They lied about the horizon battery life as well, reviewers put it at ~3 hours down from I think an "estimated" 12. Really nice laptops, I might still get one, but this sort of lying irks me.
Yeah starlabs uses a lot of glass trackpads in their products and are known for good builds; certainly this will be better than a thinkpad or something. The common complaints for their laptops are usually battery life (I know the horizon battery life was famously abysmal, roughly 3 hours of use), although I'm not sure how long this battery will last.
It's funny how Paul is recommending people use PR firms, while in more recent videos michael seibel and others have strongly recommended against using them. It's interesting how things shift in ~20 years
This is my thought too. The eggheads in accounting set budgets, and we produce products within that budget. I could be twice as productive with twice as many people, and maybe 50% more productive with good AI, but if it's not budgeted for it's an issue (especially short-term before the product is released).
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, you're right. We were large enough that we could find the talent, and the country was free enough so that private industry could drive innovation. Low taxes let companies reinvest. We know this is what happened because the success of free markets isn't a mystery, it's well studied and documented.
I feel like floor mattresses, trash, and peeling paint were also at play. They're all sort of unsafe rooms people wouldn't want to go to unless they felt like they had to (i.e. doing drugs)
I would not blame this on republicans; they don't hold a majority in the state senate, house, both senators and most house reps are democrats, and there isn't anywhere they hold meaningful power. Further they're opposed to doubling payroll taxes, the taxes are not raised yet.
Oregon, and Portland in particular, suffered a lot economically after covid due to overprotective laws banning operations. A lot of companies went out of business, people moved, and tax revenue plummeted. Growth since has been slow due to hostile laws. TriMet cuts are due to poor city and state management, which frankly doubling payroll tax would exacerbate.
I will say, to their credit, there has been a ~25% yoy commit increase since the introduction of AI. That's a pretty significant jump on an already popular site, at the same time they're supposed to be training models for search and other features. I think most sites that see that sort of increase will experience increased downtime
There is nothing more dismal than going through an application process when they've already decided not to hire you. I've seen managers do this, and I've been interviewed and realized partway through they've already decided who they're actually going to hire (and it's not me).
I like the idea of being able to do interview calls at 8pm, but I'm scared they will just spam these to everyone and I'll spend countless evenings "interviewing" for jobs I'll never get instead of meeting with people I care about.
This is 100% going to happen unless governments start mandating something like mandatory tax / monetary compensation to applicants for participating in AI-led interviews.
If you're profit seeking company with no regard to the negative social externalities of your actions, why not just send out AI interviews to everyone the way some tech companies send leetcodes to everyone today? They could even build some feature to make the AI interviewer try to extract as much market information and good ideas out of you as possible and feed that data into their internal AI product ideation engine. You have to pay ball or else you don't get the job. (Btw if you pass the interview you have a 0.1% chance of being hired)
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