Well it sounds more scary than it realistically will be.

YouTube must pass to the player the metadata of where the ads start/end. Why? Because they need to be unskippable/unseekable/etc. If the metadata is there it is possible to force the seek 🤷‍♂️

Just matter of time

Clearly fake: LLM don’t mind citing their sources 😂

Confidentially incorrect: at Google there is no clock in and no clock out (for employees, contractors is different). At Google you can work 1h per day or 20h per day you earn the same. Performances are assessed on the output not on the hour worked.

So, no, find another reason for which Google is right. Popular topic is “they disrupt other people work by making noise” (of course people can work on a laptop in another place because there is generally no special equipment at the desk but details) or “they destroyed properties… you cannot see in the picture but they destroyed millions of precious bacteria on the floor”

Regev then told the crowd, “Part of the privilege of working in a company, which represents democratic values is giving the stage for different opinions.”

Followed by:

A Google spokesperson said the employee was fired

Do I miss any logical step or a managing director just said that Google doesn’t represent democratic values? 🤔🤔

At least in Europe, passengers jets are new because more fuel efficient at the “normal” speed. These old jets are then transformed in cargo where they go very slow so fuel efficiency goes up by other means (and the old jet is way cheaper).

This was a passenger plane so i doubt it was anywhere close to 50 years old

If you stop putting fuel in your car, the first few miles are very cheap i must say…

I hear the general sentiment against billionaire and corporations but from game theory point of view what they are doing is the rational behavior.

The problem is not them doing this, the problem is that the system (judiciary system in this case) is not neutral as it is supposed to be.

The problem, though, is that it’s short sighted. If the workers are abused less and less business opportunities there are. In other words on the short term the corporations win, on the long term everyone loses.

A single billionaire, overall, can spend less than 1000 millionaires that can spend less than 10 ppl that make 100k/y

My first not embedded OS! Actually not… It wasn’t the hipster “warp”… Boy i am old 😅

The famous Marxist customer protection

How much I would love if EU pulled a USB-C on printer ink/toner.

“All printers must be compatible with one of these X possible formats of ink/toner. Lockdown is forbidden too”

Sure the printers would be more expensive but I am sure we would see an incredible improvement in quality and decrease in ink/toner cost

And Russia. Funny how sometimes you need a small nudge from a military/strategic threat for doing the right thing 🤷

This! The point of automation is rarely saving time. The point of automation is increasing quality.

It can be a data quality, it can be mitigating a production risk, can be avoiding regression.

Heck even unit tests are automation (you may just manually test your code once and call the day).

I am not saying that automation is always good, but the evaluation should be

1. what is the cost of production/data quality/regression gone wild? (Possibly in€/$/¥)
2. what is the cost of the person/team performing the task over 1 Year (Again, £€$¥)
3. what is the expected cost of the person/team implementing automation?

Then you do (3)*3 - (1) *3 - (2). Is it positive? You do, is it negative you? You don’t. The more it’s positive the higher the priority of doing.

Why the *3? The first because the expected cost of automation is always massively underestimated The second because it takes multiple times something goes wrong till the decision is reconsidered 🙂

Why 1 year? Because generally the task to automatize changes or disappear

I am here with my popcorn to see how well this will play for those CEOs.

We are in an age in which getting to a power position is a reality show. You don’t need to know how to do anything, really. It’s enough that you have charisma and trigger emotions (possibly negative emotions, they work better)

It’s unconscionable that the government is reportedly considering cutting struggling families’ benefits to fund tax cuts

😮😮😮

Yeah… the result is that now I have WhatsApp, signal, telegram. 99% of my contacts are on WhatsApp, maybe 20% are on telegram (and a number of group chat are there) and 1% take it or leave it has signal (and no group chat).

In practice the only one I can get rid of is signal (that is also the one I would like better 🙄🙄)

The real question, in EU, is not Facebook (or even Instagram). It’s WhatsApp. Business talk with WhatsApp, family talk with WhatsApp, meet a person in a bar? Yep WhatsApp or you are the weirdo

As soon I got the banners, I uninstalled the app and switched to friendly. Not sure if I have such luxury with WhatsApp…. Maybe time to explore matrix? 🤷

Because Google is like 90% of the market.

It’s not the bidding part per se the issue, the issue is that the bidding (and possibly other effective strategies) are so successful that Google is almost a monopoly.

The illegal part is that google is a bit too successful AND it uses these not-merits based techniques 🙂

The idea is that if you really want to become almost a monopoly you should not play these games. And being a total monopoly would be illegal in any case

Self hosting is less appealing for criminals, though. Especially if the protocol is “vanilla” like ssh.

When you hack LastPass you know what you’ll find, millions of passwords. When you hack a dude ssh you have one chance over one million that there is one dude password wallet.

It doesn’t make financial sense to hack self hosting (unless it’s specific server software)

From “free speech absolutist” to “free speech extremist” 😃