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mentioned in the article. They would compact and leave notes.

Your logic would indicate that all genocides and wars that were committed could have been stopped by humans, but very few were. People committed them and went about their days.

Arabic doesn't need it because it's based on a finite number of letters and each letter is a sound, pretty much like latin. It does also contain a 4x2 nunation[1] system that acts as short vowels and/or stress but it's apart from the stress, it's optional and can be mostly* derived from context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunation

Crazy to say that 9 is a d when it's clearly a قـ not a د Could be a regional thing because in north africa it's not a d

The arabic word for "azul" is أزرق (azraq) so they all look pretty adjacent.

Apple also hosts a copy of Claude internally in their servers.

It seems the BBC documentary link also returns a 404.

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/tv-guide/tv/394562/crashed-800m-f...

That’s a rude and terrible thing to say about someone you don’t know. I guess hiding behind anonymity gives people courage.

Because not everything run from a terminal.

The kind of takes that promote the stereotypes of self-centered americans.

What stops the DoW from going after me? As a Middle Easterner? And once it's done with me, why wouldn't it go after you? as its branches did, locally?

Do you think that writing Delphi, a language no one is buying, makes you hardworking?

Google couldn’t cut ties to genocide let alone local police.

Is this in office job or does it support remote?

This lecture from John Green is a great full summary on the history of TB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-gxaie6UI

He's also publishing a book about it https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312472/everything-i...

Recently, John Green lobbied to get certain pharma companies to lower the price of tests and vaccines

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-advocates-pus...

Tuberculosis is not a medical problem, it's an inequality and access problem. Tuberculosis is fully solved in advanced countries yet less developed countries still suffer from it. Pakistan has 260 death per 100k capita, the US has 2.6. The highest 5 countries have at least 600 per 100k capita.

> is the spread even between groups, or does it skew towards some groups over others?

Spread mostly evenly. I'm not sure I'm allowed to share tenure, I'm mostly going to share what was here, but tenure felt logical, most people who left were on the 3-5 years range, most of people in Automattic joined in that period of rapid hiring.

Division is probably the wrong term used, we have several divisions, you can categorize them into 2 categories: - WordPress ecosystem (majority). Around 80% of the company. - Non-WordPress ecosystem (minority). Around 20% of the company.

The % of people who left is consistent between those 2 divisions.

Any company has low perfomers, if you denay that, then I can't really engage with you here.

Low performances usually go on a performance improvement plan (which almost half who enter it graduate it successfully to stay).

People on PIP didn't want to take their chances and just took the offer.

This does not mean all 150+ people were low performers, some of the brightest, most intelligent engineers and designers left, and I do miss them greatly and hold so much respect for them. Many of them were dear friends of mine.

For your attacking comment, I'm engaging my actual profile and name, and you're engaging with a throwaway account that's less than a day old, so I don't know who's more spinless.

The whole drama is not done, but the colleagues and friends leaving all at once is done, and that was stressful, you don't know who's leaving next until you see their name.

You seem to never been in that shoe (from a country no one hires from). Companies avoid that because it’s too much hassle. Automattic cares and goes through the hassle, simple as that.

You’re also talking without concrete knowledge. We work as international contractors, we handle our own local taxes. Automattic pays us the gross salary and it’s up to you.

Yes I am. I’m not spinning anyone. Several of my friends took the offer, they were unhappy, it was great timing. I support them 100%.

WordPress division doesn’t mean the open source one, it means anyone working on WordPress related products, like jetpack, Woo, VIP, dotcom… The rest work on non-wp like tumblr, dayone, beeper and other apps.

The offer had no limits (someone who was at the company for 2 days took it). Matt was also willing to continue sponsoring visa for the 6 months for whoever is on an work visa.

This was a very distracting 4 days, I'm glad it ended quickly, the dust is settling now, and we're slowly going back to work.

Fun part, Automattic already gives you 3 months sabbatical every 5 years. For the people who were going to take sabbatical, they got those 3 months off.

Getting remote jobs in general is tricky if you're not from certain countries. I'm from Algeria, Automattic was one of the few companies that hired there. Every other country would ask you to be in the US, or US timezone, or in a certain European country. Not all remote is built equal.

Automattic is a fully remote company, getting jobs in APAC, Africa, and europe is tricky, not a lot are going to throw that away and hunt for a job for 6 months.

Plenty of people who took the offer were on the fence already or looking to switch companies anyway, it was a good motivator for them.

A8C is still a for-profit company, if it's sold in the future, and the new owners aren't behaving correctly, the trademark can be revoked.

The use of comments alongside the HTML was the result of a very long (and honestly very public) discussion, ultimately, it boils down to those reasons:

- Comments exist to define a block boundary.

- JSON inside a comment exists to load up user preferences for things that can't be easily parsed from the HTML.

- HTML has to be the final result and representations, and it has to be the source of truth.

- The outcome has to be portable to any other platform or system, you can't move the website tomorrow and get a bunch `[xyz_shortcode]`.

I encourage you to read this post by one of the senior engineers who worked on the project since its inception:

https://lamda.blog/2018/04/22/the-language-of-gutenberg/

The documentation is in itself very expansive and throughout, you should give it a read:

https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/explanations/ar...

Gutenberg in itself is a very versatile tool and isn't locked to WordPress btw, you can build your own editor if you want (all JS, no PHP):

https://wordpress.org/gutenberg-framework/