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It's stealing. You're stealing from the residual base of workers who require residuals to continue this career.
Maybe I’m crazy but $3 to have a HD movie instant play without ads on any device I want seems like an insane deal to me.
> Imagine if lightbulb sockets were proprietary

Pretty sure lightbulb sockets used to be proprietary. And in the UK it used to be common to buy appliances with just a cable that you wired up to a plug because there was no common standard for outlets. There was even a brief period when appliances plugged into lightbulb sockets!

Remember the 90’s and what phone chargers looked like until the EU put its foot down and said “This is dumb, everyone should use USB for charging”. Now phone chargers are interchangeable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_AC_power_plugs_and_...

Great episode of Absolute History about this: https://youtu.be/sxndE740wlo
I totally wouldn't mind some hardware that lets me flip, turn, push or pull the flips, knobs, buttons, shades,... that I already have in my home in some programmable way that I can control.

No way am I going to replace my perfectly functional hardware with some device that relays my data to a cloud service and maybe even ends up bricked if they discontinue support. I'm actually happy to see this business model is not playing out.
This is a good point, people used to say, "I wanna make a dark and gritty comic book film" like it was something original. Now EVERYONE says that.

Like so many things today, what was once cliche 20 or 30 years ago would now feel wildly original.
1. I live in a tiny apartment with a partner. 2 people working from home isn’t feasible in a 1-room apartment.

2. I enjoy physically separating my home life and my work life.

3. I don’t care about being that productive. It’s just work. I prefer to do it in an office.

4. I prefer speaking to people face to face in person.
I had my first intern last summer - she's going to college this fall. She used Snapchat throughout the day to communicate with friends. I asked why-- it's non-public, informal, and low-friction in social terms (easier to ask for snap than a phone number). I got the sense that she was continuously lightly dropping in to various group conversations, while simultaneously talking to close friends, often by simply recording reactions on camera.

I've never used Snap so forgive any ignorance on my part.
I led a team that did very early work designing iPad apps for Discovery. We are talking iPad gen2.

Back then the entire project was designed to appear like it was a serious look at investing in digital for the channel when the goal was actually to slow down the shift from linear cable subs to apps.

It was bizarre then but today it looks like the bread and butter of traditional media company politics.
I write data science code, it's a mess. Type hints have saved me a lot of time and headache.
Political themes in TV shows are pretty ubiquitous these days. In part this is because US politics are more interested in "culture war" issues than they are with specific political platforms. In other words, culture war issues tend to deal with moral and social values. In a previous time, political issues might be much more limited in scope: what should the government tax? Which regulations are helpful? etc.

"Culture war" issues tend to be a bit more subtle, and can usually be ignored as valid plot devices. There's not even anything explicitly wrong with adding your own cultural values to a movie, but rather it can get pretty overbearing, even if you tend to agree.

A good way to look out for these themes is to look at the characters and ask some basic questions:

- Which characters in the show are in charge? What groups (racial, sexual, etc) are they from?

- Which characters in the show are competent? What groups are they from?

- Which characters in the show are the villains? What groups are they from?

- Which characters in the show are the victims? What groups are they from?

- Which characters have "good" traits such as humility, kindness, etc?

- Which characters are shown to be bigots?

- etc.

This can get a bit more complex, too. The solutions to problems, or explanations for the ills of the world might also follow culture war lines. Who are the bad guys? Are they from a corporation? From the government? From a certain gender or ethnic group? etc.

A great example of this might be the Mulan remake vs. the original. In the remake, much of the movie is occupied with showing how Mulan is better than everyone, and then quickly cutting to show face-shots of men who are either severely intimated, cowed, afraid, or impressed. I'm not suggesting there is anything wrong with this. Rather I'm just making the point that this was added to the movie for political and cultural reasons. The original cartoon didn't really have much comeuppance in this way, because it was written during a different time.

Again, I don't think there's anything wrong with people putting their political views into shows -- really, that's inevitable at some level. But, there's also a certain level where it becomes too over the top, too sanctimonious, too pervasive, and you just want to get away from it all.
The sorting is brutal.

The sorts should be partitioned. For a given category, that list they show you? Movies you have seen and rated down should be the very, very last on the list. Then movies you seen and rated up would be just before that. Then movies you haven't seen, but are older. Up front should be movies you haven't seen but are new to Netflix.

