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They did it again in 2024 and then switched to continuous drip of small "layoffs" and encouraging attrition. They have tried various layoff flavors: random, strategic, political, v…

Who remembers Dr. Sbaitso, the tts eliza derivative and forerunner of chatgpt?

YouTube Kids is also full of garbage. The bar to get content into YouTube Kids is substantially higher than YouTube but still the average video's educational quality is abysmal. Th…

The Assistant can't reliably set timers either, though I guess 80% is considerably better than 0. Still, I think it used to be better back before Google caught a glimpse of a diffe…

For comparison, about 13% of water in US is allocated to "human consumption" with the rest for ag and mfg [ https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci... ].

Your numbers are way off [ https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Stanford-Health-Care/salaries/Reg... ]

Yes, but it requires landlord cooperation.

A lot of people lately are complaining about a lack of price stability, it seems like a good angle. Also as an SF resident with no realistic alternative to Comcast cable, I'd appre…

IDK this is my experience over the past few years with 10+ appointments with two specialists and three PCPs in the SFBA; my understanding is that it is typical in this area and bec…

The waiting is similar in the U.S., only the cost is wildly different. Actually, it sounds like you can see a family doctor the same day in Germany? That would make it better in Ge…

The DOJ has renounced the consumer welfare standard [ https://prospect.org/justice/2024-08-09-will-googles-monopol... ].

If you think careless/bold Harvard students are road hazards, wait until you meet the psychotic addicts of the Tenderloin.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/02/17/more-than-money-anti... addresses the consumer welfare standard that guided the FTC for 40 years and the recent (~2 years) shift away from t…

I was on dev teams inside industrial-age companies before I went to FANG, and I saw it go both ways. In one company, the hourly customer service folks who sat adjacent to our patch…

Now that AI means LLM specifically I guess you are right, but if you'd told me 20 years ago that we'd have cars driving themselves around major cities by now, I'd have been pretty …

Interesting that investors don't care at all about the Waymo progress, judging by the q&a. Though, Tesla is definitely an AI market leader!

The complaint is not that Google is too efficient. It is that Google is achieving apparent improvements in efficiency by taking steps that improve the short-term metrics and have n…

We have abundant fog and seasonal rain in SF, but not much hail or snow. That's why they've done winter testing in Tahoe (since 2017) and Buffalo NY (last winter).

It is a reduction in per-kwh rates coupled to the introduction of a universal flat fee. You can see in the graph in the article, for PGE and SoCal Edison it shifts the burden from …

Advertisers don't always insist on seeing evidence of genuine ROI but online advertising is more measurable than most other forms of ads and when the ROI slips a lot of ads custome…

It's the same in San Francisco, where we support returns to investors in residential real estate by banning new development since the 1960s and therefore doctor salaries don't affo…

It is common in economics

This doesn't sound like a Big Tech problem. This is a problem of mismatch between your current role and your interests. If your big tech company has an easy transfers policy + cult…

I sometimes query this to help me recall details from years ago, so I'm sad that the encroachment of very broad government surveillance and the rise to power of extremist politicia…