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by pbh101 1y ago
Or Catholic primary/secondary education. But still, both are highly variable in quality/coverage and likely much less consistent than you might assume if unfamiliar with the space.
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by pbh101 1y ago
I think the realistic possible end-states are either effectively Facebook controls the app store that matters or Apple/Google do.
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by pbh101 1y ago
And somehow despite that ecosystem existing before, new entrants Apple and Google emerged victorious. Maybe it had something to do with their different approach.
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by pbh101 1y ago
My takeaway from this is you do not know what ‘quantify’ means and are bundling a whole lot of connotation into it.
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by pbh101 1y ago
Further, all those choices are only available to you because others are ‘part of it’ and making services available to you.
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by pbh101 1y ago
Quantification is not an end in itself. I can think of many ways to measure civic participation and reasons I might want to, especially if I think it is healthy for society and wanted to encourage more of it.
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by pbh101 1y ago
Measuring what you described in aggregate is an index.
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by pbh101 1y ago
Occam’s razor has a simpler explanation that this conspiracy.
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by pbh101 1y ago
And a fish doesn’t recognize water.
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by pbh101 1y ago
Cool, that’s your choice. But it also exists within the economy. Nobody demands you to play a particular part in a democratic market-based economy, but you exercising your ability to buy cars, hiking gear, airfare, tents, and cheap street f
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by pbh101 1y ago
One is a trigger to an otherwise steady-state dynamic system. I don’t think unreasonable to ask what effect a policy change had, net all the choices each agent has and takes in response to the change.
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by pbh101 1y ago
Yes but also that some people would be getting a service that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford. But there’s little/no incentive for a pure seller to do that, although for a marketplace like Uber there is more possibility for t
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by pbh101 1y ago
Why is this ironic?
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by pbh101 2y ago
If you are using significant amounts of data, Excel even on Mac is light years ahead of Numbers I’ve found. And probably still slower than Excel on Windows. My experience was using pivot tables with 80k-100k rows and maybe 20 columns. Excel
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by pbh101 2y ago
A really nice thing I noticed about Pages is that if you use the defaults, your document turns out very nicely typeset with zero extra effort, at least to my untrained eyes. Which you’d expect from Apple and maybe any word processor, but I
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by pbh101 2y ago
Sure but that also might unwittingly be a story constructed post-hoc that isn’t the actual causal chain of the error and they don’t realize it is just a story. Many cases. And still not reflection at the mechanical implementation layer of o
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by pbh101 2y ago
danluu.com mentioned this approach (or just, ‘big data’ systems) for traces and metrics iirc. Not sure if for logs too. Aren’t all of those relatively tabular? What would you be looking for from those tools to help with logs?
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by pbh101 2y ago
I think I’m probably not interested in this. PromQL is already relatively dense to learn, but reasonably well fit to the domain model and internally consistent, unlike most other metric querying tools I’ve tried over the years. Maybe that
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by pbh101 2y ago
This is absolutely a too-cynical position. Nadella would be asleep at the wheel if he weren’t actively mitigating OpenAI’s current and future leverage over Microsoft. This would be the case even if OpenAI weren’t a little weird and flaky (b
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by pbh101 2y ago
It can also break if the read implementation has mutable side effects, e.g. rebalancing. Java HashMap used to have this causing an infinite loop. I haven’t looked recently but my guess is it still does. https://mailinator.blogspo
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by pbh101 2y ago
“Manna” by Marshall Brain of howstuffworks.com ? https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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by pbh101 2y ago
Not seeing any players online.
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by pbh101 2y ago
Agree with current state but I mean who knows how ecosystem might evolve… one vendor might ascend and embrace extend and extinguish on a separate backend. I think it unlikely, but it’s a possible path.
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by pbh101 2y ago
A useful question is ‘how much better?’ For so many reasons, SVN to Git was a no-brainer but still constituted significant migration costs for existing teams and codebases: training, retooling, high-fidelity data transfer (you retained the
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by pbh101 2y ago
That was significantly after their market dominance was firmly established entirely through sending traffic to external locations.
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by pbh101 2y ago
What’s amusing about two different sites being named ’Register’? It is a relatively common newspaper name suffix like ‘Times’ or ‘Post.’ Or is there something else I’m missing?
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by pbh101 2y ago
> Google itself got big by indexing other people's data without compensation Weird framing given how much value was and is still placed on Google driving traffic to you
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by pbh101 2y ago
Even further than that, individual evaluations of ‘better’ can meaningfully vary. Not everyone has the same metric of success here and I think there are many reasonable yet distinct evaluation criteria.
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by pbh101 2y ago
Agree. Another item here that is contextual: what is the cost of a bug? Does it cost millions, do we find that out immediately, or does it take months? Or does it not really matter, and when we’ll find the big it will be cheap? The OP join
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by pbh101 2y ago
My understanding is that it is Procida’s work at Divio that was then later spun out into Diataxis, with Divio permission. Source: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/problems-with-the-4doc-mode...

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