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"Steve Jobs was always telling the truth as he saw it at the time."

I doubt it.

I'll offer two stories about it.

When Steve recruited me to work for NeXT, he spent an hour or two with me in a conference room, working on persuading me. The experience was fascinating.

One thing Michael Fassbender's portrayal in the film "Steve Jobs" missed was the hard, piercing quality of his gaze when he was pitching. People like to talk about "laser focus"; Steve's gaze is the best example of that I've ever seen in a real, person-to-person encounter. His eyes were hard, vigilant, analytical. He noticed everything.

He tried a series of pitches to get me on board. Now, I did end up going to work for NeXT for a while, but I wasn't buying any of Steve's pitches that day.

He detected my skepticism really quickly each time. He would start a pitch with all the passion and conviction you would expect if you've ever seen one of his keynote speeches or interviews, like his whole being was invested in the pitch. He would immediately detect that it wasn't working, and he'd just drop it, like it had never mattered. He'd move on to another pitch, something totally different, and he'd be just as committed and passionate as in the previous one--until he detected that it wasn't selling me.

It was like he was flipping channels, looking for anything that would work.

The second story is from a couple years later, after Steve returned to Apple and took over again. I was back at Apple, too. Steve held a town hall meeting for the whole company to introduce the new candy-colored iMac (which was basically just the old iMac in new candy-colored clothing). I attended with a good friend who was working on the system software.

Steve came out in full pitch mode, selling Apple's new product to its employees. My impression of his pitch was that it sure was a good thing that he went into selling products and not into politics. Before that, I had always been sort of baffled by the ability of history's great demogogues to move huge crowds to behavior that in retrospect was clearly ill-advised. Steve's internal pitch for the iMac was a sort of "Oooohhhhhh...now I get it" moment for me. He was just extremely good at reading a crowd's reactions, saying what it wanted to hear, moving it to the reactions he wanted it to have.

Walking out after the pitch, my friend was shaking his head, saying, "I believed him. I knew it was all lies. I mean, some of that stuff is my work, and yet I believed him."

My sense is that Steve's objective was always selling his vision. He preferred to tell the truth to accomplish it, but if the truth wasn't working, he was perfectly happy to change channels to anything else that would do the job.
Easily disproven by comments in this and other related threads.
I think the way to pull out of this (it happens to me now and then) is to let go of enough of the actionable idea to allow yourself to start without any expectations. You need to be able to fail. Otherwise, your mind focuses on the details that may drag you down, instead of getting going. If it's planning you need to do to combat the anxiety, do that. If it is taking the first simple step, do that. But whatever it is, get going, knowing that wasting time is something you'll truly regret.
I don't know how long they lived, but according to the Jurassic film franchise they must grow very quickly.
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I've played a lot of arcade Beatmania(mostly BMIII/BM the Final) and I can say that while this does play BMS files, it's not an ideal experience - web browsers have not prioritized audio latency historically, which is crucial to music games with keysound feedback, and on a touchscreen, there's no tactility so you're going to lose your finger placement a lot.

I do play and enjoy Taiko-web from time to time, though. It is possible to get it good enough for casual play, especially with lenient judgment.
Because you need those children to grow up and:

- pay taxes

- make good governance choices

- buy the products you may be making

- make the products you might be selling

- make the products you consume

the list goes on...
> isn’t it “just more of the same” of what was going on in 1997

Yes. That's what I thought when I read it.

And not so turned up, actually. Bird flu was '97. Russia was "embracing capitalism" in the form of a kleptocracy. There was impending climate catastrophe. China was clearly an economic juggernaut and there would be future tensions with the US because of that. We'd been proclaiming peak oil for years by then. New tech never lives up to its hype.

The crime/terrorism one seems like a near miss to me. On terror, they couldn't have guessed the response to 9/11, though domestic terrorism was already on the rise by then. On crime more generally, rates over all are lower now.

