jimmar

"Spending billions on stockholders" is an odd way to frame giving profits to the owners (the shareholders). Does a small business owner spend money on herself when she makes a profit and moves money from the company account to her personal checking account?

Calling stockholders an expense misrepresents how businesses operate. "Spending" implies expense. Stock buybacks are a way of returning value to shareholders.

You can't get the MBA experience reading books alone. People expect MBAs to be able to communicate effectively, present themselves confidently, and to be able to manage projects. Every MBA program I know requires students to complete projects to apply concepts, often working with other students and real businesses. A DIY MBA experience would involve a lot of consulting with businesses to help solve their challenges.

I'm always glad to see people experimenting with different approaches to building and deploying apps. That said, the general idea of this Serverfree approach doesn't appeal to me. On any given day, I'll use 4 different devices. I need my data to synchronize seamlessly. I wouldn't use a program (in-browser or traditionally installed application) unless I can synchronize that data either by storing files in a Dropbox-like program or in the cloud. I don't want to have to remember which computer/browser combination I was working on.

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This feels like the attention that shark attacks get--way more than it deserves. Somehow as a society we've decided that the correct number of deaths from airplanes is zero, but we're fine with thousands of people dying from other causes that could be prevented.

This feels like Succession, but without the nepotism. Big egos, struggle for power, lots of money on the line.

Today's learning management systems are largely content management systems with grading.

Make the case that your system will help learning, not just manage content better. That could include a better way to assess learning outcomes, engagement, adaptable learning paths, etc.

It's not clear what is really different about your approach. You have courses, courses have chapters, chapters have content. Content can be text, videos, quizzes, etc.

Moodle has courses. Courses have topics. Topics have content. Content can be text, videos, quizzes, etc.

As an educator, I'm not seeing the differentiation that would motivate me to investigate further. Am I missing it?

Adobe's tools for creating flash games and animations were awesome. I haven't seen anything similar for developing the same content targeting modern HTML. It feels like a major regression for the internet.

Longer support is good. I hope schools don't see that 10 years of support as meaning that the Chromebooks they buy will have 10 years of useful life. My daughter has a 3-year old Chromebook issued by her high school that struggles to load web pages.

I promise that my carbon footprint is less than the virtue signalers in the media talking about climate action. I walk to work. I don’t air condition my home. I paid to have my home made energy efficient. But because I’m honest about my attitudes, I’m “a horrible person.”

I'm convinced that global warming is a threat. But I'd rather watch the world burn than listen to people who fly around in private jets or own mega mansions tell a regular person like me what steps I need to take to cut my carbon emissions. It may be irrational, but I just don't care.

How do you replicate a literature review? Theoretical physics? A neuro case? Research that relies upon natural experiments? There are many types of research. Not all of them lend themselves to replication, but they can still contribute to our body of knowledge. Peer review is helpful in each of these instances.

Science is a process. Peer review isn't perfect. Replication is important. But it doesn't seem like the author understands what it would take to simply replace peer review with replication.

> old Cisco architecture via Core/Access/Distribution, where larger DC networks have converged onto spine/spline setups

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I see the "old" core/access/distribution layers still relevant. The datacenter spine/spline setup applies to networking between server racks in the data center.

> 802.1q VLAN tags: access versus trunk

Again, are you saying that these are outdated? I'm not a practicing network engineer, but I know several network engineers and they've told me that understanding 802.1q VLAN tags to segment network traffic has been helpful.

I've seen lots of articles like these over the years. And yet, Docker persists. Perhaps working with the Linux internals is not the hard part of building a container ecosystem.

I noticed the same thing. Is "A LINK" is supposed to be a link to another resource? It sounds like place holder text.

"Understanding the pros and cons of your options as a buyer or a seller if this circumstance arises is here." Simplified, this sentence reads, "Understanding...is here." The sentence doesn't make sense.

I entered incorrect values many times in the demo and it just proceeded with the pre-programmed lesson. The lesson seems quite linear, with no substantial opportunity to return to reteach principles that are greatly misunderstood.

A real tutor would actively assess the points of misunderstanding and develop new strategies for helping the learner understand. This tutor mostly seems interested in moving the learner to the next step of the lesson.

The paragraph in the section, "What are passkeys?" tells me that they: are new, are easier, let me use biometrics, and are resistant to attacks. But, it doesn't tell me what passkeys actually are.

