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This is the worst answer. Office for Mac is horrible compared to the same for Windows, as is plenty of other very common software - if it runs on Mac at all. It's also much worse to administer from an enterprise perspective, so it's probably not supported by the wife's IT team, and if it is it probably would have some horrible software on it that makes it unusable.

Your original comment is somewhat unclear. Are you advocating for leaving old code in because the system works and it's more stable that way, or taking it out to force the necessary refactoring steps and understanding that will bring?

So then, by this logic, once you've worked for NSO Group or the like, there's no way back for you. How then, can someone reform or "see the light"? Is someone once tainted, always tainted? Or do they have to do 10 years in the NFP space before we see them as worthy?

The problem is that by walling off developers who participate in these activities, we essentially force them to continue these activities. I'm not sure that's net positive.

"We have replaced the old UI with a new UI. You're going to love the new UI, we promise! But, just in case, you can still have the old UI."

"We notice you're all still using the old UI and talking about how bad the new UI is when it's actually great! You don't need those features that aren't accessible from the new UI anyway. We're going to default everyone to the new UI now and you'll have to manually change the setting back if you want to."

"Ok you're all still using the old UI, even though the new UI is obviously better, so we're going to turn off the old UI at the end of the month"

"Oooooops! A bunch of people said they'd stop paying us if we turned off the old UI so we will now keep the old UI on until the end of the year"

"The Old UI is gone now. Where did all our customers go?"

Just one example: Google Meet's virtual background is terrible compared to Zoom.

It's not 10 days; it's (up to) almost a month:

> payments for guests checking out from June 28 would be delayed and all paid out in one go on July 24.

That said, it sounds like payments are normally delayed by 10 days from checkout.

Of course, apparently some payments "could be delayed until August", so all I can say with authority is that this is a mess.

I think a lot of people in the community recommend Base game -> Krastorio -> Krastorio+SE.

I've done the first two, and I'm quite early into SE. Just an incredible amount of complexity and I'm loving it.

Personally I feel like while the generative AI bit makes for a good headline, the better summary is buried later in the article:

> Nvidia also announced its commitment to offer accelerated computing and a comprehensive suite of AI software as part of the collaboration. The company stated that substantial co-engineering efforts are underway, intending to integrate the Nvidia AI engine into Snowflake’s Data Cloud.

So this isn't just NeMo for LLMs, it's also likely to be a tight integration with a bunch of NVidia's AI/ML stack.

Disclosure: I work for Snowflake, but I didn't work on this and I'm not speaking for them.

That may be true in the US but it's not everywhere, and it certainly won't be for long.

Anyway, for many, the competition is "nothing at all". I will never download the official Reddit app. It's that bad. The mobile experience is worse. I'll just find something more productive to do with my time.

Oh yeah, these are basically my job. I have a few ways:

1. Set a time budget and be willing to walk away if I'm not making progress. Sometimes "yep, sucks, but is what it is" is the answer.

2. If it looks impossible, be more willing than usual to reframe it. If it's a detail problem, zoom out and see if the bigger picture offers you a way around. If it's a big picture problem, challenge the assumptions. If it's still impossible, see 1.

3. Involve other people with other points of view early in the process. There are a bunch of different teams that work in sync to get anything out the door at my company. Getting any difficult problem solved will usually involve understanding the work of at least two of them. The challenge with potentially unsolveable problems is knowing which two.

4. I cannot reiterate number 1 enough. Sometimes a problem might have a solution, but I just have to be ok with the fact that I'm not going to be the one to find it. Maybe the next problem I tackle will present me with a nicely reframed version of this problem for me to go back and take on.

> Don't overestimate the general audience.

I mean, yeah, sure, in 2019. But it's 2023, and certain world events forced it so that even my parents can read a QR code with their phone now.

I didn't realise it was written by an LLM but it did come off as weird to me because it borrows phrases (most obviously the bit about a "2070 released 5 years ago") from the press release itself.

> you’ve never made a mistake in your future predictions? youve never committed to something you couldnt deliver?

