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If you show me a modal dialogue, there better be a literal fire.

Altman: "See I'm prolific!"

This is just the Chinese room argument applied to the Chomsky vs Norvig debate, maybe with a dash of the hard problem of consciousness. Whether consciousness is inherent in particular structures or whether a statistical modeling can achieve it. Does the experience of experience deserve special pleading or would the simulation suffice? https://norvig.com/chomsky.html

pull_request_target is criminally negligent -- github should simply disable it.

The security risk for running unvalidated code on any random PR with access to account secrets has no legitimate use case which outweighs its unbounded risk.

The voiceover is very different from the article.

I use a similar but simpler technique to cook eggs to a runny soft boiled by cracking eggs directly into a small quantity of boiling water. This sets the whites quickly but drops the temperature of the water before it can set the yolks. It's kind of like lazy poaching.

Hmmm. Still tempting.

the toc macro on asciidoc is sublime

:table-caption!: :toc: macro :sectlinks:

toc::[]

Per the law of enshittification, soon only monthly subscribers will gain the ability to disable motion smoothing.

What? You don't want to fund the military industrial complex with a hand-held retro console?

"bromine fluorine dioxide"

That's 3 reactive back-to-back no-thank-you's.

delightful!

How did Ancient Greek music sound?

Like ass. Ass and kazoo.

Too bad there's not a netflix/spotify for journalism. No single journalism source is worth a subscription for 99.9% of people. Aggregated, maybe.

This is the etymology of computer logs. Captain's log is short for logbook

The book so called because it recorded the speed measurements made by means of a weighted chip of a tree log on the end of a reeled log line (typically 150 to 200 fathoms). The log lay dead in the water, and sailors counted the time it took the line to play out. The line was marked by different numbers of knots, or colored rags, tied at regular intervals; hence the nautical measurement sense of knot

https://www.etymonline.com/word/log#etymonline_v_43590

I'm sure Gensler will use this as another excuse of no BTC etf since digital security is hard.

89% too low?

So your solution to if statements is to add more if statements?

Seems he internalized the lessons from Ray Kroc, only he used real estate to extract wealth from investors/shareholders instead of franchisees. "owning the land on which the burger is cooked"

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/we-company-ceo-in-hot-wate...

Scene from "The Founder" "You have a miniscule revenue stream, no cash reserves, and an albatross of a contract....

What you ought to be doing is buying up plots of land, then turning around and leasing said plots to franchisees, who as a condition of their deal should be permitted to lease from you and you alone. This will provide you with two things: One, a steady, upfront revenue stream. Money flows in before the first stake is in the ground. Two, greater capital for expansion. Which in turn fuels further land acquisition, which in turn fuels further expansion. And so on and so on. Land... That’s where the money is. (BEAT) And control."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxCL2RqCuiY

https://www.photopea.com/ is a drop-in replacment for photoshop CS

Affinity Photo is terrible. The jagged edges for lasso tool without anti-aliasing makes it useless to me.

Photopea is 10,000x better and free.

You are throwing your employees to the wolves when you do that. Once you've sold, the decisions are now ultimately made by a new entity with new priorities (for better or for worse).

At its heart, tech is adapting to change and uncertainty through the fusion of creativity and process. Job changes are just another input.

Bandcamp was profitable. Clearly songtradr thinks they can be more profitable. Assuming average comp of $100k x 60 employees x 1.3 for taxes and additional expenses thats about $7.8MM revenue.

Songtradr just did a series D in 2021 for $50MM and recently acquired 7Digital for $23.4MM. I couldn't find a statement on how much it cost to acquire bandcamp, but it seems this might be motivated by Songtradr being cash poor and not wanting to dilute further.

"But within this discrepancy lies a paradox: Bandcamp, as comparatively threadbare as it may seem, with about $20 million in net revenue in 2022, is almost certainly profitable—based on the fact that the company has stayed lean and taken on no new funding since 2010"

https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-...

Songtradr - 45MM revenue / 157 employees = $287k/employee Bandcamp - 30MM revenue / 118 employees = $254k/employee

https://www.zippia.com/songtradr-careers-1401192/revenue/ https://growjo.com/company/Bandcamp

I want to hear Attenborough annotate Jerry's morning today.

Median rent for a 1 bedroom in mountainview is $3.6k Median salary for google is $280k. Some of that is stock so let's say, so $20k, and after taxes $13k/mo. Take out match for 401k, health plan deductions and real take home around $9-10k/mo.

No need for a car or an apartment. Food, gymn, and laundry are free, so only expense left is clothing.

That's an amazing deal given the network effects of other perks, especially considering no need to commute. If you're young and single it's really a no-brainer.

Backticks are used as literals in a lot of contexts, especially DBs.

Overloading that behavior by default would likely blow up a lot of code and certainly violate the principle of least surprise.

what is the reason for the dissociation constant?

How does China have low inflation when wages have been consistently rising and the country keeps printing more yuan?

I'm astonished they don't just require 3rd party apps to use an API key from reddit gold users.

The only thing worse than the reddit app is how much the company is trying to ram it down users' throats.

Standard freemium model: make the user experience so painful they'll gladly pay you to opt out of the pain.

I can only read that title literally