Yeah I also travel with a battery pack and, if I'm overseas, a pocket wifi. And my airpods, although lots of people like big headsets too. Apple also thinks their VR rig is great for air travel. So potentially 7-9 devices.
I'm personally not as bothered by the number of devices as much as all the forced redundancy. Like the core devices could have 3 desktop quality processors, 13 microphones, 3 selfie cameras, 2 rear cameras, 2-3 cellular modems, etc.
I'd love a design where the phone is my chip, 5g radio and storage. The camera can be worn as a bodycam (for lifestreaming or personal safety) but also docks to the phone. The phone speakers and mics are a 2nd set of airpods you can cycle in to keep them charged (both sets can be docked at once). The tablet is just a bigger screen with extra battery/storage and the phone docks to that. The watch screen is weaker and monochrome so the battery life is better and it keeps the health functions.
> Having all the data of the entire network on all the Big-World Servers. That's what you need to do if you want to crunch the data, make it searchable, and provide algorithms that help you discover new content and new people to follow.
How is this all possible if the data is encrypted? Also, what’s the economic incentive for building and maintaining the software that runs on the servers?
> A centralized service runs on computers wholly under control of a single entity. They can change, monitor, amplify and bury all information. They can read your private messages. They can delete content, promote other content, and even impersonate you.
Apart from reading your private messages, does that mean you still need to trust that the server you’re connected to isn’t doing all those other things?
Nope. You own your keys, and you can switch to a different server instantly while retaining both your username and your followers. They can't impersonate you because they don't have your keys. They can't ready your messages because they don't have your keys.
It's a bit more complex underneath (e.g. the are light-clients that you can entrust with part of your key), but that's the gist.
As an affluent tech industry Australian living in the US (Bay Area) I’d say there’s very little practical difference in my standard of living here compared to back home. It’s more the poorer parts of society here where the figures quoted in the article apply and that feels just as removed from my life here as it does to you sitting in Australia. The US is a big place.
This is what pains me the most about the US. Out of sight and out of mind but these poorer parts of society represent xx millions of fellow humans. If you could have similar standard of living in Australia where the poorer parts of society perhaps have more accessible healthcare and better social safety nets, then why the hell can't we do that in the US!? (I know the answers to that question, but it just makes me sad and angry).
As a counterpoint I’m an Australian living in the Bay Area and drivers here are more considerate than back home. In law abiding Melbourne where I grew up, drivers will happy run you over if you’re jay walking because they supposedly have right of way.
Since the second amendment doesn’t specify what arms I have the right to bear does that mean I should be allowed to wander down to my local gun store to pick up a surface to air missile so that I can shoot down an airliner? Of course not, that would be insane. So why not put similar limits on automatic weapons that can mow down an auditorium full of kids?
Teaching programming via the technologies in fashion and practical for getting a job today is flawed. Teach the fundamentals - math, logic, algorithms. But, most importantly, teach how to learn and problem solve. If your students can’t figure out how to quit their editor they’re doomed in this career. Forget about React and hooks, those will be out of date by the time they’re entering the workforce.
I recall a few years after leaving university talking to a few friends who worked there in the Computer Science department. They would regale me with tales of students who would constantly complain to the dean that the assignments were too hard, why where they being forced to learn stuff not currently used in the industry, and bemoan the fact that they couldn't turn in their source code as a Microsoft Word document (seriously). They were, by God, paying all this money!
By the way, this was in the mid-90s. I can only imaging it being worse today.
I agree in essence but I disagree it's fundamentally flawed to teach current tooling first. A lot of (aspiring) programmers and companies don't really care about actual technical competence. They just need to do something gainful for the day and get paid. The fact that I go about it differently doesn't mean they are wrong of flawed.
Yep, that’s been my experience as well. This might actually turn downtown around if it’s forced to convert more to residential.
With its hills, access to green space, forests, ocean, waterways and culture it’s a fantastic city to live - up there with the best in the US in my books.
I’ve even grown to love the fog and wind, it feels amazing to come back to in the summer when everywhere inland from the coast is baking in 100+ degree weather.
> love the fog and wind
I think that the original perception of California in general and San Francisco in particular as having good climate is based in the pre-air conditioning era, when no effective artificial climate control existed.
I run into frustrations whenever I search for anything to do with products or something popular like parenting. Results are swamped by garbage as filled SEO content some of which I swear is written by chatGPT. I don’t know why Google doesn’t penalize those results. Come to think of it they don’t seem to mind surfacing content that’s behind a paywall either. I’m really not sure what’s going on over there these days…
What a huge step backwards! I have an infant and am trying to move more of my content consumption including news to Kindle vs iPhone. Even at one years old she’s already forming an unhealthy relationship with smart phones given how much she sees her parents using them so I’m trying to cut down as much as possible. Interestingly, like a physical book, the kindle doesn’t get much reaction from her.
