I agree that heroic effort can hide a resource allocation issue, but often the goals of those controlling resource allocation are not well aligned with the hero's goals. By no longer buying supplies for a student, a…
I think reputation and warranties are insufficient. While building a reputation may be expensive, destroying a reputation can be profitable (in the short term). Warranties can also be made less effective by making the…
I wonder if ads (not 20+ minutes straight of ads!) would be less annoying if they were diverse and even moderately entertaining. E.g., have a customer standing in front of the concession stand saying "Man, the popcorn…
I would guess that rate of benefit relative to divergence from idiomatic purity might also be significant. If a little clutter gains a 50% improvement with language A but only a 10% improvement with language B, language…
If a language can produce the same machine code (including dynamic patching) as a second language, that second language can at best only equal the runtime characteristics of the first. The development and maintenance…
I think more recent languages also provide abstractions that reduce the frequency of off-by-one errors. Type systems also seem to have improved. Unfortunately, even having tools that eliminate simple errors (like spell…
One can look at abbreviations as being like pronouns with the antecedent sometimes being stored in a cultural context or being placed at first reference in a potentially longish text. Like pronouns, the 'antecedent' may…
How about rarely_viewed? Such expresses the property of interest, avoids the double negative issue, and is shorter? Of course rarely might imply a frequency much lower than the cutoff and infrequently has a bit of the…
The History Guy did a video on "The History of Aluminum": https://youtu.be/Nx16c6SB4kQ?si=jqaObtbTp3uNNjj3 From what I recall of the video, two people independently worked out the chemistry for cheaper aluminum. (I…
I would not phrase the means of approaching best length as "edit out everything that's not 100% necessary" but as something more like "make every scene count/pull more than its weight". The former, to my mind, tends to…
When ARM moved to 64-bit the ISA was much more substantially reworked than for AMD's x86-64 transition (which mainly added modes and repurposed INCrement and DECrement to provide the REX prefix which provides a 64-bit…
While increasing dealer revenue is a plausible goal, it also seems plausible that reducing production cost could cause awkward maintenance. It is even plausible that only the bill of materials would be considered,…
The PhD Movie introed with Richard Feinman's statement "I don't know anything, but I do know everything is interesting, if you go into it deeply enough." Feinman was a curious character. I suspect that with even a…
That clause reminded me of Popeye's "I can't stands no more" and I took it as an expression of considerable annoyance along with a sense of humor.
I think one should use ex/em units when setting a maximum width for readability. People with poorer vision will tend to prefer a physically larger font size. Pixels can also vary in size for different displays. (I am…
By only testing one static branch, it is possible that the performance of the Intel Emerald Rapids predictor is not representative of a more realistic workload. If path information is used to index the predictor in…
The Triptych Proposals [1] cover a lot of common use cases for submitting information to a server and updating part of a page. Something like that should have been possible to implement early in web history (I perceive…
This reminded me of the CPC Grey video "7 Ways to Maximize Misery" https://youtu.be/LO1mTELoj6o?si=7tWgqLPyug0-NC6Z (which is not specifically about loneliness). That video did not really include self-medicating (except…
I disliked _Always Coming Home_, substantially because it felt misandrous though the less optimistic setting probably also played a role (a post-industrial Earth with a rape victim as the "protagonist" and not a heroic…
The Motorola 88k and 68k both supported (eventually) extended precision, and, of course, Itanium supported it for x87 compatibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88000 (under "Registers": "32 80-bit (88110…
When returning to Washington University in St. Louis, I was walking a few miles with some luggage. Someone offered to carry one piece with me to the dorm. It was only after reaching the dorm that I realized she was…
Even personal recommendations have the problem of requiring significant use time (c. a year?) to estimate value. A company can (it seems) degrade quality for a model faster than quality can be evaluated by normal use.
