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Just want to say that this is a wild idea and I really like it. I don't know how viable it is but it's definitely interesting.

Callimachi was an absolute rockstar at the paper. She had been nominated for multiple Pulitzer Prizes and this, amongst other things, would lead to another nom. I suspect there was a deference to a veteran reporter at the top of her game, a feeling of sunk cost and risk analysis that said "this is so good that we have to publish it".

I think it was a case of the NYT quite openly deluding themselves.

I also took it daily and heavily in high school during basketball season for shin splints. Probably a couple of years of pulling that mess. I often think back now to how I had a complete system that timed for efficacy, taking a few 30 min before practice then more while suiting up, then even more if I could during and then after practice. I'd alter this timing on game days since practices were walk-thrus, etc.

In some ways it's a relief to hear from someone else with that experience (this was 20 years ago for me).

Heh I saw this the other day and just assumed that easter egg had always been there.

It's not just the values they place on the end user and simplicity, it's their huge amount of cash they can use to test and deploy technologies (think spatial audio partners) and their tight grip on supply chains (try sourcing some of the same materials an iPhone is made of).

I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the best chance at making a wave as a consumer product concern is to make waves on some sub-component of the larger product being produced by the majors. You aren't going to compete with Apple, Sony or Bose directly, but you can improve on new technologies or extant processes and hope to get subsumed. That's the truly sad part.

No what? What are you talking about?

I suspect the best path for success that individuals or small companies can take right now is to focus on one piece of the larger product and aim for acquisition or licensing, sort of like the pharmaceutical space.

I don't know how you read a negative or judgmental tone into that comment... GP is basically saying that consumer technology has advanced to the point where you need large teams doing complicated or deeply technical (and somewhat incremental) improvements on existing technologies.

It's not a judgment on the product. It's just a lament that the days of individuals or small companies innovating in the consumer electronics space are (long?) over.

Many Americans don't even make the effort to wear masks. What do you suppose the institutions ought to do with them in an incisive lockdown situation?

What I would do is find a way to decouple your test running system from the lifecycle tooling. Develop a custom solution that run CI pipelines in k8s and collates results and passes them upstream to the lifecycle tooling whether it's GitHub Actions or Jenkins or whatever. By doing this you free your pipelines from lock-in and can utilize cheap compute (DigitalOcean, GKE pre-emptibles, etc).

Take a look at Tekton CI/CD for a good primitive that you can build on.

Do people do this in the winter as well?

Thanks for the response. [edit, removed question]

You probably know this but others might not: there are literally agencies that develop ideas through a tight lifecycle of inception, moderate form to long form market testing in publications like Wired and investment and film/podcast/TV development sourcing based on feedback from those market tests and brand sponsorship and alignment for the launch of the final product.

Here is one agency in particular: https://www.epicdigital.com/

Why?

> IN APRIL 2017, a man started hiking in a state park just north of New York City. He wanted to get away, maybe from something and maybe from everything.

> Everyone who goes into the woods is trying to get away from something.

> Everyone, at some point, has wanted to put their phone in a garbage can and head off with a fake name and a wad of cash.

Since you are here I want to mention how off-putting this rhetoric is to me, a person who likes being outdoors, who doesn't have problems around spend all day refreshing the NYT or twitter or instagram, a person who genuinely likes solitude. It's almost as if urbanity is now synonymous with a neurotic steady state of over-exposure and any act of finding a moment of peace in the outdoors is itself a futile act of desperation -- an attempt to flee modernity. It just doesn't ring true to me.