A movie should appear in no more than three categories, because they like to pack these with spam. I marked horror as my #1 category, why do I have to scroll through a ton of stuff like "Strong Female-Led Dramas" to get to it?
The reason why the smart home keeps faltering is that it provides little value to the customers. It's not the cloud, or the monetization schemes, it's that it turns out that flipping light switches or pressing a button on the thermostat is not a big pain point for people, and using smart-home technology is as often inferior to old dumb tech as it is superior.
Worth noting that urbit is, as one poster on hacker news put it, "purposefully obfuscated"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852141

and its parent company was named after a short story by Borges where a fictional encyclopedia starts to affect reality in the world it is released in.

The founder, who left in 2019, is a super-far-right figure. Even though he has distanced himself from the project, I can't help but think about the intentional obfuscation and the choice in naming as perhaps related to trying to build the kind of world he wrote about (authoritarian, non-egalitarian, non-apologetically racist). It makes me not want to associate with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
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Sure your normal IC-turned-manager is not like this, but such people usually have more engineering oriented management responsibilities, they are not the ones making the decisions about "return to office" or "hybrid work".
After the announcement that CNN+ was shutting down I went on their Twitter account (@CNNplus) to get a feel for what sort of content they produced.

Maybe it's because I'm from a younger generation, but it all comes off as overproduced and inauthentic media-speak.

It's obvious that their demographic is old people, since all of their media personalities are old people.

Ben Stiller talking about making new friends in old-age thanks to Twitter. Discussing parenting tips with Anderson Cooper. A bunch of washed-up media personalities with nothing new or interesting to say.

The refusal to pass the torch onto a younger generation while clinging to their positions of power becomes a generational plague. CNN is a walking corpse which will pass away with its audience.
If you want pacing & support for Nand2Tetris, Coursera has it split into two courses. I've done the first from NAND gates to a working CUP & assembler and can testify it's worthy. Coursera loves to have content sales, so if you're not in a rush you can pick it up for cheap and have their (petty yet ego boosting) certificate of completion to read over one morning with you Cheerios (and then put away in a drawer to be forgotten). Here's the two links:

Part I - https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
Part II - https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2

Some day I hope to pick up Part II, but Part I was still a lot of fun!
Yea this Insteon debacle is a weird example to use to highlight problems with IoT systems.

They've been around way longer than most of the "modern" protocols. It was basically Insteon and Lutron in semi-affordable home lighting control space for years and years and years before cloud-controlled IoT and Alexa entered the picture.

I'm really wondering how this all came to pass... guessing they tried and failed to jump on the app/cloud bandwagon? Their new app was late to the game and in beta for, like, two years?
Why don't you share the exact code for these experiments so that anybody can reproduce them? (and tweak them!)
I've found the Lutron Caseta line perfect so far. I won't buy anything that requires external servers etc (like Nest). But Lutron only makes a limited range of devices.
LLNL released the 2021 Estimated US Energy Consumption last week. The US is ~70% of the way back to pre-pandemic travel.

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/

2021: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2022-04/E...

2020: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/Energy_20...

2018: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/Energy_20...
That would be this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur

At 70k USD per round not nrcessarily cheap so.
You're celebrating the fact that people don't own something that they probably (judging by looking at other people) would find quite useful. Many, many people pay a lot of money every month to own their own private mode of transportation. So are these 46% really voluntarily abstaining or are they forced into abstinence?

I know that many, especially young, childless, people think they don't need a car. I know several such people that happily pay (and can afford to) quite a steep price for leaving their city, either by train, plane, or rental car. But they're not typical, I'd say.

In my case, our family car is moved only very little, say 10000km/a. There are some use cases where a rental car or train tickets just don't cut it - we would pay double the price and still have longer travel and additional complications (mental load is a real thing for parents).

Obviously, I am not driving through the city if I can avoid it. But every now and then I want to leave it/return to it. I consider ownership the best option here and I gladly pay for the parking space.

So in conclusion, I think that every city should make it trivial to rent a parking space in some garage. People that don't own cars might benefit from such additional storage space as well. I also don't think it should be more expensive than renting a very simple apartment. But instead, cities try to cram more and more people with less and less space into the same buildings.

And I would not be surprised if these road projects were designed with a much smaller and less densely populated city in mind.
> Fair point, but I'd qualify that OOO is only observable for racy programs.

I mean, you're basically saying that it's only observable if you care to observe it.
>That only makes sense if they derive value from people being in the office. Otherwise there is nothing lost by simply leaving the office empty.

Having the building is a cost.

The better thing that OP or OPlikes is that they should be considering unusual options to discover a not-bad decision.

What if instead of forcing people back to the office that they instead buy a ton of hydroponic systems. Start growing food with their unused office space.

