- ScarblacThere is no person with enough agency to have that kind of thing as an end goal. It's effect of a lot of other things, mostly US dominance and globalisation.
- Mass immigration has always happened over the millennia. Sometimes peoples are replaced, sometimes they end up mostly merged after a few generations.
I don't think it's something that can be prevented or encouraged, it's too many people trying to improve their lives to control it. Especially in a time when we're making most of the tropics uninhabitable with climate change.
- Sometimes jobs are great streams of interesting work to do that also switch off at five.
- I think it's called work because it _accomplishes something_, in a way that play or idleness doesn't.
Something can be a work of love, your life work, et cetera and it doesn't imply anything about it being fun or for money or not.
I want to learn more skills so I can do more types of work.
- It already seems that they blacked out more than the law allowed, so following neither.
Not that it matters much what the law says if the goal is to protect the man who hands out pardons...
- France's longest land border is the one it shares with Brazil.
- How does the LLM get all the required knowledge about the domain and the product to ask relevant questions?
- That's a factor four or five ir so, so still less than an order of magnitude.
- > I honestly don’t know what the PO and TL gains with this absurd obscenity
There are marketing campaigns that need to be set up, users informed, manuals written. Sales people want to sell the new feature. People thinking about road maps need to know how many new features to can fit in a quarter.
Development isn't the only thing that exists.
- Another reason is that figuring out what the software to be written should actually do, and how it should work, is work that is part of the project and the time it will take needs to be estimated.
As well as the actual development work that will result, which isn't known yet at the time of estimation.
- It could have used a good "Perl: the Good Parts" book.
With a team where everybody wrote it in a similar style, Perl did perfectly well. Mod_perl was fast. I liked Perl.
Then Django came out, and then Numpy, and Perl lost. But Python is still so incredibly slow....
- The Norway wealth fund is a co owner of Microsoft, like everyone with shares. Google says they own 1.35%, worth 50 billion.
If they want Microsoft not to provide "general compute" to the Israeli army then they can try to get a majority of Microsft owners to go along with it.
I think that's not the same as pressure on Microsoft from the outside.
- It's amazing in person if you have four people who can play somewhat decent chess. The level of constant banter is something else.
- Bughouse came before Crazyhouse.
In Shogi the pieces are flat, and you can turn them over to change color. That doesn't work with chess pieces.
Bughouse does work, and has been played at chess clubs for fun for a very long time.
When Internet chess came along people realized that a single board version was now an option.
It may well be Shogi inspired but then it must have happened a long time ago.
- > I can't wait until I can send a directed thought to someone else.
Oh no, we're going to have ads inserted into our thoughts, aren't we?
- Didn't that roughly end with "dying of cancer isn't doing the thing"?
I distinctly recall it becoming a bit extreme in the last chapter(s).
- What is the exact job of the mayor of London then?
- Greg Egan at least is well known in hard science fiction and frequently mentioned on HN.
- Dutch is the only language I know that uses the "ij" digraph, where other languages write "ei", "ay", maybe "y".
- What a good post and what a sad decision.