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Is it evil of me to say that 7.2m a year (109000000/15) is not really doing that bad? Honestly, I think a pretty good pyramid scheme a la the Mikkelson Twins would be to start up a…

I guess it makes a sort of sense. Eyes sense photons, touch detects physical force, tongue and nose give useful attributes of chemical properties, and neuron clusters adjudicate pr…

Ah, I'm a dummy. Of course these would be binaries getting chucked around.

It's hard to localize. Early Postscript - PDF software was the wild west, particularly when it comes to the text streams. Something I've noticed is that they're used a LOT in thing…

I mentioned it in a separate parent, but null purge is - for the stuff I work with - completely non-negotiable. Nulls seem to break virtually everything, just by existing. Furtherm…

Holy smokes. I'm no programmer, but I've built out bazillions of publishing/conversion/analysis systems, and null purge is pretty much the first thing that happens, every time. x00…

Yeah, that's via an OTA, which is basically - comparatively - free money. It's not a PoR (Program of Record). PoRs are where (many naive people think) all the money is. All those p…

A company like Google (or Apple for that matter), with their own freewheeling project systems, would rather jump into an olympic pool filled with razor blades and used condoms befo…

GitLab on-prem is way, way, way more elegant than trying to get GitHub on-prem working. One of the things that makes me go, "Gah?" is that, well, Atlassian is more or less abandoni…

What a loss. Killer Elite was one of my favorite modern pieces of war reporting. Wright didn't let the hilariously dystopic "embedded" rules muzzle him or intimidate him - no, he w…

Seat? I would have blown out a whole new access panel in the belly of that flivver with the sheer force of my terror. The few times I've been in bush flights over terrain, it's alw…

> And most documentation systems are far easier adopted by people other than engineers. Whew, gonna have to have a hard disagree with you there. DaC is several times - nay, orders …

As a pretty die-hard enthusiast for this approach - even for legacy, hard industries - let's take a close look at some of the limitations of this approach. First, code is formal la…

Also a market for putting a more doc-focused UI on git, integrating that too[1]. Pull Requests are basically gold for doc review, but the process of getting to the PR is something …

Lots of DaC shops use feature flags for their conditional content. "Conditional Content" is a huge hobbyhorse in component content, because you need conditionals to re-use chunks. …

The DaC debates grow increasingly grim as the overall employment situation worsens across industries. It's pretty hard to get people to react authentically, rather than see the dis…

Has everyone suddenly forgotten the ability of VC to make money just . . evaporate ? The list is long and the dollar number is heartbreaking. Well, if they have, I suppose they'll …

The city laments of the ancient near east might fall near this, but definitely many Roman writers, like Vegetius, saw very clearly that their civilization was headed for oblivion, …

Yeah, but it's very much worth hitting the seven-or-eight figure crypto holders too - those guys don't have the liquidity to support 24/7 security staff. Sure, they could buy some …

"Easy" and "hard" are a lot less important than "risk", I think. Sure, as entrepreneur, I might make 200% gains one out of four times versus 10% gains four out of four times as FTE…

Huh, I got some old tablets laying around that are locked to long-lostgoogle emails. Wonder if I could dust 'em off and give em a new life with this stuff. I know there's other pat…

Watch the bond rating. They're at the very verge of junk right now, and if they slip into BB territory that might trigger a whole bunch of stuff to happen very quickly.

Nuclear-electric, with electric ducted props all over the airframe, is probably the best heavy-lift aviation propulsion system. Same as or better power density, insane efficiency, …

Some years ago, one of those "Consciousness Studies" or "Intelligence Studies" people unveiled a new model for thinking about the brain: as an "ant farm" for mitochondria. The noti…

I don't think this sounds silly at all. Virtually everywhere we look in cosmology the last decade or so, you get a sensation of things unseen . Like we're looking at one of those o…