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fascinating post, thank you

Great turn of phrase

Oh boy, this reminded me of university days. I wrote a little servlet which would pop out the CD drive on my friends computer in the lab, and I would trigger it at tense moments in…

https://web.archive.org/web/20240203230728/https://www.nytim...

Well that's a depressing progress report if I've ever seen one. Honestly I'm boggled at how many people seem indifferent to what could be an existential threat for many of us - obv…

https://www.reddit.com/r/outside/ in seriousness though this is a great question and i look forward to the answers. i could not think of one.

insightful comment. I'd like to think that Google will integrate AI in an at least mostly useful way, but it's clear that large scale reorgs like this around chasing a competitor c…

This is one of those proposals that seriously made me wonder if the conspiracy theorists were right that he's intentionally running it into the ground. I don't believe that but... …

Doesn't the EU law have a size requirement for the userbase before it ratchets up? that seems like a reasonable way to apply this law without unduly burdening small companies.

I'm pretty sure that for Google a "multi-million" sized venture is considered a complete waste of time; they probably don't consider it worth pursuing until it hits the hundreds of…

two cups of coffee from Starbucks

Not the original poster, but also Canadian. IIUC TN visas don't really require sponsorship, just a job offer in one of the covered fields.

The job postings say European time zones only, but this says Americas as well, can you clarify?

let's talk! I'm in the same spot

would be great to see a bulk import type operation at some point. i dislike having these kinds of things in multiple places but i'd have to upload a couple of hundred files to get …

This is great, thanks for posting!

More reasons why it's interesting: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-... https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men/

great links, thanks!

Getting UX right is a lot harder than people realize for several reasons: - You have the usual BigCo problems in software with prioritization and incentives and pressure to deliver…

it doesn't help that they haven't changed the URL. great work all round

salivate - or possibly not. signed, xoogler having just as much trouble as the rest of y'all

Also con: the weather in the winter is miserable for 4-5 months straight. It's turned me into a sun worshipper and as soon as I can get out I will.

Yup likewise. Eating after 8pm is a sleep killer for me.

Very cool!

I don't think it's cynicism to realize that people are imperfect creatures subject to the whims of insecurity and ego, not being well slept, yadda yada. To me that's just realism.