The problem was not about bamboo scaffolding. Bamboo is very fire resilent. The problem was the safety nets covering the building is very flammable.
We can see that the bamboo frame is still there after days of burning. Steel structures would do much worse when the fire goes over 1000 degree Celesius.
I read somewhere else that styrofoam coverings over windows that weren't supposed to be used as well as the safety nets helped it spread. I assumed Bamboo would be flammable but I did some research and see that it isn't... and the Bamboo they use is treated to make it less flammable. So, there are lots of people saying that it's Chinese propaganda to push that particular narrative.
It's amazon deliveries for me. Gmail gets confused about multi-item orders with different delivery dates, and I cannot click away the banners displaying on top of the mailbox. Really poor UI.
OTOH, it's nice to see that there is some innovation happening - eventually (I am an optimist) they will weed out the lousy stuff and keep the useful.
Bullshit. I worked there too. My internal bug reports were completely ignored just as much. Not a single reply.
Google map webapp always resets the unit selection to "automatic" which means miles in the US. It should retain the setting in a cookie at the very least.
I have been sending a bug report to Google yearly since 2012. That's 13 years, including 4 years as a Google employee with the ability to create internal bug reports.
Of course it depends on the team, and so on, but the difference in severity between "can't delete a calendar event" and "doesn't remember the value of a toggle" is pretty vast.
FWIW, maps on the web does seem to remember the units setting for me.
What makes you think it hasn't long been using a large language model for it though? Maybe not Large Language Model, the term seems to have come with ChatGPT et al., but Google's been doing machine learning for a long long time; the transformer architecture paper (kind of the groundwork for the current wave) was published by a Google team in 2017.
A lot of new Google features are branded 'AI', because it's so hyped it has broad consumer awareness, but a lot of Google features for a long time have used AI and just been brandless or at least 'AI'-less features.
It started about a month ago for me. I am subscribed to emails from an IT as a Gig platform called Field Nation. Thought I might pickup a bit of side work but never did.
Recently it started adding them to my calendar and there is no way to turn off this feature without also turning off useful features such as package out for delivery notifications.
Microsoft nuked the default behaviour of the input method of Traditional Chinese that had been working for the last 50 years with a silent Windows Update
Yeah exactly. I understand you may feel that I bulldozed your house, but it was an honest mistake. I deployed an AI bulldozer. Some communities are very happy with the results. Others may need time to adjust. Look, I want to talk. First and foremost this is about communication.
As soon as you get Wi-Fi back up, let's hop on a call.
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