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When the substance of an article is accurate, the best people can do is argue over the presentation.

Right, I noticed that in the article. I should have s/franchise/location.

A $200k loss isn't much in the context of the whole company but it may be a very large amount for an individual franchise, and they want to set an example.

Think of it like a restaurant chain pursuing legal action against an internal theft ring at a single location.

(I am not taking the BAM side here, just providing a rationale for their actions).

To market their product to c-suite people.

They really had to stretch for #4.

Search for the "Developer Portal – let's build together" heading.

Eyesore? Maybe on well architected multimillion dollar custom homes.

On the average suburban tract home in my corner of the USA, panels are no more ugly than the shingled roofs they sit atop.

I have the exact same problem. 6'0 (183.5 cm) height, 160lbs (72kgs), and a long torso. Mediums and even smalls are ideal for my shoulders and chest but it's a crapshoot if they will keep my belly button covered through a normal range of motion. I don't want to bare it and can't imagine anyone wants to see it.

Tentrees, Fox and Prana are the brands I've found that consistently fit my upper body.

Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?

Sounds like a terrible idea. Have you heard otherwise?

I did keto for a few months a long time ago (2010/2011). This was early in my career and long coding and debug sessions were a normal part of my day-to-day.

There was zero impact to my work focus, positive or negative, from cutting nearly all carbohydrates out for several months.

I am curious were you heard or learned that "sugar is really important for focus". Just a vibe, perhaps?

For everyone who is as dumb as I am, the comment pertains to the title.

x=CPU y=Memory Z=4k gates

None of the live sports programming, including MTB, will be part of the acquisition.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/netflix-in-exclusive-talks-for...

(yes Pinkbike is my source)

As a fellow elder millennial I agree with your sentiment.

But I don't see the mechanics of how it would work. Rewind to October 2022. How, exactly, does the money* invested in AI since that time get redirected towards whatever issues you find more pressing?

*I have some doubts about the headline numbers

The article resonated but I disagree with his terminology. To me, broke and poor are exactly the same thing. He can define them differently if he wants, of course, but what he calls "broke" I would call "feeling poor" and what he calls "poor" I would call "being poor".

I grew up in circumstances that were very much "broke"/"feeling poor" and it took a long time to learn that we really weren't poor. Some of the simple actions that are mis-directed towards the truly poor (second job, DIY car/home maintenance, better financial planning) would have elevated our circumstances quite a bit. Not to the point of being rich, but definitely to less precarious circumstances. And, selfishly, I would likely not have spent my childhood feeling like an impoverished outcast from my peers.

I travel internationally. These arcane rules also do not affect me.

Me: Lifelong, native-born citizen of a western nation. 1 or 2 international trips of less than 2 weeks each year.

Author: Immigrant to his country of residence. Applying or soon to apply for citizenship or permanent residency. Has taken multiple, lengthy international trips and also appears to have had immigration status in different countries .

Conclusion: If you are more like me than the author then international travel will not require navigation of arcane and contradictory rules.

Agreed. Upon passage of the ACA my company switched insurance coverage to a High Deductible plan with an HSA. So if anything, the ACA appeared to increase the prevalence of HSA's. But that is my narrow social circle and the grandparent poster seems to have a different experience.

Binary searching your commit history and using version control software to automate the process just seems so...obvious?

I get that author learned a new-to-him technique and is excited to share with the world. But to this dev, with a rapidly greying beard, the article has the vibe of "Hey bro! You're not gonna believe this. But I just learned the Pope is catholic."

A lot of firmware dev iteration seems to be build -> flash -> watch serial connection for debug prints.

Serial port? Maybe for the fancy folks. Us lunch-pail types would find an unused GPIO, blue-wire an LED, and blink out a code of your choosing.