If enough businesss do this, we might not have a food shortage. We might avoid a disaster that seems inevitable.
and then the carnival workers get fired, because there isn't enough income to pay 3 people. One person has to take tickets and run the rides, which is now more dangerous for you. So they shut it down, and all the cool rides leave town and you'll tell your kids how much cooler carnivals use to be and you'll never understand it's cause you stole income out of the workers pockets.
Not necessarily;

if the elements of a person we find objectionable are things that only exist in person then different modes of communication may mitigate those.

For instance, if someone doesn't like me because I interrupt conversations with irrelevant anecdotes in a way that derails the topic and being on a zoom call makes it much more effort to take over the conversation, then that might actually improve our working relationship.
I highly enjoy the nandgame[0]. Its a game that goes from the basics of building simple logic gates all the way up through building memory and an ALU. While you can go into it blind expect to need to study and look up a ton of stuff if you have never had an intro-electronics course. Best of all it's a free web game.

Classes to look into. An intro course in microcontrollers would be a good place to start. Usually you will find them attached to the Electrical Engineering department. Maybe take a course in Circuits or Computer Architecture.

[0] - www.nandgame.com
Also: Airplane! and Airplane 2 DVD: $6. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XGD93BP Spaceballs $7, less if you're ok with used: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TJ1H32 Cannonball run, $10, though less if used and there are some $10 "Cannonball Run + another movie" sets on Amazon as well.

While I tend to agree that piracy and/or ripping isn't something everyone can do, I've filled out my Plex collection legally lately with DVD acquisitions at bargain-bin prices. Used doesn't matter if you only have to be able to read the disc once to rip it, and I'm yet to get something used off Amazon that couldn't be read once. (I haven't even had to clean it or anything, it's all just worked.)

So, my Plex install in terms of raw content isn't up to Netflix's size. However, I rather suspect there are some people reading this who have more hours of video on their Plex than Netflix even has available. And while mine isn't that large, it is much better tuned for me and my family's interests at this point. And I don't have to worry about getting halfway through a series, only for some licensor to notice it has become popular enough to pull it and run it on their own service. Netflix has the problem now that anything that becomes popular on their service will get yanked. I do not know how they overcome that. They hoped to do it with enough original content, but to my eye, that has failed, and there is now no longer enough time to fix that. While I understand the complaints that they treated it too much like "content", to be honest, I've never thought this would work out, from the moment they announced it. A single company just can't produce a sufficiently diverse set of "content" to be the everything-to-everybody they would have needed to be to justify a Netflix valuation.
You can rent on many of the streaming services for like $3, which blows a hole in the “it’s just effort” argument.
In terms of computing history, The Dream Machine by Mitchell Waldrop is incredibly good.

In terms of "how computers work" I agree with others who recommended Elements of Computing Systems (aka nand2tetris).
Do you even need a local network?

For home automation the hobby, all the complexity is a feature. Fiddling with phones, apps, watches, identities, connections, security, networks, etc. is the fun of it.

Outside the hobby, though, I don't think people really want to deal with all that.

Generally, home devices you might automate are things you interact with -- locally. Local controls for a local device work really well, and the simplicity is hard to beat. Home automation wants to interject poor controls between you and everything.

E.g., the regular wall-mounted light switch is pretty close to an ideal design for a light.
I think there is also a wider subscription fatigue at play here. Please are starting to realise that all those £10 add up
Is it really stealing if they wouldn’t have ever paid for it in the first place?

If it’s not easy to find and use on a subscription service that I already have, I’m just not gonna try to search for it or pay for it. What difference would it make if I pirated it and watched it anyways?

(FWIW I personally don’t pirate anything, I just really don’t see the merit to the “stealing” argument)
I'm surprised to hear that, I thought retdec was pretty well regarded.
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There are plenty of places that would never have gone remote without the pandemic, but when forced found out it's not a problem, and decided to keep it.
I like to watch Youtube channels like FranLab or Matthias Wandel. Sometimes an extremely well written show might appear, like Mad Men, but well written shows are rare.
What a shame that companies are forced to pay for the poisons they produced while making profits off those same poisons.

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses of course.
Yep. Now I see that the House Speaker is criticizing the FAA for not informing the Capitol Police.
>> the user experience absolutely sucks now

Understandable, I just cut back on all the TV engorging and rotate the streaming services every quarter. IMO it's a net win. Save money on the streaming services and life is better for having not watched so much television. Not going to the grave wishing I binged Season 2 of some random show one more time.
You have the best nick ever, hats off
Moving from a growth company to a stable company just implies it deserves a much lower valuation multiple, which is what the market is adjusting to.

My question is, how did people not expect this given that a huge XX% of the first world already uses it, and there are tons of viable competing streaming services popping up like weeds? They had a first mover advantage, and that was pretty much it, but streaming is a solved technology now. Competition took much longer to mobilize than it should have, but it's finally here now.

