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Yeah, there would be mass and nothing visible. Like a black hole, dark matter, etc. :-)

"Next step intelligences"

My other pet theory is that organic life forms are an intermediate step in the development of intelligence.

No one will bother with us, until the inevitable artificial intelligences develop.

The Fermi paradox assumes that "intelligent" is one threshold, and we are beyond it.

We couldn't communicate with the most advanced primates from a million years ago. A civilization a million years past ours would be unlikely to want to talk to us. The average star in our galaxy is a billion years older than our sun.

You can only communicate with civilizations near your level, which are inherently much rarer.

We aren't old/developed enough to be interesting to talk to.

Not folk, not imprinting.

Here you go: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-gene...

So, he wants to ask the question "What was the OpenSearch Annual Contract Value from 2021?"

But I don't see that he got an answer.

He later asks a different question, and gets results of a simple search, with nothing like the complexity that getting a contract value from text would take.

Or better still, to something that actually lets people know what the topic is.

The fundamental problem that car companies have wrapping their head around the fact that writing the software is harder than building cars.

It's not an add on. The car is becoming a vehicle for delivering software.

If you don't realize that the software is a primary product, you won't survive.

They did the same for modern art.

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/

With similar results.

> How can either side get an accurate assessment of the other in such a short time?

There is little evidence that longer interview cycles produce better results.

"Years ago, we did a study to determine whether anyone at Google is particularly good at hiring. We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship."

- https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...

As I mentioned in another thread, people were complaining that there were not longer any workarounds for the artificial limits.

Reviews specifically mentioned that this was not overridable anymore.

Or it didn't really use Oauth, and just outright stole his password.

Was reading reviews for Brother recently.

"The printers keep track of every page that goes through it whether or not you use any consumables and forces you to replace the toners the belt the drum and the fuser regardless of the actual condition of these parts."

And many other reports.

Note: I have a Brother monochrome laser that is great, but it seems like there are no printer companies left standing that I would buy a printer from now.

Write and speak.

Have an online presence in some area. Open source something related to what you want to work on.

Help them find you.

> The thing that made math so much easier to learn for me was that as soon as I understood a concept or method of logic, it was effortless to internalize and recall.

Exactly!

She uses words that don't mean what she thinks they mean.

"Rote learning for understanding"

Yeah, that's the opposite of the meaning of rote.

She says "practicing" when most people would say "working on understanding", as in her discussion of f=ma. Practicing is doing the same thing. Thinking about all the ramifications of something, changes for different conditions is not practicing.

She's doing exactly the things that people focusing understanding recommend, she's just using the wrong terminology to describe it, then calling it a disagreement.

While backing up to a cloud is good, and gets the data offsite, bear in mind the chance of losing data there.

The primary issue is not the 10 to the minus X failure rate they quote, but the much more likely chance that you will lose access to the data for some reason. For example, the account is hacked, someone closes the account, or the account just deleted/restricted by the provider.

That sounds right. It's been a while.

Strong recommendation (echoed by many I've talked to). Write in word, format in Vellum. Don't use Vellum as an editor, that's not its strength.

If you make any changes to the word doc, you just use "reimport word document" in Vellum, and you are ready to print/upload again.

InDesign is great, if you want to precisely layout print books. It does not support ebooks at all.

Doing both at once is Vellum's sweet spot.

If you don't want to pay subscriptions, I've heard Affinity Publisher is a good option.

Yeah, I gave up on Scrivener for anything to do with formatting. If you are going to use Scrivener, use it for an editor/organizer, and export the result as a word doc, and then process that in Vellum. Then you get good tools doing what they are good at.

This was in the early IBM PCs. I know, because I remember I had to replace my 8088 when I got the 8087 floating point coprocessor. I don't recall exactly why this caused it to hit the interrupt bug, but it did.

And practice, practice, practice

Lucene in Action covers Lucene 3.0, and is from 2010. Current version is 9.4.2. So much has changed.

Without cutting DOWN trees. I was trying to guess how they could grow square trees.

You can still choose to do practice or stories.

Stories are under dumbbell icon/collections/stories.

People hate change. It's not news.

I have a two year streak. It doesn't really change anything for me, except making fewer choices.

If they had changed from the new UI to the old one, the same articles would be written. It's the change people don't like, not the quality of the UI.

Native English speaker here.

> "Shall we go to the shop or the café" "Yes" -> café

Not a pattern I run into. Maybe it's regional?