That’s my understanding as well, that it’s opt-in. That brings me little comfort.

I actually love the idea of embedded LLM help. I just wish Google used on-device compute with small models.

The idea that the browser will be used to farm data that’s not on the public internet is reprehensible to me, consent notwithstanding.

When I hire a junior engineer do I have to teach them about Google’s dark patterns so they don’t unwittingly upload our intellectual property?

Is this an intentional browser API concession due to some polling limit? I don't see the connection?

Interesting, didn't know that! Wonder why they don't.

My issue here is with wheel events. They look identical for trackpads and mice, so I can't code for different behaviour.

I'm actually hoping I'm wrong about the inability to reliably distinguish between trackpad and mousewheel wheel events.

Secretly hoping to take advantage of Cunningham's Law?

"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

Well, yes actually.

Except unfortunatly, I think I'm right.

How is it discrimination if they set the termination date for ALL employees to March 1, 2023?

> Here's a much more salient example:[refusing to block Russian sites]

Starlink doesn't run their own DNS, so they're not going to block them there. And I would guess that such a simple site is hard to block by IP address - it's probably on shared hosting.

> Musk is clearly pro-Ukraine,

He is? He supported Ukraine giving a high profile plug to his project. If Kim Kardashian wanted to plug my product on her social media I'd do a ton to make it happen, but it doesn't make me a fan.

He did just that a week ago: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1508566912845766656

You need to provide more context. A tweet isn't news. Who is this guy, what did he say, how did that impact Musk?

I think you're making a mathematical error here.

If inflation goes to zero, that does not mean prices have fallen to where they were before. It merely means prices stop increasing further.

So a temporary bout of inflation equal in magnitude to a one-time but persistent wage increase, _do_ cancel out.

Maybe I should swap in the word "price increases" for inflation.

Gas prices are high now, but nobody expects them to stay at this level indefinitely. (And nobody expects the price of gas to stop increasing without then also dropping back down.) Supply-chain related price increases aren't permanent, and go in the other direction when the supply chain improves.

And the larger point is it's a positive development if workers really are able to renegotiate their compensation -- and that isn't entirely negated by slightly higher prices in January.

This would be incredible

Unfortunately, right now, it seems unlikely :(

There are already reports of (vaccinated) young people getting seriously ill.

Unlike with other viruses, there is little selective pressure towards being less deadly, because illness/death mostly happen after transmission.

And while I'm not a virologist, it doesn't seem far-fetched that "breeds higher viral loads more quickly" would be correlated not only with transmissivity, but also with "kills more".

In case it didn’t occur to you: I think this was put forward as an example of culture producing negative outcomes.

Dan is actually referring to Google where "complexity" for a very long time was an explicit requirement for career progress to Staff level and beyond.

I bet it's the same way even now, unofficially. For better or worse, engineers do not seem to sufficiently value simplicity, so people hated the rules, but played the game, producing insane rube goldberg like backends all over the place that you need whole teams of experienced SREs to run successfully. The fact that this is ridiculous was not at all lost on people either - memes on Memegen (an internal meme site) were pretty vicious. But, not a heck of a lot you can really do if you want those golden handcuffs to turn into platinum ones.

I'd be remiss if I did not mention the silver lining in all this: Google's SRE team is very likely the most experienced in the world, and SREs are respected there. Stuff wouldn't run at all if this wasn't the case, and certainly not with five nines of reliability.

Another bullshit requirement in the general case is "cross-team impact". No matter how valuable you are as an IC, you gotta get a bunch of other people involved so they write your peer feedback and endorse you for a promo. Sometimes this makes sense. Often it does not. And those people better be one or two levels above you, which is a problem in a remote office.

There was a whole slew of antipatterns like that which might have made sense at some point in the past, but now are perceived as an immutable thing nobody can do anything about. So in a way, "culture" is not necessarily an _universal_ good, although at the time I was there the good outweighed the bad IMO.

This cultural stuff is also why Agile by itself does not mean you'll be particularly "agile", nor is Agile required for high agility. As a manager I've found that if I can get people to care about things and give them autonomy, most of them will not require close supervision and will move faster than they'd otherwise. Some will require supervision, reminders, incentives, and all that, and those are best sequestered from the rest and grouped with folks with similar working styles and put to work on tasks that tolerate that kind of thing, or in clinical cases let go.

It is the same now, and officially so. One of the dimensions for perf/promo is complexity.

IIRC it is still for "Software Engineers" but it has been replaced with Simplicity for "Site Reliability Engineers". Of course just changing the written rules doesn't change everything, and it creates an interesting friction.

Sadness. There was a period of time when upper management knew this was a problem and tried to do something about that.