Regression to the mean
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When all that counts is gaining that N+1'th user, there's a strong incentive to pile on one-off features and special cases to ensure that every potential new user has a tailor-made first experience to hook them in. Facebook and Uber both lean heavily into this, for example.
If you are married to someone whose financial decisions you are incompatible with, there’s no escaping the fact that you’re going to be impacted by those decisions one way or another no matter what. Hiding them in a for-his/her-eyes-only account creates more stress because now you’re constantly worried about what invisible bad decisions they might be making that will impact you later.
It feels like a bandaid fix to the underlying problem of financial incompatibility, and that failing to address the root problem creates stress and challenges down the road.
If there were a way to suspend this pigment in gelcoat in a way that preserved its properties, this would be killer for boats.
I have no idea what the details of those performance bookings were, but I always assumed that plenty of money changed hands to make it happen.
Less cheekily, the difference you're pointing out is about folk vs classical traditions. Many instruments are strongly associated with one or the other, but the violin is one of few that exists in both.
Generalizing massively, a simple hypervisor runs a small amount of code at boot to setup its own state somewhere, and injects its interrupt handlers into various places in the system, and finally chain boots the real OS. When the real OS tries to communicate with the underlying hardware, the hypervisor interrupt is triggered and it does it's stuff.
With modern virtualization acceleration, the hypervisor can enable and handle interrupts for an even wider range of events that it might need in order to efficiently interpose the OS.
A more full-featured hypervisor may start to look like a mini-OS with its own scheduler, etc. But a simple hypervisor is basically like an old DOS Terminate-and-Stay-Resident executable.
Most of what's happening here is pretty standard that's-how-a-minimal-hypervisor-works. The Outlook-data-migration part is interestingly janky, but not technically complex.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrHQNOyU1q6BFEfkNq2CYMA [2] https://www.youtube.com/@BrannoDev
And indeed had she that knowledge, nothing new would be added by seeing one in person.
The implausible part is presupposing any person could ever have a complete enough understanding of all physical knowledge to achieve that.
There's no upper limit to the amount they can produce, and by producing more they're able to provide more and more tailored solutions for more and more hyper-specific use cases, which is needed to acquire and retain users at the kind of scale they deal with.
Apple is one notable exception to this, because their product philosophy is one of a centrally designed, "artisanal" user experience.
“WHEN I’M SOMETIMES ASKED ‘WHEN WILL THERE BE ENOUGH [WOMEN ON THE SUPREME COURT]?’ AND I SAY ‘WHEN THERE ARE NINE,’ PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED. BUT THERE’D BEEN NINE MEN, AND NOBODY’S EVER RAISED A QUESTION ABOUT THAT.”
My reading of the quote is that is she's saying that a female justice should be not be any more surprising than a male justice, and thus that an all-female court should be no more surprising than an all-male court.
Just working out the probabilities, if women and men were selected as justices with equal probability, single-gendered courts should occur about 0.2% of the time for each gender.
That's a small number, but not a vanishingly small number. While I don't think we can say much about courts prior to ~1975 (equal gender opportunity to the court not yet being an objective), it seems reasonable to say going forward that IF we are achieving the stated goal of equal gender opportunity, we should expect that an all-female court will eventually occur.
I almost never approve a notification request. From anything, be it an app or a website. Off the top of my head the only notification sources that I have enabled are messaging apps, and even there I only have them turned on for the couple that I use for my most important communications.
I consider it a nuisance and almost an anti-feature that every random app nags me to give it notification permissions. By the same token, granting that anti-feature to even more things if something I Do. Not. Want.
EU4 plays like a complex but fairly “normal” strategy game in a pseudo historical setting. CK3 is more focused on managing your complex web of feudal relationships. Almost dating-sim.
My best game of CK, I started as a minor a Norwegian noble and slowly worked my way up to becoming king of Norway, also owning part of Denmark. But I pissed off too many other nobles along the way, and they schemed with my brother to depose me in favor of him. I then went on a 20 year revenge spree to assassinate all of his heirs and inherit the kingdom back from him!
I recall the trailer for one of the CK2 expansions had a bullet point feature that could really only happen in CK: “SEDUCE YOUR RELATIVES!”
Some companies license the architecture specification and design their own implementations, Apple being the leading example. They then pay TSMC to fabricate the chips for them.
Other companies license the implementations and pay to have them fabricated. The latter category varies in the level of customization they apply to the implementations they license, it's generally much less customized than the what those in the first category achieve.