wilbo

I see it. It's the negative space.

What i don't see in the article is analysis of the ink around the figures or any estimate of age.

I own a speedqueen. I love my speedqueen. I wouldn't buy speedqueen today and instead opt for a different, cheaper dumb model.

My speedqueen dryer needs a new control board after 9 years. A new dryer isn't as high quality. From what I understand the dryer quality dipped in the past 6-9 years whereas washers are more or less the same. Maytag and GE have much cheaper dumb options you should consider, and save yourself several hundred. It will also make replacement less painful if a critical part dies.

Yet. I'm sure Rome had a bureaucracy that stifled growth and impeded action, too.

I recommend reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. This permitting we have today is in response to very real problems of unrestricted growth in the past. It led to horrible pollution and squalor.

The pendulum has swung so far we cannot build anymore. We can't solve the problems of today because our regulations that are responding to the problems of yesterday. I'm hopeful there's a better way but I haven't seen it yet.

Guns Germs and Steel is a great book that explores geographic determinism.

I am trying to find links but can't right now. There are many cross cultural studies they have found the effects of social class systems and family economic advantages persist over centuries. A millennia isn't unbelievable to me.

I imagine it's a mix of both with strong geographic determinism tilting the scales for certain regions.

I got lost when OP talked about using 10 integers to choose from 3 choices. I think I figured out what was missing in the explanation.

random_u64() Mod 3 does indeed have a single bucket that is oversized. This overweights one option by about 5×10^-20.

rand() Itself has only 32767 possible values, so it's also common for a bucket to be overweighted depending on the number of buckets.

I'm a little under halfway through Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation. I feel like OP is arguing against a different version of the book than the one I'm currently reading.

First, Haidt's arguments primarily pertain to public schools and he spends significantly more time on the impact of social media on girls than on boys. The main problems he cites are that social media is creating a substitute for in person, synchronous, high stakes social relationships.

An isolated home schooler's use of social media is not substituting other, richer opportunities that are available.

In addition, Haidt strongly argues against social trends that long predate social media and mobile phones: the overprotection of children and elimination of unsupervised, child-led play in real world situations (specifically where there is physical risk taking).

Based on my read so far, OP is exactly the profile of a person who would have benefited from online social relationships.

It's possible for both to be true: mobile phone use is toxic children who are substituting online relationships for real world interactions. Mobile phone use is beneficial for children who do not have opportunity for real world interactions with peers.

Plan mode, for me, is my opportunity to develop and understand my own plan. Sometimes, rarely, Claude demonstrates it misunderstood my intentions by writing a plan to address the wrong problem. But usually it's about me fleshing out the scope and boundary of the intended changes.

I find that faster than code first, ask questions later. But it takes more time up front.

I'm trying to confirm that I understand what you mean:

Bot farm is operated by a company that displays Google ads. This bot farm fakes traffic to the bot farm owner and simulates conversion Google wants to see. Google sees the high conversion and happily serves more ads to the bot farm owner. Bot farm owner is paid by Google for displaying the ads. The person paying for the ad gets screwed.

You're right. By "this" I'm referring to a company selling to the government feeling like they will not face consequences for publicly lying to their buyers. I agree it's heartening to see the contract cancelled. I find the doubling down on the lies as both unsurprising and disheartening.