Of course, you and I know that. But most people just listen to the marketing material.

My mother's most used feature on her phone is the camera.

She asked me about getting a new phone when she has a perfectly working Samsung flagship phone from 3 years ago. The marketing says "The S26 camera is _SOOOO_ much better". But, really, it's exactly the same sensors as the S23.

The reporter actually spent the effort to track it down, turns out it _was_ a Go compiler bug. (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20427)

Secondly, not stirring at all. Boiling will do some circulation, but you have to keep some amount of stirring to prevent a small sticking turn into a burned to the pan problem.

Yup, I know someone who had been there since 2006 that was laid off. Not even high scores on Perf will save you.

I have no idea what methodology went into it. That's a whole postmortem on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPymLgfXSY

This, in part, is how Google gets an average PUE of 1.1. Which is _really_ good compared to typical.

The big thing I see with a ton of arguments about changing the way we produce and consume energy assume that things will change overnight and the whole system will come crashing down because it's not ready.

Perfect is the enemy of good. Things aren't going to happen overnight, there will be a transition period.

Electric vehicle transition is a good example of this. * OMG, the grid will crash with all the charging. * OMG, You won't be able to charge it . * OMG, it doesn't solve .

The transition to electric vehicles is coming, but slowly. It basically started at 0 in 2010 and a decade later it's still only at 2-5% in the US and something like 5-10% in the EU, China, etc. The ball is just getting rolling.

The grid hasn't crashed, charging is getting deployed where there's demand, and not every needs to be solved now, or even in the mid term future.

Add to that it was a big source of spam that nobody wanted to deal with.

Apparently the team tried really hard to get more companies on board with opening up federation. But I think the only "major" service that did was what was left of AOL.

The first chat was basically an XMPP service. It was decent, it federated outside of Google, it was fully functional. It even supported group channels (XMPP conferences) internally. But I don't think that was ever exposed to the public.

Then Hangouts was created. It was, per usual at Gooogle, a ground-up rewrite. IIRC not the same team. So they spent at least a couple years playing catch up to get feature parity with the XMPP chat. Worse, Hangouts was one of the first services to suffer from strict team-created "Personas" design philosophy. Any time anyone would complain about a feature, or miss-feature, it was flatly ignored because "You're not one of our Personas". It took years of complaints to get them to change their minds.

By the time Hangouts was good enough to fully replace the previous service it was now boring and people left the team for other new projects. Because maintenance won't get you promoted.

The other random chat services were basically experiential toys.

Now we have Meet, which is is likely another case of "Hangouts is unmaintainable tech, we need to re-write it". Years of getting up to feature parity. And miss-features that won't get fixed.

It had the upside of making some things more integrated. MR and issues and CI work much better together than GitHub or atlassian.

But it had the down side of expanding into feature categories half baked.

I only managed to stay for 4 years before I couldn't stand it. But I'm more an SRE than a feature developers.

I left for a job that has "burn tech debt" as a key goal.

Sure, they make you slow down for them. But drivers now want to "make up" for that slow down. So they drive even faster between them.

It's called the same thing in Germany. The term also applies to when you quit, but the employer wants to cut your access to the company ahead of your contract termination date. It's typical to have 1-3 months of "notice period" in Germany.

It's also done because it not allowed to have anti-poaching clauses IIRC.

Car dependency is just as bad a disease as any.

Cars give you the freedom to go anywhere, but take away the freedom to do anything without them.

Plus there's now ultra-short-throw projectors that sit in the front of the room, rather than above / behind you.

Ultra-short-throw also has the advantage that you can use from-below lenticular screens. This means that ambient room light affects them a lot less, since they refelect light mostly coming from only where the projector is.

Sadly, "smart TV" has infected projectors as well. But maybe not as bad as normal TVs. Most projectors still have dumb inputs that work fine.

My "Computer speakers" are a bit crazy, but all together cost me sub $3k for a Neumann nearfield monitor + sub + DAC combo.

Burger meat was 0.80€ person for 125g, not organic/bio. But good quality from a German butcher.

I got Beyond burgers for the veg option. Best price I could get wholesale was 2.00€ per person.