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The healthy range of frequency is roughly 3/day-0.3/day.

Probably 5+ years. Institutions learn slowly, especially top down institutions like militaries and governments. The Ukraine war is 4+ years old, and they are still making significa…

The worse Q2 looks the bigger improvement a bogus Q3 will look.

> presumably with them all writing code? Not always. In fact, I use multiple agents when writing my technical design docs and giving feedback to design reviews. The amount of time …

Status updates aren’t a big deal when running cheap&fast models, but are a big deal once you start making asks that take 5min+.

Furthermore, using the phrase “common sense” to describe an idea inherently dismisses any individual that will argue against it. They either are too dumb to have common sense, or t…

I’m genuinely confused about exactly what Microsoft was doing for the first time. Not the first gui. Not the first web browser. Not the first spreadsheet/word processor/slideshow. …

It’s simple. Oil is traded in USD. A large share of the oil is produced in the Middle East. If oil stopped trading in USD the value of our currency would plummet. So we have a stro…

All of this talk about entering a hot war with China is crazy because of this fact. You don’t go directly from literally zero battles to starting a war with one of the strongest ar…

Is it 2019 again?

I think “The Operating System is fundamentally Unstable” is a much bigger problem than “First party applications are redesigned too frequently.”

When did the offshoring happen, because Microsoft has been bad for a long time. Even in the 90s there were so many BSODs.

The design and intent are bad, but let’s not discount the large amount of bad engineering too.

No, it’s just another designer drug and not a particularly new one. If you want a productivity drug there are more effective, more studied alternatives. If you want a party drug th…

It’s even more irritating when you’re laid off during record profits

I have a lot of chatting applications that all demonstrated that to me. The most common way was having another party indicate the app as a communication option

Is there anyone there I want to talk to? You need to demonstrate that before I create a login, otherwise there is too much friction for me. The iOS storefront is also far behind yo…

You’re way off about when it’s illegal to start destroying your property that the police want to seize during an investigation.

The social contract changes when you change location. It’s unreasonable to be accepted as a guest in country and not expect to have to modify your behavior to accommodate local nor…

KDE has a much older and richer history than windows 7. It’s been trying to be a safe harbor for Windows users to land in Linux for a long time.

It’s a more acute observation about market dynamics than what is usually found in Marx. Marx heavily discusses how humanity interacts with capitalism, and focuses its market analys…

Once a product becomes so big it cannot increase in market share the only way to increase the total amount of profit it generates it by reducing the cost to produce the product or …

Sometimes it is a cause vs causation. Sometimes the scientist didn’t adjust for a variable that clearly would impact both fields they were measuring. To make such a claim, I think …

I think that’s a difference in implementation details, not a difference in what it fundamentally is. I’m not arguing that there aren’t differences between the two, I’m arguing that…

I don’t understand how they aren’t both generalized to “distributes software with versioning at a large scale”