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I’m not going to get into barriers for entry and what kind of developer chooses which language, but C/C++ has always eschewed having unnecessary dependencies (originally because dependency management is hard, but that’s no longer the real reason - it’s just become baked into the culture). Even if you copy and paste hundreds of lines of code (or individual source files) the way you think about and treat them is very different from when they are external to your code base. You own (your copy of) them now, and at the very least, you familiarize yourself with their internals (and you wouldn’t copy and paste something that had its own dependencies). Actual (dynamically linked) dependencies don’t export objects with super brittle interfaces so much as they do expose very stable, carefully designed, and as minimal as possible boundaries for interfacing with their internals. Anything crossing API boundaries is considered leaving/entering the trusted domain, and lifespans of pointers and references in a non-garbage collected language guide/force you to eschew incorporating external libraries into your code globally and isolate the interaction (and therefore, the attack surface area) between your code and external code.

Then there’s the type system. Despite having some of the weakest type systems of strongly types languages, C (to some extent) and C++ (especially modern C++) are still light years ahead of what even Typescript buys you because they don’t offer the same escape hatches or “fingers crossed this TS interface matches the JS object that we are binding it to, but two lines from here, no one will remember that this isn’t actually a native TS class and that this non-nullable field might actually be null because the compile-time type checking system can’t verify this even at runtime without manual user validation because the MS TS team refuses to transpile type validation because they insist on zero overhead even though JS is not a low level or systems language.”

More than anything else however, developers of statically typed languages tend to fundamentally disagree with the idea of “move fast and break often” and will put off changes for years if they’re not at least 90% sure it’s the correct solution (and even when they end up wrong, it’s still far better than someone that says “who cares if it’s the or even just an actually correct solution, it’s still a solution and we can always revisit this later”).
You can't replace union literature with any of those things because they are not even close to the same thing.
> (...) roughly 4mm of distance is required between the two circuits. (As I discuss in Tiny, cheap, dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger, cheap chargers totally ignore these safety rules.

Which is why I immediately destroy any charger at my home that is suspect to not come from a brand name producer.

Is it really worth to risk your life for couple of dollars?

Electronics is my hobby and I also happen to design some switch mode power supplies for AC. I can't overstate how difficult it is to design a good safe SMPS. Comparing to my other projects it seems it is at least 20-50 times harder to design a dedicated SMPS than the rest of the circuit, even with a lot of specialized literature on the matter to help me out (meaning I don't create my own topologies, I just learn the ones that are well described in the book). And that for applications under 100W.
Of course they do care. Selling overpriced chargers must be a sizeable part of their income.
> The guy was likely a pedo though and that was pretty funny…

I don’t think calling someone that without evidence is funny at all, if not this is an extremely libellous accusation.

Grow up.
You don’t need to read fabricated facts if you simply can follow Elon on Twitter. If you put down the rose-tinted glasses, you see that he puts out a lot of dumb stuff and many lies.
What a weird thing to say about someone you don't know personally and I'm guessing never even talked to before.
I imagine then that some of the more claimed sophisticated elements come from multidisciplinary backgrounds like having experience with electronics in noise-sensitive circuitry.
This all just screams of issues with poor tech leadership.
Not weird, you need something different in you to govern over many lives (employees & families, but this is no different than kings, dictators, presidents etc); this is probably more psychopath or sociopath than we are used to normally. How can you take decisions over 10000s+ of people's lives if you are a sane person?
While I'm sure Elon was abusive (like almost every fast growing tech giant except maybe Zuckerberg?), I learned that the author of this book fabricated an entire exchange between Elon and Tim Cook, in which Elon only agreed to sell Tesla to Apple if Elon became the CEO of Apple. Both Elon and Tim Cook say that they have never ever spoken to each other as Tim Cook denied the request to meet with Elon.
Not joking but this is entirely user related. In the 15 years I’ve been using the things I haven’t killed a single cable. Not one. The strain relief is not great but if you’re careful it’s absolutely fine and it’s no worse than the other cables out there.

The killers are people who sit there with the cable rammed into their stomach bending it at 90 degree angle when using their phone. On the MacBook chargers it’s usually bashing it constantly or tugging it.

I come from a world of RF cables which cost more than a MacBook and have very limited bend limits. What we have is insanely robust these days. Just be nice to it.

Edit: my daughter had my 2010 MBP until recently which the original charger blew up on. After dissecting it the cable was fine but the main IC had cracked in half. No shorts on the cable grommet. It lasted 11 years! What are you people doing to these things?
Are there any people working seriously on this? I'm aware of efforts for OCaml (http://gallium.inria.fr/~scherer/drafts/camlboot.pdf), but that's it.
It is really frustrating when you are a very hard worker and very good at your job and then find out that other people are not getting things done. Watch the Michael Jordan documentary if you don't understand this.
It's not an unpopular opinion but rather pretty obvious. That does not in any way change the fact that Amazon is beholden to the employees it has right now and still needs to follow labor laws. They are welcome to simultaneously build as many robots as they want.
> I've always found the reports of his behind the scenes behavior and its stark contrast with his public persona to be incredibly disturbing, because it paints a picture of someone with psychopathic tendencies.

