fffernan | 3 months ago | on: Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
Seems like a pretty good investment. Leading EV company and 1tn +. Lots of white collar jobs.
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fffernan | 7 months ago | on: Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer
Don't worry they will offer you Rivermind Plus soon to solve all the problems
fffernan | 1 year ago | on: OpenAI Says It's "Over" If It Can't Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
Last I checked Google is not buying or pirating books for Google Search they just grab free data that has been provided.
fffernan | 1 year ago | on: The First Suburb
In China they went and built a ton of housing, but then people don't want to live in those cities and their population has peaked up. So forcing housing solutions doesn't necessarily end well either.
fffernan | 1 year ago | on: Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine
Even better is to wear a mask (not to prevent virus from coming in that's silly air gets around it) but to keep your nasal passages moist during a high altitude flight. Japanese have known this for years and why they wear masks so much.
fffernan | 2 years ago | on: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft [video]
Happens to me all the time in Kerbal
fffernan | 2 years ago | on: Volvo Cars Adopts Tesla's NACS Port in the United States, Canada and Mexico
They should have responded 10 years ago and built a reliable charging network across the globe.
fffernan | 3 years ago | on: Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing
Considering Inflation its actually a reduction in spending.
fffernan | 4 years ago | on: OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider
not to mention you can use that as a way to spy and choke your competition out when they rely on you
fffernan | 5 years ago | on: Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)
I'm wondering if someone could file HIPAA complaint at them and get these things classified as Medical Devices and shut this sharing of bio data down. A simple opt-out doesn't fly with HIPAA. It requires a signature that you will allow another person to access your medical records.
fffernan | 5 years ago | on: Microservices Considered Harmful (2019)
For the most part this level of microservice solves the problem of: New engineering leader comes in. New engineering Leader wants to rewrite the entire thing cause "it sucks". Business doesn't have resources to rewrite (for the nth time). New leader and business compromise to create a microservice. Rinse and repeat. Cloud/container/VM tech as really allowed this pattern to work. The art of taking over an existing codebase, keeping it going at low cost, low overhead is gone. Nobody's promo packet is fulled with sustainment work. One microservice per promotion. Etc etc.
fffernan | 6 years ago | on: The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (2012)
I never dictate process to my teams, but then when i see them floundering around. "Maybe you should have a daily?" Then 2 weeks later "We had this great idea! We are going to meet daily!". If a manager is involved in Scrum its not really scrum...
fffernan | 6 years ago | on: Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate Lobbyists
Why Nerds? Let's hire people who are technically capable to do the job.
The future is here. The minimum level of knowledge to be functional in society has increased. Lazy folks who don't pick up a book or take a course like to label the capable people as nerds.
fffernan | 6 years ago | on: The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction
Disagree. Plenty of perverts in many countries. Do some googling about the guys in trench coats on trains in Japan.
fffernan | 6 years ago | on: 2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT
It's even better you can get 200mi of range in 35 minutes now with a model 3. Soon 300 miles in 15 minutes will be possible...
fffernan | 7 years ago | on: Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums
I call it "early adopters". This proposition basically secures guaranteed profits over 5 years. Once I saw this I did whatever I could do to buy California property. It's like a pyramid scheme, as long as people keep hitting big on those startups :-).
fffernan | 7 years ago | on: Apple was overtaken by Huawei in global smartphone sales
Strange like the government in China is subsidizing it?
fffernan | 7 years ago | on: Average annual hours worked per country
You would also have to factor the amount of time spent socializing at work versus actually doing work. In Japan most of your friends are at work, and relationships are in work. Lots of coffee breaks, chatting about non work related matters,etc,etc. 8 hours spent at the office in US is much more work being done than 12 hours of busy Asian country. That being said there certainly was a good amount of people actually working themselves to death for 15hours day actually working while their bosses did not much work. Source: Worked at a Japanese company for almost a decade.
fffernan | 8 years ago | on: Beset by Homelessness, Rising Rents, SF Cracks Down on Dockless Scooters
Can we add "roads worse than 3rd world countries" to the list?
fffernan | 8 years ago | on: Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
Bose BT headphones have two inputs. I usually have my phone and laptop connected. It has some priority sorting order which seems to work well.
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