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Been playing this since I found it and really learning SQL which I've avoided until now. Noticed you did a UI update today. Any way to contact you for feedback?

I immediately recognized this as a nice scaffolding to start the automation process of a slog task. There's lots of things that are difficult to fully automate. But breaking it down into step by step functions, you can identify and automate the low hanging fruit.

Then maybe you could request some help with the ones that are a stretch for you to automate yourself.

Very fair and thoughtful counterpoint. I think I may have been imagining that 'smart aleck private trying to get one over on the brute drill sergeant' trope.

Totally agree that tactical communication requires brevity and clarity.

If gesturing is a more effective way of speaking, then it make sense for the power structure to take it away from the subordinates. If a private could convince his superior to believe something or do something then it upsets the hierarchy. Maybe there's unscientific words like hypnosis or mesmerization you could attach to this idea of gesturing with speaking.

In D&D, there's somatic, verbal, and material components to spell casting. Somatic components are the precise hand movements to aid in spell casting. That fictional idea/meme had to have been generated by some real-world phenomena, no?

Edit to expand: I also think this may be why even beyond the military there seems to be a widespread stigma against gesturing while speaking. Not that a majority of people look down on it, but that some significant percentage tend to do so at least.

It might seem unfair to some parties to have these extra gestures "used" on them to convince them of things that go beyond what the words they use actually mean. I know personally, I much much prefer to read what politicians said, via a transcript, rather than watch them speak. Their body language + gestures + tones can really change perceptions so significantly that I don't want to let myself be preventably persuaded by otherwise disagreeable positions.

On the ring map, with default settings, just stopping traffic with the traffic light for a second produces the dreaded rubber-band effect propagating forever around the circle. Fun simulator!

You left out the phrase "in my opinion" from your very strong opinion statement that alcoholism is not a disease. You could qualify your opinion, such as "in my professional opinion as a psychologist", or "in my layperson opinion through my experience with people who believe they are alcoholics". Or even better perhaps "in my opinion as someone who thought I was addicted, I solved my problem this way...".

Try harder.

A YC (2015 I think) backed company did just this. Collated Backpage ads to assist Law Enforcement in tracking down child sex slaves. At the time they were called Rescue Forensics and were acquired a year or so ago.

Sometimes I get the vibe that it's a weird self-fulfilling prophesy of terrible SERPs. You reward freshness too much, so then people play that game. But you also punish duplicate content at the same time so the best content, if it already exists but is not fresh, naturally has to fall off.

I think you might be more accurate to say 'dead among highly innovative startups and tech giants'. You are probably totally correct long term on the dying, but it's going to be a few decades before Fortune 1000 and especially healthcare conglomerates move everything away from private cloud virtualization. Inflection points aside, that massive change takes a long time to be realized.

Your original comment makes it seem like it's all passé and old hat. It's going to be part of business in general for a long time and someone is going to have to work on it and develop it until it's gone.

My guess is that they would sue the Post Office if a postal worker ran them down too.

I have seen this at my jobs. Usually the titles are defined by HR so they can set the pay range to some sort of industry standard for that title. They often do not reflect the type of work being done to a highly specific degree. Some places are probably great at this classification of employees, but I've yet to see it personally.