industry was hiring like crazy), because they're not optimistic about being able to fill it any time soon.

They could probably spread things out instead, but real estate is stupidly expensive, and Google was never known for spacious accommodations (maybe except for some remote offices). I can't imagine they have any motivation to spend more if their approach worked fine for more over a decade.

I don't love it, but how many applicants walked away because of cramped open spaces? How many top performers quit for that reason? We just put up with it.
Not exactly. For engineers, at least (not sure about other roles), the Google Cloud desk options are:

1. "Commit" to being in the office 4+ days a week. You get a dedicated desk as normal.

2. Accept a shared desk - assigned to you 2 days of the week and another person from another team 2 days of the week. Each team has its 2 office days selected by local site leadership. In this setup, your desk assignment and partner are static, so you'd coordinate e.g. what kind of monitor setup you want.

3. Give up your desk entirely and use drop-in hot desks. There's still an expectation you're in the office 2 days a week. So far, this mostly seems to have been chosen by folks with so many meetings that they're rarely at their desk anyway.

4. Get an accommodation if you have specific desk needs that can't reasonably be met with a desk partner.

5. Go remote and free yourself of the office. (As of today, apparently this requires a special exception...)

To be honest, as much as I find it distasteful, I can absolutely see why they did it - walk around any office lately and you'd find >50% of desks totally unoccupied, practically every day. Real estate is expensive. It seems like pretty clear wastage. And this system is way better than blanket hot desking.

And, of course, theoretically 2 days each week you get all of the supposedly-proven benefits of in-person collaboration ... modulo the dozens of exceptions.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
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Literally hasn't helped me. I've tried to use it to write PromQL queries and it never gets it right! It's so frustrating! :@
The observation is that offices are underused, so both space reduction and a presence increase improve this statistic.

It's not like you can only do one thing, then keep the rest of your operations still.
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Your words are like an epiphany.
Ask and ye shall receive: https://handbooks.clerky.com/startup-incorporation/where

:)
How is there a non-solo use for the 3D blindfold?

Are we expected to sit in the living room with goggles on our heads watching a movie? I mean casually like it’s TV.

I had a 3D glasses projector and the friction for glasses was way less and still it sucked socially.

The overall push to get people put boxes on their heads is so depressing
> First off, it's abundantly clear that the Apollo dev wasn't actually demanding money. It was a pointed statement that revealed the CEO wasn't being honest about the costs.

I disagree, I think the Apollo dev would have happily taken the $10 million.

> Then Reddit would be able to recoup the cost in half a year and gain an additional $20 million yearly. What a great deal, right? Except they both knew that the $20 million price tag was complete bogus.

The $20 million price is irrelevant here. Reddit doesn't need to pay to acquire these users. They are Reddit users (they're registered there, and Reddit knows everything about them). They can close down Apollo and they'll get almost all the users back for free.

If Apollo had a standalone community, then it's easy to calculate the value of a user, and a fair price for acquisition. But, that's not the case here.

Don't take this the wrong way, I'm not siding with Reddit and I think both sides are losing here due to their poor management.
I do. I use toolboxes for pretty much all my development. I've scripted the setup each type of toolbox I use, so they can be reproduced. I use a terminal editor (neovim), but I think it's possible to run vscode from a toolbox too[1].

For graphical apps (browsers etc.) the flatpaks are very handy.

The above setup means I don't really need to layer much in the OS, mainly drivers and common terminal utilities.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/107lvlf/silverblue_...
awesome, thank you so much!
> My instructions when I joined were something like "Yeah so just talk to a bunch of people and look for opportunities to contribute".

Do you mind sharing the job title for something like this? Sounds like a dream job.
He's a hostage. Everything he says or does has been vetted by his captors, i.e. the Kremlin. That's a puppet.
Last time I checked, Chicago was not in the Bay Area.
With consoles more or less dictating hardware requirements, it certainly feels silly to stay on the hardware treadmill. If I bought a 4000 series card, I guess I can see some RTX effects that maybe 2 studios will optimize for in the opening sequence?
That really depends on what you're doing with the device I guess. For gaming, controllers will remain indispensable, and you're planning to disconnect from the real world for a while anyways.

For everything else, quickly being able to grab a snack or drink, respond to a phone notification or change the place you're using the device from reduce friction.

It might be enough to push VR over that "I don't want to use the device because I don't want to commit to not doing anything else for at least 30 minutes now" hurdle that still very much exists.

