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il y a 9 joursdiscuss

Windows for ages did not really keep all the code in one repo. There were like a dozen parallel repos for e.g. the shell, kernel, IE, etc. Also every feature was developed on team-level branches; integrating all those branches often caused unexpected bugs.

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

In Google the ads are at least segregated from normal results, like for web search.

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

There are also all the free services that just build goodwill. Those are the most at risk. Of course the "ad carriers" are treated better, since again money is on the line. But any non-essential. feature thereof is also potentially killable.

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

Google would say they aren't preferencing their product. They are preferencing the merchants who actually sell the products over middlemen who try to extract rents from said merchants. Because they put free links to merchants' product pages in search results.

TBH it's the same as Google not linking to other search engines' result pages in its search results. Why would it, when it can link directly the content the user wants?

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

It's not all ads. Indeed it's mostly not.

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

I don't really think of showing rich shopping results as preferring "Google's product". It's just showing links to merchants in a fancier UI. It's fundamentally still search, linking out to 3rd party websites.

FWIW, even what you think should be allowed is banned in Europe. On Google Search in the EU there is no "Shopping" or "Maps" tab.

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

But is searching for products a new product line, or just a natural extension of searching for webpages (many of which are about products)? Where do you draw the line between merely improving the monopoly product and abusing the monopoly?

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

IMO the fines do have an effect - Google now withholds a lot of launches from the EU, sometimes temporarily until they have time to have lawyers check them against DMA requirements, but mostly permanently. Ironically the part of Google most likely to persist in launching for the EU is Ads, since money is at stake. All the free, consumer-benefiting services are most likely to be curtailed in the face of aggressive regulation.

il y a 11 joursdiscuss

This is not a problem in other western countries, so why would it be in the US? It sounds very much like post-hoc justification to me.

il y a 12 joursdiscuss

GCP has wild YoY earnings growths and it has accelerated since cloud AI became a thing. AI is finally bringing Google a real second line of business besides ads.

il y a 15 joursdiscuss

This only works if you can force every state to do it, lest naive states be defenseless against those that don't disarm. But any such compulsion would be self-terminating, and thus unstable.

Why not just do it all? Fund the military and the arts and the sciences.

il y a 16 joursdiscuss

So long as the benefit:cost ratio is still sufficiently high, I don't think anyone gets fired for not scrimping. Better to encourage positive EV behaviour by your employees than to scare them away by firing them for not being perfectly optimal.

il y a 16 joursdiscuss

Yep, my European apartment has been heated with waste heat from a nearby data centre since 2013: https://eicher-pauli.ch/referenzen/ewz-waermeverbund-binz-zu...

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

Why would it? Stock compensation doesn't affect cash flow, it just dilutes the shareholders.

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

Anthropic just announced it's on track to have its first profitable quarter: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind-blowing-growth-is-about-to-...

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

Ontario _already_ gets a quarter of its power from storage, in the form of hydro. If you add some pumps you can use the existing dam capacity more.

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

Even then, the costs came down 10x in a decade, so it seems foolish to commit to nuclear which has no prospects of getting cheaper.

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

Sydney drivers are very aggressive, but IME they do cut learners some slack. The learners just don't realise how much more aggressive people normally are... The 80km/h limit doesn't help either, as it forces a bunch of overtaking conflicts on freeways.

il y a 19 joursdiscuss

This is locale-dependent. English is top to bottom but German is bottom to top, for example. It looks bad when you have a mixed language shelf...

il y a 23 joursdiscuss

The call centre for my Australian bank's KYC is seemingly backed by a single person. I've spoken to her a few times now... so calling them back more or less does work, though you might have to wait on hold again.