HN user
To be fair, Reddit itself is mostly to blame for the UX hellhole it's become. AMP certainly doesn't help but they have made so many shortsighted decisions recently wrt app nags etc completely of their own accord in their ongoing weird push towards engagement/monetisation.
Hilariously, my grandma was the one who taught me this when I was a child. I used to always tie double knots, and then take my shoes off without untying, and the double knot would be really hard to undo. She taught me that tying the first step in the opposite direction, the single knot doesn't come undone. Happy to see this on HN :)
It's going to be interesting when these people figure out GPT-3 exists. The days of the take-home essay as a useful grading tool are definitely numbered, at least in non-science disciplines.
Developers love building developer tools, often for free. So while there is massive demand, the supply vastly outstrips it.
This is key, and plays out over and over again in different forms. There are no points for difficulty, only supply and demand. PG puts this well [1]:
That's the essence of a startup: having brilliant people do work that's beneath them. Big companies try to hire the right person for the job. Startups win because they don't—because they take people so smart that they would in a big company be doing "research," and set them to work instead on problems of the most immediate and mundane sort. Think Einstein designing refrigerators.
How far do we want to take this simulation :-) it's also 2d, which is probably a more serious concern given the way the mass distribution reacts to each increase in dimensionality.
Exactly this. It's Google saying "we don't need third party cookies to track people", and removing them just makes life harder for their competitors.