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Because the other guy didn't do that. Capitalism

A coloring book teaches a billion times what a coloring app can teach. How materials feel, how to use haptic feedback to not break a crayon, how objects create sound as they touch, how different materials interact (eg pencil vs crayon), how friction changes based on force normal to the surface, how materials hardness affects abrasion and changes the shape of the crayon, how different items have different colors and how these can transfer between materials, etc...

Kids 2 to 4 should not be using screens. They have too much to learn.

That’s a perk for the teachers who can relax or get the next activity ready while the kids zone out, not done in the direct interests of the children.

Bike-shedding is effort wasted on things that are irrelevant, like if an electronics startup paid this much attention to color. In Apple’s position as a fashion company as much as a tech company, and at Apple’s scale, they can and do invest hundreds of people’s time in making sure that the paint jobs are as good as they can get them.

No, they charge the same price for all colors. Frankly the only products I’ve seen with different prices for different colors is autos.

Sometimes it baffles me, the amount of sound and fury regarding the rose gold iPhone etc. For me it’s a utilitarian device but I know it’s not that for everyone.

Coming from a different country it is really difficult to understand why someone would keep their money for themselves instead of helping their families. Over here families thrive and fail together.

Kids of 2 to 4 shouldn’t be using screens.

I will fly a 737 Max after it’s been on the market three years without incident.

I tried it and got an “Undo Typing” confirmation. Did you?

Did you google on a separate device or was it able to preserve the undo stack even through app switching etc?

Europe? Where is corporate crime punished effectively? With decades long prison sentences for the responsible executives?

But SICP and Feynman are highly nonstandard ways to be introduced to the topics. That’s why they’re unusual.

I set each of my machines and VMs to a different (dark) background color so I know what machine I’m in.

Find some people who have worked in an engine room or a McDonalds or similar, and supported themselves from the income from that job, and also had a career in IT. I think they will have a different opinion.

No, it's specifically meant to illustrate that the inflation in infrastructure costs has been wildly faster than the inflation in the rest of the economy. The US can't build infrastructure for any kind of reasonable cost anymore and it is a big fucking problem.

This is actually a good thing. The more lawyers get to suckle at the teat of class actions, the more class actions they will file, which will have a deterrent effect on corporate malfeasance even if there is no restitution to the victims.

If you compare IT to venture capital or just being a Senator’s son then sure it’s got its problems. But when you look at the pay and difficulty of IT compared to nursing, teaching, truck driving, coal mining, construction, etc... it’s the easiest money you’ll ever make. So if you don’t want it, please show yourself the door.

Then go get one of those other jobs. As an employee you are an asset to be utilized. Companies that are too heavy handed about it lose employees. IT is one of the cushiest professions in the world, if you want it to be even less demanding then there are people willing to take your place.

It’s very clear that some of the rinse aid is left over on the dishes. You can taste it.

No, because I don’t want the rinse aid crap on my dishes either.

For certain people, making money illegally is more fun than making it legally, even in spite of the risk.

Huh! I have to run the dishes twice in my brand new dishwasher and it aggravates me. I wash the second time without soap or the dishes come out with soap scum all over them.

The core reason futures exist is to allow you to maintain more stable pricing of the products you sell, in the face of price instability in the products you buy. Let’s say you’re Pizza Hut and you want to run a Super Bowl ad advertising $5 pizzas for a month. But then a tomato sauce recipe goes viral in China and the price of tomatoes goes up 2x. Now your promotion might be costing you a lot more than you had planned.

With futures you can buy the tomatoes today, to be delivered later, the farmer can get his money now and you van lock in your price now, insulated against increases in prices (with the farmer insulated against decreases).

Military jets aren't really comparable. The pilots have signed up for a job with an elevated risk of death, and they are often asked to do far riskier things like "go dogfight this MIG near the North Korean border" or whatever. The "acceptable" level of fatalities in military aviation exists, whereas in passenger flights it's basically treated as zero.

The countries with the economic and military power to do so. Today, likely the US, Russia, China, and the UK on the periphery.

Given what I’ve seen of acquisitions the teams remain distinct decades later.

It's not about creating information in the information-theoretic sense. It's that nobody knows how neural networks work. So even if, say, all of the knowledge to recognize that this is a screwdriver is present in the 3D model, it's not like we know how to train a neural network to detect those features from a 2D camera image. So we just generate a gazillion 2D images in various rotations and lighting conditions and let the neural network use its black magic. With no "backchannel" into the "brains" of the neural network, we can't tell it to recognize black people's emotions the same way it recognizes white people's emotions. So if we don't have enough black people in our training set, we build a way to simulate an image of a black person and hammer it into the neural network's brainstem.

Microsoft doesn’t have to pull resources from anything to put them on Java. It’s like if Jeff Bezos is buying a car and you say “please spend the money on a boat instead”

Yeah, when I had my own company “everything is on Azure” was a generally satisfying response to “where the heck do you keep my data.”