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I think in this case it's fair to assume all the donors here are against right to repair.

Honestly this is a fairly mild example of blatant corruption in the US. It's so commonplace I really wouldn't expect anything less.

I’m incredibly happy to see wages at the bottom rising, but I think there’s a serious lack of discussion around obscenely high executive pay.

Good, American cities aren't designed for human beings to actually live in. Hopefully this will cause major zoning reform & allow us to have dense, healthy, mixed-use cities.

The math is on my side. The average age of 117th Congress is 59, while the average US citizen is 38 (at the time of this being noted in 2021).

Because aging politicians do not adequately represent the majority of their constituents.

I see other comments aggressively criticizing this suggestion (& I'm happy to see it) but I think staying busy with something fulfilling outside of your job is generally good advice. It doesn't need to be resume filler. The constant grindset-mindset is toxic, but staying engaged/fulfilled with something can be tremendously beneficial for your mental health & happiness during a period of setbacks & struggle.

Wow you’re right, this is a great improvement in quality.

Also, very enjoyable & clear presentation.

Corporate profits don’t affect your fundamental freedoms.

While there’s definitely a performative aspect to it, I think there’s a genuine & sincere interest in rejecting social-media manufactured-reality. These teens, regardless of sincerity, are rejecting a demonstrably negative & harmful activity in favor of reading, art, music, & engaging with their local community. I’m thrilled that this is catching on at all. I’ve had a deep hatred of owning a smartphone for years, but always feel like I need it (slack & email for work, immediate news/link aggregation, etc.), so I’m jealous/happy that they’ve gotten a head start at rejecting it outright so young.

My transition to 11 has been mostly painless. Some weirdness I've experienced so far is a handful of default applications being changed (not Edge, surprisingly enough) and that since my default PDF reader is Okular all the icons for .pdf files are now a blank white rectangles instead of the nice white/blue okular icons they used to be. To be fair though, this could be some incompatibility with icon formats/sizes or something... I haven't looked into it.

My only real annoyance so far is that all my old context menu items are now tucked away into an additional context menu, such that I now have to right-click -> "Show more options" -> old context menu. A bit of an odd choice.

I agree with this. These AI tools have caused my (not a junior) productivity to skyrocket as a result of eliminating almost every instance of needing to check documentation/stackoverflow/etc. for easy questions in addition to providing most of my annoying boilerplate code. Since I am my own expert opinion on whether the output is correct/satisfactory, I can quickly breeze through verification of output & make corrections as necessary.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t find the tone of the article unpleasant. As you said, anything less might be a bit boring or dry. The way it’s written now, at least to me, comes off as sincere/authentic (in addition to be interesting & informative).

Thanks for clarifying. Even that number seems a bit low but makes much more sense.

Good! There's finally a way to escape the awful, soul-sucking residential zoning prison that keeps people trapped in a suburban hellscape. The idea of settling into a 1+ hour daily commute for the rest of your life is genuinely depressing & terrifying.

I'm thrilled that there's a chance (at the moment) to escape that nightmare. I will never willingly commute in a car ever again.

In what universe is a child only 14.4K? Is this the price of a diapers alone? Preschool? Food? This number seems laughably low.

I just tried something similar to generate a bunch of boilerplate for parsing some deeply nested & complex JSON using Rust/Serde. It gave me a handful of errors, but it was ~90% correct. Which, to be fair, is still shockingly good.

I was already very optimistic about Copilot by itself being able to basically eliminate the need to check StackOverflow/Docs for basic questions. Combined with ChatGPT I can essentially offload all boilerplate I would ever need to write (provided I'm still able to identify & correct the few errors it spits out from time to time).

This is incredibly cool & inspiring. How familiar were you with Rust before starting? Any resources you can share for programming the circuit boards you use? I've had some embedded Rust ideas myself but am not sure where to start!

True but this is likely less engaging for the audience, which has been my experience.

I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.

I'm sure it's already been said, but I genuinely avoid all new Google products/services like the plague. I don't see how anyone could comfortably invest time into a Google service when they have a graveyard of over 200+ cancelled services.

If I were an employee, I would be incredibly demotivated. Why build anything new at all? Why work hard at all?

Coincidentally, last night I started porting an actix-web project to Axum. In my very brief experience, I have found Axum (0.6.0-rc5) to be more ergonomic compared to actix-web. However, I haven't rewritten all the existing features yet so my opinion could change in a few days.

The current SCOTUS? Respecting your rights? I wouldn’t count on it, friend.

Thanks for the tips. It seems like a good idea then to consider a specific book and go about gathering others from there, so that everyone has the same expectations of content.

How'd you get the study group started? Some peers you already knew? I've previously considered trying to gather some people to regularly read/practice other books/topics but wasn't sure where to begin gathering others.

When I attended his talk ~4(?) years ago on No Silver Bullet, the audience had the chance to ask questions about recent technologies like ML/DL, AI (though CoPilot didn't exist yet), modern safety features, etc. I wish I could remember his exact responses to those questions, but of course he still maintained that there is no silver bullet :)

I have fond memories of attending his "No Silver Bullet" lecture only a few short years ago.

A favorite quote of mine from MMM: "The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures...."

I love using SQLite. It is often my first & only choice when reaching for an embedded database. That being said, are there any compelling alternatives for embedded databases? I'm only aware of DuckDB & Apache Parquet at the moment.

I think audiences are largely the same, but brands have gotten really good at marketing. Advertising is so pervasive in every aspect of society. It is nearly impossible, both physically & digitally, to escape the near-constant onslaught of marketing, ads, promotions, etc.

I was preparing myself for disappointment because I expected the new version to be accompanied by subscription pricing, but this is an incredible value.

I only casually mess around with the ipad version at the moment, but I'm tempted to purchase the whole suite because it's such a friendly deal.