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nearly every "how" is going to trigger some haters.

you skipped a node in the tree

then why haven't you done it?

"Traditional" search, AI mode search and Gemini all present similar content rankings. The end result of a student searching "How did Abraham Lincoln win the 1860 election" will only vary by presentation, not narrative.

If Google were to "turn off AI" -- how far back into their ranking engine would they have to go? That would require them to run a 15+ year old engine, and the results would be worse than useless. Approaching Alta-vista levels of noisiness.

trying to make money off an invention is perfectly reasonable.

i admit they don't enumerate their patches well, but the major residential router vendors do regular updates , usually indicated with "security fixes" .

unfortunately most lack SSH access or a real ability to test the kernel patch version.

Tesla is shockingly customer friendly with many services. I’ve received many new feature updates that would have been an upsell with BMW. “Premium Connectivity” is only $99 / year, and would be 5x with another vendor. The free connectivity provides gps . FSD is only $100 per month. BMW charges way more than that for petty suspension features.

My Finnish friends showed me their high school math books, which were subjects that I took during my first two years of undergraduate math. One of my friends graduated US high school, and re-enrolled in Finnish high school because her coursework was so retarded.

It wasn’t always this way. For most of the twentieth century, American schools were advanced when compared to foreign schools.

It’s mostly due to broad lowered standards and expectations, low standards for teaching, phony credentials. But the US DOE hasn’t helped either. It would be best to move its entitlements to another agency, and abolish the remainder. It’s overseen the biggest academic decline over the past 50 years. Outside of the entitlements, even its supporters couldn’t name a single good policy.

Maybe for 6 months.

A monitor. You will lose some controls over color & clarity (motion smoothing). But it will provide the best “dumb TV” experience.

I use my monitor with a fire TV stick and it renders very well. LG 4k panel.

he’s no worse than a hallmark card, until something difficult happens.

I believe there’s a hackernews dump on google big query public datasets.

Local search index is the key to responsiveness.

He’s the Deepak Chopra of leadership. Lots of trite aphorisms, nothing meaningful. No actual business accomplishments.

Kudos to him for making money, not going to knock him. But this is hackernews. People are hyper critical of competence, and that guy has never exhibited any success at business.

He’s an AI trained on LinkedIn Posts

No .

john oliver. Simon Sinek. c'mon guys

This works for some, but not all. Eventually you’ll encounter instigators , often not contributing much, that need to be confronted . How are you going to handle them ?

Everything sounds nice and easy on a LinkedIn post , but day to day human relationships are confrontational .

How?

I ran BeOS for a bit, and it was the best OS upgrade experience I've had, besides the Windows 95 to NT 4.0 upgrade.

One of the few upgrade experiences that was a discernable improvement and completely revised experience.

it's a mind virus and we all use them. nothing exceptional there

you're making a broad judgement call off of a very narrow selection.

We've had 15+ years of hyper HR cancel culture espoused by Simon Sinek, Linked In and so on.

Perhaps this is just reversion to the mean?

One of my first bosses would throw keyboards at me and cuss me out nearly every hour. One of my favorites, in hindsight. Great guy. Just passionate, and overworked.

Learn not to jump to conclusions.

You don’t have to think out loud.

confirming every stereotype

The article is very manipulative, and if you read it more thoroughly , you'll side with the CEO and here's why.

The context is that every company's "moat" has been blown away, and we are going to re-play 2005-2025 in the next 5 years (or faster).

Proton was working on post-quantum and a privacy-focused AI . They are continuing to innovate to support customer's security & privacy needs. Privacy-friendly email (and docs) is already 5+ years behind the market right now.

Imagine you are the CEO, and you are struggling with vocal and distracting luddite engineers. How would you handle the situation?

Kudos to him for being candid and direct, knowing that the chat would get leaked. Honestly I wish more leadership would just keep it real.

Team management here.

I'd rather hear that than passive aggressive & vague HR speak. Sounds like a fun company to work at actually.

the evil execs give me lucrative snacks and salary , lots of extra headcount , they are so evil.

Permissions consent prompts are broken. they are far too coarse, and out of context. The customer is forced to consent without knowing the scope or what will break.

A better experience would be an async consent screen, with placeholder content and calls to action until permission is granted.

For example, a network ping scanner could show placeholder host names & status until the user clicks to allow access.

The operating system could easily stub the sensitive APIs with placeholder content and a flag indicating the content is false. So even legacy apps could work.

worse than cigs, better than gambling or porn