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... your awesome vibecoded project has now told you what to unpack first.

I think this might be what Gibson meant by "... it's just not evenly distributed"

"Building world models responsibly"

... I'm suddenly reminded of Iain M Banks' "Surface Detail".

True story:

I was working in the Techstop (40) @ Google, 2011-ish, when a nice person from PeopleOps came through and politely requested my admin powers to help them install Steam on their corp-issued Windows laptop.

I'm sorry, what?

Well see, PeopleOps was going to have an onsite intending to help recruiters better understand Engineering types, and part of the whole business was going to involve everyone firing up a copy of Portal and playing a puzzle-solving video game.

So I immediately got to it. Never heard back as to the success of the endeavor, but turns out there are circumstances where you can break out your Steam library at work.

Missing a semicolon there, I think:

"Assuming that the house is paid for, of course; if your net worth is really only $300K, odds are you don't have the house paid for either"

I think you just recapitulated the plot of Ender's Game.

At least in the Japanese context that I'm more familiar with, there's also levels to seals: you have (possibly mass produced) lower-value seals for low-value signatures, but you also have high value seals where an exact imprint is recorded with the government for high value signature verification, and physical possession of which is very carefully guarded.

Game theory?

A long while back, I read (and just now refound) an article about a biologist's take on cooperation and competition. David Sloan Wilson is quoted as saying "Selfishness beats altruism within groups, [but] altruistic groups beat selfish groups, and everything else is commentary."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/mar/06/david-sloan-...

Perhaps with sufficient intelligence and time, altruism/cooperation is discovered to be a better fit for any given environment, and that's passed on.

I think OP left off a /s tag; I read their post to be suggesting that they'd love to see Atlassian's products go away.

Old Ryobi, or new Ryobi?

Serious question, as I understand the ex-Japanese market rights were sold to a Chinese corp over two decades ago, and the in-Japanese consumer device market rights went to a different Japanse company several years ago too.

Apparently they've gone back to focusing on their roots?

The way I learned it was:

"99 bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code... Fix one bug, compile it again, 101 bugs in the code!"

(To the tune of 99 Bottles Of Beer)

"Your new models are great, but uh... How exactly am I supposed to use them?"

That is, given a lot of users' contexts, the way they can and the way they want to use these models are increasingly disjoint.

I believe it's much to do with blue light emitted by screens:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9424753/

You've probably got a certain level of trust or delegated authority, but you want input and you're giving your leadership the opportunity to steer the decision if they feel they need to, and you're balancing that against the urgency of action.

By very direct analogy, I think there's a dictum in the US military to the effect that a bad plan executed quickly can be better than a perfect plan that's executed too late.

ETA: ... and you're potentially speeding the decision/action by giving leadership the opportunity to confirm/redirect on receipt of the email.

They literally gamified it? Amazing.

> they are the most repairable.

That's a really weird way to spell "incumbency and network effects".

In fairness, you're not wrong, but that seems to be a very specific framing that hides a lot of what this whole discussion is about.

Yes, perhaps they do allow for greater flexibility, but that's complex and difficult to do well/reliably, and doing it well/reliably requires signal analysis gear and software modeling that's out of the reach of normal consumers.

I think your point about the loss of case generally stands, but surely the genitive isn't lost?

As opposed to relying solely on engine braking (or the EV equivalent thereof)?

I'd personally prefer a belt-and-suspenders approach.

If your server is Indian, they'll likely react positively, and get you what you want.

"I'm just asking questions!"

Probably for a number of reasons, starting from our desire as a society to ensure they are as broadly applied as possible, which is in turn driven by our desire as a society (read: "collective") to ensure that they're as effective as possible, which means driving for herd immunity and even things like permanent eradication.

For those who aren't aware of any "blanket liability immunity", I found https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/faq a useful starting point. I hadn't heard of such before.

Probably not in the way that you might mean it, but for me (Xoogler, 2010 - 2023) internalizing bazel means:

"Hey, where's your tool's code in $MONOREPO?" "<path/to/stuff>"

Cool:

    g4d my-citc-client # moral equivalent to `cd ~/repos/stuff`
    blaze run path/to/stuff:target

... and you get a running version of whatever $stuff is, immediately built from head, quickly - no matter the set of dependencies, or which language they were built in. I can just try your thing out immediately with a common interface for all the builds, and I don't need to understand the build at all, unless or until I do, and then OK, absolutely every single build is always expressed in exactly the same way, same idioms, same patterns...

Wild to see the usenet/uuencoding model reproduced on the web w/ jpegs.

That's a feature, not a bug /s

Probably both, to respond to the risk tolerances of any given org.

... and the standard reply to this standard reply is "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

It's been interesting to review my portfolio, such as it is, against this situation, and see that I'm down relatively little. Not because I've bet against anything per se, but I made a conscious decision years ago to diversify out of the SP500 ("VTSAX and chill!") into broader and exUS indices.

I'm reminded of people inside Google arguing with Vic Gundotra to drop the Real ID requirement for Plus :(

> There are outcomes where the US government seizes the company. Not super likely, not impossible.

Are there historical examples in the US specifically where we've nationalized a business?

Because we've certainly invaded countries and assassinated leaders over exactly the same.

ETA: I could have answered my own question with two minutes of research. Yes, we have: https://thenextsystem.org/history-of-nationalization-in-the-...

I can't speak to their quality, but every time I see their name, I wonder about how they're received in England: Americans might generally be unaware, but "smeg" as a name doesn't land well there, as I understand it.