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It is for *a judge* to decide if it is illegal or not. That’s kinda the point of a trial.

I’d think employee productivity and retention would be high on the list.

Likewise as a recent founder myself the fact that I’ve been able to start a company with no office and have the flexibility to hire people from anywhere in the country is a game changer.

If big old fashion companies want to make people work in person, it’s basically just a gift for smaller competitors ready to eat their lunch.

And Google has them hook line and sinker by virtue of paying off some competitors.

Show me the supporting Fermi math and I will.

I think you’re missing the point about antitrust and competition. It’s about abusing your power to prevent potential competitors from competing on the merits. Paying to be a default means hardly anybody will ever see your competitors product.

If everybody was able to easily see Google’s results vs competitors it’s likely they would try harder and wouldn’t have just spent all their effort on cramming more ads above the results.

With the *really* sensitive stuff you aren’t even allowed to write a single thing down, everything is done verbally, totally off the books.

It’s utterly uncontroversial to state that Google search has gone to shit in the last few years.

Now, the question to ask is if Google wasn’t paying off other companies to make them the default would they have been more incentivized to make a better search experience?

At this point I don’t get any better results from Google than DuckDuckGo/Bing. A few years ago Google was better, now they are increasingly useless and no better than competitors.

If iOS users got a prompt to choose a search engine the first time they open Safari, and the order of choices was random, how many would even notice the results were different in any way?

Show me a chrome book that has hardware which can last a decade.

Exactly, and I think it’s a very good use of public funds.

To be fair, with all the money the government wastes this taxpayer would be quite happy to have more resources devoted to this mixed probability/extremely high impact issue.

One of my favorite examples of the benefits of public interest spending and investment. There very likely wouldn’t be an ARM today if it weren’t for the Micro.

I think it’s a case of some dumb fuck MBA not knowing the difference between an API and AGI.

Ethics means sometimes you leave bad money on the table for good reasons.

That’s not how the VC mind is wired. A bad investment loses money, a good one makes money. That’s all.

Google keeps demoing vapor ware at I/O to that effect but have yet to deliver. Honestly think Apple will go to market first.

Eh, who knows really? Having something in the lab that works and getting a product team to understand how to make it useful to customers aren’t the same problem.

In some sense I’ve always thought Apple is focused so much on reliability and deterministic approaches that wrapping their heads around probabilistic outcomes is harder than for other companies.

I suspect most of that figure is in machine time, but otherwise they pay engineers a lot and Apple likewise occupies a non-trivial % of all the commercial real estate in Cupertino, employees security guards, other staff, etc.

These numbers seem right to me.

Microsoft is also a web display ads company, what exactly do you think the business model for Bing is?

There’s zero point in switching from Chrome to Edge.

Firefox to my knowledge has no ads revenue, apples limited ads revenue doesn’t come from the web.

Brave I think is a low-key crypto grift run by a homophobe, but still better than Chrome.

What’s worse is they don’t care.

So many people in leadership at top companies just won the start-up lottery as a junior employee and had the internal drive to get promo at all costs to gradually get to the top. As soon as they leave the bubble it’s clear how few real skills they possess.

Likewise, the degree to which Director+ jobs just hire based on current title at a competitor alone is bonkers. I’ve worked under people who are utterly clueless but managed to make VP at the place up the street. So they just get to be a VP at the next place.

I mean, they lost a good percentage of their top engineers a couple years back because leadership had a pretty serious communications issue with their employees. So not exactly surprised.

It’s more how it sits in a mix so well, somehow it gives room for your bass drum, some pads, leads, and it doesn’t interfere with any of them. Usually that’s really hard to do perfectly and lately bass just magically stays in its own lane.

Also, if you can get your hands on Korg Opsix it is a lot of fun for FM. Does about as good a job at making FM closer to a subtractive synth in terms of ease of use. Of course, FM will always be way harder to deal with than subtractive, but it’s still the best attempt I’ve seen.

Lately Bass is literally worth the $250 I spent for mine off eBay. It’s just flat out the beat techno bass like there is. It’s literally the only preset I’ll ever use because nothing can improve it, it’s just perfect.

A nontrivial fraction of all living people have heard this song at least once, and it’s 100% TX81Z at the heart: https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI?si=XgkC5avENfdTmlQF

(Also, yeah, to other replies, I now realize protobuffs are not to be joked about, I repent. Forgive me.)

Ah, and now I’ll have this stuck in my head as well!

Is this the “woke mind virus”?

Shhh…Jeff Dean is a God who designed the Perfect System, protobuffs - despite not being used by anybody but Google - are the One True Way, and setting company priorities via how well middle-management can win political battles to get inflated headcount is innovation optimal.

Right?

That’s why everybody is raving over how awesome Bard is!

It’s almost as though he’s using that money to bully smaller people because they can’t afford to sue him. Which, in a shocking coincidence, is how Trump ran his companies.

A world in which Blue Checks have replaced MAGA hats.

Yes, but the NHL stuff wasn’t explained whatsoever. I had no idea what was going on there.

I loved Glen Howerton’s performance and the first two acts, but the last third felt incoherent, like it wasn’t edited well or the writing wasn’t finished.

Good for you! Too many people are in it for the money and pure self interest.

Now, I like the money our profession pays, it’s great - but I’d by doing something with computers either way, so what a blessing to get rewarded financially as well.

Also, as an erstwhile professor who was at a top 3 program, a motivated and curious student is the best. If you had finished college you’d have done well with your attitude.

Arithmetic logic is *very much* a sought after goal for LLM.

The “intended features” of any sufficiently advanced technology always move forward.

GPT, Bard, etc all want to nail that issue and are dumping cash into it.