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I don't know it and I'll allow you to mention it.

What would the winrate of a bot doing these calculations be compared to one that doesn't?

I would go further: Anyone who has published a "scientific paper" in the last decade or so either "distrusts science" or is more likely than not a mid-wit at best.

Your posting doesn't give me the impression that you're very familiar with "science".

Actually most of Europe is spending it on subsidies for retirees and other people that prefer not to earn (or at least declare) any income.

Aren't there companies that provide the "caching server for free" as a service?

If I understand the author right, the big companies are allowed to set up caching servers at ISPs.

Isn't this basically a CDN? If you spin up your own screaming start-up you would first go with akamai or whatever and if you reach sufficient scale you set up your own agreements with ISPs.

Is the blog basically arguing for making it illegal to cut out the middle man here?

The spirit in a decent cocktail is closer to ~$3-5.

Quite a bit? You have a lot of videos, most of which in many formats, often up to 4k. Storage alone likely costs a few pennies (if not more).

Then all the network traffic (a sizable fraction of the entire internet traffic), transcoding & upkeep for all these things. That's only VoD.

Then there's live video which is basically the entire thing above with the additional constraint that there's less room for error and latency.

Some other services tried live video as well, e.g. Netflix or Apple for some keynotes in the past.

For Netflix I recall a few were covered in the media, e.g.: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/16/23685828/netflix-love-is-....

If one were really great with this - would it be possible to reproduce both the Richter and the Gould version of the WTC 1 Prelude in C Major (except maybe some flourishes)?

For reference, the first few minutes of these links:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osi_pQcUdM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjnKuhcfB6U

Being the IT guy for the elderly people in my family, these days 90% of the issues they are having is with the scummy shit that Microsoft is pulling constantly.

E.g. my mother even has Office 365 and still constantly gets offers to upgrade to Office 365 shoved in her face. With the pathetic shit that MS is pulling these days I wouldn't put it beyond them to somehow be able to sign up & pay twice for Office.

Can the people working at Microsoft chime in whether they feel any shame? I'm sure it's great for their metrics but it's shows 0% respect for users and also themselves. Some journalist should ask Satya how he feels about being the CEO of the largest panhandler organization in the history of mankind.

While it might cause other issues, I think the root is somewhere else and harder to solve (even if the solution is obvious).

Also pretty bad. Might get somewhere in a few years but currently this is only noise.

I don't see how any of these cases prove your point. None of these offenders seem to fit a profile of someone that is a threat to public safety.

I think the point of the lyrics is to have "zendesk", "alternative" and "open source" on the same page for SEO reasons.

This is well known to be wrong. I'm not sure why it's repeated so often.

Having a hiring freeze and actually not hiring in excess are two different things.

Though 1899 was really a genuinely bad series. I think if someone summarized the plot you would think it's a meme on r/iam14andthisisdeep

Netflix might be doing weird stuff but 1899 is a really bad example because the mistake there was actually greenlighting the first season.

I applied as SWE in 2018 an was asked whether I ever thought doing Data Science instead. I said I thought about it but it didn't appeal to me, for reasons similar to the article.

Still, I got hired as Data Scientist. The money was good, but I didn't believe in the field and was kinda ashamed of the title (though it did seem to impress people - I think rural Europe is a few year behinds).

After 3 years I left for SWE SRE and my only regret is not doing that earlier. Decent grasp of SQL and a bit of handwavy knowledge about stats comes in handier than expected.

When Tesla at some point decides to build Petafactory, costing almost their entire profits for the year, will this guy make another thread about Tesla not being in the car but in the tequila business, because the revenue from https://teslatequila.tesla.com/ roughly matches up with their yearly profits?

What an idiotic thread. Would downvote if I had enough karma to do so.

But the streets are safer with some of those people in Riker.

Austria would be one such country. Technically, a law was passed but a court decided that a law must be passed and if the government didn't it would have been dismissed.

I made a PayPal account when I was 17 and used it happily for 12 years. In 2021 (being almost 30 years old) I got a payment from US (I'm in the EU) and had to provide ID to PayPal.

