pasquinelli

i don't read it that way. i take it more they're saying the problem is broader than just tesla.

this is the funniest way to reply

> Why would you assume iOS, not being the cheap option for a smartphone, would choose to emulate a cheap calculator?

i'd assume that because the ui for the ios calculator app is the same as the ui of a cheap calculator. not sure i would ever consider the platform that app is running on.

that's really just an encoding of the number to help you understand how the hell you got here

i would not expect 1/0 to be zero. as you divide by smaller numbers, the quotient gets bigger, so i can't understand why someone would expect /0 to be zero.

well, take your example: what is the politician doing to help me get a raise?

"privacy prevention process"

that's one of those typos that's also correct.

the vast majority of landlords are small potatoes not worth talking about. understand that, when people talk about landlords, they're probably talking about the landlords of the vast majority of rentals.

nobody's actually paying attention, so your goal is really to fight with people online because that's what it takes to get your blood pumping.

those are crazy expectations for the paris review.

judging by my wife's experience, a woman could go to the ER with a gunshot wound and leave with a prescription for an antidepressant.

if anything, a cat might eat the organs and leave the rest.

i see that kind of thing in job ads all the time too.

i don't see what's obvious. what is being audited? why is my email address needed when i'm giving them my id and ssn?

i just had it happen day before yesterday to create an account for a service to do a background check for a new job. it rejected my password without saying why and i could only get past it by shortening it to 15 characters.

and then the deeper question is, why do i need to create an account for this?

password too long is such a stupid reason to reject a password

as a total aside, that informal systems logo could use some tightening up. that f in particular looks floppy.

is that because of how the sun twists as it rotates?

china's doing good.

or is china not doing good, somehow?

or are they not communist, somehow?

meanwhile, america is a farce...

the hospital better function.

what you're saying is, if the less important service fails, of course the more important one will fail too.

you'll eventually forget this life too, so i'm not sure about your proof ;)

> To me, that is such a weird thing.

i'm confused. are we acting like we don't full-well know that using a condom sucks for everyone involved? it's like wondering why people didn't like using a face mask during covid: because it sucks. that, of course, is independent from whether it's prudent, but if something sucks, it's no surprise when people avoid it, right?

now you have my attention.

well how long ago was the 5 day work week established as the standard?

how long do you reckon it'll be before a 4 day work week is standard?

do you think an additional day off takes less time than the prior one took to get? the same time as the prior one? more time than the prior one?

i feel like you're getting way ahead of yourself and remarking on events that have only taken place in your mind.

i only used a zip drive once or twice. obviously that was decades ago, but in my head they are still the height of computing luxury.

before computers were programmable, there were still computers. before they were machines, there were computers. a computer is a thing that carries out a computation. obviously, the universe computes spacetime.

but i agree, that's not an interesting fact.

tacit programming means you don't use argument names to direct your data to the desired output. what's interesting to me about that is the unexplored possibilities of how data could be directed without names.

tacit means a definition doesn't name it's arguments, not that it isn't applied to arguments. the word tacit means implied, so arguments are implicity worked upon, instead of explicitly.

tacit doesn't mean functions are nullary.

> because it competes with their work.

it really doesn't

i should make it a point to play games made by old people-- i'd probably like them more.