Time for a real, no-cars neighborhood!
I'll allow for LSVs.
Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
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Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#22TBH Im not surprised. The quality of their products is worsening to the point Im looking for alternatives; Google Home is as stupid or worse (still no conversations or clarification WHY it doesnt understand certain input.) to their software missing basic features for ages now, like offline Google Maps missing speed limits or even addresses of spots you favorited.. Search becoming worse, No proper way to flag bad ads…
The downturn affecting all of tech is a lot more salient than this narrative
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#23TBH Im not surprised. The quality of their products is worsening to the point Im looking for alternatives; Google Home is as stupid or worse (still no conversations or clarification WHY it doesnt understand certain input.) to their software missing basic features for ages now, like offline Google Maps missing speed limits or even addresses of spots you favorited.. Search becoming worse, No proper way to flag bad ads…
…what would that have to do with them pausing work on a campus?
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only increasing housing density will decrease housing prices substantially.
Supply and demand. Without the expected demand of the San Jose Google campus, it's possible that prices drop without building anything.
Population growth and decades of supply constraints say hi.
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#25TBH Im not surprised. The quality of their products is worsening to the point Im looking for alternatives; Google Home is as stupid or worse (still no conversations or clarification WHY it doesnt understand certain input.) to their software missing basic features for ages now, like offline Google Maps missing speed limits or even addresses of spots you favorited.. Search becoming worse, No proper way to flag bad ads…
…what would that have to do with them pausing work on a campus?
The OP is assuming that funds being directed towards a campus is extraneous spending that could've been directed towards making products better instead.
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
…what would that have to do with them pausing work on a campus?
The OP is assuming that funds being directed towards a campus is extraneous spending that could've been directed towards making products better instead.
If they knew anything about Google they’d understand how wrong that is.
If any human organization to ever exist on the face of the earth has enough money, it is Google.
The reason why their products increasingly can seem long in the tooth is that corporate work is a huge game of telephone, where messages from the top to the bottom and vice versa get horribly garbled.
Add in a culture that rewards shipping features, but not necessarily good ones.
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which problem? Of humans that aren’t homeless?
In the USA we have enough space to build over 100 times more houses than we have now. Much of that land is very cheap. Why don't you build some houses and be part of the solution?
We should build more houses for, say, people working in the LA shipping industry in rural Minnesota. Miles of empty land!
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#28ChatGPT ruins everything.
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#29TBH Im not surprised. The quality of their products is worsening to the point Im looking for alternatives; Google Home is as stupid or worse (still no conversations or clarification WHY it doesnt understand certain input.) to their software missing basic features for ages now, like offline Google Maps missing speed limits or even addresses of spots you favorited.. Search becoming worse, No proper way to flag bad ads…
>Google Home is as stupid or worse
Now that "modern AI" is mainstream culture, the (lack of) capability of Google Home is astounding. It's 50/50 whether it can get even basic commands correct.
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#30TBH Im not surprised. The quality of their products is worsening to the point Im looking for alternatives; Google Home is as stupid or worse (still no conversations or clarification WHY it doesnt understand certain input.) to their software missing basic features for ages now, like offline Google Maps missing speed limits or even addresses of spots you favorited.. Search becoming worse, No proper way to flag bad ads…
> Google Home is as stupid or worse Now that "modern AI" is mainstream culture, the (lack of) capability of Google Home is astounding. It's 50/50 whether it can get even basic commands correct.
It turns out that giving the devices away and then losing money every time someone says something near them is a bad way to run a business.