My anecdote is a bit different, I got a Tuxedo Pulse 15 Gen 2, and during the first few months I had overheating while charging, keys that would get stuck in pressed mode (which happened even in the UEFI menu), and the occasional black screen.
All of these issues went away over time and it's been running very smoothly for the last 18 months or so. Everything just works, and battery life is quite good.
The feel of the keyboard unfortunately cannot be fixed, and the built-in microphone sounds terrible, but with all the other issues gone, and very little need for a built-in microphone, I'm more or less happy with it.
Maybe what they mean is that, despite an asymptotic advantage, the new algorithm performs worse for many use cases than the older ones. This might be due to the many heuristics that solvers apply to make problems tractable as others have mentioned, as well as good old software engineering optimization.
So the work that's required is for someone to take this algorithm and implement it in a way that levels the playing field with the older ones.
I can't say using vendor specific icons is wrong, clearly a lot of people need just that, but I always miss more generic architectural components in these diagramming tools.
That's the problem I have with the `diagrams` Python package (https://pypi.org/project/diagrams/), I find it extremely useful, but the "Generic" section doesn't even include a "Queue" component, and the "OnPrem" section only includes specific queue products.
That Python package is exactly how I like to create diagrams, so I keep using it, but I always have to add my own badly-designed custom icons to it, which look so bad that I wouldn't dare send a PR to add them upstream.
To be clear, while I believe focusing on high school has a negative impact on diversity, I don't think this is intentional on Canonical's part.
Also I should say the overall recruitment process works, I was not the right candidate for the job, and the job wasn't right for me. But I think there were much stronger signals pointing to that during the process than what I did during high school.
I don't know whether it's a deliberate strategy but this definitely happened to me during my interview with Canonical this year.
From a diversity perspective, putting any focus on teenage years will probably select candidates from a privileged background, or people who have re-written their past into the award-winning narrative that's implied by the questions.
But maybe I'm wrong, maybe someone could answer the question "what was your biggest achievement during high school" with "I got clean", "I ran away from an abusive parent" or "I spent all my teenage years being bullied, and survived a suicide attempt" and they'd land the job.
> Finally, Google Maps seems more intent today on showing bars, restaurants, ads, and work-from-home businesses than useful map-related features. Sometimes it doesn’t even show the most basic information anymore, including street names.
I suspect they arrived at this through a series of A-B tests, since the more useful navigational information they display, the easier it is for the user to "learn" a city, and be able to navigate by themselves. So hiding information that allows the user to learn the map layout probably increases usage metrics.
A couple of years ago I noticed I missed precisely that: "learning" the layout of a city when I travel. So I started using Organic Maps, which always shows street names and other useful information to assist me in my navigation, instead of guiding me turn by turn.
Search results are a lot worse than Google Maps, and the routes it picks are also often worse, and it's missing traffic information. But when I'm travelling I'm usually on foot, and I'm there to get lost and discover the place, so it's OK if my route is not as efficient as it could be.
> Public transportation still requires you to go to the bus stop in the rain.
I want to say here that this comment sounds extremely alien to me, to the point that out of context I would have taken it as satirical.
I know you're serious, but there's probably a big portion of people to whom discussing the problem of walking in the rain to the bus stop sounds completely ridiculous, in any context, and as as something we must consider when talking about climate change policy, well, even more ridiculous.
I've lived in rainy places, and you just wear a raincoat, boots, maybe an umbrella (not always), and carry on.
This kind of disproportionate weight assigned to even the smallest levels of personal discomfort, when discussing these problems, is what most people are denouncing here. And this bias might be what pushes people towards techno-solutionism that doesn't have a chance of actually solving our problems in the time frame that we need.
All of these issues went away over time and it's been running very smoothly for the last 18 months or so. Everything just works, and battery life is quite good.
The feel of the keyboard unfortunately cannot be fixed, and the built-in microphone sounds terrible, but with all the other issues gone, and very little need for a built-in microphone, I'm more or less happy with it.