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I agree with the experience of assembling something from pieces is valuable.

But if you don't want that, there's no need for "online tutorials for beginners" and that shouldn't be counted as an additional appeal. It's just Windows.


you're not wrong about most of this, but anti-semitic? he's very openly Jewish


I don’t claim to understand, but it’s still a theme.

Maybe it’s an elite vs mass culture anti-semitism? Lots of internalized hatred among ‘bougie’ white and black people towards their respective poor strata; why would a Jewish person interested in reactionary politics spare the normies who, on the whole, abhor it?


Pockets of self-hating minorities most certainly exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National...


His father was Jewish but his mother is said to be a Protestant. He doesn't describe himself as Jewish as far as I can see.


Ironically, the same is true of Karl Marx! His father converted to Lutheranism and Karl was baptized as such.

As a young man he wrote a paper on the topical question of the Jews in Prussia[0], regarded in the modern day as antisemitic, though probably tame for the era.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jewish_Question


Well, except that Karl Marx's mother was Jewish.


if( price sensitive ) return iPad; else if( know what you're doing and you know it needs a Pro ) return iPad Pro; else // I guess I'll be browsing and watching movies?? return iPad Air;


You have discovered the one real practical application of crypto.


Thanks for sharing this - this will be an inspiration.

Everybody knows about FPV quadrocopters used on the battlefield, but there is an increasing focus on terrestrial vehicles. They look nothing like the Boston Dynamics robodogs crossed with Terminators from the mvoies, but are extremely useful in lower-profile "boring" jobs, like laying landmines, exploding landmines, and carrying small amount of supplies to soldiers sheltering somewhere on the frontline.


video games are guilty of this too, and the proliferation of Unity and Unreal is partly due to an overoptimization for prototypes


A lot of Unity and Unreal games seem to have one thing in common: unoptimized slop with garbage performance with smeary TAA and needing a 4090 GPU to get decent performance.

Game studios don't care about optimizations anymore, they care about shoveling something out the door as quickly and as cheaply as possible.


Dude, you’re a bigwig at atlassian. Fix JIRA.


Relatively sensible and privacy-preserving compared to what I first imagined - cameras and AI AI AI


I don’t regularly take buses to the other side of Europe to eat some gelato and gawk at cathedrals for a weekend. A lot of people use cheap airlines as cheap entertainment.


don’t regularly take buses to the other side of Europe

They used to. When I was growing up, way before budget airlines, buses used to be the way you traveled around Europe for cheap.


Definitely - and it’s nowhere near the carbon emissions so I think what happened is that they saw someone else’s data (hopefully inadvertently) comparing a mostly full long haul flight (148gm CO2/passenger/kilometer) to a city bus (97g) rather than the long-distance buses you mentioned which are far more efficient since they don’t stop frequently (27g).

https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint


Barely. The Sukhoi Superjet trickles out of the factories, and the other two projects have been delayed again and again.


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