pmcollins

thank you for tweaking the title. the original, vague title plus the photo from 1957 (wtf) were misleading for me.

there’s an inflection point in the immigration rate to the usa right at that time. would have a depressing effect on wages, but not on productivity.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...

You don't have to read Tim Lee's writing to know how the latest FSD performs. There are lots of videos on YouTube, and new ones posted every day. My personal opinion is that this is a quantum leap over the previous implementation. Much respect to the engineers at Tesla for this amazing accomplishment.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+fsd+beta

Same in tiny Uruguay, but it's even more preposterous to say that they're trying to protect or incentivize a local consumer electronics manufacturing industry.

As a thought experiment, you could take the concept of tariffs and apply it to an ever decreasing geographic area. Maybe my city should try to protect its jobs and industry and therefore levy a 100% tariff on goods made in other cities. Same for my neighborhood or city block.

Ultimately, it's also a tragically regressive tax. Wealthy families that regularly travel to Miami or New York don't suffer much from it -- they just buy their electronics there. They may even make some money by bringing some home and selling the goods for much more than they paid.

If you're poor and you need to buy a laptop or phone on your meager salary, you're screwed.

Wonderful lecture series on Audible by Benjamin Schumacher:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Black-Holes-Tides-and-Curved-Spac...

apparently it’s designed for people who already know what google tv is

James Gosling has contributed more to humanity than the overwhelming majority of people who have ever lived. I think he deserves better than this narrow, one-sided libel.

Is there language about an incremental phase out, or just a cliff in the year 2035? Because if it's just a cliff then this executive order is worth... not much.

yeah, to me the name alone was such a red flag. i didn’t think anyone would fall for such a comically obvious attempt to ride tesla’s coattails, without a product or a ceo with any semblance of technical knowledge. sadly i was wrong.

Possibly unpopular opinion: Java's biggest mistake, by far, was annotations that define behavior at runtime.

So now we have consultingware like Spring where if something isn't working, it could because you missed an annotation somewhere, or put the right annotation in the wrong place. Which annotation? Where? Maybe you'll find out a week from now that you made a mistake, when a customer finds a bug in production.

This took all of the compile-time checking goodness that you got from Java and threw it in the garbage. Now you either have to call an expensive consultancy, read books/manuals about your gigantic framework (fun!), go on forums, etc. You can't just use your coding skills.

I still often use Java for my side projects because I love it without runtime annotations, but thank god for the rise of Golang. I'd rather deliver pizza than go back to the misery that is annotation-driven development in Java.

This is a quote from Puerto Rican attorney and politician Pedro Campos

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

I thought so too at first about the editorialized title, but there's this quote from the document:

> Epic fired the first shot in this dispute, and its willful, brazen, and unlawful conduct cannot be left unchecked.

The interesting thing is that this may not have been a heartless move, it seems to have been, from what I can tell, a well-meaning move that is going to hurt the very people politicians were trying to help. I feel like this is a theme of the last 100 years repeating itself over and over.

The road to hell...

What if you take the App Store to an extreme? Say, the App Store is so successful that iPhones and Macs are almost free -- paid for by the lifetime expected amount Apple will make from any and all apps sold on those devices. Would this be bad for the consumer? I feel like this is Apple's perspective: the app store subsidizes devices and helps consumers.

OTOH, the thing about Epic is I think they're incredibly generous with their developers and with their customers. You can play Fortnite for free, and are only charged if you want to buy a vanity item. And if you develop using Unreal Engine, you're only charged if you literally make millions of dollars. I can see being pissed off at Apple for being incredibly rapacious, wrecking their standing with developers, and undermining their own platform. I, for one, will never develop for Apple again after awful experiences with two apps I developed for their store.

Ultimately, IMO Apple is hurting themselves very badly, but I think it might be their right to do so.

Is this the same author that wrote this legendary StackOverflow response?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

Same style, methinks.

This Elon tweet adds context:

> San Joaquin County, right next door to Alameda, has been sensible & reasonable, whereas Alameda has been irrational & detached from reality. Our castings foundry and other faculties in San Joaquin have been working 24/7 this entire time with no ill effects. Same with Giga Nevada.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259163638142660618?s=20

Texting while driving should be treated with the same severity as drunk driving. Full stop.

Unpopular opinion: though a cause for concern, a video playing near a driver's windshield is far less dangerous than a driver taking their eyes off the road, looking down at their phone, context switching, and interacting with it. In my area distracted driving is epidemic -- I just assume that most of the folks rear ending each other in broad daylight are the direct result of drivers looking down at their phone.