That being said, I have no doubt Meta is going to be able to get there in due time too.
You might have had 20 years of experience building products that don't need to scale for millions of concurrent users, if you consider all "purely internal architectural changes" to be lower priority than the customer facing work just because it's purely internal. And the Google guy might have tried to spend time scaling a product that will have five concurrent users, because "this is Google" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI). It's all about perspective, and CEO thought the other perspective was more valuable.
If you only want the casing and wristband of an Apple Watch there are cheap knockoffs on Aliexpress that have a quite solid hardware (and a crappy software).
You underestimate Apple fans throwing ungodly amounts of money at new products. The early-adopters always generate FOMO among the not-quite-so-early adopters and it snowballs from there.
Very enlightening posts. I appreciate how they tell you that million is not for every situation, it's for sites with "Lots of static content with little dynamic content". Many frameworks boasts about how they are the best at everything, without any nuance or justifications for their claims.

Personally, I feel like we are getting to the point of over-optimization on the front-end. Is a 70% optimization in performance, which may lead to a, say, 5% increase in user experience, worth the increased complexity/maintenance cost of another library integration? I think for most companies that are not Amazon or Google - probably not.
Working in an office is better than working from home in my experience, but hot-desking is a stupid idea.
Look at the history of activist investors like Carl Icahn. They will happily start a proxy war to oust management to wring the last cent out of a company, or file a minority shareholder lawsuit alleging all kinds of malfeasance to tank the stock to be able to buy up a controlling interest. The 80s M&A boom had all kinds of crazy things, and it makes recent history look somewhat mild by comparison.

These days the vast majority of executive comp is in stock - imagine if bad optics could force you to take a 60% pay cut, you'd be pretty conservative with your choices.
1000 mg ... you mean a gram :-) ?
Except if you are a marketer / work in advertising?
> We notice that nuclear is the only one to increase

“ France and South Korea were at least able to keep prices and construction times constant.”

“ those countries that were able to avoid price surges are countries that do not stand out in regulating nuclear power less, but in standardizing the construction of reactors more.”
I don't know that HN will see more than a blip, but I'd imagine some niche interests will get more users on 4chan as a result.
Boys will laugh at girls when they read this study?
I was told developers had enough leverage without unions to prevent this from happening /s
Quest pro is $1,500 (albeit 8 months old )

Yes, Apple is priced quite premium but that is also their strength Apple can price at this level and still command enough sales , Meta or any other company cannot .

Even at the same price point (HoloLens 2 costs the same) as Apple it is hard to imagine another headset competing.

Also none of the concept headsets MZ has shown so far come close to this
It's kind of surprising to see this perspective being so common. They're both the same kind of dystopia, Apple just has more black mirror style polish, while Meta has the more old school "obvious" dystopia style going.
I love this approach.

Our org had a different plan. They put the entire office (region based) on organized teams and sent out an email. You get team points based on:
- visits to the office
- meals in the office
- attendance at after hours events
- etc. etc.

SMDH. I can see the article headline now "Innovative gamification in the office"
An Apple company never become a monopoly in a big market. There must be at least one competitor, and Meta is the first candidate.
No you won’t. You’ll be behind your keyboard on a beach while he goes to hell and back.
There is StoryGraph.

But what do you want from Goodreads that it is not providing? What makes it "bad" in your opinion?

Functionally, it does everything I want it to.
Video call into the depths of hell
> The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction! We could build these reactors so much more cheaply and quickly (and more safely!) if we decided to!

Citation required.

Another explanation is that is that they're so complicated and expensive that it results in the people involved in managing the construction being incentivized to make it more expensive. They to siphon off as much as possible, empire build and collect more power for themselves by spending more money. And if they come up with more possible risks to mitigate, they sell a more complex and costly system and get more money, while the people doing oversight don't want to be the one that said okay to not mitigating a risk that causes a major problem down the line--they're so complicated that the safest butt-covering is to just spend the money.

All of that is just organic, free-range American middle-management capitalism at work. No hippies required to make it expensive.
Top 0.05% here. I still haven’t seen any written evidence for the policy change being protested (the protest site says they are protesting a “near-total prohibition on moderating AI-generated content”, it seems incredible that StackOverflow would ever prohibit moderation of any type of content) and when I’ve asked I’ve been told it was discussed in secret so nobody can prove it.

What I suspect is that somebody has asked the site to use automatic GPT removal tools and the site has said they don’t work, which is true.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389928/gpt-on-the-p...

This post shows the data that SE finally provided, though only after the strike was already happening.

So far the community is not convinced. It looks like there is something happening there that reduced the number of people that provide multiple answers more than expected, but not everybody is convinced it is the mod actions on ChatGPT posts.

Another issue might be that this only explains a part of the decline in questions and answers. So even if this part is solved, the larger problem of declining engagement remains.
Will high level technical/product roles ever settle in SEA/LAX?
I don't know about their business backup product, but the last time I considered their personal backup product restoring files involved decrypting the files on their server to produce a zip file for you to download.

