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I didn't buy myself into this so-called "smart" home trend. Almost everything a "smart" home can promise can be achieved or more precisely, has been achieved without connecting random devices using outdated firmware through a low quality mobile application to your local network.

There are numerous cases people locking out themselves from their home with "smart" locks. What's wrong with using keys? Devices from different manufacturers still often requires different apps. Always low quality mobile apps.
Thanks for saying this. People love to jump on the bandwagon of CV driven development...
Sure, but to what end? You've got 4 RS-232 devices, plus the Pi's onboard TTL serial console, and the VDU console as well. A TU-58, a papertape reader and punch, a plotter...?
<personal_opinion> I, for one, tend to churn from products that don't let me use 2FA.</personal_opinion>
Elon tends to get a pass (less so lately) because he delivers amazing things. Do the same thing and don't deliver and you're Elizabeth Holmes.
> This seems to be a reaction to Unity’s share price

...as are other highly questionable decisions by tech companies lately.
Yes, you're right, I mixed up the terms. Corrected my post there, thanks!
I think it's not even the case in developing economies, with substantial economic and population growth. It simply can't work like that.
They sound like they have worked out terribly for Pepsi.

They can both be “real” and completely unsuitable for the task
Vanguard lucked into hiring one of the greatest fund managers of all time in John Neff.

There were very, very few people who could do what he did.
That highly depends on the story. There are some stories which rely on surprising the reader in a delightful way. If that's revealed in the description it'll take away something really important. I've seen that many times. It makes reading the part up to then look very different, and more boring.
In fact I don't like to read anything where it's clear where it's going, it doesn't have to be because it's revealed in the blurb, it can as well be because of the author's writing.

In contrast, for non-fiction a good summary is perfectly fine.
Because higher interest rates make everything more difficult. It incentivizes people to save instead of buy expensive cars. It makes it more expensive to finance expensive cars. It makes it more expensive to raise financing to pay for factories and workers. It can very well bring about a recession where unemployment rises and your TAM shrinks.

Tesla is still trying to convince people it is in hyper growth mode constrained only by its ability to supply cars with robots, self driving cars, semis and compact cars all in the pipeline.

Let’s see how that plays out with fed funds at 5.5% for a few more months.
VW employees far too many staff. 643,000 vs 366,000 for Toyota (who have a larger market share).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1186629/workforce-major-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/316786/global-market-sha...
TIL: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.usize.html#method.co...
An even worse engineering horror story:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-steely-dan-song-that-was-al...
(more sad trombone and far less "relieved engineer, happy ending.")
hackernews really will look for a counter example to any advice, metaphor, or simile in the pursuit of being technically correct.
This is more a clickbait title than anything else. The problem are the same in any buble. AI is a bubble right now. And if you don't create a valid business, brand, etc.. you wont success.
The Apple card was only available in USA. So market share abroad is not really relevant. Card margins are much lower elsewhere so its not such an attractive product.
> The Postal Service considers the contract proprietary and has declined to disclose its terms.

Am I the only person that finds it crazy that this isn't public information?

Edit:

> The Postal Reorganization Act (at 39 USC 410(c)(2)) exempts the USPS from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disclosure of "information of a commercial nature, including trade secrets, whether or not obtained from a person outside the Postal Service, which under good business practice would not be publicly disclosed".

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

It seems to me prudent to remove that exemption.
okay then the title is misleading it should be LLMs not GPTs.
That is actually because of BYD and other Chinese competition offer far lower prices and they started to lose ground even in Europe.
I'm at Google and am not entirely sure what you are referring to, but I'd love to try it. Could you provide an internal codename I could search for? Or is it integrated somewhere in Cider (the name is public knowledge so I'm not leaking anything by using this) that you could guide me to (i.e. X dropdown -> 3rd option) while preserving ambiguity?
I have to admit that the fact that various commentators suggest THREE different languages happen to have words for camel and rope that sound almost the same does rather bolster the case being made here. Someone want to suggest a seafaring rope known as kyummel or something?
>What i really really hate is "a book with a plot twist in the end that'll make you reread the whole book again!" ... why do I need to know that there will be a plot twist?

obviously book jackets exist for marketing purposes, I'm supposing there is a market of people who like to know that there will be a tricky plot twist so they can see if they can guess.
> Less people will commute to work. But more people will meet for a coffee and order stuff online which then gets delivered in 30 minutes by a robotaxi.

We havn’t ever seen a situation where a reduction in the cost of work lead to less work being done.

