Tariffs are just taxes that will destroy the economy.
Tariffs are just taxes that will destroy the economy.
Now, the funny thing is that most parents, when their kids are ready for a real bike, they put them on one with side-wheels (support wheels?) [1, 2]... My wife and I were looking at kids doing this and were thinking the same thing: "Wait, this is unlearning the whole thing they learned about balance and steering on 2 wheels! Let's go straight to no-support-wheels!" And voila, there they were, within a couple of attempts (we ran along) they were riding around! While many kids struggle when their support wheels come off.
Since then we joke that we are part of the anti-support-wheel-club when we see kids steering uncomfortably on such a bike. Which is really awkward since the bike has to stay upright, the kids have to hang to one side for balance when steering. And yet, it remains the most (or at least, a very) popular way.
[0] https://www.babyhomepage.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Loopf...
[1] https://media.s-bol.com/qQv4Y69p8j33/1155x1200.jpg
[2] https://bike.nl/loekie-booster-kinderfiets-12-inch-jongens-g...
IBM bought RedHat 6 years ago, can we truly claim that they've done something useful with that purchase? I get that they haven't managed to mess it up like they did with SoftLayer, but they've also haven't done much RedHat couldn't do on its own.
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But things are better. Sure televisions have a shorter life span. They are also absurdly cheaper than they have ever been. To not ack that the lower cost options are, at large, what we are complaining about hits me the wrong way.
Ideally something like Pulsars API (which more resembles something like GCP Pub/Sub) would be the de facto as it is capable of handling both cases seamlessly.
There was Kafka-on-Pulsar until recently until the developers essentially made it non-OSS which is pretty unfortunate for Pulsar adoption which is already low.
I forgot the editor (maybe TextMate?) that was in vogue during the peak of the Ruby on Rails era, but there was such a feeling of magic to using what was a fairly basic editor that still had syntax highlighting.
Was this feeling of magic purely because I was younger? Or perhaps we did peak in terms of the ergonomics of human-controlling-machine without too many aids?
Fighter pilots used to fly with skill and instincts, but now are assisted by all sorts of high tech equipment that has removed much of the "flying skill" and replaced it with "equipment skill". It's not that fighter pilots are worse now. I'm sure they are better at achieving the outcomes desired, while commanding much more complex equipment. But the perhaps the art of flying is less emphasized.
In the same way, perhaps the era of software engineering is changing too?