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I got 10/10 and I know exactly zero about VFX and CGI. I did it really fast too. The only one that I hesitated was the aurora borealis.

That said, this isn't some sort of great victory. I expect that soon my intuition won't be good enough. Telling AI from real will never get easier, it will only ever get harder.

You shouldn't have responded then, because we have nothing to talk about.

If you wanna be relevant to the conversation you're gonna have to clarify for me: are you in the camp that thinks Gnome treats its users like they're stupid, or not?

I know absolutely nothing about Gnome, but my comment wasn't about Gnome specifically.

It just grabbed my attention when people say "software X treats people like they're stupid", and then they want things done for them.

Hmmm guys, twitter opens on my Firefox. How can I fix it?

Right, thanks for that. My fault for skipping every other word.

This had really soured my day for a bit there, but you brought it back.

Debian is one of those things that I consider a source of stability in my software life, together with git, wikipedia, and openstreetmap. Believing that it depends on some dodgy company really put me in a bad mood.

( ... ) experienced significant disruptions as a result of CrowdStrike updates, raising serious concerns about the company's software update and testing procedures

To me the issue isn't CrowdStrike's testing procedures. To me the issue is why does Debian depend on CrowdStrike? Does anyone understand this?

TIL

100^(-1/4) is not 1/6. It's closer to 1/3.

Linus Torvals best programmer of his generation, change my mind.

The other one being Wikipedia.

When I was a kid I used to think that pasta came from a pasta factory.

Why do people like IRC?

Separate question: is it encrypted?

Completely irrelevant. A manager at a bank is not pushing for RTO at the bank because a restaurant has a loan.

You're missing the point of this conversation.

I'm in the UK. I buy the cheapest t-shirts in bulk from Primark. They're still going.

I bought them about 7 years ago for 1 pound each. I think they're 2.5 pounds now.

There are broader implications for the economy i

Irrelevant, the motivations of middle managers and executives is not the broader economy. It's their companies results and/or they are perceived by their bosses.

The person I was responding to asked "what drives RTO?". Everything you said might be true, but it doesn't drive RTO. Yes, of course if you own a restaurant you want more foot traffic. But that's irrelevant for an office worker having his boss pushing RTO.

People in the Western world are comfortable and people in China are very motivated.

I've been reading "the man who solved the market" about Jim Simons and his hedge fund Renaissance. This reminds me that there was a period just after the fall of the Soviet Union where Renaissance was flooded with very technically strong, very motivated, very hard working, and very fraudulent ex-USSR people.

They're leaking guys, wake up.

If you have a geographically centralized team (I.e everyone is in the same city) it makes sense to me to have the team be together at least one day a week

Wanna expand on that? Why does that "make sense"?

Good optimizers will not react to half empty office space by pushing for RTO. They'll react by pushing for smaller office.

So the problem that you pointed out isn't optimization as a concept, it's dumb people.

This is what I'd really like to know.

What really REALLY is behind managers/executives pushing for RTO.

My theory so far is that they believe that employees working from home take advantage of decreased supervision to slack. Now on HN you'll read "doesn't matter that I'm working fewer hours if I'm delivering work". But I think managers/executives fear they're not very good at assessing how much tasks are meant to take. If a task is mean to take 1 day and I take 3 days and I explain why it took me longer, some times it's really difficult to assess whether the explanation is true or I'm BSing. (Of course, they don't admit this. They use their own BS to justify RTO. Enhanced collaboration or whatever.)

Bottom line, managers/executives don't know how much output they can realistically expect, but they suspect it will be lower from home.

I'm talking about the index.

No, you haven't.

Because if you did, you woulnd't be looking at an exponential and saying "but but but it reverts!!!!"

In fact, high performing equities if anything tend to fall and regress to the mean.

Ok, honest question. Have you ever looked at the S&P, say over 50 years? Just simple yes or no.

You're making this sound more complicated that it is. Correlations, random walks, backtesting, strategies, rebalancing, kelly criterion, have nothing to do with this.

Bonds give you cash later. Cash loses value over time.

Stocks give you a participation in the best companies in the world.

Bonds versus S&P I know which one I'm holding. Good luck with your thing.

The best objection to these proposals

The best objection is that I want my software to work for me, not for someone else. Simple.

By having a fixed percentage portfolio you are forcing yourself to sell high and buy low.

Yes, and the things you sell high are the ones that performed well in the past, so you'll have less of those in the future, which is what I said. I'm not thinking about anything backwards.

I guess we think about risk very differently.

I contributed 50% to a bond fund, as well, but that is like, 10% of the total, nowadays.

That's one of the ridiculous aspects of fixed-percentage allocations: by constructions those allocations tell you that you should get rid of the things that are making you the most money, and put it into the things which are underperforming instead. (I get that you didn't do that, I'm just got reminded of it.)

Are the massive profits immediately syphoned out by the execs and owners?

Have you actually looked at the numbers or are you just parroting memes? In the numbers I'm looking at some divisions are $1M per employee.

Be less pretentious.

Maybe it hasn't been an active Mozilla mission for a decade in practice, but they did paid it lip service many times in the past decade, so still counts as breach of trust.