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That post is single-handedly responsible for me going to Buenos Aires.

(Well that and a Qatar Airways misprice a couple of years back; but I would not have been motivated to jump on that occasion if I had not read the post.)

I know you didn’t mean anything by it, but this is the funniest misspelling of the name “Maciej” that I’ve ever seen.

Are you sure it's not the cable? Theoretically, USB-C is designed in a way to prevent this exact thing from happening, where the springs that help retain the cable are in the _cable_, not the device.

(This is a frequently toted-out argument about USB-C superiority over Lightning.)

Analysis and detection are not the same.

I found the anecdote about it being technically impossible to resign as an MP interesting and am glad that the person posted it.

By that metric we should just pack it all up and call it a day on computing in general; because even despite literal trillions of dollars being spent on it, we still haven't found a way to make it secure.

No; the person I replied to line about "having to transition these by the end of the year" was a reference to a fact that Apple's publicly announced deal with Qualcomm expires this year/early next year.

The modems are made by _Qual_comm, not Broadcom.

Different company.

You can use past tense there.

This is something that anyone learning a foreign language could tell you is very much a thing.

Understanding a word when you hear it, is frequently much easier than remembering the same word when trying to speak/write the language.

And perhaps more importantly for the final price, if you’re paran^W concerned enough about security to the degree of commissioning custom iPhones without cameras, you’re also not going to let a random guy from the street drill into them.

(You also need to remove the front facing camera, which is also a more involved operation.)

"AI output is patentable but it's not copyrightable" is going to be tons of fun.

Ironically, frequently _because of_ compression.

AIUI the process of building asset packs and compressing them can mean that modifying a single texture can mean complete reshuffling of the resulting file; and that means redownloading the whole compiled "pack".

You can buy games directly on Steam without buying a physical box too; I presumed from context it was clear I was referring to retail, physical editions.

It's mandatory for literally all (native) PS5/XSX games; because that means the games can rely on SSD speeds and not worry about supporting fetching data from the spinning disks.

Doesn't really matter, PS5 games can't be played from disk anyway; they have to be installed to the SSD first.

I mean, when I got Skyrim's legendary edition, the box only had a code in it, and that was 2013! 13 years ago!

Because PC and console games have (had?) different cultures.

This has been normalized for PC games for decades, but it absolutely is not the norm for consoles.

You’ve missed (or ignored) the “compiler enforces leaving the scope” part.

If I am in the middle lane (lane 2), and I realize I need to get into the leftmost lane (lane 1) to make a turn, but lane 1 is too full for me to simply move into it without affecting others, then I would have no choice but to cut someone off.

...you could just miss your turn, instead of cutting someone off?

Sure, it was a rhetorical flourish that maybe didn't land :)

I've seen you comment along those lines before, and I think you're both right, and terribly wrong.

By all measures, the way you describe any hiring processes you've designed and had input on designing the metric and the work sample, probably is both high in signal, and not very arbitrary in scoring. They sound genuinely and refreshingly good. Maybe one day I'll interact with one :)

But man, that is very much not how work sample tests work in _a lot_ of places out there.

Places with actual, formalized rubrics for what constitutes a "pass" or a "good" score are very rare, it's almost always just based on vibes of whatever person is reading your code. If there _are_ formalized rubrics, then they have "suggested allowed time" that is incongruous with what the requirements for a "pass" actually are.

All of that is downstream, fundamentally, from the design of the tests not being taken very seriously by the people doing that. And because they're not actually thinking about it very deeply (or they're not allowed to because of time constraints or whatever); "sit down and redesign this task from first principles thinking about what AI enables now" is just not something that happens, and you just get people increasing the scopes of the project blindly.

I think OP meant noise-cancelling headphones, which were fairly ubiquitous in tech circles in open offices; before Apple launched AirPods.

Yes, and then what was their last sentence?

What judgment? I literally wrote that they’re a nice person!

“Money into a void” is the phrasing _they_ used!

“Money into a void” is the exact phrase that the _person I’m replying to_ used when comparing themselves to a corporate landlord.

Look, I'm sure you're a nice person and a better landlord than many corporate landlords; and trying to do well.

I'm genuinely glad you're trying, and helping your tenants when you can; but I think you've drunk a bit too much of your own kool-aid.

From perspective of your tenants, that money still goes into a void, no matter how nice you are.

If you love different cultures you want them to continue to exit independent of each other to preserve them. The only outcome of a melting pot is literally a monoculture by design.

This only makes sense if you think as "culture" as an immutable snapshot in time, which is... sure, I guess, a point of view to hold, though not a particularly interesting one.

The line gets really blurry in some places in Tokyo.

Asakusa (one of "my" lines!) line, is definitely a subway inside central Tokyo, but you can stay on the same physical train going all the way from Narita to Haneda (think RER in Paris?) — I think it would be qualified as "light rail" anywhere else in the world.

I’m a multilingual person too and it never occurred to me to want this, and I’m still not sure why I would.

I’m curious, tell me why you (want to) use this!

That is not the same as the annual mandatory health check.

Maybe your employer pays for you to get a more comprehensive checkup by default and you're unaware of this?

But the ones vast majority of population here gets do not include MRI or CT or Endoscopy.

And, _even then_; specific checkups when you're looking for _specific things_ are still very different things than a full-body MRIs.