If only the article was titled something like "No Elon, even you can't cut in line" and focused on that, it's such a great example of ridiculous elitism. Being just a small part of otherwise typical (deserved) anti-Elon tropes is much more boring - we have plenty of those already!
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pjjpo commented on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States post.japanpost.jp/int/inf... · Posted by u/Kye
I did that with a slight change: "Japan Post to temporarily stop shipments to US over $100"
To emphasize that it's not in effect yet and that it's to, not from.
edit: Someone went and reverted it to something less clear than everything else
FWIW I came in from RSS and am glad to see the better title. Maybe not ideal, but as someone living in Japan, I can see what the official title was trying, but failing, to convey. But it is what it is and probably the best in this case. The move itself seems good on both sides since proper logistics from Asia to US has been strong for a long time, there shouldn't really be a strong need for personal shipment of goods.
pjjpo commented on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
> Unlike grants, equity comes at a steep cost to Intel. Transferring grants into equity therefore risks putting Intel at a cost disadvantage relative to other chip makers
A lot of this article seems to rely on this point but the possible cost isn't clarified. I can understand equity arrangements affecting shareholders but how would it reduce the product's competitiveness, notably the unit cost which seems to be the point regards to other chipmakers. If it's about stock price going down, employee comp going down and product effects from that, it seems too speculative?
On the flip side, it sounds like instead of cash over time it becomes a lump cash infusion, which seems like it could result in benefits of its own such as bringing forward timelines.
Getting rich fast, and doing what you love in your spare time, rather than pretending you love your work, which no one does, sounds perfectly coherent to me.
Do people actually get rich fast without loving their work, at least to a reasonable degree? Motivation is the most important requirement for productivity, not smarts (unnecessary for engineering where the main job is to understand tools to the fullest) nor even experience (though the ones that stay in the industry for a while generally also have more motivation). I've seen plenty of folks get managed out that fall in the unmotivated, unproductive pattern as they probably should be.
Retiring early to pursue something different is a great goal, but I think that means liking your work enough to get there. And some luck maybe that someone shared the importance of investment which is often the missing piece.
> The, "if you get left behind, that's on you, because we're not holding up the bright kids," mentality was catastrophic for me
Your one bad year doesn't invalidate the fact that it was good to allow you to run ahead of slower students the other 9 years. It wasn't catastrophic for you, as you say yourself you just retook the class in college and got a high grade. I honestly don't see how "I had a bad time at home for a year and did bad in school" could have worked out any better for you.
> So, I don't buy that America/Sweden/et al. are full of hopeless demi-students. I was deemed one.
A bad grade one year deemed you a hopeless demi student? By what metric? I had a similar school career (AP/IB with As and Bs) and got a D that should have been an F my senior year and it was fine.
They seem to lament ending up in humanities instead of a technical path. The fact that the humanities is just categorized as for less smart people and technical people are all smart is a problem in itself.
Many bright people end up in humanities and end up crushed by the societal pressure that expects them to be inferior, a huge waste.
Competition keeps entities honest. Monopolies will kill you. In Boeing's case both figuratively for the business and literally for it's customers.
Looking at their general stock performance, I'd say it's actually only the customers being killed.
Agree with the sentiments of the sibling posts that monopolies seem as great for business as ever.
Had to give up on this due to lack of capitalization. How f**ing hard is it to format this properly? Why is "small caps" becoming a stylistic choice
Presumably either deference or satire in writing an article about OpenAI using Sam's writing style. Personally it makes Sam seem like one of the least intelligent business leaders, but maybe not hip enough to get it.
pjjpo commented on Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess planetscale.com/blog/anno... · Posted by u/thdxr
Why? Neki is built by the the engineers who have built, maintain, and operate massive-scale Vitess databases.
Multigres is made by the guy that made Vitess, Sugu, before it became a startup. Doesn't mean it will be better, but I think it's why people have high hopes for both products.
pjjpo commented on Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager danfabulich.medium.com/pa... · Posted by u/dfabulich
Here's your escape hatch: https://bitwarden.com/help/export-your-data/
Bitwarden even now supports passkeys on mobile browsers and apps. As a happy user for over 5 years it's been great being able to configure something less theatrical than push/codes without needing to plug in my YubiKey every time.
Happy user of Bitwarden and use their passkey support when I can. But generally I've been underwhelmed with the passkey UX, likely no fault of Bitwarden or similar. With extensions installed, Android configured to use Bitwarden for passkeys, etc, it feels like a 10% chance or so Bitwarden will be checked for a passkey and otherwise it's randomly either the browser or phone. Without being able to reliably read a passkey, I always need to set up password + OTP as a backup. While there's some benefit to passkeys when available, having to set up multiple auths anyways just makes it feel like too much of a hassle...
pjjpo commented on Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/bundie
>This is unduly meanspirited.
No it's not? It's accurate.
>Your passion projects are not even considered to probably the vast majority of the world; that doesn't make you a loser.
A Windows UI project is not a "passion project" and the only """person""" that really benefits here is Microsoft.
>But I respect the people that take this on and want to keep it going.
Contribute to something else that doesn't only help the bottom line of a mega global corp?
Why are you defending this?
It's sad how OSS enables predatory practices by the mega corps. It's definitely not just Microsoft, Google, Amazon at least also behave the same way, and the worst part is how the audience is captive - if they're stuck on any platform (since all the platform owners behave the same way), despite paying for it, the only way to fix broken parts of the platform is to fix it yourself.
For any time a legitimate bug gets a "we always accept pull requests" comment from a $XXXK paid engineer, I really wish I had control of an orbital laser, or a deathnote with eyes that work with text.