bradstewart

Reading the classics, in some sense, connects you to everyone who ever read them across all of human history. That's not nothing.

Interesting, thanks. I've always been a fairly "heavy" (vs other people) user of the emdash after a high school english teacher made us use one in every paper to learn how they worked (along with a colon), and I've been a fan ever sense.

The "it's not ... it's" phrasing though definitely stands out as a bit odd when repeated.

What specifically is the LLM verbiage you're seeing here? That reads like a normal sentence to me.

Thank you for this. As someone who recently had to stumble back into turning a few knobs in (what I thought would be) AD for Office 365 licensing needs, after ~10 years outside of the MS sandbox, I had no earthly idea what Entra was. Until right now.

Thank you for this. Fantastic articulation of a thing I've experienced a few times.

Interestingly (or maybe not?), the things that rise to this level have a much higher activation threshold the older I get.

> parents need to strike a balance between good faith listening and validating, while still ultimately retaining the last word and being able to be an authority when it matters.

This is pretty much the key in my experience.

To add a finer point: good faith listening is validating. Validating doesn't mean telling them it's ok, or giving in, doing what they want, etc.

It's the difference between "yes I understand you're feeling A, B, C, but we're doing it anyway because X" and "I don't care, stop it, be quiet and do it".

Is this really the same thing though? My family uses that app pretty regularly, and for us at least, it stops us from going out to restaurant or something instead.

It's not replacing dumpster-diving, nor would I consider myself to be part of dumpster-diving subculture. I don't talk about it to my friends. It's just cheap food.

Shoe Dog by Phil Night might fit the bill. It is definitely about the person (who founded Nike), but also a fascinating look into how the sportswear industry took hold, sponsorship deals, Michael Jordan, etc.

For me at least, it's personal discipline. If I can fiddle and change stuff, I will.

Not to mention security compliance. If you can afford all of that, seems pretty likely you'll also have SOC2/etc needs. Being able to "ignore" the whole physical security aspect of that stuff is a huge benefit of the cloud.

Two books helped convince me this effect was "real" enough to try it: The Oxygen Advantage and Breathe.

A ~year later, anecdotal evidence: it works.

Came here to say this. Great service.

But it would mean I don't have to buy the same brand of every tool.

New things are coming out, Meta's "prophet" for one. I've been pretty impressed with it in a "just throw data and don't even think about parameters" sense.

But the fact is, ARIMA models work. So people keep using them. And you can see what they're doing, and understand why, and how to tune them.

Same exact path here, just a few years later. Tried gaming on my mom's Gateway, which led to building my first PC with a Pentium D, which led to a hobby of constantly buying/selling hardware on ebay and swapping stuff out, which led to an EE degree, and here we are.

No video games, no PC tinkering and overlocking, no EE degree.

No knowledge of Google specifically, but that M&A team is often part of strategy unit that's constantly looking at potential acquisitions to fill gaps in product offerings, valuing internal business units for possible sale, etc.

So it's not just actually executing M&A. Once the target is identified, the actual deal execution often falls to lawyers/bankers.

I will completely admit that is the main reason I ever replace my phone.

It usually ends up being more expensive to replace the battery (even doing it myself with an iFixit kit) than to get a new one with carrier subsidies and whatnot.

Who makes the thermostat?

Is there something unique to RISC that makes it inexpensive to manufacture custom chips?

Otherwise, I'd imagine the cost of the mask set and validation to far, far outweigh any reduction in unit cost you might see from a custom chip. MCUs are already extremely cheap, especially if you're buying significant quantities.

Those are nice for reducing clutter (I have some), but you're still running 120v on 12ga copper into every one of them.

> we need 2 months to go and clean up everything we've built over the last 6 since we now have an idea of how to structure this capability is gonna be met with a laugh and a no.

How do we break this mold? While this absolutely does happen with some management, it's not all management in my experience.

I am an engineer that's found myself in a management role, and I want my team to do exactly this--don't invest tons of up-front effort trying to guess the models and abstractions we're gonna need. Build, iterate, and we'll clean it up when we know what we don't know right now.

It is blatantly obvious to me that things will be on shaky ground, I have a keen sense of what will break and when. And I'm totally good with that! I put "architect for real" time into the roadmap.

But even still, I get pushback, sometimes a lot of it. Like the idea of shipping functional-but-ugly code is somehow totally unacceptable for some reason (even when it's obvious the "pretty" version isn't even future-proofed or appreciably better). And the excuse is usually "Well we'll never have time to fix it".

Power loss?

The auto industry does, but would Apple operate the same way?

It's actually incredible how bad the Google Home app and the whole account debacle is.

Had the old Nest thermostat and a few cameras for ~7 years. All worked pretty well with the Nest app.

I moved and bought the cheaper Nest thermostat E ~18 months ago, and it is without a doubt, the worst thermostat I have ever seen. First, it won't even run without being connected to the Google Home app. Then, app setup would fail repeatedly with a generic "Failed to setup" message. I had to get on Reddit to discover it doesn't work with G Workspace accounts.

And after all of that, the touch controls are next to impossible to use. And they somehow managed to make setting the temperature incredibly confusing. Like using an app should make that easier, but it is far, far harder than the on-device config screen on the Honeywell thermostat from 2004. It's.... I don't understand.

THEN, last week, something happened and I can no longer access any of the old Nest stuff in Google Home. It was in a separate Google account, and everything just disappeared. And Google wants me to verify access to that account using some bizarre onetime code setting buried in my phone, which repeatedly fails. So I can't use any of that stuff either.

I hate ranting on the internet, but wow this has gotten out of hand.

It's all trade offs. I'm just spitballing here, but if you have limited resources, you can either spend cash/time on lidar or invest in higher-quality mass-produced optics, or better computer vision software. If you get to a functional camera-only system sooner, might everyone be better off as you can deploy it more rapidly.

Manufacturing capacity of lidar components might be limited.

Another might be reliability/failure modes. If the system relies on lidar, that's another component that can break (or brownout and produce unreliable inputs).

So in a vaccum, yea a lidar+camera system is probably better, but who knows with real life trade offs.

(again, I just made these up, I do not work on this stuff, but these are a few scenarios I can imagine)

Just ask them what % of the company you'd be getting, directly. They should answer that.

That's a question I've always used personally, and I've refused offers from companies that wouldn't answer it.

Appealing to "best practice" without concrete, specific reasoning is a big one.

Thank you for this. Similar situation here, 2.5 year old and a newborn, and I have been having serious trouble keeping my head on straight.

I've had so many viruses since the older one started preschool 8 months ago, I can't remember what feeling good feels like.

The lack of sleep from trying to help my wife feed the newborn on top of keeping a norovirus-infected toddler away from said newborn in-between my own trips to the bathroom has been.....not fun.

I honestly cannot describe how much better I suddenly feel knowing I'm not the only one in that boat. I was totally unable to remember that this is temporary, we will stop getting sick, and I will feel good again until I read this.

I just smiled at the toddler for the first time in a week.

Yes. Philips has and Waveform have pretty decent midrange bulbs. Ketra has really, really high quality stuff.

> If I ever go back to PC-land, it'll be to an underpowered device from a business-oriented line.

I've had great luck with exactly this--used, midrange Dell Latitudes.