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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.

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.