I feel dumb asking, but...what’s the significance of “Stanley Peterson?” Google turns up no relevant hits on the name. Is it just an Americanized version of Petrov’s?
I’m sorry I missed out on this. I follow the site with a feed reader, so I never saw the button. :-( Oh well, perhaps next year.
[edit]: Also, from the major-psychotic-hatreds department but not directed at you in particular: What is with the trend of the last 5-10 years of posting screenshots of text instead of quoting the actual text? It breaks copy/paste, ctrl-f, and anything that relies on the text actually being....text. It drives me up the wall every time I see it.
Stanley Peterson is just a (somewhat silly but surprisingly reasonable) Americanized version of Stanislav Petrov. (Peter and Petrov apparently both mean “rock”, not sure about Stanislav offhand).
Sorry about screenshot-itis. In this case I think Ben wanted to convey the visuals of what the participants saw, and in general it’s just easier to copy-paste without screwing up formatting (I think it’s also incentivized due to various social media algorithms rewarding pictures)
Yeah, it’s okay, conveying visuals is a legitimately not-terrible reason for it. My gripe with the trend just jumped to the front of my brain because I tried to C+P something and got a mouseful of image instead.
I feel dumb asking, but...what’s the significance of “Stanley Peterson?” Google turns up no relevant hits on the name. Is it just an Americanized version of Petrov’s?
I’m sorry I missed out on this. I follow the site with a feed reader, so I never saw the button. :-( Oh well, perhaps next year.
[edit]: Also, from the major-psychotic-hatreds department but not directed at you in particular: What is with the trend of the last 5-10 years of posting screenshots of text instead of quoting the actual text? It breaks copy/paste, ctrl-f, and anything that relies on the text actually being....text. It drives me up the wall every time I see it.
Stanley Peterson is just a (somewhat silly but surprisingly reasonable) Americanized version of Stanislav Petrov. (Peter and Petrov apparently both mean “rock”, not sure about Stanislav offhand).
Sorry about screenshot-itis. In this case I think Ben wanted to convey the visuals of what the participants saw, and in general it’s just easier to copy-paste without screwing up formatting (I think it’s also incentivized due to various social media algorithms rewarding pictures)
Yeah, it’s okay, conveying visuals is a legitimately not-terrible reason for it. My gripe with the trend just jumped to the front of my brain because I tried to C+P something and got a mouseful of image instead.