Seconded. The facility on Mauna Loa is the Mauna Loa Observatory which is atmospheric sensors and a solar telescope. The famous telescopes are on Mauna Kea (source: I grew up in Hawaii and worked for one of the telescopes, CFHT)
I am not a tab hoarder, but I have been using Tab Groups as a way to collect (and hide) YouTube videos for future viewing.
I had previously used the Pin Tab feature to collapse them, but Tab Groups allows you to have essentially unlimited videos that only take up a single favicon-sized space when collapsed.
As someone who somewhat does the same thing, I'd recommend just adding the youtube videos to playlists so that you can just close out the youtube tab and only keep the one with your playlist up. Like I slap all my interesting podcasts, tech videos, hobby related videos, conference talks etc in a "currently watching" playlist and it greatly cuts down on decision fatigue to just have it all thrown into a queue that you can just sit down and consume (with occasional reordering).
Interesting. Does this mean I should tell users to avoid pinning tabs when browsing in the Tor Browser Bundle? (Assuming they have set the slider to "safest" to disallow JS)
We shake our heads at round vs. square filter in the distant 1970 past, but flash forward 55 years and we have that a very similar situation in the active American space capsules - none of the spacesuits are compatible with any of the other ships.
The Boeing spacesuit isn't compatible with the SpaceX capsule, which was recently an issue with the Crew 9 mission. And neither are compatible with the NASA Orion capsule.
> Look for work in major U.S. tech hubs like the Bay Area. Pay is better and network effects are strong, so your next job will be easier to get.
Jobs and the network effects happen all across the country. As you get older and maybe don't want the grind, or have a family, or just want a better work/life balance, this will become apparent.
Basically, always have at least two people who will support you for your next job.
There are plenty of tech hubs besides the Bay Area, that's for sure. But I can tell you that when I moved from a small company in a small economy to a moderately-well known startup in the Bay, the rate at which recruiters contacted me jumped from maybe a few times a year to multiple times per week. And after a few years, many of my coworkers started their own companies and invited me to join them.
By contrast, I have very talented friends who did not make the jump to work at a tech hub, and they don't have the same kind of network or opportunities.
With that said, I very much agree with you about wanting work life balance, making sure there are people who will support you in your next job, etc. However, I think that this is much easier to optimize for when you do have an established career and an extensive network already.
You've undeniably right about how there have been spheres of influence where people and capital come together. Every area of the United States has some kind of forced name of "Silicon *" for a reason.
I just don't think this will be true in the future. Move where you want to, maybe have to work harder to break through, but that was also true in the Valley.
Setting aside politics for the moment, Tesla really has lost its way. It has made many extremely customer-unfriendly UX and technology changes over the past few years, including:
* As mentioned in the article, removing the turn signal stalk. Other than the obvious mess that is, the stalk also provides other important functionality such as cleaning the windshield, forcing the wipers to swipe (which is critical since Tesla's automatic windshield wiper setting is famously terrible), and switching off the headlight high beams (also necessary due to the poor automatic mode).
And even when they recently re-added the left stalk, they still omitted the right stalk which controls the drivetrain (PRND) and the parking brake.
* You know where the horn button is on every vehicle? Of course you do, because it where it should be. On some Tesla, it was moved to a tiny button on the right side of the steering wheel - just where you'd never find it in an emergency. There was also the (mostly) unpopular yoke-style steering wheel, which was initially forced on Model S/X buyer, then the round steering wheel was available as a more expensive option, and finally it became the default.
* Removing ultrasonic sensors on the bumper and replacing them with camera-only obstacle detection. This was very buggy for some time and even now, almost all Teslas do not have a camera on the bumper, so there is an area in front of the car where the cameras can not see due to the hood. Ultrasonic sensors are cheap and work very well, and provide an alternative sensing technology to vision-only, but conflict with the mantra that since humans can drive with vision-only, cars should too. This mantra also prevents the use of radar (which was present in early Teslas and then disabled) or LiDAR - both of which could be important additional/supplimental safety technologies, which are explained away as being less reliable than vision.
There are probably some other examples, but these are just a few off the top of my head. Once you include politics and alienating the company's most loyal fans, the increasing quality of the competition, and the Tesla charging network advantage disappearing, I'm having a hard time seeing Tesla growing in the future.
It literally was scripted already in the Project 2025[0]:
They said exactly what was going to happen, all pre-planned, and anyone is surprised that it is happening?
To be clear - FUCK Project 2025 and especially FUCK anyone messing with NOAA/NWS.
