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One question: after writing the sentence “I really got a lot out of the article.”, I wondered: is this extraneous? Is this clear? Am I saying precisely what I mean? And I think, yes, I meant exactly what I said, and I went into detail in the following sentence. I am just curious what you think.
A few thoughts:
1. I would never be so brazen (brave? have the guts?) as to try all of this. I would expect to be rate limited and throttled or banned or get a nasty letter from a lawyer or something.
2. The HTTPie thing was interesting. I am still not quite sure what that application is, but I am definitely going to stick with curl now.
3. They demknstrated a number of interesting strategies unrelated to tech per se like registering that new domain and getting people to add them as a guest account and making those fake posts on what I presume is a university message board type thing. I bet this is how people who are good at stuff like “growth hacking” or developing engagement numbers and such work. Pretty clever. Still makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
A cool story. I was hoping the demo image would say “you at $300 of omelets” but I guess it is probably not that fine grained?
1. The decline (which is reported to be less frequent in cannabis users) is self-reported subjective cognitive decline based on users’ experience.
2. I think that one of the hallmarks of cannabis use is an immediate decline in short-term memory. I believe this usually reverses itself after some time (hours or days).
3. I have used a lot of cannabis in the past. I stopped entirely - for now - for quite some time and I think my mental acuity is currently at its peak over my lifetime and may be growing.
4. Not only is cannabis a very highly cultivated plant whose potency has been increasing a lot for decades (citation needed), there are a ton of cannabis-derived products out there today that have just a ton of THC, way more than one could get by smoking even the highest potency bud. I think this has prohably changed the game entirely. I used a few of them and I would absolutely recommend caution, far beyond the legitimate caution I would recommend for even smoking cannabis bud.
Negatives so far:
1. Relay costs money for continued use
2. Not every site supports a Relay email with the default domain or phone number (it is a VOIP number I think)
3. I am not sure what will happen to my HME emails if I ever stop using iOS / iCloud
4. My single Relay support request was not responded to in a useful way
5. I still have a ton of accounts that predate my usage of these services
6. Sometimes when a service is really important or I am dealing with a human being I will just give my direct info to try to make sure things work smoothly.
I bet a Relay or HME compromise would be an interesting thing from a hacker’s perspective. But I still like the services.
I wish gmail had a filter for mails sent by a human, but I suspect it would be antithetical to their aims.
i was waiting in suspense for the author to make a mistake and was so relieved when i saw they did not. when they were talking about the socket i was thinking "oh no, they must have cracked something"...
tangent, I remember reading some post called something like "Latency numbers every programmer should know" and being slightly ashamed when I could not internalize it.
lol
> “Sometimes in an attempt to be more efficient, we do things that make the process less efficient.”
in the article it is followed immediately by:
> In enacting civility, two themes emerged:
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> Civility was viewed as preventing a situation from escalating, and ultimately attaining a beneficial outcome. “We would not want events to get out of hand,” said one employee.
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> Employees believe it is intrinsically important to be respectful and understanding. Said one participant, “consideration should be given to the feelings and ideas of each person.”
i think that civility and being respectful (which would mean curtailing extraneous conversation) is considerably different from wasting someone's time with irrelevant discussion
not really relevant, but anyone know where mad ned is at these days? haven't seen any new posts of his in a while, and i enjoyed a bunch of them.
how does this happen? (i am not a snapchat user)
not even to begin talking about the political ramifications...
as another commenter mentioned the thing about the branch prediction bit flipping in awk was quite something. the SE Toolkit to monitor kernel perf, which could run for years without issue - was something cool too. the guy who found and fixed a kernel bug offering the biggest performance win in Solaris 8 in the course of writing the first book in a series called Solaris Internals - wow. the description of "the can of worms project" in which they run workloads that look like what customers might use, things that that go beyond typical eng team benchmarks, and the meltdown prevention and heading off of customer issues, it's a great concept from my personal point of view. i appreciated the touching on other more human subjects like the capacity planning DB pricing calculator for customers and the bizdev, relationship, and product design points.
i started off being jealous of what the guy was saying but i was so blown away by everything that i had forgotten that feeling by the end of the article. it was replaced with awe.
> I figure that if you have knowledge that could benefit thousands of people, and it costs you next to nothing to share that knowledge, it’s your duty to do it.
As someone who has written a lot of docs over the years, there can often be a very high cost in terms of time and effort to document something.
The thing about art, IMO, is that it does a great service for humanity in giving us hope, purpose, and something to live for. When you treat artists as a cost to just minimize, you make it harder for any of them to succeed at making a living doing their work. I believe that the effects of the very low streaming royalty payments will have a chilling effect on professional musicians making a real go of it.