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Comment Re:Why???!?? (Score 1) 154

My wife worked extensively with Michelin-starred chefs in the Bay Area for a decade. I've been lucky enough to get to know some of them and their mentality.

The best of the best are always trying to be, well, better. Food is only one of the aspects that they think about- they also want you to feel welcome and respected. As the article mentions, some chefs have kept notebooks of guest preferences in the past. If they can use someone's Instagram account to get a sense of who they are before they come in, they can make sure that the waitstaff are treating them in a manner they would like. For example, if someone seems like they are introverted, then maybe they back off on the social interactions with them. If they seem to be someone more extroverted, then they get more attention.

Chefs want anyone that comes in to feel like they are special. This is just a new innovation in that direction, and it's not something that you're going to find happening at Chili's anytime soon.

Comment Re:This will become more transparent (Score 3, Informative) 45

The best numbers for streaming minutes would come from the "heartbeat" events that a device sends back to the service to tell them where the user is in the video, so they won't loose their place if the app crashes. (Some apps are good at just sending an API call when the crash happens)

Source: Worked for Nielsen as well as some mid-size streamers and handled analytic data capture.

Comment Re: Apple was the dumbest (Score 3, Informative) 130

My guess is they knew they needed to seed this to developers, but they knew there would be a black market where the public would want it. So they set the price high enough to cover initial costs, let the public get their hands on it, but then create time for the devs to come up with killer apps. I think the lack of a marketing and advertising presence shows Apple isnâ(TM)t pushing Vision as hard as they could.

Iâ(TM)m sure we are going to see cheaper and refined versions of Vision in the coming years, and those are the ones they have the potential to take off.

Comment Re:This is great! (Score 5, Interesting) 43

Completely agree here- I've used ChatGPT to answer some specific questions I've had, and then verified the answers through traditional search. ASSUMING that ChatGPT is giving me accurate answers, the ability to ask a question and just get the direct answer without having to go through other websites will be HUGE. It will also have a massive impact on those websites that thrive on traffic from Google: I imagine Stack Exchange takes a hit as developers start to query Bing with development questions. And then if Bing becomes the place to get easy answers to your questions, then the sites that are generating the data ChatGPT uses will see a drop in traffic, and that results in less data to train ChatGPT for future answers. We're about to enter a new, thorny area... it excites me the way I was excited when Google first came on the stage.

Comment Re:Demand vaca time and use it. (Score 3, Insightful) 317

Lots of companies now offer "unlimited" PTO- but that really just means there is less incentive to let you take time off, and you won't get paid out for unused vacation when you leave.

I've worked for companies that offer 2 - 3 weeks and unlimited. The companies with the unlimited policies ALWAYS track your PTO more closely than the ones that give a set number of days.

Comment Re:Gee, I can't imagine why? (Score 1) 317

...and companies not investing in proper process creation, leading to duplicate or incorrect work because no one knows what is going on.

...and companies choosing to hire new management externally instead of promoting from within, creating management that has power and no idea how the company does things.

...and companies that think culture means free lunch and happy hour.

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