basicoperation (u/basicoperation)

basicoperation commented on Acme Weather acmeweather.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/cryptoz

The site doesn’t make it clear, but it’s not available worldwide. The App Store doesn’t tell you where exactly it is available, but it’s not in the UK.

This surprised me seeing as one of the example images shows Europe, including the south coast of Britain.

basicoperation commented on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that” chadnauseam.com/coding/ra... · Posted by u/pie_flavor

yreg · a year ago

I remember hearing stories that for a time there was no engineer inside Apple responsible for the iOS Calculator.

Now it seems to be revived as there were some updates to it, but those also removed one of my favourite features -> tapping equals button no longer repeats the last operation.

basicoperation · a year ago

They fortunately fixed the repeating feature in iOS 18.3. Though it does seem a bit ridiculous that something like this is tied to the entire OS version.

basicoperation commented on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down theverge.com/2023/11/20/2... · Posted by u/andsoitis

jmerz · 2 years ago

I think he's not as known in the outside world but it's really difficult to understate the amount of social capital sama has in the inner circles of Silicon Valley. It sounds like he did a good job instilling loyalty as a CEO as well, but the SV thing means that the more connected someone at the company is to the SV ecosystem, the more likely they like him/want to be on his good side.

This is kind of like the leadership of the executive branch switching parties. You're not going to say "why would the staff immediately quit?" Especially since this is corporate America, and sama can have another "country" next week.

basicoperation · 2 years ago

Do you mean “difficult to overstate”?

“Difficult to understate” would mean he has little to no social capital.

basicoperation commented on It's Me, the Person Putting Drugs in the Halloween Candy (2022) mcsweeneys.net/articles/i... · Posted by u/mooreds

basicoperation · 2 years ago

I bet this is the same guy who draws markings on the pavement to tell dognappers where to strike!

basicoperation commented on Tesla threatens to bring in strikebreakers as Swedish workers strike thelocal.se/20231027/tesl... · Posted by u/yoelo

will5421 · 2 years ago

“Truckers refused to deliver food and beer to McDonalds.“ Beer?

basicoperation · 2 years ago

“In Paris, you can buy a beer in McDonalds” ~ Vincent Vega

https://youtu.be/6Pkq_eBHXJ4

basicoperation commented on Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not rachelbythebay.com/w/2023... · Posted by u/l0b0

basicoperation · 2 years ago

I spent several hours earlier this year helping a colleague debug a protobuf deserialisation error, where I noticed that the first byte was a varint-encoded length of the rest of the data! He did eventually get things working, though I never followed up on the root cause.

I can’t wait to get back from vacation to ask if it was this.

basicoperation commented on CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking theverge.com/2023/8/9/238... · Posted by u/mikece

somedude895 · 3 years ago

I could imagine CNET‘s SEO team got an average rank goal instead of absolute SEO traffic. So by removing low ranked old pages the avg position of their search results goes closer to the top even though total traffic sinks. I‘ve seen stuff like this happen at my own company as well, where a team‘s KPIs are designed such that they‘ll ruin absolute numbers in order to achieve their relative KPI goals, like getting an increase in conversion rates by just cutting all low-conversion traffic.

basicoperation · 3 years ago

In general, people often forget that if your target is a ratio, you can attack the numerator or the denominator. Often the latter is the easier to manipulate.

basicoperation commented on An SEO scam: $62k later tinloof.com/blog/the-seo-... · Posted by u/tbassetto

basicoperation · 3 years ago

They weren’t scammed, they willingly chose to engage in scummy behaviour with a company that enables such scummy behaviour.

basicoperation commented on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging theatlantic.com/politics/... · Posted by u/slapshot

GeoAtreides · 3 years ago

I used to strongly support people getting fat. I thought: this is a free country, you should be able to do what you want.

But what I've seen in the US has made me think differently. Most people who get fat eventually end up not being able to live like normal adults. And no one willingly goes to get help or treatment.

The problem will stick around because politicians care more about how things look. They'll say the numbers are wrong, or focus on wedge issues like transgender, guns, but they're not going to do anything on hard issues like this one.

Does anyone have ideas on what we should do? Should we make fast food illegal again and force people into rehab? Should we require weight tests for homeless people to receive government help like CAAP payments?

basicoperation · 3 years ago

This but unironically

basicoperation commented on A mathematically correct way to tie your shoes bigthink.com/starts-with-... · Posted by u/redbell

basicoperation · 3 years ago

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