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maybe we need to consider becoming re-sensitized because our lives may become harder.

Even if our collective ability to support an prosperous existence improves, it will take decades to adjust to loss job, and a new notion of who gets to have money to buy food and a peaceful life (and this is a good scenario).

It's also possible that this increases our ability to wage war without military life loss (but with civilian loses).

Or maybe it will be much less relevant, but we should keep an eye on to see which is the outcome...

In my undergrad, coursework did not count towards the grade for the module. But you earned the right to sit for the final exam by passing the courswork.

I agree with this. I would add that the important part of the practice of writing is not the tools, but once you are writing you can try tools that help you continue. For my creative writing (that I do mostly as a hobby) I have a nice notebook with a nice pen that I use to write short stories and world building excercises, and characters, etc. I don't need the nice notebook, I did not get it before starting, but it does feel nice to come home having thought of what to write and have a pleasant notebook and pen.

My job includes writing technical documents but I use latex and emacs because that's what I have always used.

But practice > tools!

As I understand it, Intel's strength was in manufacturing their own design in their exclusive (and most advanced) process. So the advantage was being vertically integrated. State of the art processes are too expensive these days. x86 CPUs alone cannot sustain them. Specially, when AMD builds their CPU also with state of the art processes. So by becoming a foundry, Intel may be able to have state of the art fabs and use it in their own designs of x86 CPUs, GPUs, etc.

I feel the statement "autistic people will never write a poem" may be trivially true, because (I suspect) many people will never write a poem. The implication that this is invalid or wrong is perverse. And the fact that now we have to argue for the dignity of autistic people by saying that there are autistic poets is also non-sensical.

These are all cruel suggestions about people, we should challenge why RFK makes statements like this. Not take them at face value, as if they merit being answered.

Institutional knowledge stays in the institution and builds up after people have moved from those roles even. Consulting companies bring the operational knowledge to help with a specific situation. Sometimes you may need the institutional knowledge (if it aligns with the mission of the organisation) and sometimes it is better to concentrate on your mission and use the consultancy's knowledge to help you. Blanket statements are problematic. Particularly for something as complex of the goverment as a whole.

The argument that it is tested 10 trillion times a day is a fallacy (because it can't be that only the most popular option should be the best forever). And furthermore, in this context "tested" is a bit of an overstatement, I would say "used" many gazillions of times a day.

While I think (as others say) we should not police op's time, I would like to know what is the reasoning the used when choosing between focusing and not having all your eggs in one basket.

I think arguments by people making these choices would be very educational to me (as a person with a bit of a scatterd brain).

and furthermore, "families that are a bit off" are still plenty today, and people still do the best with what they got. I don't see the need to say that was that way then...

The MVP shows if the idea would get traction. But what good is an idea that gets traction if it is unfeasible to scale, or the organisation is not willing to support it. I think this is what google does with many of its products that end up cancelled. They tested the MVP, people bought in, but the organisation already moved on, so there is no will to support and further develop it. We should be responsible and do an MVP only after deciding if the organisation would be able and interested to scale a product and support it. Otherwise, the downsides are a toxic crunch to support the product, customers are unhappy with yet another product dies, etc...

What do you mean? The article is about how they got FDA approval... Isn't that the way to go? As in, it's a much higher bar than having a medical license and insurance no?

I got confused with window’s graphics device interface (GDI). Is this related? It is for windows after all.

It’s the representation of a natural number in the lambda calculus that Church proposed.

And don’t forget the occasional uncomfortable democracy that needs to be crushed (think Allende’s Chile)