I've also done this and my record count was 120. 120 sponsored or suggested posts about things I don't care about in between the posts from people I'm actually interested in.
I'll echo what others have said - if social media is dead, it's because they killed it themselves.
I use the Social Fixer browser extension to hide suggested content and my facebook home page is almost entirely:
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' IT Humor and Memes (UNCENSORED / Sanju L
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / 90's Nostalgia
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Xzo
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Tacofficial
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / The Mother of All Nerds
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Photoshop That / Fatih Trk
Suggested: click to show/hide 'Reels' /
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / JaredHalley
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Quinn Alexander on air
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Sarah SilvermanVerified account
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / History of Music
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Minor League BaseballVerified account
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Posts which will make you come
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / How About that!
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / The Other 98%
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Christians who enjoy good clea / Rachel Ballard
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Graeson Mcgaha
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Ancient history / Jesse Velosa
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Cincinnati Symphony OrchestraVerified ac
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Awesome Science
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Seinfeldism
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Jimlapbap
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / TromboneTimoVerified account
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Handbell People / Deb Grundman
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Action News 5
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Harry Potter Memes / PotterzWorld
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Tom Scott
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / The Student Music Organizer
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / PY6CJ - João Grisi Online
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Memes so literal they aren't even memes
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraVerified ac
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Back To The Future Real Fans!! / Lawrence Neville
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Edson Xhhak
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Raging Mustache
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Tom Papa
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Historic Film Locations / Mark E. Phillips
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / TromboneTimoVerified account
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Thanks Chipper
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Dog Bless You
Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Christians who enjoy good clea / Catherine Lee Rodriguez
Unfortunately the Midines is basically vaporware. I don't think he has actually built and delivered a cart in more than 15 years. He took my money for one about 18 years ago and never delivered.
They do occasionally show up on eBay and Reverb though.
Do you have examples of what context-oriented media like this would look like? After watching news about the pandemic, I found it interesting to see how short the collective public memory about the event was, and how little we remembered about the reasons for the decisions that were made early on. I wonder if a more context-oriented media might help people recall the sequence of decisions and their justifications at the time?
I think Wikipedia does a good job of being updated quite quickly with relevant news while also providing the context as deep as desired. I am not sure it is reasonable to expect each article to provide anywhere near sufficient context for anything remotely complicated.
CBC is the public broadcaster in Canada, and Marketplace specifically has a good record of consumer-oriented investigative journalism like this. You might be familiar with another report a few years ago from them that found that Subway chicken may contain as much as 50% soy filler: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-fo...
I'm personally more likely to trust Marketplace than not.
Elsewhere on this site, you proclaimed to be a libertarian opposed to almost any and all government-related functions. There's nothing wrong with that of course, but... I suspect that probably colours your opinion somewhat?
If you've got data or research that supports your argument that the CBC is, as a whole, deserving of such low quality and trust, I'm genuinely interested to hear it.
Otherwise, it just reads as ideological opposition as opposed to genuine criticism.
FYI, your source now contributes to the Daily Mail and Fox News. By her own admission she is staunchly against the "woke" agenda (whatever that is). Here's an interview with her that balances out your provided link - https://www.canadaland.com/tara-henley-cbc/
Gamma is prone to causing confusion, because Gamma is one of the metrics used to measure options (basically, it's the rate of acceleration of change in a price of an option relative to the change in price in the underlying security).
I'll share a memory circa 2010 from my time at BlackBerry that comes to mind when people point out performance problems like this.
Around that time, whenever a new BlackBerry device was rebooted, it would take about 45 seconds for the OS to fully boot and become usable. I'm making up the actual times in this story because I can't remember the exact details now. Like in this video, the oldest devices would start up nearly instantly, but the boot sequence for modern devices was agonizing. Especially when you were an engineer trying to run a test that required rebooting the device!
One day, a pair of engineers finally became annoyed and curious enough to look into it and profile the problem. They found that a substantial portion of the boot time was spent parsing XML files that contained descriptions for device themes - that is, information about colors, icons, and text styles that users could choose from to customize their device. Something like a full 15 seconds was spent just on this one feature as part of the boot sequence!
So what happened? I suppose that no other engineers felt they had the responsibility or the time available to look into the long boot times until that point. But imagine being an engineer at a company like Microsoft, and one day saying to your manager or product manager: "Hey, can I spend a week on understanding why it takes a full second for Terminal to boot on Windows and see if we can speed that up?" How many managers are going to be enthusiastic about that when they're staring down a kanban board with enough tasks to fill 4 quarters?
The only reason these engineers at BlackBerry were able to look into the bootup times was because they didn't have to answer to anyone responsible for product. The team lead for this team at the time was "Engineer #2" at BlackBerry who had written all the apps for the first devices. His team was given permission to pursue whatever ideas or prototypes interested them, so they had the breathing room to chase leads like this that wouldn't necessarily pay off.
So part of the answer is that I don't think we as an industry are prioritizing performance. Once the performance is good enough, it's time to ship and move on to the next feature. But the other side is that we're building in more dynamic behaviour to our software. More customization, more flexibility, more behaviour that's defined at run-time. And this all probably makes software more useful and makes it easier for engineers to build more complex software. I think it's a similar kind of trade-off to choosing between python or Rust for a tool you're working on. What kind of performance do you need, and what kind of developer experience do you want?
I'm not sure if you're mis-remembering or I am, but the Bold 9000 (meteor) launched the year before the Storm. Though maybe you meant the 9700 (onyx)?
As I recall, the development cycle for Storm wasn't two years - it was less than a year. At that point it was the fastest cycle that RIM had ever had for a device, and it was done at the request of Verizon. Back then the iPhone was still an AT&T exclusive in the US market and Verizon demanded something from RIM so that they could compete with it.
I'll echo the fact that nobody I knew internally seemed interested in using Storm as a primary device. I think everyone knew it was junk. But Storm 2 went a long way towards a device that I would actually be interested in using.
As you said, the Storm was developed in a year so some corners (especially the OS side) were cut. The Onyx was 'properly' engineered so (internally) everything was better and easier to deal with.
Yep I stuck with the 9000 and then the 9700, and then finally 9900 (Probably played with a Torch in between). Was fun being able to dog food those phones, but also depressing knowing that the Storm was going to be shit.
Flight Chops is based in Canada, so anytime he's flying up here he'll fall under Transport Canada and Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs). There are no legal requirements in Canada for pilots to wear parachutes.
there are some biodegradable packing peanuts that someone like me thought was styrofoam - a way to tell is to take one and see if it "melts" in warm water...
I THINK those can go in compost, but I'd check your local regulations
Has your health care practitioner suggested a probiotic of lactobacillus plantarum (specifically Lp299v)? This study published in February of 2021[1] suggests it can significantly reduce symptoms when taken daily over a multi-month period. Perhaps something to discuss with the doc if you haven't.
I'll echo what others have said - if social media is dead, it's because they killed it themselves.