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supernovae··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
it’s going to be cheaper for them to skip out on fossil fuel industry and go EV. It could be more modes of EV than americans are bothered with such as bikes, motorcycles, smaller cars…
supernovae··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
I learned it takes a lot of grid power to extract, ship, process, store and sell gasoline than it takes to just charge an EV… seems that the reduction of demand of fuel would also reduce grid loads.. plus, just charge at night. cheaper rates usually.
supernovae··on Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
Microsoft edge non chromium was fine, but no one used it. So they went chromium based.
supernovae··on Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
why is it ok if firefox and opera do this but no one else?
supernovae··on Threadripper 7000 Storm Peak CPU Surfaces with 64 Zen 4 Cores
Are you thinking the old sparc Niagara?
supernovae··on Arduino IDE 2.0
vs code is open source and it works perfectly fine and there are tons of plugins for micro controller programming and support.

still, happy to see this update.

supernovae··on Layoffs at Canadian tech startups
What?

FAANGS still offer upwards of 1m/year compensation.

supernovae··on Layoffs at Canadian tech startups
None of this really supports your argument. 9/11 was the largest workforce reduction in tech as far as people leaving the industry.
supernovae··on Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browsers back [pdf]
They are adopting USB C.. and at least the 3rd party market for replacement chargers is affordable - cheaper than usb c in many cases.
supernovae··on Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browsers back [pdf]
Apple has NO OEM. You can only buy completely integrated products period. The new M1s are SOCs, so there isn't even a 3rd party market unless you restrict that to USB and fashion accessories.

Microsoft does make its own hardware. The Surface line of products are pretty amazing. They didn't break any OEM 3rd party market nor dictate anything. In fact, they have a "signature system" policy for their first party hardware that it won't be full of bloatware like 3rd party OEMs used to do.

Google has slowly been destroying its 3rd parties and 3rd parties playing in its ecosystem have been moving towards forking for a while which is why there is always the complaint of unsupported devices after a single cycle there. (and so many community roms/hacks/installers floating around to address this)

supernovae··on Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browsers back [pdf]
1990s was a long time ago.. why would Microsoft do something like this? They're all in on Chromium and choice. When you change your default browser, its actually changing the default browser, not the skin with the forced widget inside.
supernovae··on Layoffs at Canadian tech startups
Interesting. I haven’t seen this. Been through many hiring freezes and economic downturns but my salary has only ever gone up and if my employer tightened the reigns, i moved on. (here is your sign)- nothing really changed the market unless it was something such as 2008 meltdown with was systemic.
supernovae··on Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured
You do realize how valuable this is right? Spot trackers are much worse and cost much more and offer a fraction of the service.
supernovae··on Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured
I thought the move to do midband mobile spectrum with t-mobile and offer line of site coverage across 100% of the country was a pretty big move. Existing phones can be enabled on this spectrum. I also see it being leveraged well for edge services where classical 5g towers are just too damn expensive to pout out that far
supernovae··on Layoffs at Canadian tech startups
I’ve never seen entire industry hiring freezes so i’m not aware of the concern. Would rather stay on job during hiring freeze than he let go. I can sense if i need to bail without being subject to one or another.
supernovae··on There is no “software supply chain”
Developer RHEL doesn’t cost any money. RHEL is based on Centos Stream and Stream comes from Fedora.
supernovae··on It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++
azure doesn’t run a gui
supernovae··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
Nothing stops this. You can hear what you want to hear.

What's funny is, y'all claim you should be able to hear what you want to hear, but when others don't want to hear it - you scream "cancel culture".

You can't have it both ways. Either grow up and run your own businesses/communities and attract revenue to support them or realize your ideas are bad and can't be sustained. This happens to everyone regardless of their beliefs.

You can't take successful companies and force them to be unsuccessful by embracing communities that fail.

supernovae··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
Reddit is highly moderated and censored.

You can't even post facts in /r/conservative without being banned.

Reddit also has a Terms of Service and it has banned hate groups under such terms of service. With a large bias towards far right hate groups because there really is no existence of far left hate groups.

So of course moderation seems biased when your views are hateful to begin with.

