mikeryan

Unity has a whole template and asset library for creating car displays.

https://unity.com/blog/industry/automotive-hmi-template-take...

It’s actually easier than that. Depending on the UC many just require completing a dedicated set of courses with a 2.0 or higher with no class lower than a C and will provide guaranteed admissions as long as the criteria is met.

It’s the Transfer Admissions Guarantee program.

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...

A significant, and growing, number of schools (many of them independent and high end) are no longer offering AP/Honors classes. Which means that you now don’t have a level measure for comparing GPA.

To the original point though it’s one of many reasons why GPA + Test scores isn’t really a standard metric to be used on their own for merit based admissions. It’s really just a bar after which you have to take additional factors into account.

No. They’re no longer allowed to use race but can, and still consider a wide range of factors.

They have to - it’s likely they have far more applicants with near perfect GPA/Test score combos then they have spots. (Noting that your GPA gets fuzzy once it’s over a 4.0 since that “extra” is going to be somewhat school and school system dependent)

Since each kid likely applies to multiple schools the process would also be extremely broken if it worked the way you suggest since the same cohort of kids would all be accepted to multiple schools and the schools would then have to backfill from a alternate list - which would also be the same cohort of kids…

They’re not de facto laws like some of the presidential orders. He created a task force to research the issue and directed the municipal consumer and worker protection division to prioritize enforcement of existing laws.

I’d assume the goal of the task force is to propose new laws which should be pretty easy to get passed.

Without a doubt there are toxic work environments and bosses that think the way you’ve stated.

That said my point of view as a manager was to try to hire people who could take my job someday. Those were the people that would make me look good by having a great team. I don’t need to steal their thunder because the higher you go in a healthy organization the more it’s about having people that can execute your strategy then about your individual contributions.

The best analogy for this I see is in the NFL when new, young head coaches seem to be afraid to hire experienced coordinators who have been fired as head coaches because they’re afraid of hiring their replacement if they fail. The thing is those ex head coaches were undoubtedly successful in their previous coordinator roles which is why they got a head coach gig to begin with and are likely the best option for making the new head coach successful.

Long story short it’s up to you to determine which type of leader you’re working for and and take ownership of moving on when in a toxic situation as opposed to a healthy one.

I honestly don’t follow this much but I doubt that production ramp up is the Cybercab’s long pole when they’ll need a significant number of market approvals for FSD to reach critical mass.

Huh? Volvo is a subsidiary. Almost every legacy car company is a subsidiary of some kind. Lamborghinis aren’t German because they’re owned by Volkswagen group and often have Audi parts and Jeep isn’t Dutch because they’re owned by Stellantis.

When I saw this headline I assumed it was Little Snitch an existing network monitor and firewall for Macs.

Might need a different name.

https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

Huh. I view it the other way. If you’re supply constrained go straight to the consumer and capture the value that the middlemen building on top of your tech are currently profiting from.

My understanding is that they did a study on the feasibility of Electric Garbage trucks in NYC. The problem was that NYC Garbage trucks are also used as snow plows and it killed their range.

Found an article

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/11/18/dsnys-electric-trucks...

Amazon was a large investor in Rivian (they led a $700M round and own about 16%) and have a commitment for 100k vans by 2030. Amazon’s been using their vans here in Northern California for a couple of years now.

Bending Spoons also bought Brightcove so they actually own two of the white label streaming providers.

Would not be surprised to see the two merged into a single service.

They’re blue because Marc Andreesen liked blue.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPO0A7dDvFm/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ...

Sure - to those that can afford it. But this basically wipes out the ability for smaller companies to use H1Bs as an incentive to draw talent when they’re already behind the gun compared to the FAANG’s of the world from a hiring perspective.

The rich get richer.

This is idiotic. We’re already pushing China and India into a partnership with Russia. The sheer volume of people in those countries mean “on average” more brilliant people than we do.

The US competitive advantage is built on us being a destination for the best and brightest. Between this and the crackdown foreign students at US Universities why would the anyone want to come here?

The misuse of H1Bs is a small problem compared to the value it provides.

I’ve started ignoring these types of emails and wait to do any sort of credentials reset until I get an alert when I log in (or try to) for just this reason.

I mean there are technical legal issues in the size of a class. For example, any member of a class can object to any settlement agreement or any multiple groups of class members can object to a settlement making managing approval difficult.

The flip side to Amazons argument though is that if the judge decided the class was too big they could break into multiple classes and Amazon would end up defending themselves on multiple fronts. Usually companies facing these things want to roll it all into a single class for that reason alone.

I had an engineering boss who used this as a mantra (he is now an SVP of engineering at Spotify and we worked together at Comcast)

I think the unspoken part here is “let’s start with…”

It doesn’t mean you won’t have to “do all the things” so much as let’s start with too little so we don’t waste time doing things we end up not needing.

Once you aggregate all the simple things you may end up with a complex behemoth but hopefully you didn’t spend too much time on fruitless paths getting there.

Most real estate investors will own inventory via an LLC - often one LLC per property so liability is limited to the value of a single property.

Simply looking for properties owned by corporations will get you really close.

Also surprised it didn’t mention that Rick Scott got rich by defrauding Medicare. To the tune of 14 felony counts against his company and a 1.7B dollar fine.

Rents go up but the landlords costs stay static. A lot of small landlords start out at something close to break even from a cash flow perspective. At this point the landlords “profit” is the appreciation.

That said the cash flow gets better over time as rents increase.

I think most practical designers saw the value of what Nielsen was showing but hated how he completely eschewed aesthetics. Fortunately the advent of CSS and the need for responsive mobile design forced everyone to learn how to integrate functionality with aesthetics.

Serious lack of anti aliasing contributed too.

Sounds like he just decided it was time. He wrote a pretty gracious post about it.

https://hindenburgresearch.com/gratitude/

Funny, I wrote this without seeing what the full URL was (I’m on my phone) so the use of the word “gracious” preceded me knowing the path was /gratitude

Totally an aside but is Morpheus what happened to the Hindenburg Research guys after the founder of that stepped away? The site is eerily similar and the timing makes sense. I loved reading Hindenburg’s research.

NIH falls under HHS, and the HHS acting general counsel was a signatory on the original letter.

That said, affiliated hospitals are not owned or operated by Harvard.

The affiliates could be pushed to drop their affiliation if NIH wanted to play hardball with Harvard.

It's GSO-owned real estate. Most cities have seen a precipitous drop in office utilization post-COVID, and it's a weak market for selling commercial office space.

It's likely tax-exempt from property taxes, upkeep is likely minimal, and even empty office space is an appreciating asset. I'd be more surprised if it didn't exist.

Sorta related story.

I worked for a cable channel (TechTV) in the late 90s early 2ks (until Comcast bought it, laid everyone off and turned it into G4) this was the early days of cable VOD. At that time you had to pay a service by the minute to watch your video before they’d distribute it. That was the QA forced on you by the cable companies.

The fun note is that those services charged double for “adult” content.

Worked out better for Uber and Lyft. Say what you want about how ubiquitous those platforms are these days, they were unlicensed taxi services for years.