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Does anyone miss Meatless Mondays?

SuperCruise and BlueCruise are technology names from GM and Ford for assisted driving in their car products, and not synonomous with Cruise the company providing ride share service…

Too big to burn

Yep... Along with this Verification aligns with a specification. E.g. verify if what was implemented matches what was specified. Validation aligns with a requirement. E.g. verify i…

Understand what your boss's boss cares about and make sure your work can described in relation to those goals or concerns.

You can use nvidia-smi to set a target maximum power draw and performance mode to bring idle power levels down. Also make sure your computer is using the server/headless mode drive…

Google and Meta/Facebook have generally aligned and numerically equivalent levels for the main Software Engineer and Engineering Manager ladders.

Adding a correction on above -> L7 is Senior Staff Engineering Manager (M2) L6 is Staff Engineering Manager (M1) they are of equal level to the SWE ladder L6 and L7 titles

It's been a few years, but from what I recall, a Principal is a Director-equivalent (L8) level. The prior poster is missing the L7 tier, which is Senior Staff Engineering Manager f…

Adding some additional context on most of the above: Yes, as commissioned US military officers they become subject to UCMJ. USDS and DDS employees are/were civilian federal employe…

Sometimes you have to go with the least dirty shirt in the hamper

Concur. This is part of why Suite A ciphers (algorithms) exist, and the second component includes robust key management practices are so important (this includes hardening of devic…

"Zonal" relates to the concept of "availability zones" which are the next-smallest unit below a (physical) "region." Most instances of a cloud ___ created in a region are allocated…

Perfect for saline solution, right?

Technically correct is the best kind of correct. Symbolically, in this context, they were seen as diamonds in the sky, aka stars :)

I don't know much about his family life, but it's very plausible that he spent more time working during his lifetime than with his family, and this is a good take. Considering the …

JH Han came from Samsung's Visual Display (tvs, smart tvs) business unit which is part of Samsungs larger consumer electronics business which includes things such as home appliance…

The company name of "Samsung" originates from the founder's admiration of Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, known as "keiretsu" and their place in its economy; he hoped that h…

1) This appears to be what Apple has concluded by the action they're taking and implied by the premise of the article, versus my personal opinion. 2) The examples given may have be…

Given the size of Apple and these orgs, plausible. Siri also had a bunch of folks that came in from outside, through acquisitions, and did their own thing or tried to identify them…

JG is famous for research teams doing "hillclimbing" but the organizations doing this seldom thought deeply about where they were hoping to end up, what would be good-enough, or wh…

The Vision/Vision Pro product was also years behind schedule, based on original expectations, and some people feel that they had to launch something so that's why we got what we go…

A few quick cliffs notes plus added info: John "JG" Giannandrea was hired over to Apple around 2018 to head Apple's new AI/ML division, which would include the Siri organization th…

Alphabet/Google have GCP, VirusTotal, Chronicle, and Mandiant under their umbrella already.

In theory they do have access and should, but in practice they don't. Samsung's flagship mobile phone products tend to ship with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs in competitive markets, su…