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Last-Caterpillar-112 OP t1_j5fl379 wrote
Reply to comment by thruster_fuel69 in Area 120, Google's in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs by Last-Caterpillar-112
In Google’s culture, innovation means the latest shiny thing that caught the engineer’s short attention span. Most of these products are completely useless with no perceptible use case, even though they may be “super exciting”. Once it is partly built, customer response is underwhelming, and the engineer moves on to the next gimmick.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_j282xbe wrote
Reply to Question about The Glass Onion (spoilers) by polywha
My main gripe was the dubious selfish motivation behind her desperate pumping of that override button. Helen is willing to destroy a 500-year old priceless world treasure to fulfill her personal revenge on Miles. She could have done this in a much smarter way than waving that flimsy napkin at Miles, insulting him, giving him every chance to destroy the only evidence against him, and then go on a reckless vandalism spree. Helen actually was also duuuumb.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_j236w46 wrote
And Tiktok deeply appreciates the gesture to keep crusty old Congress folk off its app.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_j1yhd7q wrote
Great movie.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_j1thj0j wrote
Reply to comment by Barkalow in TIL Sigmund Freud made the decision to flee Austria after his daughter Anna was interrogated by the Gestapo for nearly 12 hours. He was able to buy safe passage out of Austria just in time with 31,000 Reich marks in 1938 by Ok_Copy5217
Wow. The stuff that dreams are made of.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_j1m09p0 wrote
Reply to comment by poke133 in U.S. orders Mastercard to stop blocking competing payment networks by HRJafael
So then basically this is just old-fashioned cartel warfare between all the crooks - visa, Mastercard, amex, …
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_j1lglqm wrote
Reply to Judge kept cooperation of Alameda CEO, FTX co-founder a secret so Sam Bankman-Fried wouldn’t get spooked and fight extradition by ihavestrings
The judge needn’t have worried. He was in a hellhole prison in the Bahamas and desperately wanted to come back. He is going to get a ClubMed-like prison in the US, like the Theranos crooks and all the other rich folk.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_j1cvgx3 wrote
So you are saying that when ChatGPT, which we are all perfectly happy with, starts charging a few dollars a month, we or you or someone else should spend a TON of money AND unknown effort to roll their own hastily trained, half-assed LLM in a couple of months with mixed results? And this potential ChatGPT-killer will be altruistic and free forever?
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_izgm6ge wrote
Reply to Google merges Maps and Waze teams but says apps will remain separate | It's another cost-cutting measure by Google, but no layoffs are planned. by chrisdh79
The destiny of Waze was to be Phazed out and Razed to the ground, on the day Google paid half a billion dollars for it. RIP. This recession is a convenient excuse for all corporations to clean house and finish off all pending unpopular moves. Because who’s going to complain against cost-cutting?
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_iyuoqej wrote
Reply to comment by tuctrohs in Average goals scored per game played at the World Cups — there used to be more goals in the past; since 1962 no World Cup averaged at more than 3 goals per game [OC] by ikashnitsky
It would have been very satisfying if the offside rule had been implemented at that time - would explain the graph. But no, that was already in place.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_iympj0j wrote
Reply to comment by desfirsit in [OC] Birth months of FIFA World Cup players. The top three are January, February and March, possibly due to the "Relative age effect" by desfirsit
Same in Canada.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_iyc24i4 wrote
Recently saw Loving Adults on Netflix. Danish with English audio. Dark psychological thriller. Just loved the twists.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_iy5xhe0 wrote
So there’s no country in the world that did not at least try to qualify. Cementing soccer’s status as the only universal sport.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_ix7a02b wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TikTok Draws Bipartisan Fire in US on China Surveillance Concern by lAStbaby6534
It is not easy to clone Tiktok as Facebook has already discovered after pouring tons of money into it. It is not just about some slick front end or AI or ML or database software. Tiktok has built a unique culture that creates joyful viral trends that American big tech is deeply jealous of. Yes, Facebook and the others are very, very, very JEALOUS of Tiktok - a source of daily heartburn. They aren’t able to simply copy the Tiktok culture by deploying a thousand overpaid Stanford graduates at the problem. Unlike the rest of American social media, which thrives on anger, Tiktok is a place of joy. Yes, the cloned apps LOOK like Tiktok to the T, but the mojo ain’t there. This MUST be said whether you like it or not.
Last-Caterpillar-112 t1_jeggy9m wrote
Reply to comment by Fox2_Fox2 in Virgin Orbit fails to secure funding, will cease operations and lay off nearly entire workforce by getBusyChild
Better to be a Galactic failure than an Orbital failure.