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I see. It sounds to me then this is a knee-jerk reaction due to the app having been vibe-coded, not so much due to how the app works.

What sort of "grief" did you catch specifically? What are people's concerns with your system? Privacy, resource usage, etc.? Like you said, of course your thing uses AI, just a dif…

If they're a PaaS, isn't it insane for them to run their own infrastructure and the customer workloads under the same cloud account?

Multi-region failover?

Full disclosure: I'm a Google employee, but not in the areas mentioned in the article. This is my personal opinion. Regarding the Nest thing: I don't think those devices stop worki…

If the goal is to emulate human behavior, I'd say there is a case to be made to build for the same interface, and not rely on separate APIs that may or may not reflect the same inf…

Research seems to suggest we need exponential training data volume increases to see meaningful performance gains: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 Personally I think we've already …

Define "AI Agent"?

IIUC the EU basically had to force banks to implement this via a mandate. I don't see "business friendly" US lawmakers doing the same anytime soon. The joys of the Free market™!

There's an interesting podcast about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkNGMSWbYk

They have three months to find new roles/teams. Their employment only ends if they can't.

My completely unfounded take: Culture. In Europe, you have a millennia-long culture of classism, feudalism, aristocracy, guilds, etc., that's still somewhat ingrained in modern soc…

Did you previously search for that attraction either on Maps or Google Search?

I don't know who Matt is, but I now know that you lack even basic financial knowledge. According to your logic, if I can rent a house for $1, then I'm still losing $1 and my landlo…

You're assuming that all landlords are rational. Many either see it as a leveraged investment where rent is just one factor to offset their cost, hoping that appreciation will make…

I'm an SRE. * How many days per year are you on call? About 50. Depends on whether the team is fully staffed. * How often do you actually get a call? Right now I think it's about 0…

I grew up in Germany and worked there for eight years, now I'm in California for 15 years. Now that I had children, I'm contemplating moving back, possibly to Zurich, which would a…

So he thinks one of the Googlers he worked with convinced his employer to fire him, and now he's suing Google? Shouldn't he be suing his employer?

https://medium.com/who-is-the-american-hindu/why-do-we-say-n... is one example (this is the refutation, the actual article by the lecturer is linked there). Another is a lecture ti…

I just found out that my new phone can't pair to my 10 year old car anymore. I googled it and it may or may not be a new version of the protocol that's incompatible with my car. I …

A sample of recent departures: * Notion * Truepill * Plaid * Cresta AI * Meta * Plaid * Meta * Roblox * Roblox * Amazon * Spotify * Chainguard This is just a sample of those who le…

You can log out of all, then only sign in to the account you want (and optionally remove the "unwanted" account(s) from the sign in list).

Multiple things could be at play here. Google Search runs hundreds of experiments. Every time a parameter is tuned, or a snippet of code in one of the dozens of components that mak…

An SUV, a URL, an RSU, a YMCA... It depends on how you pronounce it, not how it's spelled. Common pitfall even for native speakers.