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> real company

This is a bit nebulous. Every consumer, especially where the expense is a lot of money for them would do well to give this idea more thought.

A pretty website, a few employees and some prototypes doesn’t hit a meaningful bar, let alone millions of dollars in capital (which this joint didn’t even have), TBH. Too bad fuckedcompany is no longer around, it did a great service.

As far as imprecise journalism (let alone blatant inaccuracy goes) this is pretty inoffensive IMHO. It’s not even that far off. Algorithms can be composed. When we publish a paper on a complete ML application, the whole thing is generally referred to as “the algorithm” because it can be documented as precise set of steps from initial raw inputs to some kind of output. Just because there are literally thousands of applications of sorting and searching, matrix multiplies and what have you buried under the process doesn’t make it unclear what is being referred to.

> Take the example of a spaghetti codebase. Take the example of a spaghetti codebase.

I think this actually just further proves the GP more than correct.

Comparing the complexity of determining the root cause of some disease processes and biological processes in general to a "spaghetti codebase" just underscores the disconnect that programmers and engineers have with some of the complexity in nature. There is no manmade codebase shitty or otherwise, even large enough to approximate the complexity of understanding even some of the more rudimentary biological mechanisms, let alone extending that to actual clinical disease presentation.

In clinical medicine we don't necessarily think "the answer is in there somewhere", we don't know the answer, and further the full answer is most likely unknowable in our lifetime, so effectively as far as providing care is concerned, the answer really isn't there.

This is not always fair but saying “500mg of acetaminophen” is more likely to get you labeled a kook or someone with illness anxiety disorder, at best someone trying too hard, rather than a pro. Doctors in the US say Tylenol.. like most brand names it’s easier to say than the generic.

> dearth

Dearth refers to scarcity. Maybe that’s what you meant, but it didn’t sound like it.

Unless you source high quality LED luminaires, they look terrible let alone flicker... most of the shit on amazon is just that unfortunately.

Yes. Though they are not eye doctors in any meaningful sense of the word. It requires a pretty straightforward certification while the other two require years of post graduate training.

There are also ophthalmologists. That requires at least 8 years of post undergraduate training in the US. 3 years which is surgical residency.

there is an option though: accept what you’re calling technical debt (though honestly, calling vendor lock-in technical debt reduces that term to meaningless in my opinion)... there’s nothing technically wrong with it.. you can create something well designed in excel or it can be shitty.

Anyway, it’s a risk like any other, and it may often be worth it. The alternative of switching to libreoffice is not free, and can truly be more costly than some office licenses and the risk that Microsoft will drop or fuck up excel (which most consider low)...

Personally having earnestly tried to do some complex work in libreoffice calc and running into just bugs and poor polish (error handling anyone?), it is not an experience I elect to relive... I still feel locked in to Excel as my life is too short to waste on the inferior product.

Are you actually familiar with the drawing model of core X?? It is completely obsolete and does not support acceleration of virtually any 2D or 3D rendering construct we take for granted for the past 30 years.

The GP was suggesting “without extensions”. Good luck with that.

> But a lot of it is like the version 11 protool (without all of the extensions they have added),

It’s hard to tease out, but it sounds like you’re advocating for the state of the art drawing model of 1980 in 2019. I don’t think this is going to fly except for a very niche audience.

In some countries. It depends on the country. Personally I prefer having custody of my bag through customs. Even in the US, most airports allow you to redeposit your bags without leaving the customs area.

You’re taking a few examples (try something other than Newark next time) and overgeneralizing.

It’s airport specific. Not every airport in the US operates this way. JFK may require a complete terminal change.

You do not have to do this at most US airports. New York City and Newark in particular is a special case of bullshit.. I avoid that place at almost all costs. There’s a reason those tickets are cheaper.

These calculators are highly misleading. You absolutely can live comfortably and squirrel away much more cash at 400k anywhere in the US vs 150k. I’ve lived this experience between “low” COL and high areas.

> especially given ML tech shares many base maths with graphics

I don't put learning state of the art ML past Carmack, at all. However, does ML tech of today lead to general AI? It's a strong assumption.

That’s a bold claim. He lost a fortune that would have made him a billionaire and possibly one of the 100 richest people in the world. He is still a very, very wealthy man.

