nothing on improving the mic and moving away from bluetooth =(

> A redesigned inward-facing microphone works with voice enhancement algorithms to better recognize and articulate your voice, so it sounds more natural when you’re on phone and video calls.

Also where are you getting "moving away from bluetooth"? That was a rumor (that they might move to their U1 tech for better audio quality) but they didn't mention that in the presentation nor is it mentioned on their site.

I think they mean that it's a shame that they haven't moved away from Bluetooth.

Ahh, that makes way more sense. I didn't apply the "nothing on" to the second thing and while I think moving off bluetooth is a plus I know there are others who see it as a negative and I assumed that's what they meant since moving from BT was rumored ("Apple doing something proprietary", even though clearly the market isn't moving quickly to fix the issues with BT).

UWB would provide plenty of bandwidth at close range with better energy efficiency, but it will not match bluetooth for distance. With sufficient software complexity you could switch back and forth between them depending on conditions… so that sounds like a business decision on cost to implement and benefit.

Or some clown has a patent conjoining some aspect of UWB and audio, or protocol switching. Apple never says "we don't do this because there is a patent in the way". It isn't their image.

> sounds more natural

Well that’s a problem nobody had.

If they did this, I bet you would be complaining that they're using something proprietary and that its not compatible with Android phones.

totally not to train their language models to pass interviews

FANGs now hire remote workers and pay much, much more than 100k.

Which all FAANGs hire remote now? I thought they all had requirements of office

Was approached by Amazon and Google somewhat recently, they both wanted me to relocate to Dublin. Perhaps FAN hire for 100% remote, but AG don't seem to.

What number in question would be there if we evaluate schools or cinema or night clubs?

Booking is 5K employees.

Last time I checked it had 17k employees total (source: I worked there).

Wikipedia has much less content

Wikipedia can also be “moderated” by anyone. If I see spam or incorrect info on Wikipedia, I can edit it myself. Maybe reword things, add references, etc. On social media (FB/IG/etc), I don’t have that choice. My only option is to report it and hope the moderators don’t say “this [x] doesn’t violate our community standards” on a clearly spam/scam account/comment/post.

I’ve reported so much garbage on social media only to be told it’s not a scam or whatever, I’ve practically given up trying.

I mean you can't really do that on Wikipedia anymore. Sure the edit button is there but there's the spiritual equivalent of a PR process now.

True; I’ve definitely had my edits reversed or challenged. But I’ve also made many edits that weren’t (mainly on more niche pages).

Yes. Perhaps that's a clue?

FB's groups are terribly designed if you want to have a conversation and keep a collection of useful information.

They're cleverly designed to keep people scrolling forever on a content treadmill - in no way the same as optimising them for usefulness.

I mean TikTok is the perfectly optimized content treadmill and compared to Facebook and people rave about how good it is. You forget that a lot of the value of social media is passive entertainment to unwind.

500-600K is L5-L6 at google CA, which is still a lot of coding and maybe some reports, but not necessary.

Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple all have more than 100k employees, this is close to the full SF population, so doesn't look like "select few" to me.

These employees are not all software engineers getting paid out the yinyang with RSUs...