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Comment Re:Waymo pickup from tricky location? (Score 1) 9

I can enter the address of the complex but that isn't very useful as it is a rather large complex. The app doesn't know what to do with apartment numbers. I had a similar problem at a prior residence in a town home development. The interior streets didn't have names. The street I was on could be thought of an extension of a nearby named road and apps often translated my location to such an address. Unfortunately, routing to such an address would require driving through a wall.

Comment Waymo pickup from tricky location? (Score 1) 9

I always have trouble with rideshare pickups from my apartment. I can plant an X where I want to be picked up but then this gets translated to an address on a neighbouring street that is not in my complex. I always have to send a clarifying message to the driver. This is challenging because I can't send it until the driver is assigned, which is when I'm rushing around trying to be ready in time. It would seem that Waymo might skip the step of converting to a human readable address. That might help. But if, it doesn't, texting the robot driving the car doesn't seem to be an option. Has anyone here tried to get a Waymo pickup from a similar tricky location?

Comment Re:Why even write (Score 3, Insightful) 66

"In-person collaboration is absolutely vital to building and strengthening our culture and driving the success of our business. Being together helps us innovate, solve problems, share ideas, create, challenge one another, and build the relationships that will make this company great."

They've been fine working from home since COVID, for years, and now somehow it's absolutely vital?

It is absolutely vital that collaboration of a quality seemingly not achievable when remote occur in their companies. Of course, this ideal never happened in these companies before COVID, hasn't happened since RTO, and seldom happens anywhere. But it is vital that employee happiness not interfere with this hypothetical possibility.

Comment Alogrithm doesn't matter: banality comes from fear (Score 3, Insightful) 47

LinkedIn posters almost entirely fit into two categories:
  1. They represent companies so they are fearful of posting anything that would upset their employer.
  2. They are job seekers or potential job seekers who don't to risk upsetting their current or potential employer

Given those constraints, one can't say much that is interesting. And, there is still a feeling that one must be seen so write rubbish they think is inoffensive enough to not them in the trouble. Glassdoor keeps posters anonymous. As a result, even though it is still a job board, the posts and comments are a lot more provocative and interesting.

Comment Re:But is there enough demand (Score 2) 90

To me, "folding phones" are just flip phones. I don't see any reason to find a new term for something that's essentially the same.

Because they aren't the same, especially in how they relate to the issue at hand. Phones with folding screens have a problem with dust. Some of which are being called "flip phones" and some that are not. Meanwhile old school flip phones, which are still around, are immune. Saying "flip phones" have a dust problem is at best confusing.

Comment "Designed" implies the technology already exists (Score 1) 174

If you are waiting for technology you don't have a design. At best you have a place holding sketch. The design of any device requires that *all* the elements be accounted for. The drive system is going to be highly dependent on details of a fusion reactor that can't be known because no viable candidates exist. We don't even have anything that works but needs a predictable sequence of refinements to be viable. Volume? Mass? Fuel Consumption? These all vary wildly depending on what assumptions actually pan out, if they pan out. By the time they do exist, material and other key technologies are likely to have changed too.

Comment Re:BBS's where there long before Craig left The We (Score 2) 81

I had a "for sale" subboard on my Commodore 64 Color 64 BBS in 1985. Later, there were dozens upon dozens of forsale boards on Usenet as well.

Sure. But these foresale boards had quite limited distribution. If you really wanted to buy or sell locally you needed to go where the masses were. That was not BBS's or Usenet. Craigslist appealed to the masses and came at a time when the masses had access.

Comment Inherently physical or social? (Score 1) 57

I wonder how much of this is inherently physical and how much is social influence. Sure, the body resilience declines. Ideally, this would be the time to step up health management: eat better, exercise more, pay more attention. But I don't think this generally happens. People gain obligations so they spend _less_ time taking care of themselves right when they need to speed more.

Comment Re:Companies don't hire because productivity goes (Score 1) 30

They hire to meet demand. And if AI starts taking jobs, which every CEO is saying AI is exactly doing that, then there will be fewer people with money to buy things and demand will go down.

Except we all know AI isn't doing exactly that. I can see Accenture having a role in bailing out companies that already laid off their staff because AI only to discover that AI isn't enough. But they don't want to rehire because that is embarrassing and because CEOs are sure that the next AI effort will truly replace their staff for real.

Comment A vertical landing test (Score 1) 44

Ok. So Honda is learning how to land rockets vertically. That's a useful skill, albeit hardly unique. It isn't remotely to the level of launching payloads into orbit. But, gotta learn to crawl first, right? The "reusable" bit is hyperbola. No further than the rocket went and given that it is just a test vehicle, it better be reusable. I look forward to seeing further progress. It will be quite a while before they can compete with SpaceX or even Blue Origin but this is an area where having more players is good.

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