I have. But then I worked my butt off to make it right. If I still failed, then I apologised and owned it. I didn't pretend it never happened.

Reddit continues to forget what made them successful: the collapse of Digg when they pulled the same shit that Reddit keeps trying on now.

I don't think they quite understand the ground they're losing to Discord.

I'm with you. I stopped watching not because of the visuals (which I hated - I immediately got eyestrain - but I can appreciate others might like them), but because I reached the point in the video where I wanted to know how much longer there was. I was interested enough for a couple more minutes, but for all I know, this doesn't get to the point until 10 minutes in. I just don't want that in my life.

Everything on the 'different' list is unambiguously bad to me except maybe the compression thing. I don't want effects that change with zoom settings - that just excludes people who need to be zoomed in to see stuff.

I'm not happy that Flash died. I spent a lot of time playing really fun games in Flash. I'm happy this can exist, but please let's keep doing video essays in videos. That said, now I know Newgrounds still exists I wonder if I can find the impossible quiz...

Disclaimer: Snowflake Employee, not speaking on behalf of the company.

This is a reasonable guide to the study resources available. I'd also point out that there was an O'Reilly book released relatively recently that's currently available for free from the Snowflake website: https://resources.snowflake.com/ebooks/snowflake-definitive-...

Adam Morton has also written a book on Snowflake, too.

Both go into much more detail than required for the Core exam, but are comprehensive and will give you all the information you need for Core and much of the Advanced exam contents.

(Late response, sorry)

These are great tips! I've had issues with weak / under-activated glute medius for years, but I didn't think about that causing the shin splints. I'll give the 170 stride a minute tip a try.

Thanks!

I get shin splits on grass, artificial turf, unpaved tracks and treadmills. I've had it looked at by a podiatrist, and he recommended stretches for my tibialis anterior. I do them before I play sport and they generally work if I'm only playing once a week, but much past that and I'm in pain again.

To add detail onto my reply to your other comment then: these things are the things I hate about exercising outside!

The sun is too hot, the wind is too cold. The puddles are a twisted ankle just waiting to happen. I don't want people to see me running - it makes me self conscious of every part of my body and my running form. I don't want to check the little free library during my exercise - that's a break in my flow.

On a machine, I don't have to worry about any of that. I just go, and when I reach my time goal, or I don't feel like it anymore, I stop. I can close my eyes if I want to without worrying about falling over. I can make all the exertion noises I want to if it's hard. I don't have to walk all the way home if I go too hard too early by mistake and get a stitch.

And the best bit is that your way and my way are both totally valid ways of exercising. The important bit is not how we exercise, the important bit is that we exercise.

I've tried running around the park, I've tried running around the track, I've tried road running, I've tried cross country running, I've tried treadmills. Every time, I keep it up for a couple of weeks and then I get horrible shin splints. Or I bust my ankle, or I can't commit the time to do a good loop because it's winter and dark all the time. One way or another, I stop, and I don't go back to it for another year. I've learned to stop fighting it. I just don't like running that much, and I'm ok with it.

The point is, I mistook my dislike of running, cycling and HIIT for a dislike of exercise for basically my whole 20s, and it turns out that's not true at all. I just had to figure out the version that worked for me.

100% with you on the anxiety and procrastination. The anxiety for me was driven in part by "people can see me suck at this", so I put the machine in my home office - with a door.

As for buying a machine, I highly recommend going to a gym during a quiet period if you can find one that will let you do a trial or a day pass. Then you can try all the machines and find the one that you think sucks the least. Rowing is good because it does loads of muscle groups, but ultimately that doesn't mean anything if you hate it.

E: the thing that changed the game for me was a good hr monitor. Smart watch was full of crap, and just listening to my body made me go way too hard too fast.

As a comment on exercise: I also see exercise as torture when I'm doing it wrong.

For me, I needed(/need - this is not a solved problem) to find a way that works for me, and also take it in the tiniest of little bites.

