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I had never heard of reverse cargo-cult before, thank you for the explanation and example

It really exposes the motivation for otherwise mystifying behavior!

Those boring canned responses (your sendup is absolutely hilarious by the way) are why I've always enjoyed Kimi Raikkonen's deadpan responses

Interviewer: “The most exciting moment during the race weekend?”

Kimi Raikkonen: “I think so it’s the race start, always.”

Interviewer: “The most boring?”

Kimi Raikkonen: “Now.”

Train hard, fight easy

> Whatsapp was ridiculously cheap - something like $1/year - but they still decided that worked against their network effects.

My boss of a multimillion dollar company took offense at being charged $1/year to use Whatsapp back when it came out and started getting popular, so it did have an effect

My eyes practically rolled out of my head when I heard him complain but that really stuck with me

>If ever there was a cue for a career change or opportunity to make a whole lot of money, it's this. Don't ignore this one! You're still early enough to take advantage.

Any suggestions on how to take advantage?

Dive into ML development?

Learn how to write prompts for AI engines?

Invest in AI companies? Sadly OpenAI is private, but Microsoft is a monetizing partner I guess (Copilot)

"In the 86 years that the pitch has been dripping, various glitches have prevented anyone from seeing a drop fall."

You'd think there would be a backup camera or two by now

A plug-in hybrid, while eminently practical, has the unenviable position of being perceived as a half-measure

I think it's because the stranger is more likely to be inconsequential to your life.

Accidentally saying something unusual\upsetting\strange to family and friends is more likely to have blowback for the rest of your life

There are limitless free resources available on the web such that pretty much anyone who wants to be a software developer, COULD be a software developer.

So why aren't there more people for these highly compensated jobs?

I remember seeing someone say 'Running is free, but not everyone can be Usain Bolt'.

A bit elitist to be sure, but being a good developer requires a certain type of thinking that simply isn't common in the general population.

I can't prove it but it sure seems like once BackBlaze started posting reliability figures from their fleet it forced the hand of any manufacturer that was cutting corners to keep up their reliability or get hammered in the market.

I still have a bad taste in my mouth with regard to the Seagate HDD failure plague from about a decade ago.

Kudos to the BackBlaze team

Free radicals are extremely reactive and can form bonds in undesirable ways in cellular chemistry, which is generally bad for the organism, potentially causing all sorts of cell damage.

Cells produce anti-oxidant defenses to regulate free radicals such as the delightfully named "Superoxide Dismutase" enzyme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoxide_dismutase

8GB isn't quite enough anymore, even typical office employees are starting to need 16GB now because of many browser tabs

Damn middle click is too convenient and no one wants to close tabs because they might not find that one critical page again

I spent about $400 on a color laser MFP and I'll probably never consume all the toner in my lifetime! My amortization schedule sucks compared to yours

That said, the scanner has been super-handy through the pandemic

Thank for you your response, this makes sense, a backup in case electronic documentation fails just like my boarding pass

Not trolling - but what are y'all still printing these days?

I've literally printed 2 things this year, and one was a boarding pass (I like having a paper backup, call me old-fashioned).

If anything, I've used the scan-to-email function on the printer about 10x more, and I could probably have gotten away with just taking a photo of the documents in extremis.

I believe the response times of IM chats - something that looks superficially similar to email - affects people's expectations of response times in email.

I agree - I wonder what the relative risk is between getting liver cancer from PFAS exposure in teflon vs carcinogenic risk in the seasoning layers on cast iron pans or smoking oil in stainless pans?

Any time there is incomplete combustion of carbon compounds like cooking oil, carcinogenic molecules like benzo-a-pyrene are formed, which appears to cause or contribute to skin, lung, and bladder cancer.

> if you have hard water, you get some calcium buildup and things stick like crazy.

Anyone using stainless cookware should be using Bar Keepers Friend, it's like magic on stainless steel.

The oxalic acid in it removes calcium buildup and helps passivate the stainless steel, the surfactant in it somehow dissolves browned oil stains (even the nasty burned in ones on the bottom of the pot) and the feldspar dust in it provides a bit of abrasive action. Smells funny though. And wear gloves.

The only extra work is it really needs to thoroughly rinsed off or the feldspar dust leaves white residue when it dries.

