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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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Wordle dictionary

Wordle is a web browser game that you can play at this link. You get 6 chances to guess a single 5 letter word and there is only 1 word per day.

This gist contains the contents of the dictionary Wordle uses as of January 27th, 2022. Wordle actually uses two dictionaries:

La words that can be guessed and which can be the word of the day
Ta words that can be guessed but are never selected as the word of the day

	version: '3'
	services:
	n8n:
	image: docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n
	ports:
	- 5678:5678
	environment:
	- GENERIC_TIMEZONE=America/Chicago
	- TZ=America/Chicago

	# 1. First of all of course get Manjaro:
	https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/

	# I recommend using Etcher to copy the image to your USB:
	https://etcher.io/

	# 2. Before installing make sure:
	# - Secure boot is disabled in BIOS
	# - Your SSD, HDD or NVME drive is set to AHCI instead of RAID
	# - Fastboot should be on Auto or minimal, but this shouldn't matter to much

	# Useful for testing things that are time zone
	# sensitive - like scheduling things

	# Get current timezone
	sudo systemsetup -gettimezone

	# Get list of available timezones
	sudo systemsetup -listtimezones

	# Set the timezone to the selected timezone

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name 知识星球视频增强
	// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
	// @version 2024-04-21
	// @description 知识星球视频，通过键盘控制: 前进后退暂停开始全屏
	// @author ohownew
	// @match https://wx.zsxq.com/*
	// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=zsxq.com
	// @grant none
	// ==/UserScript==

	git branch -m old_branch new_branch # Rename branch locally
	git push origin :old_branch # Delete the old branch
	git push --set-upstream origin new_branch # Push the new branch, set local branch to track the new remote

	{
	"data": "%data%"
	}