graymatters

Mathematics is a language. Like any language it is difficult to master. For the vast majority of people - conversational minimum is enough. For some - ability to write an essay is necessary (these are the engineers). But some learn to really master it like a poet masters a language. And create beautiful poetry with it. Such talent is rare, both in actual poetry and in math.

You’re exaggerating. They are making much more than 1% of what software engineers make. Please be accurate if you want to make a point.

Actually, it is Google’s fault. Had it insisted that all OEM vendors upstream the drivers it’d have happened long ago. Especially because of Google’s monopoly on Android. The thing is - it’s in Google’s interest to obsolete these devices so that people buy newer devices with more Google “features” (which in turn are designed to collect more and more data about the user, the whole Google Android being the 2nd largest advertising platform for Google, after the “search” engine)..

Yes. It is harmful. It is tied to male infertility (low Soren count) as well as colorectal cancer in young females.

Do you mean the clever ploy of approaching Kiev with a 40 mile long column and then running away? Or the clever ploy of disabling the NS1 and NS2 pipelines to force German and European public to finally support some hard decisions of breaking the addictive infusion of cheap Russian gas? Oh, wait, that wasn’t a Russian clever ploy…

Extraordinarily brazen? It’s the unpleasant, difficult and uncomfortable truth which most Germans chose to ignore when it was happening, right after an end was out to it through the defeat of Germany and in the many years after it. All previous achievements by Germans pale in comparison. The only brazen thing about it - is how little punishment Germany has endured as the result. Should’ve been much much much more punishment.

Hunter Biden’s relationships with other countries are worth looking into as well.

Now, this is a real problem. Not heavily pedaled mass shootings. X200 people die from traffic accidents in US than from mass shootings. That’s right over 200 people from traffic accidents for each person dead of mass shooting. Why is the US focusing on the wrong cause of death?

IQ is largely out of fashion due to some very uncomfortable truths about it… It is indeed still the best predictor of success. It is also very innate and genes have a lot of influence on it. Not much that can be done with equity about it. This is why NIH forbids the use of its genetic data for research on intelligence (and several other topics).

Common practice - purchase a better competitor and then let it slowly die from lack of oxygen.

Cellphones.

Most successful large scale projects were waterfall projects.

Agile is an invention (and ideology) to remove the burden of managing from technically incompetent managers and transfer the responsibility to the swarm of the team. The technically incompetent managers are a US invention, with its proliferation of MBA managers and the cultivation of the management class.

That’s exactly the point. The government reaction to perceived threats from Covid resulted in long term damage to the kids as well.

“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”

Well, do you believe now the news stories about shortage of talent in tech?

That’s interesting. Can you name any other concentration camps that shoot thousands of rockets at civilian cities? ‘Cause that’s what coming out of Gaza.

Unless combatants are using the school or the hospital to conduct their acts of war from it.

Please do not confuse Occam’s razor with ignorance and cognitive bias.

What’s the plan for compatibility with wireshark? SDK to write own filters?

> More importantly, bullying generally affects only a fairly small number of children

That’s a common misconception. Bullying affects everybody, most of all the bystanders and the societal attitudes as the result. If bystanders don’t interfere to prevent bullying they accept it and only wish it doesn’t happen to them. That perpetuates the notion that the strongest, most violent and cruel rule, deeply rooting it in the minds of the growing adolescents and dictating the prevalent mentality of the society 10-20-30 years forward.

Sounds very interesting. Would love to see it as well.