If you enjoy that one - you might also enjoy

https://www.ck/

The lengths the Cook Islands have to go to prevent folks from registering profanity is entertaining (there was a spate of .co.ck novelty names before they locked it down)

“Check out my website yeah, trashbat dot cock, registered in the Cook Islands”

Nathan Barley is a great watch. It also has one of my favourite terms for a mobile phone “hand held twit machine” (pre smartphones)

That domain looks very interesting in the address bar of a mobile browser which hides the www prefix.

At the very least, bazel would devour the cmake responsibilities in this case. That's not intended as a criticism of either. Just a description of bazel. It can feel very Star Trek Borg like.

The challenge is I'd have to convert our whole system to bazel. That's a bit of a hard sell when I don't know how easy it is.

Consider a broader range of news sources in your daily diet.

This headline is kind of dumb. Yes, there is yet another new venue. But other recent "new" venues include MIAX, IEX, MEMX, and soon to be active - 24X. Oh and let's not forget the Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE).

A good overview of the flow of volume through these various venues can be found here. Bottom line - there are more than two exchanges.

https://www.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/

To add to the confusion, NYSE Texas is just a rebranding of NYSE Chicago which used to be independent of NYSE when it was its own thing.

Bazel is a hard sell overall.

re: the extensive surveillance network of the stasi...

In case you missed it, check out the movie _The Lives of Others_.

Fantastic, heartbreaking film.

Its the old axiom best expressed by the philosopher Sir Michael Tyson - "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face".

I suspect Koko's capabilities were completely over sold.

I was fascinated by Koko's abilities and took them at face value until I saw her famous climate change speech:

> I am gorilla. I am flowers, animals. I am nature. Man Koko love. Earth Koko love. But Man stupid. Stupid! Koko sorry. Koko cry. Time hurry! Fix Earth! Help Earth! Hurry! Protect Earth. Nature see you. Thank you.

I saw that and felt like I was in crazy land. That's supposedly the kind of talking Koko's been doing this whole time?? Turns out, there was a lot of government funding into ape communication in the 70s, and when researchers figured out that apes can't meaningfully communicate, the funding dried up. Her handler, Penny Patterson, pivoted from research to PR. And how.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/what-does-koko-know-about-...

The other thing that stood out for me was - if that was so successful - why do we not have other Kokos? Did we just get lucky and find the one genius who could do this or did we maybe trick ourselves?

There's a lot of evidence to suggest most of her research was fraudulent

I wonder how much of it was just a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans situation

Almost all of it was exactly this.

That's why it's never been done again. Because it was never done in the first place.

And at least in Hans' case, the general public could instantly verify the result, as opposed to having it interpreted by a biased handler.

From the Snopes:

> Some viewers took the video a little too literally, however, and were surprised at Koko's pithy and timely exhortation to heed the perils of global warming. But nothing about the video indicates that Koko can actually entertain, much less communicate to humans, thoughts about environmentalism.

Personally I never took it literally. I saw the video and knew right away it was just a marketing stunt, but that didn't mean I suddenly thought research into ape intelligence and language should stop. I do wish they had made it more clear that it was just a stunt because I'm sure people like you felt mislead.

I am still fascinated with Koko and the brains of great apes! Also fascinating that they've never asked a question but at least one grey parrot has. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)#cite_note-jordan...

There's some interesting reading here (the section and the page generally):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language#Criticism_a...

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Regarding:

> I do wish they had made it more clear that it was just a stunt because I'm sure people like you felt mislead.

People like me felt like "what the hell was that?", maybe :D

The more you look into Penny Patterson's claims, the more you go "what the hell?"

thanks I probably misspell that one a lot

You're not alone ... the whole world has forgotten how to spell "led" ever since spell checkers came into existence. It's a pet peeve and a common error, making its way even into the most prestigious publications.