otabdeveloper1

> you could make a new syntax

Thanks, but I'd rather not.

You're making a category error. Human brains aren't computers. They do not "compute" at all.

I'm not.

My point was that Docker purports to solve the sandboxing and security problems.

In reality, this is something that 90% of people who use Docker don't give a shit about. For the vast majority Docker is just a nice and easy-to-use packaging format.

The sad part is that

a) Docker failed at security.

b) In trying to solve the security problem Docker ended up with a pretty crufty (from a technical point of view) packaging format.

Maybe we need to start from scratch, listen to the devs this time and build something they actually want.

Indeed you're right, but the problem is that your devs' machines and your production systems are running different OS's/distributions.

Nix tries to solve this, but it isn't there just yet.

90% of the time Docker is used to solve the problem of "how do I upload this bucket of Python crud to a production server?" (Replace 'Python' with any other language to taste.)

A slightly smarter .tar.gz would have solved the problem just as well.

> The main reason Chrome is so popular is because tech people have been saying "just use chrome" for forever.

Utter bullshit.

Chrome is dominant due to two factors:

a) Distribution deals by Google to bundle Chrome everywhere they can. (Including shady crap like 'warez' sites, illegal music, OEMs, etc.)

b) Google aggressively peddling Chrome on their properties and making them deliberately slow and buggy with other browsers.

It's not a coincidence that Gmail suddenly became slow and buggy under Firefox with their latest redesign.

I fail to grasp what you mean.

Reach, penetration and target audiences is like 95% of what modern advertising does.

Modern advertising works on simple statistics rules like "people who drink Pepsi might need heartburn medicine" or "people who recently bought home appliances might want to buy another one".

These things are simple applications of the CLT. No psychology or manipulation is needed or wanted.

Advertising hasn't been about 'persuasion' or psychology for a long, long time.

Advertising today is mechanical applications of the central limit theorem / law of large numbers to sociological problems.

> ML makes predictions; testable predictions.

Well, no. ML solves the classification problem, not the prediction problem.

E.g.: The "is this a cat picture" problem is effectively solved, but we _still_ can't reliably predict something as primitive as a simple binary proportion.

> Prudential Real Estate is a franchise operation. Prudential does not actually broker any real estate. Instead, a local franchisee pays a fee for the use of the name and logo and other services.

I don't know how contracting works, but for corporate project the rule is always "follow the money", then once you figure out the money flow, only then do the requirement gathering bit.

Doing it in the opposite order will result in tears.