I asked about my comments and was amused by one part of the answer:
6. Slightly dry, understated style
The tone is usually compact, matter-of-fact, and occasionally wry rather than performative. Even their Wuhan taxi-driver remark has that deadpan “I have seen the circus” flavor.
I'm halfway between a technical and non-technical user. And half my time is spent in Chrome. But my other half time is in Excel, Dropbox, and Everything. Do those run on Linux? Maybe there are equivalents but I don't have the time to investigate. Access crashes too frequently these days but I couldn't find a GUI equivalent for PostgreSQL. Spying/ads/breaking the misc aren't in my top 10 Windows issues.
If this is a real strategic shift, some will adapt and some won't or can't.
From Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
"a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents... but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it"
Not quite on topic but as an engineering manager responsible for IDE development, explaining to recruiters and candidates I wanted engineers who developed IDEs, not just used them. Unfortunately, that message couldn't get through so I saw many resumes claiming, say 5 years of Eclpse experience, but I would later determine they knew nothing of the internals of an IDE.
Presumably, people now claim 3 years of machine learning experience but via ChatGPT prompting.
I was an engineering manager an for decades and I did first technical phone screening of a very large number of candidates. I couldn't really assess someone's design and programming skills. So I would pick a particular area they were promoting and go as deep as I could on it, both on the technology and their project experience using it. I weeded out lots of candidates, saving my engineers' interview time for more suitable candidates. And my teams were good at giving me feedback when I let someone unqualified e slip through...
Foreign Affairs suggests Iran would rather fight a protacted war with the US than repeated wars with Israel. And in either case, they would continue to attack US regional interests.
I mostly listen to minimalism but I wouldn't call 12-tone/serialism "dire." Like all periods, there's good and bad. On the other hand, I've lost my taste for Germanic 19th century music.
6. Slightly dry, understated style
The tone is usually compact, matter-of-fact, and occasionally wry rather than performative. Even their Wuhan taxi-driver remark has that deadpan “I have seen the circus” flavor.
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