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bistro··on Broccoli Man, Remastered
And the ensuing throwing out forks protest?
bistro··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
Is this the actual article? It looks like some live twitter-style thread with a bunch a random updates.
bistro··on Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?
I wish there would be some way to implement sponsorblock for podcasts.
bistro··on Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use
> I get too many of those those “Hi Joe” pings without any content.

It's not Google's fault your coworkers suck at chatting.

bistro··on Ask HN: Are there any good “Caller ID” apps for iPhone out there?
That's one of the main thing I miss since switching to an iPhone. On a Pixel, there's almost always some company name displayed when I get a call from an unknown number. I'm guessing it's based on Google looking up the phone number.
bistro··on What's the most efficient language?
Comparing the fr to the fr_CA texts though, the Canadian one is wordier for no good reason. E.g., "nous nous efforçons de les protéger, tout en vous permettant d'en garder le contrôle." vs "nous faisons tout notre possible pour protéger vos renseignements et pour vous permettre de les gérer."
bistro··on Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?
> A glass condo copy and pasted in CAD software and then rotated to fit a plot of land without consideration for anything...

There's a similar issue in new suburban neighbourhood, where the same floor plan is copied and pasted down a whole street, yet the house on the corner lot lacks windows on wall facing the perpendicular street... It's so disheartening to see.

bistro··on Why are German numbers backwards?
More precisely, French (cent soixante quinze) is actually: hundred sixty fifteen. Seventies, eighties (quatre-vingt = four twenties), and nineties (quatre-vingt-dix = four twenties and ten) are a mess in most French dialects.
bistro··on Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them
I don't know. I suspect most software is actually internal or proprietary. I don't think that developpers working on some custom widgets factory optimization software actually use it to optimize their mini-factory at home. Or that many developers run their own telecom on the side and need all kinds of software to route calls. Same is probably true of FAANG developpers too: how many adwords engineers actually run their own advertising campaign? Or have a personal need to store massive amounts of data in their own bigtable?
bistro··on Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them
Isn't that most software?
bistro··on Why Restaurants Are So Fucked
Not a huge difference, but it's actually 11 CAD, so closer to 7 EUR.
bistro··on Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals
Because everyone gets the flu shot in EU, or because nobody cares?
bistro··on Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.
What happened with that chunk of land in Lake Michigan that appeared out of nowhere on the new map?
bistro··on Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8
So, all of them?
bistro··on How Restaurants Got So Loud
Come to Seattle. Dogs freaking everywhere. And an unusually high number of restaurants that don't allow children.
bistro··on Seattle once again nation’s fastest-growing big city; population exceeds 700,000
I'm curious which neighborhoods this is happening in. All I see over in Ballard is single family homes being replaced by either multiple townhomes, or low-density multi-family.
bistro··on My Google job was tedious and pointless
Wouldn't working as a recruiter be tedious at any company?
bistro··on Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
Google's motto was never "do no evil". Previously, it was "don't be evil".
bistro··on Why Silicon Valley Works
Uber already does: http://blog.uber.com/uberfamilyfaq