In his tweet from 3:34pm on Nov 7 that started a huge bitchfest.

And wow I read the rest of it. Woman this women that.. and yet no idea where he’s getting any evidence this issue has to do with gender.

I mean maybe they made an unfair calculation for her, why is it all of a sudden clearly a case of gender discrimination.

Either he’s having a tantrum or trying to virtue signal for some unknown reason very hard.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1192540900393705474?s=20

Filing a joint return in the US in no way implies financial unity. It just means your income is pooled for tax calculation purposes, that’s it (and only federal, you can often file separately in the same or different states). There are community property states, which NY is not. It gets hairy just about anywhere if a marriage is ended.

So a couple guys in the top .1% net worth (outliers by any measure) don’t think their spouses were treated fairly by a credit check. It must be systemic discrimination. Also NYS is not a community property state, as DHH claimed, so he is full of shit on that one.

You’re downvoted likely because the high expenses of hospitalization speak more to inefficiencies in healthcare supply chain and the economics of insurance and really has nothing much to do with how much hospitals can afford on IT. Some hospital systems are rich... but they’re not that rich.

That said I agree (based on 1st hand experience) that the larger healthcare multibillion dollar systems in the US can afford to pay more for better IT/engineering. There is simply little incentive to do so. And further it’s more than just hiring a few engineers with FAANG pay... these institutions are organizationally not suited to engineering. Changing this would not be easy for them...and no, we don’t need a hospital run like Facebook or Uber.

Then there are the tons of smaller systems in the US.. they cannot afford high priced engineers regardless of the pre-insurance line charge for a bag of saline.

Idiotic. A few years ago you could say that on demand streaming over the internet was also “never been how media is served up”... engravings on wax cylinders was “never been how media is served up” was also true.

Obviously things are different in this era then they were 30 years ago during peak cable.

What’s your point that meaningfully responds to the gp?

you better watch it.. this could very we’ll be....mansplaining

What actual difference does drawing this distinction make? It doesn’t change the advertisers behavior.

More murders are committed by males. Does that make the simple verb “murder” inherently gendered? Is that your claim? because that’s the only possible relevance your odd personal testimony seems to be implying.

And it sounds like the person you’re responding to is countering this very premise.

“They don't want their ad dollars to be spent paying publishers for content that's controversial because it makes them look bad.”

Everyone has heard of Lyft though, and in larger markets Juno. If Uber management is truly banking on brand loyalty of all things, especially based on their behavior, they are idiots. Nobody trusts Uber.

If Waymo arrives with a more cost effective solution, that’s it.

> Back in a day we had Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar, some others.

I don’t agree bazaar was a UX panacea over git, and it was not just “not by much” slower. Subversion was a piece of shit full stop (especially if you had the misfortune of using the original bdb impl), bested in this regard only by VSS. I think slower “not by much” is the understatement of the century for a repo of any substantial size for all but mercurial on your list.

You don’t even mention perforce, leading me to think most of your experience is skewed by the niche of small open source projects.

Mercurial was a contender... great windows support too. I think it was less kernel that killed it and more github.

Component hifi systems were the norm in this time period. It would have been a trivial matter to record from vinyl to a cheap audio cassette on any basic system AV system. They even made cheap vinyl/tape decks as well.

Compact cassettes were used as a typical method for dictation for this time period. They were quite inexpensive even in the 1960s, let alone the 80s. I used to have a monaural battery tape recorder as a child with plenty of blank tapes in 1981, and was poor. This was not expensive stuff, less than a dollar per tape.

Further the group of people that would be in the market for a C64 or earlier tended to be more tech savvy then when PCs had mass adoption.

I think the “challenge” here is much more finding the track after the run out, especially with an auto return deck. Also while there are notable counter examples, Christian rock listeners is not exactly overlapping with the tech crowd in a large way. This was an obscure album.

If this had existed on a metal album it would have been found day 1, I guarantee it.

As to effort. Seems pretty simple. Record program to tape... put on master. This wasn’t any great feat of engineering.

Hiking? Once or twice. Then again I’m more of a watercraft and skiing person as the season dictates.

The software isn’t the issue. The lack of an open standard for content presentation is.

This is not to claim that what we have isn’t less than ideal, but the fundamental problem with Flash is not the authoring tool itself, but that it effectively monopolized the space.