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I just picked one metric from Wikipedia. It was also 22 years late.

If it makes anyone feel better, it's not just software:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_Dam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Crossing

If you're 97% over budget, are you successful? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

How is this for a rule of thumb: the time it takes to fix a bug is directly related to the age of the software.

I think the success of Red Bull and Dutch Brothers is due to their ability to provide coffee to people who don't like coffee.

> algorithm used in the US was apparently banned in China

Sounds like they tried.

The level playing field is interesting.

My initial thought is that's a great idea. But then I start to think about how college classes are supposed to build on what you already know. Your math department doesn't begin with addition, the English department doesn't start with picture books.

Perhaps the real issue is forcing everyone with experience to start over at the beginning.

The thing I don't get about regression-to-the-mean is whether there is an implication that your baseline is fixed.

That is, can a fighter pilot move up from being a level 4 in a dogfight to a level 7 with training, or will they forever be a level 4 because it's their baseline? Did Michael Jordan have the same ability as a basketball player after 2 seasons as he did after 8?

To keep that line of reasoning going, what is the purpose of the university, if you're supposed to learn everything on your own?

When my daughter was working in her university's dining hall, the most demanding orders always began with "just". Can I just have a non-fat sugar-free vanilla latte with two pumps that isn't too hot?

You first have to get a file from your iOS app. Good luck with that.

A disclaimer is great, but like the prior post said, when you give something a name and then redefine the meaning of the name in a disclaimer, it feels dishonest.

The Honest* Browser *disclaimer: may lie

Unfortunately the current Apple weather is terrible with their blurry blobs of clouds. Maybe they're trying to hedge when there is any chance of showers.

French left its mark on the legal system and the tradition lives on in America. Several phrases use both the French and English word:

* cease and desist

* aiding and abetting

* assault and battery

I get "good evening" but not the corresponding "good morning".

That's my memory from college: bubble sort is fine when the data is almost completely sorted.

Don't these laws get written precisely because someone did whatever they wanted with their land?

Could you dump toxic waste there if you want? Could you store tons of ammonium nitrate on it? Could you farm chickens? Hold nightly raves?

Making money by selling RAM is baked in to Apple's DNA. Apple charged a premium for the original Mac to go from the entry level 128 Kbytes to 512 Kbytes of RAM. Here we are almost 40 years later and that business model is still in place.

Another popular use for Twitter is getting "from the street" quotes without leaving your desk. "Here's monkeysheen47x's opinion on the ballot measure." In case you want to know what people on Twitter think without checking Twitter yourself.

The usual downside is the menu was designed to be printed and not viewed on a screen that is 1/4 or less the size.

So I see part of the drink menu horizontally and vertically. Another example: Non-alcoholic is on the "back" of the menu but wine is on the "front".

And now the restaurant needs to hire a UX designer.

He gives advice like "no one uses a tripod anymore" then a few months later a glowing review of a tripod appears. What should you make of that?

I think this only holds for the urban areas (or where you have to take your car to the DEQ). Drive out to Hood River and no such thing exists. Maybe the state has allowed the rural areas to update on a longer schedule.

National pride was not at stake if Trieste failed.

They're not all that fancy. My dad's 1967 Volvo 122s had two carbs for a four cylinder engine. It always failed the emissions test and I can't say that it ever purred like a cat.

What did they do before ChatGPT? It's only been available for 3 months.

Add yellow mustard and soy sauce.

It's still an acquired taste.

I would be concerned that super high reps will eventually cause problems with your joints: repetitive motion injuries.

I would go one step farther: The documentation will say it is undefined behavior but the compiler doesn't have to. Here's an example from the man page for sprintf

  sprintf(buf, "%s some further text", buf);

If you miss that section of the manual, your code may work, leading you to think the behavior is defined.

Then you will have interesting arguments with other programmers about what exactly is undefined behavior, e.g. what happens for

  sprintf(buf, "%d %d", f(i), i++);

My daughter would hear this when she worked in a cafeteria. It typically came with an extravagant request:

"Can I just have a non-fat sugar-free vanilla latte with one pump of hazelnut? Not too hot."

But the weather app now has lightning animations when there's a thunderstorm! Innovation!

There's value but you can't just read one article. He contradicts himself. One post will rant about how digital means you don't need a tripod then another will be a glowing review of...a tripod.