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The EU lacks the power to do that kind of enforcement. It surprisingly quickly turns into a military and hard power question, which the EU lacks considering it’s the GDP of all these evil tech companies that’s paying for their national security and health care.

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2023/07/03/defence...

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/529049-america-is-sub...

Apple Vision Pro (assuming you were genuinely asking).

> because most IVF clinics will implant two embryos at a time

This is very country dependent and is actually changing quite rapidly.

I believe these days in the USA standard of care is single embryo transfer. It’s well known that twins are a much higher risk pregnancy:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846681/

FWIW when my wife and I went through the IVF process our provider (RMA, who are basically a large US-wide franchise) informed us that multiple embryo transfer was not an option offered by their clinic (not that we would have chosen it, but point is it wasn’t presented as a choice).

cgroups was built by Google

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups

Kagi is not profitable.

Back in 2022 they had this blog post on their economics: https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#finan...

Their target was to break even around 25K paying customers. Would be interesting to hear if that is still the goal and where they currently stand but TFA doesn’t cover that topic.

> with any [E]ndeavour

I see what you did there.

> I can't imagine attack techniques have improved and Google's internal technical staff have regressed so substantially

I can definitely imagine, and I in fact believe, both of those things to be true.

> For starters, hotspot wasn't even a part of the JVM at that point.

HotSpot had been part of the JVM for five years at that point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot_(virtual_machine)

> Every time it happens, I wonder, who benefits from it

Cloudflare. And any other DDoS protection vendors.

Not saying they caused it but obviously they benefit the same way roof tile manufacturers benefit from hurricanes.

Meanwhile in the real world we often find new deposits of gold, and if we ever make it to space presumably we’ll find a whole lot more of it (perhaps infinite amounts).

I paid Apple ~$80 to replace my Series 5 battery… they actually just exchange it with another device. I thought it was worth it and happy to keep using it until I can no longer get the latest watchOS.

I didn’t pull any stats but I’ve been working at Google for most of the last 10 years (in two stints).

And actually I think even 10K is a very generous upper bound, really if I were betting money I’d peg it at like maybe 2000 engineers that use golang as their primary language and a big chunk of those are SWE-SRE?

There's just _way_ more Java and C++ than there is golang…

Your experience doesn’t invalidate the likeliness part of the parent comment.

You just happen to be in the subset / cluster / areas that write in golang. Probabilistically speaking across the entire Google engineering population both you and the teams around you are outliers. That doesn’t mean golang is insignificant.

As to whether golang was worth it I disagree with the parent, I think it was probably worth the resources invested, even if e.g. usage has leveled off internally, but at any rate this is a hard thing to measure so we’re all just opining.

You might be, but as the parent said, it’s not likely. I think that’s a fair statement, out of 100K engineers or whatever it is, I’d estimate less than 10K of them are writing primarily golang code.

FYI your resume docs link seems to be broken.

Still kinda broken and buggy.

Firefox on iOS randomly changes the order of new bookmarks, adding new ones to either the top or the bottom of the list. I assume they're assuming ordering in some underlying platform data structure that doesn't support it?

EDIT: I guess it was this, though I think it's been broken again more recently? https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/11895

At any rate I've found Firefox on iOS/iPadOS to be surprisingly buggy.. tabs hang and need to be closed, not all bookmarks are synced and/or the ordering changing per above, showing sponsored ads in the new tab shortcuts list and needing a force-close until they go away after being disabled, etc. etc.

What does this mean? The App Store fees are paid by the developers / vendors. Are you saying they should pay less proportionate to the number of times their apps are downloaded to older devices?

> It was picked because it was the right tool for the job.

I think in a lot of cases only the more general form of this statement is true, i.e.:

- it is a tool

- it was picked

- there was a job

Yes we all remember the Bill Gates hovering over Jobs event and the investment announcement and confirmation of Office for OS X. I think what the parent was referring to though is performance of macOS Office was trash until like Office 2016 or maybe Office 2019 (with multiple earlier hiccups along the way e.g. the delay on the x86 port etc.).

That’s “how are they funded”, whereas I think the poster’s question of “how are they making money” is more about “what’s the business / profit model”?

I live near it now and can highly recommend a visit.

I’m still surprised how many New Yorkers are unaware of this half of the Gateway area and the summer accessibility via the ferry.. though of course it’s plenty popular nonetheless.

You never hear about it because it’s mostly dead.

Would love to hear a counter argument or evidence otherwise but my impression is there are very few successful openstack deployments out there and mostly it just is useful to provide some negotiating leverage when talking to your VMware rep.

~Chrome was an acquisition.~ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome (Edit: I misremembered / misstated, this is incorrect.)

Kubernetes, TensorFlow, and Spanner were not.

And it’s entirely plausible they make enough money from that to buy the next VMware in another decade or so to repeat the cycle. Sustainable bottom feeding as a strategy.

> how the crypto side of it is bad in comparison to other uses of blockchains

It sucks and the other uses also suck.

> They weren’t getting equity at Microsoft

This is wrong.

The Levine newsletter explains this very explicitly.

They have no authority on paper. They have plenty of authority in practice by virtue of exercising their power/leverage inherent in OpenAI’s dependence on them for compute resources.

The word enshittified has officially been enshittified.

> Altman… regretted not spending more time managing [the board’s] various factions

Wild that there can be various factions with apparently only three relevant people (yes I know 3 choose 2 is three, but c’Mon…).