Is that still the case, and does business backup also work like that?
God money, I'll do anything for you ... God money, just tell me what you want me to ... God money, nail me up against the wall ... God money, don't want everything, he wants it all ... God money's not looking for the cure ... God money's not concerned about the sick among the pure ... God money, let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised ... God money's not one to choose ...
I wouldn't say the brain is magic, just that we still don't know what consciousness and intelligence is. Could the complex emergent behaviour we call intelligence emerge from a statistical model? Maybe. Can we gain more insights on what intelligence is by studying these models? Definitely. On the other hand — Are there limits to large language models' capabilities that we haven't reached yet?
> It doesn’t work like this.

It does though.

> You are primarily beholden to the laws of the country you live in.

This is only true to the extent that “primarily” is distinctly different from “exclusively”; in practice, you are beholden to the laws of any sovereignty that chooses to enforce them against you and has a reach that extends to your person and/or property of interest, either territorially, or through agreements (either pre-existing and general or specific to your situation and ad hoc) with other sovereigns, or through the will and capacity to exert force extraterritorially.
These supposed critical thinkers apparently care what Apple thinks about computing, so caring about Zucc's opinion isn't all that unsurprising.
Instead of wine I'd go with resveratrol directly.
Spatial computing as an idea is from early 2000s. It was in Wired and sci-fi pulp and something the graybeards would hobnob about. Sometimes it just takes 20 years for an idea to come to fruition.
NYT has always been pro-rat.
I think it speaks volumes about his mindset that he thinks this AMA is a good idea.
Perhaps Apple entering the space with such significant investment lends some validation to Meta’s efforts.
I ran Manjaro as my main Linux environment for three years. I don’t recommend it. It’s actually much more difficult to debug any issues than just setting up Arch.
Sure, they could squeak out of it. But I doubt they’d be after licensing fees for it. Hopefully there’s clear progress on it soon.
Wires suck though, and that’s coming from a person with a few MacBook Pro MSRPs worth headphone collection.

AirPods Pro are an amazing product and it’s not dorky at all, never was.

The original AirPods with long stick were kinda dorky and not that great (no isolation)
> But oh well, so far wildfires are contained to just wildfire season, so not a big deal

We just added a month and a half to wildfire season, just to keep that true!
> And finally, this activity is just useless spam.

It's far from spam: it's a social activity. When "running" with someone, you post a comment with a count, watch your inbox patiently for the other person to post the next count, reply with the count after that, and repeat. In the process, you collaboratively climb the infinite ladder together. Hence the words of congratulations and thanks every time a milestone (a "get") is reached.

Counters can and do hold side discussions along the way; pretty much no one comes to the subreddit to act like a perfect robot. Indeed, the other person's humanity is plainly observable in the variation in their response times.

Also, the main visible karma on Reddit is post karma, and r/counting is the exact opposite of where you'd go to farm post karma, given that a new post on a given chain is only made every ~1000 counts.
This sounds similar to the talk of somewhat that just got Sherlocked.

There are two ways you can go about this. Think of the iPhone release, you can be Nokia/Microsoft and stubbornly continue thinking you have first mover advantage. Or be like Google with Android, realize they have just seen the future and pivot the project in that direction.

Zuck may be taking the Nokia route.
If ten minutes of my time is worth hours of yours and you are coming to me, I must know what I'm doing and you ought to respect my concentration. You will still get your help, but respectful of my schedule. Tell me how urgently you need an answer, and I will triage it. If there is an incident, that is different.

I do believe that there is room for better tools in this area, and I'm working on it. Tools that help users solve their problems collaboratively without imposing undue burden on their coworkers.
> The new Apple gizmo looks way better for programming and work like that

Based on Apple's track record, they're going to disallow development on the Vision like they do for all iOS/iPad devices.
No need to panic the oculus is doing well and is very easy to chat and connect with friends and new people. And with the quest 3 there is complete pass through so finding a controller should be easy even though I can tell you it already is.

I’m not a Zuck fanboy but I have enjoyed the quest 2 thoroughly and plan to get the 3 when it releases.

I do think the Apple vision pro looks amazing but the second I heard the price it was laughable. Obviously I am not the target audience. I’m not sure who is to be honest.
The same was said of the iPad and Apple Watch… this may be their big miss, but based on the reviews I’ll keep betting on Apple.
71.63%, but made up of an inordinate amount of outright cheap and/or high volume/low margin shitphones that last 1-1.5 years before self-destructing under the burden of their own pre-loaded bloat and adware.

That's not business, that's a struggle for survival.