At the end of the day the only differentiator for Netflix is as a production company. Up to you to decide what their moat is there
The bottom line is that a lot of these smart devices put more burden on the customer than traditional devices — not less.

I don’t remember the last time I had to fix or upgrade a malfunctioning traditional light switch or doorknob. I just never think about them.

On the other hand, every smart device I’ve bought has bugged me multiple times a year because of wifi or other network drops, or battery changes, or needing to log back in to my accounts.
They've been doing this my whole life, and it drives me nuts. I used to complain that nearly every Disney movie on TV contrived some reason for men to be assholes and say something along the lines of "GIRLS can't play soccer!" Only of course to be thoroughly flummoxed by the end. It's endlessly tiring, and as you note, it inadvertently demonstrates to girls the bigotry it hopes to overcome.
I think u didn't understand what I wrote. Read again.
One has to be pretty stupid to believe such a bullshit excuse and that murdering civilians would "free" them from evil Nazis.
Agreed. While the *arrs are "easy" to set up once you have good knowledge of Kubernetes or at least Docker Compose, that's not exactly common. If you're using the native Windows clients, there's a pretty good chance you don't have a NAS set up (or at least not well), which means there's a decent chance you'll eventually have a hardware failure, and then be surprised when your media is suddenly gone.

ZFS pools with full backups, redundant hardware, and highly available servers is not normal.
The price seems to be around 30,000 €. You’ll probably have to contact them or a distributor for a quote.
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That was the dilemma that HBO used to deal with, but they have seem to found a way out of it..
It may be a place of simply changing your thinking and building a product that people want.

I saw an article recently that claimed that there will be more repairable phones on the market soon, as France put in a law requiring a fixability score for products, and consumers responded by preferring fixable products.

The Cricut smart cutters were changed to require a subscription to a cloud service, and consumers dumped 'em. The company finally walked the idea back.

I'm interested in smart home products, but I don't like the devices randomly talking to a server somewhere. It's insane that your lightbulb talks to the internet. It's also a gamble wondering if I can reflash a specific device to use a known-safe firmware that only talks on my LAN. Similarly, if I were in the market for a smart cutter, I'm absolutely going to weight in the possibility of control of my device being taken from me and look at Cricut's competitors more favourably.

I recently learned that domestic sewing machines were built before planned obsolescence was a thing; I can still buy a 1902 sewing machines in decent condition (for example), as they were designed to be repaired. Bad for a company's monthly income, I suppose, but good for me as a consumer.
I'm not sure about your question, but I'll answer a related one:

Hybrid teams are a ruse. If you're a remote employee, but most of the team is on-premises, you're a second-class citizen, and you'll be first to go if cuts are made. At least, that's how it's been wherever I've worked.

I was never the one cut, as I was generally on-premises when in mixed teams.

These days, I work only for 100% remote / remote-first companies if possible.
I think the most egregious thing about the original presentation is that it leads you to believe that people with a given skill level all self-assessed similarly. If you plotted the scores and self-assessments of each individual you would see that it's not "everyone [in the first quartile] thought [they were about average]", it's that their self-assessments varied wildly, from low and accurate to high and inaccurate.
> There are many self-made millionaires.

It's about 8.7% in North America according and 2.7% in Europe to Credit Suisse[1]. That is not _many_, that is _very few_ in my dictionary.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
The hostility you feel toward people wanting real human interaction is the hostility I feel toward introverts who think in-person interaction is useless, rejecting the social nature of human beings and wanting to lock themselves in their houses for the rest of their lives getting Amazon grocery deliveries and playing games online.

If it seems like I'm projecting some anger at a specific scenario, I am. Let me pivot.

Hybrid seems like a good option for teams, though it takes away the geographic-flexibility perk of WFH. I think WFH can be successful, but I absolutely 100% think a lot of people are bullshitting how effective they are at home, because none of the workers want to lose the time- and location-flexibility of WFH. So we all just say "yeah it's great, it's just as productive" where I can plainly see a number of people are not. Flat out. Does that mean we should all go back to the office? Maybe not, but it takes more and better management, not less.

Personally, the banter and whiteboarding and trips to get coffee and lunch with coworkers made working together better and more effective, it made work more enjoyable, and we worked together on problems a lot more effectively. Who enjoys Zoom meetings in themselves?

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I respect some people work better remotely. We need to respect that some people genuinely work better in person, and stop accusing them of "just wanting to wield power over others" or something. There are legitimate benefits to the person and to the mission when people are in person.
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