Advertisers generally want nothing to do with advertising on low quality networks unless those advertisers are targeting people because they profit from their misery.

supernovae··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
There wouldn't be disdain for Texas if Texas didn't do stupid things.
supernovae··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
And reddit was a massive experiment in far right takeover. It went from hosting the rally for reason to electing Donald trump at lightning speed.

Not because of the overall community, but because of business actions, manufactured turmoil, and well funded trolling.

supernovae··on Is engineering management bullshit?
It's unfortunate we think of management as "keeping bullshit at bay".

I much prefer "clear the runway".

The great teams I've worked on, shared context oozes from the team and managers often don't know what that shared context is, but they protect it.

Once one studies complexity science, it becomes less "bullshit" and more "navigating complexity" and that's how i approach it.

You're gonna have a bad time in engineering if you think everything not engineering is BS.

supernovae··on The rise of 'stealerships' and the shady economics of car buying
I purchased my Jeep Wrangler in 2018. I found the color I wanted Online. Pre-qualified with my bank. Contacted the internet sales address, told them I wanted the car and I'd be by at 6 to pick it up and they had it ready.

My best car buying experience has been Tesla though. Ordered on the app. Put 500 down. Got a build date. Got a notification when it was in delivery. Added my payment info. Got a time to pickup car. Drove home.

supernovae··on The Twitter whistleblower story is worse than you think
Twitter isn't biased, people on twitter have opinions.
supernovae··on Finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
"Finishing what you start" has no meaning. None.

In the weakest definition of "finish what you start", it means "I cleaned my desk, I finished what I started" but the reality is - the only way for this to be "done" is to have no more work and no more desk. The work of maintaining that desk cleanliness is never ending work and herein lies the problems we create for ourselves.

Take the burger example and put it in a system - you're on to the next burger and some shmuck wants it without ketchup and with extra pickles. Then you have to cleanup the burger stand but cleaning up one day won't be the same cleanup as another and sometimes you may have to shutdown to deep clean - it's never done until you forever stop making burgers and close shop.

For me, it's all about mindset. I look at work as rewarding when I never stop learning. The notion of done is what makes people crazy because it's never about the work being done, it's about not want to do the work to begin with and not seeing any value in doing it.

My kids rooms are messy, i say they're lazy, but really they see no value in the work - to them, it's a waste of time. It keeps them from doing other things they would rather do. I laugh when they say they're done cleaning their room because without a doubt, not even a day later, it will be a stink mess again.

Also, context switching... these discussions never make sense because they're always discussed in terms of state as an exception to the system. Your flow state is uniquely you, the system you operate in is complex and dynamic.

I think all to often people put way too many words to paper trying to control complex interactive systems when they should really make them safe and resilient to monitor, observe, anticipate what's next and have the autonomy to make decisions.

That autonomy and decision making and anticipation still requires effort and work - and i'll be honest, some of the best flow state is safely operating in complex dynamic systems while being able to mental model your position in it and have empathy for others - realizing that your model is yours and others will have there's.

Done is imaginary.

supernovae··on Pioneering economist says our obsession with growth must end
isn’t that a 401k?

I wish they raised the limits.. it’s woefully inadequate after years of inflation.

supernovae··on ‘Things are going to break’: Texas power plants are running nonstop
august is by far the hottest month in texas. and yes, i just chose Toyota because it was easy to identify them since they are huge.

you should go by their factory sometime. you can get a tour, it’s pretty awesome.

supernovae··on ‘Things are going to break’: Texas power plants are running nonstop
The reason Texas has failed is because this state is a state of excess and they’re proud of fact.

If we incentivized efficiency we’d be much better off but instead we champion mocking that as something Californian.

supernovae··on The case for bad coffee (2015)
It’s consistent. I can be very happy getting an Americano in Austin and an Americano in Boston and know i’m getting a comfortable cup of coffee.

I do appreciate the specialty roasters we have here.. but i don’t need to hate on starbucks - other than the ones that treat their employees like crap

supernovae··on The case for bad coffee (2015)
I love IPAs and hoppy beers. Everything else is forgettable.

So glad we cleared up that everyone has opinions.

I’m just glad we have so many options to try and do many craft brewers having fun with it.

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