No change is too small to waste the time of high level officials to revert out of spite

That was one of my objections to replacing kitchen appliances for all too long. I’m not even going to consider all the same brand. But they’ve added enough “styling elements” that it’s tougher to fill a kitchen with similar appliances from different manufacturers

The problem is it’s not really people’s choice. Companies have gotten very good at disguising quality tradoffs and marketing has got very good at muddying the waters.

Since this is about tools, I’ll bring up Craftsman as an example. For many years, it was a quality brand accessible to homeowners. But as they changed to be cheaper they still marketed themselves as a quality brand and they seemed like the same price. It was only after the brand value was destroyed, that it became clear how “cheap” the tools had become and people were able to make a legitimate decision to move on

It could probably do a decent job generating those scripts, given adequate prompting and a few cycles of feedback from you. But it’s almost never a final result. It’s still on you to know what it’s doing and whether it meets requirements, whether it’s sufficiently performant and scalable, whether it’s resilient and flexible. Most importantly it’s up to you to ensure good quality that future you can read and maintain.

Complexity or “complexity”? A couple months ago I had to accept a merge from a junior developer that is now flagged as the code with the highest complexity in my code base. It was in Groovy and he must have just discovered closures. Instead of breaking up the code in nice modular testable blocks, it was massive methods hundreds of lines long, and the most egregious use of closures

My biggest objection is unit tests. LLMs can actually be a useful tool for populating out unit tests. But of you let them run amuck, you get vast quantities of tests that add no value but now you have to maintain in perpetuity

This one junior developer didn’t notice the ai brought in a whole new mocking tool for a few tests and didn’t understand my objection.

When I was stuck with that, my rebellion was to widely announce all my merges with negative line of code. Let them try to challenge that publicly.

Of course my current gig is new features generating positive lines of code but the new stupid metric is how much did the ai add. So far I’m losing that battle. Making me more efficient? No, so far ai is doubling the amount of time I’m stuck code reviewing junior developers

Signing (intermediate) certs have been compromised before. That means a bad actor can issue fake certs that are validated up to your root ca certs

While you can invalidate that signing cert, without useful and ubiquitous revocation lists, there’s nothing you can do to propagate that.

A compromised signing certs, effectively means invalidating the ca cert, to limit the damage

A motor block is also not a good crumple zone. I’m happy not to have that in front of me.

Battery fires are much less likely than people fear, even in accidents, although obviously horribly bad when they happen. More importantly this is currently popular battery technology, not endemic to EVs. There have been announcements for newer batteries that prevent this

You can see your blind spot if

1. Your side mirror is adjusted properly
2. You look

Blind spot monitoring helps alert you in case you didn’t

Why not? A crumple zone is a crumple zone. To the extent EVs facilitate steer by wire so we don’t need a steering column is even better

Clippy was always the symbol of my hatred toward technology companies . How did he get redeemed?

Not really but I do believe it’s the future. For any future devices, Matter/Thread is my preference.

But of course using HA means you don’t have to limit yourself. Both my Zigbee and zwave meshes are solid.

I did have a conversation with a friend a few months back who asked what I recommended. It’s tough because

• Matter/Thread is rolling out very slowly so you can’t really count on it yet.
• always avoid WiFi with vendor portals
• is it worth it for a newcomer to invest in Zigbee or zwave?

Voyager I and II are 48 years old running on thermoelectric generators. that’s amazing. They are winding down because the half life of plutonium means there is much less power than when new.

I can see future probes lasting even longer with americium as a fuel source

But introducing moving parts for a sterling engine? In space? And expect it to last like that? Seems unlikely

Yeah, well I paid for a middle seat and people think they can walk in the middle

Yeah but none of the seats have shoulder room. I’ll take squished shoulders over getting hit by the drink cart every time

That’s fine. I’ll take wall seat, as long as I’m not paying extra for a window that doesn’t exist. As a big and tall guy, wall seat means the drink cart doesn’t hit my shoulder because of how narrow the seats are. It means I don’t have to struggle out of my seat every time someone in the row needs to use the bathroom

Only if your paranoia includes your dog being out to get you

But the point of this video is whether the things you have control over make a significant difference.

You can if you just want the results but the value of a video like this is going over the process and the detail, so you know how much to trust it.