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This seems like a Savvy move from Nokia. At least in my country, Nokia phones are remembered for the following:

- nearly indestructible

- well priced

- back pops out

Nokia is doing the most sensible thing to reuse these as its differentiator.

I understand people taking about the OS. But Nokia has little control over the software and it has also never been its selling point for me with Symbian, and later Windows Phone.

I sure miss their wonky phones with weirdly arranged buttons and their random quirks.

I routinely watch videos and listen to audiobooks at 2.75x, that's somehow the magic number for me. I can only do it with the headphones (not speakers) and I only lose a negligible number of words.

I'm not planning to stop but I have noticed that after a few years of doing this, my speech has gotten faster. This is not good because I feel sometimes I don't let people process what I say and sometimes I make them feel rushed. I suppose fast listening is subconsciously training me to speak faster

Another interesting observation is that I often don't know what the theme musics of my favorite YouTube channels sound like because they sound very different at a faster speed. When I accidentally hear them at normal speed I think to myself that they actually sound a lot nicer than what I'm used to.

Look up proposal L2/20-190. They provide a number of good reasons for pregnant man. To summarize:

- It avoids gender stereotyping of men in Parenthood.

- couples say "we are pregnant". The term pregnant is culturally used for men too as their search shows.

- the emoji is not just for pregnancy, it is also for feeling bloated, full, and hungry.

I sometimes used this emoji for saying that I'm expecting something. My partner didn't like it.

That hasn't been my experience with ZOHO at all. I used their free service first and then stepped up. Their tools are not great and they really love to sell you multiple licenses to get the basic stuff going. I'm sure people have different needs but I won't be using them again.

I don't know if that's actually an ok method or not, but I thought of that and looked around for it with little luck

Awesome to finally have nesting. The way I see it, this took 10 years longer than it should have.

I feel the only big thing missing from the vanilla stack for me right now is a template element that multiple html files can share. Just like how you make a blog header in Jekyll or Hugo and it adds it on all your blog posts get the header. I haven't found an easy way of doing that if I have a bunch of html pages.

I feel the topic of having a passion is becoming a contentious issue. When that investor letter to Google ceo came out, I unfortunately suggested that maybe for a company like Google, too high salaries would bring people in who "work for money and not passion".

I never even dreamed of seeing so many people taking issue with what I said. Many were saying that it's just a job and people should not be passionate about Google for working.

I understand that perspective. It sounds dystopian to have every employee be a character right out of The Office, protagonizing a corporation that's out there to just make money. A corporation that won't second-guess firing them because someone said things might get rough later.

Still, trends like Quiet Quiting seem like the worst response. Going emo and glorifying people who stay detached from their job doesn't seem to solve anything.

If passionate people are being let go too easily, it's a sign of poor employee representation in the leadership. But approaching that subject we enter yet another ick territory that's... unions.

A couple of weeks ago I got a point cloud file with no clue about how to open it. Sure enough QGIS came to rescue and I learned it has a 3D view as well. I'm grateful for it :)

Not to be pedantic but maybe remove the "GitHub" from the title. Some people might get confused thinking this is something official amid recent investment of MS (GH owner) in ChatGPT. Nonetheless, fascinating!

I thought just the base fee was high but these rates are insane. Where I live, the taxes we pay are less than this. It's not like stripe needs this money to build roads, they are just moving digits.

Some of these make a lot of sense, not just as a Gen Z thing, but overall adopting them shouldn't annoy anyone. I will continue ending my sentences with a full stop but maybe I'll start picking more expressive emojis than :)

I think the article doesn't explain the pumping coefficient correctly and so it gets into this rabbit hole about how long and tight clothing is better:

> Long underwear has more advantages over other clothing options. It does not hide your body shape and can maintain sex-appeal, a common concern for both men and women

If this is not your concern, consider that there is no problem with putting on loose clothes. It will work fine because the trapped air itself acts as an insulator. The pumping coefficient only materially significant for things like dresses.

Interesting vision

Why should there be a comparison here?

Let me take a stab at this with a viewpoint that's not "stingy rich f$*k wants to take away worker's money".

The letter is macro level, doesn't really bring up the reasoning, but the data points tell a story.

> Over the last 5 years the headcount has doubled

That's coincidentally been as long as I have used their business and cloud services. I can hardly tell a difference between Google's offering of 2018 versus today. At least not as much as it would explain 2x the employees. Same for their search and other services.

And their customer service still sucks.

> Median salary is $300,000. Average is higher.

This is truly a win for tech workers. But an investor might see this and feel people come to Google for money, not passion.

I think from an investor perspective, these data points are interesting, in context. This person is recommending what they understand; that the headcount and salaries must go down. Is that a solution to the dysfunctionality implied here? What do you folks think?

