I wonder why manila envelopes. does envelope paper have properties uniquely fitted for this kind of modeling, or is it just nice color and suitable weight?
These are folders, not envelopes. They are pretty stiff and hold their shape well. I bet any light card stock would do, but everyone of a certain age has experience with these folders; the fact that they're so basic makes this achievement extra special.
Is age the factor here? feels like they’re just as ubiquitous today as they were when the author was in high school.
I certainly appreciate the idea of crafting something special out of seemingly boring material, but the remark that they were taught to model with this paper in school made me wonder of it does have advantages over basic paper or cardstock.
I think it may be that it's a fairly uniform thickness across manufacturers, whereas if you are getting cardstock from different places you would need to pay attention to paper weights (gsm).
2.8% GDP (and labour productivity) growth doesn’t look that impressive when budget deficit is at 6.4%. A large portion of US GDP is domestic consumption.
modern version of printing money is Quantitative Easing, but the US is in the opposite, Quantitative Tightening mode since 2022. Federal Reserve is essentially taking money out of circulation for the last two years.
On a log scale (you can select this on your graph) we're basically moving on the same trend line as we have been since 1960. Covid caused a big jump but the years of stagnation since then mean we're back to normal.
For that to work Spotify should pay the artist more than it gets from the listeners (bots) who play author’s music. I doubt that’s the case though. Did bots raise track popularity and money was coming from legit listeners? Or did the money come from the advertisers?
I shudder to imagine an AI tuned with individual ad-tech fingerprints, especially one without our knowledge –– and yet, I'm certain it's already mostly developed.
I already have a hard time trusting ChatGPT, etc., but mostly for factual-accuracy reasons.
The potential for LLMs to be tuned to give me responses that I'm likely to like (or manipulate me to buy something) is truly unfortunate.
They figured this out ages ago. this is why you see billboards and ads that simply feature a large logo. The next time you are in the store the primed neurons activate and humans are drawn towards the logos that they have been exposed to
Right, and they are, that's my point. Quality isn't a single attribute of a system, it's a judgement call based on objectives.
The objectives of a business selling software, and that of engineers is something else. Sometimes maintenance, sometimes extensibility, sometimes exploration, sometimes just seeing if something is possible. Quality correlates to the objective, and in my experience, many software engineers have a hard time seeing their code through other perspectives.
There is a lot to be said for getting outside the four walls of a business (or org) to evaluate things. If it's not visible outside those walls (software buggy enough to lose customers) and doesn't introduce significant future risk to the business (competition can move faster than you) it's probably good enough. The real trick of course is predicting and communicating why you think one of these is true. It's an essential problem of commercial software dev.
The other response is correct that this is not ironic. Roughly speaking, irony is when something happens that is the opposite of what you'd expect. A firefighter's home burning down is ironic. Sometimes irony is related to unfortunate or funny coincidences/timing, and it's easy to confuse the two. Alanis's song Ironic famously has a lot of examples of this. Rain on your wedding day--is that ironic? Maybe? You certainly hope there is no rain on your wedding day, but I don't think there's an expectation that there won't be rain. Now if your parents decided to get a divorce on your wedding day, I think that's ironic.
But the parent commenter dilutes the definition further. A project with 2024 lines of code in 2024 is just an amusing coincidence. There's no reason why you'd expect a project in 2024 to not have 2024 lines of code.
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