short_throw's comments

If you want learn how things scale across a team and last years, read or contribute to open source code.

It takes years for a single person to get a project to the point where it's a good learning ground for scaling and maintenance.

Gluing a few libraries together is real software engineering but unless you're really invested in the outcome it's not that engaging and it's not that educational.

For much of the developed world, the ratio of retirees to working age people is going to get a larger, causing economic difficulties across age groups.

Healthcare for the elderly will put huge strain on government budgets.

With the young struggling to afford housing with fulltime work, I find the authors disappointments about not getting those lavish vacations obnoxious.

Bunnie's "Hacking the Xbox" is still one of my favorite books ever. First read it as a teenager, it was my intro to bootloaders, encryption, copyright law, and so much more.

> YouTube has no financial incentive...

Nonsense. A Google controlled browser runs plugins Google allows with privacy settings Google creates. More data and no ad blockers is worth many billions of dollars to YouTube in the long run.

They directly benefit from people thinking Firefox is slow.

It's still a serious structural defect.

The importance of the distinction here is that Tesla can't argue the customer caused this...a cold shut can only happen at casting time.

Identical twins may both die of a heart attack, but not usually at the same time.

Normally, failures come from some amount of non-repeatability or randomness that the systems weren't robust to.

The drive industry is special (in a bad way) in that they can exactly reproduce their flaws, and most people's intuition isn't prepared for that.

A healthy marriage of two people treating each other as equals takes a lot of communication, and that almost certainly can't be scaled 10x, nor do the same principles apply when someone is only getting 10%.

In traditional polygamy, the man with 10 wives would be the head of household for 10 wives with competing interests, so it does start to sound very managerial.

"You could have learned that stuff in the last 6 months"

"You might have to hand in your power user card over that one"

And these attitudes are why most consumers almost exclusively use proprietary software. You have to let people be lazy to get mass adoption. Businesses know and exploit this, the foss world writes tools with steep learning curves and says "take it or leave it." And that's perfectly fine as long as we can be honest with ourselves: the vast majority of people will never invest the time to learn to use cmd line applications, or debug wifi drivers, or learn to use an environment that's more complicated than what they already have. Time is money so even a highly motivated person should question spending months to learn new tools.

I love Linux for being superior for servers and hackable and having so much powerful software available for free...but if I weren't a software developer and I didn't enjoy this stuff there'd be no justification for the time I spent learning it.

If you aren't familiar with Ray Dalio's Principles for a Changing World Order, I can't recommend it enough (both the book and the YouTube video). You'll understand a lot better where the U.S. is in it's history and why so much is the way it is.

https://youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8

I'm a bit perplexed that you see trashing a man's character with certainty as right and pondering if his actions could reflect a struggle with mental illness as wrong.

I don't like Musk, nor do I trust the things he says, but I usually err on the side of granting people some humanity.

I was just waiting to hear that the parameter loading wasn't available in some edge case scenario and code review changes took down the system.

But actually this is a story about the process working.

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

If no one speaks than you can't differentiate a false alarm from someone who can't breathe, or is hiding from an attacker, or is too hurt to put the phone to their ear.

It's a massive nuisance unless someone gets on to say it was a mistake...and if someone didn't notice their phone buzzing before it made the call they aren't gonna pick up.

If you think the entirety of corruption in the US is recent and tied to a specific family you need to switch to a media source with more nuance.

There are tradeoffs here, but the current approach seems to protect people's inheritances better than people's lives.

Selling straight up snake oil is still fraud, and letting money be thrown at overhyped but ineffective treatments is a smaller tragedy than forcing people to die when treatments exist.

You will find the second law of thermodynamics very disappointing.

I'm 2 for 2 with SanDisk ssds suddenly dieing due to the controller going out way short of the drive's expected life.

That was years before this issue but my rule of never buying a SanDisk product again is serving me well.

I'm like you, Asus router on stock firmware and happy. In my case I set that up after a bad experience with openwrt.

Years ago I bought a $100 gigabit Linksys router, immediately flashed it with openwrt, and set it up. I assumed my isp was the reason my download speeds were struggling to hit 100mbps (new house and network all at once), and later when I bought my first NAS I assumed hdds are just inherently slow.

I had abysmal network performance for over a year before I figured out my gigabit router was the performance bottleneck, my isp was giving me 3x what the router could handle. The reason for the terrible performance was that openwrt doesn't have the closed source binary blobs to run hardware accelerated routing, instead everything gets squeezed through the cpu, and my router couldn't do it.

So basically, many routers lose performance, in my case I got a 10x performance drop, and openwrts website is all but useless for telling you which routers to buy.

All I can say is be careful blindly installing openwrt unless your router has a CPU that's complete overkill for what you want to do...and none of the mid range consumer combined routers/access points meet that criteria.

Gotta switch to some a4988s so the machine can moan back.

The founders of the United States thought it was too dangerous to let a democratic government influence the media, which is why we have the first amendment.

Rival nations with totalitarian governments are now exercising control over US media to cover up terrible human rights abuses and influence US politics...and your only feeling on the subject is "meh not illegal"?

Foreign propaganda is an existential threat to a democracy, we can't look the other way as us media giants cede control to other nations.