Okay, I never actually had to blink an LED but it was in my bag of tricks. The real golden-ticket to debugging embedded devices was a development kit with JTAG. JTAG, coupled with expensive additional hardware and equally expensive software license, gave you a gdb-like interface for debug. Breakpoints, stack traces, all the good stuff you take for granted when working with Windows, Linux, or those ugly abominations we call web browsers.

Emulators were also a thing, especially if your product had a custom ASIC and you needed pre-silicon development. But I didn't use them a lot myself and it seemed like by the time you had your emulation environment setup, there was 1st gen silicon and a debug board sitting at your desk.

In a past life I held the title Firmware Engineer. The day-to-day development process did not differ from subsequent positions as a Software Engineer. Write-Compile-Test-Repeat. Then put it up for review so your colleagues can skewer it, or, on rare occasion, offer considerate and thorough feedback.

Firmware development is indeed taught in higher education. But not under the name "Firmware". It will be an "embedded systems" course or series of courses. At least in my experience, those courses are run by the Electrical Engineering department and the average Computer Science student stays far away from them.

Euler's formula

So much EE-related math becomes trivial (or at least not-hard) once you've internalized this formula.

What I am trying to decide is 1) Did I zone out in class when Euler's formula was introduced or 2) Did my secondary school mathematics classes just kind of gloss over it?

I lean towards 2 but unfortunately none of my college classes reintroduced the formula and I ended up making a lot of problems harder than they should have been (I have an EE undergrad).

No link to the original research note. No real details on the methodology used. A few notes on the well-known lack of an AI business model (similar things were said about search in the late 90's).

I just don't see how the broader market is exposed to an AI crash in the way it was exposed to subprime loans. If OpenAI goes belly up is it really taking anyone else down with it?

I wonder if an LLM would be up to the job of writing the assembly code from this

Why ask a cluster of GPU's to do something any single CPU from the last 30 years can accomplish?

Do they also believe that the GenAI bubble is propping up the value of the S&P 500? If so, they are behaving irrationally. If not, then it is perfectly reasonable to maintain an S&P 500 investment while asserting the AI bubble will burst.

I feel like setting your alarm earlier, thus reducing the amount of sleep you are getting, may be the wrong thing to do.

Perhaps by "An annual checkup is not enough", they do not mean you need screenings multiple times a year. Rather, one needs to regularly examine their own skin in addition to yearly checks by a professional.

An aside for my fellow wookies: moles can form under hair!

skeptical of slathering something all over my body just to go outside

Missing nuance: Outside for how long? And how strong is the sun?

Even with my pasty Northern European complexion, I'm skipping the sunscreen for a 20 minute walk to lunch in November. But for a 10 hour hike above treeline in July? I'll be re-applying every two hours.

Humans can still enjoy the land without roaring across them in 4x4s.

To clarify: In your view, someone using a vehicle to access a remote area is not "enjoying the land"?

Perhaps you mean that the presence of a motorized vehicle reduces your own enjoyment.

(Personal bias: I am an avid mountain biker, occasional dirt bike rider, and feel the wilderness designation is harsh and used excessively).

I live in a suburban American neighborhood, built in the mid 2010's, which has ample walking paths and wide sidewalks. In fact, I cannot think of any newer neighborhood in this area which lacks walking infrastructure. Good sidewalks are a minimum. Usually there are dedicated walk and bike paths.

What is lacking is places you would actually walk to. There are numerous parks and a pool. But that's it. Don't get me wrong, it's great if you have a dog or enjoy running or walking. But I still have to drive everywhere.

Big O was introduced in my Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) class which was nominally a second year undergrad class. In practice, most Computer Science (CS) students were far enough advanced to take DSA in their first year.

I took DSA as a third-year Electrical and Computer Engineering student. I recall maybe 15 minutes of exposition on the topic and exam questions of a near-throwaway nature (ergo: write this tree parsing algorithm, 95 points for your code's correctness, 5 points for explaining your algorithm's Big O complexity). It did seem like something that CS professors and teaching assistants considered either trivial or self-explanatory.