The Daily Index — Thursday, November 16, 2023 · TLDR Index

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AMAZON TO STAFF: COME INTO THE OFFICE – IT'D BE A SHAME IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO YOUR PROMOTION

Amazon employees risk undermining their own promotion prospects if they don’t return to the office for three days a week. Corporate workers must get VP-level approval if they aren’t able to come into the office. Amazon had issued a return-to-office mandate in May. Around 10% of its employees protested the mandate, including those that joined the company during the pandemic as remote workers.

theregister.com · 3 min

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EXPLORING GPTS: CHATGPT IN A TRENCH COAT?

GPTs allows ChatGPT Plus users to create their own custom GPT chat bots that other Plus subscribers can then talk to. While it might not seem like much more than a fancy wrapper for standard GPT-4 with some pre-baked prompts, GPTs combines many features to provide much more than that. This article discusses these features and shows users how to get the most out of OpenAI’s latest feature.

simonwillison.net · 33 min

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GOOGLE’S 36% SEARCH REVENUE SHARE WITH APPLE IS 3X WHAT ANDROID OEMS GET

The highest tier of search revenue share for cooperative Android OEMs is 12%.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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MICROSOFT OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES LOOP, ITS NOTION COMPETITOR

Loop provides flexible and collaborative workspaces and pages that make it easier for users to cooperate on work.

theverge.com · 1 min

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ELON MUSK'S STARLINK IPO MAY LIFT OFF AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR

SpaceX is considering launching an initial public offering as soon as late 2024.

qz.com · 3 min

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WHY DO PEOPLE USE VBA?

Most people who use VBA do so because they have no other choice - many organizations run their entire business processes with Excel, which requires VBA to automate.

sancarn.github.io · 9 min

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PUSH IFS UP AND FORS DOWN

Consider moving if conditions inside functions to the caller instead, and if you have a whole batch of things to work with, you can amortize the startup cost and be flexible about the order things are processed.

matklad.github.io · 3 min

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HOME INNOVATION ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE READY TO SIGN UP FOR CHATGPT PLUS? JOIN THE CLUB

Users wanting to sign up for a new ChatGPT subscription will now have to sign up for a waitlist to be notified when subscriptions reopen.

zdnet.com · 2 min