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Even their washing machines have AI!

Pretty sure the Subaru Crosstrek mentioned in the article doesn't have one, but a WRX STI (also marketed as "AWD") has a lockable center diff.

I agree with the other comment: if the Parks Service wants locking diffs (or ride height or whatever else) they should say so, not rely on inconsistent marketing terms.

I think what you're saying is true for www, but not fbcode, and the later starts to look a lot like google3. I agree though, Meta's www codebase has the best developer experience in the industry.

You might be right that SWEs have the biggest egos compared to other engineering disciplines. When I've worked with mechanical and electrical engineers, that was the case.

But where I work now, the biggest egos are easily the people around the SWEs - especially architects and product owners. Is that not the case where you work?

I’ve lived in Japan too and agree that they have a lot of plastic packaging on products.

But from what I can tell they still produce far less plastic waste per capita than Americans (about half, before disposal/recycling/incineration): https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/plastic-waste-per-capita

The Google style guide doesn’t disagree with you, it says to code exclusively for bash where possible (ie mostly everywhere inside Google) and to prefer [[ over [ and test:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html#s6.3-tes...

In a scenario where you also need to support shells other than bash, Google’s shell style guide doesn’t say to use [ over test.

8000 pedestrians killed vs 104,000 emergency visits for non fatal crash related injuries:

https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...

Weight is directly called out as a factor:

> SUVs can cause more harm to a person on foot when a crash occurs because of their greater body weight and larger profile

The vast majority of pedestrians survive getting hit by a car, not all incidents happen at highway speeds. A difference between a mass of 1 and 3 tons would absolutely make a difference in lethality.

I don't mean for this to sound judgemental, I'm also very supportive of full-time parenting for those who want to do it.

But I do feel like daycare/preschool brings us closer to the traditional "it takes a village" model of raising a child, rather than the isolated 1950s suburban housewife model.

So it's not all about economic efficiencies, but also the value that society gets out of it. A child is socialised with other kids, and learns from adults other than their parents too.

But usually there’s a one-way flow of intent from the human to the tool. With a lot of AI the feedback loop gets closed, and people are using it to help them make decisions, and might be taken far from the good outcome they were seeking.

You can already see this today’s internet. I’m sure the pizzagate people genuinely believed they were doing a good thing.

This isn’t the same as an amoral tool like a knife, where a human decides between cutting vegetables or stabbing people.

Does anyone else just get stuck in a “I’m not a robot” loop with these links now?

There are some benefits, but it does complicate the transaction significantly. It's no longer between two parties (a consumer and a merchant), there are now at least two more: a lender and a credit bureau.

And that's why we're in this mess to begin with. Credit card transactions are reported to credit bureaus (from a quick web search, it looks like debit card transactions aren't) and this normalizes the idea that your financial data should be shared freely amongst finance companies.

There's really no such thing as a free lunch, or a free loan. When someone offers you one, it's good to understand how you're going to be paying for it.

Nothing about time is based on degrees of a circle, other than one specific way to visualise it - which many people don't use anymore and consider antiquated :)

If I’m buying a phone 4 years into the cycle, I don’t want to start with a 4-year-old CPU and camera. 5 years later, when I’m ready to get a new phone, that’ll be a 9-year-old CPU and camera. I’d rather have the latest tech when I buy it, and use it until it stops working.

I agree though that the physical design should stay the same, so that cases and accessories don’t need to be thrown away. Apple more-or-less does this with the iPhones, eg a case should work with any iPhone 12-14.

The article uses the terms "brand" and "prestige" in a way that I personally found confusing. To me a brand is an identity, and prestige is whether that brand/identity is seen in a positive way. But here's how the article defines them:

> Brand as a deliberately crafted, sustained narrative that is actively known about you. You don’t have to research Google engineering to have an opinion about Google engineering. In your career and as an engineering leader, you will likely be given the advice that it’s very important to build a brand.

> Prestige is the passive-awareness counterpart to brand. Rather than being what someone actively knows about you, it’s what someone can easily discover about you if they look for it. Many interviewers won’t know anything about me, but a few minutes of research will find my writing, conference talks, and work history.

This is more about whether whether one has built an identity that is "actively" or just "passively" known, and they're arguing that being passively known is just as good as actively known. Which I tend to agree with, not everyone can be a household name, nor needs to be. And it's overkill to market yourself to an extent that everyone actively knows who you are, even as an executive.

