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America aggressively trying to question Canadian sovereignty makes Canada the fareweather friend..... Got it.

With friend like these who needs enemies.

The American ignorance on this site is really starting to drive me away.

Ahh yes, America uses tarrifs to force a new trade agreement and then says that trade agreement is bad.

The US just isn't planning things anymore and trying to justify it makes people look silly.

Great succinct little article!

I think it is a good summary of current AI.

* Pretty mind blowing what it can do.

* Very short of what people care about which is complex feature complete software.

I can imagine the horror of trying to apply this to a full blown netcode multiplayer unity project with many scenes 100s of scripts. Complex ordering etc.

But the fact it can setup something like this at all is very cool.

As an interviewer at Google, we arent given an exact list of questions to ask or what to evaluate (there are broad categories).

It is really entirely up to each interviewer how the interview goes and they are usually scheduled between 2 other meetings so often the interviewer is distracted.

Very strange system imo, lots of randomness

This is just handing over a dominant market to another company that has already been sued for anti competitive practices in the exact same space.

Make it make sense

Quick answer it won't be. Google will be barred from paying to be default.

Brave is built on chromium and thus is being subsidized by Google https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

I think they used to have their own engine but like everyone else found it unprofitable to maintain.

Then a year later Microsoft will be sued for anti competitive practices involving edge.

If we just keep selling the browser market to the next trillion dollar company that's not going to fix anything

If I remember my history Microsoft was never actually forced to stop integrating IE in their product.

The only reason it stopped being the #1 browser is that Chrome came out and was better...

Even though people had to go out of their way to download on all computers

Agree with another comment that I absolutely do not want the US government running chrome at this point.

Maybeee the EU but we are talking about an American ruling.

(Googler opinions are my own, don't work on chrome)

Chrome has just been a better product for the last 10 to 15 years.

Every other company has just failed to make a good browser because they lack the incentives to do so (have gone back and forth as a Firefox user).

The only competitive browsers are those already built on chrome or safari.

I'm not personally a big fan of Safari but it's bigger issue is that it is only available on one platform whereas the web is naturally cross platform.

Almost by definition Safari can't be the "winning" browser.

This feels like ruling that the iPhone is a monopoly in the US and that Apple needs to divest from phones.

Edit: to those replying I 100% don't agree with all the decisions chrome make, very importantly ad block.

But just survey the actual browser market in the last 10 years to understand Chrome's dominance

On the developer side I've always found Safari messy to support with out of date APIs

Feels like Apple doesn't really care about it

I'm not deep in the LLM space but would be nice to first know what MCPs are and what they offer.

Not sure how this is setting Canada back.

It's actually pushing us to improve our economic policies that we've been debating about for years because the country is mostly united.

Getting rid of interprovincial trade barriers is a net good for Canada as is increasing trade diversification.

The US definitely seems like the one set back so far...

I think we have reached a terminus. But I do want to say I appreciate your respectful and straightforward messaging.

What I've described above isn't a theoretical problem, it is an actual occurring issue that has happened time after time.

I don't want to say it's "privileged" but I think you are personally down playing the difficulty these issues raised on specific groups.

If you read the Wikipedia article you will see that minority groups are significantly less likely to have up to date state IDs.

And respectfully anyone without a permanent address can also have a very hard time getting ID.

That point I'm making is that people in these groups will still vote for policies that directly negatively impact their ability to participate in democracy. Not a strawman argument, based on actual voter data.

It could be a part of the larger problem that a decreasing percentage of Americans are even voting at all.

In this case I mean the people adversely affected by the above policies can still find themselves voting for them.

The voterID one for example, people who can vote one election that have otherwise out of date ID will find themselves unable to vote in the next election.

VoterID can be especially tricky in the US due to not having a Nation ID or a federally run election see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Uni... for a good summary.

I would imagine a pretty "rational" perspective would be to be in favor of policies that allow you to vote again in the future (just in general).

Beyond economic self-interest, maybe particularly in the USA it is possible to vote for people who can actively undermine your vote in the future.

Pretty long history in the US of gerrymandering, ID voter laws and reducing voting stations that pretty directly limit people's ability to vote.

I think anger just blocks rational thought.

There is no more appeal to logic left with these folks unfortunately. Trump says bad and they jump.

It's cool to be proud of your work but the AI vocals on Vultures 2 is the lowest point of Kanye's entire musical career...

@dang hosting this type of content makes this place feel more like 4chan than anything else...

Your use of the phrase "governor Trudeau" invalidate you in all further discussions involving Canada.

The US is 100% the biggest existential threat to Canada purely based on Geography and adminstration.

The American people really need to do something about their current adminstration if they want to maintain a positive relationship with Canada

Trump said Canada is stealing from him by honouring a trade agreement that he negotiated.

America is a clown state.

It's really a tradeoff.

Keep up with platform updates or constantly deal with the afformentioned crawlers and hugs of death.

I've never really thought of this as a strong benefit before but this seems like a good argument for app development in 2025.

Started my career as a web developer and always have a soft spot for it but from a hobby developer standpoint hosting and deploying a site feels like an uphill battle with little upside.

Theres a lot to not like about app development but after you get approval for your app it's pretty hands off.

Heck on android you can just distribute the raw APK on a Google drive. Or just keep the app locally for yourself.

I probably have about 20 self made apps on my phone and they each give me a bit of happiness.

It is odd to me that Sergey himself no longer understands his own company.

(Googler, opinions are my own).

Google is massively international at this point. Especially on the research side.

If you want to collaborate to do things you have to spend a lot of the day in online meetings. Doing this in office honestly just slows things down.

I don't mind a few days in office because Google has really nice offices but it certainly doesn't increase productivity.

The early days of Quora was incredibly high quality content from experts in all sorts of fields.

Was probably my favorite website, then they decided to start paying people for questions / answers and it all went to shit so incredibly quickly. The site today is completely unrecognizable from it's origins, really sad.

Look if they want us to work 60 hours a week pay us at least 1.5x as much.

But since over 40 hours is overtime, make it more like pay us 2x as much.

I'm sure some people would consider it then.

But until then stop asking for free work in return for nothing

I feel like I'm currently experiencing failing upwards.

I had a kid recently and have been putting less into my work, mostly just pushing back on asks and delegating because I don't have time.

All of a sudden I have senior management potential haha.

Feels like I'm living in the movie office space

There is a bit of irony in this comment since many of the original Skype engineers are now seniors managers at Google still working on communication (they left MS a long time ago).

Google has many issues but I don't think technical competence is one of them.