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New comment by mining in "OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly"

mining — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:43:24 +0000

https://sherwood.news/tech/what-companys-past-reveals-the-fu... provides more context as to what the articles are trying to achieve.

New comment by mining in "The man who killed Google Search?"

mining — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:47:21 +0000

I searched on mobile, so no ad blocker. There were no ads for that query, and all of the content up to maybe the 5th result was an acceptable answer to the query (i.e. on a site that wasn't plastered with ads)

If I search "plumber" the first 3 results are ads.

I'm in Australia.

New comment by mining in "The man who killed Google Search?"

mining — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:03:32 +0000

Searching "how to fix a leaky faucet" on Google turned up the page from "This Old House" immediately (top 3 results, top 2 were wikiHow and a YouTube video that seemed OK at a glance).

I'm not sure why my personal results are often so much better than posts like this one whenever I do the experiment - maybe it's based on location?

New comment by mining in "The true cost of linked lists"

mining — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:09:05 +0000

I would probably argue that either the first algorithm is incorrect (because searched can be larger than INT_MAX) or the complexity of the second algorithm is bound both by O(searched) (or sqrt(searched), if implemented with more vigour) and O(1) (because the value of 'searched' is bound by a constant).

New comment by mining in "Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work"

mining — Sun, 08 May 2022 08:00:49 +0000

> I doubt they decided independently on a back to office date in the same ~1 month timeframe

Given the reason for office closures was covid, I'd guess that companies in the same geographical area would make similar decisions about when it was appropriate to return to office work. It would be more surprising to me if large companies with similar decision-making throughout the pandemic, in the same geographical area, had drastically different timelines.

New comment by mining in "Neural network AI is simple. So… Stop pretending you are a genius"

mining — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 23:34:04 +0000

Almost all of that blog post was complete bullshit. Recursive neural net? I don't understand why that post was written.

New comment by mining in "It can all go to zero"

mining — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:21:32 +0000

Saying 99/100 doctors think something medical is true isn't an appeal to authority... Doctors /are/ an authority on medical matters. Programmers aren't an authority on economic matters.

New comment by mining in "Which lines of longitude and latitude pass through the most countries?"

mining — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:17:49 +0000

There are infinitely many infinitely thin lines that fit in that band and cover the countries.

New comment by mining in "Go, don't collect my garbage"

mining — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:07:44 +0000

I don't know. That seemed like a fairly simple exploration of the problem and an easy library function to solve it. Would it be much simpler in any other language?

New comment by mining in "Uber London loses licence to operate"

mining — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:35:34 +0000

If that 95% assumes that people undergo background checks, my assumption is that number might decrease.

New comment by mining in "Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system"

mining — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:31:01 +0000

> I'm guessing pretty junior with this kind of hubris

If you check their profile their site suggests that have ~15 years of experience.

New comment by mining in "“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”"

mining — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 22:33:12 +0000

Depends how you look at it. Dev time is a finite resource, and spending it on supporting a weird combo of user agent and browser seems likely to lead to less user utility.

New comment by mining in "I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity"

mining — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:19:52 +0000

> Is rampant systemic sexism the reason why 95% of child care teachers are women?

Yes, absolutely. Men are generally treated very poorly if they choose to voluntarily work with small children.

New comment by mining in "Larry Page Deposition in Uber vs. Waymo"

mining — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 05:23:28 +0000

You're usually on-call for a fairly humane shift, not 24h a day.

New comment by mining in "How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud"

mining — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:39:30 +0000

It's plausible that they changed jobs ;).

New comment by mining in "[dead]"

mining — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 22:34:27 +0000

I'm always amused that "know" seems to instantly associate with "memorise" as opposed to "be aware of performance and associated tradeoffs"

New comment by mining in "Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Blocker Coming Next Year"

mining — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 22:30:37 +0000

I think there's a clear difference between an ad that plays sound as part of watching a video with sound, and as part of browsing a website that doesn't have sound / where the ad plays sound over the actual content.

New comment by mining in "Accused of underpaying women, Google says it's too expensive to get wage data"

mining — Sat, 27 May 2017 14:58:05 +0000

> Indeed, if women were systematically underpaid despite equivalent performance, I find it hard to believe they wouldn't be hired by the boatload. This might be explained by (1) a lack of women relative to men in the developer workforce and (2) a systematic bias in competence.

Or (3) because a huge proportion of perceived performance is subjective. I can't find a study right now, but e.g. http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias... make a decent argument towards women receiving qualitatively different performance feedback to men.

New comment by mining in "How Women Mentors Make a Difference in Engineering"

mining — Wed, 24 May 2017 02:16:44 +0000

They're not comparable disciplines. One (in theory) involves trivially replicable experiments (just rerun the binary) and the other does not.

New comment by mining in "A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month"

mining — Wed, 17 May 2017 12:21:33 +0000

It's absolutely good manners for Firebase to tell you "If you fix this thing, your costs will go down."