AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot {{HistoricalArchive |message=This was accidentally posted publicly and then archived since |source_url=https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611/ }} == Stevey's Google Platforms Rant == I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Panamint Valley - Death Valley National Park.jpg|frame|center|upright=999|Yosemite valley would never be called Death Valley, but the latter could have been called Valley of Eternal Rainfall]] Have you noticed that famous places with names that...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Semantic Inflation]] is the phenomenon experienced by words intended to represent extremes where overuse reduces their significance until references to those extremes have to be raised even higher in order to recreate the same emotional strength. ==...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot About ten years, Y Combinator attempted to have the Hacker News community pick a startup for them to fund for one of that summer's Fellowship Three. Some users warned that the thing would be gamed, moderators decided to proceed knowing that because it...

Roshan: There is much Internet folklore about bugs where the issues seem like they could not be real or are simply a lay user mistakenly drawing relations between things incorrectly where these relationships are [[Veriphenia|nonetheless borne out to be true]]. This is a list of such 'veriphenic bugs' *...

Roshan: [[Veriphenia]] is a phenomenon where a pattern that appears to be coincidental or superstitious turns out to be genuine. From Latin veritas (truth) and Greek phainein (to appear): "true appearing." === Contrast With Apophenia === [[wikipedia:Apophenia|Apophenia]] is the tendency to spot patterns between...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot DMV Cancellation of Real ID Email Notification.png|thumb|The email I got sent. The letter is similar.]] A few weeks ago, I received a letter from the DMV explaining why they were going to cancel my Real ID in a few weeks. The letter...

Roshan: Add robotaxi and spacex examples When you live in San Francisco and around the Silicon Valley ecosystem, a mantra that everyone repeats is 'iteration'. Attempting to reach [[wikipedia:product-market fit|product-market fit]] is traditionally, here, described as an iterative process where you put out a...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot The [[Iteration Dogma]] is the belief that adapting to evidence is far superior to picking the right prior. It is commonly employed in the startup-mindset of searching for [[wikipedia:Product-market fit|Product-market fit]] where it is considered boringly...

Roshan: /* The Tasting */ [[File:Carbon Steel Sabatier Knife Grape Slice.webp|thumb|Not the best knife work or care but good enough for the point]] I recently took a few of our knives to...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot We have a [https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/p1 Bambu P1S] to print with and a [https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/ams-2-pro Bambu AMS 2 Pro] to store and swap filament. This is a home 3D printer that is pretty easy to use and is at the level of Ikea to...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Roshan George - ca. 2013.webp|thumb|I don't actually look less nerdy than this in real life]] I went by Julie's place of work today to see if a friend of hers, Ben M., could help me with some rails on a server of mine. He could and that was nice,...