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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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I'm getting adverts in my TV's UI, help!

Samsung's otherwise excellent 2016 range of UHD TVs received an update that added advertisements to the UI. This has been complained about at great length on Samsung's forums and repeatedly, Samsung have refused to add an option to remove them.

The ads interrupt the clean UI of the TV and are invasive. Here's an example of how they look:

This guide was originally posted on Samsung's TV forums but unfortunately, that site is a super-slow and barely accessible unusable mess.

	sealed trait Interact[A]

	case class Ask(prompt: String)
	extends Interact[String]

	case class Tell(msg: String)
	extends Interact[Unit]

	trait Monad[M[_]] {
	def pure[A](a: A): M[A]

	import akka.stream.scaladsl.Flow

	import scala.concurrent.{ ExecutionContext, Future }
	import scalaz._
	import scalaz.std.scalaFuture.futureInstance // IntelliJ lies

	/**
	* Flowz provides Akka Stream Flow like methods for monadic types.
	*
	* You can define the `M` type and the input type, and let the compiler infer the output

	###
	###
	### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script:
	### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
	### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
	### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
	### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win \| iex
	###
	### OR take a look at
	### https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security

	"""
	Functional programming utilities for python
	"""

	from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals

	# pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
	from collections import defaultdict
	from copy import copy

	"""
	Generic utilities for predicate functions; functions in the form of `a -> bool`
	"""
	from datetime import date
	from typing import Any, Callable, Generic, Optional, TypeVar, cast

	A = TypeVar('A')
	B = TypeVar('B')
	C = TypeVar('C')