this is in contrast to squid which are truly ruthless aliens that would kill you if given the slightest chance
I've never been aware of being close to large squid and couldn't begin to guess their mindset, but I've swum amongst thousands of modest sized squid who have exhibited no hostility whatsoever.
In all seriousness, I've found squid to be some of the coolest creatures I've ever seen, and they can be very hard to see. They usually make themselves appear to be just like water, which is probably useful for animals that most things would find to be tender and yummy. So if you're looking for squid, you don't quite look for anything tangible, mostly you look for an odd change in the refraction of the water, and then you see if the refraction has eyes.
If you can do this, and it is admittedly an odd skill, keep looking, and you may find that the eyes are studying you very intentedly (and I always assumed without malice!) Often once you see one you will realize that you are surrounded by hundreds of them, and once they realize you see them and don't seem to be a threat, they sort of 'uncloak'. Their skin is the coolest thing you have ever seen, it almost has a television like effect, as it pulses and flows with many colors, very fast and trippy.
They have the oddest motion, they approach you tentacles first, but they flee tentacles back, and as they watch you, they pulse back and forth in curiosity (maybe that is malice!) and fear, with their colors and patterns pulsing in time. I have always felt that they are communicating with a visual language, though obviously that language lacks phrases like "Stay away from the boat with the bright lights!"
I agree with you that octopuses are super cool, I sometimes look for them when I snorkel, and again looking for an octopus is like looking for something that isn't quite not there. They have great camoflage, so mostly you look where they ought to be in a crack or something, and you usually figure out they're there before you quite see them. They have the coolest ambulation and jet powered swimming too.
I've read that octopuses are mostly built of liquid tissue. Can't pretend to understand exactly how that works, but I've seen a large octopus flow through a pinhole, it's the weirdest thing.
Nobody, but nobody, sat down and thought, "Gee, how can we make our employees happier?"
You obviously haven't worked for Steve. He does think about these things. He obsesses about the rightness of things down to the details.
He has learned the expediency of good business, but it is hardly his top priority. He can certainly be difficult or insensitive if he feels you suck or your goals aren't aligned with his.
But if you knew Steve, you wouldn't question that he wants things to be as right as they can be, almost for their own sake, knowing that goodness will emerge from this environment. I haven't worked for any of his companies for a long time, but he was responsible for the best work environment I ever enjoyed.
The best test of CPU/ram perfection I've seen is "Prime95", running under Windows. As I understand it, this program computes huge series where the each bit is derived from all the other data in memory, and the answer is already well known. Any time any bit, anywhere in memory doesn't hold for an extended period of time, the failure is known.
All my (high quality homebuilt) computers pass it. Many cheapo computers do not, which includes most of the randomly crashing computers I see that are not consipicuously infected. I've purchased expensive, top-brand low latency RAM that didn't pass this from a couple of vendors; one exchanged the memory for perfect with no hassles, the other claimed that no memory could be expected to always be completely perfect, and wouldn't take action despite a 'lifetime warranty'.
I've purchased plenty of cheap RAM that passes Prime95, and expensive RAM that fails it. Prime95 is the only test I know of that definitively shows how close to the threshold of overclocked imperfection most semiconductors are.
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I've never been aware of being close to large squid and couldn't begin to guess their mindset, but I've swum amongst thousands of modest sized squid who have exhibited no hostility whatsoever.
In all seriousness, I've found squid to be some of the coolest creatures I've ever seen, and they can be very hard to see. They usually make themselves appear to be just like water, which is probably useful for animals that most things would find to be tender and yummy. So if you're looking for squid, you don't quite look for anything tangible, mostly you look for an odd change in the refraction of the water, and then you see if the refraction has eyes.
If you can do this, and it is admittedly an odd skill, keep looking, and you may find that the eyes are studying you very intentedly (and I always assumed without malice!) Often once you see one you will realize that you are surrounded by hundreds of them, and once they realize you see them and don't seem to be a threat, they sort of 'uncloak'. Their skin is the coolest thing you have ever seen, it almost has a television like effect, as it pulses and flows with many colors, very fast and trippy.
They have the oddest motion, they approach you tentacles first, but they flee tentacles back, and as they watch you, they pulse back and forth in curiosity (maybe that is malice!) and fear, with their colors and patterns pulsing in time. I have always felt that they are communicating with a visual language, though obviously that language lacks phrases like "Stay away from the boat with the bright lights!"
I agree with you that octopuses are super cool, I sometimes look for them when I snorkel, and again looking for an octopus is like looking for something that isn't quite not there. They have great camoflage, so mostly you look where they ought to be in a crack or something, and you usually figure out they're there before you quite see them. They have the coolest ambulation and jet powered swimming too.
I've read that octopuses are mostly built of liquid tissue. Can't pretend to understand exactly how that works, but I've seen a large octopus flow through a pinhole, it's the weirdest thing.
You obviously haven't worked for Steve. He does think about these things. He obsesses about the rightness of things down to the details.
He has learned the expediency of good business, but it is hardly his top priority. He can certainly be difficult or insensitive if he feels you suck or your goals aren't aligned with his.
But if you knew Steve, you wouldn't question that he wants things to be as right as they can be, almost for their own sake, knowing that goodness will emerge from this environment. I haven't worked for any of his companies for a long time, but he was responsible for the best work environment I ever enjoyed.
The best test of CPU/ram perfection I've seen is "Prime95", running under Windows. As I understand it, this program computes huge series where the each bit is derived from all the other data in memory, and the answer is already well known. Any time any bit, anywhere in memory doesn't hold for an extended period of time, the failure is known. All my (high quality homebuilt) computers pass it. Many cheapo computers do not, which includes most of the randomly crashing computers I see that are not consipicuously infected. I've purchased expensive, top-brand low latency RAM that didn't pass this from a couple of vendors; one exchanged the memory for perfect with no hassles, the other claimed that no memory could be expected to always be completely perfect, and wouldn't take action despite a 'lifetime warranty'. I've purchased plenty of cheap RAM that passes Prime95, and expensive RAM that fails it. Prime95 is the only test I know of that definitively shows how close to the threshold of overclocked imperfection most semiconductors are.