I'll summarize YouTube's "shorts" algorithm:

1. Show Waffle Iron a row of shorts
2. Waffle Iron clicks on the "Don't show these" button.
3. Print "Got it. We'll adjust your preferences."
4. Sleep(a couple of days).
5. Goto 1.

"So we're going to put out everything that we think is of the highest quality"

Let us know when you start.

But somehow *you* cracked the secret, so the security was actually next to zero.

Yeah, the enemy would never guess that a large office building completely devoid of windows might possibly be a telephone switch.

This "feature" actually saved me quite a bit of work at a job I had a few years back. The documentation people were so afraid that anyone who was not a full-time Word expert would irrecoverably screw up the corporate branding (IOW, formatting) of their docs, they didn't want developers to directly edit them. So I was often able to get away with emailing a quick text summary to them, and they had to do all the fidgety proof reading, formatting, etc.

I don't know how they managed to get their jobs done, given that they had no real source control and mainly juggled each update amongst themselves over email and random impoossible-to-find folders on Sharepoint.

Since all the docs had the same basic layout and they were mainly trying to make them look consistent with whatever corporate branding was being promulgated that week, it could easily have been done by writing them in "markdown" and having a script that converted them directly to PDF. Or maybe even learn LaTeX. Then the docs could all be maintained and diffed in github like all the other project artifacts. I didn't even bring that up because I knew that their heads would explode.

"Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." - Kenneth E. Boulding

Does this also say something more about the "coffee nap"?

Pro tip: Many automatic transmissions also start out in 2nd gear if you put the shifter in 2nd. They downshift to the selected gear as well.

"I don't think this extra billion is going to do much if he can't deliver HLS"
Elon not deliver on a technology he promised?! That would be crazy.

"If they have hearings with young men who have been alienated by Democrat policies and actions"

There were no goddamn policies that alienated young men. It's a lie and you're a liar.

Landing on Mars is the easy part, getting back off is the hard one, even with the lower-than-Earth gravity. China has a bit of an advantage in that the Chinese government is willing to risk astronaut lives a lot more than the US.

Fortunately he's incompetent and has already run Tesla into the ground. The company is basically living off schizoid incels buying the stock. SpaceX's success is largely based on the fact that they keep Musk away from actual management, but with Tesla a smoking ruin he's going to push his way into that and mess it up too.

Maybe you went to a technical school with no humanities. Tech classes usually handed out exams with questions and response areas mixed together. Humanities classes with essay answers often used the blue books and separate question sheets. I assume that this is because essay answers vary more in length than technical computations so they didn't have to leave the maximum space after each essay question. Also, they probably wanted the notebook-style blue lines to try to improve the odds that the longhand writing was at least partially legible. (Back then, the available copy machines were all monochrome.)

Remember those little booklets of blank notebook-style paper they gave you in which to physically scrawl your exam answers under the watchful gaze of the proctors?

That was a blue book.