Agree massive headache. Our kids go to the boys and girls club after school where they were playing roblox during computer time. Some parents apparently complained and it’s now banned. Not sure of that is local or nation-wide. They were kind of annoyed but they seem to understand why. I am definitely worried about giving them the tools they need to navigate the online jungle when they are older.
Ha! thanks! My memory of this was way off. But I guess I liked the idea at the time if I remembered it at all decades later. Life has been evolving for a LONG time.
It was also developed “iteratively” under extremely harsh selection criteria over a time scale that is so long it is almost impossible to reason about. An old geology textbook I had used the analogy of a geologic timeline that stretched from LA to NYC. Life appears really early (in CA somewhere IIRC) and human existence is about the width of a crack in the pavement just before you hit the Atlantic Ocean.
I subscribe to the NYT and find it so irritating that they regularly prompt me to download their app from safari on ios I may cancel. I do not want their app ever.
From a security perspective I am far more worried about AI getting cheaper than smarter. Seems like a tool that will be used to make attacking any possible surface more efficient at scale.
First time enlistees are absolutely not given the option of whatever job they want ex ante unless they ask/push. Many/most are not negotiating up front. Maybe truck driver was a bad example but there are many jobs that either require many people to fill them so recruiters push or significant screening so they are unrealistic posts for most.
Recruiters are known to have quotas and push hard. You think your average US Army Recruit manages this morass well?
Even weirder that HN expects the average joe to “get it in writing and check the fine print.” A good number of recruits are not US citizens and may not speak english super well. Some 35k+ active duty and 5k+ added a year for the research inclined.
I have a canonical gmail address for what I thought was not such a common name pair. I get so much sensitive stuff. I used to email the sender but I have given up. One of them runs a business and the businesses that interact with his business just keep emailing me. Or stop for a couple of years, change personnel and start right back up.
I think OP’s point is that the demand is being met elsewhere. The Premier League has exploded in popularity in the US because of accesible TV. It is easier than ever to watch foreign sports and you do not have to deal with local blackout garbage.
I remember my elementary school librarian had some kind of networked computer a touch later, 90-92 timeframe. She tried to explain what email was to me and I still remember being super confused. Think she even showed me on screen my I still did not get it.
Saw a tiger mosquito for the first time in Boston last fall. Reported it to the state but it is a losing battle and they are steadily establishing residency. Back again this season so a moderately cold winter still did not kill them off. They are extremely annoying as their primary prey are humans and they are very good at biting you without noticing - then comes the itch. Especially in late August into Oct.
If you believe the rule of law and ~general financial stability of the US will persist just keep on investing regularly and ride it out. Markets have a long history of bouncing back and they will keep doing it until they don’t. When/if that happens your retirement dreams might seem quaint compared to the global socioeconomic reality. The people who could sustain the most near term pain are those who have already retired and are living in a fixed income.
A quick and dirty google shows that global financial institutions wrote down 1-2 trillion in mortgage related securities, a ~6trn drop in the us real estate mkt and another 6trn destroyed in the equities mkt. Not sure I really trust these numbers but they are the right order of magnitude. I have a very hard time believing the AI bubble is as big as the subprime bubble. But it very well could help trigger a massive correction and recession on a similar scale because everything else that has been propped up by low rates will likely correct with it.
As a self taught hobbyist I progressed pretty far in advent of code 2023 until I gave up and less so in 2024 but my approach seems to be close to the one described (if you dig a little deeper into the signup page) or so I imagine. I was disciplined about not asking for help with the problem itself and went to chatgpt for help with components or syntax I needed to build a function I already had in mind (which was closer to the state of the art - especially in 2023 anyway). I think the advent of code problems are really interesting and have enjoyed solving them and watching others solve the ones I couldn’t. They are a fun way to frame the course. However the real value to me is learning how to approach more ambiguous problem spaces. I am definitely interested.
The last Testarossa I saw in the wild was around 2010 parked in Hoxton London. None of the upholstery was holding up and it looked like it might not be driveable. But it got there somehow.
Granted the park is not the reason a lot of the summer home owners go there but it is an easy thing to point to to underline that the stretches of lake on either side of Michigan City are very beautiful for people who have never been.
Odd that the author does not mention the lake. Hugely important reason why industry located there. It’s also the reason why it is a massive regional vacation destination (right next to the indiana dunes national park) and selling summer houses and condos is probably the reason that real estate agent mentioned out-earned everyone else in the state.
It easier for me to watch La Liga in the US than it is for my brother in-law in Spain. Thank goodness we don’t have the reckless anti-piracy actions here but we do have some of the same BS going on because the same is true for him in reverse. Its easier and cheaper for him to watch the Red Sox in Spain than it is for me in Boston. 1yr of MLBtv is 30 bucks but local blackouts. 1 month of NESN the local broadcaster is the same price. Streaming all sports is a fragmented and extremely expensive mess for the fans and it only seems to be getting worse. I don’t blame people for cheating. Especially in Spain where incomes are significantly lower than the US.
And the losers that neither (gross generalization here) the bike people or the car people care about are the pedestrians. We are lucky to live in an urban environment where our family of 5 usually walks everywhere. Crossing the street with children is an unwelcome adventure. But you are absolutely right I would ride an ebike with the kids if it did not seem so dangerous.
The interesting thing to me about this map is it allows me to see more easily how much of the Earth is ocean. With the conventional orientation my brain just keys in on the land.
Never had a worse personal anxiety experience than visiting it 15 yrs ago with my nephews who were 4 and 5yrs old. At the time you could go up elevators on the side of the new facade but you had to walk down spiral staircases on the old side. Those staircases have a huge open circle all the way down to the bottom. I was so worried for those kids. First time I had experienced anything close to parental fear. My brother and my sister in-law on the other hand never seemed phased.
That said. Dying to go back. So much progress has been made since then.
Does anyone actually use generators for primary power rather than backup? Even the really nice Generac propane backups are crazy noisy. I was in a neighborhood on Cape Cod during a power outage and because about 1/3 of the houses had backup generators going it was unpleasant to be outside.
The only place where they seem to have anything novel and done a ton of research is quantum computing. But even then I have zero idea where they fit into all the competition in that space, whether or not it all just smoke and mirrors or what the enterprise use cases will be. I’ve worked there twice and this “Atlas” is very very on brand.
Something kind of funny to me about quoting the Fault of Our Stars about love when the original source of that expression is The Sun Also Rises regarding bankruptcy.
“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
At least for me something so thin feels better with a bit of heft. And if you read the article the idea was to use any space saved for the battery. Seems pretty slick