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I think GPs “lay” may be like “lay person” which is not the use in the poem.

Have you tried signing a piece of paper with a pen and using Preview’s signature scan feature? It creates a very realistic looking signature in my opinion.

Preview on Mac OS can do this. You hold your signature up to the camera and then it creates an image you can add to any pdf.

You implied the price change wasn’t massive, but it was. This is what you said:

> A 52% correction in price would be a dire situation indeed. A 52% correction in multiple feels like a semblance of sanity is returning.

What would you do with it?

Based on your definition, then any static analyzer is a type system, because type information and the usage of those types is basically all that’s available for static analysis.

Types define what operations can be performed. The borrow checker looks at allocations and determines when they can be freed. It really has nothing to do with types. An ideal implementation of the borrow checker could be totally type unaware and work with dynamically typed languages.

How did you acquire your customers?

Rust's borrow checker isn't a type system. It's a static analyzer that tries to determine if it can figure out when to free your allocation.

Sure, but the point is that if you choose to do it, then your behavior is not a disorder, it's just a weird choice that you're making. Just like drinking heavily doesn't automatically make you an alcoholic.

It’s true, but an eating disorder doesn’t mean eating scantly, or even throwing up after every time you eat if that’s a choice you make. Eating disorders are compulsions, and those that suffer from them aren’t able to choose not to do them. This is similar to how alcoholism doesn’t mean drinking a lot. Alcoholism is a complete dependence on alcohol, making it nearly impossible to stop.

Regarding Kanye West, I think that might just be your social bubble. I know multiple people who seem to randomly start talking about Kanye West songs totally unprompted.

And similarly, your dislike of auto tune likely reflects your cultural upbringing more than anything else.

This seems equivalent to saying “technology doesn’t change anything,” which obviously has numerous counterexamples over the last 50k years.

We only move a small portion of the 40 billion tons. Most of the mass of CO2 is oxygen, which was already present in the atmosphere before we combined it with carbon.

There are many examples of such phenomenon throughout history. However, there are always economic incentives for those with knowledge to strike out on their own to increase their personal gain. That’s generally why such knowledge-monopolies end. An example of this is how textile machines were built in the US by memorizing plans from Britain.

> What do towns full of software developers produce?

Software? Sure there are software developers living out in small towns, but obviously not many in this town.

I have a young child. I love hanging out with her, but it’s very repetitive. She’s literally entertained by me holding a rubber giraffe in front of her for hours on end. I don’t blame people for getting bored after days / months. But sure, pass judgement all you want. I really don’t care.

They don’t need devices. Parents choose to give them devices because hanging out with kids can be tedious.

But would more density really solve the problem? An inability to produce $800 per household will make anything hard.

I find it hard to believe that building a road is so expensive. Some random website I found claims the cost of a two-lane undivided road costs $3 million per mile in an urban setting. Looking at the satellite imagery of Mississauga linked elsewhere, the frontage of each house is around 50 ft. So there are about 211 houses per mile. That comes out to $14,000 per house to build the road. The approximate lifespan of an asphalt road is 18 years, leading to a per year cost of ~800 dollars. Of course, this doesn't include maintenance of the road (fixing pot holes, plowing, etc.), but $800 per year seems like a pretty manageable sum of money.

Being able to close an open resource when a function returns is generally useful. It has nothing to do with error handling.

That still doesn’t explain the scam.

It would be nice to know what the scam entails.

This is the Google AI blog.

Feel free to respond to this comment with your LinkedIn. I will DM you there.

Your viewpoint is at a more broad level than mine. I definitely think arts benefit society, which is in line with what you're saying.

But at a human level, those who unsuccessfully pursue the arts suffer. With their most productive years spent unfruitfully, their late lives seem difficult. Often, they haven't saved anything for retirement and need to toil in menial labor until their bones crumble to dust. Especially later in life, providing for others, especially one's children, becomes increasingly important. I see a lot of my artist friends struggle emotionally because they don't have the means to give their children certain opportunities.

Comparing musicians to startups is interesting. To continue the analogy, if you're not finding product-market-fit, then it might be time to pivot :)

I prefer to maintain my anonymity. I'm not sure why you're personally attacking me for expressing my opinion. The point of my comment was that the ego of an artist is only self-serving. Obviously not every pursuit can end in success.

I hope so. I’ve created things used by hundreds of millions people, but maybe that’s not a good definition of “better”.

But whether or not I’ve made things better is irrelevant. What’s important is that at least I tried.

Why do you think that? I have many friends who have aspired to be artists and musicians. They all do it out of a selfish desire to have others appreciate their work. For every one successful artist, there are tens of thousands of others that simply waste time and resources. If they weren't so enamored with themselves, they could create something that helps people or makes society better in some way. I truly feel that a life unsuccessfully dedicated to art is a life wasted.

I disagree. I find all artistry largely a selfish pursuit. Sure, a small percentage of artists touch others' souls, but mostly it's people trying to realize their poorly conceived vision to the ultimate benefit of no one.

That's the worldwide usage statistics. In the U.S., a majority of users are over 30: https://www.statista.com/statistics/187549/facebook-distribu... Obviously, very few of us, if any, would be qualified to speak on Facebook usage outside of our own geographic areas of experience.

Another thing to consider is that simply looking at the age distribution is not enough. In my experience, older users (like 60+) are much more likely to engage with content. While older users may be a minority, they can make up a sizeable amount of content on the platform.