smartician

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by smartician 2mo ago
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.
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by smartician 2mo ago
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 different flavor than what's currently en v
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by smartician 4mo ago
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?
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by smartician 11mo ago
Multi-region failover?
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by smartician 1y ago
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 working completely if you don't enable location sh
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by smartician 2y ago
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 information as a user sees.
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by smartician 2y ago
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 hit a ceiling.
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by smartician 2y ago
Define "AI Agent"?
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by smartician 2y ago
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™!
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by smartician 2y ago
There's an interesting podcast about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkNGMSWbYk
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by smartician 2y ago
They have three months to find new roles/teams. Their employment only ends if they can't.
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by smartician 3y ago
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 society. People are more content with being born into a ce
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by smartician 3y ago
Did you previously search for that attraction either on Maps or Google Search?
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by smartician 3y ago
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 landlord is "gaining $1 in property value". Lo
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by smartician 3y ago
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 it profitable. Or the home had strong appreciation so
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by smartician 4y ago
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 0.3 pages per 12 hour shift. So once every three sh
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by smartician 4y ago
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 allow me to maintain a comparable level of income.
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by smartician 4y ago
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?
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by smartician 4y ago
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 titled "Why Savarnas rape", as
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by smartician 4y ago
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 might have to go see whether my car has an AUX inp
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by smartician 4y ago
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 left in April and publicly shared their plans. Also lots of &q
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by smartician 4y ago
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).
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by smartician 5y ago
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 make up search is changed, that change is being canaried in an
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by smartician 5y ago
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.
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by smartician 5y ago
Partly tongue-in-cheek. These review processes exist, but whether they're required or not depends on the product area and type of project.
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by smartician 5y ago
It's not much different today. Nowadays you'll also need privacy review, accessibility review, security review, and diversity & inclusion review.
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by smartician 5y ago
I don't have to return to the office until January (for now), but am voluntarily going twice a week now, just to take advantage of all the amenities, bond with co-workers and have a change of scenery. I think I will be happy with 3x pe
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AppLovin acquires MoPub from Twitter for $1B in cash(applovin.com)
6 points by smartician 5y ago|2 comments
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Building Uber’s Fulfillment Platform for Planet-Scale Using Google Cloud Spanner(eng.uber.com)
1 points by smartician 5y ago|0 comments
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by smartician 5y ago
What's ENG?

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