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I know I will never live to see a site like this that documents all of the innards of airports. Airport layouts are my special interest.

It may be my autism, but as a kid, I was always fascinated by infrastructure, particularly power lines. My dad once drove me down an Edison Road up to the top of a mountain just to…

My dad and I spent so many days in that place. The Burbank one wasn’t my favorite. My favorite was the Alice in Wonderland theme in Woodland Hills. Also liked the tropical theme in…

If I have a lot of time, I will mountain bike. If I have a short amount of time, I will do some gardening. It's very relaxing and rewarding in a simple kind of way.

It really wasn't that big of a deal. The "hurricane" was full of hype, and a lot of people, experts included, are going to look like fools tomorrow.

The article on TWA 800 was excellent, especially for those that don't know much about what happened. I've read the accident report, a few books, and even some of the conspiracy the…

I currently work at Google (though my time will be ending soon due to this shit show) and everything you said couldn’t be farther from the truth at least for me. I want to make sur…

Googler here, opinion my own. In some sense, it's PR, but not in the typical gimmicky way. Alphabet has had DeepMind for a while, and at this point with all of the competition in A…

I am in my late 30s. I feel like after the pandemic I started visually aging. Part of the problem was that I lost a lot of weight at the same time, so I do actually look a bit diff…

Nah, it's still like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. You have people turning into blueberries with unknown fate, kids getting stuck in pipes with no way out and now 12,000 going d…

>> it's much harder to cram ads into a chat conversation. Oh, I don't see that being a problem at all. "Tell me about the features of modern digital cameras." Chat bot: "Here's a b…

The amount of overhead there is, on top of teaching and preparing materials is exorbitant. Managing TAs can be difficult as they are students and are still developing their technic…

I am also a Unit 18 lecturer in a computer science program. What Fox writes is true. The Unit 18 arrangement is weird. I do it because I am technically temporary and only teach onc…

At Google, not only are many still worried about COVID, but we just finished the complete shitshow known as Perf, there is war in Ukraine, so they thought this was a brilliant time…

Current Googler. Everything you say is correct.

Bingo.

Great equipment? I had to wait several months to get a modern computer since my previous 3 year old computer broke. I was stuck on a Chromebook that couldn't even process email. So…

Top down entirely. It's based entirely on propaganda that Google has the best perks and that serendipitous hallway conversations lead to innovation. Zero evidence that that is the …

I think other companies will emerge as leaders with more progressive flexible policies. It just makes sense for that to happen. Don't be so quick to assume others will follow Googl…

Cue the mass exodus! Backwards policy that is even worse than it was before (where managers could let people work on their own schedule, as an agreement between the manager and the…

I like the Linux nativeness. We used System76 at a startup I worked at several years ago. Out of the three systems we purchased, 2 had major problems. One had a problem with the gr…

Working at a startup using those technologies would probably help more. It also depends on your motivation for the certificate. If it's to get a broader or deeper understanding of …

I am going to assume you will be taking classes for a while. Most of my advice is in regards to the dissertation. This one is common sense, but I violated it. Pick an advisor that …

I know I am not the only guy that has done this... repeatedly... right?