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I wonder if the market for that is closer to public sector work, or anything else with a hard requirement of accessibility. "Clean, semantic HTML" is very compatible with "parsable with accessibility tools", and so far difficult for automated publishing tools to get right without human intervention.

Also, if there was any money left in interactive editorial work — creating bespoke storytelling visualizations for news or long-form stories — I might look there, because the requirements often require thinking outside of what dynamic or automated publishing tools provide. But that feels like an already small and shrinking field.

Independent index, but still dependent on Bing for some results.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/20/brave_search/:

> The company said in June that "for some features, like searching for images, Brave Search will fetch results from Microsoft Bing,"

https://search.brave.com/help/independence:

> Third-party providers

> Microsoft Bing is a third-party provider to Brave Search.

tl;dr: "nonalcoholic beer provides water, polyphenols and carbohydrates (which together) aid metabolic recovery"

Polyphenols are a broad class that includes lignans, tannins, flavonoids, and stilbenes; I usually hear about the stilbene resveratrol in "alcohol is good for you, actually" contexts. They're also in wine, and in both wine and beer can be dependent on variety and origin.[1]

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663142/#B132-m...

> Sometimes those questions are dumb and can be easily answered by reading the support documents. So we built a bot that ... responds to questions.

But:

> It won’t be right all of the time.

Does this mean the questions aren't dumb, or that the bot is dumber than the questions?

> I’m more curious what Jared Leto (acting and music skills aside) does besides his veganism. He’s 50.

Paul Rudd's 53, not a vegetarian, and his diet even for filming Marvel movies isn't particularly special: https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/how-paul-rudd-got...

The trick is probably:

- be attractive

- be wealthy

- have enough of an incentive and motivation to prioritize basic fitness and skincare over doing literally anything else with your time

The Beauty OFX tool is the skin-grading tool. I guess it's hilarious that skin, like any shadow-casting surface, has midtones?

> TOTP in Bitwarden (or 1Password or KeePass) is an upgrade over SMS authentication in terms of both security and convenience.

The article makes a similar point:

>> Among the people I’ve “interrogated” about sufficiently securing their online accounts were few who proudly said they’ve adopted a Password Manager and… they’ve copied their favorite password that they’ve been reusing all over the place into the Password Manager. And now they use the Password Manager’s web browser extension to paste the same password into each login form. Well, the only thing they’ve gained is a false sense of security.

>> However, if they do add a 2nd factor of authentication, even if that’s a TOTP managed by the same Password Manager, they do end up in a much better place. Now, looking back at the attack scenario I described above, their leaked password is not enough to log into other online accounts. Yes, they are still vulnerable to a scenario where their Password Manager account gets popped and the TOTP secrets are revealed. But still, their security posture has improved a lot!

> Which roles have you seen docs & tutorials typically fall under?

Technical writers write docs for existing users, and in larger (200-300 employee) orgs also training/education writers create tutorials and develop curricula for new and onboarding users, and content marketing writers write tutorials to demonstrate features.

These roles free up devrel to focus on community outreach/engagement, marketing content, and direct leadgen.

> DevRel often make significant contributions in areas that fall outside of marketing too (especially product)

Hopefully, so does everyone in an org capable of doing so, including the roles I mentioned above.

I don't mean to sound down on devrel, but to claim the role's focus and primary mission isn't developer-targeted marketing is rather disingenuous. It's a marketing role, usually reporting to a marketing manager, producing marketing content, with the goal of generating leads that sales can turn into revenue. That the work looks more like running or attending hackathons or giving technical talks at developer-focused events doesn't change the goals or measured outcomes.

Injury risk plays a part in that, especially for athletes, and is something most SIT/HIIT studies that focus on metabolic impacts don't usually measure: https://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/sports-med-physical...

> With particularly high rates of knee and ankle sprains and strains, neuromuscular training and pre-strengthening programs, which have been previously demonstrated to be effective among young athletes, may be particularly worthwhile in prospective participants

> giving technical talks, writing documentation & tutorials, organising developer events, recording video tutorials

Aside from giving talks and maybe event organization, the rest of those functions (docs, tutorials) already have roles.

The more naked truth is here:

> marketing teams usually don't have the technical knowledge required

DevRel is marketing that targets developers. They do all the things marketers do: drive adoption, control perception, pressure product teams in customer orgs, and drive product-market fit.

Just like marketers try to build champions in C-suites and pursestring-holders for sales to use to land and expand, devrel builds champions on dev teams in orgs where devs have more control or influence over budgets.

Pretty sure the corpus of layoff letters is large enough to just let ChatGPT handle them from here on out.

Only thing missing from this is a fake demonym. Like "Farglers" or "Chairistans" or "Doughfolx."

The better argument is that JSX is just syntactic sugar. It's just Javascript driving around in a fancy HTML-colored car.

I think my favorite is still Asana, which calls its employees Asanas: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anneraimondi_earlier-today-we...

Which contains gems like "exceptionally talented, mission driven, innovative and kind Asanas" and "once an Asana, always an Asana" — considering some of the Sanskrit usages are equivalent to "chair" or "seated posture".

"You were good chairs, but you have to go. As they alway say, once a place where you put your ass, always a place where you put your ass."

Sept. 2022: https://archive.ph/WsLD7

> PagerDuty's Results Sparkle Amid Gloom in Enterprise Software

> For its fiscal second quarter, ended July 31, PagerDuty (ticker: PD) reported revenue of $90.3 million, up 33.6% from a year ago. That is ahead of both the company’s guidance range of $87 million to $89 million, and the Wall Street consensus call of $88 million.

