My team at Facebook in the 2010s made many such reports.

We did that work because our mandate was to understand the users and how to serve them.

We did that with full good natured ethical intent.

We turned the findings in to project proposals and MVPs.

The ones that were revenue negative were killed by leadership after all that work, repeat cycle.

Interesting. Any sense whether that system was consciously constructed? (Like, Task a group to generate product changes appealing to users, and then cherrypick the ones that are profitable, to get/maintain profitable good product.)

Or was it not as conscious, more an accident of following industry conventions for corporate roles, and corporate inefficiency&miscommunication?

What do you mean? You can open them in Finder or iOS Files app and a calendar import UI will be shown.

Opening an .ics file on iOS from the Files app will show the events, but will not allow you to import/add them to your calendar.

I am a data point of resuscitation of fertility. Confirmed to be shooting blanks after years of juice, and decided to see if I could reactivate by following the broscience (and all the pubmed papers) on the topic.

An aggressive protocol of HCG and HMG (analogues for FSH and LH in the pituitary) reactivated the testes to get back to spermatogenesis and T production after about 5 years of complete dormancy. It took about 4 months of daily needles and well-timed marital conception-attempts. The son I fathered as a result is anecdotally very strong and a voracious eater. My urologist said it sounded like I knew everything I needed to do and was satisfied to let me self-treat.

The Way Things Work is up to date. I loved it in the mid 90s and just bought a new copy for my kid this year. It has SSDs, OLEDs, Gravity Wave Detection, etc.

Telegram is a media piracy platform now? I had no idea.

Disable “watch history” and Shorts will go away.

Wait, really?

I work at Google and that is what people are telling each other when the issue of “I don’t want my kids to see this” comes up.

On my home LAN connected with 10gbps fiber between MacBook Pro and server, 10 feet away, I get about 1.5gbps vs the non-network speed of the disks of ~50 gbps. (Bits, not bytes)

I worked this out to the macOS SMB implementation really sucking. I set up a NFS driver and it got about twice as fast but it’s annoying to mount and use, and still far from the disk’s capabilities.

I’ve mostly resorted to abandoning the network (after large expense) and using Thunderbolt and physical transport of the drives.

SMB/CIFS is an incredibly chatty, synchronous protocol. There are/were massive products built around mitigating and working around this when trying to use it over high latency satellite links (US military did/does this).

Is NFS out of the question?

I have set it up but it’s not easy to get drivers working on a Mac.

Exactly.

I am in awe. We must study him.

I really appreciate the angular tilt of the heading type on that blog.