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Your parents didn't have the legal authority to print money. It's almost like running a household is different from running a business, is different from running a nation.
I have been using vi/vim for 30 years and I had no idea about using ^K-M to insert an em-dash.
There are many reasons people might not read your documentation, and "it isn't good enough" is only one of them. To wit:
- they don't know about it
- they can't find it when they need it
- they just don't read documentation (quite common)
- they've been burned by stale docs in the past
And while you're right, that sometimes/usually/always the documentation isn't good enough, it's a fallacy to think that the person who has the information needed, has the skill to write docs that are good enough for people to read. And if they have the skill, they don't have the time to apply it sufficiently.
Let's face it: good docs aren't valued. Not by the organization structurally, and not by the individuals within the organization. You may say that you value it, but I bet that if someone offered to document whatever code or process to your 'good enough' level, and it would take a month to do, as a manager you would tell them to take less time (i.e. create bad documentation) and get to something more important.
Sorry it felt condescending. I'm sure you think it's obvious that you "did the work" because you know about scientific notation and understand the notation. I thought I had done it too, but more and more I see how my internal number line is/was still fragmented, and gets better when I think in terms of exponents first/foremost.
It feels like that at first glance because you haven't done the work to internalize the notation. This is like someone who uses Roman Numerals being introduced to decimal notation, and getting confused that "22" isn't just twice "2". Yet no one these days would say that decimal notation is merely syntactic shuffling.
The notation helps, but you still have to do the work.
(Author of Mag World here) I'm here to attest that it's worked for me! I see now that I had a fractured collections of number lines in my head (thousands, millionths, billions, and of course all the various units). Since using mag notation and integrating it into my thinking, it has absolutely helped create a grounded "magnitude line" in my head. So I'm not proposing this idly. Notation is a tool of thought (as per Ken Iverson), and using mag notation consistently, turned the advanced method of "logarithms" into a basic perspective of magnitude for me.
Maybe give it a few weeks or months and see if it gets easier for you too.
RC is a great community and I will be forever grateful to them for introducing me to several good friends that are still in my life 10 years later.
Sorry but this is one of those instances where you have to kill your darling. You can't sacrifice readability for textual content.
Okay, well said. Maybe we should try one year of each and then put it to a popular vote.
It takes more energy to liberate the oxygen than you could ever get from the fuel. You don't need oxygen atoms, you need the oxidant.
I hate to say it, but you're the problem. One time is better than switching, but we switch because no matter which time standard we choose, some group of people takes issue. The only way we can get one time standard is if we all let go of our highest preference and allow the second-best thing to succeed. Otherwise we'll be doomed to third-best (devolving into worst--see Indiana and Arizona and all the other carveouts within carveouts) for eternity.
That's the source, but for chemical reactions you also need a sink. For instance gasoline is not usable as an energy source without an oxidant. Take away the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere (an asteroid has no atmosphere at all) and now gasoline has no potential energy available. Asteroids have no available oxidants (regolith was already fully oxidized long ago).
Oh good, that does make me rest easier. Though technically the units should be man-hours (or bacterium-hours?). Now this makes me wonder how many life-hours there have been...looks like ^40 'beings' over all time[0], and ^43 being-hours total.
Fun math!
[0]Crockford et al. (2023) estimate about 10^30 cells exist today, and between 10^39 and 10^40 cells have ever existed on Earth.
That's basically what we're doing! I'd be curious if it helps you. Send me an email if you wind up listening to or reading anything from the site.
evolution has spend quadrillions of hours doing just that
Magnitude pedantery incoming: 1 billion years is "only" about 10 trillion hours.
I'm working on this! https://magworld.pw
For a good exploration, see "Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons" (1995).
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Because of scale. Social media companies manipulate literally billions of people, whereas the luxury fashion industry only manipulates millions of people.
Sports gambling is another example of the issue at scale. When it was at a racetrack, it's naturally limited to those who can go to that physical location. When it moved to OTB, the scale goes up an order of magnitude. When it moves online and to apps, the scale goes up again. And so it's become important to regulate.
Yeah, at least it should be over the same time period!
This is so awesome! Exactly what I was hoping for when I released the dataset, thank you and nice job.
(And if you'd like to do the same analysis on a larger dataset, please reach out!)
I agree and am open to ideas about what to do about it!
Why are you talking to the OP like they're a bot?
Gravity does not work in our favor. It takes energy to go towards the sun.
You started with logic gates. How much EE did you do, or the actual physics that makes the transistor possible? Those are the previous (deeper) levels that people had to know before they got abstracted away.
or you have to control pregnancy and childbirth
People are quite naturally controlling their own quantity of offspring, to the dismay of our leaders who insist on perpetual growth. If we limit immigration (not my preferred approach, but here we are), then the population will naturally start to fall, as is happening in other places.
Well yes, you have to spend the money wisely. How could we construct a system so that we have 2x as many teachers (thereby halving the classroom size)? That would have a lot of good second-order effects beyond test scores.
This sounded like generated text to me. "The gap" etc
Okay, and? Just because they'll find some other place to put it with worse terms, doesn't mean you should let them have it in their preferred location with bad terms.
I'm reading "Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld" by Byung-Chul Han, who has things to say about it. "Things" are naturally possessions to be owned; the non-things that we as a society are moving towards are information to be consumed. If you have a physical book, you can pass it along to someone else, margin notes and dogears and all, but the experience of an e-book is fundamentally different. You might feel like you 'own' the bits because they're on your local computer and have no DRM, but your relationship to the actual item is not one of ownership. Just think about leaving your favorite book as .epub to someone in your will to see how non-sensical that would be.