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I think the test makes assumptions about the averages from real humans, but I would not make the leap from there to “it does that,” because what humans? From where? At what point in time? What exactly do you mean by, for example, regulationism vs laissez faire? Etc.

Interesting stuff! Now I just need to find your repo.

> the eye-watering price.

> $1,699.99 (Was $2,099.99, -19%)

F@&$ing hell

I wonder how long it took the computer(s?) to run the permutations

Thanks, looks like we have it the HOD.

I’d argue the future is “appearing analog,” where we hardly realize the digital aspect of our lives is there. And it’s more or less screenless.

You used to be able to buzz the other person in Yahoo Chat

Okay, as someone whose wife once worked in grants administration at Harvard, and knows about 10 other people who currently work or have worked in administration at Harvard, I can offer a counterpoint (this quote comes directly from a friend who currently works in grants administration at Harvard):

> These “fortunes” are mostly restricted for specific use because they’re endowments. The salaries that pay financial admins mostly come from grant overhead…not endowments. Also, I can safely say at the dental school that we don’t have enough administratiors…largely because higher ed doesn’t exactly pay well. The Kennedy school just axed all of its admissions and financial aid department. One trip to the Smith Bldg is not exactly what I call getting a birds eye view of a largely decentralized university. All schools are responsible for their own fundraising and financing. But someone has to turn that money into income. That’s what the Smith Bldgs occupants largely do.

thank you!

> First, none of our policies have changed

uh

https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html

I do not disagree with anything you're asserting here. Google is a mess of gamed results most of the time. The internet in many places has become a series of sites searching for eyes to get ad dollars. The only thing I think I'd question is your claim of being a "power user." A power user would be able to construct queries that removed (or at least lessened) the gamed results.

startpage.com, IIRC, uses google results. You're better off with something else if you're looking for non-googly results (I do not have any suggestions)

> the parents sending their kids to Montessori are not of the Elitist breed.

I think that will depend on the school. My daughter went to two, on opposite sides of the country: one was filled with super nice parents, the other had a lot more pretension.

My daughter went to a Montessori until she was in 2nd grade. Her friend went through 5th grade. They are both together again in 6th, in the same middle school, and her friend is really struggling with math.

FWIW, my daughter also struggled with math coming into 2nd grade out of Montessori, but it being second grade math, it wasn't hard for her to catch up.

Also, something to watch out for: Montessori is not a registered trademark, so any school can call itself a Montessori school, without offering a Montessori education.

I agree completely, but since the article is about writing JS in a pure FP manner, I was addressing that and not anything else.

You're hitting a strawman here. I shouldn't have to explicitly say that I meant someone with at least some experience in the language you happen to be writing in.

> ends up becoming an obfuscated mess of wrapper functions and custom control flow

This right here is the reason I don't like pure functional programming. Any engineer should be able to pick up your code and understand it pretty close to immediately. And with pure FP, even when they understand functional programming, they end up wasting valuable time tracking down what it is you're trying to do.

* I guess I need to edit to say I mean pure FP in a language not explicitly built for pure FP. The article is about implementing in JS, this is what I'm addressing.

I went on an interview some years ago and was asked how I'd architect a certain situation with Models and Controllers. I spent some time discussing why that wasn't the right solution for what they were trying to do, and they said thanks but no thanks.

Now to be fair to them, I was asked to do a certain task and I failed to do that task. It's pretty cut and dry.

But I also walked away glad they turned me down, because if they're going to try and force me to do something a specific way when that way is inefficient, or troublesome or just plain not the best answer, then I wouldn't really want to be working there anyway.

> Beaming solar energy from space

You mean the sun?

Right, but the identity providers being government owned exacerbates the problem I'm talking about.

I don't personally care if Joe the random person has access to an anonymous account*, but I do care if Joe the Russian dissident—whose entire ability to safely post points of view which disagree with his government relies upon it—has access to an anonymous account.

* I am not saying there aren't other valid reasons, including entertainment reasons, to have an anonymous account. But those aren't part of my main point

That’s not completely true; you would be anonymous towards everyone but the identity providers and any government or organization powerful enough to wield influence over the identity providers. Which completely defeats the most important reason people choose to remain anonymous.

> Money is an abstraction of reputation and honor

Money is an abstraction of _perceived_ reputation and honor, and therein lies the problem.

9 years ago when I worked in Downtown Seattle, crossing against the light could get you a ticket, even at 630 in the morning. Nobody was driving, and they still insisted that you wait.

I think had the author gone with a thesis more like "AI will remove the decision-making from middle management, leaving purely the human-to-human aspect of management," it might have been a more palatable (though still arguable) essay. As it is, there's tons that managers do that AI will never really do, because those things can't be boiled down to mathematical formulae.

Hey, this isn't working in FF for me - FF 106.0, MacOS 12.6. I thought it might be an extension, but I've tried turning off the expected culprits and nothing changes. I'm not ruling out combinations of extensions, but I'm also not going to try 30! combinations.

It looks great on Safari, though! Though I do echo the sentiment that it would be great to allow customization - let me choose the columns I want and where I want them in a layout panel.

well that's a f**in depressing thought

If you’re looking for truth, might I suggest looking at something other than the NY Post.

As a person who currently has stage IV NSCLC, I can add some context to this:

YMMV.

One thing to remember is that "Lung Cancer" is not just one thing. There are mutations of different genes, there are overexpressions of different genes. Each one has its own new medicines. Also, some peoples' cancers are more aggressive than others, and while for many they can find the right drug, for some nothing works.

Keytruda works wonders for some. It did not for me. I had 4 treatments of the CPP (carboplatin, pemetrexed, and pembrolizumab) triad, which had some success. They then put you on "maintenance," which is the PP without the carboplatin (which is the really old school platinum-based chemo). Maintenance did nothing for me. My main tumor grew more than 50% in 2 months.

Last summer I started 9 months on a chemo/immuno that was geared towards my specific mutation. It actually did wonders. It resulted in a 98% shrinkage of my main tumor before I ended up with pneumonitis from it and had to stop. But I've been able to be off treatment for the entire summer. I know there are others who have tried this, and it didn't work.

So yeah, I'm really, really glad your relative was able to get some relief from the Keytruda. But I also wish it were the wonder cure for everyone that it was for them.

> A few weeks ago my daughter very proudly announced that she managed to "outsmart" (=hack) her online test app used by her class. I was shocked and asked why she would do that, she's smart enough to get an A without that. She seemed obviously puzzled by my question and my lack of enthusiasm about her "achievement" she was so proud of (it involved some JS modifications).

I wonder if maybe it was the chance to solve a different challenge than the one before her (the test), which if she could already get an A maybe wasn't the right challenge?

Sometimes sprints are the right tool to accomplish what you need to accomplish, and sometimes they aren't. It really depends on what you're trying to accomplish. You probably don't want sprints if you're building something. You probably do want sprints if you have a release cadence.

Remind me again how Uber's doing? Still losing lots of money?