two things

> Meet and talk to people who think like you.

#1 I think this is true. And even if it technically isn't, you get to meet and talk to smart people. YMMV and not everyone at work.

#2 work moderates your coworkers.

work is disneyland. If there's a problem with someone, they are stupid, disruptive, directly mean or dangerous, work will mostly take care of it.

In the real world, none of this applies. So work can be nicer, but you might not have/need the skills to deal with real problems.

I recommend the book "difficult conversations" for getting along outside of work. (though it applies there too)

You know, this made me think of over-engineering.

...and that led me to believe that AI might be very capable to develop over-engineered audio equipment. Think of all the bells and whistles that could be added, that could be expressed in ridiculous ways with ridiculous price tags.

I think this kind of thing is much more commonplace than you think.

Never underestimate a young person and their phone. They not only use youtube or chatgpt to solve daily problems, but date, pay bills, and communicate with their friends using mostly videos/photos/emojis (and occasionally english).

I remember when I was young seeing a combine that had a radio and television in the cab. wow!

Now things have wrapped back around, and nobody would want that, they want less tech and to use their phone, lol.

As a computer person, I hated math/physics/science because of the one-letter (greek) variable names.

Of course some of that osmosizes back via lisp and APL.

That was the exact reason I liked math. Maybe because I am Greek.

reminds me of WD-40 (water displacer formula 40).

not used that often to displace water.

Even more fun is pointers, especially when windows / macos were switching from 32-bits to 64-bits (in different ways).

Microsoft tried valiantly to make Win16 code portable to Win32, and Win32 to Win64. But it failed miserably, apparently because the programmers had never ported 16 bit C to 32 bit C, etc., and picked all the wrong abstractions.

> Even more fun is pointers, especially when windows / macos were switching from 32-bits to 64-bits (in different ways).

And yet even more of a fun time with porting pointer code was going from the various x86 memory models[0] to 32-bit. Depending on the program, the pain was either near, far, or huge... :-D

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_models

I wonder if some of these headlines are impacted by the submit article character limit

"12 too long" might lead to acronyms.

would be nicer if they could say:

Apple ignores 56 interoperability requests under the Digital Markets Act, leaving third-party developers locked out of iOS and iPadOS.

would be nice if california had such discounted prices... :)

Jesus, I had no idea California was that bad. How is that even possible? Our rate is 15c/kwh.

> How is that even possible?

It's PG&E for the most part, and their huge liability payout for burning a city to the ground due to skipping maintenance on their distribution lines.

Some places in California have prices closer to the US average.

And not enough share on the people who built on a tinderbox which historically regularly (every few years) had fires go through.

I'm in CA and only charge at home, and pay 14c/kwh.

palo alto and santa clara don't count. They have well-run power companies, not pushing regulatory capture.

lots of hacker news folks provide information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294456