That is a reality distortion field. The Tesla CEO is good at that and it reflects on the deceptive advertisement of FSD and the actual reality of it being unfinished and still unsafe and it puts the lives of many drivers at risk on the roads.
Read some early MS company stories.
No, but I liked the company and the people who worked for me, so why not be helpful? I have built my career on the help I have received from other people, so I try to give something back.
I wonder when the change happened. It seems like there's a fairly broad consensus now, but different people seem to cite different time periods for when things took a bad turn.

I had consistently great experiences ~3-8 years ago, but I remember needing to be careful about 3rd party sellers towards the end of that time period.

Thing is, I stopped ordering online about a year before the pandemic started. When I returned to Amazon 18 months ago, it felt like the balance had shifted towards the majority of listings being fraud/low quality/unexpectedly comingled/etc.

Personally, I blame a shift in perspective. It feels like their retail teams' views on who "The Customer" was shifted from the person placing the order, to the 3rd-party sellers.

When do y'all think that happened? 2015? 2017? 2019?
All murder is violence. But reliable proxy of over-all violence? Well,

# of violent incidents >>>> # of violent incidents that are also murder

So there really might not be enough murders to do the statistical inferences you want to do. Also, if there is a qualitative difference between murder and other violence, not merely a quantitative difference in degree, then it might get at the wrong things. Like, sometimes people go into a violent rage, and occasionally those end up killing some one. OTOH, sometimes people, say, rob a store, get scared, and shoot, and that's murder too. And then there are the people who carefully plan a murder to get something they want. Those all seem like they involve different kinds of brain states...
I can only assume you've never dealt with a quackgrass infestation... pulling that stuff out of an established lawn or garden by hand is the definition of a Sisyphean task.
I kind of got bored with chargers and found other projects like the Apollo Guidance Computer. My impression is that the quality of super-cheap chargers has increased a bit since people are paying more attention to safety, but I don't have any quantitative data.
> About thirty minutes into the call, one Wall Street analyst asked when the company would reach its gross margin target for the Model 3, which, he said, the company had seemingly pushed back by six to nine months. Musk interrupted as his CFO tried to explain, saying it would be resolved in a few months. “Don’t make a federal case out of it,” Musk said snarkily. The analyst turned to Tesla’s cash needs. Musk interrupted again as the analyst elaborated. “Boring, bonehead questions are not cool,” he said. “Next.”

Not how I would have handled it, but actually correct. Tesla at that point was just starting mass production and was trading at a VC valuation multiple. Elon was absolutely correct to focus on ramping production and selling as many cars as possible. Would have been a waste of time to focus on financial metrics like gross margin in the near term. Oh, and those investors who sold after the call? TSLA stock is up ~20x since then.
Gates was a ruthless tyrant in his Microsoft days. He worked very hard to rehab his image after leaving. Work that might be completely undone if the nature of his alleged involvement with Epstein and the reprehensible things that may have entailed ever surface. He appears to have lost his wife because of the cloud of suspicion there.
Multics required unusual hardware that was expensive at the time. The hardware was abandoned by GE and taken over by Honeywell. Honeywell, which made thermostats then and makes thermostats now, was never a major player in computing. The big advantage of UNIX was that it runs on vanilla hardware.

UNIX is all wrong for microservices. Interprocess communication barely existed at first, and it's still mediocre. QNX did this right, with a true message-passing architecture, and a message-oriented network protocol. (Reliable, any-length message, not just raw UDP packets.) QNX continues to power many real-time systems, passing messages around.
Why is it desirable to track the kids backpacks? Are they so very untidy that they often get lost?
The American solution to this problem is just to charge people for the expense of being arrested and jailed: https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/2091-jail-fees
You are confusing two different conversations. Your IT department are the ones that used the language "obsolete", because they likely knew that the laptop (which they provided) supported auto-sensing and therefore there was no need for them to provide you with a special cable to achieve a direct PC-to-PC ethernet connection.

Whereas the parent comment probably only used the language "crossover" because they were trying to be explicit about the fact that they are talking about a direct PC-to-PC ethernet connection. Not because crossover wiring is actually necessary to make that configuration work.

Furthermore, support for auto-sensing has nothing to do with the OS, or Microsoft.
Check out the recent Epstein case evidences that points to Gates being a close friend with Epstein, he was even in discussions to have Epstein be part of the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation, in order to clear his public image
Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. I was, uh, you know, giving him "the bird."
We've actually already moved the official guidance from PSPs to OPA and that's what the primary DevSecOps reference implementation has used for about two months now.

