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In my corner of the Faang world it's been 20 years since that sort of brain teaser was asked. We switched to coding problems that require dynamic programming!

And a husband who works and his wife who doesn't, should she get a vote? The commentators here are responding exactly to the spirit of what was said, there's no confusion on what's…

I don't know why you're being downvoted, gross is exactly the word for it.

I tend to think the risk is the point. It's an in-group marker, getting very sick every so often for no good reason shows commitment. Which of course makes it doubly pointless as a…

Kinda want to push back on that. It's not like engineers are separate from operations, not really. A lot of operations is just what engineers have been socialised to do.

I used to read the New York Times on my kindle. It was great: delivered each morning, no waste paper by the afternoon, a simple subscription, etc. I was on my 4th kindle at least, …

It's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad.

Indeed! China is leaning heavily into AI as state policy, as the solution to its looming demographic crisis. Any advantage the US has is going to be brief. It'll be like comparing …

Worth reading, well written. We just finished watching a 90s Dennis Potter TV series, Lipstick on your Collar. Strange and mannered, and about in part the preparation for Suez at t…

What happens when unemployment hits 25%, and youth unemployment hits 50%, in a democracy? That's the real terror here, not hacking.

Speaking for myself, an awful lot of what makes me happy are things I am forced into doing. Work makes me happy, but if I didn't have to work I'm sure I wouldn't. If I had complete…

That's right. In today's carriage to San Francisco my very unscientific observation it's: three reading books, thirty on their phones, ten resting with their thoughts.

I've found some wonderful books at estate sales. A poet's annotated books of poetry, for example.

Tangential, and very anecdotal, but I've been seeing more books on the BART. While almost everyone is hunched over their phones of course, it feels like there's a growing number re…

Meta wants to be an impartial platform only and exactly when it suits them to be.

Actually yes, around double the wattage. It's one of the things English people notice when they move to the US (true!).

That's absolutely it. Cheaters or chumps, neither of whom should be encouraged.

_Human_ body weight. I grew up measuring everything in kilos apart from people, which has I guess what amounts to its own wholly idiosyncratic scale, the stone, that no one I've si…

Good article! Am I right that chrismarker.org used to host the early, but it's since lapsed?

It's noblesse oblige, or rather an example of the end of noblesse oblige, that the super rich don't even have to pretend to do things for others any more. Which, I would suggest, i…

I recently bought the DVD of Trainspotting, after finding no legitimate way to watch it online. The DVD cost less than an online rental would have. A lost world of owning your own …

Nature it selfe cannot erre: and as men abound in copiousnesse of language; so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary

That's absolutely what's happening already: write for me for the writer, summarise this for me for the reader. At some point it will become clear how absurdly wasteful we're being …