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It can be hard when you are blindsided by negativity that seems to come out of nowhere. Hopefully this is helpful to us all https://rss.com/podcasts/the-narrative-networks-podcast/3017...
It’s interesting to think this information being passed is something like “Heads up. This dude does a lot of exercise which means it must be crucial to survival wherever we are.”
bravo.
Love him or hate him I think his time in office has kicked off a much needed moment of self reflection and course correction.
Getting Closer to my dream install:
* WSL 2
* VS Code
* .NET 5
* Windows Terminal
* Package Manager
* Edge
All that's missing is Edge on Linux and letting me write cross platform apps that use edge as a (headless) common runtime.
Maybe if he bought and renovated an apartment building. Held events in a top floor space. Transformed the lobby into a community business and tech center.
Sorry, but your response sounds snarky and reminds me of all the ego hurdles I had to overcome when leaving/loving databases and set theory. Please remember that your comment could be someone's first introduction or step early step in learning.
* Fail Fast. * Red. Green. Refactor.
I'm not an Apple person so all the funny distinctions get lost on me sometimes.
So all arguments devolve into making a case before a non-existent court of higher appeals. Which I enjoy and only point out here because I love any chance to offer the book up as suggestion. 320 pages of dense mind hackery. Enjoy!
P.S. - You may critique me, but the effort may be largely wasted. I really have no idea what I'm talking about.
The only reason I don't own one is because the 16/512 variant makes a silly jump in price. I think that's where the complaint should be. Not with the Mac "Pro".
Apple is not dumb. They sell the 8/128 variant to college kids and know that companies will pony up the ridiculous price jump so their developers can run VMs and local compiles on a i7 16/512.
We are silly animals. Links I can't help but click on....comments I can't help to respond to. The algorithms are winning.
He is the Steven Seagal of cyber security.
I got to the part in the video where he asks "Is the question whether I broke the law, or whether breaking the law was the right thing to do?" lul. Good luck in your trial with that 'holier than thou' attitude bud. Judges just _love_ that nonsense. Parole hearings also love it when you show no respect for the laws your broke or the system you harmed.
What I do wish is for the pubic perception of 'screentime' to not include _everything_. This morning my almost 3 year daughter and I watched 30 minutes of Daniel Tiger, 5 minutes of planes landing, and 10 minutes of ballet performances. All highly engaging with questions flowing from her about every aspect. It's not like I sat her in a corner to play some skinner box slot machine for an hour _or_ some brain dead flashy cartoon.
If the question is whether it's a good idea to let your kids sit in front of a slot machine that collects the data they input _and_ the words the say to friends in an effort to further manipulate them then I could have saved you a study. :D
IMHO this falls into two buckets for Tesla that both align with the vision:
a) You pay a one time software cost then benefit from cloud updates for the lifetime of the car. Those aren't free for Tesla to do, on any level. Would it be nice if you could opt out? Maybe but this isn't about _you_. It's about driving a technological change which you may benefit from. Buying a specially built car without those would likely be _more_ expensive than just offering one with the features switched off. So if it pleases you to pay 10k USD (made up number) _more_ for a car that you can never upgrade just so you aren't offended by software you can't use then....sure?
b) In terms of their mission in benefits them to operate in this way. It's a quiet spur to other manufactures who aside from Nissan don't seem to quite get. Tesla has shown that you can build a $35K USD car that competes with everything and cast a lower cost of ownership over 5 years than a Prius. I remember early discussions coming out of VW that convinced them to go all in. Quite simply that said, wait - if the base Model 3 has a theoretical cost of 35k and that some non-trivial percentage of that is autonomous hardware, redundant and constant cellular communication, an over top the drive train to handle a 3.5 second 0-60 launch, and a bunch of tech goodies then we can make a 20k car that's mechanically just as good with all the bells and whistles of a modern sedan...just wont't be a futuristic space car.
People wondering why you didn't just power through your doubts may be forgetting what the world was like not too long ago. 'Nerds' weren't cool. If you chose to be a nerd it meant _offering_ yourself up as the _loser_ in every sitcom, movie, or book. Playing video games was something you were supposed to grow out of. No one was throwing 80k at a graduate just because they could pronounce 'WWW'. Perhaps most importantly, _every_ school was pushing the race to no where. If you were thinking about a 'trade' it meant you had given up and would crack out fixing sinks for the rest of your life. At _best_ computers were taught as something you'd use at other careers. Not a career itself, really.
* Please note the last line is less an insult to plumbers and more a commentary on how the perception of success is hammered into you as a very white collar thing.
And apparently it's doing very well and is sought after.
What a time to be alive! We have quite a few impressive elementary schools in the city but that often means that affluent people leave for the suburbs for middle/high school.
It takes a village.
While I don't think Bank of America has a large percentage of skill workers compared to knowledge workers I think this sends a very forward thinking message.
The debt waters are rising for both consumer and corporate and I assume we'll see a correction soon that once again hits middle class and lower class folks _almost_ ready to make a mobility play.
$20/hr during the coming lean times could be just enough to keep some folks from losing too much ground.
I'm just guessing at the rationale but it does kind of make me want to switch banks in support. Next few years could get rough for +60% of the US population.
IMHO - There are many managerial short comings in software development that lead to abuse of legacy design. OOP by design allows you to abstract and ignore not only original implementation decisions but reflections of those decisions in the architecture. Polymorphism makes sense when it's the classic ICat: IAnimal example but so often it _becomes_ IHouseFly : IAnimal because all the contracts expect IAnimal and the deadline is.....tomorrow.
I personally don't have a good solution given the pragmatic counter argument that the ROI on a system which is cheap to develop but is patched over 5 years may be equal to or cheaper than one that is expensive to develop and _still_ needs to be patched over it's 5 year lifetime. Let's call this the used car problem. A new car is more reliable but now that used cars are reliable _enough_ it's harder to convince people _not_ to gamble with a lower upfront cost.
I absolutely _love_ Rust and the code I'm written feels bullet proof. No idea how long it would take a team of my C# peers to be even 1/10th as productive in Rust/Go as they are in Visual Studio and C#.
I think the eye brow around the criticism is people creating a straw man to knock down.
Tesla doesn't ask for credit and only seems to celebrate the successes which are big wins for all of us regardless of whether we buy their cars or not.
If the critique is that they miss production goals, then the defense is that hey are doing remarkably well for any company attempting to overcome these challenges.
If the critique is that _because_ they are missing production goals they don't deserve praise then well....they didn't ask for praise for it so folks can just keep it and move along.
I would postulate _exactly_ that the glasses would come with software preinstalled. Similar to how YouTube videos supplement so many instruction manuals today. Even then it's no directed primarily at the person that wants to repair a breaker box but instead the technician that would _install_ it. Though once the form factor is as ubiquitous as cell phones I'd imagine every support service will have an offering. I bet every Verizon tech would love to see exactly what Grandma is looking at when asked to reset her router. Which _then_ us to the opportunity for first responders to assist one another remotely. It's a value multiplier when we reduce time and increase quality in the same swing.
Look at the story about Azure Kinect helping to reduce hospital bed falls from 11,0000 a year to 0. We'll see similar reductions to: House fires do to rushed wiring jobs, defects in nearly any manufacturing process.
Remember that this is 'augmented' reality. What I hope isn't lost on folks is that the thing we're augmenting is ourselves. Granting a super human level of awareness and cognitive ability.
tl;dr - This is Tony Stark level tech.