I guess then, that he is relying on his customers not discovering that there are options out there that will do this for them, without a "middle man" as it were. Seems like shaky ground to be standing on, but I suppose it can work for a while, if he already has good relationships in his industry.
Waymo is doing very well around San Francisco, which is certainly very challenging city driving. Yes, it doesn't snow there. Maybe areas with winter storms will never have autonomous vehicles. That doesn't mean there isn't a lot of utility created even now.
My original point, clearly badly phrased given the responses I got, is that the promises have been exceeding the reality for a decade.
Musk's claims about what Tesla's would be able to do wasn't limited to just "a few locations" it was "complete autonomy" and "you'll be able to summon your car from across the country"… by 2018.
I had a colleague who I sensed was giving me the cold shoulder. Just kind of cutting off attempts at friendly conversation, whereas before our relationship had been fine.
As the author suggests, instead of just letting it fester, I caught him at an opportune moment and asked him if I had done anything to upset him (I suspected maybe a not-tactful-enough code review may have been the culprit.) He just denied that anything was wrong, other than that he wasn't sure how to relate to me because our circumstances are so different (I'm quite a bit older than him and have a family, although it hadn't been a problem before.)
Unfortunately this interaction just made our relationship even more awkward, and it never recovered. He ended up leaving the company about six months later.
In summation, simply getting things out in the open is not necessarily the cure-all the author suggests it is.
It's important to realize that other people may have something going on in their life that affects their mood and maybe their desire to be friends. If it is someone you know at work they may not be comfortable talking to you about the problem. I think you should always be friendly, but if someone isn't friendly back don't just assume its because of you.
Clearing the air has gone well for me before, but it usually goes poorly.
And a lot of the time the air is foggy because I prefer it that way. I know my supervisor doesn't like me. I don't see it as a problem to solve, for now I want the "movie logic" because it's more comfortable than candor.
Yep. Communication is a two way street. You can find the right words to say and say them all you want but if the receiver doesn't receive the words the way you mean them then it's all for naught.
Further, you cannot control how the receiver receives your words.
As the author said: "Our sense that something is weird is often accurate, but our stories about precisely what the weirdness represents are often way, way off." It might have been better to start off with the general impression you had.
I mean, if they'd been open to addressing the real problem, it could've worked. Otherwise the remaining solution would be to never try and to never know. Now you know there's nothing you could've done and the ball was solely in his court.
You can't fix everything, but you can set things up so there's an opportunity for change.
As another data point, my son was 5 when the lockdowns hit and missed the end of his kindergarten year and the entirety of first grade. He's doing fine.
My daughter was 18 months and went back to preschool at age three. She's also doing fine.
In fact I don't know any of their peer group who I would consider to be "having a terrible time adjusting to school and normal social interaction" which could be directly tied to Covid. There were some kids who had already been identified as having developmental challenges, and that hasn't changed.
That's correct. The flow is 1) user requests some change e.g. "change to dark mode", 2) a snapshot of the page is sent to an LLM, 3) the LLM generates and returns a deterministic script that handles the page editing.
And just to further clarify: "each use" means each generation. Applying the modification after generation doesn't cost tokens
99% of users of FB would never hear of this extension, nor know what to do with an extension, nor care to even consider that they could improve their experience.
> In the cafeteria, Ryan Tripathi, 16, was paging through “Lord of the Flies,” which he said is slow-going. “I'm just not used to reading,” he said. “I’m usually on my phone.”
Lord of the Flies is a short book telling a simple story in which lots of very identifiable stuff actually happens. It’s not exactly Ulysses. Sixteen year olds used to routinely read more complex works of fiction for fun.
I couldn't disagree more. And it was the one thing that surprised me every time we cracked open a new book. "All Quiet on the Western Front" sounded terrible to a 14 year old me, but after starting it, I couldn't put it down. Same with Lord of the Flies. Fahrenheit 451. The Giver. I loved Animal Farm. And the Great Gatsby (though I get people not liking this one). The Outsiders was good. The Old man and the Sea was pretty boring I'll admit. Who thinks To Kill a Mockingbird is boring as shit?
I loved those books when I was younger (still do). They're good stories regardless of age. Lord of the flies is about a bunch of young kids having to play real life survival after a plane crash and devolve into some pretty crazy people during it. How could that be boring?
And Besides a bit of Orson Scott Card and LoTR I didn't get into fantasy until later in life.
I read quite a bit when I was in school, but I honestly don't remember a direct assigned book I actually liked. There were times we got to choose what we were reading for school and in those cases I read some that stuck with me like "1984".