They figured out that I made my account a few months before my 18th birthday and permanently locked my account.

It seems all of this is arbitrary more or less random bullshit.

I think it doesn't count characters in the body but I am sure Dan could add this as optional feature (though I think it's a bad idea to enforce 80 chars there. Maybe a max line length would be better).

Also, I think it doesn't enforce the limits but counts down letters and if you're above the 50 chars for the message it shows a negative char count in bright red (which makes me reconsider what I want to tell my coworkers in that message).

The other points should be fulfilled.

I tried a few Git clients over the years and am proficient with the CLI.

My impression is that Fork captures how git actually works better than some of the other GUI tools and it has a lot of handy features that make certain tasks a pleasure instead of a chore (common rebasing things, add/deleting/changing local/remote branches, splitting up changes in single files into multiple commits - this is maybe be an antipattern but I do it frequently enough).

Also, it's very cheap. I hope they make enough money with it to continue development.

Given their headcount of 4k with the usual engineering salaries and some infrastructure it's not that surprising I would say.

edit: misread your question - removed the stupid joke.

I've been using Streamlit for roughly half a year to build various dashboards and GUIs for custom analysis scripts and I am honestly neither surprised that they were acquired nor by the price tag.

Our data is quite complicated and needs a lot of custom code & filtering. Even relatively simple analytical questions need some custom code, if people don't want to do almost everything manually (i.e.: Origin, Export to Excel, crop and move around data...).

Over the years I built up libraries and functions for some of these tasks and with Streamlit I can just slap a sufficiently nice interactive GUI on top in 1-2 hours and iterate the analysis live during a call (give them the URL and ask what additional filters, visualizations they would need, adapt the code in the background and they see the results instantly).

Overall, congratulations - well earned. Also, I considered applying for a position there and regret not doing so.

I recently considered applying at FB/Meta, uploaded my (latex/moderncv) CV which it then parsed automatically and pre-filled their online form with completely garbled stuff.

I spent a few minutes fixing the first few fields but then decided it's not worth the effort and just submitted it as is.

Also, as an addition: Their career site is so slow and amateurish that I still worry about it being phishing site. I googled a little bit and other people had a similar impression.

While the point seems worthwhile, the animations don't help at all.

Stuff moves around for no reason (some graph layouting algorithm with easing I guess), the looping is bad and it's annoying to wait for the changes and as they happen instantly

A simple picture for each transition would have been simpler to implement and actually showed something.

TikZ & pgfplots are really nice if you get over the initial learning curve and prefer programmatically defining things rather than drawing by hand.

E.g. in my theses all figures (except one in my first thesis) were made with TiKZ with colors and definitions defined in a file that is "imported" during compilation.

This allowed me to fine tune various parts (colors, ...) without having to touch each figure again. Also, all the data files are stored as CSV and read/processed by LaTeX. Between handing in my thesis and publishing the short-paper version of it for a conference I could rerun my analysis (to include the most recent data) with a single command and then just recompile the document to have all figures updated.

The thesis: https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub/hinteregger_18.pdf

And TikZ graphics play somewhat nice with the beamer package. I found it easier to define transitions in technical figures with TikZ/beamer than with PowerPoint or any other tool so far.

In a summer internship I worked on the documentation of a project that tried to optimize pillar-placement for skilifts. This was very Math/Physics heavy.

With TikZ I could define various parts (e.g. pillar, rope, gondola) as "function" and then create figures that combined these parts.

I.e: - place pillars at these locations - connect them with ropes obeying some formula - put gondolas along the rope with some defined distance

Important points where marked with coordinates automatically, allowing explanatory nodes (text box with arrow or paths with labels) to be added (with full LaTeX support).

If you lie about having a job this can be found out (they can call the place) If you omit one or several jobs, I don't know how they would know (call all places to see if you also worked there?).

Some (e.g. Marc Andreessen: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/flying-x-wings-into-th... ) say, 90% are either wrong or useless. It's roughly what I would guess as well.