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Microcontrollers for a Lightbulb Turned Project of IoT Button Devices [video]

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Helion has a clear path to net electricity by 2024 (2021)

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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron [video]

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laserlight
·há 17 dias·discuss
> which are the ones that drove plane hijackings to near-zero?

How many plane hijackings have occurred in other countries, which don't have the TSA?
laserlight
·há 19 dias·discuss
Don't forget the fact that you'll be questioned to death when you criticize the current generation of models, but somehow, when the new models arrive you'll be questioned to death if you don't find them better than the old ones.
laserlight
·há 24 dias·discuss
That's quite a reductionist view of Getting Things Done. There's nothing magic about the system, but someone had to put it together. It has been useful to me.
laserlight
·mês passado·discuss
Agreed. Just like one doesn't owe the society their voluntary work, the society doesn't owe one protection from criticism.
laserlight
·mês passado·discuss
The case supports my argument though. Trying not to hire a bad candidate is not a resilient strategy. Someone might fall through the cracks. You still have to screen the candidate after the hire. Heck, even not hiring is not a good strategy, because someone inside may turn bad.
laserlight
·mês passado·discuss
Louis Rossmann's video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRnno9VIZx0
laserlight
·mês passado·discuss
What if a bad apple is hired despite all the checks? The system should be able to detect and eliminate bad apples before they give “so much damage” regardless of when they are hired.

Of course the organization should do its best to avoid bad hires. It should do so because of the opportunity cost of not hiring the right person, not because of the damage that they might give to the organization.
laserlight
·mês passado·discuss
> a bad hire could cause so much damage through incompetence let alone malice

The fact that an organization cannot deal with such a case is a bigger problem in the first place. Eliminating incompetence and malice is among the basic skills of an organization.
laserlight
·mês passado·discuss
What do presets have to do with the touchscreen? Tesla didn't invent presets. Many cars with physical buttons have had presets.
laserlight
·há 2 meses·discuss
> he only designed the interiors not the car body

TopGear reports otherwise [0]:

> In a genius move, they hired design agency LoveFrom to handle the exterior and interior execution: that’s headed by former Apple chief design officer, Sir Jonathan Ive.

[0] https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/its-finally-here-m...
laserlight
·há 2 meses·discuss
I don't agree that difference equals boldness. Boldness of Cybertruck comes from its statement. There is no such statement behind Ferrari Luce. It's a cheap Ferrari-for-your-kid kind of design.
laserlight
·há 2 meses·discuss
> That's a pretty bold claim.

Behind every stupid design there are apologists, who claim that the critics don't get it.
laserlight
·há 2 meses·discuss
What is bold about this cheap design?
laserlight
·há 2 meses·discuss
> long term people who complete courses are your best marketing as they tell others and so completion is importation and thus the deadlines

I don't see why completing courses is a customer satisfaction criterion. I've had many courses that I didn't complete, yet I was quite satisfied with the content and could recommend it to friends.
laserlight
·há 2 meses·discuss
Executive function problems are symptoms of ADHD, therefore renaming it as executive function disorder would omit the root cause. Dr. Edward Hallowell proposes Variable Attention Stimulus Trait (VAST) as a better name.
laserlight
·há 2 meses·discuss
Not that it impacts your argument significantly, but for the sake of completeness, Apple employs a huge number of retail employees.
laserlight
·há 3 meses·discuss
> predictably do what they are programmed to do

And now they predictably do what they are not programmed to do.
laserlight
·há 3 meses·discuss
> I can't shell into ECS

Is there a specific reason why you can't shell into ECS? IIRC, I was able to do so by following the guide [0].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/new-using-amazon-ecs...
laserlight
·há 3 meses·discuss
> 200ml shot

It's not an espresso.
laserlight
·há 3 meses·discuss
> A certain large company

Which one is it? And, more importantly, why not name it?