Idk, I can’t assume he is unwilling to subscribe just from his complaint. In any case, nytimes initial subscription costs like 5 bucks a month for a year. There are bigger things in the world for everyone to worry about. OTOH, If this is all about principle, he can read it at a local library, assuming he is in US. In any case, they come across as entitled more than anything
The wealthy didn’t become wealthy by making the same micro everyday trade offs others did. I’m not saying they are not talented, they are, just that they some times take roads commoners wouldn’t want to. In any case, the rich just don’t use other people - they get used up too. That’s why capitalism is great, and how it works for more people than it appears.
I agree. That experience of quickly flipping to a page or jumping from one place to another in the book is sorely missing from e-books. That said, they have their positives too. Like being able to search for definition of a world, quickly looking up notes(not easy to quickly jot though, new kindle may change that) and the ability to carry many many books so that you can change books like channels where ever you are reading.
PS: e-book readers have greatly improved in responsiveness and refresh rate that it is different enough experience if have only seen the early ones
Excellent article. But Mortimer's "How to read a book" is all about the meta process. Reading that book a few times might help people read books well, by making them second nature.
Each of those things are a self contained domain in themselves and will require a few years of effort for reasonably smart people. The q question thus is, how much time are you willing to grind?
Before a knee jerk response of unconscious bias, which I’m in no way denying, it is more important to know how this research was conducted. What about the publications and references? It’s not like the job is flipping burgers - postdoctoral positions are extremely specific and people tend to know each other within a couple of hops on their social network.
This is correct. I think all programmers have to go through writing lots of tests and feel the burn. On the other side, you may reach a place where you know where you make mistakes and are extra careful to do things right in the first place.
But it is a spectrum. It is the big teams with a lot of code churn working in a less descriptive language that absolutely need tests.
Personally, I have written very few tests after I moved to clojure and small standalone teams. I hardly had to fix any bugs after.
Lol. It’s not like there is a dearth of platform agnostic messaging. Sure his mom could use whatsapp or signal. Dude tried to emotionally load his argument and win over Tim Cook
Spot on. The fact that engineers keep having to learn things continuously for years, decades treading through anywhere from technically difficult issues to bad documentation, mostly on their own time for fear of falling behind, while running to honor daily and hourly deadlines and being imaginative, smart and personable at work is insane. Atleast managers get to rely on their experience that adds up while engineers jump through languages frameworks and libraries while attending leet code interviews is crazy. But peasant, get back to work and no quiet quitting for you, and you are a lower form of life is the prevalent attitude among many managers. There are good managers, most of them technical like you said, a smaller portion among them have empathy
But they did. They pay 2-3c/kW for excess electricity generated during the day. Their own generation costs are 6x that. PGE so far hasn’t been losing money on residential solar installations. And rise of EVs augurs well for their future demand. So far renewable energy generation during the day rarely touched 100% of consumption. It has to go beyond that couple of times over, before it makes a dent in PGE revenue
Yeah, it was a couple of years ago. I paid 30k for 12.8 KW system, including the electrical panel(which I had to upgrade for 2k). There was a federal rebate of 26% on top of that.
I’m in California, and it’s not bad really. I didn’t have a power cut of more than 15 mins in the last decade. It’s PGE which has been asking for lowering power usage a couple of weeks a year, in peak hours between 4-9 PM. Residential Solar usage is high compared to other states. It is hardly expensive for folks here to install a 10kW system, when housing costs are what they are. We charge our cars during the day, at work or home if wfh, between 10-4PM. Folks without solar charge them after midnight typically. If there are power cuts they are usually localized, and usually in areas with high fire risk(due to heat) so it kind of evens out in the end. Myself, I have solar and a EV and I keep my AC at 70 most of the day.