I think your main point is right, but there are many Costco members who are NOT shopping for "weeks of groceries" at a time, and many of them live in suburban or urban areas with high density. For example, I shop at…
It is significant if you don't want to sit at a computer all day just to MAYBE get basic functionality, then find you've backed yourself into a corner because you didn't know some esoteric detail and have to spend…
This just doesn't matter for a lot of us. We have LLMs that can tweak it and the tools work as intended. The whole point of this sentiment is that the personal tools wouldn't EXIST due to the time sink needed. The…
IMO, it's a bit disingenuous in 2026 to argue that technical college degrees exist for the sake of pure education and that we're best suited to continue pretending as such. The vast majority of students and employers…
I've been thinking along similar lines as you and really appreciate you posting this comment. I, too, think it's important to put dreams out there even if they have holes in their implementation or are easily torn apart…
Thanks for taking the time to write such a high quality reply; this is something I've wondered about for a long time and I appreciate the thought and detail you've shared here. :)
Low barrier to entry and hard to get fired once you're in. Rotten people put on a good face in the interview and then spread their misery around for decades to some of our most vulnerable. It happens in pretty much…
I'm willing to bet TPUs wouldn't be nearly as successful or sophisticated without the decades of GPU design and manufacturing that came before them. Current manufacturing numbers are a small part of the story of the…
Almost certainly not at the scale of the consumer gaming industry, however!
We don't need to know the exact boundaries of what's acceptable to recognize obviously harmful behavior and make efforts to stop it on a societal level. This is the classic "perfect is the enemy of the good" type…
The drug so popular no one thinks of it as a drug any more.
Criticism without a better solution is only so valuable. How would you do this instead, and why?
I was in an extremely good spot financially when I quit (years of runway) due to living well below my paycheck for years of working at FAANG. I was terrified to do so, but the only alternative I could see at the time…
I went through the exact same thing as you, and I needed some time to explore different ways of living. I tried being a drone pilot, a kayak guide, and a paddleboard instructor and learned a lot in the process. After…
You cycle multiple packs to run for hours. Your battery blower sounds like it's just not very good. I can move piles of wet leaves easily with my makita blower that uses two 18v batteries. It's a pretty old model too.…
Corded yard tools will always suck because they can only pull <15A on a standard US outlet. They just don't have the juice. It's always better to go with batteries for electric outdoor stuff for that (and other) reasons.
It seems very likely to me that the sensations experienced during exercise are highly variable among individuals. I say this because my experience is very different from yours: I get a very perceptible "high" once I get…
There is no universally "correct" granularity. You could easily scoff the same way about some number of API endpoints, class methods, config options, etc, and it still wouldn't be meaningful without context. It's ok to…
It's useful to get "glue" code out of the way while building, but to the point in the article it all becomes very difficult to debug and maintain once there are problems in the that layer. Spring Boot and other similar…
Fabrice is certainly very skilled in CS, but his achievements are more in software implementation IMO. AIUI the Turing award is primarily CS focused.
The world is too complex, and life paths too varied, to reliably assume "everyone" in a community or group knows about some fact. You're usually deep within a social bubble of some sort if you find yourself assuming…
Hah, that exact transition was my last project there before I decided I had had enough! The GPM team was hugely passionate about music and curating a good experience for users, but YT leadership just wanted us to "reuse…
As someone who used to work there, Google will never get product releases right in general because of how bureaucratic and heavyweight their launch processes are. They force the developing team to have a huge number of…
I'm pretty sure most PS controllers use Bluetooth natively if they're not connected via USB.
Almost everyone is using these controllers wirelessly if I had to hazard a guess. The USB interface is used for initial pairing and charging, in which case the port location doesn't matter nearly as much.
I think your main point is right, but there are many Costco members who are NOT shopping for "weeks of groceries" at a time, and many of them live in suburban or urban areas with high density. For example, I shop at…
It is significant if you don't want to sit at a computer all day just to MAYBE get basic functionality, then find you've backed yourself into a corner because you didn't know some esoteric detail and have to spend…
This just doesn't matter for a lot of us. We have LLMs that can tweak it and the tools work as intended. The whole point of this sentiment is that the personal tools wouldn't EXIST due to the time sink needed. The…
IMO, it's a bit disingenuous in 2026 to argue that technical college degrees exist for the sake of pure education and that we're best suited to continue pretending as such. The vast majority of students and employers…
I've been thinking along similar lines as you and really appreciate you posting this comment. I, too, think it's important to put dreams out there even if they have holes in their implementation or are easily torn apart…
Thanks for taking the time to write such a high quality reply; this is something I've wondered about for a long time and I appreciate the thought and detail you've shared here. :)
Low barrier to entry and hard to get fired once you're in. Rotten people put on a good face in the interview and then spread their misery around for decades to some of our most vulnerable. It happens in pretty much…
I'm willing to bet TPUs wouldn't be nearly as successful or sophisticated without the decades of GPU design and manufacturing that came before them. Current manufacturing numbers are a small part of the story of the…
Almost certainly not at the scale of the consumer gaming industry, however!
We don't need to know the exact boundaries of what's acceptable to recognize obviously harmful behavior and make efforts to stop it on a societal level. This is the classic "perfect is the enemy of the good" type…
The drug so popular no one thinks of it as a drug any more.
Criticism without a better solution is only so valuable. How would you do this instead, and why?
I was in an extremely good spot financially when I quit (years of runway) due to living well below my paycheck for years of working at FAANG. I was terrified to do so, but the only alternative I could see at the time…
I went through the exact same thing as you, and I needed some time to explore different ways of living. I tried being a drone pilot, a kayak guide, and a paddleboard instructor and learned a lot in the process. After…
You cycle multiple packs to run for hours. Your battery blower sounds like it's just not very good. I can move piles of wet leaves easily with my makita blower that uses two 18v batteries. It's a pretty old model too.…
Corded yard tools will always suck because they can only pull <15A on a standard US outlet. They just don't have the juice. It's always better to go with batteries for electric outdoor stuff for that (and other) reasons.
It seems very likely to me that the sensations experienced during exercise are highly variable among individuals. I say this because my experience is very different from yours: I get a very perceptible "high" once I get…
There is no universally "correct" granularity. You could easily scoff the same way about some number of API endpoints, class methods, config options, etc, and it still wouldn't be meaningful without context. It's ok to…
It's useful to get "glue" code out of the way while building, but to the point in the article it all becomes very difficult to debug and maintain once there are problems in the that layer. Spring Boot and other similar…
Fabrice is certainly very skilled in CS, but his achievements are more in software implementation IMO. AIUI the Turing award is primarily CS focused.
The world is too complex, and life paths too varied, to reliably assume "everyone" in a community or group knows about some fact. You're usually deep within a social bubble of some sort if you find yourself assuming…
Hah, that exact transition was my last project there before I decided I had had enough! The GPM team was hugely passionate about music and curating a good experience for users, but YT leadership just wanted us to "reuse…
As someone who used to work there, Google will never get product releases right in general because of how bureaucratic and heavyweight their launch processes are. They force the developing team to have a huge number of…
I'm pretty sure most PS controllers use Bluetooth natively if they're not connected via USB.
Almost everyone is using these controllers wirelessly if I had to hazard a guess. The USB interface is used for initial pairing and charging, in which case the port location doesn't matter nearly as much.