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I don't know your exact situation; and there are sometimes genuinely valid reasons for an 8-hour CI/CD system; but ... man, reducing that down to like 20 minutes (which is possible and often common) would pay as many dividends as all the AI stuff that's been added. Man, like ... holy crap @_@

How many thousands of dollars are you burning a month on “looks good, go” and then *letting it run overnight*?? I spend enough money on 8 human, interruptible and human-thinking hours with paused hours.

I can’t imagine how high that number would go if I got rid of the collaborative style and also the “please don’t run scary commands on random directories without permission” mode.

Shouldn’t you be, in general, separating out new functionality from old fixes?

Shouldn’t those “fixing bugs we gained in the past” be their own MR that can be read, reasoned about and have evaluated test coverage?

Or, more simply, affairs, unwed couples, incidences of rape that were a dark stain in the victim’s life, etc.

A friend of mine loves to think about heritage and genealogy and when I brought up genetic testing and “wouldn’t it be neat to find out if someone in your lineage wasn’t actually in it?” they were quick to point out that they’re not interested in that because it doesn’t matter and her parents are her parents (and her great great grandparents are her great great grandparents).

Discovering infidelity and/or abuse in your family tree 2-3 generations back often (but never ever always) does little but harm to one’s own genealogical journey.

I'll quote you clearly.

> "People have free will. Bad people know what right and wrong is, and they chose wrong."[0]

Broader Context: In response to a commentary on how 'good and bad' can be complicated:

> "It's always someone else's fault."[1]

Broader-broader Context: Prison is punishment, etc.

So, a reasonable chain of thought here and paraphrase of what you've said is: "people know right from wrong" -> we're in the context of crime and punishment, so this is operating as a substitute for "they know what's legal and illegal". If it's not, it doesn't belong here, because at this point we should all know that legality != morality.

"and they chose wrong" -> therefore they chose the consequences - they chose punishment. The colloquial way of saying that is "they get what's coming to them".

So, while those weren't your words, was that your implicit statement? And if not, what is the implicit statement?

I ask because the people in those cells are real, and 23 of them died of heat.

  [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834799
  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834226

Is your entire line of thinking about crime and punishment not entirely dependent upon laws and punishments, as they exist right now, being perfectly just?

Because otherwise, “they knew the law and chose to break it, therefore they get what’s coming to them” is a bit Javert from Les Mis.

Oh honey… tell that to Alan Turing, or millions or gay people, or the literal millions of people who smoked pot and are stuck in prison forever.

And that’s ignoring all the laws people break on the regular.

Oh good point. I should have read.

Or it’s as simple as “hey, they don’t want telemetry? Cool, we’ll turn off all the extra phoning home” and their feature flag code uses the same paths as telemetry because it’s the same endpoint, etc.

Oops, easy mistake!

They’re almost certainly referencing Signal.

That sounds like a really horrible situation and some terrible leadership and I'm sorry to hear that.

... was I the person you meant to respond to, though?

That’s not what they’re saying. They’re challenging the “I can always tell” people who are both proud and regularly wrong.

As fake news becomes more and more real and with photo evidence, this matters more and more.

I mean, I learned a bunch of neat new stuff, so I’m excited!

I feel like you’re intentionally misrepresenting me. I’m obviously talking about number sense, mental visualization, etc.

Indeed.

It also turns out, as someone else in this thread has noted, NYT's style guides say to not include the unit in headlines, so here we are :)

A random, spare letter wastes space and might have been A/B tested to have a higher click away rate.

This makes sense from a context and writer perspective.

Most conversation about climate change has been around global average temps raising in C. Further, switching that back and forth and doubling it for F would be seen as manipulative by people that don’t want to hear it.

On the contrary, the Times’s US audience (probably their main audience) thinks of body temp, which this is, in F.

To add further, the audience and writers that want to share cool, new dinosaur fact and the group that does an update on global warming are different people and operate and think differently around these specific things in these specific contexts.

Of course it would be easier to add the letter, but I can definitely see why it wasn’t included.

I would argue feet and inches are pretty good too, since there’s a foot on your body, and a thumb, too, for inches.

Weight, mass and considerable distances, I’ll grant you, though.

The Times is a US magazine. The odds of them picking a US unit of measurement are very high.

You’re right, a centralized repository would be good too.

Both a centralized repository AND a daily message, especially for new employees, would be ideal, imo!

Normalize chatting and sharing stuff in slack!

There are places that don’t … have … sufficient cell service, as a starting point.

They have a cell phone on them because they have WiFi in their house, because they have Internet, and they have notifications turned on to their local emergency servers. Since Twitter has a push notifications and a shorter refresh timer, you get messages more regularly that you’ll actually read.

Compare that to email, which you’d get hundreds of messages a day and only care about 3 of them, so you’re not constantly checking.

Edit: dude you live in Australia. Do you know how people in the Bush get their emergency updates that they need to respond to urgently? I bet at least some of them use Twitter or something similar to it. They're not huddled around their weather radio all day (and that doesn't cover everything). Because I had family in rural California and that is exactly how they got theirs. Twitter and Facebook.

I said organization on purpose to also include governments, especially local and small ones in the middle of nowhere.

Some people have Wifi but not cell phone signal. A single tweet has very robust, existing infrastructure, over the “one email per person in a mailing list” style of email; and SMS is DoA when there’s no cell phone.

Text message alerts and a website require some level of technical know-how from someone at the company. For many people and the companies or organizations they lead, “everyone uses X/Twitter” and/or “everyone can access X/Twitter”.

We got to this state because, when it was called Twitter, it positioned itself in the market as, exactly this. It’s only now, when there’s been some major changes to it, that we’re paying the piper.

VR enthusiasts will be in VR 7+ hours on a weekend. I regularly clock 4+.

Without a tether to the PC (I have battery in my pocket) it’s pretty okay!

I know lots … and lots … of people that sleep in VR. I don’t know how they do it either, but there we are!

This product doesn’t look half bad for sleeping in VR for people that are used to doing so with other headsets. Definitely easier than some offerings.

VR Chat often has 70k+ concurrent players across the world.

It is a niche, definitely, but one that spends a lot of money and time on their virtual third space.

Agreed, though for what it's worth, Windows and Mac both run on ARM and/or phone processors now, so.... they're not the first to say that?

It's around what the Quest 3 has. There is no noticeable screen door effect on that headset. Since you can make the monitors as big as you like, you could do a multi-monitor setup, maybe. ... as someone who uses VR pretty heavily though, I'm not sure I'd personally ... want to?