> The student admitted to the allegations, saying, "I started using computers when I was in the fourth grade and taught myself everything I know. I happened to be able to access the information and had nothing against the company."
A while back I read the excellent graphic novel Wizzywig about hacking, and my takeaway was that, at base level, a hacker is a lock picker with insatiable curiosity.
Here's a tip for doing this while traveling: If you need quick help on the street from a stranger in a country where you don't speak the language, don't open by asking if they speak your language. People will almost invariably say no even if they do to avoid the imposition.
Just say "hello/excuse me" in their language and then ask the question in your language. If they speak it, they will often answer you quickly. Sometimes you can even see a look dawn on their face after the fact as they realize you skipped the first step.
When the U.S. first legalized pharmaceutical ads on TV, one of the requirements was that the drug companies had to disclose side effects during the ads. The companies chafed at that, thinking it would make the drugs less appealing, and only included the bare minimum the rules required them to. But their own data eventually showed that consumers actually responded positively to hearing the side effects. They found that people think if a drug is powerful, it must also have strong side effects. So instead of just scaring them, it reassured them the product was good. After learning that, the drug makers started including more side effects in the ads than they were required to.
> When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, their answers didn’t correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people. The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled.
> One of my clients has insane style guides, plural. I’m talking about 500-page documents detailing the proper way to format quotes and the one true way to insert footnotes.
Absolutely. If packaging and marketing stopped mattering so much once the public already knows a product well, Coca-cola could have stopped spending so much on their brand a long time ago.
No one is claiming that OS is as good. They are saying it isn't that far behind SOTA commercial products. So why pay exorbitantly just to get something only a few percent better than the free option?
But there have been very good open source office apps for decades and few enterprises use them, so perhaps this is just the nature of B2B purchasing committees and 'nobody getting fired for buying IBM.'
If I play a casual game with someone who doesn’t know about en passant and they make a move that opens them up to it, I don’t attempt to take the piece, but I do point it out to them and recommend we use the rule in future games.
That was fascinating and has implications for AI. The mouse didn't have new brain structures, it just had triple the number of neurons connecting its mouth-movement center to its hearing and vocal structures. It's the bitter lesson in wetware.
> An extensive 2024 study by three economists associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research attempted to measure the raw effects of noncompetes on wages. The study compared states where non-competes are broadly enforceable with the four states that ban them outright. The authors concluded that “rendering NCAs unenforceable nationwide would increase average earnings among all workers by 3.5% to 13.7%.”
A while back I read the excellent graphic novel Wizzywig about hacking, and my takeaway was that, at base level, a hacker is a lock picker with insatiable curiosity.