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The sad thing about being an England fan over the last few decades has been managers pandering to the egos rather than playing the best strategy. Can never forgive the run of managers who decided playing Gerrard and Lampard next to each other every match was a great idea.

Southgate in that regard does feel like a small breath of fresh air.

This is why if you're in the Rails world, I'll always recommend Hatchbox [0]. It takes the PaaS layer from Heroku and applies it to generic nodes on DO or AWS - I'm grandfathered into a really good plan price, but even as it stands today, if you're building Rails apps, it's a great option.

[0] https://www.hatchbox.io/

Thinking of it as payment for helping to train an algorithm and it makes much more sense.

Unless F1 and FE merge, F1 cannot become fully electric until the end of the exclusivity period. It's a gamble by F1 that the world (and more specifically, the teams and manufacturers involved) won't be ready for a full-electric pinnacle series by 2039 (i.e. speed and name recognition parity).

All F1 teams have signed the Concorde Agreement until 2025 - which means they're "committed" in one sense or another. I don't think FE will be in a position to attract Mercedes and Renault fully by 2025 (the two mass-market manufacturers who'll be most heavily influenced by the move to fully electric, with toes already in the waters in FE).

The late 2020s will be a lot of political posturing, and should FE look to be attracting F1 backmarkers with promises of cheaper overheads, more future-relevant tech and decent audiences in addition to manufacturers, 2030-2039 will be interesting as heck.

Standard season of WEC tends to have more overtaking than Le Mans itself. For interest rather than overtaking, WRC is obviously well up there. And if you really want no-holds barred overtaking, anything on the BTCC schedule should be well up there (well, except F4 and oddly, the Porsche Carrera Cup) - Ginetta Juniors is a particular highlight.

I once walked the footbridge over the hillclimb at Goodwood during the Festival of Speed as a V10 F1 car went underneath. Was something else entirely.

Seeing the musical demos the Renault team used to do was always interesting too - if you haven't heard an F1 car play God Save The Queen [0] it's a great watch (and a reminder about how controllable they are).

[0] https://youtu.be/XRXwWbo_mX0?t=55

That being said, the attraction to manufacturers coming into FE is large and it'll only take a few more generations before I'm sure there'll be differentiation in some parts.

I'm bullish on FE, especially when they can run on "proper" circuits at a consistently decent pace (that being said, smaller city-centre tracks might very well be the future of the sport in any case).

Not books, but Racecar Engineering magazine [0] is a fantastic source, as is Craig Scarborough [1] for little nuggets of current developments.

[0] https://www.racecar-engineering.com/ [1] https://twitter.com/ScarbsTech

The follow-on question is therefore, are they going to save more time in the long run by writing poorly optimised queries for a particular quantum hardware stack (that we assume as being easier/faster to write), rather than writing highly optimised queries on classical hardware.

Writing a garbage SQL query and getting it back faster might be worth it over optimising it - especially if the questions aren't regularly repeated.

Using Boot Camp or a Hackintosh to be able to do that on the same computer? Might help to make the distinction between it overperforming via Boot Camp or underperforming on a Hackintosh.

I agree somewhat, but I also do appreciate reading why the company themselves think I should care. Often times it's the best way to get to the meat and potatoes of what their actual unique selling point is - you can get that from third parties, but it's also useful to get it from the company themselves.

Yeah, or something like Drop.com for those interested as well.

I mean, marketing's my background so I get that. But you see small brands like Pine64 and System76 doing it for specific types of (often generalised OEM, "off the shelf") hardware.

If they can pull it off for more sophisticated integrated solutions like phones, tablets and laptops, I'd have thought that a TV brand would be even easier.

Surely buying a commodity panel off of an existing OEM would negate a lot of the legal issues, and going DTC to the kinds of people who are specifically looking for a dumb TV is quite a decent niche to market to?

The thing with TV panels is that they're essentially a commodity, right? Once every TV from a large brand becomes "smart", would the next logical step be for a small privacy-minded collective to go to an OEM and commission them to start making dumb TVs?

Usually I disagree about niche hardware in this way (for example, usual mentions about a similar approach for phones and laptops), but the dumb screen might just be dumb and cheap enough to make work at this limited scale?

It's even perhaps a little bit narrowly named - I'm not a developer, I don't live in the terminal, but I often need to format JSON, decode URLs, and work with timestamps.

This looks great. As another commenter mentioned, even if you are the above things, not having to remember pieces of obscure domain knowledge to complete tasks is useful (say, you're not a Python or JS dev).

Why write a line of Python when I can Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V (especially if the task originates from outside of the terminal)?

But convenience and ubiquity was the black cab's selling points, especially since the advent of live updating traffic-aware GPS made storing The Knowledge in your head an occasionally useful party trick.

