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It was Uber in it's early days. I recall a blog post from their chief marketing officer(?) at the time.

The gist of it was - they accidentally disabled digital advertising for a few months and found that disabling it had no effect on the metrics they were tracking.

It was Turnbull government that did the deal with France; since then the Liberal party has had a change of leadership and there has been a national election.

You are conflating actions of different governments over decades into one singular action.

The world has changed a lot and if the government of the day feels it needs to alter a $90 billion purchase (which was initially $40 billion by the way before cost overruns) to better protect their citizens then it is their right as elected officials.

Also don't focus on the PR sideshow of the submarines, this is about the alliance itself.

Hah a feature like this would make iPhone 13 persona non grata for many governments around the world.

That looks amazing. Did you have fun building it? What's your tech stack?

I think you are on to something.. Such a language could perhaps even have a formal specification? Like a syntax and schematics?

Distributed systems that, more or less, are only really needed to run similar social networks as Facebook or Google?

That’s like saying the Cook maybe fat and morbidly obese but look at how efficiently he consumes such a large number of calories every day.

Perhaps the tens of millions of dollars in annual income driven by television broadcasting and advertising sales is also a large part of their reality and motivation, no?

>Ratings for sporting events are down dramatically

I think maybe some of the kneeling and other political / social virtue signalling by sporting codes are having an effect too.

I know I am fed up. The same ideology is broadcast at work, on the news, on art/film/theatre/books, social media and now sports. I feel like the protagonist in "A Clockwork Orange" with my eyelids stapled open and being force fed a mind virus.

I am in a similar situation at my work; can you give me some pointers on how I might able to validate the same premise at my company? TIA

I can sympathise with the men in this story. I have sat in on meetings where HR was telling Engineering that tech skills and experience did not matter; only the sex and race of the hired candidate.

How did HR get so much power? Most of them are barely out of University and at least at my org are a homogenous group of white women.

Absolutely untrue. My M1 Air does not skip a beat at all even under sustained load. Barely gets warm.

> code reviews code reviews code reviews

So basically shift the cognitive burden on to your coworkers? And what if they are also using copilot hoping that you will sanity check it’s output for them? Tit for tat prisoner’s dilemma and no one even realises they are playing the game..

What resources are you using for the first two?

Individuals are trustworthy or not.

Companies, especially companies in a state of massive flux like a fast growing startup, have no fixed traits like trustworthiness. It depends on the leadership team at the moment, pressures from external stakeholders, how bonuses and other incentive structures are designed.

I can tell you from personal experience that you can start out with the best intentions but sooner or later the power dynamics will change and then suddenly "Don't be evil" is just a joke meme.

Haha my thoughts exactly..

Until Notion starts encrypting my data end-to-end it is just non-viable. The temptation is too great if the data is just sitting there on their infra to start poking around and gain "customer insights" and "add value".

I can't stand the amount of empty whitespace in the Windows 10 UI. I find it so offensive.

I hope they are heading in a new aesthetic direction with Windows 11.

Sounds like an interesting read. Link please.

> For my part, I enjoy modal editors so I think vim is better than emacs and I like the GPL over BSD.

Calm down, Satan

How is this any different to clocking in manually at your workplace? A lot of companies ask their employees to clock in and out at a terminal when they enter the office. For roster adherence and for payroll.

The article clearly states it only starts tracking when the employee enters a specific geo-fence. In a Covid world with remote collaboration between teams something like this sounds perfectly reasonable.

How else would a company know for certain that the employee who was supposed to clean a client premise actually went there?

I’m going through the same dance at my company. Could you post the arguments that you made against GTM? It would help a lot. Thanks

It will be only tracking and surveillance data that the TV uploads to the mothership. It's not like they will let you stream YouTube, Netflix or Prime on their inbuilt 5G connection.

So the cost will be minimal and further reduced by the bulk volume that the manufacturer would purchase from the telco. Like how Amazon Kindle comes with a free 3G connection to download your books and upload your reading habits.

Where can I read more about this?

Well then it becomes a question of attribution. How do you with a finite amount of dollars to spend on advertising know if you are getting your money's worth when you cannot connect a dollar spent on ad with incoming revenue?

Sure in broad strokes you are probably right that brand awareness has ROI positive in the long term. But then why would you buy targeted advertising vs a giant billboard on the main road?

I have had the same feeling too during a power nap. It feels like a reboot to me. Perceptually when I wake up I panic thinking it must have been hours then I look at the watch and only 10 minutes have passed.

Hmmm this is interesting. I wonder if people that cannot sleep more than 4-5 hours per night also have very vivid dreams? And therefore the brain cleaning REM cycle is just more intense and prolonged so the mind-body decides it does not need to sleep any longer?

Jesus F Christ mate... take it easy. You sound like you have been personally attacked. Gathering up the mob and sharpening your pitchfork to tear down someone else's work is easy.

Why don't you start with opening an issue on their Github first? And maybe contribute the code yourself since you feel so strongly about it.

You don't know me and there is no way you infer that about me from the 3-4 online message exchanges we have had in this thread.

And then you seem to go all in and level the same baseless accusation about everyone(?) on this planet. That is pretty egotistical don't you think? Perhaps you should try for some humility and perspective before you start demanding that everyone should switch to your values and distorted ethics.

The meme that springs to mind is Cartman screaming "RESPECT MAH AUTHORITIE"

The problem with Windows RT was the gimped API. If Microsoft had used that opportunity to completely do away with their "backwards compatibility is sacrosanct" ethos and exposed an equally capable API then app developers would have flocked to it.

I remember being at a product design meeting when Windows RT was about to be released and every feature that we wanted to bring over from our flagship x86 software, our tech lead kept repeatedly saying "no we can't do that. The API does not allow it". Finally we said fk it, let's come back to this in a year or two after Microsoft gets their act together. And we never did.