> On an adjusted basis, the company lost 4 cents a share in the quarter, while management had forecast a loss of 8 to 9 cents a share. The consensus view on the Street was that the loss would be 8 cents. Under generally accepted accounting practices, the company lost 44 cents a share.

> For the January 2023 fiscal year, the company now sees revenue of $365 million to $370 million, with a loss of 10 to 12 cents a share. It earlier forecast revenue of $364 million to $369 million, with a loss of 17 to 21 cents a share.

> Can you imagine achieving recognition or winning money as the 3000th best Fortnite player

There are quite a few retired pros still earning in that cohort, so, yeah. The prize pool is pretty deep and 3,000 is still top 0.2%.

Do people actually think many or most CEOs are high-quality executives?

Do you track the designated support person's work? If so, what does that look like?

There was a story in 2014 that Jobs had considered partnering with Sony on projects: http://nobi.com/en/Steve%20Jobs%20and%20Japan/entry-1212.htm...

> Steve Jobs and another Apple executive were waiting for us at the end of golf course holding VAIO running Mac OS" recalls Ando; 2001 is the year,

A German site picked up the story and created that mockup (which wouldn't've fit the story; the X505 shipped in 2003): https://winfuture.de/news,80151.html

Sorting is an algorithm that organizes content. Auto-moderation is an algorithm that editorially curates content.

The conversation is about Section 230, which is ruling on whether companies can be held liable for editorial curation algorithms.

One question before the court, at least from the perspective of Reddit's brief, is whether voters whose input influences an editorial curation algorithm could be held liable and sued with enough merit to warrant a defense if Section 230 is removed.

@jedberg's point, at least in my reading, is that the r/law poster is equating the "hot" list with an editorial curation ("recommendation") algorithm, when the "hot" list is a content-neutral sorting algorithm.

Sorting is technically an algorithm, so saying "but sorting is an algorithm" is the best kind of correct. It's just not a very valuable correctness for this conversation.

Also, how do you get game state back from an LLM response? If an LLM decides an NPC is a blacksmith and promises to make a sword for a player, and that functionality isn't even in the game, how do you handle the player responses?

If you prefer this in the form of a Creative Commons-licensed spec for some reason, https://github.com/sembr/specification

Silvergate Bank gets a small mention; for context, see https://www.ft.com/content/5c960a79-ccbe-4805-a137-7e5241251...

It reported a US$1 billion quarterly loss four days ago: https://cryptoslate.com/silvergate-capital-posts-1b-loss-in-...

And used federal home loan advances when faced with its withdrawals run: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/silvergate-bank-loaded-u...

> and someone with zero personal skills wades in with “that’s a dumb way, why aren’t you reading the docs and doing it correctly like this? You’ll break things”.

Apple didn't roll that out in Australia, where the author's located, until yesterday: https://7news.com.au/technology/major-update-to-apple-maps-i...

Why does anyone think first-party trade-in programs are ever in good faith? There's zero incentive for them to be. They say, plainly and directly on the trade-in site, that they estimate offering "up to $670" for a MBP.

If that's a bad deal, don't sell it back to the company that'll make the highest margin off it?

Vox also pays the editors of some blogs across their network, some as contractors and others as full time. Beyond the layoffs, they've cut off entire segments of that support, as well as any first-party monetization for the affected blogs: https://twitter.com/AndrewLeighNYC/status/161647777824496025...

These are big-break stories, not career-switching stories.

Yuan had been working on online teleconferencing since 1997 and was managing a team of 800 at Cisco when he left 13 years later. He didn't career-switch, he doubled down on his career.

Baszucki graduated from Stanford in computer science in 1985 and had been working on physics simulation software since the late 80s, with Cassel. He sold that simulation startup in 1998 for $20 million. Roblox didn't ship for two years and didn't take off for almost 10 years, by which point Cassel was dead of cancer.

Lee worked in comics at the same company since he was 17 in 1939, had his first writing credit on a Captain America book two years later, and was named interim editor the same year and never left the role. He was considering switching careers out of comics right before writing the Fantastic Four, but he started working in pulp and comic fiction as a teenager and never left.

Samuel L. Jackson graduated from Morehouse in drama and founded a theater in 1972 at 24 years old, and had been a professional stage actor since he was 32; his first feature film role was in the same year. Morgan Freeman was his mentor. "Jungle Fever" was his fourth Spike Lee film; his performance as a crack cocaine addict came after exiting rehab when his heroin addiction turned into a coke addiction.

Sam Altman's more complete quote from the headline: "We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested for in math class, I imagine."

If you prefer not to imagine, here's a literature review of attitudes toward calculator use since 1975: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?re...

Excerpted from the potential applications of the findings:

> This study also helps educators and school district administrators examine continual themes of concern since 1975. Many of the apprehensions that were presented at the onset of popular calculator usage are still concerns today. Though culture and times have changed, many issues still exist. Teachers can use the policies of the past and principles followed and evaluate the appropriateness of them in classrooms today. Understanding concerns that prevailed for decades will help teachers maintain perspective today.

> Lastly, this study is a reminder that calculator usage is more than a right or wrong issue. Parents, teachers, and educators are not debating if calculators should be used. Rather, they are trying to understand how using calculators effects students in the long run. They attempt to predict how changes in policy will effect students once they leave the educational setting and become contributing members in society. This study prompts educators to consider the importance of their attitudes and the decisions that result because of them.

Bans on ChatGPT are triage. "We adapted to calculators" means still debating how they should be used and their long-term effects, 50 years later.

There's a feature request for that: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321498