It has a two-speed transmission, which should help with high-speed performance. https://insideevs.com/news/343827/porsche-taycan-2-speed-rea...

But one of the advantages of an electric car for me is the possibility of no (variable) transmission. I don't want clutches that are constantly wearing down as I drive. For me this is not about money or maintenance headaches, but about elegance.

I'm not a cyclist, but I want to be. I don't bike because doing so is way too dangerous with the number of drivers who are paying extremely close attention to their phones and not to driving. And yeah, some drivers are rude too.

I think the most dangerous time to be a cyclist or pedestrian is right now. Smartphones are ubiquitous, distracted-driving enforcement is very weak (non-existent in my area), and self-driving is alpha quality.

When I want to buy something from Apple I can buy it from apple.com and have it shipped to me, but the last time I did this their "two day shipping" took a full week. Never again. Or I can buy it from Amazon, but last time I bought an Apple product from Amazon, I didn't notice it was counterfeit until well after the return window. Never again. Or I can buy it from their physical store. Last time I bought AirPods I drove 45 minutes to the Apple Store and had to wait for 10 minutes for the employee who was going to check me out to answer questions for the customer ahead of me, even though all he needed to do was swipe my credit card (there's a category of products that you can't self-checkout and it includes AirPods).

I used to listen to a radio show hosted by a law professor and iirc he said that airport security doesn't violate the privacy amendment because you don't have to fly. When you choose to fly you implicitly wave those rights. How is this different?

So if a very capable, a hard working, effective person is able to increase their wealth by 20x, and in so doing increases my wealth by 2x without my doing anything, you'd be in favor of using the power of the state to prevent this from happening because it would increase inequality?

Looks like they climbed and maintained ~5000 feet after takeoff, presumably to figure out what was going on before returning to the airport. Wouldn't call that crazy low.

In my state, the phenomenon of attempting to drive while looking at and manipulating one's phone is absolutely epidemic. When a light turns green, the cars in front often don't move and the cars behind them often don't honk because they're engaged with their smartphones too. It's particularly disturbing when you're on a 50mph road with one lane in each direction and you pass a car by a few feet going the other way at a closing speed of 100mph and all you see is the other driver's eyelids and the top of their head.

The article mentions a 3% increase in deaths since 2011 despite cars getting safer, but 2011 correlates to the start of the total ubiquity of the smartphone as well.

On the other hand, I've had some very sketchy Uber/Lyft rides involving extremely late lane changes, almost missing turns/offramps and trying to dive in at the last second. The combination of often younger people who might end up driving for Uber/Lyft, often driving unfamiliar routes, relying on the instructions provided by a phone attached four feet away, while engaged in a conversation with passengers, is probably generally not as safe as you driving yourself along a familiar route.

But it would be quite a feat of analysis if anybody were able to disentangle the effect of Uber/Lyft from other changes since 2011.

I bought a problematic item on Amazon and left a negative review. The seller contacted me three times via email and offered me $30 (the cost of the item) to remove the review. I didn't take it but maybe others had. And I wonder if I was duped into buying the thing because previous negative reviewers had been bought off.

Considering the fake reviews and the number of counterfeit items I've received from Amazon, I default to Costco, Target, Lowes, etc. for shopping now. I have a lot more confidence that their suppliers and their vetting of products are legit.

I consider Amazon a flea market at this point. I'll buy some things at a flea market, but not much.

Most code review ends up being pair/team programming gone horribly awry. There's a lot of ego involved, it's slow and cumbersome, it's emotionally painful, and the metaphor is wrong (a panel of judges inspecting a lone defendant rather than a team collaborating on an engineering artifact).

I recently had the opportunity to work with other developers on a project by displaying a laptop onto a giant screen while we all sat on a couch and drank coffee: it was fun and we produced a high quality result. After years of code review, on the other hand, I can say that code review is painful, expensive, and mediocre.

I'm hoping that as software 'eats the world' and provides ever more value to larger numbers of people, companies will realize that putting a single developer on an engineering problem, and having the solution be submitted for review to the rest of the team after the solution has been designed is both unkind to your employees and bad business.

> Musk tweeted in an effort to destroy the shorts

Is there any evidence that this was his intent? How do you know that he didn't actually intend to take the company private?

I was puzzled this week when I received an email offering me $30 to delete an accurate, but negative review I posted a few weeks ago. I also received yet another counterfeit item recently. Retailers should be happy about the rate at which Amazon is squandering trust.

My wife is a data scientist and this is one of her favorite quotes, from Dan Ariely:

Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it...

https://www.facebook.com/dan.ariely/posts/904383595868