What happens is that employers (and the market) demand more work, and only labour law holds back the demand that employees work all their waking hours.

You’ll probably respond that UBI will give everyone all the free time they want… but capital owners will have to fund UBI through tax. And capital HATES paying tax.

This feels like stuck gears to me. What am I missing?
Sometimes monospace can make it worse: early in my iOS work, I leaned on the alt key without (initially) realising, and got very confused by compiler errors caused by a "–" where it should have been a "-".
Which BigTech (10k+ employees) has the worst internal dev tooling? I have heard horror stories about some build systems at Microsoft but curious how others fare.
Being an airline boss I would really have hoped the response would have been more in line with the ethos of a plane crash postmortem, i.e. find the system causes and fix those. Maybe you need a copilot when doing live deployments and that copilot had authority to stop the rollout. Along with the usual devops
guards.
So your theory is they simply made up the exact same stuff? Maybe you do believe in miracles after all then.
> it’s faster and takes up less characters. It’s not quite as readable though, but I’m hoping that ~~ will slowly become a very well-known technique in the JS arena, so we can all use it without fearing accusations.

Yeah, no thanks. I'll take well named functions over these kind of syntax tricks any day.
It wasn’t the cost. It was that the coffee sucks. Australia has a huge coffee snob culture and Starbucks does not make the grade.
Heh, Rimac sold robo taxi to Croatians, we paid and got nothing. I'm 100% sure whole electric car scheme is a scam. It's just a current thing that will go away in 50 years or so.
There's no skepticism in the post, for example making the opposite argument in his "But <my opinion, X> is true, right?" conversational style, and seeing whether ChatGPT tells him just as readily that he "is correct" and it "appreciates the clarification" and he is "raising an astute point".

Lessig is famous, but lawyers -- especially famous ones -- are not known for their resistance to intellectual flattery.

I think it is fair to describe this lack of skepticism as a fatal flaw in the blog post (and a potentially significant flaw in its author). The blog post was supposed to be about how AIs can be convinced by reason, but the author did not actually assess, or show curiosity about, whether reason is a requirement for convincing them in any way. That's not a small blind spot; the mention in the final paragraph of "But I'll confess that this persuadable intelligence has seduced me." seems to be confessing more than it intended to.
Syrian government and Russia.
Unity promised much but never delivered. DOTS is a mess. For AAA you are better with Unreal and for small games Godot might be enough.

Unity's only advantage is the huge community and the tons of stuff in their store and the huge number of tutorials.

Anyway, I am glad I exited game de few years ago and I am much happier doing web development and microservices.
Ben Eater has a number of very informative videos on Wozmon on YouTube - what it is, how it works and and getting it to work on a home built 6502 machine, literally stepping through the assembly:

Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLCtjJzHVI

How Wozniak’s code for the Apple 1 works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpG8rgI7Hec

Adapting WozMon for the breadboard 6502 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M8LvMtdcgY
Mindless Billions Anywhere at work..
In general, the idea is a jail is where people who are accused of a crime stay while they are awaiting trial if the nature of their potential crime warrants it, a prison is where people who have been convicted of their crime serve their sentences after the trial. But it is confusing because jails are often used for short sentences (on the order of a few days or months).
I actually agree with this statement, but people should be allowed to build the sentimental value. They shouldn't have the sentimental value of someone else's past ideas dictate the new.

An awful local law may have dictated that the OP should not have been allowed to build a pizza oven in the first place, because people want to preserve the look and feel of the neighborhood when they moved in. But I also view it as equally bad if the new owner couldn't tear it down because of some HOA regulation saying that structures built before some arbitrary date, conveniently a time after they moved in and did their renovations, can't be torn down. The only real reason being the sentimental value they have to that past.
...according to one textbook, in one country, that happens to have the largest prison population in the world both per capita and in total.

> Retribution prevents future crime by removing the desire for personal avengement (in the form of assault, battery, and criminal homicide, for example) against the defendant. When victims or society discover that the defendant has been adequately punished for a crime, they achieve a certain satisfaction that our criminal procedure is working effectively, which enhances faith in law enforcement and our government.

And yet when victims and victim families are interviewed on this subject, most of them aren't terribly satisfied by criminals being "punished."

What they typically care about is that the person won't harm others, and that's where rehabilitation comes in.
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Just a thought: Are people confusing million and billion?
and you can restore it.
I use a leased company car, electric. My boss wanted to buy it first, but (according to him) the battery is irreplaceable. What ever that means.
https://www.secondstate.io/articles/starling-lm-7b-alpha/
>We can't really compare the technical competency of today's user with one from the mid-90's.

