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Might be a quibble but Rogers doesn't own the leafs. They own the jays. MLSE owns the leafs. Rogers has a partial ownership of the MLSE. Not sure stake but its not large

Huh. I'm deboosted as well. I _rarely_ interact, and have never had poor interaction with someone. So I'm kind of surprised. Any ideas why accounts get deboosted?

Yeah, this is the most aggravating part of it. I've had people call me and ask why I called them (I didn't my number was spoofed). I tell them I didn't call, and invariably they don't believe me. Side note, I do not recommend trying to explain spoofing to random strangers. It doesn't help

I'd try to frame the experience as a sunk cost (i.e. cannot be changed) and try not to quantify it. Instead focus your energy on developing your skills and keeping yourself healthy going forward. Easier said than done of course.

TL;DR:

> Wow! I honestly wasn’t expecting that much of an improvement. We shaved 187MB off the app size in five minutes by stripping framework symbols.

<3

Good read. Here's the answer to the title question:

> I also learned that “impossible,” when used by Feynman, did not necessarily mean “unachievable” or “ridiculous.” Sometimes it meant, “Wow! Here is something amazing that contradicts what we would normally expect to be true. This is worth understanding!”

So some MS apps are calling Edge specifically instead of the user's default browser. This seems less egregious than many users here are suggesting. Am I wrong?

I bang !g all the time still. Wish I didn't feel compelled to. As a point of contrast: I'm not using DDG very often for work, more so personal use.

Wrong thread? Your link talks about website costs

> ... but why invest in a language that is only spoken by 2 million people?

The classic chicken and egg problem

> There's a YouTube video I like, called "The Chinese Farmer," by Alan Watts.

Wasn't familiar with this video myself, so I searched it up. Passing it along for the next person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQrdnq7_H0

I like the message as well.

I've read that Valve was worried about Windows Store eating their lunch (i.e. creating a walled garden around gaming on windows platform). So Valve started investing heavily into gaming on Linux as a hedge.

How much do you think a one-of-a-kind designer like Jim Keller makes? I'm looking at his wikipedia page, and he's worked for AMD, Apple, Intel, Telsa. They all want him. I can only assume there's a bidding war on his talent.

I've been hunting for an auto-tag solution for my collection. What tools are you using?

Oh boy. This is far outside my wheelhouse. Could someone kindly ELI5 why this is interesting?

It begs an interesting question: does defense spending have a positive ROI? I don't know the answer to this question. But I'm thinking funding R&D, trade route protections, and perhaps some nefarious things can all contribute positively to American interests and thus American society.

A take it or leave it anecdote for you: I was chatting with an actuary working in life insurance field who is heavily involved in the pandemic industry groups. The actuary told me the antibody test is considered unreliable and has as high as 50% false negative rate.

> A too little known fact: PyPI is pronounced Py-pee-ai

So I was reading this comment and thinking to myself, how does one even pronounce "ai"? Language is not my strong suit. After searching the web, I found out that "ai" is a diphthong and it sounds like "eye" or the letter "i". Leaving that info here for others who may be confused. Sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKgPH0kmrU

> It drives me demented, why wouldn’t I want to include my search terms?

Well, I think the answer to your question is Google is trying to be friendly to the layman. It's not hard to think of examples where the user inputs a something into the search box that a CS major knows will not result in the implied wants of the user. Google tries to do a lot of human to machine translation work, and I think you're seeing the result of it. That being said, you can use quotations to explicitly include terms.

A paradoxical blend for me too, but interestingly opposite to yours. Week seem to drag and months seem to blaze

A couple thoughts: Xiaomi probably builds an order of magnitude more phones than LG and Google. So there's volume discounting at play. Also, Xiaomi's affordable phones are missing important NA bands. I wonder how this omission influences the cost of the SOC.

Happy to hear you've recovered. Could you share your experiences? (e.g. your earliest symptoms, later stage symptoms, tips/tricks you used that helped, etc)

Europeans of old thought the same when they saw the Chinese using paper money as a medium of exchange :) I do understand your point though

So it's probably the virus is spreading around the bay area undiagnosed. Has there been any reports of hospitals experiencing higher than normal volumes of flu-like cases?

> It was pay-walled...

For others who hit the wall. https://outline.com/VYJEa5

Longhaul cable infrastructure is expensive. Especially in Canada where business cases are crippled by thousands of km of emptiness (no opportunity to recover investments). Providers often swap lines through IRU agreements to reduce capital intensity. I've heard but can't confirm the infrastructure in question was laid down by CP and CN rail back in the 90s. I don't know the ownership structure. But I know the railways are still involved in the maintenance.

> I don't know if "red fruits" is also used in english

Can confirm it's not commonly used in North American english. I can't say I've ever heard it used like this before

> But technical debt becomes a problem when it gets out of control. Accumulating technical debt consists in piling up hacks on a piece of code, making it harder and harder to maintain. Every incremental change requires an intense reflexion and is more and more likely to cause regressions.

Can anyone explain to me what reflexion means in this context?

A house cat has no qualms drinking cows milk when given the opportunity. I think the answer to your question reveals more about capabilities than it does about specific tastes.