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Dude. Apple basically created USB-C.

You probably already know about this video series, in just in case you don’t: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK-Wicsj5rAasS2g7e-Z9eFUd...

One of the most joyful things I’ve seen on YouTube.

It is just for the harness. Using a Mac Mini gives you direct access to Apple services, but also means you can use AppleScript / Apple Events for automation. Being able to run a real (as in not-headless) browser unlocks a bunch of things which otherwise be blocked.

I didn’t create this, but on the surface it looks like a reasonable median between “Superpowers”[1] and “Gas Town”[2]. Posting as I don’t see any discussion on it here yet.

[1] https://github.com/obra/superpowers [2] https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown

Looks like the slack invite expired?

Lack of scalability. It’s a person checking your transactions for possible fraud, not just an algorithm.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantitative-Equity-Portfolio-Manag...

Caveat: it’s not exactly “easy reading”, and you might want to have the “three blue one brown” YouTube channel on standby.

Your logic seems to be “he doesn’t look like a fitness influencer, therefore he’s not fit and healthy”, and I’m not sure that stacks up. Maybe his goals are not the same as yours, and you shouldn’t conflate them?

Good for them, and good for everyone else here who's happy about the switch to remote working. That said: I think I'd almost rather quit than "work from home" indefinitely.

For me I'm not "working from home", I'm "living at the office". I deeply resent that my work has taken over a part of my home. For the record: I love my job. I also really miss working from the same physical space as my colleagues. Meetings which I used to enjoy are now awkward and draining. Lastly: I even miss my commute home in the evening (not so much my morning commute, to be fair). It used to give my 30 minutes in which to decompress and switch my brain out of work mode.

If there's a Robin Hobb trilogy you need a break before starting it's this one. It left me a sobbing mess on more than one occasion.

The Emperor's Soul is set on the same world as Elantris, though is more or less completely unconnected to it.

There's another Sanderson Cosmere book called Warbreaker which crosses over with Stormlight pretty heavily from book 2 onwards (it's also very possibly there are references in book 1 which totally passed me by). You'll definitely have a better handle on why a particular object which shows up in the Stormlight books is so scary if you read Warbreaker first.

Book 4 of Stormlight does have some pretty big references to the original Mistborn trilogy, too.

On the whole I try to read books in the order I bought them (ish), but Sanderson is one of the authors I'll just drop everything for when a new book comes out. Disclaimer: he does have some bad habits (mainly inserting "wise ass" characters who don't fit the tone or setting, and who I strongly suspect carry the author's voice a little _too_ directly). But he does epic world building incredibly well, and very different to just about any other author I've read. He also writes action exceptionally well.

This might be the best YouTube rabbit hole I've ever fallen down. Thank you for posting it!

The thing that seems missing from this explanation is that without the physical goods the virtual goods are worthless.

And feature creep.

The engineering lab I did my PhD in (the Ocean System's Lab at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh) fit this description.

One example: Myself and two colleagues took two weeks out of our studies to build an autonomous boat after we realised there was enough spare parts lying around the lab to do so. The idea originally came up over beers with the lab supervisor. I think he bet us £10 we couldn't do it in that amount of time.

I'm sure it varies a lot between labs and Universities, but it measures up to my experience.

As a bonus, the episode of 99% Percent Invisible which followed it[1] has an excellent callback.

[1]: This one, I think: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/roman-mars-describes-...

The nail gun in Quake fires “nine inch nails”, which I always thought was a nice touch.

There's the letter of the law, and the spirit of the law. I suppose it depends on which you think is more important.

The former, mostly.

Fast.ai + Floydhub is something I’d be really interested in... but this appears to just be about the former?

Ha! Came here to say this!

I opened my first bank account 20 years ago. On my lunch break. At my school. In one of the classrooms, where the local branch of Midland Bank (which is now HSBC) was running an in school "office" with Business Studies students working as "tellers". They accepted the front cover of one of my school notebooks as ID.

Ye-es... but I'd argue that's not the proposition of the video. The claim is "I made an iPhone for $300", but the reality id more like "I made an iPhone for $300 of useful spend, $700 of wasted spend and $20,000 worth of my time".

The watcher might be tempted to take away "I can make an iPhone for $300," but actually it's more like "I can make an iPhone for $300 and ~$5,000 of my time".

Obviously the "$5,000 worth of my time" is actually the fun part fro some viewers. If you're the right kind of maker it might even be worth $5,000 to you.

I love stuff like this, but I think he left out a fairly important number: the amount of time he spent making it, and the $ value he'd put on that time.

Possibly worth noting that the actual story being sold here is essentially: Scottish entrepreneurs screwed out of company by non-Scotish investors.

One of my main reasons for sticking with an AppleTV instead of switching to a Roku is that Roku also does this, but Apple has a stronger stand on privacy.

Ah true, they're just billed as Amazon Originals in the UK. I think The Expanse is going to be Amazon all the way down from season 4, though.

In Bruges is a fantastic comparison for Patriot. Thanks for that, I've been looking for a good point of reference.

I can't say about Apple (though they really haven't made a start), but Amazon already have some really good stuff. American Gods, Preacher, now The Expanse, and I'm really enjoying Patriot.