Traveling in the US it can often feel like everyone wants to scam you or take advantage of you if you don’t pay attention.

Heck, even store prices and restaurant prices aren’t the real price.

Store prices are without sales tax/VAT, and restaurants wants you to tip 20% so they can keep not paying their “employees”.

People are still looking for problems to which blockchain is the solution.

So far we’ve found none.

This is a horrible form of protest because it is likely to cause property damage as most people are completely blind and oblivious and will drive on their now deflated tires for a bit before realizing something is wrong.

That will likely ruin the tire and possibly also damage the rim.

Second, you have no idea who you hurt and the repercussions of it.

There’s no immediate “big car = bad person” logic that’s valid.

If you want to protest in a meaningful manner you should support politicians who want to increase taxes for fossil fuels.

There’s a reason the average engine size (and thus vehicle size) is lower in Europe, and it’s not small streets and parking spaces.

Obviously since giant cars never took off here we didn’t scale things to fit, but that’s a chicken and egg thing.

I used to think DisplayPort was the future, about 10-13 years ago.

By now I feel it has come and gone.

HDMI 2.1+ is making its way in everywhere.

• It’s a better plug.
• It tends to support enough pixels/Hz for most people.
• It’s more ubiquitous, being on both TV’s laptops, and monitors.

Pretty sure the PC desktop segment will keep the port alive for a while, but right now it doesn’t seem like a very useful port apart from having a plug that claws itself in place and is often unnecessarily hard to unplug.

With Ultra High Speed HDMI (these names are ridiculous, seriously, look at the standard names) there’s very few, if any, reasons to use DP, apart from compliant HDMI cables costing an arm and a leg.

To be honest I’m struggling a bit to understand why it’s not just all pushed through a CAT6/7 Ethernet cable at this point.

It’s a common misconception that blockchain gives trust. If you control a majority of nodes in a Blockchain system you decide what the truth is.

This opens the door for illicit players to manipulate things their way.

Lack of trust doesn’t replace trust.

Central, provable/accountable, trust is needed for financial systems to work.

Everything else is “Wild West”.

Ideas usually aren’t the problem.

Executing on an idea is though, and executing successfully on an idea is even harder.

As such it stands to reason that people with real business experience, connections and network are more likely to have success in executing an idea.

Chance of success is low. I think it was somewhere around 13% of startups that “make it” long enough to be deemed successful.

But it doesn’t mean they have better ideas, or as the headline suggests - “are more radical”.

You almost had me there - until you claimed Apples business plan was to sell to stupid people.

And here I thought it was if it said IoT on the box 🙈

I saw a video years ago discussing this topic.

How good is “good enough” for self-driving cars?

The bar is much higher than it is for human drivers because we downplay our own shortcomings and think that we have less risk than the average driver.

Humans can be good drivers, sure. But we have serious attention deficits. This means it doesn’t take a big distraction before we blow a red light or fail to observe a pedestrian.

Hell, lot of humans fail to observe and yield to emergency vehicles as well.

But none of that is newsworthy, but an autonomous vehicle failing to yield is.

My personal opinion is that the Cruise vehicles are as ready for operational use as Teslas FSD, ie. should not be allowed.

Obviously corporations will push to be allowed so they can start making money, but this is probably also the biggest threat to a self-driving future.

Regulated so strongly that humans end up being the ones in the driver seat for another few decades - with the cost in human lives which that involves.

He’s not saying Zoom is a bad product.

Teams and Zoom are great for remote work, and I get how a lot of people love just dialing in to meetings, but there’s definitely a different dynamic to being in the office.

During the pandemic my dev team grew from two people to six. Since it was in waves we got to try being at the office and being at home using remote work only interchangeably.

Especially as a manager I see the benefits of working in the office. Not necessarily every day, but regularly.

Not necessarily from a raw productivity perspective. The office has a lot of apparent drawbacks, but these drawbacks are what triggers the dynamic that makes the office better - at least for me and my team.

I find that the office conversations triggers more ideas and better collaboration.

With my manager hat on I find that it’s easier for me to see if I need to get involved in discussions or let people handle it themselves.

People are different, teams are different, but it’s not black and white.

People love the flexibility of remote work, and some people are certainly better off working “alone” at home than being with the team, but for me it’s all about finding the balance. I don’t want to micromanage anyone, but there’s a reason a lot of people need managers, and that is simply that left to their own devices they will start working on 200 things and not finish anything.

As boring as it is our job is to deliver value to the company.

But on occasion, I will let people run wild with ideas and see where it goes. And then rein them back in when there are deadlines to be met.

Author seems to think that starting salary for developers working for Google is representative as well. The average computer science graduate does not get a job at Google.

People who learn to code because it means job security are not the ones we look to hire. We look for people who are passionate about it, whose interest in the subject is deeper than skin deep.

Not looking for people who live and breathe code, but you need to like to solve problems and like to learn new things.

If the weight of the car stopped her from breathing it would have been a very different thing.

You are adapting your arguments to the situation.

It should be clear that no self-driving car will ever know what “the right thing” is in cases like this and it would require human interaction/intervention to resolve*. This is simply because the car would be unable to gather the necessary information about the situation.

