Sweetgreen investing in robotics and AI is central to maintaining US salad making superiority, you see. We don't want to live in a world where we're not a leader in this space.
Mr. President, we must not allow a salad gap!
Readit Newsdotxlem commented on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI gizmodo.com/1-trillion-in... · Posted by u/pabs3
dotxlem commented on Rare Ovarian Tumor Discovered in Egyptian New Kingdom Burial archaeology.org/news/1188... · Posted by u/gmays
It is important to note that many mummies were ground up and either eaten or turned into pigment ("mummy brown"). There is an interesting video I saw recently of people mummifying a chicken according to ancient processes and eating it* [0].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhV0TP3jco
*well, the mummification saps and materials, anyway.
“Zevulon the Great; he's Teriyaki Style”
dotxlem commented on Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use: study reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/lxm
Cars aren't like governments, though: the Toyota Corolla doesn't hold a monopoly on anything.
Why don't we have more specialized vehicles catering to small, passionate niches?
A modern Jeep or Land Rover looks just like a modern BMW or Audi SUV. The former brands were made by offering minimal rugged off-roaders, the latter by offering luxury vehicles. Now they've been blended into the same bland category.
What about beach buggies, or even the Yaris/Matrix/Fit class of light get-arounds? Gone.
What about the old nimble 6'-bed Ford Rangers, Chevy S-10s, Toyota Pickups? Gone, replaced with monstrous lifted 4'-bed wannabe minivans.
I understand why we can't have a meaningful choice between different types of government in the same area. But why must it be that way with consumer products?
I really miss those little Ford Rangers. Perfect size for hauling stuff around town if you need to, but still small enough to be a grocery getter too.
The newer models seem to be trying to appeal to the “big truck” people, but in a way that those same people won’t want
dotxlem commented on Loneliness is stronger when not alone pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/hirundo
Would be interesting to see this study. I personally feel more lonely in nature, especially in forests. I need the energy of big cities to feel a warm glow. I suspect I’m not the only one and there’s a large percentage of the population who are similar to me.
When I used to live in small towns, I would have a strong need to periodically visit a big city to restore my emotions. I love the feeling of being in a crowd even if I never talk to anyone. I love the bustle and noise and potential for new encounters.
Nature feels isolating to me. I wonder if I’m wired this way because I grew up in a big city. We’re wired to look for places where we can feel we’re “at home”, and that’s usually a function of childhood experiences.
I agree that it might be due to where we grow up ... I grew up in a forest on an island with few people living within walking distance. But I've been living in a small city for about 14 years, and more and more I long to go back to living somewhere were there aren't all these people around. Or more importantly, to somewhere so much more _quiet_.
dotxlem commented on Programming culture in the late aughts (2022) morepablo.com/2022/11/pro... · Posted by u/luu
Not only that, half this supposedly necessary tech actually slows you down: containers and kubernetes, websockets galore, clients like giant barnacles on your server, then we get these best practices that weren’t thought out well: sessions, etc… mostly it’s the cargo cult implementation knee jerk response “gotta have it” like some frontend maniac from 2010 adding jquery to everything, when what is needed is to keep the hood open and keep people talking about the engine parts instead of calling it done and schlepping some guys tractor drag race motor around town delivering pizzas
> instead of calling it done and schlepping some guys tractor drag race motor around town delivering pizzas
This sounds way too specific to be a hypothetical
dotxlem commented on Shortage of COBOL developers in insurance and banks lemonde.fr/economie/artic... · Posted by u/gregoire_g
The idea that COBOL is at the heart of bank systems is a persistent myth that gets published every now and again alongside some story about how essential these systems are, how they can never be replaced and how the people maintaining these systems are a dieing breed.
Almost all of this seems untrue (except maybe the last one). I’ve worked at a variety of banks from front to back office across securities and private wealth. I’ve seen plenty of company-specific languages, plenty of C++, Java, perl, python but have literally never encountered a COBOL system. There’s one system at one of the banks that I was a contractor at which may have been COBOL I’m not sure. I didn’t work directly on it and it ran on a Tandem.
I’ve never worked for a pure retail bank so it’s possible that some pure retail banks use COBOL, but I have worked on settlement systems, payment systems, reconciliation systems etc including for banks that have a retail arm as part of a larger bank and haven’t seen hide nor hair of COBOL anywhere. Some cynical part of me wonders whether IBM PR or some niche trade body or recruitment agency seeds these stories into the press every now and again to get people to fixate on COBOL and these clunky mainframes being somehow essential to the financial system.
You’ve never encountered COBOL because it sounds like you’ve never worked on the part which is usually referred to as the “core banking system”.
Many legacy banking cores are still in use and the legacy ones are all written in COBOL.
dotxlem commented on Nikola founder Trevor Milton found guilty of fraud cnbc.com/2022/10/14/nikol... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r
It really isn’t. I’m kind of fed up with people, who live at a time of unprecedented wealth freedom and opportunity, complaining how bad things are while the state of the world around them improves dramatically.
I was reading about poverty in the UK recently, the numbers are poor, but then I noticed that poverty is defined by a proportion of average wages. That means as wages go up, so does the poverty threshold. It turns out people in poverty in the UK now have double the spending power of those in the 1980s. I’m not saying poverty doesn’t exist, or that these people don’t need help. There are real issues of health, nutrition, opportunities and fairness. No question, but when someone compares poverty statistics over time, they’re not comparing the same things at all.
My wife is Chinese so I’ve seen the transformation there, where hundreds of millions of people have been elevated not just out of poverty, but into the urban middle class. Africa is undergoing a huge transformation. I’ve been lucky enough to do a lot of travelling going back to the 90s, so I’ve seen how much places have changed over the decades. It turns out individual economic and social freedoms, of property, labour, travel and association work. Give people opportunities and they build vibrant productive societies. I’ve watched them do it.
The world does not improve uniformly or get worse uniformly.
What’s good for most is bad for some and vice versa.
If you either use or don't use AWS based on a HN blog post, you deserve whatever happens to you.
This is the correct answer