True, like checking the pressure in car tires, but if you loose your data once "competency" will increase ;)
I would hate reading code that uses stuff like this. Give things readable names, please! I'm a dumb programmer, don't make my job even harder.

Edit: I just realized that the post is from 2010. This makes the post even more horrible. In 2010 you had to deal with internet explorer and other very ugly compatibility stuff on the client side. Javascript was an absolute pain and if someone would write code like this on the frontend, I would run as far away as I could.
When I left Facebook, I missed all the internal tools the company developed. I currently work on dev tooling at my company (though leaving soon). So I have some thoughts as well.

Having been at facebook prior led me to believe that we can definitely 2x productivity if tools made by these large organizations are open sourced and maintained.

I will probably write my thoughts like the author (if anyone cares), but the bottom line is I consistently find many existing open source projects missing critically useful features and/or don’t focus as much on real developer productivity (I admit that can be very subjective).

Eg Bazle is fantastic when it works (all deps are accounted for) but it is not unusual to find github comments that tell users to add patches because the maintainers (core and contrib) haven’t fixed the problems (some over 2-3 years old) or because they hardcode a version of Go….

Another example is VS Code. facebook (now meta) offered everyone to its heavily extended VS Code. While I didn’t use that as much since I am a terminal and a Vim developer, now that I use VS Code almost daily at work for writing Go, I really do appreciate the customization facebook engineers did - because too often someone (both engineers and non-engineers) would come to us and complain about some issues with the built-in git UI, trying to figure out how to construct a working workspace settings, switching between git and arcanist. The facebook’s version had all this figured out really nicely. With minimal training someone could submit code very quickly without ever touching the terminal.

I can go on and talk about how awesome ods is compared to prometheus and its query UI. Finally, I miss Scuba too (and Honeycomb founders were involved building Scuba).

Sure, facebook tools don’t always work and there are issues and bugs like any software, but overall I felt more productive.

Maybe it is because I did’t maintain them - now I do as a full time engineer at work, I feel the pains. But then again, if google and facebook maintain these as open source would be really nice.
That's an interesting read!

Not really sure whether this counts as "engineering" though (accidentally taping over a track), nor would I consider this "worse" than potentially destroying 500M worth of advanced equipment.
If economic support and success would lead to democracy, Saudi-Arabia would be the most democratic country in the world. Unfortunately it is just another dictatorship driven by madman ( no chance for women in Saudi Arabia ).
> but why do that if there is another engine specifically designed for your use case

And what engine is that ?

MySQL has been proven by Meta and numerous others to scale to ridiculous levels.
Having seen jury trials in the west on TV and big screen and also having read about it, the idea of a jury trial scares me.
I mean, my car doesn't have a boombox or pedestrian warning system, so the former can't beat the latter on it. If the latter is louder than the former I wouldn't exactly be actually upset.

This honestly sounds like the conversations I'd have with people about the iPhone. Somehow it was the worst thing ever made but everyone who had a lot of money was buying one. When I eventually got around to getting it, it was awesome.
Very easy to cheat in this game, unfortunately - just look at a map elsewhere. The game itself is great though, very well done and lots of detail.

Could only be better if it would install a ServiceWorker to remind me by push notification every day for the new task.
Costco UK accepts all three card networks (Amex/Mastercard/Visa). I wonder how their UK division can do this if Costco prefers to do exclusivity deals that allow them to lock in a low fee?
This feels extremely cringe. “Law professor looks deeply into the mirror, loves what he sees.”
> You’ll probably respond that UBI will give everyone all the free time they want… but capital owners will have to fund UBI through tax. And capital HATES paying tax.

> This feels like stuck gears to me. What am I missing?

Communism.

Or at least, some variant of it. If your government owns the full automation and operates it for the citizens, that's much the same as the upper limiting case of a corporation owning the same full automation for the benefit of the shareholders.

(I'd say "and this time nobody needs to go to the gulags", but having the government aligned with the citizens is a separate problem: any given state might get it right, or history might rhyme).
Almost 1.5 years in, here is my opinion on Critique:

Github < Critique < Azure DevOps (or actually, I think it's called Azure Repos)*

*might have changed because I was at MSFT until mid 2021, but development and review used to look sort of like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCid5W-HK0. I just felt the UX was really clean and clear, plus it immediately tied into the walled garden of tools like private package repos, CI, and Azure deployments.
I was wondering if and how they were using DOTS with HDRP since (from brief pokes, I of course can't speak for all of DOTS) to my knowledge, there was no major work done integrating HDRP/URP. Both were moving targets that were probably moving even faster than DOTS.

