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As much as any culture takes its system of beliefs and underlayment of culture seriously.

The first time you smash your thumb with the hammer you curse out loud, put ice on it, watch the blood darken under your nail and suck air in every time you try to curl it after.

The fourth or fifth time, you cuss when it happens, shake your hand off and keep at it.

By the tenth time, you start using a pair of pliers to hold the nail in place.

The literal origin of Dune was managing the ecologically destructive propagative nature of desertification.

It doesn't need to be a good idea. It needs to be the next step in the branch; consider being in a conversation when some interruption happens. Interruption resolves, you say "and now back to...what was I saying?" In that moment, the value or proposition might have only been an argument or segue towards a broader point, or a sub-digression, but without that connective node, the entire pattern is lost.

You could counter with "then it wasn't a good idea if you didn't remember it" but it's the structure of how we think rather than the quality of the outputs. Why do we retrace our steps when we misplace something? What does that have to do with anything? It's the scaffolding structure around which we build a mental model. It's so you don't run outside and start looking under rocks. If you believe you wouldn't do that, you have to consider then why, and that is innately tied to the pattern-finding structure of our brain.

Creatives may cling to a lost node as the Rosetta stone, perhaps assigning more weight than is qualified, but then you won't actually know unless you find and explore that branch of thought. Its value lies in its unquantifiability.

I was going to comment on the Coptic connection; Hieroglyphs would have remained a mystery due to their basically vowel-less structure; it was an interpreted language[0]. I wonder to what extent this AI could crack that connection, since we have a more or less complete knowledge of what it ought to produce.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-K5OjAkiEA

Just options. VBA is there as well. Excel's virtue is not specializing in any specific task, but being versatile enough to express a multitude of business solutions. 'Excel is my database' wasn't always a punchline.

That's more than an equally domain specific process like Qlik, and more than a specific vendor tool like tableau. And anyway if PowerBI didn't have a pain point it wouldn't be a MS product.

Anything solved by tableau is as easily solved by Excel, which likewise supports direct SQL connections. The template graphs & incorporation of function logic, for versatility & business availability make it no contest. Though Tableau has some gorgeous templates, it doesn't also have DAX & PowerBI.

For those interested I also highly recommend Veritasium's video[1] as an excellent explainer as well, especially regarding the roots of imaginary/complex numbers in geometry.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzklzVXJwo

If you want to read Russian literature, you don't have to be Russian ('but it wouldn't hurt!'), you have to want to read Russian literature, i.e. learn the language and have sufficient interest in the material to seek out enough context to understand it.

Unless of course you simply want to be seen as the type of person who reads Russian literature, in which case thelastpsychiatrist.com is probably better for reading...

No-one gambles to increase risk. Waging a bet against a payout is only superficially different from waging a premium against a catastrophe.

I enjoyed reading that the paranoia of the Soviets that it was a western plot was justified, but as their allies bought the technology it gave second hand information from Moscow anyways.

A user giving feedback has already paid for the service in one way or another. You might counter with future services, but that's a function of market share, which is not served by customer satisfaction but by customer convenience.

Data mining is about using the customer as product, not improving yours.

>They had joined for far less and during far more stressful conditions.

The classic chicken & pig scenario.

I bet if you put a doctor/cop/peer/teacher/parent/total stranger next to the person it would change the stimuli as well.

We're social creatures and to suggest actions are atomic is simplistic. Even a small child knows to alter their behavior when authority figures or social unknowns are present.

The communication only exists if the receiver is there to witness the "hello"?

If not, at least when they decommission the old carriers we can have some serious monster truck rallies.

>"A mailing list of an illegal online service was sent to the SQLPD hot-line. Please submit all records email addresses' details. Please make sure there are no duplicates."

typo

A societal failure for a society that no longer exists, maybe. The world of the 80s, 90s & early 00s is gone. You can't let your children wander the neighborhoods, kids don't have rituals of social achievement with clear stakes, winners and losers, and the priority of society is shifting to move as much of your interaction online for data mining and profiling as legally (and otherwise) possible.

For many the first time they are "unsupervised" is legal adulthood, where college, military or employment forces social interactions in dimensions their young lives willfully resisted preparing them for. Why talk, when you can text?

"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."

>You have to wonder what drove people to collaborate for 15 centuries in building this construct.

Good fences make good neighbors.

"A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd.

First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone."

As a kid I tried getting a BASIC program working on the TI994A, and poorly communicated that to the math/library/tech teacher at my school, who in a moment of disinterested frustration told me you're either born a programmer or you're not. So that settled life for me, easy enough.

And then in my late 20s I'm stuck with a program tearing through my customer records, overwriting values with empty fields and apparently at random. I was able to pull the script from the created username id that did the overwrites, and ultimately derive the flaw as being a 'match first instance by name' with no other restrictions (including overwrite protections in place for other end users, and ignoring things like same names in different states or intentional duplicates for regulatory or industry purposes).

So something didn't feel right that I was able to unravel what this script did wrong yet not be able to program it. When I found out how much the contractor made to write that sloppy POS, it was a career given.

How many fields can you say you doubled your salary with a job hop, really?

>The Army is really serious stuff, it's ok to hint at adventure, self-improvement, fraternity but at the core it must appeal to 'duty' and or kind of communitarian obligation/commitment or it's the wrong message.

https://i.imgur.com/tzG3VXq.jpg

>You, you're some rando coming up talking about stuff that makes you look incompetent.

Or worse, threatening to make his choices look incompetent.

>lifetime upgrades of licensed software

"we initially made a higher priced plan to get more from our customers for the same, since we'd have supported all our customers anyway since broken or dated software would have put us out of business. But now that we're commercially stable, it's time to moralize about how unfair a burden our voluntarily offerings on the market are to ourselves!"

>The difference between Spaniards and Germans is smaller than you might expect.

Isn't that the point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...

it's true of any industry or organizational structure that is considered a cost center.

As for your examples, those are all boolean - they either do it successfully or they don't, and if they do, it's what they are paid for, and if they don't, they catch hell. There is nothing intrinsic about IT that differs.

It's not IT/software, it's in every field, it's called shitwork, that you don't get credit for, but catch hell if it isn't.

e.g. "what do we pay all these janitors for when this place looks spotless?"

>Agreed. There was an article on HN about the demise of psychiatric care in US written from the inside by a psychiatrist. I can't find it though.

thelastpsychiatrist.com has criticism of modern psychiatry as well.

Perfidy, in some contexts, means a promise to act in good faith but with intention to subvert the effort.