And I have no idea what stopping progress, "dead in its tracks" or not, even means. But it sounds very Wired.
Alyssa Rosenzweig is doing the heavy GPU engineering.

https://rosenzweig.io/
The maximum weirdness I have seen:

"I think your tabstops are inconsistent."

Granted, I don't do complex spreadsheet formatting.
It can be a good habit in various environments (including urban) when travelling. You can get some of those vibes that give a place its feel, beyond the visuals, scents, etc. Doesn't need to be high-quality if it's just something you keep as a memory.

I did it a few times many years ago when going around the world. Then regret not doing it in a few others on subsequent trips (call to prayer in Morocco, pub noise in Lijiang's bar street, etc).
It seems to me that there is a habit of thought among some that leads them to believe any economic interaction they disprove of is exploitation. My experience from talking to the types of people in question is that they don’t think of themselves as being exploited. Would it be better for restaurants to collectively raise prices and pay better wages, probably but that could also mean fewer opportunities for people to get a toehold on the economic ladder. Not I don’t think acknowledging that trade off justifies absolutely any situation, I’m just pointing out that there is a trade off there. It provides a very real path into the labor market for people with limited skills who don’t yet speak the dominant language. Many economies don’t provide that on-ramp and have very high unemployment among working age immigrants. But as I said I’m open to the idea that the present arrangement is socially or even economically suboptimal.
Some might not know that the K in AWK stands for Kernighan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK

And Brian Kernighan has done a lot more than what I've read in this thread so far (though I've not read the full thing yet, and of course, it changes over time).

His overall influence on the field of software also extends far beyond his own direct work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan

He is one of my top software gurus, since early in my career, since I worked a lot with Unix, from early on, but not only due to his Unix work and writing. I've used the knowledge and wisdom
in some of his books to great advantage, throughout my career, and will be forever thankful to him and the rest of the early as well as later Unix "gang" for that.
8-10 hours a day, plus continuing education, networking, mentorship relationships, etc. ton not fall behind.
I wasn't arguing the Acela's merits vs those systems (which I agree are superior). Just that 86mph is not the top speed.
How They Made Films with Computers in 1963
After Phase 2, the drug has been proven safe.

In a sane and humane system, sick people would then be allowed to try it.
Sad yet expected. When one gets used to paying nothing it's hard to see the long term impact of never giving back.
> But remove the oil from a car, and it can survive an absurdly long time.

I wouldn't call less than 30 minutes[1] "an absurdly long amount of time". I've lost a car due to all the oil leaking before. I don't even think it lasted ten minutes after the low oil light popped up (I was in the middle of an expressway), and that engine was toast afterwards. I had it pop up another time for another car and thankfully I was two minutes away from an exit to an oasis and got oil into it pretty quickly.

If you mean an EV car then that's not fair, it's not designed to use oil, that's like saying a human can survive an absurdly long time without eating dirt.

[1]: https://www.matfoundrygroup.com/blog/can-you-run-an-engine-w...
It's not clear from the website's home page what is the difference with the original version hosted at sourceforge. This page explains it: https://robocode-dev.github.io/tank-royale/articles/tank-roy...
Honestly, the gameplay looks like a slightly-polished Diablo 3. It isn't that exciting to me. What's more-interesting to me, though, is your comment about people discovering a path to get a normal experience. Diablo 3 was reworked a year after release to move to that model, and honestly it's a very fun game. They dropped the auction house stuff, tuned gear drops to help you find your own kit, and added rifts and bounty stuff. It's still a very fun weekend experience. I think you're right about mobile pricing. That said, with Apple's recent campaign promising to replace computers with iPads, it's possible we are in for a shift.
Can't recommend buzzkill enough. I didl't notice how notifications had turned into e-mail until I got this spam filter.

