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The original paper would be: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16648

The part the article OP linked to would be based off the line:

  To put these percentage changes in terms of interest to policy makers, a 10% decrease in gambling expenditure in NSW would result in 4579 fewer ASS offences; 2867 fewer BESD offences; 1380 fewer BESND offences; 1398 fewer MVT offences; 2361 fewer SFMV offences; and 3793 fewer FRD offences 2 each year

The point the OP made was specifically to call out what they deemed as doublespeak of the word ban. I made no comment on why any given book is justifiably banned or "filtered".

JSDoc is TypeScript 7 months ago

I don't understand how this an outrageous claim. You might say a luxury sports car is objectively better than a cheap minivan, but that is no good to someone who needs to transport around a family.

Or is you problem with the word any instead of many?

I think that is a misrepresentation of what the parent was saying. OP is not suggesting everyones gets to do what makes them happy, but rather they are free to say what is important for their happiness, even if others disagree.

Overall agree with the sentiment, but I would add a more specific Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) such as: "Fix test issues caused by non-breaking space character \xa0".

Tells me exactly what the problem was straight away, but I'm still free to choose to read more if I want to know more.

Maybe there is a better word than problem, but I think you can frame these all as solving problems. Facebook was created to have "a directory of information for college students". There was other social networks and other ways to get in touch with other students, but this way made things easier and funner. Apple's goal was to have a more user-friendly personal computer. Amazon wanted to make ordering books online possible.

For example if a better DX leads to faster development or less bugs. Especially when the difference between the delivered UX will likely be performance related rather than a functional/visual difference. Nearly all technology choices make trade-offs like this.

But now we are at the dawn of the AI era and the new capabilities that are unlocked by that are unprecedented. Shopify has the privilege of being amongst the companies with the best chances of using AI to help our customers. A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible. Our main quest demands from us to build the best thing that is now possible, and that has just changed entirely.

Most recent layoffs have been framed around needing to focus the company due to economic and market headwinds. This reads like AI has transformed the mission.

What does "A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible" mean here?

AWS Tools Suck 5 years ago

It only has to be as good as it's competition. Haven't used GCP, but would pick AWS over Azure when it comes to tooling (and a few other categories). AWS documentation tends to be better - for example, Azure fails in giving quick example output for CLI commands. The AWS Console is better than the Azure Portal.

I think in a real parser your instincts would likely serve you well.

For example, if a string data type was added, our tokenize method could not be this simple.

To the actual question, I think one good approach when cutting corners or doing a quicker sub-optimal approach, is to document the limitations and assumptions in some way. You could then evaluate and prioritise you efforts and time from this, rather than getting stuck in the weeds early in the process.

I also have a similar memory as a teenager swimming in a river. A young boy was on his own, with only his face above the water, with said wide-eyed expression. I asked him if he needed help, he managed to say yes, and I pushed him to the river bank. He ran back to his family.

I heard his mum giving out to his older brothers for not watching him. There is a good chance that young boy would have run out of energy and slipped under the surface with no one noticing. It's a nice thought that I may have saved his life and also saved his family from all the grief and guilt that would have caused. I doubt he remembers it - not that it matters.

I sold Baremetrics 6 years ago

$85k budget a year without touching the $3m principal. I'd say he'd have a great chance of never needing to work again if he wishes, especially if he already has some retirement savings and/or assets such as housing.

The author, Paul Biggar, was the founder of CircleCI which does use Clojure(Script). I don't know if he has written on why he chose not to use the same stack for Darklang.