Paid them for a sample kit. Never used it after I carefully read the ToS and thought about what might happen.
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I'm not sure about the title, which just seems weird.
But I think the broad point in the short post is right. Objective-C may look horrible today, but compared to the other choices at the time of its debut; it looked pretty damned good and even better because it was what NeXT was attaching its UI tooling to -- and compared to what was around at the time InterfaceBuilder was unreal good.
Rest In Peace.
I was a pre-teen when I first learned to program on a TRS-80 Model 1. I was, at the time, an expert in BASIC and Z80 assembly.
At the same time I was asking my parents for quarters to play space invaders. And that's where I feel this article.
These are the shoulders I stood on. There were people who made that first generation of video games and personal computers. I benefited from their work. Their work launched me into what has been a great career.
But they are aging out and dying. Their work was foundational. And, at least to me, inspirational.
cmsonger commented on Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990) web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/... · Posted by u/cryingpotato
I've had The Complete on a bookshelf, unread for a decade. And yesterday (!) I decided to start reading it, but man, is there a lot there. About 1500 pages, with each either a Sunday strip or three dailies.
I like your idea a lot, but I'm wondering if leaving such an enormous book open to a page would break the binding. Any trouble with that?
So far it has not broken the binding but then I didn't buy it as a collectors piece and if it does break the binding, that's OK with me.
Not deriding book collecting. :) I've been there. I've just decided on this one that I don't care about the book. I care about the experience. I bought it to do this exact thing with.
cmsonger commented on Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990) web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/... · Posted by u/cryingpotato
They're right now working on shrinking the size, with the "portable compendium vol 1" out now with more on the way. I love the original books but they're a bit unwieldy for me to just pick up and browse, so I'm buying these as they come out.
The form factor is huge! In my case it works really well because I can read it standing up while looking down at the huge book.
But that's a great edition to put out!
cmsonger commented on Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990) web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/... · Posted by u/cryingpotato
One of the smartest things I've done in recent years is to buy the complete Calvin and Hobbes and put it prominently on a table that I walk by daily.
I turn a page a day...
In the morning before I get coffee usually, though it's often too dark and I'll come back to read the two facing pages later. Depending on the day that means I'll read a Sunday strip and three daily strips or six daily strips. Once in a great while it's one Sunday strip and some custom art -- I presume from one of the books. Those days are a little disappointing but it's still one page turn a day.
I'm re-reading Calvin and Hobbes at somewhere around 5x original speed but somewhere about 50x slower than if I were to sit down with it and turn pages willy nilly. I've been doing it about six months and I'm still in the first book of the three that comprise the complete set.
It's a real added joy in my day and will be for some time. Some of the best money I've spent in a long long time.
There was a time when a Tesla was something I aspired to own one day, but now I don't think I'd get one even if I had a free pick of any car in that price range.
From what I understand they still lead the EV space in several metrics, but other manufacturers have done a lot of catching up in the last few years. Add that to greater reliability and build quality, and inclusion of physical controls (anyone who thinks replacing the indicator/turn signal stalk with capacitive buttons is sensible has clearly never driven in the UK—my 15 minute drive into the office crosses 11 roundabouts).
Plus I've developed such a strong personal distaste for Musk over the last few years that it's hard to want to give him money, however indirectly.
My sentiment exactly mirrors yours. I own a 2017 S100D. It has turn signal stalks, and wiper stalks, and has been (and is) a good car. My only complaint is that I hate the HVAC being on touch screen.
New Tesla's are literally worse to my thinking. Would I like more range? Sure, I guess, but truth is that 70% charge on the S is reliably enough range that unless I'm traveling cross country, the car just tops up every night.
I will buy another EV. It's very unlikely to be a Tesla both for their ergonomic design and Elon's very public display of policy positions and opinions that I disagree with.
Tesla's system is generalised and can operate on any roads. It also uses vision, as opposed to a crazy number of sensors including LIDAR. Tesla FSD is a much more promising and human-like AI.
I'm not sure: "I drove with the radio blaring so I could not hear the siren" is something to brag about. More sensors == better. And the fact that LiDAR costs have come down two orders of magnitude since Tesla made this decision suggests that some of the economic drivers for such a decision have changed.
Part of the reason I've owned FSD since 2017 and yet spent exactly zero minutes in my car in the expressway, in light traffic, in good weather, in the middle of the day reading a book is because of the lack of an entry on the posted timeline saying something like: "Tesla states it will accept liability for any crashes that occur while FSD was engaged."
After all these years, it's fair to say: "In the 7 years that Tesla has accepted money from customers for FSD, Tesla still requires human supervision in all cases."
So far they have proven they are asmpytotically approaching something that drives badly and is in danger of hitting things.
cmsonger commented on I skipped to the ending danangell.com/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/BHSPitMonkey
> If your goal is money and you are a manager then in any organization (not just Google) it's likely that income is going to be O(number of reports).
Income linear in the number of reports? Increasing with reports, sure, but way less than linear. Logarithmic is usually a good guess with this sort of thing.
Indeed! I suppose I actually meant f(number of reports) because I didn't actually think the scaling through.
The broader points remain: This is true everywhere and not unique to Google. People get a choice whether or not they opt in.