MrSqueezles

AVIF's support for non-photographic images is covered in the article. It supports lossless.

"Hey AI, tell me what manufactured phone components require permitting in California." ... Copy paste copy paste copy paste

I can think of multiple manufacturers that do all engineering and have recently built manufacturing facilities in California and would manufacture there at scale too except other states gave them massive tax incentives. Tesla and Rivian both do initial manufacturing in California. Startups like Freeform, doing metal 3D printing at scale, are in California. This article is wrong.

Yes. This is correlation, not causation. He has been focused on diversification away from ads and hasn't been performing especially well.

His pay is likely set years in advance, based on performance metrics. Sundar is riding the ads wave to huge payouts in spite of his massive failures, Google Plus, Stadia, devices, especially ChromeOS tablets, mismanaging Cloud, and on, and on...

Emotional investors moving hundreds of billions of dollars create self-fulfilling prophecies. It absolutely is how recessions work.

"I'm so pissy because the US Fed isn't giving away free money anymore. I'm moving to cash and will shower money on any company that does layoffs."

Yeah, it works.

His responses show he doesn't have any understanding of what he's doing to people and their families. If humans were robots who didn't need shelter, food, and care, okay I guess. I may get laid off. If so, I'll go to sleep until I'm needed again. That's not how people work. Nobody wants a job with a constant threat of being laid off during the absolute worst economic times, when finding a job is hard and if you're honest with potential employers about being laid off, you'll have an automatic negative stigma attached to you.

If staff reductions are necessary, there are ways to do them within a reasonable amount of time without seriously hurting people and traumatizing everyone who's left at the company. Layoffs are bad for morale, bad for business.

Or you could look at employees like sheep or cattle to be herded and culled when it suits and when asked for justification, make completely tone deaf answers that show no compassion for the human costs of your actions, the actual points of the questions. See if your best people are still loyal and decide to stick around.

Yeah, 4 is key. Many privacy regulations stipulate that account data must be deleted within a certain period of time, usually days or less, after a requested account deletion. In this system, all recorded requests would have to be discoverable by the requestor's ID and production systems would have to remember to perform deletions when necessary. Also, this database and all related testing systems would have to be held to production level standards for data access because anyone who can see test data to root cause errors can see people's and business' real, private information. Especially for data controlled and regulated industries like government and health care, this would be a nightmare.

It's a neat idea. These kinds of systems often require lots of care and grooming. Since it's used to retroactively test features after they're in production, there's a repeating process of discovering we're saving data we shouldn't, scrubbing, filtering, anonymization, etc. In most cases, I've watched them eventually get replaced by fuzzers. Still, having a central service used by lots of companies may allow this solution to scale up, develop necessary features to solve these problems and function well. I hope it works out!

What are you talking about? Egg producers reported that avian flu affected supply, so they made employees wear, "hair nets ... changed several times per day"?

Watch the movie The Informant. It's a true story and we only know it happened because one guy was trying not to go to jail. What's happening now is nothing new.

Education has always done a terrible job of keeping up with technology. Kids in school now will graduate into a world in which all information will be instantly available and will be presented in whatever format is most suitable. They'll have computers correcting their grammar, improving their ideas, completing their sentences and paragraphs. Instead of learning those technologies themselves and instructing students how to best utilize them, teachers tell kids, "that's cheating". When you graduate and get your first job, your boss isn't going to take away your books, phone, and laptop, and ask you to write a report about a well understood subject. I understand why that's a common practice in education. Maybe it's time to change.

I was laid off from Google. I keep seeing posts from people who, I have to assume, just figured out how the world works and want to teach us. Guys, seriously, who didn't already know this?

Some companies stay lean, plan for difficult times. Others spend like crazy in good times and cut back in bad. Google always prided itself on being small and scrappy. That changed under Sundar, the current CEO. They started hiring a ton and now they're cutting back. The CEO still hasn't come to terms with the fact that he fucked up. He made comments in leaked meetings like, "Just imagine if we continued to grow and didn't have all of those extra people. Where would we have been?" Dude, you would have been fine. You don't grow a business by sticking more people in it. This is how accountants think about business, not leaders.

Yeah, I don't know whether I believe they actually found 18,000 people and somehow sorted them accurately into high and low performers.

I've worked with people who don't like teamwork because they're afraid of being discovered as not knowing what they're doing and others who can't compromise on literally anything, so claim they're the smartest and best and nobody can keep up. All have in common that in the long term, the things they build are unmaintainable Jenga towers nobody else understands. The rest of the team used 5 people's input to build robust systems. The silo workers just had themselves. It shouldn't be surprising that even with design and code reviews, what they create isn't as good.

They also have in common that they love to be called "lone wolves" because it makes them sound cool. I'm about 99% sure this article was written by one.

Pretty sure this comment is related to that recorded teleconference Elon joined to let everyone know that if you dox, even if you tweet about someone else doxxing and link to them, you're banned.

> Las Vegas and Chicago rely on tourism taxes to help pay off these municipal bond commitments

I didn't have any idea that's what those taxes were for. What percent of hotel guests chose to visit those cities to see sports games?

That one IHOP next to it shut down and nearby businesses have become huge targets for car break-ins on game days, so we can't say it hasn't brought anything to the community.

Yeah, the idea sounds like a black-or-white fallacy. The choice isn't, "calculus or nothing". There may be things we could teach that would be equally important that people would be more likely to use.

This article was the first I read that describes the new system. It appears designed to benefit Etherium banks. The more you hold, the more you get.

> Miners are replaced by validators – people who “stake” at least 32 ETH by sending them to an address on the Ethereum network where they cannot be bought or sold. These staked ETH tokens act like lottery tickets: The more ETH a validator stakes, the more likely one of its tickets will be drawn, granting it the ability to write a “block” of transactions to Ethereum's digital ledger.

Yes. The advice is contextual. If you're making a public web framework, probably don't call it Web Framework. If you work at a company and you're writing the one and only hotel booking service, do call it Hotels instead of forcing your coworkers to memorize yet another cute name.