That should not deter us from adopting self-driving, as self-driving vehicles will be the biggest boon to pedestrian safety seen since the advent of urbanization.

* One could obviously imagine a future where other vehicles could contribute information about the situation so that the vehicle in question could take actions and react based on what happens around it and seeing different perspectives than its own. Interactions with robots or drones could potentially also contribute information or actively aid in the situation.

If the vehicle was intelligent enough to converse with other humans or even the human in question, or at least use human voice to gather information to aid its decision making this could also be different. But the vehicle itself will always struggle with the lack of information about what is actually going on in a situation like this.

At best they did, at worst this somehow comes off as “better”, because they anchored the “worse” alternative first.

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/dealmaking-daily/dealmaking-grappling-with-anchors-in-negotiation/

Likely this price model is worth a lot to them anyway, because there likely some big fish that are stuck in, and who are better off just paying Unity than sinking all that development cost to switch to a different engine.

The small projects that go under or jumps ship is probably not worth that much to them anyway, but probably generates an ongoing support cost neither way.

Thus, cynically speaking, Unity is probably better off like this, and they even got some PR out of it. Wether good or bad.

Ars mentions that Apple (on average) now supports new Mac’s for 7 years, but even though Apple stops delivering updates at least the (non-Safari) browsers and other software may continue to receive updates for quite a bit longer.

In this day and age browser security is the first and most important line of defense, and as long as your browser is updated and your firewall is up you can have some sense of security.

I personally never touched a Chromebook, and have no idea how hard it is to get Linux onto them, but it sure proves Stallmans old argument about freedom.

Fossil methane is still fossil. Ie. not part of the CO2 cycle, and thus contributing to the greenhouse effect. Methane itself is 20 times more potent, and we should do everything we can to limit methane emissions, both fossil and natural.

Agriculture is a big source of natural methane emissions, and even fairly small dietary changes can significantly reduce livestock emissions, but don’t see anyone doing that either.

Highly suspect small gas line leaks won’t be fixed either.

The biggest problem is people trying to peddle it as currency.

It isn’t currency, never will be. Much more alike to bonds.

It’s an investment object with a speculative value, and no tangible value. The only value it has is what the next guy is willing to pay for it.

While currency is deflationary by nature, crypto is entirely based on demand and supply, and sure, as long as people think it will be worth more tomorrow - sky’s the limit.

Like any pyramid scheme it pays out to get in early, and get out before it collapses.

Relying on crypto is high stakes gambling, and people being people is the only reason I can find for it not having collapsed totally already.

There are rules for you and me, and there are different ones for people of means and influence.

How Trump has managed to remain the prior and, and how on earth he managed to gain the latter still baffles me.

I used to think that not having a built in rechargeable battery was a dull idea.

However: Whenever I wanted to play on my PS3 the batteries were empty and the controllers needed to be recharged.

Around the time I got my first Xbox I came to the realization that I had more units than I ever thought consuming AA or AAA batteries, so I decided to go all in on rechargeable batteries.

I love it. Whenever my Xbox tells me that the controller needs new batteries it takes me 20 seconds to swap in a new pair.

I don’t ever think about having to plug the controller. I don’t care if I pick it up and it’s dead. Etc. etc.

And best of all, there’s literally no drain when it sleeps. My switch controllers drains the battery when it’s resting. The PS3 drains the controller. Don’t know about the PS4 and PS5.

Writing code that can’t be scientifically proven to be correct on all hardware it might run on means you don’t care about code quality. /s

The Internet is full of people with a bloated ego trying to justify their opinion and gatekeeping others.

I see this more and more in software as well.

Not sure if it’s always been like this, or if I just notice it more.

Same way there’s thousands of people giving you a guide to write a task list in , but as soon as you want to use anything slightly more complex than what you can learn from working a few hours with something you quickly run out of material and is usually left to fend for yourself.

Not OP, but “something else from another company” is the only thing that makes sense.

But (most of that) that’s the display port standard, not the plug.

DisplayPort over USB-C works mostly fine, except that it’s “fine”, not perfect. Daisy chaining tends to make it less fine.

It’s a better standard, but a worse plug. Important distinction.

That doesn’t matter in the long run though. Better doesn’t always win.

Just look at how USB won over FireWire. And FireWire could daisy chain too

My iPhone 13 Pro syncs slower over USB than my second generation iPod did over FireWire.

While I obviously can’t blame that fully on USB, it’s an ironic observation, especially since my OG iPod would be 21 years old now, if it still worked.

I’ll make my own DNS, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget about the DNS!

Who would you elect after being displaced into the world’s largest prison by someone who took over your home 60 years ago?

Not defending the actions of Hamas, but such an outcome was more or less inevitable. Hate breeds hate.

Most of the sysadmins I know have incredibly high tolerances for friction, but ridiculously low tolerances for repetitive tasks. Which I think is a bit ironic.

I’m not sure this crowd will be representative in terms of which tools and services they use (or prefer to use).

Until the backups don’t work.

Untested backups can hold all sorts of surprises.

