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Ah ok, so her strategy was to pull out on search, but focus on higher quality/yield ads?

It still seems like a bit of a losing strategy as I don’t see any reason for people to stay with Yahoo.
Right, being there at all has some value, but both the quantity and quality of actual time with them, rather than just near them but entirely distracted by other life-crap, isn't high.

I'm just saying that "I mostly see them on weekends" isn't that drastic, IMO (and I suspect it was a bit of an exaggeration anyway). Weekends represent like 80-90% of the time that I'm not just badgering my kids to get stuff done so their room's clean / we aren't late / they don't look like we don't provide them real clothes / they don't entirely wreck the house / they don't get hurt. The hours during the weekday are high-friction and low-freedom because they fall around transitions.

[EDIT] of course, again, having a large amount of money can enable one to buy one's way to much higher-quality weekday time with kids, that may be a factor. If you don't clean or tidy (much), if you don't have to cook to provide healthy food, if the kids have an actual nanny(!)—if any of that's true, then I'm sure the character of that time at least can be very different, if you don't instead use that extra liberty for your own non-kid purposes.
You have a limited window to have children who likely will outlive you / be around your entire life. Work / time constraints while intense are temporary.
So you are saying we better willingly give data, since govt can anyway get it if they want?
Don't know you're grayed out. Humans are genetically extremely similar, appearances not-withstanding. Nurture is what creates valuable and functional humans. Societal factors that reduce parents ability to nurture their children are bad regardless of the parents gender.
Byexample: Execute snippets of code in your documentation as regression tests
Manipulating the population behavior by manipulating goalposts seems to have been intentional the whole time. From the NYT in December titled How Much Herd Immunity Is Enough?

> In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.

> "When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent," Fauci said. "Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, 'I can nudge this up a bit,' so I went to 80, 85."

The rest of the interview doesn't make it sound any better.

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I agree with you that if you're looking at single-node deployments, Nomad or any distributed orchestrator will feel like overkill. I personally use Nomad quite a lot, but for single-box systems I'll happily revert to using plain Docker containers started via systemd service files.

The beauty of something like Nomad is that you can run it on a single box with moderately more effort than docker compose, but then you can flick a switch and have your workloads run across multiple machines.
"[...]ratings indicate that the American public prefer hillbillies, cowboys, and spies."

This kind of correlation has always seemed specious to me. It's the streetlight effect—it's hard to quantify why a show is popular we'll just assume it's because of the genre, since that's easy to identify.

I remember when Desperate Housewives took off in 2004, and studio execs assumed that viewers suddenly wanted prime time soaps. And they released a bunch more prime time soaps that were lousy and flopped.

I think viewers want quality content, regardless of genre. Genre is just a heuristic device.
Ah OK, so it's a specific tweet.

That's less concerning to me, as they've been doing that for a long time, for various reasons.

I mean, it's not like they blocked all links of a competing social network or anything \s.
I bought a set of conventional lockpicks to try out the hobby, but it ended up being so easy it wasn't interesting!

Ordinary pin-tumbler locks with some wear on them are embarrassingly easy to pick. Raking or bumping usually works. Just apply some tension and stick in something that lets you move the pins.

There's a marketing reason for this. If you design a lock that wears out into a locked condition, customers eventually get locked out and are angry. If you design a lock that wears into an easier to unlock condition, customers don't notice.
i can call my coworkers boys and girls here, it's not relevant - as long as i dont do that when interacting with them. If you feel offended by use of 'girl' or 'boy' in such context then it's your choice, i cant do much about it.
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I've read stories on reddit of people picking locks of hotel or motels to sleep free of charge.

I'm wondering what kind of victim free stuff one can easily get away with by picking locks.
I know this is anecdotal but I’ve been closely following my friends who have been on the fence about getting vaccines in several states and the number one blocking issue they encounter is bad website design in signing up for the vaccine. I’ve had friends all ready to such up even though they’re not 100% on board who get bored after five minutes of not being able to sign up and just leave.

For example, at HEB, I signed up for a vaccine time and upon receiving my first dose, the second appointment was automatically assigned in exactly six weeks. Easy. My buddy who tried to sign up at Fred Meyers had to schedule both of his appointments at one. Although he had a time-slot for his first appointment, he couldn’t get a second appointment time-slot and gave up.