But seriously it makes stainless look like new.

Funny, the game I replayed the most was 'Hack', a Rogue-like.

I can't quite put my finger on why it was so addictive, but I think it was the randomness - discovering which potions were which, which scrolls were which, and of course hoping for a merchant with a massive shop full of goods to pillage kept me playing.

The difficulty was quite high too, forcing quite a few replays before getting that Amulet of Yendor

I loved the original MX Anywhere too, but I found that iFixit offers a replacement Lipo for the MX Anywhere 3

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Logitech+MX+Anywhere+3+Battery+...

It looks approximately as difficult as changing the battery on a smartphone.

Knowing that the battery could be changed gave me the piece of mind to switch.

The battery management on the MXA 3 is really good - lasts a very long time and is quick to charge on USB-C. The Logi Bolt has been trouble-free. Changing to other devices via bluetooth is handy if you have multiple computers. The magnetic hyperscroll takes a little getting used to but uses a lot less force to switch modes.

Looking forward to negative nanometer processes in the future

I felt exactly the same until a friend introduced me to vacuum sealers and a big freezer, now I can buy the larger amounts of fresh food, divvy it up and freeze it with little loss of quality for many types of produce

3rd party vac bags are inexpensive on amazon

For thawing, I throw the frozen vac-pack into a sous vide set for 0C/32F - the circulation thaws very quickly. Rarely cook in the sous vide much anymore, it's become my thawing machine

For things like carrots, I freeze them in vac bag in an orientation where I can remove just a couple of carrots and then have enough space to reseal the bag in the vacuum sealer to save on plastic waste

Rockley Photonics is working on this:

https://investors.rockleyphotonics.com/news/news-details/202...

There was a press release last year because they're an Apple partner. I have high hopes but I keep remembering that Theranos had a lot of promise too.

>It seems likely their notion of a promise is non-binding.

They pledged it

Note that this appears to use the Logi Bolt receiver, not the typical Unifying receiver - so you might end up with 2 dongles (a unifying and a bolt)

Be aware that Logitech now has 3 wireless technologies:

Unifying - the original 2.4 wireless, supports up to 6 devices. Symbol - Orange square with black or white six-pointed snowflake

Logi Bolt - the new encrypted version of their unifying controller, also supports up to 6 devices, uses Bluetooth Low Energy and FIPS. It is a new dongle. Symbol - Yellow hexagon with black bolt

LightSpeed Wireless - high performance low latency wireless for gaming, supports only one device per dongle, uses much more energy.

Available USB ports on laptops can become an issue if you mix them, happened to me!

While image processing dark skin may not be germane to AIs doing hiring, the idea that unintentional discrimination from ML models could occur in the context of hiring is certainly worth considering and I believe it's the entire point of the technical assistance document released today.

While tanks are still necessary, your observations are not wrong - the US Marine Corps decided to get rid of tanks fairly recently:

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/flashpoints/2020/03/26/the-...

Quite prescient considering what we are seeing in Ukraine a couple years later with tanks being vulnerable especially when deployed so haphazardly by Russian Federation.

Bottom line - war games in 2018 showed that tanks and other armored vehicles in-range of near-peer drones, Anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) were quite vulnerable - exactly like we're seeing in Ukraine.

There were other factors but the top marine decided no more tank battalions and greatly reduced artillery (among other changes).

Instead, these divestitures will be replaced by:

1. Precision long range fires (Naval Strike Missile\Joint Strike Missile (NSM\JSM), and possibly Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA))

2. Unmanned lethal air and ground systems.

That tells you what the war games revealed as being effective in future combat.

Which sort of disaster were you thinking?

These new miniplants don't require power or water, loss of either causes shutdown.

> Use a weathering steel, also known as “COR-TEN” steel which contains up to 21% of alloying elements such as chromium, copper, nickel, and phosphorous. The alloys form a protective rust patina which reduces the corrosion rate with time. COR-TEN steel tends to be cheaper than stainless steel.

If the point is for the ship to look 'not-rusty', Cor-Ten is probably about as far from that goal as one can get

Harvard's CS50x (taken through edX) is absolutely amazing as an intro to computer science. Professor David Malan is really engaging.

I cannot recommend it highly enough.

And, if you don't care for the certificate at the end of the course, it's free