Wobbles42

9 ms·

91.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
This is probably a good thing -- faith in such structures was never justified. Any relationship with a corporate entity is transactional in nature. A great deal of effort is often expended to manipulate us into feeling otherwise, but that
92.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
I don't think there are any companies that care one way or the other about taking away your freedom. Companies are revenue maximizers, period. The ones that aren't quickly get displaced by ones that are. The simpler test is to st
93.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
I received training like this over 20 years ago as a brand new engineer at my first job. The training was literally about how to avoid writing emails that could create legal liability due to careless language. Emails that came out during
94.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Non-lawyer here. This information is surprising to me (to be clear, I believe you, I just would have guessed otherwise). Is some degree of malicious compliance not extremely common when companies deal with the courts? From the outside it
95.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Would this still be clear bad faith had these chat logs not been created? In other words, could Apple have done these exact same actions and successfully argued that the language ("external website") was in fact neutral, if not fo
96.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
I think it would be easy to argue that the term "external website" is neutral rather than scary sounding, if not for actual chat logs in evidence saying "let's use this term because it's scary sounding". It kin
97.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
There is probably nothing whatsoever the judge could have done about this action by itself. The issue is the conversations around it, which established intent. The chat logs provide hard evidence that it was done in bad faith and with cri
98.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Is it surprising? If the revenue realized by the ongoing defiance of the courts exceeds the cost of replacing the executive (including any risk premium caused by the risk of jail time in that job) then it seems rational for Apple as an ent
99.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
> That hasn't been true for cars, appliances or any modern equipment for ages. Personally, I don't see that as progress. I don't need touch screens and surveillance everywhere in every major purchase I make. I fail to se
100.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
I've seen the assertion made that we can statistically measure how many people died due to (for example) a heat wave, but we can't say for sure which ones. I'd imagine something similar applies here. You'd have some num
101.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
The tree had malicious intent. You can't convince me otherwise.
102.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Oh, you're right! I do remember doing this calculation with integers at some point. I might have been using something like a UUID as my bitfield length. The context was timestamps -- I (playfully) figured out how many bits we'd
103.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
These are not mutually exclusive.
104.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
True, but we always have the opportunity to eliminate a similar need for time travel 40 years from now.
105.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Is my experience unique in that "having someone to call" has historically been of very low value? I'm an embedded firmware dev, so admittedly I am dealing with an entirely different list of vendors and asking for different th
106.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
It certainly won't beat the market in what the market optimizes for -- namely risk adjusted return on capital. It probably won't beat the market on the implicitly coupled metric of "value delivered to customers" eithe
107.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
/k/ has been the U/k/raine board since that invasion started and you risk a ban for deviating from that topic.
108.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
This is a genuinely interesting assertion. Is there any evidence of this?
109.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Well, the assumption was based on the fact that they chose base 26, and that the "26" came from the use of a 26 character alphabet. The 10 Arabic numerals are then a convenient character set to expand to 36, which is a much nicer
110.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Or to flip that around, life has existed on Earth for about 25% of the lifetime of the universe. The fact that we are part of that life introduces some nasty sampling biases, but if we find even one more planet that shows a similar ratio, t
111.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
There is a really good intuitive analogy hiding here for the scale of the universe: Our galaxy is to the observable universe as a tenth of a second is to your entire lifetime.
112.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
A century is approximately three billion seconds, the second being variously defined across history as a multiple we find convenient of whatever universal natural constant we can most precisely measure -- most recently 10 billion or so of a
113.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Arguably, our ability to observe in any meaningful sense is still limited to light waves occuring inside a volume not much larger than the earth itself. I mean this in more than just a semantic sense surrounding the verb "observe&quot
114.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
If we have events occuring at some rate in the entire observable universe, and that rate is one a human can easily visualize (e.g. "30"), then the answer to the question "how often do supernovas occur" is probably best s
115.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Taken cynically though, is this quote not simply describing the ultimate common enemy?
116.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
It's very unlikely that I am capable of remembering every single joke that can be told in a timeframe of 10 minutes. If you were to take every such joke in a random order and put that on a loop, the experience would likely be one of p
117.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
I have to imagine that very few people would make statements like this if we lived in a universe where there was any real danger of it happening. It would be interesting to talk to humans that have lived even a few hundred subjective years
118.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Or to acquire the wisdom to accept it. We certainly are far too young to have a perspective to say which course of action is better -- or indeed to define what "better" means.
119.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
Indeed. They didn't say it happened an "int" time ago. They didn't even say a "long" time ago. They said a "long long" time. I'd have to pull up a copy of the C standard to be sure, but even i
120.
by Wobbles42 1y ago
That is unfortunate. With only two prime factors, one of which being 13, base 26 is even worse than base 10, and it doesn't even have anatomical coincidence to recommend it. Much better to use base 36 -- we have a ready made characte

More ›