Almost invariably, it’s the West Coast pharmacies that have garbage sites. I really don’t understand why. Again, this is all anecdotal.
That's funny, this fact completely changes the perception of this entire thread.

44.6B would've been a great investment then
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It'd be really nice if that were the case. Unfortunately, at least in many countries, it's been scientists/academics attacking anyone who questioned the reliability of scientific output.

For sure, politicians deserve their fair share of the blame, but they're by and large not the ones attacking people who say "you have limited data and it does not seem to support your conclusions". Nor are they the source of all the anti-COVID policies that now control people lives, nor are they routinely presenting the output of entirely unverified models as "science" that is beyond any rational questioning. Boris Johnson has been reported to have been furious about how he and other ministers were repeatedly bounced into policies he disagrees with by scientists who instantly run to the press and claim he's ignoring The Science/doesn't care about lives/will kill millions if he doesn't do exactly as told today without even the tiniest delay to double check things. And then days later the data presented by these experts has been torn apart by people who simply downloaded and double checked the maths.

To put it bluntly, people are losing trust in academics because they keep doing untrustworthy things. It's not a failing of the public, or a result of distortion of what innocent scientists are saying. It's an accurate perception of what's really been happening.
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> My favorite example was I think it was one of the early xboxes was being sold for less than the cost of the hardware, expecting to make up the difference in licensing on game sales.

This is still common practice: Sony and Microsoft generally either sell their consoles to break even or at a loss. The only difference between then and now is that they've made it much harder to run alternate operating systems. As far as I'm aware, Nintendo is the only console manufacturer that actually tries to profit off of hardware sales.
It seems to me that someone like Spotify or Apple (or another player getting into podcasting) should buy Clubhouse or quickly come up with a competitor. Now that Twitter is getting into this space it will be interesting to see who wins in this space.
>"Why is it that we have been able to eliminate things like Polio and Smallpox, yet there's doubt about COVID?"

COVID is incredibly more contagious, but also far less deadly than those. The real sinister thing about this virus is that 20 people can pass it to each other without anyone knowing, then all of the sudden someone's grandma is dying from a hug. It's just so much more contagious than anything any living person has seen before. No one in general had ever experienced literally just being in a room with someone completely asymptomatic leading to transmission of a deadly virus.
I already have cheapish high-quality internet (Webpass). An alternative would be unlikely to improve my bandwidth (I only have gigabit ethernet on all my devices anyway..) or latency (1-2 ms to work). Maybe it would be cheaper...
The issue with changing their statements is not so much that they changed their statements, but how certain they were with their original statements. Some of the scientists did not start their statements with stuff like "with the available data we believe". They made it sound like what they were saying was 100% determined. Anybody who disagreed (even if it is now the prevailing view) was called anti-science.

It is not strictly just the scientists making statements based on the available data, but them explicitly lying.

Some of the scientists said masks were not needed for the general population. This is understandable since they wanted people who were at the greatest threat to have enough masks. The problem is when some of the earliest statements they made were lies people lose trust.
I agree, they're both right.

I've been doing data science since around 2008 and it's a balance between local needs and repeated analysis and an often more efficient one off query. Sure the SQL optimizer is going to read off the index for a count(*), but it doesn't really help if I need all the rows locally for data mining anyway. The counts need to line up! So I'll take the snapshot of the data locally for the one off analysis and call it a day. If I need this type of report to be run nightly, it will be off of the data warehouse infrastructure not the production DB server.

Shrug. These things take type and experience to fully internalize and appreciate.
I've previously changed my phone to black and white mode to make it more boring. That helped me prevent some amount of usage.
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I guess the best analogy would be a department store with third party stands as well as their own label stuff
I see a lot of analysis from western viewpoint (which is to be expected on dominantly US web), which is really out of touch with the viewpoint of those in power in current Russia. Its natural for humans to try to understand the world and actions of others as if they were done by oneself, but its an incorrect approach. American can hardly fully comprehend Russian mentality (or ie Chinese and complex decision-making processes).

