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Grok 4.5 12 days ago

any kind, like, literally anything that would explain where did your statement come from :)

maybe the data proving that "more often" with numbers

Grok 4.5 14 days ago

facts keep aligning with the left more often

[citation needed]

Vegas: ordering a tax "to a hotel" - hotels have different entrances, pickup / dropoff there during crazy times is hard. Uber UI for Vegas is unique / some features are designed to make it easier for driver and passanger to find each other

Airports: different regulations, different rules for pickup/dropoff. Also scammers who pretend to be in a car, walk with their phones around pick-up ares in airport and do bait-and-switch (saw that in Istanbul SAW and in Dubai Al Maktoum)

The Wikipedia article says that he had a lifetime pension and died in his 70s from stomach issues.

Where did you get this "died in poverty" nonsense from?

Heard this many times but without detail. What exactly is expensive and time-consuming? Chicken/Beef, beans, pasta, rice, some greens, salt, pepper. Cooking simple dishes and putting them to a freezer can be done on weekend. What exactly is expensive and time consuming in US?

somehow they managed to build complex systems like gmail, continuously develop new features there and not have massive outages due to "migrations" - suggests that something that they were doing right, they are no longer able to do

it is interesting that is both cases (recent gmail and this one) it was a "migration":

"As part of an ongoing migration of the User ID Service to a new quota system"

"An ongoing migration was in effect to update this underlying configuration system"

it was not a new feature, not a massive hardware failure, it was migrating part of the working product due to some unclear reason of "best practices".

both of those migrations failed with symptoms suggesting that whoever was performing them did not have deep understanding of systems architecture or safety practices and there was no one to stop them from failing. Signs of slow degradation of engineering culture at Google. There will be more to come. Sad.