Interesting perspective, though personally I find the black cabs more uncomfortable than a Prius, often getting bounced up and down, luggage rolling around in the middle, much more jarring stops/starts I've found too (though a lot depends on the driver themselves, and I've not been in one of the new electric cabs).

Depends on the time of day - Hackney cabs during the day in Zones 1 and 2 were good (though only if you had a good chunk of cash before they all had to have card readers), whereas private hire was better for those 2am trips home from some Zone 4 random location.

I'm not a fan of Uber specifically, but they certainly do blend together (most of) the best of both worlds for London cab use I've experienced.

I'd also argue that the Night Tube was really helped by their prevalence, so they've made even public transport better as a result (as a traveller, rather than an operator).

At my old company we had an innovation consultant come in and tell us that kind of approach was nearly impossible to manage in the longer term. Apparently teams dedicated to holding the fort grew bitter and had much lower retention than teams on greenfield work.

Paying back the debt, he said, usually requires too much knowledge of a system to cycle teams in and out consistently enough to ensure everyone gets a piece of the new versus the old to keep them engaged.

Whether or not that was backed up by hard data, I'm not sure. It was an interesting angle I hadn't previously thought of though.

Could you not also use one of the open binaries of VSCode with the telemetry removed? https://vscodium.com/ or build from source (with reference that the Microsoft specific functionality is not present: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...)

Isn't it down to the app developers though whether they allow the ID to be used to serve ads in their app (whether or not in practice there's a mechanism to do that, it's the app developer that's essentially choosing to use it by implementing ad networks and SDKs that use it, not Apple forcing it on them).

There's always a sector influence on the valuation of stocks - if an analyst writes a report saying the gaming sector as a whole is going to grow 1000x in the next 10 years, you can bet people will be looking for stocks to ride that wave.

If Unity is the only buyable stock in the sector, then they'll feel the impact.

I think the only cultural references I see are football-result nostalgia. Quite a few do still crop up though (and even more so, almost every day I get an ad for a Ceefax inspired mug with my team's results on it).

Didn't realise I was playing into a meme - I've basically replaced most of my white meat use with off the bone thigh meat.

You get a stronger taste for sure, but I've not yet found it actually jars with a recipe (and to be clear, complete anecdata based on dishes I prepare) to the extent the cons outweigh the pros.

Cannot agree more - I really don't understand the argument the post is trying to make.

At some point, you are doing sales, and you are doing marketing. Heck, even talking to a mate at another company and pitching them on what you're building falls under them.

If you're not thinking about distribution (even, and I wouldn't recommend it, as a sideline item), you're going to be essentially dead in the water.

The article calls out Facebook and Slack as examples of "Product-led Growth" as somehow serperate from Sales and Marketing. I think that's perhaps misrepresenting how their growth worked. Facebook didn't grow because it was just a very good social network that was better than competitors through sheer value, but its marketing and acquisition funnels were baked into the product (friends asking friends to join - some would see that as a product feature, some would see it as an engineered marketing feature).

The Tesla example is just a weird one - once again falling into the common trap of equating advertising with all marketing. You think Tesla wouldn't have spent on advertising had they not had one of the most PR-able men in the world at the helm?

I don't forsee it having a major impact in the purchasing of raw meat (I think most supermarkets are on board with not selling it as most consumers don't want it). What'll be interesting/disturbing is how it's integrated into pre-prepared meals. That's where we'll feel it I suspect.

Yeah, I've never understood this - given the choice, I'd choose dark meat over chicken breast every time.

We used to have one server for a website I was a content guy on - it was in a standard PC case, plugged into a switch in the IT team's office (this was not a tech-centered org).

The main IT guy went on holiday and one of the cover guys from another office decided to tidy up. He unplugged the server and thought (and told me after his thought process) "if anyone was using it, they'll let us know".

This was the one, single box for the whole website - no one else was monitoring (even though the central office had a proper, dedicated web team) and the assumption was I was sysadmin.

An hour later I'm sprinting down the corridor to find out what the hell happened and why I can't even SSH into the box.

We put a sticker on the case saying not to unplug it after that...

We have a number of tools at our disposal as drivers to minimise bad situations. Personally I think overuse of high-beams is more valid than under-use in quite a number of circumstances (and exceptionally bad in others).

Your comment implied that drivers who instinctively switch on their high beams to get a sense of a situation where they need more visual input are "jackwads" which I tried to highlight isn't the reason they're doing it.

Wanting to see more when you're driving a massive piece of machinery at decent speeds isn't something that makes you an outright asshole.

I misworded my point on that bit, I more meant I'd rather take a full-beam to the face when I'm on the pavement if it means the driver is aware of the hazards around them.

Occasionally (and in my experience it is only a handful of poor actors compared with the number of cars on the road), I'd take getting intense glare as a pedestrian if it works in everyone's safety.

Appreciate it's a different call for cyclists etc, but as a pedestrian I'd welcome the trade off more than drivers not using their full beams when they deem it neccessary.