I guess the answer is an unfortunate "we did not" as of now. Real shame because the ideas of a proper DOTS renderer (not a literal renderer, moreso an ECS oriented way to deliver data to the GPU. Likely HDRP/URP) was one rumbling for years. And probably still is. And with all the industry layoffs/leavings I hope they don't drain too much of the brain to get that off the ground.
next time you post change the story, say that the clipboard had half of her current to do list!
Sure and laying off 100% of staff might be better for society if you can replace the jobs with higher productivity ones somewhere else.

Same with unions, instead of starting one to fix a dystopian company with bad leadership, could be better to have the employees leave and have the company go downhill than trying to fix something that isn't worth fixing.
I didn't read this post as relating to OOP, more to have with defining specific terms and modelling the domain as it relates to business needs. In the example given, the business didn't recognize that they are dealing with donkeys. In a real project you could have eg invitation vs user account. Is the invitation its own model associated with a future user account or just a placeholder user account. Things change when you have other admin accounts that have to assign those users to other entities before the user is signed up in the system for example. (maybe it's a contrived example, couldn't thing of something better)
Well, it's a good question. I'm in favour of using simple[+], abstract Haskell for practical apps, welcoming the vast majority of professional developers!

[+] "simple" in that the solution to a problem is expressed in a simple way, not that it restricts itself to a particular subset of the language.
I actually think this is a bad idea. Sure, it looks cool and is interesting.
I always prefer making code explicit, as it keeps the code more readable.
Do you use a well named function like and(), or do you use the double ampersand (&&) syntax trick? What about a not() function, or the exclamation mark syntax trick (!)? :)

Every use of operators can be considered a syntax trick until it becomes common, which is what the author hopes will happen to ~~
Here is what Buffett says about value investing (in his 1992 BRK shareholder letter):"In addition, we think the very term “value investing” is redundant. What is “investing” if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value—in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price—should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor—in our view—financially fattening).

Whether appropriate or not, the term “value investing” is widely used. Typically, it connotes the purchase of stocks having attributes such as a low ratio of price to book value, a low price-earnings ratio, or a high dividend yield. Unfortunately, such characteristics, even if they appear in combination, are far from determinative as to whether an investor is indeed buying something for what it is worth and is therefore truly operating on the principle of obtaining value in his investments. Correspondingly, opposite characteristics—a high ratio of price to book value, a high price-earnings ratio, and a low dividend yield—are in no way inconsistent with a “value” purchase."

Excerpt from (my non-monetized blog):
https://sileret.com/projects/buffett-shareholder-letters/199...

Original 1992 shareholder letter here:
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1992.html
Flagged lol the irony.
I thought `| 0` was the de facto way to do this in JavaScript. It was even made part of the asm.js standard iirc.

Is there a difference between `| 0` and `~~`?
> This absurdly performant roadster 2 isn't going to happen, ever.

Read the article: other electric cars already hit these performance figures. With tech advancing and Tesla’s strong finances, it comes down just to their willingness to produce it.
Really surprised at how rural postmen are using their own cars. This must be a huge issue! Imagine having to probably double or triple your driving time because you don't drive a delivery truck!

Though OTOH I don't know how well such delivery trucks would handle less maintained roads.

(Aside: I've always wanted a way to just signal to delivery companies that I'm fine picking things up, just tell me when they arrive at the sorting center. I live close to them, so it's easier for me of course)
In case anyone else wants to "call BS" on this:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...
How does the use of ConstEval address this issue?
Douchebaggery
> both the times I argued that MySQL wasn’t the right approach

Looking at it holistically, MySQL is ALWAYS going to be the correct approach, if you already have an internal team of MySQL DBAs. Either your problems are small enough that it really doesn't matter if you use CSV files, MongoDB or MySQL or they are large enough and important enough that you want to stick with technology you know and understand, even if it requires 25% extra hardware.

We did a project where we where looking into OpenStack, which was objectively the technological correct choice. Factoring in training, ramp up cost and hardware, it made more sense to just pay VMware.

Without knowing you, I suspect the issue is in how you answer such questions, not whether or not that you're technically correct. I'd go with the route or presenting two options, the one you find to be "the right approach" and the one that fits into the company's current infrastructure. Coming mostly from the operation sides of things, I find that developers can be pretty clueless about the cost and complexity of operations. Often to the point where you wouldn't trust them to design anything unsupervised, because doing so would end up in an operations nightmare.