A personal story about podcasts is that I usually listen to them during my commute. That means my podcast consumption went way down when the pandemic happened and I started mainly working remotely. I just don't have a defined suitable time for them anymore.

A few weeks ago I was sick and I put on some podcasts as I was resting. Made me realize how much I miss the content.

I wonder how much the radio/podcast industry is reliant on car radios and such.

Never occurred to me how better it feels with the table of content on the side, even though that's a common thing in document processors. UX is the ultimate one-way function. Hard to make right, easy to judge.

> My Google Nest Thermostat was part of the problem, and I needed to get rid of it to improve my home heating. The problem is that any central thermostat will shut down the boiler as soon as it reaches its target temperature, even if there are other areas in the house that still need to be heated.

I think this is important. The so-called smart thermostats have a very narrow optimization scope.

Not an issue.

As someone who works on this issues with the very policymakers you are referencing, oh they HAVE considered this. In fact, this is among the reasons that the switch to heat pumps is delayed.

Heat pumps can have back up electric heating elements to provide the heating in the extremes. You get a more resilient system than gas. If you have an oil based system, that's worse. There is no good reason to have an oil furnace nowadays.

This is a long list, but doesn't seem exhaustive. All of these prompts work around the premise of "act as".

Say this on your landing page because it's a good differentiator, but it's not clear

AliExpress had this annoying thing that an ad bar would appear at the top of the screen about a second after page load. The ad bar would shift down the search bar just as you wanted to click to search something. So you'd accidentally click on the ad instead.

This was (is?) the issue for quite some time. I always wondered if the analytics people knew about it or they thought that ad just gets a lot of hits. It was always some AliExpress promotion.

When you talk to Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) most are uncomfortable with UV. Reason being that while you can get rid of viruses, you can also create volatile compounds. Our homes' air is like a soup of natural and synthetic chemicals. From your flooring wear to your decor off-gassing to cooking, there are elements in your air that may be safe as they are, but they can completely change when they hit something volatile like ozone (from cars). Subsequently there can be a chain reaction with other compounds, potentially causing particles in your air that are bad for your health. If you could see that with magical glasses it would seem as if there are fireworks happening in your air triggered by those volatile compounds. So while UV has clear benefits, the byproducts that the lab conditions usually don't catch, make the applications limited.

Until recently I liked ZOHO. For the charity that I worked for, we built our website around ZOHO. They made us buy 7 licenses at the regular price, and that was a pretty tough arrangement for us. We only had one actual user. The rest were because a bunch of volunteers using one particular product. Zoho would not accept that fact. So we are a bigger part of that $1B than we like.

This is compared to inadequate application of humans. it is not competing with people who know how to do regex and string parsing. It is for the people who put an office assistant to the task. It is better to inadequately apply AI here as opposed to inadequately apply a human who probably has more fun things to do.

I think people are missing the actual issue here. Google used to have a clear distinction between what's an ad and what is organic.

In these screenshots you have to pay good attention to see the top result is an ad.

To keep their conversion numbers up they had to constantly reduce the difference between the ads and everything else. The fact that they can do this and we are so used to it that we don't first identify that as the culprit is quite interesting.

I have ran a few Google ads in the recent years and the people who come through them, some of them, clearly have no idea that they have clicked on an ad. This might be good for business but I think it does more harm overall.

The cards are definitely stacked against this when it's at Google. Because of:

1. Google's solid track record of killing things because they didn't grow quickly, after a half hearted effort. Stadia being the latest example.

2. Google being pretty bad at cracking the corporate communication space. Teams and Zoom ate its lunch.

3. Google not having a strategy behind communication tools in general. Meet, Hangouts, Chat, Duo, Alo, ... already it's weird where this fits.

4. Google being bad at supporting new hardware gadgets. My Daydream VR came out 2 years before my Pixel, somehow these two things don't support each other.

I wish they at least would sell their divisions instead of kill/hamper such moonshot products. This looks like the next Google Glass.

We know about this video and lots of indie math explainer videos like it thanks to 3Blue1Brown's "summer of math exposition". if you haven't heard about it, think of it as the best binge watch drop ever

https://youtu.be/cDofhN-RJqg

It's funny because Ubisoft+ was just announced, and you could play all Ubisoft titles for a monthly fee. Sounded like a huge effort.

I wonder if the sudden cut is part of Google preparing for a recession.

I'm sure there are some managers at Google who are patting each other on the back reciting "fail fast fail often" boasting about how much they learned launching Stadia, and looking for the next thing because Google should not be bogged down with things that don't turn the world upside down.

I don't think Google should become a maintenance company and I understand what the sunk cost fallacy is but I must ask...

Did no one at Google find the grit to ask for more money and try new things? They understand that we have stopped believing in their new products because they display no belief in those themselves, right?