This is the soviet way and business-as-usual, and they are still ruled by people who got these ways drilled in the brain in the height of the cold war while working for KGB. What else can you expect from such people. Bear in mind, very, very smart people, mostly highly functioning sociopaths like in many other top positions.

They don't care much about western condemnation or sanctions, those don't touch those who hold power (even specifically targeted ones). In contrary - it helps foster the us-vs-they mentality in state controlled media. There is a lot of macho behavior, and even president has to/wants to show some of it since its expected.

People tend to think how much has world moved since end of cold war. Well for Russia and its powergames, very little. Try to look at these things from perspective of cold war optics, and events like Ukraine, Georgia, poisonings etc. do look as usual tug of war of the past.
> the COBOL devs who actually know how to maintain them get more and more expensive

COBOL doesn't actually pay that well, no matter how badly the business depends on it. The law of supply and demand would suggest that it should, but it still really doesn't.
> But say I want to change the system so that, in some cases, it calls Baz instead of Bar - but I don't want to rip the system apart and change every call site. With OOP, I just make a class Quux inheriting from Foo, have it override Bar(stuffs) to do Baz code, and shove a Quux object into the system. Done. Dynamic linking ensure that my new implementation gets called for Quux objects.

Functional programming does this with pattern matching, it is just as easy and avoids the dangers of sub-classing.
I think the first upgrade from docker-compose towards nomad is running nomad in a single-server setup (not recommended, but for the same reasons docker-compose on a single server is a bad idea if you want high-availability).
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Noticed recently that even Cheap Chinese bicycle locks are now "dimple" locks. People do understand now that these "american"-style pin locks are quite useless, as opening them is everyman's sport. In dimple lock the key goes in sideways, and if the keyway is tight enuff, you cannot make a rake to fit in. Also you can design the keyway so that you cannot flip them dimples from side channel with a "flag" pick.
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I'm not expecting anyone to actually already have this done, but I would like to suggest that with the toy languages that a walk through of how to set up a language server protocol for the language would be rather helpful, and educational.
This page claims to be a good starting point https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
I for some strange reason assumed that en_CA used non-metric measurements

Depending on the measurement, many actual Canadians do use non-metric units: https://www.bclions.com/roster/

If you're old enough, maybe you remember a time when Canada wasn't using the metric system at all. It wasn't that long ago that they were going through metrication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Canada
Whenever I see comments like this, I always wonder..is this a person speaking from experience & expertise? Or is this just a software developer?
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> Ordinary working people don't spend a ton of quality time with their kids during the week.

Quality time was a invention of the in-retrospect rather entitled parents of the 1970s who justified their neglect with the idea of "well I don't spend much time with my son but when I do it's quality time!".

The truth is kids, particularly young kids just want time. They want to see you around and have you take a active role in their lives. You can be around and clean the house and cook dinner at the same time, have the child help. Kids would much rather have a parent who sits on the couch to watch TV with them for a half hour every night then one that takes them to Disneyland one Saturday a month.

EDIT - Jerry Seinfeld on the topic:
“I’m a believer in the ordinary and the mundane. These guys that talk about ‘quality time’ — I always find that a little sad when they say, ‘We have quality time.’ I don’t want quality time. I want the garbage time. That’s what I like. You just see them in their room reading a comic book and you get to kind of watch that for a minute, or [having] a bowl of Cheerios at 11 o’clock at night when they’re not even supposed to be up. The garbage, that’s what I love.”
Perhaps a support software to guide the writing of both the TeXmacs and the LaTeX versions of a document so that conversion is straightforward, and therefore easier to make it readable for the converter, might be useful (see discussion at http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/an-idea-for-collaborative-work-wit...).
For what regards the journal style files, as far as I know they are being refined in TeXmacs---my feeling is that a comprehensive set will be reached only through user contributions.
Wow that's fascinating, thanks. That would actually turn HTTP into a kind of random-access filesystem, if adopted.

It's amazing but also slightly terrifying in the knowledge that then someone's going to write an SMB-over-HTTP connector.
i.e. "threat model"

Be weary of anyone who makes security recommendations without first qualifying their audience's threat model. Unless they understand what they're trying to protect against, it's simply opinionated guesswork, and could even be counterproductive.