Feels like this should dive into accuracy and precision? And for the next fun number to look into, try declared calories on food packaging.

Just don't fall into the trap of thinking you can't use these values if they are not perfectly accurate.

This hints at a major misunderstanding that, frankly, drives me nuts. If people are getting paid in stock, they pay taxes on the value of the stock they are paid with.

Can they take a loan on existing stock? Yes. You can leverage assets and this, itself, leads to some pretty unfair things. No need to inflate it to the idea that "getting paid in stock means you don't pay taxes."

I confess "not invented here" is a problem I think too many people focus on. Lots of things are redone all of the time.

That said, feature creep is absolutely a killer. And it is easy to see how these will stack on each other where people will insist that for this project, they need to try and reinvent the state of the art in solvers to get a product out the door.

I think it is fair to assume they meant before symptoms? Which, yes, your heart rate is a symptom. No, it isn't one most people consider.

I would focus a little differently from the folks talking about the technological copies that are possible. Copying people and things is just somewhat natural for people to do. And yes, you can somewhat copy a performance that you see.

But that is far far harder to judge your progress and ability on compared to copying a text over and seeing if you can keep the same structure and rhythm. The proliferation of cameras have changed this some, of course. But it used to be a thing that you would try and rewrite from memory some poems that you were studying for school.

Oddly, what is really killing this, I think, is the new idea that so much in life should be permanent. Notebooks are where you think outloud and you should expect most of your thoughts to be transient and not worry about holding on to them. Computers completely break that with people wanting a permanent and indexed collection of all of their thoughts.

In this, isn't it more that Garmin has been making sports watches for a long long time? And were given the grace by their customer base to just keep making that particular function better.

You could probably find the same with bike computers. Established brands that have a fairly predictable customer base tend to continue to focus on the thing that they do well. If you are having to chase a market that doesn't really exist, you find half baked features that speak to an idea, but often don't actually deliver on it.

For an amazing example of that last, look at how Amazon is destroying their echo market. If they just focused on "voice activated radio and timers," the device would be very different from the "we are trying desperately to make a new market for our smart assistant."

Odd, yaml-ts-mode exists? Did they change how it gets its parser?

Related to this, I find the "default to round numbers" influence interesting on things like minimal speeds. Where my understanding is many metric based systems have a smallest max speed of 30km/h. Which is between the common 15 and 20 that I'm used to seeing as the lowest.

I tried asking on a forum once on how this impacted default room sizes. I see standard ceiling size in the US is moving to 9 feet. I am assuming places on metric would not standardize on that number, but curious if they would just stick to the nearest half, or go to the nearest whole meter. (I "tried" asking, as people seemed to think that you would just design the room to be 2.74 meters and call it a day. That strikes me as very unlikely, as design tools really love "snap to grid.")

Isn't this, essentially, backing into double-entry accounting for all things banking? Which, fair, it makes sense.

Good analogy, double-entry book keeping, generalized. (Nothing specific to banking btw)

Fair that I shouldn't have said it was specific to banking.

Isn't this literally noted in the article? The article even points out that the RFC is from before normative words were standardized for hard requirements.