"We" being the DoD, but our guidance is the NSA guidance. I'm not sure why it hasn't made it into the policy pdf, but the actual official IAC has been using OPA since April.
I am not sure that concern over "AI risk" is fungible with concern over climate change. In my experience, people concerned over superintelligent AI seem to be of a philosophical and cultural orientation which is entirely aware of the risks of climate change and favors some degree of directed action against it. I am not sure, on the other hand, that I could think of a single "climate denier" I've met who would even parse the phrase "AI risk" in the sense used here.

As someone concerned about the "AI risk" of real existing ML systems turning society into a "legibility"-oriented nightmare for real existing humans in the here and now - and not at all concerned that we'll have a general AI that can out-think a human child in the next couple decades - I do share a sense of unease with the religious and eschatological overtones of the "superintelligence" crowd.

However, I find a great deal of irony in the fact that I've heard this exact argument - including a recognition of the religious-doom-prophecy-guilt-trip aspect - from global warming skeptics! I have to admit, when the author concludes with a call to action for the "global North", do they include the developing countries (e.g. China, India) likely to drive the bulk of emissions change over the next few decades? Otherwise, it might almost read as the invocation of a scientific doom prophecy to advance an only-somewhat-related agenda. This association unfortunately polarizes people who might be convinced to take more practical steps in the here-and-now - just as is the case with AI.
You mean the well-timed documentary humanizing him as a caring genius just before all this started was intentional?! Nah...
It’s also likely to increase union votes. People typically respond poorly to petty intimidation.
Outside of politics and sports, the binary side-taking problem seems most constant in the views on public personalities. You're writing in a tone that suggests one can not both be applauded for succeeding in business and criticized for behaving in a way that normalizes pettiness and disrespect.
Because you might be running a central bank that's yield insensitive and has literally unlimited buying power. If that's not you, there's not much point.
https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/building-a-combobox.ht...
Didn’t know that about Trader Joe’s, it’s really smart. To your point: for many companies out there it may be easier to raise compensation a bit rather than to figure out interesting tasks for their engineering force. Business usually wants its employees to solve specific problems, most of them mundane.
This is not an example of Amazon ignoring laws. Apple is a fruit but somehow…
It might not be fair to assume that OSHA, etc, and the NSA, etc, operate under the same agenda. Some industries do have standards for tech. HIPAA, for instance, sets some minimum expectations for cyber security with regard to private health information (PHI). And there are HIPAA inspections, right along with OSHA ones. Of course, it's a fairly clunky solution given that government is slow and tech is fast, but it's certainly there, and it's certainly helpful.
The article described one incident, true.

But the comment was aimed at the fact there are other incidents regularly posted on HN.

If you can't use Google, try to learn it. It is really fun and useful. Certainly something I would do if I were you, before I posted any more on the topic.
"hey guys, we need a blog post to describe the subtle changes we made"

"yep, literally, removed the 1px border from the logo..."
Sure, but prioritization is important here too. I would rather work on detective controls first and identify the large attack surfaces / weakest links, and only much later look at system hardening. (But to clarify I don't consider things like patch management to be system hardening)
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> Gaming has changed, it's brutally monetized

Indie games are not yet corrupted like this. Outside of mobile, that is. Plenty of good (and small) developers around.
> How many of us have multiple Apple cables that end up looking like this [1]?

Apparently a lot, based on all the Internet comments I’ve seen over the years. But apparently I’m the weird one who has literally never had an Apple or third party lightning cable fail (except a couple in blatant cases of accidental misuse, like getting one stuck in a chair wheel). I’ve thrown several away because they get dirty and gross, and I’ve had a couple that seem to get flakey after a few years (I believe due to damage or corrosion to an exposed pin). But I’ve certainly never had one visibly fray like that!
Rules are rules. If Amazon wants to keep the shop Union free, they have to do the hard work of persuading people rather than doing illegal shit.
For what it's worth those 5-years plans used to get changed regularly, at least when my country, Romania, was doing them. For those that can read Romanian I recommend this book [1] about the 5-year plans from the 1970s Socialist Romania.

[1] https://www.librariaeminescu.ro/ro/isbn/606-020-215-8/Vlad-P...
Or take the 40% boost and come back two years later for even more.
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Its very frustrating when you're a competent worker, and someone else is putting a lot of effort spinning wheels on worthless ideas and then trying to convince everyone else that the useless work is in fact useful.

Elon Musk made the wrong call on "alien dreadnaught". Elon did not understand automation, and fired the man who did. Then complained about having 10,000+ more workers than originally planned (because his original plans were terrible).