Most parts of the liturgy are teaching. Scripture readings might compare with text book reading; the Lord's Prayer and other formulaic recitations are often taken from Scripture. The eucharist is more "ritual" than…
"higher prices for the consumer" can include lower value at the same price. Size reduction seems a common method for certain commodities. This may result in reduced consumption (e.g., a consumer buying one package of…
Innate talent can also be tied to one's sense of identity, which makes failure more overwhelming. (If one does not _really_ try, failure does not feel as crushing.) Just an expectation that something will be easy…
I agree that heroic effort can hide a resource allocation issue, but often the goals of those controlling resource allocation are not well aligned with the hero's goals. By no longer buying supplies for a student, a…
I think reputation and warranties are insufficient. While building a reputation may be expensive, destroying a reputation can be profitable (in the short term). Warranties can also be made less effective by making the…
I wonder if ads (not 20+ minutes straight of ads!) would be less annoying if they were diverse and even moderately entertaining. E.g., have a customer standing in front of the concession stand saying "Man, the popcorn…
I would guess that rate of benefit relative to divergence from idiomatic purity might also be significant. If a little clutter gains a 50% improvement with language A but only a 10% improvement with language B, language…
If a language can produce the same machine code (including dynamic patching) as a second language, that second language can at best only equal the runtime characteristics of the first. The development and maintenance…
I think more recent languages also provide abstractions that reduce the frequency of off-by-one errors. Type systems also seem to have improved. Unfortunately, even having tools that eliminate simple errors (like spell…
One can look at abbreviations as being like pronouns with the antecedent sometimes being stored in a cultural context or being placed at first reference in a potentially longish text. Like pronouns, the 'antecedent' may…
How about rarely_viewed? Such expresses the property of interest, avoids the double negative issue, and is shorter? Of course rarely might imply a frequency much lower than the cutoff and infrequently has a bit of the…
The History Guy did a video on "The History of Aluminum": https://youtu.be/Nx16c6SB4kQ?si=jqaObtbTp3uNNjj3 From what I recall of the video, two people independently worked out the chemistry for cheaper aluminum. (I…
I would not phrase the means of approaching best length as "edit out everything that's not 100% necessary" but as something more like "make every scene count/pull more than its weight". The former, to my mind, tends to…
When ARM moved to 64-bit the ISA was much more substantially reworked than for AMD's x86-64 transition (which mainly added modes and repurposed INCrement and DECrement to provide the REX prefix which provides a 64-bit…
While increasing dealer revenue is a plausible goal, it also seems plausible that reducing production cost could cause awkward maintenance. It is even plausible that only the bill of materials would be considered,…
The PhD Movie introed with Richard Feinman's statement "I don't know anything, but I do know everything is interesting, if you go into it deeply enough." Feinman was a curious character. I suspect that with even a…
That clause reminded me of Popeye's "I can't stands no more" and I took it as an expression of considerable annoyance along with a sense of humor.
I think one should use ex/em units when setting a maximum width for readability. People with poorer vision will tend to prefer a physically larger font size. Pixels can also vary in size for different displays. (I am…
By only testing one static branch, it is possible that the performance of the Intel Emerald Rapids predictor is not representative of a more realistic workload. If path information is used to index the predictor in…
The Triptych Proposals [1] cover a lot of common use cases for submitting information to a server and updating part of a page. Something like that should have been possible to implement early in web history (I perceive…
This reminded me of the CPC Grey video "7 Ways to Maximize Misery" https://youtu.be/LO1mTELoj6o?si=7tWgqLPyug0-NC6Z (which is not specifically about loneliness). That video did not really include self-medicating (except…
I disliked _Always Coming Home_, substantially because it felt misandrous though the less optimistic setting probably also played a role (a post-industrial Earth with a rape victim as the "protagonist" and not a heroic…
The Motorola 88k and 68k both supported (eventually) extended precision, and, of course, Itanium supported it for x87 compatibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88000 (under "Registers": "32 80-bit (88110…
When returning to Washington University in St. Louis, I was walking a few miles with some luggage. Someone offered to carry one piece with me to the dorm. It was only after reaching the dorm that I realized she was…
Even personal recommendations have the problem of requiring significant use time (c. a year?) to estimate value. A company can (it seems) degrade quality for a model faster than quality can be evaluated by normal use.
Most parts of the liturgy are teaching. Scripture readings might compare with text book reading; the Lord's Prayer and other formulaic recitations are often taken from Scripture. The eucharist is more "ritual" than…
"higher prices for the consumer" can include lower value at the same price. Size reduction seems a common method for certain commodities. This may result in reduced consumption (e.g., a consumer buying one package of…
Innate talent can also be tied to one's sense of identity, which makes failure more overwhelming. (If one does not _really_ try, failure does not feel as crushing.) Just an expectation that something will be easy…