> But really, Google's biggest technology was AdSense.
In my more cynical moments, I feel like people got it backwards: DoubleClick acquired Google.
Not as far as who the two majority voting shareholders are.
Readit Newskridsdale2 commented on The End of the Googleverse theverge.com/23846048/goo... · Posted by u/CharlesW
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It's amazing what we lost moving from desktop to retrograde world of the web. I wonder what's next in the indirection game?
VR. Super constrained.
The continuity of family companies in Japan also comes from the practice of adult adoption, when the family line doesn't have a suitable successor.
I read that this legal technique has also been used in Japan as a proxy for Gay Marriage.
kridsdale2 commented on Being OK with not being extraordinary (2021) tiffanymatthe.com/not-ext... · Posted by u/xrayarx
Is it really a power law or just that the right half of the bell curve could pass the interview?
I've never thought about it this way. Cut off the left side of the bell, rotate the graph by 90 degrees, and you can see that the high-sigma members of the distribution take all the reward and recognition in a limited attention economy.
This is what a next generation Skyrim should be.
Funny you say that. For Elder Scrolls 4 (Oblivion), the devs claimed to have built something like this. Where all the NPCs had their own wants and needs and schedules, like The Sims. Everyone needed to eat, but not everyone had a job. So some NPCs resorted to theft. But since crime and witnessing crime was already a system programmed in to the game, this often meant that by the time a player arrived at a town, everyone was dead. Some beggar took a bread roll from a shop keeper, who alerted the guards, who confronted the beggar, who responded with violence, who started a scuffle, which had collateral damage (many people have fireball spells), which lead to a free for all of death. It ruined the game, and they had to scrap most of the system.
>I also suspect people tend to think everything in life must have tradeoffs, D&D character points style. Like, you have X points to go around in total and if a percentage of that goes to intelligence/skill, there must be very little left over to put into charisma.
The truth is probably somewhere in between though. The time/energy constraint is what's most apparent to me since working full time.
As an adult you have to cram cooking, cleaning, hobbies, relationship building, etc all into your small limited evening windows and weekends.
If you want to be good at something you need to put time and energy into it. This means that you can't be good at everything.
So if you like to spend your time reading, maybe selecting nicer clothes (that often need ironing or handwashing, i.e. time) will maybe fall by the wayside, because you prefer reading books. Meaning that you look worse than you could, because you prefer your hobby.
Similarly somebody who spends a lot of time on their outward appearance might not have the time left to be as interesting as they could be.
In the end of course you may have talent or natural good looks. But as soon as you start needing to think about where to allocate time you will face tradeoffs.
I was just looking up the profiles of the astronauts selected for the future Artemis Moon Missions.
These people have resumés that look like they rolled a 20 for every one of their stats.
"America's Finest".
kridsdale2 commented on Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most? · Posted by u/Octabrain
Actually, I strongly disagree. Ideally, it would not be in the air in the first place. Failing that, once it's in the air, I personally prefer that it go to the intended target rather than just kind of wherever it ends up.
"Crash" is not something you want an aerial explosive to do.
kridsdale2 commented on Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video] youtube.com/watch?v=MYqCW... · Posted by u/zdw
The eastern part of Ukraine has vast resource deposits that are worth trillions. What makes you think resource competition isn't a part of it?
The original reason for invasion (2014) was access to the sea. Logistics are crucial for an economy.
kridsdale2 commented on Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client engineering.fb.com/2022/1... · Posted by u/bolinfest
As a Meta employee for almost 4 years what I will say is I was skeptical at first coming from git, but the sapling system works very well in practice in my experience. I still use git for everything outside of work, but I may consider sapling now.
I'm ex-Meta and now at Google and while they have 'hg' as a wrapper around their fig system, it's lacking so many of the Sapling features I am sad and frustrated occasionally.
I look for recipes a lot. While what I find matches the "SEO-shaped recipe blog page" template mentioned in TFA, nevertheless the results still have the recipe(s) I'm looking for.
When I need to fix/build/repair stuff, searching just youtube almost always gets me what I need or want.