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they're doing both?

The teeth resizing dynamically is incredibly distracting, or more positively, a nice way to identify fakes. For now.

> jei nei suis qua

"je ne sais quoi", i.e. "I don't know (exactly) what", or an intangible but essential quality. :)

I remember it as having quite a bit of fan service, as was typical 20 years ago. There are also warranted negative connotations about incels today that didn’t really exist at the time. Overall I don’t think it would resonate with me like it once did.

oh god "NHK ni Youkoso" came out 20 years ago already... Watching it as a teenager made a lasting impression on me, especially the depictions of depression and anxiety, the animation by Gonzo, and also the trumpet in the jazzy opening. That being said, it properly did not age well, so I'll stick to my nostalgia-tinted glasses.

This is very interesting. This is similar to how Big Tech runs tech projects in a vastly different way than the “good practices” for agile/scrum commonly adopted by the industry at large.

e.g. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/project-management-at-big...

Similarly the article on OKRs describes small but critical adjustments from the OKRs cannon (Measure What Matters) that only scale-ups and Big Tech seem to know about. Everyone else too often tries to:

1. Cascade OKRs down from the top, sometimes outside Product & Engineering (in teams that are more process- than project-based like sales), killing team-level autonomy in the process.

2. Write Objectives for time consuming activities, rather than having a non-OKR work / BAU section that captures it. This makes it much harder for other teams to rely on OKRs to understand the context of what’s changing and to have key cross-team alignment conversations.

3. Focus on OKR tracking and scoring, possibly through a dedicated tool. This misses the point that the primary value of a plan is in the planning, not the deliverable, and risks making OKRs a performance management tool (at which point teams discuss KRs endlessly to sandbag rather than setting stretch goals and moving on).

But when you say the local implementation looks both overkill and misguided compared to what works at other tech shops, people point to the OKR book as what drives their own implementation. :)

This is quickly becoming my favorite technical blog. Congrats Richie and Ryan. I didn't fully understand Antithesis the first time I ran into it; now it makes sense.

In the top-left corner, when using dark mode, they call it "le chat noir", i.e. the black cat. :)

The phrasing in the announcement is a bit awkward.

> We’re maintaining mistral-medium, which we are not updating today.

As a French speaker, I parse this to mean: "we're not releasing a new version of mistral-medium today, but there are no plans to deprecate it."

edit: but they renamed the endpoint.

Ah yes, thank you! The Cheng Man Ching so-called "short form" would be considered a descendant/variation of Yang style then. I assume we're more familiar with Cheng Man Ching in the West due to his travels and teachings in the US. Hard to say how closely related to the source modern-day lessons are TBH.

There are a lot of possibly exaggerated, and somewhat dubious, legends about Cheng Man Ching (who created the "Yang style" I believe). In one such story, he performs an exhibition match at the British Embassy in Chungking during WWII, and none of the British soldiers manage to land a single hit. In the story, the British army ends up so impressed they decide to study T'ai Chi.

Crucially the French translation was significantly rewritten, with contributions from Hofstadter. In doing so, the French version becomes a separate projection of the author’s original ideas, along a different vector than the original English version. The approach therefore illustrates the main point of the book, similarly to its cover. Very meta. :)

Is this… from the Fifth Element?

It sounds similar in tone to solarpunk novellas. Great to have one more keyword to search.

My solution to this problem, which has worked for the past 2 years, is to rely on a private git repo for sync, obsidian on desktop, and GitJournal on mobile.

This is almost certainly normal activity under a 10b-5 plan, meant to protect specifically against suspicion of insider trading, which is what you’re implying.

SMS 2FA is better than no MFA at all, despite the very valid concerns about SMS. It at least protects against credential stuffing and similar automated attacks.

First, some people extend your argument from DNA to everything and say "I believe that privacy in the modern world is unrealistic"; that doesn't make the argument applicable to the rest of us.

Second, whether DNA can or cannot remain confidential is yet to be seen, but feasibility is certainly orthogonal to whether it ought to be, which is the point at hand.

Third, whether you believe it's a breach of privacy to leak part of your relatives' DNA is besides the point. It's their decision to make, since it's their personal data and deemed confidential under most privacy frameworks, and therefore a breach.

For one thing, this leaks a portion of the genome of your relatives, which is a clear breach of their privacy. Whether you personally deem it sensitive or not, genetic data is meant to remain confidential.

Thank you for sharing! I was just wondering what kind of devs work on solvers as a day job.

Would you say that building a “toy solver” for hold em could be a fun way to learn or improve with a language? I’d be curious to see how much work is needed to approximate the shape of the real GTO charts and common bet sizes.

12 Hungry Men

Very interesting trade-off! I was curious what you and Ryan were cooking post DDOG. "cost-effective serverless kafka" is a very interesting play. And congrats on the public announcement for "shipping Husky", finally. --Marc

From the same movie, another quote that applies to VC trendsetting as a business model:

“There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first; be smarter; or cheat. Now, I don't cheat. And although I like to think we have some pretty smart people in this building, it sure is a hell of a lot easier to just be first.”

Not sure about cheating being off-limit given the crypto debacle…

This is amazing! The Gods have sent me the perfect excuse to finally read all the rust ebooks I’ve been collecting! I have a toy project where certain functions are CPU-bound and would make for a perfect learning project. Very timely read!

I don’t think that’s fair. CS is a GSIB. We can wipe shareholders, but (unlike SVB) it’s a lot less clear what can be done with bond holders without threatening the stability of the global financial system. Probably the central bank will have to buy the bonds at a bargain and hold them to maturity.

Nothing publicly known. Officially, they wanted to remain private.

Typically with the max % going down if the tender offer is oversubscribed.

I don’t know about clawbacks on bonuses, but part of their comp is equity and shareholders are getting wiped, so you’re pretty much getting your wish anyway.

IIRC banks pay a fee to the FDIC in exchange for providing insurance, and because the FDIC is not funded by taxpayer money, the fee simply goes up when needed.

Yes, the way I read this request (and Yelen’s response) the government’s “commitment” is meant to provide a floor for private offers so as to immediately address concerns, not as a primary path forward.