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I suspect Neal Stephenson has stopped composing on paper, given the precipitous decline in quality since Seveneves (or thereabouts; opinions may vary).

> Match kernel + BSD userland + NeXTSTEP, how Jobs have anything to do with any of this? Is like purchasing NeXT in 1997 is a major technical achievement...

Steve Jobs founded NeXT

love this site! was surprised to see a couple repeats in my idle tapping

That's a long page, but basically the answer is no. We don't randomly have a 61 second minute in "clock" units; instead we have a day that takes 86401 _real_ seconds but only the standard 86400 clock seconds.

By way of analogy, imagine we implemented leap years by slowing our clocks to half speed on Feb 28 instead of adding a Feb 29.

The text states that, but then in the Healing Examples section [0], the "m" in "filming" clearly spills over its left border line.

Is that just a poorly drawn/incorrect example graphic?

[0] https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Textu...

Similar to the shields in Dune, then.

Thanks. I searched for this URL before posting, but didn't see the nytimes post.

stop using MS products, then?

I greatly enjoyed "Geniuses at War", which describes the Colossus machines that were the immediate ancestors of the Manchester Computer.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Geniuses_at_War.html?id...

That was GP's point - that things are much better for engineers than people in academia (and perhaps science).

that's a delightful autocorrect for "vicious"

I loved Winterbells on Orisinal, looks like it's playable at a number of sites still.

Good point, diamond-pattern dependencies can get hellish. In the past, rather than deal with shadowing etc, I've resorted to choosing versions of my major dependencies that use the same version of their underlying dependency (for example, sync my GRPC lib with other HTTP client libs so they all use the same version of Netty - this is in the Java world).

This piece of advice hits me weird:

> For crates where you don’t need or want new features, bug fixes etc, you could consider pinning their versions.

It seems to me that you should _always_ pin your dependency versions. I'd go so far as to say that build tools shouldn't even have an option to automatically pull the latest - "version" should be a required field for all dependencies (and, ideally, that gets decorated with a hash after the first download).

Yes this means you might miss out on security fixes that you'd otherwise get automatically. But having the code that you run & ship change absent your intention just feels like a bizarre default approach.

Isn't this generally because they didn't fire low performers one by one, but instead those people just build up and get laid off all together? It's a terrible pattern (firing known-bad staff is good for morale, layoffs are bad for morale) but extremely common.

As much as people hate stack ranking and enforced "unregretted attrition" at places like AWS, it seems like the only way to ensure managers actually fire deadweight.

Yeah I always thought that the construction of Gödel numbers was always the weakest part of the proof / the biggest leap of faith / the part your prof would just hand-wave as being a valid move.

Of course once you get into Turing machines it all flows more naturally, what with all of us being accustomed to "code is just data".

The eye tracking explanation is a good one, thanks. I think it supports my hypothesis by providing a possible mechanism of action.

To your second point: yes, of course. But three weeks later it looks (mostly) the same but stops drawing compliments.

I think there is a more functional and charitable read of this: not all of our senses are plumbed all the way through to our conscious mind at all times. small little hints (like minor changes in smell, relative humidity, maybe just pattern-matching on the lay of the land) are down in the noise, and pulling out your trusty sticks gives your subconscious a way to send a signal to your awareness.

Kinda like acupuncture - does my pulse really have seven levels that mean different things? I doubt it.. but a successful acupuncturist might still be able to diagnose "what hurts" using said technique, when really they've already picked up on other clues from your gait, posture, etc.

"subliminal" and "subconscious" are over-used and vague words, but we've all had the experience of wearing a new clothing item and receiving an uncommon number of compliments, including from strangers who wouldn't know it's new. I've always assumed we are unconsciously presenting the new thing with a bit of flair, and that equally-unconsciously draws the eye.

Odd that the first example looks buggy:

    while i > size
    result += a [i++]
    }

Could be correct, but "while i < size" seems more likely...

And I really, really doubt that competing mp3 players talked about "Mega Hertz", as this article's GPT-esque strawman puts it.

Maybe they talked about "Giga Bytes", but I lived through that era and my recollection is that most stats for the mass market were, very simply: number of songs.

oooof I'm imagining having to drive east on 90 to cross the Columbia at Vantage just to drive from Seattle to Portland...

(many bridges would have to go down for this to be the only way, of course)

There are per-API-call charges. It's just not per-byte.

(thanks, fixed)

Jordan is a famous gambler so it makes some sense that he would be morally offended by attempts to avoid payment.

donated! thank you, Bram, for our beloved vim

You just might enjoy Jumbo, a track off Underworld's "Beaucoup Fish" album

https://open.spotify.com/track/3VIMS1p3sNifH0RQnmDf7s

as a bonus, they make canned cranberry sauce visually appealing on the Thanksgiving platter :)

so, you are a thief. congratulations

i believe the comment you are responding was talking about actual home sink in GP comment, not the LHC =)

Not OP, but Altra King MT trail shoes have a great wide toe box with a pretty normal ankle width. I think the whole Altra line aims for a wide toe box - they call it "Footshape" in their marketing materials[0].

Not related to the company, just a satisfied customer. I actually wear toe socks inside my Altras whenever I'm doing a long hike, like (say) the Enchantments in WA state.

[0] https://www.altrarunning.com/shop/mens-king-mt-2-alm1952g