It's also wonderful for letting you bundle notifications (like family group texts) to be delivered every twelve hours.
Do games like this help improve game development skills?
Haha I always interpreted it as the opposite of that, but this makes much more sense!
We’re not entirely done with this last one yet, either.
Usually the guild of hazing/abusive behavior exists outside of the group that is actually making the most margin in these businesses:

- landlords

- owners of the brand
> the email client configurability is significantly better

I'm gonna have to disagree on this one. Outlook 365 is ass-tastic. It doesn't even have feature parity with the web app, and is full of weird bugs and limitations. Just off the top of my head:

- Moving old messages between folders in the native app requires downloading the full message then uploading it again

- Calendar subscriptions sync from web client to native app, but not the other way around

- Calendar colors on the native app are limited to a preset pallete of 8, while the web app allows custom colors

- The new mail notification icon sticks on if another client reads the new message

- Cannot sync certain types of rules with the exchange server

- Warns you about "dangerous attachments" if you open an attachment that _you_ just added to an unsent email

- No way to block specific addresses / domains besides a local-only(!) rule to always put them in junk
It’s kind of an extension of the resource curse.
I found a way to disable marketing notifications but it was buried in their menus. Settings > Privacy > Notifications. Definitely shouldn't be under privacy, that makes no sense.
Isn’t Rome itself a counter example? It peaked in expansion and size in 117AD but didn’t really collapse until hundreds of years later (or a thousand of you consider Constantinople through Istanbul).

My recent example is Novell Networks that peaked in like 1995 but didn’t die until 2014. It took almost two decades to actually collapse.
Thinking you can't disclose too many details is a misnomer. Ideas are worthless — however good you think your idea is, there's many people who've had it, and probably many who are considering it right now. Executing is the only metric that really matters. The iPhone wasn't such a success because it was a good idea, there were many smartphones on the market before that, it was the execution that mattered. Same for Dropbox. Or Airbnb. Or any other example you'd like to pick.
No, I have considered rolling it out but ms365 winds up being the better option. E3 or E5 is worth every cent for its security and device management that is included.
Demos are on the way back. A lot of indie games on Steam feature them.
I saw this was downvoted and tried to help by upvoting, but it is worth talking about what “history” means though. Squash commits rewrite the source branch history, but they don’t rewrite the destination branch history.

I would argue the team-wide destination branch history is what should be called “history”, and the only thing that matters. But Fossil’s distinction is more rigid and it considers anything ever committed to be history.

Squashing a local branch does, in a way, rewrite local commit history. But this shouldn’t be called “rewriting history” in my book. Rebasing the main branch really is fully rewriting history (and this isn’t a squash commit). Squashing a feature branch that multiple people touch is somewhere in between. It’s a little rewriting. It’s often desirable. Should squashing small feature branch PRs be called “rewriting history” in the sense that Fossil claims that it’s intended to misrepresent the project? I don’t really think so, but since “rewriting history” wasn’t clearly defined, it’s open for debate.
I always feel bad my Slovene friend and I only talk about world or US stuff. Now I have something to talk about for her country! Sucks that the topic is not a completely positive one though. Hopefully some progress will be made
There is no fixation except in candidates hiding it and lying abt it. A large explained gap is entirely fine, a secret gap is an immediate no: beyond whatever you were doing in jail or whatnot, the fact our first interaction started on a lie is an issue.

I d take a proud jail reformed who's trying to change though.
You can create a squash commit on the main branch while leaving the feature branch untouched.
Linux 5.19's Staging Spring Cleaning: ~13k Lines of Code Removed
What i want to know is who benefited from the crypto-run on luna.

The run is indeed a self-fulfilling and a positive feedback loop, since a small disturbance in price could trigger some of the conservatives to withdraw at a tiny loss, and this could snowball.

