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RavlaAlvaron Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush

At least the big purifier is categorically better than competition

RavlaAlvaron Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

So… Amazon?

RavlaAlvaron AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review

I wonder by that logic, can AI generated art violate other’s copyright?

RavlaAlvaron I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)

How come housing in red state cities are so much more affordable?

RavlaAlvaron The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster

What are you talking about, they added a chat bot on amazon.com

RavlaAlvaron DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

The improved efficiency of steam engines in the past did not reduce coal consumption; instead, it enabled people to accomplish more work with the same resource.

RavlaAlvaron Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/comments/1hhips1/amazon_te...

Interesting to see discussion on Reddit from r/AmazonFC are pretty negative , wonder if these are genuine employees comment for PR team hired by Amazon

RavlaAlvaron Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo

It is unbelievably expensive though, a 40 minute ride from Osaka city to KIX airport could cost you 30k yen.

RavlaAlvaron Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences

How is objectivity possible? Your writing and the reader’s interpretation of it are entirely dependent on individual sensory input and mental models, which are influenced by cultural differences in upbringing and other environmental sociological factors.

The writing inevitably leans towards “objectivity” in your worldview.

RavlaAlvaron Kagi Teams

I was trying to search the shooting of the united CEO one hour after it happened, and it didn’t show me anything about this news or discussion.

RavlaAlvaron Kagi Teams

Thanks, just found it

RavlaAlvaron Kagi Teams

I just moved to Kagi last month. Here’s my experience:

Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google. I realise how much I missed the shopping search of Google. Google map is still irreplaceable. Google search has better UX, I particularly missed the favicon that identified the site next to URL.

Image search is also way inferior

RavlaAlvaron The tech utopia fantasy is over

By that definition, communist are also fascist?

RavlaAlvaron Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions

I always don’t understand this argument? By this logic, should every companies publicise their trade secrets and redact all the copyright and patents to maintain a dominant market position?

RavlaAlvaron Why pay for a search engine

I would guess just the incentive for any website to become top of the search results would likely create the outcome of today’s SEO landscape.

RavlaAlvaron Why pay for a search engine

How would you define “SEO garbage”. Who has the power to decide what belongs in the list.

RavlaAlvaron Why pay for a search engine

I agree with your assessment that maybe this is an inevitable outcome of one big dominant search engine.

But I would argue one big search engine is unavoidable since no one would want to use the second best search engine.

Google search didn’t come the best because the other service like mail map and YouTube. So breaking up Google does nothing to stop google search from being the monopoly it is today.

RavlaAlvaron Why pay for a search engine

Let say government nationalise google search or force to make it a non profit 15 years ago. How would that prevent SEO from happening? Isn’t SEO an inevitable outcome of website trying compete for attention? How would anyone prevent it from happening?

RavlaAlvaron Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients run thin

You are saying a socialist country can’t survive without trading with countries on capitalist market?

RavlaAlvaron Cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

This is exploitative because the surplus value produced by the workers exceeds what they are paid.

RavlaAlvaron Stanford will once again require standardized tests for undergraduate admission

Is this the leftist version of American exceptionalism? I often find myself baffled by the claim that something common in most of the word like standardised testing as “white” or “racist”.

RavlaAlvaron How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?

This what I don’t get about EV

If you live in suburban and commuting to downtown for work, large part of the driving would be high way. Having hybrid makes way more sense in this scenario.

If you live in downtown, you probably don’t need a car or you are parking in a underground parking lot that does not guarantee you a charging plspot

RavlaAlvaron America’s largest tool company couldn’t make a wrench in America

Why are American workers not willing to be packed into a 8 people dormitory and works 12 hours a day for $1000 a month?

RavlaAlvaron Canada Woos American H-1B Visa Holders Fed Up with U.S. Immigration System

1. The are plethora of examples online people holding TN work as a SDE with a CS degree 2. I believe you can file to change intent 90 days after entry

RavlaAlvaron California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working

Sure. Common Chinese factory workers live in 6-12 people dormitory. Homeless people get evicted from the capital city. Major city have rule in place to prevent non local people buying property, Let’s do that.

RavlaAlvaron The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet

There is the Chinese saying of 刑不可知，则威不可测。

RavlaAlvaron What would make AWS even better

Everyone complains about the 15 minutes problem on lambda, but am I the only that have a problem with the 250MB deployment size limit?

RavlaAlvaron China’s SMIC Is Shipping 7nm Foundry ASICs

high end chip “manufacturing” pretty much were monopolised by TSMC which is a Taiwan company, Samsung didn’t come close as second.

RavlaAlvaron Eigen: A C++ template library for linear algebra

I can’t stress enough how this library is a saving grace. It would be incredibly difficult to port my python prototype code with numpy to C++ production without using Eigen.

RavlaAlvaron Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize

A good news for anyone work inAmazon robotics branch, I guess?