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So the issue with that tomato cutting test was that it was terrible form. You obviously don't apply flat pressure on a tomato until it breaks, you slice it by sliding the blade forward as you pus…

Yes the 90s and 00s were rough for js, especially because of where JS and browsers were at, and also our collective knowledge. However also it was much nicer in many ways -- we weren't trying to …

I understand this may look dismissive or blamey, but sometimes (actually a shocking amount) there aren’t equal merits to both sides… I’ve looked into this a lot and there isn’t any strong argument I’v…

But even "genetics" isn't really a single cause because it's over 200 different genes that each have an effect.

The other thing you're leaving out is that Charlie Kirk was actively provoking people with outrageous takes, perhaps as a social media strategy. It doesn't justify death, but it certainly ma…

In March 2023, around the time of Donald Trump’s indictment, Kirk said conservatives are being provoked into violence, and said “we must make them pay a price and a penalty” by indicting Democrats. Th…

There may be no systematic way to draw the line between dangerous opinions that need to be silenced and those that do not. There may be many people who draw that line incorrectly. But that doesn'…

I mean this is well-intentioned, but with all career advice I've seen it's mostly a bunch of hocus-pocus. For example maybe your company gets bought by private equity and 0 people get promot…

Logs can represent point in time, or spans, or anything you choose. Logs can have the span-id attached to them (and normally should), so they are hierarchical. In short, logs can do everything spans c…

That doesn’t really make sense… essentially the choice to do this isn’t in the hands of any nation, rather any business in the nation could try to do this and the government has no real way to know. Y…

Well I agree except in theory the board should want to force authenticity on all executives and directors and such. Fakers and cheats who lie about their results and hide behind manipulated metrics ar…

True. I think I’m emphasizing their similarities because what I’m seeing is companies treating them as unrelated (eg splunk and signalfx making entirely different query languages and visualization too…

This is sort of all just a reframing of existing technologies. Span = an event (which is bascially just a log with an associated trace), and some data fields. Trace = a log for a request with a unique…

Weird to have a bit of a window into the cryptic world of directorial promotions. Sounds like it’s mostly about self promotion sadly and perhaps unsurprisingly.

Make it less event-orchestrated and use a db. It’s just a social network for recruiters it’s not as complicated as they like to pretend. You don’t need push, it’s just a performance optimization that …

My only complaint with this article is that it seems to be implying kafka that linkedIn's problem couldn't have been solved with a bunch of off-the-shelf tools.

Maybe just take away that protection? Where I live nobody is losing a house for having the wrong color mailbox, but there are certain historical protected areas where beauty is an externality — you ca…

My point is that it's part of the standard basket and the rate they allegedly calculated for its growth didn't match up to lived experience.

I can't speak to this, but I suspect something is afoot. I know my mom went to a university that she paid for with a part-time job while a student. Currently that university's tuition is 80,…

Really? I saw news about it just today. It's never dropped of my news, from him moving Maxwell to a minimum security prison, to questions about whether he'll pardon her, to the signed letter…

He'll do anything to distract from epstein.

Wow, after reading the various pages on this link for ~20m+ I have to agree this is one of the best resources I've ever encountered.

These charts show that the outdoor exercise is better than twice as good as indoors in several respects.

Yeah I think I've read multiple PG essays on the importance of writing, but they always struck me as no different than Katy Perry telling you to sing, or some Grandmaster saying "go play che…

My comcast story is I have xfinity, and at some point the rate went from 80 to 120, and I called them on the phone about it, and they said "I've sent you a new user-agreement where if you ag…