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Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?
  • The thing about being a big organization is that you need to have slack capacity most of the time in order to be able to go quickly in a different direction at certain times. If you don't have excess capacity sitting idle, an unforeseen event can paralyze you

  • In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past
  • We're a century away from self-driving cars that can handle snowfall

    Just this year farmers with self-driving tractors got screwed because a solar flare made GPS inaccurate and so tractors went wild because they were programmed with the assumption of GPS being 100% reliable and accurate with no way to override

  • In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past
  • Not sure if we're agreeing and saying exactly the same thing here, but Uber's business model is to get suckers who are bad at math to own the cars. Uber's business model does not work if they have to own their own cars. Self-driving Uber doesn't work because Uber would have to own the cars and therefore has to cover vehicle insurance, vehicle depreciation, and so on out of its own margin.

  • WHO Lived When?
  • Ivan the Terrible is wrong by 2 centuries. The picture has him as 1754-1793, somehow after Peter the Great, but he actually lived 1530-1584. That's a really weird mistake

    The didn't confuse Ivan the Terrible with Catherine the Great, because she lived 1729-1796 so those dates don't match either

  • If you were a Thousandaires host
  • You are confusing things. IAC shut down both CollegeHumor and Drawfee in 2020. Sam Reich bought CollegeHumor and resurrected it as Dropout. Drawfee also went indie. "These guys" haven't been involved since 2020

  • www.twowheeledpolitics.ca March 2024 East Don Trail Visit

    A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

    March 2024 East Don Trail Visit
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    The State of Disrepair at the TTC

    stevemunro.ca The State of Disrepair

    In July 2023, the Scarborough RT met its unexpected end with a derailment south of Ellesmere Station. The underlying cause was a loose segment of reaction rail struck by the train. The last car sep…

    The State of Disrepair
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    The State of Disrepair at the TTC

    stevemunro.ca The State of Disrepair

    In July 2023, the Scarborough RT met its unexpected end with a derailment south of Ellesmere Station. The underlying cause was a loose segment of reaction rail struck by the train. The last car sep…

    The State of Disrepair
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