Anecdote from my first job (software engineering): New manager wants to know what our team does and how our process and software works. Like, he really really wants to know it!

Okay, I book a timeslot and prepare some slides and an example; we have a meeting. I go over the high level stuff, getting more and more specific. (Each person on our team was responsible for end-to-end developing bootloaders for embedded HW.) When I got to the SW update process and what bit patterns the memory needs to have and how the packets of data are transmitted, he called off the meeting and I’ve never seen him since.

I guess, he didn’t want to know THAT much after all.

As hard as it may be to believe, I can’t eat metaphysics for put a roof above my head with it. Even Plato didn’t sit on perfect abstract chairs or ate abstract apples.

Here’s another argument I thought of in the meanwhile:

1. If we accept that the rule of golden mean is universal, then it necessarily applies to itself. Thus, the correct use of the rule is somewhere between the absolutes of not applying it at all and applying it to everything. There are circumstances in which it shouldn’t be used.

2. If we don’t accept the rule as universally true, then there are circumstances in which it shouldn’t be used.

QED

Hey, don’t forget the addiction and self esteem issues. Social media does much more!

If I mix water and cement there is a distribution of the two, a ratio if you will. Just because statistics deals with distributions (of probabilities for example) doesn’t mean all distributions are in the field of statistics.

I’ll leave it at that.

Depends on the type of distribution too. In some discrete cases there isn’t a mean value. A binary choice for example has no applicability of the golden mean. Like a two party system. If neither represents your values, you can only choose the one that mostly does. Which is not the optimal outcome, just the local maxima.

The golden mean argument also assumes that there is only one good soulution, where multiple equally good ones can exist too.

While I agree that most things require a compromise of two extremes, it is also important to acknowledge how they could result in worse outcomes.

Eg 1: You are sick; the doctor prescribes antibiotics. But you have some concerns about them so you only take it until you feel better.

But now the pathogen is still there, and it will rebound with new strength. (there’s also a chance it becomes resistant due to selective pressure and its survival)

Eg 2: Compromise of democracy and authoritarian state. Those countries’ governments tend to be more stable and enduring that are either of the two, but not a middle of the road. This is why the transition from one to the other is usually turbulent as well.

They are tremendous fruits. Many people are saying this. Fruits.

Philosophers: It is what it is.

Physicians: We need to be a bit more specific than that. Can we measure it?

That still only deals with zoonotic pathogens. Another mayor problem is the non-metabolized (more than half of ingested) anitbiotics that we flush down and don’t filter out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kJzvEwmSE (Asionometry: Antibiotics in our wastewater)

Seems to me a bit underpowered for this thickness and 1600 usd price.

There is some bliss in having a universal personal pronoun w/o grammatical genders whatsoever (ő) in a languange (hungarian). Often you can even omit it altogether from a sentence.

But let’s not mention the many cases…

Somewhat adjecent to the topics of the book Fooled by randomness.

TLDR: conform to company culture or else…!

(Even if you are an individualistic introvert, if you are not your own boss, it’s going to be a team effort. So you better put on your cooperation mask and act social.)

Works on Voyager too.

That’s it. There is also clickbait remover iirc, I used before but switched for some reason I don’t remember.

Unironically, I have an estension to fix them. (Replaces thumbnails with a random video frame.)

And to land on Mars you need both, ideally. The athmosphere is too thin to rely on just aerobreaking and the other would use much more propulsion.

It’s not about losing a license. ARM’s angle was that Nuvia’s license was for the server market. Qualcomm had their own license for the mobile chips. ARM’s issue was that the chip was developed under one license and sold/manufactured under another. (At least the first version)

Did you know that those annoying MOBO software come not from windows update but by the UEFI/BIOS boot process injecting it into your windows installation? Yeah, just like some rootkit shenanigans, still, this is a windows “feature”. (Windows platform binary table) You can turn it off usually, but OFC by default it’s enabled.

The archive in the post: https://www.hathitrust.org/