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One time I discovered the hard way why you need to exclude A: and B: drives when scanning for disks for a new installation; our demo disc would hang on any computer old enough to have a floppy drive.

Turns out many players still had floppies. Whoops.

I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, but it’s also known as a king of raw biomass generation.

https://craigmitchell.me/eucalyptus-biomass/

https://biomassmagazine.com/articles/3620/the-business-of-gr...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355821434_Character...

Truly a fascinating plant.

My dude, who is ashamed of open source repo?

> a market maker engaged in bona fide market making, particularly in a fast-moving market, may need to sell the security short without having arranged to borrow shares

It's literally called the "madoff rule" and the "madoff exemption" because he's the one that pushed the SEC to allow it.

https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm

I mean, bait-and-switch is a type of fraud right?

Presumably their ToS absolves them of any legal liabilities but it's still wrong to offer an open garden only to close it once the people created an arboretum.

> yet it doesn't even count as science fiction?

To be pedantic, it _did_ win a Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical, but your point stands that it should absolutely qualify as sci-fi.

Could it work backwards? Eg, to take a hero like Heracles and determine he's say 40% shared with Gilgamesh. Then we might see that even the originals aren't very unique.

Just a thought, I don't really know anything about ML.

None of those words (bullhide, copper, and ingot) even appear in the article. What do they have to with growing millet in the Sumerian summers?

Have you heard of wordnik? It came up a lot while I was trying to fish out examples of how painful it is to query wiktionary.

> This was science not that long ago [0]... Then whoops, mandatory masks... "but trust science now, we're surely 100% correct now!".

The findings from the scientific method are not infallible, just better in every way than the findings from any other method. Better than the words of charlatans, better even than the words of the wisest humans to ever live.

It's not perfect and it's not magic. It's just significantly better than anything else by leaps and bounds.

I think it's fucking amazing and I wish you could see that too.

You just blew my mind with that analogy. I can only imagine some hair-splitting logic to rationalize a distinction.

The days have gone down in west, beyond the hills and into shadow.

How did it come this?

I've been cooking and programming for a long time now and wholeheartedly agree with everything you said except the default oven temp thing. Baking is a cargo cult of chemistry and I'd say most folks are well advised to follow those recipes exactly.

> non-romance languages that can't be segmented by whitespace

That can't be right? Surely Greek, Russian, Turkish, etc are whitespace delimited?

Are all these comments about the near and inevitable death of your new product at all soul-crushing?

I'm a stranger on the internet and even I can feel the burn.

Good luck.

> Each person in a chain had an option to use their judgement to break the chain but nobody did. This isn't an indictment of Apple as some may want to see it. It seems more likely it is a pretty standard outcome of people following a bureaucratic process.

Is it not Apple's bureaucratic process? Then is not the pretty standard outcome of that process Apple's as well?

Also, who else but Apple can empower each person in the chain to actually exercise their judgment?

And this doesn't even consider bad actors trying to socially engineer the system. Must each person in the chain now make the determination that they are actually helping a customer or being fooled by an adversary?

I guess I just think it's naive to expect workers to unilaterally disobey the bureaucratic process because it is demonstrably imperfect. Just fix the broken process instead of punting liability to each individual. What ever happened to leadership?

> I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you're learning to type, why would you do that?

I think for some folks it’s a real cognitive challenge to willingly ignore useful information.

I know it was for me; I needed a das keyboard to make the learn-to-type “metagame” have sufficiently imperfect information to become “playable” enough for me to stick with it.

That's fair, in hindsight it's a lot harsher than it felt writing it.

You are so preoccupied with whether or not you could [found a unicorn off the back of Covid], you didn't stop to think if you should.

To further elaborate:

What is one of the only benefits to the pandemic? Remote work.

Who wants to come in and ruin it? Sidekick.

Thanks, I hate it. I truly do. I only have to imagine the god awful dashboard you'll inevitably offer (product managers gonna productize) and the dystopian KPIs you'll kindly offer (not turning on your camera is the new tardiness metric).

It's schemes like this that trigger an arms race (ostensibly to "reduce liability", "promote productivity", and "increase security") that ultimately leave workers with less agency and petty human managers with more avenues of oppression to exploit.

For the sake of a world where workers aren't slowly boiled into digital serfdom, I wish you nothing but trouble. I really do, because you are emblematic of the short-sighted thinking that's wrong with the world.

Doesn’t he admit as much in the article?

He doesn’t claim the NYT is the first to discover his identity, only that that are big enough to for that revelation to be pernicious.

I had a lot to say, but you're right, Its optimal to avoid friendly fire.

The final revision of my reply was "Cmd+A Delete"

Good luck being reasonable out there.

"Best Catch" and "One That Got Away" are the only good questions here, and "Best Catch" is the only one I ask every single time.

This is one of the most important question because it reveals the "soul" of the tester; the flavor of brokenness that excites them most.

For every once in a lifetime "you won't believe it, but..." answer there are dozens of boring "one time mysql went down on prod" answers. It's not a golden snitch or anything like that, but I find it to be indispensable in the interview process.

> in competition to humanize coronaviruses

Forgive my naivety, but how is that possibly a good thing?

The book he quotes also explores a related concept: irreducible complexity.

They go hand-in-hand as you reach the endgame. Once you’ve reached a level of irreducible complexity this law comes into play.

It's crazy how entrenched the notion is that contracts have an inalienable divine right to be honored.

I think Selenium IDE is still around.

Its a drag-n-drop browser plugin that does everything Kasaya can do (both selenium under the hood) and can export to js/python/etc.

> And, while I’ve not seen it coined, I’ll introduce “engineering-minded pm”.

You might enjoy Inspired by Marty Cagan: an engineer evolves to a new role that we later come to call Product Manager. A core tenet I remember is that Product is greatly served by having engineering acumen.

For some, “missing out” on that kinda exploitation is the reason for not doing it.

I’m not interested in the nicotine business for the same reasons, regardless of how much each smoking whale is worth.

> Strange to link the desire of money with the “greed” word.

Is it? I didn’t even go full avarice.

There is desire for fair compensation and there is greed. Diluting a product with IAP and Ads is to treat your players like serfs to be squeezed for “LTV”.

Imagine buying a car where increasing the fuel economy for the next n hours required an “in-dashboard-payment”? It’s dilution to make money, aka greed.

When the designers’ and data scientists’ goal is to squeeze rather than entertain, then its bullshit.