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To me the noise was 10% of the problem. Who wants to breathe in what lies on the ground? Just lick it instead.

Any reason why Waymo is so much more expensive than alternatives? I went across SF last weekend and Uber/Lyft was around $16. Waymo was $56.

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Sounds like something you could do with SQS and Lambda. They just have massive datacenter infra and compute at disposal.

Cars are only useful because America foolishly built and rebuilt around cars, instead of humans. There were even places that functioned perfectly fine with transit and walking, des…

I feel like any code created from GPT can also be interpreted from GPT. Use a prompt like "Explain like I'm 5". Also DiagramGPT and just generating documentation in general from co…

[IT Perspective] In my personal experience, these tools also overreach. Most people I've met in IT (15 years) want to go into Engineering, or at the very least, something MORE tech…

It's really sad, because almost all of these platforms are code-averse. They sell the idea that "code is the hard part". Business folk eat it up. Then you sit there like an idiot d…

I was so stoked to build stuff this way; I had the same sentiments about the learning curve, but overall it seemed like an amazing tool and pretty fun. The problem is the people ar…

Less technical companies throw money at problems to solve them. Like mine, sadly... Even if it takes a small amount of effort, companies will throw money for zero effort.

I just have my PC in my living room boot Straight to Steam Big Picture Mode. It's great.

When I worked there it was still called Facebook. I’m still not used to calling it Meta haha. My bad.

And just to add that last part. Moving fast was so damn cool. That shared understanding of responsibilities and freedom of making changes. In most cases of course they were added a…

100% agree. The culture is a huge factor as well, but in some of the environments that I encountered before and after, that culture was there, but the tools didn’t allow the same c…

Oh yea, I elaborated more in another comment. But the ease of finding documentation related to code, SEVs, anything wrong. Someone pushing something and breaking something else in …

I’ve got coworkers who went back and forth. Their thoughts were (in 2019) that Facebook had cooler things going on, but less mature. Nicer to use, but less stable in some cases. I …

Yea I was on the internal side, not outward facing production apps. They have and are building their own versions of ENTIRE companies for internal use. It’s a marvel to see. But th…

Moving to a company using a hodgepodge of constantly rotating SaaS tools has been hell. I’m always thinking to myself “why can’t they just do this?”. I think I’ve been both spoiled…

Oh yea, web comparison for sure, but I also don’t see a difference between slack desktop and web. They’re both electron clients though iirc, the desktop client just wasn’t given mu…

Yea, it could be that FBs internal tooling connected to workchat is what made it so great. I think channels are a nasty way to handle topics of conversation compared to posts on a …

Most of the open source Ai things are Meta. React, GraphQL, pytorch, rocksdb, docusaurus, prophet, a whole ton of internal tools that aren’t public knowledge. Full disclosure I hav…

The open-ness of code, visibility, diffs. It was perfection. Something broke in my env suddenly? OH, I just checked recently pushed diffs that affect my realm. Hey there it is, sec…

No company I've worked at after FB/Meta ships or works even at a non-eng level with the same velocity. I always attributed that to their internal tools, since most of the other com…

This is my guess. Looks better on the record, since people are committing only 48 hours anyways (for whatever reason, should be permanent).

I don't have a lot of concern for what I walk on. It can be raked or swept, watered if needed on concrete if it's a concern. On grass or soil it just creates more favorable soil. I…