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> Zip code 94107 is located in San Francisco, California, specifically in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. It is part of San Francisco County. There are approximately 163 homes for sale in this zip code, with prices ranging from $338.6K to $5M, according to Realtor.com. The minimum combined sales tax rate for 94107 is 8.63%, according to Avalara. The per capita income in 94107 is $124,681.

It is interesting that knowing your zipcode I might have predicted your response.

> I am a piece in an instrument for humanity to comprehend the Universe.

For a lot of people, if their data is being used as a benefit, then they should be properly compensated for that. They're more likely to be trying to comprehend how to keep food on the table.


94107 is a discontinuous zip code. It contains both SOMA (where I live) and Potrero Hill which you have quoted. What was the prediction?

> For a lot of people, if their data is being used as a benefit, then they should be properly compensated for that. They're more likely to be trying to comprehend how to keep food on the table.

Certainly, I am a great believer in the market. If they believe the price is insufficient, there is no reason to sell. I am only offering them this information for free so that they may set their price in a more informed manner. I'm doing that because I have a related semi-religious personal principle https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Observation_Dharma


No. It goes back to the 1990s when we used Data Entry Operators to key mail details that could not be read by OCR. This is all so the mail goes into the truck sorted. That is the most important part of the mail delivery operation.

The fact that you can get pictures from this system is the innovation but imaging has existed for much longer than this product.


Why didn't they just rewrite it in Rust?


IIRC Microsoft is rewriting some of these backend services in Rust, although not because it will increase security but because it lets them get better perf than existing solutions without the safety tradeoff they'd have suffered to go to C++ which would have been their option 15-20 years ago. I don't know whether Sharepoint was on that list.


SharePoint is primarily written in C# [.NET Framework 4.8] and leverages ASP.NET; there would be no reason to rewrite the majority in another language. There is some C++ in SharePoint Search (and a few other components here and there).

IIS which SharePoint runs atop of is written in presumably primarily C.

You can decompile most of SharePoint if you ever need to peek at the code. That's a huge advantage to figure out how it works.


You also can get better velocity than with other languages due to the compile-time checks.


They should've just Linux.


> then everyone benefits from cheaper widgets and you get paid for it.

Ah, but the original widget manufacturer bought a Senator, and so now there are onerous widget regulations that specifically target me while leaving them unscathed.

Don't you know widgets could somehow be dangerous in the hands of.. uh.. the Chinese?

> The real economy

It's possible it stopped existing decades ago. To quote the character of Dr Burry: "It's possible that we are in a completely fraudulent system."


> > The real economy

> It's possible it stopped existing decades ago.

This is one of those things that sounds profound, but if you actually think about it, is obviously bullshit.

Of course there's a real economy. By definition, any time you have a bunch of people buying and selling things to earn a living—and we've got over 300 million of them doing just that in the US—you have a real economy.

That doesn't mean it's the same as the economy that's being paid attention to by the media or the government, but the idea that "the real economy stopped existing," let alone "decades ago", is....well, it's not even wrong. It's a complete category error.

The only way you can possibly assert that in the face of obvious reality is to start redefining terms until they are effectively meaningless.


More directly if the game engine only updates player state every 60 seconds (tick rate) then is this 4ms advantage actually present for the 240Hz case?

Further if your network has more than 4ms of jitter then I don't think you can make any concrete claim in either direction.


My theory about why it helps gamers to have a higher frame rate is that for something like a whip turn, with a low frame rate, your brain has to take a brief moment to work out where it ended up looking after the pan. But if your frame rate is high enough, you brain can keep updating its state during the pan because the updates are continuous enough not to lose “state” during it. This means when you finish the fast move, there is no delay while you reorient yourself for a few milliseconds.


Current esports titles don't use tick rates.

https://youtu.be/GqhhFl5zgA0

You can film the screen in slow motion and visually see more fluid motion (and see how it reacts to player input).

Games also use predictive methods and client side hit detection to mitigate most of the effects of network latency in the common cases.


Yes, because the visual feedback on your client matters as well (faster reaction times).

Also, it means each frame is more recent. Also, higher refesh rates reduce the mean variance between the timestamps of rendered frames offered by the GPU that are drawn on the monitor, meaning the visuals are smoother. The smoothness is pleasing to the eye and makes it easier to focus.


There is still theoretically an edge if you just show the same frames statistically earlier to one player.

You can present the game state statistically earlier to the player with the higher refresh rate display.


There's billions upon billions of dollars on the table. I'm a simple man. I'd suggest overt manipulation.


really missed a chance to write this up into "three acts."


I considered it but thought it might be too obnoxious/gimmicky for readers who aren't already familiar with the show, lol.


Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia. He spent his July 4th weekend setting the record for baking the world’s largest deep dish pizza, and as he tells it, having it for dinner was no small feat:

> It feels impossible to isolate anything bite-sized out of all that.

Back next week with more stories of This American Life.


Oh that's good... And apt considering deep dish is Chicago style!


"Act I: ..."


You also want to set a marker so that when you come back later you can set your theodolite up in the exact same position as you did 20 years ago.

There's a lot of surveyors marks hammered into things out in the world.


In two months they've doubled MAUs? Without an explanation of that specific outcome I don't believe it.

Also:

> As per SimilarWeb data 61.05% of ChatGPT's traffic comes from YouTube, which means from all the social media platforms YouTube viewers are the largest referral source of its user base,

That's deeply suspect.


You have "social anxiety." You are not in a "moat of low status." The status is purely in your own mind and not something calculated and assigned to you by the world.

Another CEO flying at 30,000' missing the forest for the trees.


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