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This is factually untrue though. Twitter was making money in 2018 and 2019 (to the tune of ~1.2B/year in net profit out of ~3B revenue, which is a fairly high profit margin) they lost quite a bit of money in 2020 and less in the years thereafter. However, even in the years where they had negative net income EBITDA remained positive suggesting the losses were upfront investments that would be expected to be amortized over the coming years.

The only reason Twitter is in deep financial shit right now is because Elon acquired it in a leveraged buyout and the cost of servicing the debt is estimated around 1B/year.

It's a hash of everything that goes into a commit, including the commit message. The idea is that nothing that makes up a commit can change without changing the hash.

I'd guess a lot of it is in hardware and firmware which would be very costly to change that late into the development cycle

Mid-30s and no regrets so far after roughly 12 years of experience. I've done mobile development (Symbian, yes that Symbian, iOS and Android) backend (nodejs, erlang, PHP, python) data engineering and probably a host of other things that don't spring to mind immediately. That being said, I've mostly been working in startups (the longest being the current stint of nearly 8 years now from early employee to IPO) and generalists are generally really well appreciated in those settings.

I like how you think labels correctly label anything. I happen to work at a music streaming service (not Spotify) and I can definitely say that those datasets are insanely noisy and generally you can't really trust labels to, well, label their data correctly for anything.

I had a very similar experience with Nibbles. It was my first time reading a program and modifying it. The initial motivation was that we'd bought a new computer and it was suddenly unplayably fast. Found the busy loop that slows things down and added a 0 to the limit. From there my brother and I started modifying other things, adding levels, etc...

As far as I can understand it:

1 - I'm proud of having cheated Airbnb out of their commission when helping me find housing so I could live like a hipster

2 - I hate living next to Airbnb hipsters

Needless to say: not a lot of coherent thought in that comment...

Where did you get 1,000$/KWH of storage? Even at small scales (household-sized batteries, ~10~15KWH) prices are currently around 300$/KWH for lithium batteries including shipping in a 3rd world country (I know, because I live in a country where there's no 24/7 grid power and I moved my house to solar+batteries 2 years ago).

I'm pretty sure at the kinds of scale you'd need for a country price per KWH would be significantly less.

I'm familiar with this prayer in Arabic, and two variations thereof (one used by Catholics and the other by Eastern Orthodox churches).

The Catholic one would translate to 'enough for the day' (كفاف يومنا) and the Orthodox to 'essential' or 'necessary' (جوهري). Both seem closer to what your wrote than 'daily'

We kept getting rejected by a reviewer who couldn't log in (we'd attached credentials to our submission). When they finally sent a screenshot with the rejection, it turns out they were using 'login with Google' and then entering the credentials we gave them there. Needless to say, they needed to use 'login with username/password'.

The past year in Lebanon has been like that. I'm sure if someone wrote a script about this for a movie they'd be told to just "tone it down on the grimdark shit okay?" or something.

1 - Oct 2019: financial meltdown (still ongoing, local currency has lost 80% of value vs USD since then with no end in sight. Banks aren't giving out USD deposits either, you get to take them out in local currency and lose the difference in exchange rate)

2 - Protests, riots, etc... (since the meltdown and still ongoing)

3 - Pandemic, lockdown (Mar 2020, still ongoing with rising cases/day since measures were relaxed)

4 - Huge explosion takes out half the capital and what remains of the economy (The Beirut port runs about ~70% of all the sea trade volume of Lebanon).

The whole thing is literally stranger than fiction. Someone described the latest disaster like so: "The most shocking thing about the Beirut is explosion is how none of negligence and incompetence that led there is shocking".

I live about 9km away from the site of the blast(as the crow flies). I can definitely confirm that the order of events was:

1 - Earthquake

2 - Sound (sounded like rolling thunder or a jet breaking the sound barrier)

3 - Pressure wave (felt as a sudden, short-lived, strong wind at that distance)

They would die of blood loss before that happens

"The ability to be expressive comes with it certain biological traits and dispositions. These traits may determine your viewpoints on matters."

This is an extremely hand-wavy assumption that you're basing your arguments on. Any evidence to back that up? It would seem to me that the ability to express one's views would be orthogonal to one's viewpoints on various matters.