The article doesn't say anything about "hard worker". Its about Elon making the wrong call, and then angrily firing the executives who tried to make it work. When there wasn't enough space, Elon set up the "tent" outside to expand manual assembly (since the factory was never designed to house this many workers).

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But that's fine. Elon can run his company however he likes under normal circumstances. The thing that pisses me off is his flaunting of COVID19 lockdowns last year. This internal politics thing is just that: internal politics that happen everywhere.

But its no longer internal when it comes to disease. We have to work together, and Elon Musk spreading COVID19 lies and disinformation so that he can keep his Fremont factory open really made me angry.
just started to use them for an elixir/phoenix project. multi region with distributed nodes just works. feels almost magically after all the aws work I've done the past few years.
And you should run an antivirus in the repository machine. It will be really slow, but will eventually catch these malicious libs.
Like most, I find the former are the ones who most wrankle, but I don’t actually know which is worse. I have heard that one of Greece’s big economic problems is too many ordinary people think tax is for suckers (and absent full automation we can’t all live on a beach, sale of doge or otherwise). I don’t even know if that’s an accurate depiction of Greece, but it’s certainly compatible with human nature, and the tragedy of the commons comes in many forms.
No. Those are unhealthy behaviors that are dehumanizing to the recipient. You don’t treat your employees like this.
There's no "turnabout" happening in being prejudiced against a group full of unique people, many of whom aren't so prejudiced.
This is because many businesses are ran from an accounting perspective.

When they give you a huge raise, payroll costs are up. Yet you won't necessarily deliver a revenue increase to match it. So it's a financial loss.

This might trigger you to leave, but accounting doesn't care about future potential events.

Similarly, I could make the point to my boss that an additional monitor, would increase my productivity by 20%.

Accounting disagrees. Hardware costs are now up 20%, which is real money spent. Yet there's nothing in the books suggesting more revenue. So another financial loss. "Productivity" is not revenue, it's an abstract concept in knowledge work.

It's a very one dimensional way to look at things, and far from a good one, but it might explain some things.
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But how does that fit in the context of a person committing suicide, in response to someone mentioning harassment from BLM? Sure you can discuss why people get angry, but in this context it sounds like victim blaming to me.
Roundup is glyphosate plus a surfactant. The surfactant is use to strip the waxy coating on plant leaves so the glyphosate can act. I've read the surfactant is the bigger issue for insects.
You missed the most important one. India. But yea I don’t see Oceania uniting anytime soon.

What’s going to happen with the demographics in China?
Many large organizations do this for promising workers who are being groomed for managerial or leadership positions. The goal from the company's POV is to have people who are familiar with many aspects of the business and are comfortable with working with new teams/challenges, but I think it also appeals to people who like being challenged ... or are willing to do whatever it takes to reach the top levels of the organization.
If you buy a house, that money isn't in a sink. It goes to the person that sold it to you. And they spend it on something else.

Similar situation for "illiquid nonproductive assets". Whoever sells them gets the cash.

If it sits in a bank account, the bank loans it out, where the borrowers spend it again.

Bezos isn't keeping $200 billion out of circulation. He owns 10% of a $2 trillion company.
Ok, so the difference is:

1. It disappears after a few seconds.

2. It has no "next/previous/highlight all" etc. buttons (it still have these features, just no clickable buttons)

It still makes no sense to me.

I guess maybe a small portion of people would find the auto-disappearing thing useful, even though in normal Ctrl+F all you need to do is pressing Esc.

But the second "feature" totally baffles me. It's not like Ctrl+F is some expensive GUI to launch, why would I want to not have these buttons? Even if you don't need them at all (I don't), you can simply not click them, there is no downside by having them.
Firefox on Linux - no problem.

Soft launch of browser version next week at the latest. Write me at "marcin" [at] "sharetheboard.com" and I'll setup a shortcut for you to test it.
> But Elon said it many times over the years that he rather spend his time on engineering and design over management

But yet he is still the CEO of Tesla.

Just because someone says they want to do something doesn't mean they will.
IMO, no corporation will give you a raise to what you are worth if they think you will stay for less, and based on your post, you have probably communicated to them that you will stay for less. The best way to increase your value (just my opinion) is to change jobs every 3-4 years. This also proves your point "I know I can interview elsewhere and get paid more." If you know that, and you stay anyway, you are not getting "the best possible compensation increase".
This is something I think about every now and then. The problem is that the Jobs/Gates/Musks are the shining exceptions. Survivorship bias basically. For every one of them, there's probably 100 other people in leadership positions that have similarly nasty temperaments, but nowhere near as successful as they are.
What an incredibly interesting, thought provoking and extremely long way to tell us that the “guilty don’t feel guilty, they learn not to”.

Don’t get me wrong, you should absolutely read it.
Did something actually happen or is this just clickbait to sell a book?