But it is also possible that someone intentionally did it, like soros did for the english pound back when it got depegged. But i imagine you'd have to be able to borrow large amounts of luna and/or UST, sell it short, then trigger this run, in order to make profit. Is there any evidence that someone did such a large borrow?
> Are there open-source implementation of Docs

Yes: https://cryptpad.fr/
Some one posted that Yemen is complicated. It really isn’t. If the exact same Yemenese conflict was happening to a white country or a country involving China or Russia no matter what, the world would be all over it.
The PowerBooks were so far behind in performance at that point that Apple would have had to figure out something else if they hadn’t gone to Intel.

If not Intel switch, Macs would not have had the popularity surge — that was driven by the idea that, worst case, you could still run Windows full time if you had to. It might not have mattered as much once the iPhone was out, but it probably would have increased the pressure for non-Xcode dev tools for the iPhone.
This is my favorite CS paper. The writing is clear (almost “simple”), the idea is brilliant, and the entire thing is beautifully presented.

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/6/228044-coz/fulltext

Full disclosure: I know both authors well so I’m probably a little biased.
This study used a saliva test for measuring testosterone. From what I read it doesn't appear that they accounted for diet, weight, and sleep all of which have a direct effect on t-levels and will change drastically if a father is active in the care of his newborn. Without good sleep and diet your testosterone could plummet to less than half of your average levels.
Because it would degenerate into pharmaceuticals selling false hope in exchange for lab rats that are too far along to be saved even if the drugs work.

That being said I disagree with prescription pads. I should buy antibiotics for my kid without waiting four, five hours to be seen and processed
A 100mph basketball hoop you can't miss a shot in
With iOS, they send the message to Apple’s servers, Apple sends the message to the user’s device and the device decides whether to display the pop up based on the user’s settings. Neither the third party app nor Apple knows whether the message has been seen unless the user clicks on the message that causes it to open the app.
I use more water than necessary and only half the flavor packet. Add a half can of chopped spinach or some steamed broccoli and bring to a boil. When the ramen has reached my preferred softness, I drizzle in one well-beaten egg while stirring. Q.F.D. Quick, filling and delicious!
Ah okay. That makes sense. That was my only wondering. We are in a post pandemic world now. So the pre Covid default isn’t the same any more. But yeah I agree overall
My guess would be "it's expensive", same reason why live-action TV shows online didn't have subs until fairly recently.

A quick hack for fellow people who are hard of hearing: I often turn on a private "google meets" session, turn video off, and have google do the automatic captions through there if it's a captionless video I really want to see. I don't expect any privacy, and you do have to have a silent home for it, but hey. Works.
Downloading and using LibreOffice is the quickest way to start working. It is literally a one click download no outlook.com email creation required or payment or license to review.

For majority of users the features office provides is a waste of their time.
Yes, I ran that marathon, a 10+ year long marathon, and I still prefer other things to Linux.
Probably goes something like this: Big company uses process, JIRA, etc. People leave this and do a startup, and like tech stack they are not going to change it because it is a startup. So the process comes along with them. In some ways this makes sense because they know what they know and they think it has worked for them.

Software human process systems are self-reinforcing. Be it Scrum (de-facto Scrum, as it is commonly practiced), or whatever, they system is define in such a way that the system can never be questioned, so the system appears to be successful always.

If the project is late or full of tech debt, it is the people to blame, not the project management framework. In this sense these systems are almost invincible to scrutiny, only to be defeated if a new management team has a preferred system.

Words I have never heard in a retro: "should we even be doing 'agile' at all?"
The ones I've seen get noticed and gain a big audiance have done so by making entertaining music videos that poeple share and post to Reddit and other places. Lil Dicky is a great example of that. He made a mixtape in his bedroom using GarageBand, then made a bunch of videos for YouTube. Many of them went viral... or at least viral enough to fund his Kickstarter for his first full album.

Tom MacDonald is another (without getting into any politics). He makes a ton of videos and his songs have content that makes people want to share them. He had several songs hit the Billboard Hot 100 last year according to Wikipedia. I don't think he was even on steaming until recently due to a collaboration, just YouTube and selling physical CDs himself. He won't sign any of those predatory contracts, so things may be more difficult, but actually owning your music has it's value.

