We see these ideas that are obviously nonsense all the time. This one has been picked apart by multiple people with industry experience already.

What these things are is essentially the venture capital version of the scam mails you get in your mailbox every day. If you make it big enough and insane enough, someone with more money than brains will think he spotted an opportunity that everyone else missed and will invest.

Why is it, you think, that 99% of these things vanish without a trace after an initial storm of publicity?

American Express, at least for business travelers, automatically does the cancel-rebooking for you. Business rates are usually better and offer free cancellation until same day, or day before, of arrival.

This in turn strongly suggests they knew how to position themselves in a marketing perspective in a way that shows all the other more venerable distros out there really dropped the ball.

I don't think so. I think it's more a case of Zorin being the only Linux distro that made an effort to have a look and feel that's as close to Windows as possible so as to make it easy for Windows refugees to make the transition.

Personally, I prefer Sam Gross' take on that: An Elephant is soft and mushy.

It is what religion is. Faith. Belief without evidence. They very definition of stupidity and the source of much evil

Thank you. I'll check it out and maybe buy it.

TFA is for subscribers only. Not much good, is it? And, by the way, First Post!

I did it the same way I'd do it on paper, with the first number on top.

No, it's not that those who don't pass will be stuck there, it's that they won't qualify for the elite Green Berets. And that's just being used to illustrate how some people just can't wrap their minds around math.

For example, if I asked you, "what is 98 + 87?" you would probably intuitively subtract 2 from 87 to get 85, then add 100 to get 185.

Now that's a weird, counterintuitive, roundabout trick if I ever saw one. When I saw that question, I simply added the two numbers together in my head and see no reason to do things the hard way as you expect.

Here's another real world example: most adults know that if 100 soldiers try out for the Green Berets, only three will pass, but if you ask them what percentage passes, they'll draw a blank.

No, they're just using alcohol to extract it, just as it gets extracted while wine or whiskey are being barrel aged.

This.

My take on vibe coding is simple: Don't.

At least not the way most people understand it. I'm totally ok with having an AI do the tedious work. But only do it on stuff you could do yourself (i.e. you're just saving time). Because otherwise, you'll never be able to maintain it.

This, in general, is the whole problem: The entire "vibe coding" movement only worries about CREATING code. But in the real world, maintaining, updating, refactoring, reviewing, testing, bugfixing, etc. etc. are typically more effort than writing it in the first place.

What about the artificial vanilla flavor?

Chemically it's identical to what you get from vanilla beans, and it's not synthesized in a lab. The only differences are that it's extracted from wood, and the other chemicals that give natural vanilla its rich flavor aren't there.

The big problem here is people who've been carefully taught and never managed to overcome that part of their education.