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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • That’s the ticket, IMO. I start off assuming they know, then pause to ask “are you familiar with x concept?”

    If they say yes and they really mean no, there’s really not a lot I can do. But it seems to make people feel at ease when talking to me - I don’t get called out for over explaining or infantalizing people this way.




  • Yes - this photo is pointing out that it’s not the responsibility of that black man to be nice to you and drive you out of racism.

    Would it help? Probably. But it’s not that person’s responsibility to prevent you from being radicalized. It’s on you and on us as a collective.

    You don’t feel like you have to be nice or every white person that person runs into will always be seen as shitty - our non-white friends shouldn’t have to bear that responsibility either.






  • It certainly looks like packages are scheduled to go out today - that lines up with the “12th-13th” estimate google gave me for ground shipping. Maybe they delay shipping for Expedited customers, though.

    I don’t have a trade in, so I only have the one package (and my Google store page says it’s all arriving in one package). My FedEx account updated almost exactly the same time I got my email, so I got no advanced notice either.

    I suspect you’ll have to wait for Google to send you the “shipped” email in order to confirm your package is actually scheduled to be shipped.


  • FedEx doesn’t have my package yet, so still no definitive delivery date.

    Google appears to use FedEx Standard Overnight shipping for Expedited orders (at least to my region), so that should be next day shipping once FedEx gets the package.

    I’m gonna guess maybe they’ll release the package to FedEx tomorrow so I can get it on the 12th? If they ship it today, I’ll have it tomorrow on the 11th.

    I hate FedEx, but at least their Express delivery drivers and logistics seem less prone to theft and delay than FedEx ground.




  • I plan to buy two.

    I’ve ordered (and received) the caseology parallax in bay blue for when I need super rugged protection. I also plan to order the Google branded bay blue case for when I don’t, once I get my Google store credit.

    I’m frustrated that my preferred cases (Spigen rugged armor and liquid air) only come in boring, dark colors. Why can’t I have a Rugged Armor in Bay Blue? I’ve gotta put up with the noticeable extra bulk of the caseology parallax?






  • In statistics, everything is based off probability / likelihood - even binary yes or no decisions. For example, you might say “this predictive algorithm must be at least 95% statistically confident of an answer, else you default to unknown or another safe answer”.

    What this likely means is only 26% of the answers were confident enough to say “yes” (because falsely accusing somebody of cheating is much worse than giving the benefit of the doubt) and were correct.

    There is likely a large portion of answers which could have been predicted correctly if the company was willing to chance more false positives (potentially getting studings mistakenly expelled).