phil21

18 ms·

271.
by phil21 7mo ago
Personally I have little to no faith in the adaptability of the US workforce for such things. It would be a generational shift. Exceedingly few people even have basic mechanical skills these days. It’s not like WWII where you have a majorit
272.
by phil21 7mo ago
More like years. Perhaps decades if you needed to do it at scale across entire supply chains all at once. All this stuff requires people. And we simply don’t have them. The folks who could be trained to build such stuff are still in primary
273.
by phil21 7mo ago
AWACS and tankers don’t fire missiles or drop bombs. It’s perhaps a distinction without a difference but it’s the line that appears to have been currently drawn.
274.
by phil21 7mo ago
The news is outright wrong about that. Yes, as a last ditch measure patriots etc are used to shoot down leaker drones, but the primary weapon systems to take down the slow moving drones are APKWS rockets on fighters, and helicopter gunships
275.
by phil21 7mo ago
Cost.
276.
by phil21 7mo ago
Definitely agreed, to a point. Phones I used to break so often it seemed worth it, although a lot seemingly had to do with device quality vs. me being especially clumsy. My iPhone has been dropped, dunked in the bath, etc. just as much as m
277.
by phil21 7mo ago
"worth" can have two meanings in this context. $100 from 1917 can be worth exactly $100 today. Or it can be worth what you can buy with it. Some folks will see a $100 bill from the era and see an old $100 bill. Some folks will ima
278.
by phil21 7mo ago
The US built stuff though. Not even that long ago. Subway systems don’t take all that much land from private parties and are effectively too expensive to build here. Not to mention how long they take. It’s because we decided it must be this
279.
by phil21 7mo ago
AppleCare is leaps and bounds better than any other insurance you can buy for mobile or laptops. For accessories I don’t see the point, those are effectively disposable wear items. Ironically a large part of deciding to migrate to an iPhone
280.
by phil21 7mo ago
> grid-scale energy storage This is currently called natural gas. You store it in the ground, and in "day tanks" on land connected to pipes. Nuclear can also be seen in the same way in relation to renewables. Batteries are curr
281.
by phil21 7mo ago
I have a feeling we would all be terrified if we knew how much AI had a role in building bridges at the moment. TBD if they stay up, I suppose. The stories I hear from various white collar professions not related to tech are... interesting,
282.
by phil21 7mo ago
> Basically, it's just another thing to factor in when planning my day. No more of a hassle than checking the weather forecast or glancing at my calendar. Sounds like an incredible hassle at a level I would pay hundreds of dollars p
283.
by phil21 7mo ago
The intended effect is to feel good about oneself, so I’m sure it’s working fine. What this tends to largely accomplish is ensure that those who come from non-traditional backgrounds are further locked out of mainstream high-end tech jobs.
284.
by phil21 7mo ago
My car has it under the passenger seat. Sounds alright until you realize after spilling a bunch of flower vases in the trunk (hatchback) that the computer has literally no case on it and immediately shorts out while driving. Or a passenger
285.
by phil21 7mo ago
Why would games need their own launcher? Just install the damn game, ask if you want icons on the desktop as well as in the start menu. OS handles it all for you. Perhaps some multiplayer functionality and such makes sense to share cross-ga
286.
by phil21 7mo ago
It used to be that there was always a supervising controller on duty, who kind of rotated around each active controller, acted as backup for breaks, etc. for this class of airport - from my layman reading at least. This still seems to be th
287.
by phil21 7mo ago
There is no unfairly or fairly playing a prediction market. That's kind of the point. They don't work if you try to regulate them like they are a stock market or sports betting market. If you place money on one as a layman, you sh
288.
by phil21 7mo ago
Sports betting is specifically not a prediction market precisely because the players are banned by both law and extreme consequences from their leagues for participating. You cannot have an open-ended prediction market with the same prote
289.
by phil21 7mo ago
I counted 8 seconds from clear to cross to first 'truck 1 stop' - along with it not being immediately clear the stop was for the truck, or for Frontier 4195 until 2 more seconds. Add a few seconds for human reaction time on both e
290.
by phil21 7mo ago
Great. So stop saying it's cheaper. It's more convenient, sure. Takes effort, yep. I was obese most of my adult life. It absolutely cost me more to eat cheap (as in nutrition) shitty fast foods than prepare things from base ingred
291.
by phil21 7mo ago
> actually eating healthily is a luxury. This is provably untrue. It is such a tired trope to constantly refute. I guess I need to start a google doc with citations. It is FAR cheaper to buy staples and cook your own food at home. And
292.
by phil21 7mo ago
Would you also replace your salary and title? Or would you let your AI bot do your work for you and still get paid? Sure owners in the end might get wise and realize they can fire the human and just keep the bot doing all the work. Or they
293.
by phil21 7mo ago
That would go under someone who thinks they have more information than they think they do. Perhaps you are great at mathematics and think you can estimate much better than the average bidder. The person who filled the jar is going to have e
294.
by phil21 7mo ago
Eh what? It’s literally the only reason for prediction markets to exist. Otherwise they are simple gambling and pointless. The only way you get more wisdom from “the crowd” is if it teases folks who hold non-public (or at least less public)
295.
by phil21 7mo ago
Is this comment on purpose? The whooshes are getting hard to track!
296.
by phil21 7mo ago
It's easiest to mental model (for me) that those closest to the money are the last ones out the door. They control the purse strings and what the money is spent on. So if you are the CEO, you are basically one or two tiers away from th
297.
by phil21 7mo ago
I think there are too many variables to really control for well on this one. Obviously someone who does what your friend did is going to have many factors changing how people interact with them and it will accumulate into and even larger to
298.
by phil21 7mo ago
For me, personal home IT “chores” that I’ve put off for years. I can do them, but god what a pain in the ass to spin up a VM, configure Prometheus, configure grafana, configure a bunch of collectors for my WiFi and network infrastructure, a
299.
by phil21 7mo ago
Ridiculous. We should be calling people out for being performatively offended. It reduces the impact and gravitas of situations where real offense is given that should be considered. I have herded cats, sorted sheep, and wrangled cattle all
300.
by phil21 7mo ago
Like all things it’s a spectrum. Many developers (most these days) are a commodity. The truly talented are not, and are uniquely good at their specializations. Just like tradesman. A generic electrician journeyman for residential break&#x2F

More ›