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If you want learn how things scale across a team and last years, read or contribute to open source code. It takes years for a single person to get a project to the point where it's…

For much of the developed world, the ratio of retirees to working age people is going to get a larger, causing economic difficulties across age groups. Healthcare for the elderly w…

Bunnie's "Hacking the Xbox" is still one of my favorite books ever. First read it as a teenager, it was my intro to bootloaders, encryption, copyright law, and so much more.

> YouTube has no financial incentive... Nonsense. A Google controlled browser runs plugins Google allows with privacy settings Google creates. More data and no ad blockers is worth…

It's still a serious structural defect. The importance of the distinction here is that Tesla can't argue the customer caused this...a cold shut can only happen at casting time.

Identical twins may both die of a heart attack, but not usually at the same time. Normally, failures come from some amount of non-repeatability or randomness that the systems weren…

A healthy marriage of two people treating each other as equals takes a lot of communication, and that almost certainly can't be scaled 10x, nor do the same principles apply when so…

"You could have learned that stuff in the last 6 months" "You might have to hand in your power user card over that one" And these attitudes are why most consumers almost exclusivel…

If you aren't familiar with Ray Dalio's Principles for a Changing World Order, I can't recommend it enough (both the book and the YouTube video). You'll understand a lot better whe…

I'm a bit perplexed that you see trashing a man's character with certainty as right and pondering if his actions could reflect a struggle with mental illness as wrong. I don't like…

I was just waiting to hear that the parameter loading wasn't available in some edge case scenario and code review changes took down the system. But actually this is a story about t…

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

If no one speaks than you can't differentiate a false alarm from someone who can't breathe, or is hiding from an attacker, or is too hurt to put the phone to their ear. It's a mass…

If you think the entirety of corruption in the US is recent and tied to a specific family you need to switch to a media source with more nuance.

There are tradeoffs here, but the current approach seems to protect people's inheritances better than people's lives. Selling straight up snake oil is still fraud, and letting mone…

You will find the second law of thermodynamics very disappointing.

I'm 2 for 2 with SanDisk ssds suddenly dieing due to the controller going out way short of the drive's expected life. That was years before this issue but my rule of never buying a…

I'm like you, Asus router on stock firmware and happy. In my case I set that up after a bad experience with openwrt. Years ago I bought a $100 gigabit Linksys router, immediately f…

Gotta switch to some a4988s so the machine can moan back.

The founders of the United States thought it was too dangerous to let a democratic government influence the media, which is why we have the first amendment. Rival nations with tota…

There are a lot of surprises here. I'm surprised this wasn't settled confidentially out of court, since Javice presumably doesn't want to go to prison and JPM doesn't want all this…

"I gave my kids junk food and they got excited." Do you think there could be any potential confounders here?

Well I think if Intel had decided to start from scratch to make "x86 only more power efficient, it'll only take one product cycle" they would have failed miserably, but if they sai…

For steering you're exactly wrong. Drive an old car without power steering, on the highway you'll barely notice, but you'll be using all your might to park. It's much easier to ste…

If the article were more prescriptive (i.e. it were giving people life advice or suggesting policy) I'd agree. But it's primarily descriptive ("this is what I lived" and the prescr…