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"It's never RICO"--Popehat

Must...resist...obvious..jokes...resist...

I still remember seeing Terry do a reading of this at Lunacon, I think, shortly after it was published. It was a good reading, he really knew how to land a joke.

Actually reading the comments first because the page isn't loading for me.

Heh, up until a few years ago our inventory system ran on an AS/400, and we had to use 5250 emulators to log in. Don't miss it.

They might be, but that’s not really a reason to let bad people stay in jobs they shouldn’t have. Otherwise e might as well give up any pretense of accountability and just let them do whatever they want.

There was also SpaceWar! from MIT, which Nolan Bushnell turned into a standalone cabinet game. Though I think you could make a case for Pong being the first coin-op video game, a commercial game rather than something that primarily existed in academic labs.

consumer space and space space chips.

Just gotta zoom _way_ in to make the text readable, though.

I spent years as a freelance proofreader and copyeditor. One of the reasons I don't so much any more is I was getting too many political books, books where the authors were not so interested in facts or logic--or even internal consistency. Most of these books were 'conservative' but this was not exclusively a right-wing issue. Ideology requires glossing over the complexity of the real world. It's draining to read this stuff, with limited ability to make corrections.

Hell, now I work for a uni press, and I'm seeing this in our own list more and more--writers are giving up on deep analysis.

"The fight has been about the Pentagon wanting to use Anthropic’s models even more than the company wants, which doesn’t seem like the thing you’d fight for if you thought the models presented security risks."

Well, remember who's running the show there.

I know this is a developer, so they're never going to suggest anything except number go up, but if the cost to buy is going up faster than the cost to rent, that suggests a distortion in the market that is not entirely about housing supply. Which means, number may go down. We have seen this movie before.

"More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms."

It was a balloon?

>For profit organizations are legally required to maximize shareholder value.

No:

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

I suppose responding with 'AI;DR' would seem rude?

Just change his title to Secretary of War Crimes.

If I described my symptoms to an AI and it suggested a diagnosis, I would defintely get a second opinion.

CBS/Viacom was trying to unload Simon & Schuster. PenguinRandomHouse wanted to buy, but it ended up selling to a private equity company. A rare instance where that was actually the better option.

I was part of the NY sf publishing scene in 1990s. In those days the genre felt like a constraining box. The commercial successes of the 1970s and 80s, and the corporatization of publishing in general, meant that there were limits, in literary and conceptual ways. It's funny that he mentions Jonathan Lethem--I saw Jonathan a lot in those days. How to break out of genre was a frequent topic of conversation. It really seemed the only way up was out.

I worked in NY publishing in the 1990s and also did some small press stuff, and even then the 'death of the midlist' was already an old topic. And yeah, consolidation had someting to do with it: publishers were owned by bigger businesses that saw them as black boxes to extract value from. Distribution was changing: the big 'superstores' and Amazon/online sales starting to be a thing. Mass-market was getting crushed. Obviously, not everything that got published was a bestseller, or even expected to be, but authors couldn't get the same space to grow a career. If it didn't work, they'd be cut.

Now I'm a production editor for a uni press. For a while, it seemed to be a bit of a haven from the madness, but it's coming for us now too.

When you are MC Hammer, everything is an MC nail.

Instances often block users or other instances because their users have asked them to do that. They often have posted guidelines about what they will or won't allow. Users will hold them to it. Users can and do block other users on an individual basis. If a lot of people are blocking you, the problem might not be them.

Dwindling number. But maybe? I mean, they're already investing at a level that's completely disconnected from actual results, based on magical thinking and hopium. Just take another hit.

One factor that the author glosses over a bit is that highest swipe fees are for credit cards with benefits. The interbank system he describes is a debit system, no credit is being extended. Even in the US, debit swipe fees tend to be less.

And then crash.

You may need a unique identifier. You may use the isbn if you like. No one will stop you from doing that. But no isbn-issuing entity has applied an isbn to that file.

>if archive.org scans in a hardback with its ISBN, what do I use for the scanned pdf?

The scanned pdf just doesn't have an ISBN. ISBNs are assigned by publishers to products for inventory management. That's it. If archive.org scans a book, it's not a product that needs inventory control.

What, and do seperate commits and merges for every comma and dangling modifier? That makes no sense. In addition, there needs to be comments and queries.

Version control is not editing.

Is there a way to do the equivalent of Word's 'track changes' feature in Vim/Neovim? As an editor who reviews manuscripts in Word, I want to be able to make edits, have the author review/approve them, then clean up the result into a file that goes to the typesetter. If I could do that, then a plugin like this becomes potentially more useful to our workflow.