jedmeyers

I know Snap might not be that popular here, but what is your experience with Snap ads? Same amount of scam or more?

> I don't think the "tokens consumed" metric was a very good one.

When mid or high level tech leadership pushes from top-down new things, that look dumb to the engineers, the leadership is either stupid or there are hidden incentives that regular people don't see. In my experience mid level usually matches with the former, and top level with the latter.

> can't understand how algebra works and is getting only 1s and 2s, it's too bad, he'll have to repeat the whole grade again I guess.

That hardcore math was only in schools that specialized in math. In post-Soviet times, if you had a good engineering university nearby, the juniors and seniors were heavily encouraged to attend additional evening math classes there as well. But if you were in one of the "humanities" schools, the requirements were way more relaxed and they would not make you repeat the grade, they would just give you a 3-.

Stock is owned by Cede & Co anyway. So everything downstream is just ledgers. What differs is how much you trust the record-keeper, and what legal rights the entry gives you.

> let's start with the ones above $1,000 first, hm?

The criminals start with the ones below $1,000 and then progress above. If you start punishing it earlier, you won't have to deal with as many above $1,000 crimes in the first place.

Another thing with taxing unrealized gains is that no one in the government is willing to return any money if the unrealized losses happened. Somehow it's all hunky-dory when someone loses 1M in stock value, but as soon as someone's stock went up 1M they all want to tax it right away.

> This is my experience with all Microsoft software. The worst thought out, buggy, untested pile of crap.

Their PM motto is "quality is a feature", and obviously not everybody needs all the features.

You are in for a surprise if you think latest generation Toyotas or Hondas will be less costly to repair. Just look at the recent debacle with the V35A-FTS.

This does not look to be “military” spending on Ukraine, it’s all spending.

> As of 2026 Q2, the U.S. disbursed over $116 billion in aid to Ukraine and is obligated for a total of $177b. Yes the rest is being disbursed despite Trump's political antics

Where are you getting those numbers from?

Same here, it's often neither blue nor green, so this experiment is pointless.

And by having more of those blanks filled humans might be able to come up with much better extrapolations than what we have right now.

> Nobody in the cabinet can speak up and overrule his whimsy?

Who will be overruling that "someone in the cabinet", when things start going the wrong way again? There is always someone on top, and in the US it's the sitting President.

The harbinger?

> It's about on par with the ridiculousness of LOC implying code quality.

Most effective engineers on the brownfield projects I've worked on, usually deleted more LOC than they've added, because they were always looking to simplify the code and replace it with useful (and often shorter) abstractions.

> One giant leap?

The gravity is weaker so just jump down /s

> I mean, it's literally a link on a web page. You click the link, it takes you to The BEAM Book's page.

Now instead of putting the details in the title, you have me reading paragraphs of text and clicking links to figure out what the author is talking about. Did I understand you correctly?

The curse of knowledge in this thread is mind boggling.

Because of you ask a person who works on Beam about “the Beam book” thats the one they are going to recommend. Who knows that the BEAM book is literally called “the BEAM Book”? There are many books like that, “the SRE book” is actually Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, etc.

> I still doubt they're gonna face any serious penalties

Having to fix all P320 fire control units they've sold so far will put them out of business. You don't even need any additional penalties on top of that. I just hope they can spin off Optics division before that happens.

And it still does not help, because the safety only blocks the trigger but not the striker from firing, thus the Air Force incident that started, this topic, became possible.

It feels like you are pressing on a tennis ball, zero real feedback whatsoever. Acura MDX has had the brake-by-wire system fo a while now in the latest generation.

It does require a digital to analog converter, though.

With a golden parachute nonetheless.

> What we need is much better whistleblower programs.

Unfortunately, not many organizations will have the aligned incentives. If businesses that conduct potentially dangerous operations, were required to get an insurance, then insurance companies would have incentive to pay money to the whistleblower vs paying out a much larger claim down the line.

What AWS/GCP/Azure provide with managed Redis is much much more than just a UI. There are a lot of technical issues that come with running Redis reliably in the cloud. I’d say UI work is probably 5% of that at most.

And thus we usually do not have patents for songs, only copyright protections.

Are we sure that he actually died in that accident and not chilling somewhere in Florida under a different name? Cause it can be a good cover story do disappear your agent that successfully fulfilled his mission.

Alaska temporary switched to the flexible travel policy because of this incident, so you should be able to change your ticket fairly easily.

> Azure AD

Nobody Gets Fired For Buying _Microsoft, I guess.