I do think it's still true in my experience that someone with the the capabilities to build useful things on their own tend to not stay very long at these giant companies, unless for specific visa reasons
Looks like youtube premium just gives you no ads and allows for video downloads. Which you already can get using ublock and youtube-dl if you're watching from a computer. People who are big fans of youtube premium is it because you're using youtube mostly on mobile device, or is there some other advantage here I'm missing?
Personally I've used it more in the past week than ever before. And if Elon's tweets are to be believed, DAU is also at an all-time high. So i guess the answer is: if people are in fact leaving twitter, more are joining
English is missing some seemingly basic answer words too, which are present in other languages. Like no single word for unambiguously answering a negative question.
Yes, because inflation is already the first derivative of cost.
So the 'rate of increase' of inflation is the second derivative. And to say that the second derivative is decreasing is another way of saying the third derivative is negative
I think it is a problem though when a game's revenue mostly comes from cosmetics, as it shifts the developer incentives away from "developing a game that lots of people want to buy and play" to "making the type of game that lends itself well to lots of cosmetic micro transactions". These are often pretty different types of games and it would be sad if the former were entirely replaced by the latter.
I also think it's mostly semantics. Someone who was truly unable to visualize things mentally wouldn't discover it late in life by browsing reddit or whatever, it should be very obvious very early on.
Things that would be much harder or impossible for someone truly unable to visualize things:
* assemble ikea furniture
* pass geometry in grade school
* have a dream
* masturbate to a sexual fantasy
* think back to all the places you might have left your car keys
* navigate using a map
* play billiards
I think people read about aphantasia on the internet, think to themselves "huh when I imagine things it isn't literally identical to watching a movie, I guess I must have aphantasia".
I think the interesting addition is his point that adding some amount of literal randomness to stages of the process would be a good thing, if the culture around interviewing could change to accept it