Compare passkeys to traditional authentication factors. What's a password? A secret word or phrase that only you know. What are biometrics? Parts of your body that can help uniquely identify you, like your fingerprint or retina. What are hardware tokens? They are physical devices that give you codes that verify that the person logging in has the device on their person.

What are passkeys?

Until they develop a way to explain what passkeys really are, I question how quickly they will be adopted.

3rd mentioned in the was a willingness to serve.

Having grown up Mormon, I'd add a 4th that wasn't mentioned in the article: deference to authority. The Mormon church is a very hierarchal organization. Orders go from the top down. People lower on the ladder should not ever contradict their leaders. When a Mormon leader asks you to do something, you expected to comply. I imagine that this mindset would make you fit in well in the FBI, at least in the lower and middle layers of the organization.

This sounds similar to Walmart saying they'll stop taking Visa. Samsung would be dumb not to at least threaten moving away from Google, even if they had no intention to change. It's a negotiating tactic, one that has more teeth in recent months because Google's competitors are finally showing a real challenge.

I'm by no means a perfect dad, but one thing I've done well is reading to my kinds. In the past 14 years, I've read to my kids almost every night. They both tested in the 99th percentile for reading comprehension and vocabulary. I'd often be shocked when I'd read a complicated word and ask my 5th grade what it meant and she'd give me a great definition.

Read to your kids.

I think we agree that you're doomed once you jump off the building, right? It might take a while to fall, but your future is set in stone...or concrete. There are people who argue that from a climate perspective, we are doomed. So what's the choice now? Be less doomed if we cut emissions? Be extra doomed if we don't? Are there meaningful levels of doomed?

Her tweet was, "A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years."

Not that far off from, "We're all doomed in five years," because we definitely did not stop using fossil fuels, and in my opinion, wiping out all of humanity would count as doom.

I'm a college professor. I'm requiring my students to use ChatGPT to aid them on some assignments this semester. Results are mixed so far. I agree with the author, "One of the things I'm thinking about is that I might need to start teaching students how to use GPT/Codex and other LLMs in their [assignments]." One of my top students submitted a sub-par assignment because he relied too much on ChatGPT and provided little beyond what ChatGPT spat out. Another student who previously struggled to write did much better when using ChatGPT--it felt like he incorporated ChatGPTs words into his own ideas.

Sick of hype? Yes. Excited about the future of AI? Also yes.

I watched some of the presentations at their recent quantum summit. They have smart people building sophisticated systems, but they struggled to define meaningful use cases for quantum computing.

I've noticed a "tell" for when product launches will likely fail. If the presenter cannot create a strong argument for the product, but instead tells the audience some version of, "we're excited to see what use cases you create for our product," then the product is likely to fail. IBM did this several times at the Quantum summit. It's basically saying, "Here's a thing. Hopefully you can find something useful to do with it, because we can't. But here are our hardware specs."

I'll pay more attention when IBM and other quantum players start to talk about applications more than numbers of qubits.

Utah settlers took pride in making the "desert blossom as a rose" [1]. In new developments you can drive by lush green lawns, and see the natural, arid land on the lots right next to those lawns. It's going to take a massive cultural shift for people in Utah to take this seriously. They have to embrace the desert and stop trying to turn Utah into one gigantic, English garden.

[1] https://zionnationalpark.com/zion-national-park/the-desert-s...

Some teachers like to play god in the classroom. Source: I'm a teacher. I try not to play god and impose non-sensical rules, but I could if I wanted to and nobody could do anything about it. Parents could complain, my department head could try to talk sense into me, but if I impose a rule saying that citations must be written in Comic Sans size 11 font with every third word italicized, then I'm within my rights to take points off for deviations from the assignment instructions. Society places a lot of trust in teachers, and there are few checks against bad teachers.

If you want to work at BYU, abstaining from coffee is a condition of employment. This goes for even for people who are not members of its sponsoring church. Just a few years ago, BYU almost lost its ROTC program because a non-LDS colonel didn't want to abide by the university's code [1].

[1] https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2017/08/29....

Very cool! This is close to being a perfect mind-map creation tool. Text wrapping would be nice. It can be done manually by adding \n, but that has to be done manually.

I strongly disagree that the problem with email is clients. We simply get too much information sent to us via email. I don't want to have to filter my inbox--I want to receive just as much information that I need.

For example, my company sends me an email everyday telling me about company-sponsored social events. Often, the emails contain information they've already sent at least 5 times. Email is the wrong way to communicate this information. They should have a shared calendar or web page that lists this information. No email client UI can resolve poor information sharing practices.