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Comment · 10 months ago
It makes a kind of intuitive sense to me. Given I have no real understanding of the topic. Perfect click bait to get me to feel smart waxing intellectual on the toilet.

It’s interesting to think this information being passed is something like “Heads up. This dude does a lot of exercise which means it must be crucial to survival wherever we are.”

Comment · 6 years ago
To this point I wonder how full autonomy will impact this. A truck that drives itself and doesn't have to stop (besides to charge) will easily make the case for a freight or autonomous lane on highways where the vehicles don't go above a certain speed (67mph or 100kph). I don't really care if it takes me 10 hours to go 500 miles if I watch a movie, go to sleep, an wake up in front of my hotel.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Saved me a bunch of frustrating searches.
Comment · 6 years ago
This makes me irrationally upset. First, because it exists. Second, because it blows my mind when people do things like this for fun & bubbles while I struggle to find simple bugs in my code.

bravo.

Comment · 6 years ago
"The Feeling of Power" by Asimov feels like an appropriate mention here.
Comment · 6 years ago
Agree. Trump seems to live enough in the open that anything you 'discover' may be inconvenient but no worse than the things he: a) has hand waved in the past, b) is happy to maintain a lie about.

Love him or hate him I think his time in office has kicked off a much needed moment of self reflection and course correction.

Comment · 6 years ago
Maybe the most exciting thing I've heard so far from Build 2020.

Getting Closer to my dream install:

* WSL 2

* VS Code

* .NET 5

* Windows Terminal

* Package Manager

* Edge

All that's missing is Edge on Linux and letting me write cross platform apps that use edge as a (headless) common runtime.

Comment · 6 years ago
Seems it's less a 'party' and more a networking event where I'm sure your competitors are not invited. Also less 'your own dime' and more a business expense that helps Bezos skirt even more taxes. I can't see it as an investment in the city.

Maybe if he bought and renovated an apartment building. Held events in a top floor space. Transformed the lobby into a community business and tech center.

Comment · 6 years ago
Aren't you conflating the lexicon of data management with specific implementations of a relational database management system (RDBMS)?

Sorry, but your response sounds snarky and reminds me of all the ego hurdles I had to overcome when leaving/loving databases and set theory. Please remember that your comment could be someone's first introduction or step early step in learning.

Comment · 6 years ago
This does feel like Musk's software background shining through:

* Fail Fast. * Red. Green. Refactor.

Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks a lot for this quick summary. Computer science can be such a semantic jungle.
Comment · 7 years ago
Apologies. Macbook Pro 13.

I'm not an Apple person so all the funny distinctions get lost on me sometimes.

Comment · 7 years ago
I tend to rely on michael Scriven's take from _Primary Philosophy_. He suggests (I believe) that aesthetics is one of the few remaining pure philosophical ideas. That is that it has yet to branch into an accepted science.

So all arguments devolve into making a case before a non-existent court of higher appeals. Which I enjoy and only point out here because I love any chance to offer the book up as suggestion. 320 pages of dense mind hackery. Enjoy!

P.S. - You may critique me, but the effort may be largely wasted. I really have no idea what I'm talking about.

Comment · 7 years ago
I'm not an Apple fan but the Macbook 13 8/128 is a solid buy. Competitively priced against the other industry leaders (XPS, Surface, X1, etc).

The only reason I don't own one is because the 16/512 variant makes a silly jump in price. I think that's where the complaint should be. Not with the Mac "Pro".

Apple is not dumb. They sell the 8/128 variant to college kids and know that companies will pony up the ridiculous price jump so their developers can run VMs and local compiles on a i7 16/512.

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