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Zero desire to advance is a good one.

IIRC Riker has turned down multiple offers to become a captain of his own ship, to stay as Picard's #2. This would've never happened in real life, he would've been gone after Season 2 at the latest.

Excellent old soviet cartoon based on this story (english subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP3TyuQx0

While this is clearly an old post, I'm not sure about the actual date. On the bottom it says 1999, but there's also a citation for an article from 2001.

> For many more details consult the Young Scientists' Network or read the account in the May, 2001 issue of the Washington Monthly.

This reminds me of a somewhat related topic - who won the space race? Growing up in Soviet Union, we were taught that it was the USSR - when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Then I came to the US, and was taught that it was the US, when Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon.

It's tough to prioritize migrating to a new platform for the engineering blog, without a very good ROI. Airbnb's eng blog was set up on Medium a while ago, it's doing fine, they have no real reason to spend a lot of resources on switching.

Yeah, I should've been more clear: it wasn't really investing in a friends company. I agree it can be a source of funding when other sources aren't available, but in this case it was a total scam - the company was specifically designed to accept money and fold.

Really wish this existed in the 90's when my family moved to the US from eastern europe. A non-exhaustive list of scams my parents fell for:

- Investing money in a friend's company - this was the most painful as it was perpetuated by our family members who lived here for a while that we trusted

- Rainbow vacuum cleaner

- Aqualife water filter

- Hiring someone to take us to another city to buy a car to "help get a good deal" - turned out he was working for the seller, and it was not a good deal at all

- A summer job for me selling Vector cutlery

Unfortunately it's easy to scam new immigrants, this happened for hundred years and still happening now.

This is literally me.

I'm very happy with my life - my spouse, my kids, my extended family, my small group of friends that's been together for 20+ years, and my career. I have very little interest in socializing / meeting new people, and would much rather spend all my free time improving my existing relationships (see above), or be by myself.

I know how to socialize / meet new people, but never feel comfortable doing that.

The original team is working on a sequel: https://pistolshrimpgames.com/uqm2/

> Kent Beck, ex-fellow at payroll infrastructure fintech Gusto ...

Really weird way to introduce Kent Beck

Hmm, when I try to change model name to "gpt-4" I get the "The model: `gpt-4` does not exist" error message. We are an API developer with a history of successful payments.. is there anything we need to do on our side to enable this, anyone know?

Man, all these comments from folks who've discovered this site in their youth many many years ago makes me feel old... because I remember when that site was first started.

I was a member of the metal-rules.com forums (RIP) and the founders of Metal Archives came from there. Many hours of my misspent youth were wasted arguing with the people on those forums, now all gone. Back then metal-rules was THE place to talk about metal on the internet, and MA was an upstart who almost nobody knew about.

Unfortunately, in practice that works only most of the time. At least in our experience (and the article says something similar) sometimes ChatGPT would return something completely different when JSON-formatted response would be expected.

Agree, this is a bad question that gives absolutely no indication on whether the candidate will perform well in the role as a software engineer.

> The fastest I had a candidate solve the entirety of the problem with all bells and whistles was in 20 minutes, by a freshman from the University of Waterloo, the type who did high-school competitions.

This should’ve been the interviewer’s first clue.

And a great Phish song by that name too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbMTa1yeSyw

Absolutely. There's a world of difference between a professional voice actor narrating an audiobook, and AI/amateur. Personally I can't listen to anything narrated by anyone other than (good) pro voice actors, it just kills the enjoyment.

On a similar note, Sanderson's own books in "graphic audio" format (multiple voice actors, sound effects, music, etc) are a wonderful piece of art and is my preferred way to consume audiobooks when possible. I don't see that being replaced with AI any time soon.

There’s https://www.progarchives.com for progressive rock and related genres.

Not one mention of children in the article - the #1 reason people that have them prefer to work from home.

While the game itself is not getting remade, there is an “inspired by” game in the works: https://www.callofsaregnar.com/

Am I the only one who thought of this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY

Great story, but I wonder about the logistics of effectively DM'ing 25 players. I'm assuming not everyone plays in the same session? Otherwise - how do you handle battles with a party of 25 PCs?

What's missing from the open source model is the monetization. The incentives for contributing to open source and using open source products are misaligned - this is why it's been so hard to build businesses around it (with some notable exceptions).

What he's arguing is that web3 solves this problem by aligning incentives for creators and maintainers around the same token system.