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Weird to see this here. My grandfather is listed ('36 gold in composition). If I remember his diaries correctly, he seemed to appreciate it mostly because it meant he had beaten the other German composers.

Doesn't have to be personal data. You'd know the performance of every website's funnel, most used features of every app etc. Somebody would have paid a lot for it.

My guess when it launched was (maybe too cynically) that it's the 100% complete visibility of user behavior.

Imagine you find _the_ fundamental law of the universe, say "the gralb must be flombed". It's the fundamental law, so there's no other law explaining why it exists. All other laws follow from it and therefore feel understandable.

(This is mostly theoretical, as the explanation with phases cancelling in the sibling comment is satisfactory to me at least. But nevertheless there will be some law without a "more fundamental reason").

In my experience, the same people who have "live love laugh" signs have this framed somewhere, but think it's medieval wisdom or something.

This is spot on and I feel a lot of the comments here miss this context. Germany has tried this before and it was a gigantic waste - they build a fab somewhere at massive cost, claim it as victory because it's "invested locally", zero ecosystem materializes around it, and ten years later the fab is obsolete and shuts down. It helps nobody except the chip company.

Very timely, I was just wondering the other day how you guys are doing. Can't wait to be able to justify signing up with my badly designed side project!

The other side of this is when you're at a startup and bring in more people from a non startup background, and they all immediately start complaining how process x was way more organized at HP or AWS or wherever they were before. At the pace we were hiring at my last job, I got to hear the same suggestions for improvement week after week while onboarding newbies - it was pretty amusing. Of course we fixed what we could as fast as we could, but the amount of things that was ridiculously broken was obviously still huge.

I have worked with someone who used female names for temp variables in the early 2000s. He also kinda saved us by substituting all icons with over the top cute looking ones the night before the demo, which was super efficient at distracting the audience from how disfunctional the application was.

That's not what teaching is. What you're thinking of is called selling.

I currently live in Montevideo and it's surprisingly expensive. Complaining about the prices is very very common. That said, it's very nice and safe with great quality of life overall. It does get a bit boring over time.

I tried to build something like this a couple of years ago, just by using speech-to-text, and that worked really badly (but it was better than nothing). I've given BoldVoice a spin and am very impressed by how well it works on phoneme level - well done, congrats on launching!

I agree that this guy losing his job over something he says at a bar is a prime example of right wing cancel culture.

Gulag? Forced psychiatric internment?

ProtonVPN uses OpenVPN, right? That's been blocked in Egypt for some time. I had good success with Wireguard, which they didn't block (as of a year ago).

Rationally Speaking and Security Now in the same list make my head hurt. Julia Galef has entertaining, highly intelligent and nuanced conversations with brilliant people. Gibson tries to sell tools that are "good because they are written in assembly".

Absolutely. It's not really convenient, but it's possible. One thing I'd look at is if you can connect a USB keyboard, as that would make a much nicer experience.

So this is intriguing, I've never heard of the heartland as a great place for diversity. Do you have any evidence for this situation you describe?

That's a recent development. Recruiters are finding out that you can use Office 2016 to edit PDF, too.

With the iPod out and the iPhone not yet, people were basically begging Apple to do a phone. It was a super obvious move at the time.

Do we have any evidence that Uber would be any good at pulling that off? So far their core competence has been finding more or less creative workarounds for local laws. That's not exactly the quality that I look for in a supplier of autonomous driving services.

As the authors write in the paper.

It's a Lagrangian, so this is the function nature tries to minimize. In common everyday systems, the Lagrangian is kinetic energy minus potential energy.

I've thought about that too, but if it was referencing Heidegger it should be "das Man" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heideggerian_terminology#.27Th...), not "das Mann".

Trying to quote Nietzsche in German is not an advisable strategy if you don't know German, dear hacks everywhere ("das Mann" does not exist).

It mostly seems to be, but don't overlook the occasional pearl when they manage to trick a competent person to work for them.

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You're right, of course, but it's also true that in a real life environment, you've already found a polite way to say "that's dumb" three times this morning and you're starting to pick your battles.

That's not been my experience at all, and I've booked dozens of places through Airbnb over the years. Also, one big advantage for me as a vegetarian is that I can get a fully equipped kitchen, so instead of hunting for the one restaurant that has more than one salad to offer, I can shop in local markets and cook myself - I enjoy it and it saves me money too. Even good apartment hotels often just have two sad pans and three plates.

It's not even the licencing fees in my opinion. It's that it has had the equivalent of 200 Potterings run amok in it for 30 years. There are so many things that will eclipse any advantage from IO completion ports.