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"Mythos-like" just means "hyped via hearsay". It's being used correctly here.

Yes, the strategy depends on lack of effort from other senders, even trivial effort

The latter. Using chatgpt to write their chat messages usually. Emoji, arbitrary bold and italics, bullets, etc.

Tangent to the tangent! I've started using it professionally because it signals "I wrote this by hand, not AI, so you can safely pay attention to it." Even though in the past I nev…

E911 would get bssid of the access point.

I agree with you about what's described here. There is engineering when this is done seriously, though. Build a test set and design metrics for it. Do rigorous measurement on any c…

My first job we had office rooms shared by 2-4 that were usually pretty quiet with a generally closed door policy. The VP Eng would always say "I always try to remember it costs th…

Cambridge MA just had a major shift on zoning towards "build more" in Q1. It will be an interesting natural experiment to watch. https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2025/02/11/cam…

I think they're saying something more subtle. In your basketball analogy, it's more like they have a model that predicts basketball performance, and they're saying that model shoul…

I don't know the detail here, but in many of the discussions I've seen the operators themselves are based in the UK, and that changes the calculus.

From AP, RFK said: > "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he added. “We don’t know whether i…

> This move absolutely will drive out some of their best talent IMHO, from my personal insider experience, this is actually the goal in some places. Best talent is often not the mo…

From the article, it's not 12 total, but 12 per user for 100 concurrent generations.

> Book a meeting room if you want to have a real conversation. But act fast, the next available slot is in two weeks, assuming an exec doesn't claim the room for that full day that…

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This totally happened on my first team. We had a guy who would argue about everything that knew the CTO so we had to tolerate him. Then we hired a second one and they just argued w…

I think you need to take into account how long the wine lasts after you uncork it and how long it takes you to drink the bottle. If you're drinking all 100 bottles in one night thi…

I think you mean spending more than 25000 (on things subject to sales tax), not earning 25000.

Do also consider that if this was your mistake (which you say), and they quit their previous job or declined other offers because of your erroneous offer, then you might have done …