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Is the 30-50% of face value realistic for "Liquidation Value"? If one organization has to liquidate, sure. But if the bubble pops and many groups have to liquidate at once? Owners …

> You will send out some C signals. That’s inevitable. We all did. Never, never send out the same C signal twice. And make sure the balance of the signals are that you are a B. Thi…

I've actually run into this in the wild, with regards to sales forecasting. A program we were using returned zero if the error bars on a forecast were over 100%. For example, selli…

I occasionally put on a (human-made) podcast for the word-sounds rather than the content. I can imagine others do the same without caring whether it is human-made.

It's the curb-cut effect. Just because the larger population doesn't demand something doesn't mean they won't benefit from it.

Once you get a byte-by-byte duplicate, you can start refactoring into idiomatic Rust. Convert pointers to references, rip out unsafe blocks, and let Clippy go ham.

Paypal does what? I'm sometimes nervous I only need 2 factors of authentication. 0FA seems dangerous for financial anything.

There's always something else at play. Bufferbloat hides problems from the systems that can easily solve them. It doesn't cause problems, it makes them worse.

That solution reminds me of the evil bit. However, if someone has the skills or resources to unset the bit, they likely are allowed to anyway. https://archive.org/details/rfc3514

If worker productivity keeps increasing, we may reach a point where it exceeds total labor required. If we keep livelyhood tied to employment, the only two options would be busywor…

Instead of giving people makework, we could move towards divorcing "livelihood" from "employment".

Isn't Greece's unemployment rate the highest in the E.U.? Yes, they may be "low-quality" workers applying for jobs, but if a company can't find "high-quality," they must make do. H…

It does, actually. It implies the process has just started, which is pretty substantive.

Form does follow function, at least at first. Skeuomorphism only happens because the original had design compromises that looked cool. I think we humans will happily sacrifice aest…

The toddler got there first. Seriously, though, it's hard to keep track of something that gets used once every five years.

For those unclear on the definitions, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119

I misread that as "(black water) tank" and got worried.

Slightley different. Decision Fatigue is what happens when you run low on Choice-Gas.

That one's pretty standard. When the lab is about to run out of money, they fluff up an incremental improvement as a 'major breakthrough'. No false claims or fake science involved.…

Too bad. Sometimes a business can't or won't hire a real sysadmin. The people forced into the job need guides just as much.

I'm not sure about that. Microsoft is Commoditizing its Complement. I have a free repository on GitHub that auto-deploys to a paid Azure host. If GitHub wasn't as good as it was, M…

> ...if the features of the language are used... The Rust compiler uses Rust's features terribly, just because Rust's features were a moving target for the majority of the compiler…

In states which require all-party consent, are things like "Hey Siri" illegal?

I can't help but be reminded of the "Neckbelt Recall" clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiuOQHTsNg The engineers will have to fight Murphy tooth and nail to make this safe.

There ARE some HOAs that fine home owners for lacking green lawns. There's still the option of zero-scaping (covering your yard with gravel), but that is a big up-front investment.…