But it's a weird way to define the terms.

I remember when Gmail came out, it used JavaScript and XHR to create an experience that was a lot faster than having to go back to the server and re-render a full page.

But these days it’s actually the basic HTML mode that feels super fast. I’m not sure if this is because network and compute have improved at different speeds, or just that the js framework is super bloated.

Either way, if you haven’t tried it I’d recommend giving it a shot.

This is more about “Cmd+Tab” on app-oriented desktops like macOS or gnome. In these environments, cmd+tab will switch applications, not just windows, and this person wants neovim to be there alongside whatever other apps they run (eg safari, Finder).

There’s a similar problem where some people don’t like to search for email or chat tabs, so they install a “native” (electron) app like teams or slack so that it acts like more than just another browser tab.

The Nissan Leaf has an official 0-100km/h sprint time of 7.9 seconds, while the Leaf e+ achieves a sprint time of 6.9 seconds.

This is easily achievable by many ICE cars. You can get a Toyota Corolla that matches this (and I’m not talking about the GR Corolla).

> And home values are one thing that governments are most likely to protect through drastic policy changes

100%. Home owners are one of the most selfish voting blocs out there, and will punish politicians for not perpetuating unsustainable policies at the expense of the greater social good. That makes it a very good investment, at least until society completes its transition away from capitalism to a new kind of feudalism.

> Here's something you might not realize. The moment you sit in the passenger seat of a Subaru that uses connected services, you've consented to allow them to use -- and maybe even sell -- your personal information. According to their privacy policy, that means things like your name, location, "Audio recordings of Vehicle Occupants", and inferences they can draw about things like your "characteristics, predispositions, behavior, or attitudes." Call us bonkers, but we don't think that simply sitting in the passenger seat of someone's Subaru should mean you consent to having any of your personal information use for, well, pretty much anything at all. Let alone potentially sold to data brokers or shared with third party marketers so they can target you with ads about who knows what based on the the inferences they draw about you because you sat in the back seat of a Subaru in the mountains of Colorado. We're gonna really call out Subaru for this, because they lay it out so clearly in their privacy policy, but please know, Subaru isn't the only car company doing this sort of icky thing.

Am I reading this correctly? I could be a passenger in my friend's Subaru, or even in an Uber, and they claim they have a right to my personal data? Surely this isn't legal, there's no way they could claim to have consent for this...

> Taking a 20% cut for a bit of hosting and payment processing work is pretty greedy

What would be a reasonable cut? Looking at other content platforms, this doesn't really seem out of line: https://www.theverge.com/21445923/platform-fees-apps-games-b...

Calendar-based versioning gives a good sense of how old a version is. As an end user of LibreOffice this does a better job of helping me stay up to date, and tells me a lot more than semver - what is even the “public API” of a GUI app?

The “Unix philosophy” is a core part of the user interface to Unix systems. You might not care about this yourself, but I’d bet that most people do care about UI consistency.

If they paid as much money for each photo in the training data as people do for wedding photos, I’m sure the problem would go away.

I also suffer from rheumatism, and I spent years (and many hundreds of dollars) trying out split keyboards before finding out that my problems had nothing to do with wrist positions. I'm now typing comfortably on a rectangular chiclet (Apple Magic) keyboard.

It is harder, although people have tried to do it, e.g.: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289373031_Environme...

The only reason I care about Linux market share is because that’s the metric that hardware manufacturers and software vendors use to decide whether to provide Linux support.

This is why android and chrome os don’t count. Those operating systems are different enough from my fedora workstation installation that proprietary drivers and software won’t be useful to me.

On the other hand someone using another distro like Debian or Arch does help.

Of these 10M+ users, are there any good ones to follow for tech related content?

Is it common for people to describe servers as "weak" and "strong"?

I haven't heard this before, and when I was reading this initially I thought this example was going to be the example of tailoring words for non-technical managers.

I’m not claiming you live in the Midwest, just that the Midwest climate matches the Fahrenheit scale.

I believe you when you say you feel that way at those temperatures, but I personally wouldn’t wear just a t-shirt when at any temperature under 10C/50F.

So Fahrenheit matches the subjective temperature range where you might feel comfortable, but not me. And so you can’t make a general statement that it matches “human living conditions” when others think that Celsius better matches their comfortable range.