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> The Koolhaasian moment in design began to fade, as one might expect, with the coming of the 2008 global economic crisis; since everything in architecture takes longer than in any other field, the full-on rejection is only getting underway now, but already the accelerationist paradigm has been replaced by another: a meliorist one, eco-conscious and modest, international in outlook but more focused on firms working within their communities, especially those in developing countries.

What is this writing style?

> But, while technically innovative, with a carbon-fiber body, the i3 is essentially a very expensive hatchback.

Yep. When people buy high performance or luxury cars, part of the mystique is that it is the latest evolution of some sort of classic. It's going to be hard for BMW et al to position electric vehicles as belonging to any existing lineage. This puts their brand at risk unless they can figure out how to make a remarkable electric car. But nobody really knows what that would be.

Or less complicated, like piles of CSV files.

> [H]ow much does someone care about a topic when they choose to make money by not talking about it....

She didn't choose to make money by not talking about it. She took the money, then talked about it.

It's one way of fighting back in a situation where one party is financially superior to the other.

Legally, Lambda School probably has a good case for getting the money back, but it might be unwise for them to pursue it.

It is free money until Lambda School actually gets it back. It's up to Lambda School to decide the if money and/or the precedent are worth the public relations cost of fighting about it.

> That's hardly symmetrical to the fear of losing the money that you have already invested...

It's pretty symmetrical. Choosing not to buy is not as easy as it looks, when you are under pressure to do so. Madoff took advantage of this. The crash of 1929 was preceded by unhinged buying.

They exist to stop any participant, human or electronic, from going haywire.

Piling in on the buy side because of a fear of missing out counts as panicking.

I get the impression that the people running Robinhood actually don't understand how difficult it is to implement what they want to offer, both on the reliability side (outages) and on the logical side (infinite margin).

> Industry isn't a culture, it's a combination of skill sets and infrastructure. China is the world's second largest economy...

It's interesting to see those two statements adjacent to each other. China is a tremendous world power, but if I understand the history correctly, it arrived at this point after a series of (sometimes extreme) cultural and economic upheavals that prioritized modernization over traditional culture.

Just because it is common doesn't mean it's not shady.

And depending on what the "pseudo-activist role" entails, that could be a massive conflict of interest. If a person at Company A is steering business toward Company B because they have an investment in Company B, that could easily conflict with their obligations toward Company A.

You're right. I'd correct my original post if I could. I stand by my point but I chose a terrible example.

My point is not that I'm better at it than some specific library, it's that choosing a library would take more effort than writing some straightforward code.

EDITED TO ADD: In fact getting LAPACK into the build if it's not already there is more of a maintenance imposition than just writing a couple of lines of code for this.

To be precise, the author isn't simply saying "Do what you love", he's saying "Do what you love in your leisure time".

I think that's an important distinction. He's not giving diligent work short shrift, just trying to exclude drudgery from leisure time specifically.

> Your handrolled solution is likely worse than the library anyway

This assumption led to a lot of O(n^2) left-padding happening over the years, via left-pad from node.js.

Ideally libraries would be well-tested and of high quality, but at this point there may be too many of them to vet.

My own 2 cents is that if it's easier to implement the code from scratch than to evaluate and choose a library, perhaps the invent-it-here choice works best.

I don't know why everyone is eliding the gunfire here, to me that's the most important aspect of the story. If he was merely a shoplifter, there would be little harm in just issuing a warrant and looking for him later. But once he started shooting, preservation of property became a secondary concern.

The New York Times doesn't have ads in its printed edition anymore?

The piece does contain one bit of advice, "young healthy people should try to avoid getting Covid-19 for as long as possible."

I don't think the two situations are comparable at all. In the ATV case, it was the police who escalated, inappropriately, in pursuit of someone who was mainly a danger to himself. In the destroyed home case, it was the suspect who escalated (repeatedly), from shoplifting to entering a home to shooting at people.

Waiting out a suspect who has already shot at the police is dangerous. Any mistake that left a person exposed to be shot at could be fatal. Protecting life is a higher priority than protecting property.

So if a shooter sets up in a sufficiently expensive property, the police have to sit there passively and risk being shot because they don't have the money to pay for the damage caused by going in? That makes no sense.

I'm generally of the opinion that police are too heavy-handed in the US, but in this particular case I don't think there was any other reasonable option. Moreover the ancestor post referring to the suspect as simply a "shoplifter" was inaccurate.

A shoplifting suspect who barricaded himself inside someone else's home during the pursuit and fired gunshots at the police.

Anecdotally, I was recently cramming a lot of "Leetcode medium" questions to prepare for job interviews, and after a couple of weeks, I was drinking Starbuck's coffee and solving those problems like a machine... seriously, like a machine.

I found I did get better (or at least much faster) at recognizing subproblems and quickly composing an overall solution, even if none of the steps was particularly creative.

After about 3 weeks I had to ditch the coffee, I was getting too addled.

(Not a controlled experiment, of course, just conveying my impression of the experience).

> If sites needed their users to pay them, the quality of the content might go up dramatically

What do you mean by "if"? There are already many sites that require users to pay them (e.g. The New York Times) but everyone simply circumvents their paywalls.

Every method that high-quality sites use to generate the revenue they need to operate is defeated either by ad blockers or someone reproducing their content outside their paywalls. You may be right that news and reporting are not viable, but it is a shame.

I was thinking more about investigative reporters and news outlets than buggy-whip makers.

> Thing is, nobody ever said ad supported sites have to be viable.

That's true, but if a site is not ad-supported, and "paywall" is almost an epithet (and circumvented to boot), how is any site supposed to remain viable?

I wish there was simply a way where ad-supported sites I visit could collect their revenue without having me submit to advertiser surveillance. I don't mind seeing ads. I hate being tracked.

What is a "mature manner"?

The 1973 Pepsi colors are really similar to the BMW Motorsport ("M") color scheme, with a light blue, dark blue/purple, and red.

https://www.schemecolor.com/bmw-m.php

It's nice to see such mutual respect between people operating in such seemingly different styles.