And if you think I'm exaggerating:
"Focus the NWS on Commercial Operations. Each day, Americans rely on weather forecasts and warnings provided by local radio stations and colleges that are produced not by the NWS, but by private companies such as AccuWeather. Studies have found that the forecasts and warnings provided by the private companies are more reliable than those provided by the NWS."
WTF is that press release. It says that "AccuWeather does not support Project 2025 Plan to fully commercializing NWS operations" and that "NOAA has critical role in American Weather Enterprise", but then it follows by basically saying "NOAA is just one of 190 inputs for us, NWS suuuuuuuucks; we're proud to be collaborating with them because we're better than them at everything; look ma', we have AI and Superior Accuracy™."
This is not a statement of support, it's a fucking ad. There's no actual "vehemently objecting" - in fact, between the lines, it basically says they don't think disbanding NOAA (as per Project 2025) is necessary - just cutting down to bare minimum will suffice.
My reading between the lines is that AccuWeather realizes that NOAA and NWS are golden geese which give them very cheap access to high quality data, and that if those were privatized, they'd probably have to pay more for that kind of data.
You're right that it doesn't read like they care as much about the public's ability to be directly able to access that data; They're just aware that if the taxpayer is funding it, they're going to be demanding some sort of access, and since a lot of that raw data still needs to be 'digested' to make sense to the average person, it's not a big deal if the raw data is publicly available. And anyone that tries to also commercialize it to compete can be crushed by their Superior Accuracy(tm).
When private equity takes over, they sell all the company's property (to themselves) then have the recently parasitically infested company lease back their old property at inflated rates, sucking as much as they can out of the company before bankrupting it and walking away.
This is what 'running government like a business' looks like to American businessmen. This is cutting edge American business thought being applied to the feds.
Or it’s a trial balloon to see how the public and business responds. When the Trump admin says they will do something mind-boggling stupid (like tarries against Canada and Mexico) I take them seriously.
You can notice that pattern with conservatives again and again and again. They talk about what they do. Those who read it and believe them are labeled crazy paranoid and polite people are expected to euphemism it.
Then they do it. And again and again. While being awarded excessive amount of benefit of doubt again and again.
Even now, when I read news, they euphemism and undersell.
The term is 'sane-washing'. The media, even the big media companies so often claimed to be left-leaning, do this. And I think its because the right is just so good at crying victim, that when a news organization just reports what they say, they shout that its an unfair portrayal and fake news. It has been remarkably effective.
I believe you're correct - major media imagine their product is objective. They remediate accusations of conservative bias. Over the years they've reduced themselves to quoting and same washing.
It seems to me that Milei blazed the trail for the second Trump administration. I think we can count on similar economic effects, and a sharp increase in poverty. But to me (from the US), Milei seems politically weaker than Trump, and less likely to be able to seize total power over future elections. The way Milei's policies have impacted the Argentine economy, do you think he has a chance of being reelected? How much damage does it take before the pendulum swings back?
I do think Milei looks weaker than Donald because:
- He is one year in (Donald just began so his fans are still in the honeymoon phase) and still "trickle down" is not working. He did get inflation to go down, but in a way similar to how bleeding out to death also lowers your blood pressure. Argentina needed a Corpus callosotomy, but got The Simpsons Dr Nick for the operation.
- The sheer power of being the USA president is orders of magnitude bigger than being Argentina's president. Argentina depends on fresh money to pay its debts, debt rollover, etc. Also, Argentinians are one of the biggest USD cash hoarders in the world due to currency trauma so we directly depend on what the USA does. no kidding.
- I have NO IDEA how the legislative elections of 2025 or the presidentials of 2027 are going to go. Trying to predict how Argentina will be in 6 months is harder than predicting Norway's next 50 years. Does he have a chance? Of course. The longer he can keep the ARS/USD stable the longer he will be in power. In the worst case it could take ten years, like last time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Carlos_Menem
> How much damage does it take before the pendulum swings back?
>> Argentina needed a Corpus callosotomy, but got The Simpsons Dr Nick for the operation.
Lol. So, I don't know how I should read this. In some sense I agree with you. Did you initially agree with Macri? I was living in Argentina when he was elected, and my Argentine friends lost their minds. Privately, I was not a fan of his socially reactionary rhetoric... he seemed like a version of George W Bush. But I thought that his plan to float the currency and end the blue dollar was the only thing that made any sense, given the ridiculousness of the economy - even my communist friends who were protesting at his election had more USD under their mattresses than ARS in a bank (most worked for the government, and got the preferable exchange rate, after all). Macri did seem to control inflation for a little while, without completely taking a chainsaw to the state. The IMF was initially pleased. Does something like that seem... palatable now?
