“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” is among my all time favorite works.
It’s not as simple as stories about lonely people or marginalized people. She writes stories about people with invisible lives. Especially if you’re familiar with the aching sadness of small towns in the American South, McCullers is a must read.
She’s somewhere between “if Hemingway was a woman” and “if Denis Johnson lived in the 1940s”
If it’s going to take general artificial intelligent to get a voice assistant that can remember not one, but two entirely separate cooking timers, then so be it. Imagine the GPUs required!
I’m still baffled at Siri and Google assistant. Virtually zero innovation in a decade. I just want to be able to turn on BBC radio while my hands are wet, is that really so hard?!
“How many timers can you have going at one time? […] …I had 26 timers going at once, and the only reason I didn't have more running was because I got bored.”
That’s not really Apple’s style. More along the lines of “HomePod mini 2 features double the RAM, allowing for exciting new features like multiple kitchen timers. Pre-orders start Friday.”
The interface for switching between multiple timers sucks on the watch, the whole app does now. I don’t know how it’s handled on HomePods, though you can see them somewhere in the home app (yeah that’s discoverable).
But it works fine. And the interface is good on the phone.
It's been reportedly rewritten from scratch like five times, during which time people have not stopped posting claims that it's exactly the same as it was in 2010.
That you assume anyone who is even slightly hesitant to agree with you is a bad person is exactly the reason political statements, as good-intentioned as they may be, put people off.
I don’t need an extra risk when choosing a tool. A divisive political statement, like it or not, is an extra risk.
I agree with your point in general and dislike political drama which is often a headache, but people are starving and dying and being held hostage out there... so I don't really think this is the time where that sentiment is appropriate.
Some decades from now, a gesture like this might be seen as similar to Bram's fundraising for Uganda (Vim's start-up screen) which is worthy of appreciation too. Most likely, a negative reaction to this is because it's an emotionally charged topic in the news and on social media.
A casual glance at nuclear physics points to a world where we’re nowhere near our energy production capabilities. Automation sings along. And that argument would be salient if it was required - “economists say infinite growth is possible” is a strawman argument.
"Nowhere near" is not "literally infinite". How many nuclear reactors can you build with a finite amount of matter? See other comment. I'm not sure why pointing out that economists say, believe, and rely on infinite growth is a strawman when it is a statement of fact.
Okay, then find me the economist who believes in "literally infinite" growth. If you have a hard time finding _one person_ who is both a published economist and has no grasp of the basic laws of thermodynamics, then that view is probably not representative. This is the weakest possible form of the argument, hence the "straw".
I kind of figured the rebuttal was going to be "we don't literally mean literally infinite growth forever, but our models do, and we believe our models, don't call it a strawman."
If the rate of economic growth merely slows, we get a recession. What kind of hell happens if the rate goes negative and the economy shrinks? For too long? I don't feel obligated to point at any one person who says "yes I believe growth can continue infinitely forever" because it's the most basic assumption baked into economic models on how prosperity works. An assumption of infinite growth, and assumption that "progress" is also eternal, that there is always something more.
It is absolutely not the most basic assumption based into economic models. Neither you nor I can find one single person who believes that. It is the weakest possible form of an argument you are intentionally misconstruing. This is the straw in the straw man. The steelman version of that argument is "can logarithmic growth continue for one hundred thousand times longer than the expected lifetime of our sun?". I think it's actually quite easy to say yes to that. One fun idea here is Von Neumann probes[1].
There is infinite distance between infinity and a negative number.
Eh. Let the market decide. Yes Tesla overdid the touch controls - but they were also the first company to put a touch screen that isn’t awful into a car. Yes, removing the stalks a going too far imo, but I can’t imagine how narrow my awareness of the world must be for that to register outrage.
I almost got hit by a porche 911 gt2 today. That car is completely mechanical - but it was being driven by an aggressive idiot; who gives a crap what the wiper button looks like. The controls haptic feedback must be at least on the 20 thousandth page of important things about a car.
The market doesn’t solve all problems - but if the touch controls are so awful, there are only two answer: either they’re not that awful, or tons of people are idiots and you’re really smart. You know, the fount of all bad legislation.
Euro NCAP is not a regulator. It tests the safety of cars and scores them in a way that‘s readable to potential buyers of cars.
Since potential buyers of cars can’t themselves test the safety of cars (they have neither the expertise nor the resources) this is pretty much the only way that exists to independently test the safety of cars in markets.
You can take comfort in the fact that the idiot’s repair costs will be ridiculously high. If you’re going to drive super aggressively on public roads, at least do it in a cheap car!
I suppose I’m the guy pushing k8s on midsized companies. If there have been unhappy engineers along the way - they’ve by the vast majority stayed quiet and lied about being happier on surveys.
Yes, k8s is complex. The tool matches the problem: complex. But having a standard is so much better than having a somewhat simpler undocumented chaos. “Kubectl explain X” is a thousand times better than even AWS documentation, which in turn was a game changer compared to that-one-whiteboard-above-Dave’s-desk. Standards are tricky, but worth the effort.
Personally I’m also very judicious with operators and CRDs - both can be somewhat hidden to beginners. However, the operator pattern is wonderful. Another amazing feature is ultra simple leader election - genuinely difficult outside of k8s, a 5 minute task inside. I agree with Paul’s take here tho of at least being extremely careful about which operators you introduce.
At any rate, yes k8s is more complex than your bash deploy script, of course it is. It’s also much more capable and works the same way as it did at all your developers previous jobs. Velocity is the name of the game!
I have to say that I don't believe the problem is all that complex unless you make it hard. But on the flip side, if you're a competent Kubernetes person, the correct Kubernetes config is also not that complex.
I think a lot of the reaction here is a result of the age-old issues of "management is pushing software on me that I don't want" and people adopting it without knowing how to use it because it's considered a "best practice."
In other words, the reaction you probably have to an Oracle database is the same reaction that others have to Kubernetes (although Oracle databases are objectively crappy).
Good point about k8s vs. AWS docs — a lot of the time people say “just use ECS” or the AWS service of the day, and it will invariably be more confusing to me and more vendor-tied than just doing the thing in k8s.
And then if you're unlucky you might hit one of the areas where the AWS documentation has a "teaser" about some functionality that is critical for your project, you spend months looking for the rest of the documentation when initial foray doesn't work, and the highly paid AWS-internal consultants disappear into thin air when asked about the features.
So nearly a year later you end up writing the whole feature from scratch yourself.
Hrm, I believe Tesla's warranty is "8 years or 120,000 miles, whichever comes first, with minimum 70% retention of Battery capacity over the warranty period.", so your friend should look into getting a new Tesla!
Also, and I'd love if someone could dig up some data on this, the X and S used an older battery type that has since been replaced by a new chemistry and assembly which degrades quite a lot less than the older nickel based batteries.
TLDR: I think battery degradation varies a lot by make/model/year.
Stop it.
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