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I used to take news papers and magazines and sometimes still do. So yes it’s perfectly fine.

“..for me..”, “…my version…”

Seconded. For me "doing nothing" also means "doing nothing without following any rules" as you've stated. My version of doing nothing involves either just sitting outside watching …

Perhaps you could edit the submission to add this context?

And crypto.

Thank you! What a beautiful and appropriate meta comment!

Just checked out the Google map satellite view and no kidding! The solar panels are crazy! Highly recommend exploring it yourselves. Mind blowing.

And yet JK Rowling is a billionaire and movies make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. So I guess we can have a world in which knowledge can be free without starving knowl…

I agree 100%. I stopped watching after iPhone 15 event or maybe M2. Absolutely everything seems scripted including hand movements, shifting of postures, smiles..the whole works. No…

Looks like it was a satire? I couldn’t find any authoritative sources on it. https://www.m9.news/social-media-viral/viral-microsoft-caste...

I think it’s about software engineers, who are supposed to be impervious about effects of caste structures and hierarchy, judging programming languages from the caste lens. That is…

"I have written this maxim a few different ways, but it is worth writing again: no army can help but recreate its civilian social structures on the battlefield." Interesting to see…

+1 to Fastmail. Been their happy customer for 5+ years.

You’d be surprised how much vibe is there in VC investing. When one is under the grip of irrational exuberance and FOMO due diligence goes out the window. For example look at Sequo…

> I also think we need a high level formal specification language to tell agents what we expect them to do. Let’s make that specification Turing complete while at it. Jokes aside, …

> $106,000 before incentives, What's the capacity though. Either way this seems extremely high unless we are talking in terms of like 100kw or something. For reference, I recently …

I make sure to understand the query to the fullest extent. I run explain plan to make sure no nasty things like full table scans are happening. I guess just like any algorithm it’s…

I’m building reporting for my company and what you said mirrors my experience nearly 100%. I’m a backend developer so I know what it takes to build a half decent reporting system. …

> apparently published in 2005 No. It was published in late 90s. As per this copy on Archive.org 1997 https://archive.org/details/testyourcskills00yash

I am, thankfully, out of this craziness now but it was fun solving ton of such puzzles from Yashavant Kanetkar books while preparing for campus hiring interviews back in 2000. "Tes…

Me and my friends collected, traded and also played a game with stone by staking match box covers. The idea is everyone stakes match box covers in a small circle drawn on an open g…

I've got nothing to add to the discussion but want to take a moment to appreciate your ability to construct long sentences. It flows beautifully.

> removing people and organizational slack You are spot on w.r.t every assertion you've made. When bean-counters took over the ecosystem they optimised immediate profitability over…

Apparently it required someone with the personality and product taste of Jobs to rein in Ivy. Cook on the other hand being a logistics/operations guy didn’t have the similar skills…

Can someone please eli5 this to a friend web developer? I read the abstract but couldn’t understand much.