You filter it out to help with the bandwidth, because grain (or random noise in general) is expensive to transmit due to being incompressible. So adding it back gives you a result closer to the source material.

I got the second half

Brave lets people use Origin for free if they’re on Linux

lol

The vast majority of those we laid off last week were measurers. We cut middle managers across the organization because AI allows us to have more direct reports per manager while still measuring and mentoring our teams effectively. We consolidated our operations functions into a single group that can support teams across the business, using AI to gain specific expertise when needed. We significantly reduced our marketing team, which, like in most companies, was teeming with measurers. Across our finance team, we found opportunities to consolidate and automate.

But the layoff wasn’t about reducing headcount. In fact, we have a record number of open positions. In coming years I expect our number of employees will continue to grow. With fewer people needed for measuring, we can now invest more in people in the areas that drive growth.

that makes sense to me

You’d think so, but Windows runs better on snapdragon today than Linux. I was very interested in buying one, but in the current state it’s a toy for enthusiasts.

it’s not that siml- gets taped

I did it that last month, not because I have any expectations of privacy (I wish we could move away from emails entirely), but because I don’t want to be so much at the mercy of what google decides, especially with their recent push on id verification left and right, and ties to this dystopian government. I’m gradually moving away from other of their products too.

If I was browsing options today, I’d also look into calendar and contact management / importing. Proton makes it easy to import existing calendars and they are kept in sync. They’re still improving the calendar features though, so maybe you’ll miss a thing or two there. Contacts are also easy to import, but there’s no feature to keep them in sync with what google has, if you need a transition period. There is a merging/deduplication feature though.

And if you’re using google workspaces, I couldn’t figure out how to send an email from proton using the work domain, so that’s something I still need to use the gmail web client or e.g. thunderbird.

6.6.6 is mentioned

so group B doesn’t use frameworks but prefers making things according to a model? What’s a model here? I’m not following

dont tell me what to do

will someone please think of the retention numbers

a measure that will actually help protecting kids? Not on their watch

ha, even if it was true - which isn’t - that would never hurt the stock, the stock market is soulless

Right. But that was from a time where it was your friends and family who had your number, so having to change it was a major hassle not only for you. With it being asked by so many services, that’s eventually ending up in the dark web.

Many people don’t call anymore. A similar group blocks all calls from unknown numbers due to constant robocalls. So a phone number today is just another data point to fingerprint someone. Its usefulness turned into an artificially created need by services that want a cheap way to tell real users from robots.

yeah, phone numbers have been used primarily to fight spam and fake accounts, so my guess is that this practice will become even more common with stricter policies around phone number registration. I hate it.

This basically turns phone numbers into a deregulated government ID number. You’d think they had learned something with SSNs by now.

Some taxi companies use third-party Uber-like apps to connect to riders, the bigger ones might have their own apps, but my guess is that those also ask for a phone number.

The best way might just be hailing one off the street.

I’m not even sure it does work. Prime only tried trivial packages, but based on my experience with agentic coding, I’m not convinced they’re able to deliver a fully functional package of medium size while being truly clean room.

Also, there’s an anecdotal comment on youtube of someone who tried this (on a small package) and they mention the clean room was violated (the AI added implementation instructions to the documentation), had performance issues, and the best part, the generated code had an MIT license. Now I wish Prime had looked at the LICENSE files created.

at least that one still requires you to be familiar with a work of fiction

it ends when whoever buys their services realizes they’re spending more with duct tape around generated code than just by using an open source library and giving credit

because it does mean evil, the words share the same root

I thought that would be too on-the-nose, but people really fail to see that apparently

Ok, let’s think this through. Whoever “hires” them ends with a legally questionable codebase to say the least, that has worst architecture and performance than its open source counterpart, while also being unmaintainable and likely costing more to fix than building something the right way in the first place.

So they’re taking money from people trying to do this shit? Great.