Having created a technological terror regime, those who present the
greatest threat are the people who built it, understand it, and can
dismantle or change it. For tyrants and terrorists, it's important to
make sure there are very few capable counter-forces, and that they are
fully under your control.
In 1976 Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime committed mass atrocities against
the entire educated population, setting that country back by
centuries. Similarly, Stalin's purges from about 1937 on focused on
eliminating engineers, scientists, and doctors.
Science is a threat to weak minds because, when all said and done
science is about truth. Those who are seizing power in the West now
loathe and detest truth. Truth has the potential to empower people.
I do not expect Trump/Musk regime to stop at public science. All
those private companies who thik they are going to be 'winners' have a
very rude shock coming. Any capable, educated minds left will be
pivotal to the survival of democracy in coming years.
The goal is stupid supremacy without respect for anticipating consequences. People will die and life for everyone will suck more because of this unnecessary bullshit.
There will always be enough bread and circus. They're #1 and #2 necessary things to always give people to keep them silent on a couch rather than protesting or worse.
That's the thing though: it's not so easy to just feed a continent's worth of people. As a ruler, if you keep running around like the elephant in a china shop, breaking critical infrastructure left and right in the name of "efficiency", you may discover that, come next season, there just isn't any bread to give, and there's fuck all you can do at that point.
The truly essential people who want to WFH will just ignore the directive and their managers will cover for them. I assume they don't show up in this 50%.
The rest are literally calling Dell's bluff that any potential promotion would be less valuable (monetary or well-being). Good on them!
In a certain big database company attempts at such moves for anyone whose position didn't involve huge political sway (let's say the kind of positions directly making decisions on direction of company at global scale) was met with HQ announcing that they are going to remotely track badge reader data and apply "firing with cause" for consistently skirting RTO to both employee and managers...
I am not an oracle, but I know people who work at similar companies, with similar decrees, and the Important People just ignore this and I assume the SVP's administrative assistant (who holds the REAL day-to-day power at most companies) just makes the problem go away.
well, yeah, the actual Very Important People can. Generally those who can probably tell a VP to "go fsck yourself" in more colourful language and expect no real consequences.
That’s more personal time, not work time. It’s not like they’re subtracting your commute from the time you have your butt in the seat, and most savvy employees aren’t going to spend an extra 2 hours working at home.
Hardly "at least" two hours a day. The average one-way commute in the United States is under a half hour; the state with the longest average commute (New York) is at 33 minutes.
Being able to take a few minutes out of the workday here and there to attend to minor home duties (laundry, pets, deliveries, etc.) is a pretty significant extra perk on top of the time savings of avoiding the commute.
Yes and you do these things during the day and not during the time when everyone else is home from work. I go shopping at various times, but when I go to the stores during the "return from work" rush hour right after common work end times, it's way more busy, queues are longer, etc. WFH is the best.
Depends. I can also axe showering, changing clothes, make breakfast during standup, do laundry during my lunch, be there for packages rather than visiting a depot, etc.
A tremendous amount of time is saved just by being home.
I love that I can workout on my lunch while wfh and not be peer pressured to sit at some overpriced mediocre cafe with coworkers like in the office. Also not having all the constant office junk food and sweets in my face is awesome.
I live in the fastest growing area of the fastest growing big city in the county. Traffic is the only reason I refuse to go back to an office. It can take 45 minutes to reach the freeway 5 miles from the house and then most of the mega corps are 45-60 miles from this location.
I used to commute a 30-40 minutes in the morning from S. Austin to midtown. The reverse route could easily take 2+ hours. I finally quit taking the freeway and started going a thru-town route. Then it took 3 hours, but one hour was spent eating dinner. It sucked and I could easily have written the same software at home (and also avoided marketing people randomly popping in to ask about a feature because they didn't want to speak to my manager (who actively shielded us when he could)).
God only knows how long that route takes now, but guaranteed the suck level has not gone down.
While the data you cite is correct, this seems to include the entire working population. I'd be willing to bet that the average office worker has a much longer commute than the average worker.
For example, I suspect the average waiter or retail working isn't going to favor a far away location over something close to them. They all probably offer similar compensation and work environments. However, a white collar worker is more likely to take a faraway job if it pays well.