Sadly, testing backups is a lot of work and is rarely done.

Same MO as always. If you’re not with Israel (the country) you are anti-Semitic, have forgotten about the Holocaust (which you should feel ashamed of letting happen), and support terrorism.

And most of the world think that it’s too young.

Just because something is allowed by law in one country doesn’t invalidate arguments about it being immoral.

Having sex with animals is “allowed” (by not being illegal) in many countries. I would still argue that it is immoral.

“Small business” are always being peddled out for things like this.

“Ironically” small business thrives better in countries with socialized health care and good social security safety nets.

You can take SpaceX out of the equation and it still is a massive money spend.

Compare the cost of the entire Apollo program (adjusted for inflation) to the SLS program.

You might be surprised.

Firefox never included an ad-blocker by default because an Ad-blocker kinda does the opposite of what the web-browser is supposed to do.

A web browser shall render the web page according to specification. Blocking content hinders this behavior and will even break some websites.

I think most people have forgotten that 15 years ago web browsers had barely started becoming standards compliant, with Opera being the first(?) to pass the Acid2 rendering test in 2006.

For reference: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2006/03/opera-passes-acid2/

A user installing an ad-blocker is perfectly fine, and hopefully the user makes an informed decision of advantages and the possible disadvantages that said ad-blocker might have.

And it’s also fine for fringe browsers like Brave to have a default ad-blocker, but there’s a big difference from that to just putting one in a product that’s used by millions, even though most users would likely be happy with the change.

Chances are if you buy a high-end PC you’ll buy another one (or spend enough on upgrades to cost the same as another one) by the end of the console generation.

And let’s be honest. PC gaming has become ridiculously expensive due to first crypto and now AI.

I paid less for my Xbox Series X in October 2020 than I paid for my 3070Ti - which incidentally still costs more than when I bought it over a year ago.

Console games still cost an arm and a leg, and there’s only a handful of games I actually prefer playing on the couch with a controller, but given the inflated gaming pc prices it’s hard to argue that consoles are “as expensive”.

As a lifelong PC gamer I simply will not pay for online gaming, but Microsoft and Sony will continue to push in that direction as long as people let them.

That is a good question.

I suspect the answer can be found by looking at the Linux ecosystem.

20,000 opinions and 200 of them are willing to build their own distribution.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Unix and Linux, but there’s a metric ton of toxic personalities involved.

I’m sure a lot of it can be attributed to people having to be somewhere on the spectrum to even spend time contributing to free software on their own spare time, but a lot of people who build their own stuff tend to get quite attached to it as well.

Maybe all this friction actually is a good thing and it causes progress, but on the other hand I can’t help to think about where we could have been if everyone was pulling in the same direction.

“Mobile home dragged away” isn’t exactly an interesting part of this.

Yeah, uhm. The devastation is a bit worse than that…

A hydro power plant dam burst today (https://www.nrk.no/video/b946703e-6681-4520-8ca4-a0d0377d7a66), houses taken by mudslide or flood slides, houses and cars flooded, all major roads between the big cities, except one, is blocked or closed somewhere along the route.

Train tracks and a train bridge taken out. Roads wiped out.

They said in the beginning it was a “one in 25 years” flood, now it’s one in 500.

And it’s not really winds that are problematic, just the sheer amount of rain.

So a single person driving a 7 seater Volvo XC90 passes muster, but a family of four with the five seater doesn’t?

Plus the lawyers defending Trump must seriously be bottom feeders. It’s not the kind of lawyers that is good for society.

You can, but they’re hard to come by where I live at least. I have two, but they’re Mini DP to DP. So haven’t gotten to use them since I was running my 970 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We also have 10-30 cables of each of the usual lengths in the IT supply room at the office, and they all have the same mechanism, no matter what manufacturer was chosen during purchasing.

And then, once in a while, you come across a screen where the port is rotated 180 degrees so the push is between the plug and the back of the screen and you basically need child labor to unplug it in proper manner.

My thoughts exactly.

13-14 years ago when smart phones were fairly novel people actually left meaningful app reviews.

Today people only bother if they’re discontent or lured into it.

Not really.

While, obviously there’s a chance that the power washer draws too much energy and could start a fire, the most likely scenario is that it draws too much starting power for a “quick” fuse and the fuse trips when you start it but sustained load is fine.

A simple replacement of the fuse in question would have alleviated the problem.

Forcing it to stay on is all kinds of wrong, but the power washer is unlikely to burn the house down.

Any other electrical fault on the other hand, could easily do it.

Electricity is the one place where Dunning-Kruger hits hard, the other is plumbing.

My sister and BIL bought an apartment some years back. The first thing I see when I enter the kitchen is code violation.

There’s a plug in a socket in the middle of the wall with a wire going behind the kitchen cabinets.

We took the fridge out and found it went into an extension cord and then there was a plug going to a … fuck it … here’s the picture:

But wait! It gets worse:

(Look at the top)

My BIL decided to go full Dunning-Kruger and did nothing with the death trap until an electrical inspection six years later.

Or you can just add contempt and multiple charges of witness tampering on top?

At least it sounds like you learned a lot from it :)