Practically speaking, it doesn't need to be good. People watch cartoons, even though the quality of some of them is outright horrible. No one watched the Simpsons because of the realistic animation.

These kinds of things wouldn't happen if everyone wrote their code in Rust (or slower, memory safe languages). It's impossible to have security problems if you don't use C++. Rust solves every problem. That's why we have quantum computers now, written by AI in Rust. Tomorrow I will ask Gemeni to design me a flying car. With antigravity.

Is there anything worth pirating? I've rediscovered an old hobby... reading. I'm down to just Prime now because it has the most older British detective shows and period dramas (a bit of a favorite with my partner right now). If it was left to me, I'd simply cancel it all. My last Disney+ subscription went unused for a couple of months, save for my daughter and I watching watching Alien Romulus (what a sad waste that was).

So far as I'm concerned they can raise it to a million dollars a month.

If you have two molecules of water, they are keeping each other wet. If you have one molecule of water it's not wet.

It's not hypocrisy. Their core belief is, "anything that helps my party is good. Anything that hurts the other party is bad." There's no room in that for fairness.

According to the article, the investigation was started after three congresspeople received threatening test messages last spring.

Depending on your manager, it's intentional. For managers, personal power is a result of having more people below you on the organization tree. The most logical way to respond to this incentive is to hire more people below you. And if people are working slowly, then it's a justification to hire more people.

Not all managers do this, but the incentive exists, and managers who do it tend to gain power faster than those who don't.

So, because incentives are misaligned, evolutionary pressure exists in corporations to make you, as an individual contributor, inefficient.

It's just an extension of the fallacy of dividing people into "left" and "right" which makes no sense, unless you are trying to divide and conquer a population.

It's a problem in China, too: https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

School was near a lead processing plant. Local officials told the hospitals not to diagnose the children (who had obvious symptoms of lead poisoning).

California's dream is to have battery backed solar. That will be quite expensive, but California is willing to pay a lot for it.

It's easy, all you have to do is change the laws.

We've known that for decades, but the hope was China would become a free nation instead of choosing war. In recent years, their dictatorship has turned stronger, though.

There's been a lot of research on making better cameras, and cell phone cameras have been getting better. So whether this particular research makes it into production or not (which is beyond my ability to determine), it seems certain that some new research will actually make it into production and ten years from now we will have better cameras than now.

This lecture series will get you 70% of the way there.

The point of coding it yourself is to learn how it works.