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I remember seeing an advertising exec talk about spending more money in the area the execs lived so they felt the impact of the advertising, regardless of how effective the spend a…

I don't think my communication became more precise. Language is imprecise and in these cases (ESL), you are also limiting your vocabulary. (Especially when I moved outside the US -…

When I started dating someone whose second language was English, I found that the idioms were a giant hurdle. We really do speak in idioms and metaphors and this makes it very diff…

1. How do you get around performance issues? If I have a difficult join and you have a slow database, or you have a flaky connection, how can I debug the problem on my end? 2. What…

We don't need an expert even - pre-clinical is a far ways off even if successful. This is in the "interesting advancement" stage, not "promising treatment."

The people who would "let their guard down" did long before this news. (Or Prep, for that matter.)

More importantly - the cost of the medical assistance to help someone get out of the house and physically train is much more expensive than a drug. If you want to prescribe exercis…

It's fairly rare - like when 1984 was deleted from amazon when the seller didn't have the rights (and customer was refunded), but https://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/oct/22/amaz…

Or, perhaps, apple users are rational actors that have different weights to their tradeoffs than you. The last time I checked Android, the security and privacy story was much worse…

I thought I was the only person who remembered Apache Ant... I know we're running out of names but that was a really influential piece of infrastructure.

You should do an experiment of splitting that up to multiple reviews that are logically together. My hypothesis is that you may be losing signal due to the amount of text expected …

https://kunekuneyokai.home.blog/2019/01/18/virgil-abloh-stea... from a quick look.

I mean, if by right you mean "insiders leaked to make a few bucks..." sure?

Or, alternatively, they feel like they finally cracked the code and think they can do it better. That's when Apple finally enters a market. Consider how much money they put in to b…

If it’s like other things, the auditors of Anthropic will have a contract with OpenAI and vice versa.

It's the concern for the community who pays in higher prices, and the employees in their job stability. Has everyone forgotten the social contract? We do not exist as communities t…

One thing that this misses is that in many fields, career retirement chooses you before you choose it. This is often true in development as ageism catches up with you. At some poin…

I'm so glad YouTube and other podcast players have moved to support 3.0 speed. As I get comfortable with one, I move it up some. For things like sports and "did you know" content, …

Parmesan cheese is savory, not sweet. For people who did not grow up with hershey's, the butyric acid is what makes it taste off. This is not a question of safety - it is a questio…

It depends if your goal is to sell the company or evade taxes, of course.

First, no matter what you do, if a human has write access to the production database, the database can be deleted. Second, there is a legitimate reason to destroy a database in dev…

I have all the empathy for people in the world. A corporation is not a person. If your organization cannot handle the load, then you need to adjust your practices. The organization…

I wrote about this - https://www.ebiester.com/agile/2023/04/22/what-agile-alterna... - Royce was describing what he saw as an anti-pattern that it was risky and invited failure wit…

This is a particular artifact of the government system process. These are contracted pieces of work that Company A would deliver, Company B would administer, and Company C would be…

Oh certainly - I'm conflating the adjective of agile with the manifesto of agile. I've been on projects with multi-hundred page design docs and multi-week UATs. And nobody wants to…