OOPMan · HackerTrans

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I have Google TV on my Sony TV and found that I was able to disable the ads and crap.

There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.

I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.

I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD

OOPMan

4 tahun yang laludiscuss

Indeed.

They should be renamed to ShitOverflow, because that's how bad the quality is a lot of the time.

OOPMan

5 tahun yang laludiscuss

Since it's a static database and the queries against it are most likely going to be static, just pre-run the queries and store the results statically in a more space-efficient format. When you're on a dogshit internet connection in a 3rd world country 50kb can actually be pretty unpleasant. Try rate limiting your internet to EDGE rated to see what I mean.

I'm not saying the whole thing isn't impressive, just that the concept itself is one of those "because I can" rather "because I should" things, which kinda devalues it a whole lot.

OOPMan

5 tahun yang laludiscuss

It's impressive on one hand.

On the other it's still a lot of overhead.

OOPMan

6 tahun yang laludiscuss

Is this real?

OOPMan

6 tahun yang laludiscuss

You're talking to Apple customers. Being gouged is a way of life for them.

OOPMan

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

It's pretty simple. He's saying OP worked at Google for 6 years but his career progression has been largely static.

OOPMan

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

Agreed. Boring jobs leave me unhappy and increase the odds I'll quit and move on.

In fact, I've changed jobs roughly every 2 to 3 years precisely due to boredom.

It sounds nice to be able to get by day-to-day in a full job but it's not a good fit for me personally.

OOPMan

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

Yeah...as someone who recently relocated from a third-world country (South Africa) to a first-world country (Canada) I'm just going to go ahead and tell you that while the costs of living and property in third-world countries sound great there are a lot of negatives that don't make up for it.

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