Both of these examples had a mix of hard work, talent, and luck, but that doesn't seem differnet than pre-social media when people were trying to get a record deal. Eminem just happened to hand his CD to a guy who worked with Jimmy Iovine after the Rap Olympics, had he not done that... who knows if we'd know who he is (I think it was the interview with Mike Tyson where he talked about this). If you've watched Jeen-Yuhs on Netflix, it shows no one wanted to give Kanye a chance as a rapper. Even though he was in the business, everyone just saw him as a producer, not a rapper. He had to push hard and keep asking for people to give him shot and got lucky one day when somene let him to a verse (I think Jay-Z). Jay-Z is another... no one would give him a deal, so he started selling his own stuff and made his own label (from what I remember hearing).

Breaking into the music business as a top artist as never been easy. It seems like the differnce now is the barriers are down, so it's more about getting people to listen instead of getting an record executive to like your stuff. It's hard to now if the market is any more crowded or if it's just that the consumers have full access now, instead of having to go through the gatekeepers.
They are similar in that in neither case is the problem caused by “the ruling class”.

The most reactionary group in the US isn’t the ruling class (oil company billionaires), it’s the local gentry (car dealership owners), and the one opposed to more universal healthcare is the upper middle class (doctors, lawyers).

Similarly expensive housing is blamed on “developers” but is actually caused by rich retired homeowners.
> Landscape has a super old history, but it made the most sense where it originated, which was the stage, with curtains, for live theater.

Also, eyes.
Oddly enough, I'm a performing musician, and an audience of 46 people would be fairly typical.
> Shouldn’t there be a universal law that says “nobody should be employed for free, in any capacity, at any time”, to hell with supply and demand.

That would be a great way to ensure access to low level jobs is gated by social class, yes. If demand for jobs greatly exceeds supply and you have to pay them as well you can demand a lot of side bribes or raise the minimum qualifications until you keep out the wrong sort of people. Minimum qualifications a Master’s, or you have to come from the right school, that sort of thing. Are you related to anyone who could be useful?

That’s why supply and demand is always relevant.

> After all this is why the concept of minimum wage (however bad it is, it is still greater than zero) exists, no? Why doesn’t it apply to interns?

Because no one gives a crap about social climbers who are transparently trying to get into a job because it has high social status. We don’t make trying to make a living as an artist illegal either. People only have so much ability to care and they mostly do not choose to care about who goes into industries that are for the children of people with money or occasionally those who have very supportive spouses.
Perspective-altering indeed. Caste was one of the best books [1] I've read in recent years. As a first-generation immigrant in the US, it helped me better understand the roots of systemic racism and what lies behind the racial dynamics in American life, by putting things into historical context. Strongly recommended.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51152447-caste
Star-chasing is overall horrible and the incentives mean it's not going to change any time soon.

Imagine you're a restaurant wanting to compete in the scene and looking to pay your employees fairly. You can't price your menu at double the competition, so you need to charge the same $200 per guest as other Michelin-hopefuls.

But your margin is cut in half by your fair labour practices and you're bleeding money by the table. Where do you make up the difference? If you skimp on ingredients your food won't make the cut. Raise prices? You'll be out of clients and business in a week. Fine china and decor are mandatory. You can't win.

The way to break the cycle is to change the system. Force everyone to play by the rules we agreed on a century ago. Prohibit unpaid labour. Extra hours are paid double and capped at a reasonable 60/week total. Shifts have to be separated by 12 hours minimum. Two days off per week minimum. Heavy, heavy fines for anyone breaking labour law and jail time for repeat abuser managers/owners. Come down on these practices like teamsters in the early years. Fuck these oppressive, abusive situations. Repeat for construction, fruit picking, whatever other situation forces a person to work their hands to the bone to survive.
When it's not on the gas stove, it has to go somewhere.