I tried for years to get into running. Never worked. I hate running. I tried to go to the gym, but all the classes went way too hard for me and my local didn't do "just show up and lift", only classes. I tried riding a bike, but I could never find a way to do that where I wasn't dodging cars, rain, hills and heat.

Finally last year I bought a rowing machine and a heart rate monitor. I put my headphones on, listen to a podcast, and focus on keeping my heart rate in a specific zone for a certain amount of time. If it's hot, I turn on the AC. If I get sick of it, I stop. I dont have to dodge cars, so I can completely dissociate and listen to the podcast so long as the number is where I want it to be.

It's great and generally not torture, which is nice because apart from team sport it's literally the only way I've found that isn't.

Snowflake employee here, not speaking on behalf of the company.

Short version is that you would think so, but it doesn't work that way for at least two reasons.

1. If we weren't investing in product optimization, but our competitors were, we'd quickly be outpaced.

2. When we invest in optimizing queries for our customers, the ROI on the Snowflake investment goes up. This results in actually getting even more money than if we just didn't bother, because CFOs that see great ROI on an investment absolutely do not hesitate to throw more funding at that investment. Making the denominator smaller is a really fast way to make the ROI higher.

So while the incentive seems to be perverse on first glance, very quickly it becomes clear that this isn't the case on further analysis.

Fair enough, mea culpa. I can't edit out the swipe, so I'll make the argument more substantive instead.

The long version is that - while it is true that loading a small image is a strictly speaking unnecessary risk - it is such a small risk as to be negligible to most security postures. In particular, OP mentioned that they use Windows only for gaming, so we have to take into account that:

1. They probably use Steam, or another launcher. All such launchers download a bunch of stuff on startup - in particular, Steam loads like 8 pages of ads for new games on startup. As Steam sometimes/often requires admin privileges, this is at least as much of a risk as the garlic image.

2. They probably play multiplayer games, which semi-frequently have RCE exploits. I think it's also fair to say that they're also generally subjected to less-rigorous analysis than the Microsoft Windows kernel.

There's no reasonable security posture in the world that sees those two things as acceptable risks on one hand, but sees a small image in the taskbar as unacceptable on the other.

So, to argue that a small icon in the search bar represents "significant security risk" and that the people running Windows have "lost their minds" is hyperbolic at best. At worst, you're kind of just looking for things to not like. (Minor edit: I just noticed that it was two different users that said those things, but I think the point still stands)

Sure, it's not a necessary part of the operating system, but it's just a nice little thing that occasionally brightens my day, and costs me nothing when it doesn't. I don't think that's narrow-minded, is it?

Yes. I didn't ignore today's because this conversation had it front-of-mind and I'm curious, but it seems like for a long time it was some kind of beach scene and I have no idea what that was about.

Once you know "this is just a little curiosity button", it's easy enough to ignore if you're not into that.

(Today's is in reference to van Gogh's 170th birthday, which is a nice little "oh!" moment, but not one I clicked through to see more)

Ah yes, the incredibly narrow minded viewpoint of checks notes being open to new things.

> To show the enjoyable garlic festival fact, a crucial component of the operating system's user interface must either actively poll for content or receive pushes automatically. Why would I want such a significant security risk?

If this is a "significant security risk" in your threat model for your gaming machine, I hope you're not multiplayer gaming, or using Steam.

No, he donated that. He could have chosen to simply ignore the icon, as thousands of others do daily.

> Clicking this lead me to a page about a wild garlic festival in Germany.

And you learned a little something that you didn't know before. It cost you nothing. You got a little drawing of garlic in your search bar. That cost you nothing too.

I personally enjoy the little search bar illustrations and the rotating login screen background with the "did you know" style button. It's nice. Not everything has to be all serious all the time.

(late reply) - yes, but not for podcasts.

I'm not sure I'd call Office or Windows "low quality". You might have different preferences, or things you don't like about them, but Windows is a highly polished OS at this point, and Office is head, shoulders, knees and toes the best office suite in the world.

I think the other two are a stretch also, but I can see where you're coming from.