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And almost all of the revenue for it comes from mobile users.

I've literally never been asked my college GPA, let alone high school. My first job out of school wanted to know that I had a degree, which I did, and asked me practical questions. Every job since has asked me about previous jobs and then asked me practical questions.

That is quite similar to how I play now anyway, so I might be really good at this version.

"Combustion and Flame" has to be one of the best journal names out there.

Webster defines "missile" as "capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object" -- the modern use I think came from "guided missile," but in practice we've dropped the guided in most cases.

Am I the only person who read that title as `Bullsh[T]`?

I'm so sorry to hear this. My kids love Technoblade. He's one of the few streamers I know by name. Gone far too soon.

The hell it doesn’t! Let me tell you … ;-)

Chelsea FC, one of the larger clubs in the Premiership, is owned by Roman Abramovich, one of the Russian oligarchs personally named as a target of sanctions as a result of Russia invading Ukraine. Given that, and the possibility that his assets in the UK will be seized, he's selling his stake in the club.

It would be like if the Dallas Cowboys were actually based in Moscow and the Russians had made it impossible for Jerry Jones to do business there and so he was selling his stake in the team.

There's a pretty wide gap, though, between "nicely representable in rust" and "mechanically translatable from the C++ implementation" that mostly requires human effort to span.

It's not though? Sure, there are edge cases (breastfeeding being labeled as porn, for example), but the vast majority of what is blocked as porn on major social networks is actually porn as understood by most people. That's not the case for most misinformation.

Actually unintentional but I saw it after and chortled

It's a little nuts to me how many articles cite the $10 billion price tag as astronomical when we spent that in maybe 2 weeks during the peak of the Iraq War, and for what?

Seeing Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum a decade or so ago totally changed my view of seeing things in a museum vs. seeing them online. I'm a child of the internet and had this view that seeing it on my screen was good enough, but wow is Night Watch incredible up close and in person. Overwhelming, almost. A totally different experience.

That said, this image is amazing, and lets you see a lot more detail than you can easily manage at the museum.

I randomly bought The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching two decades ago at my university bookstore and it changed me forever. I’m not a Buddhist today but I’d like to think the core principles are still there.

A tremendous loss.

Anecdotally a lot of that is coming from California, though, which would have no net effect on the median line, right?

Over the weekend I wrote a tool to help me figure this out: https://github.com/biesnecker/wordlesmith

Wordle's wordlist is interesting. There is a large (~10,000 words) list of words that it will accept as guesses but that will never be the answer, and a much smaller (~2500 words) list of words it will both accept and could be the answer.

My tool's simple algorithm scores words by taking the product of the frequency with which each of its letters appears in the wordlist multiplied by the frequency that the letter appears in that specific spot. When looking at the entire list of words the top five choices are:

1. tares 2. lares 3. cares 4. pares 5. dares

However, if you just look at the words that could be answers (which I what I've decided to do), the list changes to:

1. soare 2. saine 3. slane 4. saice 5. slate

In either case I've never had a puzzle where repeatedly choosing the first suggested word didn't get me to the answer in six or fewer guesses.

I'm in a similar boat. 1.75x is probably the best speed for me for most speakers, but until I was able to speed up audio/video I also had a really hard time paying attention in lectures / watching informative content.

Though tbh nothing sounds more relaxing than a warm cup of homemade coffee and some net gun target practice in the morning :-D

Are there any major non-porn OnlyFans creators? I’ve never seen it referenced outside of adult content.

They're not actively scanning your phone, they're actively scanning files you send them.

Who is scanning your phone right now with PhotoDNA?

> This is a false-positive rate of 2 in 2 trillion image pairs (1,431,168^2). Assuming the NCMEC database has more than 20,000 images, this represents a slightly higher rate than Apple had previously reported. But, assuming there are less than a million images in the dataset, it's probably in the right ballpark.

The number of images in that database could well be far in excess of a million. According to NCMEC [1], in 2020 65.4 million files that were reported to them, and "[s]ince the program inception in 2002, CVIP [child victim identification project] has reviewed more than 330 million images and videos."

Of course many of those were duplicate but it would be entirely unsurprised if there were more than a million original files.

[1] https://www.missingkids.org/ourwork/impact

Sorry, I know I don’t have below average IQ, I was being snarky. :-)

Leave?

I work for a FAANG, and have for a while. Maybe I have below average IQ, too, but I've met and had the pleasure of working with some of the smartest, hardest working, kindest people in my career here. Some assholes too, of course, but we're all human.

Everything is built in-house because it needs to solve problems at a scale that you've never worked at. Be humble. If the tooling is terrible, congrats! There's a bunch of impact in your future making the tooling better. And because it's a big company, it cares a lot about marginal productivity improvements like better tooling, and will reward you for it. That's pretty different than my experiences at startups that are struggling for survival.

Maybe you picked a bad team. That's a possibility, because large companies are less homogenous than startups. But that also means that there are good teams, whereas if you pick a bad startup the whole thing is bad. Sounds like you didn't do the homework you should have before choosing a team. Maybe, again, be humble and accept that you have things to learn, even if it's just how to see red flags prior to joining a team, and use what you've learned when choosing a team next time.

Good luck!

If it had turned into a friendly, America-loving democracy that would tolerate our bases, then it’s an unsinkable aircraft carrier bordering Russia and China. Pretty good real estate.

Works fine for me in Chrome 91.0.4472.164 on a Mac.

+1 I would not publish mine, both because of a lot of work-related things, but also a lot of weird / inside-joke / funny but probably only to me references in them.

I also believe firmly that the act of creating flashcards is part of what encodes them in your brain. I've never had any luck with prepared decks.

I have ~10,000 cards in a Chinese deck (learning characters in college ~20 years ago is how I started with spaced repetition) that I built throughout the 2000s when I in college and then living in Shanghai. I don't add much to it anymore, but it keeps my reading pretty sharp, even though I don't use it much day-to-day anymore.

Another ~10,000 cards are work-related (computer science). I add to this frequently, mostly consuming research papers and turning them into cards.

The last ~5000 cards are an assortment of topics I've been interested in over the years.

I don't think that I use it the way you're describing--I more or less know all of the things that come up in my reviews each day, though I certainly miss things from time to time, and sometimes I go through and purge a bunch of cards related to topics that I don't have any interest in. It's much less than my total capacity (I know plenty of things that I haven't encoded as flashcards). More than anything it's a way to artificially engage pathways I'm not actively using, in the hope that when I need them they'll be there. It feels much less costly to maintain knowledge than to forget and relearn it, though there's always the danger that you are wasting cycles maintaining things you'll never need again.

I’m very wary of putting my flashcards (about 25k in a bunch of decks stretching back nearly 20 years now) in something that either 1) I own fully (I’ve bought the software and it will work even if your company doesn’t); or 2) at least provide full-fidelity exports of not just the content but also the repetition history.

It looks like a very well-done app and I agree that Anki can be clunky but I don’t worry about it disappearing and taking years of work with it. I really do wish you luck but for me at least it’s a high bar to cross.