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- Trying to figure out how to align this with my experiences (which match the parents’ comment), and I have an idea:
Coding contests are not like my job at all.
My job is taking fuzzy human things and making code that solves it. Frankly AI isn’t good at closing open issues on open source projects either.
- I think the fact that Apple is having to fight this fight is evidence of why they were right to make a secure walled garden. I don’t know of any other service I would recommend my mother use for securely backing up her phone.
I think the UK is ultimately going to roll back this law. I don’t think this means that iCloud E2E is hostile to Apple or its users. I think Apple is going to win.
The war isn’t won by telling people to use GPG https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html
- You have an incorrect definition of Class 3.
Class 3 allows pedal assist up to 28 and throttle to 20
https://thecyclistchoice.com/resources/electric-bike-classes...
- This seems useful and well put together, but splitting it into many small pages instead of a single page that can be scrolled through is frustrating - particularly on mobile where the table of contents isn't shown by default. I stopped reading after a few pages because it annoyed me.
At the very least, the sections should be a single page each.
- Sorry, "don't pay taxes" was hyperbole - what I meant was have a lower tax rate than the rest of us.
Isn't that the whole point of all sorts of tax strategies, for instance Buy, Borrow, Die?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrae/2022/07/14/how-the-ric...
- I think tptacek is generally worth reading. He is one of the users with the highest karma on this site (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek)
I’m happy to have read this, which is reason enough to publish it - but also it’s clearly generating debate so it seems like a very good thing to have published.
- From wikipedia's 4 minute mile article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_mile
> The four-minute barrier was first broken on 6 May 1954 at Oxford University's Iffley Road Track, by British athlete Roger Bannister
> On 21 June 1954, at an international meet at Turku, Finland, Australia's John Landy became the second man, after Bannister, to achieve a sub-four-minute mile.
In 1955 Laszlo Tabori was the third person to break the 4 minute barrier. Then, in 1956, three runners broke the four-minute barrier in a single race.
This matches what I described, multiple people attained it once it was understood to be possible. It was linear up to the 4 minute mark, but the point is that records that used to be impossible are now humdrum once achieved.
- It would be a huge blowout. We didn’t know how to train or eat and athletes smoked and drank substantially more. Meanwhile, the gear evolutions make significant difference.
But take distance running - prior to 1954, nobody had done a sub 4 minute mile. After that was known to be possible multiple people sub 4 minute miled in the following decade. If you sent a top runner back a hundred years they would be able to run a sub 4 minute mile, even with 1920s equipment - and the world record in 1923 was 4:10
Failure mode they hadn’t thought of yet