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All five of the ones named, yes - in fact Zürich is the biggest engineering center outside the US. The majority of Google sites do engineering work.

I used to work in the Seattle office, but I wouldn't have had the first idea how to get anything like this changed.

That completely tracks coming from people who work in a place laid out like this : https://maps.app.goo.gl/JHQPdvSStnr6jfm77

All of this has been true ever since people started building large numbers of datacenters back in the 90s, but nobody organized protests about it until "datacenters" became a local…

instead of complaining about what's here, why not go add what you feel is missing?

I did that and more when I was trying to get my startup off the ground, but never since and never again.

I lost my desire to learn anything about web development twenty years ago and specialized my career in a completely different direction. I had not touched HTML at all since then un…

For me it is exactly the opposite. AI makes it so easy to create test fixtures and run experiments that I now spend much more time validating ideas than I could ever afford to do b…

When you have violent intruders breaking into your house through the window, it's reasonable that "these must be police officers, here to arrest me over a misunderstanding, and I s…

Of course it has organic origins: where else could the LLM have learned it?

Open source software eats the world.

Not sure how you get to "I think I am very smart" from "this guy thinks he is very smart, and his writing invariably highlights that belief to the detriment of whatever he's actual…

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That's funny - I always align the screws in the wall plates when I (re)install them, but imagined that to be an idiosyncratic bit of fastidiousness. I've never noticed anyone else …

> At the moment email's gui is horrible on all platforms without exception. This is obviously a matter of opinion. Of course there are endless different email GUIs, on all the plat…

My first digital painting program literally was MacPaint! We had the 512k Mac, not the original 128k, with the external drive, so there was just a little bit less floppy-swapping t…

The world is changing for the better, then; not so very long ago it would have been four out of four.

"That, I suspect, is why the explosion never came. The takeoff story assumed the limit was thinking" Fable 5 has been available to the public for approximately five minutes now; ho…

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> feeling I get from the author is that targeted advertising is the problem Non-targeted advertising is also a blight. If you've never visited a place where billboards are illegal,…

how are you supposed to know the book has been scribbled on if you buy it online, as you must do for the great majority of used books you might want to acquire?

Handling discomfort is a skill we must all learn, and different skills are required to manage different kinds of discomfort. Because we all vary in our degrees of sensitivity to di…

Is it really a curse? This poem takes as axiomatic the ideas that life is a race, that winning matters, that winning involves a specific destination, and that this destination is m…

I think you are making some pretty broad assumptions there. Not everyone sees the world that way.