kayo_20211030

A very insightful, and correct, piece.

I'll quote in full the following, which I think gets to the heart of the matter. If you have no push, you can't apply pressure to the point.

> The notion that amateurs talk tactics and professionals talk logistics is frequently discussed in military academies and war colleges, yet it is rarely reflected in the Army’s budget requests or modernization priorities. The outdated concept of the tooth-to-tail ratio, which implies the logistical tail is a bureaucratic waste that must be minimized to support the combat teeth, must be fundamentally reexamined. In modern warfare, the tail is the primary target. If the tail is severed, the teeth are rendered useless.

This is a really cool piece. It's well written and I enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for posting it.

I'm glad it's back. Elm had such a remarkable elegance I was always rooting for it.

Good piece. However "can I pick your brain?" isn't great unless you lay out the boundaries. About what? Be clear.

OTOH,

> make it easy to say no

is the best piece of advice amongst many other pieces of good advice

This bloke was a good bloke.

If you read this piece backwards it makes a heap of sense. Relationships should be like opinions.

Good grief! That's crazy.

It's the "defamatory" and "negligence" bits that are interesting. What's wrong can be obviously defamatory, and negligence speaks to an expectation of a duty of care on the part of the providers of the information.

Could LLM's libel an individual? What's the duty of care for LLM's? Who would that person sue, should it come to that?

The restaurant seems to be trying real hard to externalize its costs, pushing its previous costs (menus/billing/staff) onto the diners, and hoping that the value of the experience hadn't been so diminished that the diner would baulk. I reckon the diner baulked, as I would have. The tradeoff just doesn't seem fair. Bad math. Bad business.

I loved Zope (and ZODB). No matter what I said, I could never convince the higher-ups it was the way to go. In retrospect, they were probably right. But those technologies were magnificent.

Aaah. I get it now. Athena -> Minerva.

For sure. Everywhere. Even observationally, we just all know it's hotter, or wetter, or colder - it's all way more extreme in all dimensions.

I lived in Munich many years ago, but if the temperature ever went to the high thirties for more than a day we'd expect the end of the world :-)

> In favorable climates, NVIDIA’s 45-degree liquid-cooling architecture ....

What's a favorable climate, apart from, obviously, Greenland? The piece is a little light on details on the correlation between outside temperatures and efficiency & cost. It'd be nice to see even a broad-strokes discussion of that.

Let's go, tes-co!

> ... tasks like auto-generating documentation, scaffolding schema files, and enforcing naming patterns. The kind of stuff that everyone agrees should be standardized but nobody wants to do by hand

Does everyone agree on this? Or is it another appeal for _some_ form of determinism in our development lives? A desire for tidiness?

I'm fine with that, it brings value, but it requires a very strong architect or a BDUF. That's hard to manage at an organizational level given the prevalence of independent product groups and scrum teams within current engineering organizations.

Everything not done within that tidy world is probably considered debt; but if you're willing and capable to fund the debt, maybe all that lack of determinism isn't too bad.

I dunno. I can go to Tesco in Ireland and the UK (fine, UK is not EU no more, but still Europe) and get a sim without ID.

David Cameron may be the biggest idiot in almost 300 years of British Prime Ministers, and there's been a few beauties. He really could have done a better job with the whole referendum business. Up/Down only. No "by a majority of...". No requirement for a second referendum on the terms of the disengagement agreement. Asking him to stay around would have been like asking the driver that drove you over the cliff to drive you home. And then there was that other beauty, Boris!

I don't think that's true. At least not in the European countries I visit.

Yes. Generally, it's quite good. It does have a blind spot with parens, but good old Claude Opus then cranks up a python script (yes!) to sort it all out. I wouldn't leave any of the models out on their own - you'll still have to clean up some obviously crazy stuff, but it's pretty clear what needs to done. In conclusion, Claude and ChatGPT are quite decent at Clojure. Oh, I do like Biff.

Right. Anything that matters a blind bit to me is on WhatsApp (don't judge!), I don't consume too much from other sources, and when I do I don't expect anything more than a sensible person would expect. It is what it is. Choose your channel and you'll get what you expect. That's pretty much it.

> A simplistic answer is that evolution has made each cell the size best suited to its function.

Yeah. That's probably it. Really, it probably is the right answer.

I reckon that OP did the work and that the map is correct. The CA/NV border seems weird. Under Mercator, you're insisting that the angles are correct in the projection. It just looks a little strange - with all those straight lines that you'd expect to see on a plane, but not on a sphere. The conservation of angles threw me off.

> “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”

Right.

lol

Thanks and very fun. The graphic "The United States of Voronoi" is another reminder of why the mercator projection is so counter-intuitive at times.

Yup. A big yawn. It seems like it ought to deep and insightful, but is, as you say, "basically a story about conman/drug guy interwoven with biographical information and anecdotes about how this impacted his family". There's no connection between the two parts that goes deeper that "they knew each other once, but did they really know each other?". It'd be Hallmark, but the parents aren't sympathetic enough.

Shabbos goy. Pete Hamill was one, and tells a good story. Snow in August, I believe, is based on his experiences.

lol. Emotional Rescue was when I stopped listening, but I hope that Keith and Mick live forever, even as statistical outliers. I love folks that win the life lottery. It's a hope for all of us.