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I think that your consideration is a good one, but I think it comes down to numbers. Will a no-additional-cost-per-ride pass increase the "unnecessary" load on the system so much t…

Thanks for the detailed response! And nice to hear how much you've managed to keep humans involved in the process. I used to work on a content review automation system for a big co…

I think they meant (and I am interested in hearing about) appealing a "block" decision that was made by your automation. If I'm a real human and trying to post a "good" post, but t…

Respectfully: no, the authors did not. The method used can be found in the published paper, which is linked from the submitted article. edit: clarify a pronoun

The article links to the paper, which answers your question in appendix B (at least for the purposes of this study). https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29053/w290...…

Apple purchased Siri from a startup of the same name. The startup founder chose the name because he liked it, having first heard of it because it was the name of a former coworker.…

May I ask why you think that? (Sincere question, not meant to be snarky). Even assuming electric car assembly is simpler than an ICE powered car, there are still a lot of large, he…

"Sample: 52% of the company's IMs were being sent between 6pm and midnight." Sounded unbelievable to me! As it turns out, it's not true. The author links to another of his articles…

I've been helping teach high school CS classes for years, and even just being able to use some free accounts with students to share code and workspaces has been flawlessly simple. …

Thanks for the reply! My brain got stuck on having to have extended if/else chains if one area changes frequently, but most of our changes are spread out, so fit well with your poi…

What considerations do you put into how to handle versioning? I'm thinking mostly of the "decider" logic. For example, in SWF + Flow land, I maintain different versions just by kee…

Ah, I think we're both right here, just on slightly different things. You're correct, trolley with diesel backup isn't new and is in fairly wide usage around the world. To the orig…

Like most thing, its an "it depends" situation. The tech exists, but isn't in wide usage. There's a higher upfront infra cost to pay back, and while short distance reroutes can be …