ordinaryperson

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by ordinaryperson 3y ago
Your revised theory is that Ars is actually a Condé company because of the logo in the footer? Not sure that’s how corporate law works. Take a minute and do some research. Advance owns Ars and the terms of the acquisition allow it to have t
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by ordinaryperson 3y ago
Very insightful piece of analysis. Why don’t you email the Ars editors your theory that they are corporate Condé stooges and see what they say? As I mentioned in a sibling comment it’s actually Advance that owns Ars, not Condé, and it’s a d
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by ordinaryperson 3y ago
No. It’s run as a separate company inside the company. And technically Condé does not own Ars, Advance does. Different leadership group.
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by ordinaryperson 3y ago
The terms of the Conde's acquisition state they are not allowed to interfere with the operation of the site. The depth of articles or the decision to pull in Wired content is strictly an editorial decision made by Ars editorial leaders
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by ordinaryperson 3y ago
Targeted advertising is not similar to selling internal organs.
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by ordinaryperson 3y ago
Databricks' core value proposition is Apache Spark in the cloud, optimized with their special sauce (eg Proton engine). Running your own Spark, especially on prem, is a lot of work. Most companies would prefer to just provide their dat
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by ordinaryperson 4y ago
I'd encourage everyone to read Emily Shaw's research on this topic: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED563202.pdf "Validity of the SAT for Predicting First-Year College Grade Point Average" TL;DR:
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by ordinaryperson 5y ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Counter-example: Jenkins. It does what you ask of it, its base install is "naked" and only contains the minimum functionality in the core. Everything then becomes a plugin. Git. GitHub. Branch for mult
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by ordinaryperson 5y ago
The good news is we can already test this hypothesis by looking at the countries that already enforce compulsory voting [1]: Argentina Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Ecuador Liechtenstein Luxembourg Nauru North Korea
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
So cynical. I hope you're never in debilitating physical pain, only to have other people dismiss the effect of surgical intervention as a figment of your imagination. It's not just about the sample size, I could get into the anato
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Without specifics this article is not helpful. I've had 5 orthopedic surgeries and they were transformative -- and this article is written by an orthopedist! There's some data [1] against these operations: - Arthoscopic knee surge
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
> I couldn't believe my eyes – so many people in NYC (Manhattan specifically, the place I always wanted to live in) live like rats, an order magnitude worse than what you can get in Odessa for $300-400. Odessa is a city of less than
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Silver's 2012 book "The Signal and the Noise" discusses our inability to rationally process probability, pointing out that commercial weather forecasts (e.g. Accuweather) never list a probably of rain under 20-25%. A 5% chanc
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
But the media is not Nate Silver. He said Trump had about as much chance of winning as the Cubs had that year of wining the World Series, and obviously both happened. Silver did a nice writeup of the whole experience: https://fiv
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Honestly Halo started to go off the rails at Halo 2 and that silly cliffhanger ending. And I'm still not sure I understand the plot of Halo 3. So I don't know if you can pin the blame for what happened to the Halo franchise on MSF
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Literally none of those links prove what I ask. The first is Microsoft opposing an effort by the US government to force it to hand over information stored on servers physically outside the US. Which proves my point. The second is an FAQ by
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Sure. Problem is, the US government does not own US companies. After the Snowden leaks, for example, Google did a lot of hardening to its servers i.e. ensure all of its internal traffic is encrypted. If you have evidence that Microsoft, Ama
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
> The CIA does a lot of spying on behalf of US corporations to drive US corporate interests. Luckily Europe doesn't do any spying. https://thecorrespondent.com/6257/how-european-spy-technolog...
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Of the 3 you mention "filtering logging outputs, checking HTTP response codes, throwing errors" only the last one seems universal to me. Take logging. Super important - I spend a lot of time evangelizing logging to younger devs an
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Are you telling candidates in advance what type of code to expect or surprising them? Do you know what I do when I see a problem for the first time that I don't immediately know the answer to? I Google it. Because A) it's faster B
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
The Leaf came years after Tesla and was a cautious, follow-the-leader side bet by Nissan. The Tesla Roadster was a radical re-thinking of the automobile -- an industry that had been stagnating for over 50 years -- and an all-in investment i
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Not really. It's an office, not an isolation chamber. You have to work together. That may be a frustrating concept for some -- from your comment it appears you only care about your work, you don't care if others' work is comp
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
> a 30 second conversation might take a 1 minute call now but certainly a 30 minute call sounds absurd. It is absurd, but people do it. People are always late to meetings. Then 5 minutes of kibbutzing since many have recommended persona
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
I do not have kids and do not love WFH during lockdown. Simple things that would be a 30-second conversation in the office are now 30-minute Zoom meetings. Slack noise -- already a distractor to begin with -- has gone up 10x. If I have X ho
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
What I don't understand is why the big browser makers -- Google, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft -- makers don't just offer this service. 80% of the plumbing is already there, why not just extend the UI? Generate unique, high-entropy
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Lot of great comments here, just wanted to add one piece of historical context: This had a really bad outcome the last time the UC system tried to do this 20 years ago: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Pretty simple Google search: https://theconversation.com/the-petya-ransomware-attack-show... Many more examples.
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
I'm "making up" numbers? What would you call this? https://theconversation.com/the-petya-ransomware-attack-show...
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
It's a simple example but that's the kind of tradeoffs platforms are trying to make. Small bugs in favor of security and compatibility. It could be a thousand image orientation bugs. Same arguments still apply. And yes, you can&#x
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by ordinaryperson 6y ago
Unattended upgrades is a great example. You must manually install it, it's difficult to configure (you must edit some complex text file) and even then with it on and set to update all types of packages it often still doesn't. Mayb

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