I've bought a handful of software and technology books from O'Reilly and had mixed experiences.

One of them - The Art of SEO, feels like a treasure trove of wisdom and experience. Another that I won't name, but is about a popular programming language, feels more or less like like a print copy of the online documentation that's available for free, with very little value-add.

Shop with care, and if you're going to write, write with purpose and real value.

The definition of a bigot is someone who is intolerant to differing views. That being the case, perhaps this accusation is better leveled at the people relentlessly driving right-wing opinion off of every major platform.

> The definition of a bigot is someone who is intolerant to differing views.

It's genuinely quite hard to find a post on TD or TD-replacements that doesn't boil down to bigotry. Mocking and attacking their strawmen-of-the-day is basically the entire site.

So yes, I am intolerant - I am intolerant of intolerance. Civil society doesn't only permit this, it requires it. Being anti-bigot doesn't make me a bigot. Thinking so is perverse.

You're absolutely correct, but the hypocrisy will fall on deaf ears at the current point in our timeline. However, I'm confident that history will accurately portray these times as the textbook definition of psychological projection.

The line can assemble a unit in 30 seconds and will presumably have more than one on it at a time.

What you're talking about is the latency - start to end for construction for each is 30 seconds.

But what the article is talking about is the throughput - one finished very 30 seconds - doesn't mention how long each takes to make start to finish.

A throughput of one every 30 seconds is only a million per year. They have sold 100 million PS4s.

We are also assuming that the article is worded correctly. It could very well mean that the assembly time for 1 unit is 30 seconds total from start to finish, and the wording is just inaccurate. It happens a lot with articles like this, so who knows.

EDIT: another commenter points out that another version of the article does indeed say 30 seconds to complete one unit, as opposed to “one unit per 30 seconds”

>another commenter points out that another version of the article does indeed say 30 seconds to complete one unit, as opposed to “one unit per 30 seconds

How would that even be possible? Also what's are the start and end state here? Just pure assembly? Surely printing the PCBs can't possibly take a fraction of 30s. Neither can placing and SMD soldering the components.

I assume it’s final assembly

For that single factory line. Consumer electronics factories often have a lot of lines in parallel.

Yep, also minimum 2 lines to address SPOF (single point of failure).

Just because one little thing went wrong, you don’t stop the entire production line.

My guess is that they have 12+ parallel lines.

So true.

Far too many people today, many of whom I suspect have a recent inclination to harboring particular political views at all, are missing the entire point of politics - that it's a debate.

It's the great debate, the one that we set up entire electoral systems to have, and built entire buildings in which it would be held.

Today, a dangerous number of people are outright enraged by having their dogmatic political beliefs challenged, and they'll go to great lengths to ensure that you can't share yours.

It's a mess. Years ago, attempts at political conversation were more often than not met with indifference and you had to find like-minded people interested in having them. We used to bemoan that too few people were engaged in politics. Who knew that it would be this much of a mess once they were.

I am not surprised by this at all. Somewhere I read that 'The more strict the scriptures, the more interpretation is magnanimous and compassionate' And 'the more liberal the written text, interpretation will be very strict'

Whenever I hear term 'climate denier' not even 'climate change denier' I know speaker is stewing in his own superiority and least bothered about actual improvement.

Agree. There's just nothing even remotely interesting or real being said on Reddit anymore. I'd honestly rather do anything else. I'd rather stare at a wall with my own thoughts than spend time on Reddit.

Here's an exercise - check out /r/unpopularopinion today. Full of perfectly boring normal opinions like "MTV should go back to showing music videos". All of the content just seems completely fake. There's not an unpopular opinion in sight.

Now go the Wayback Machine and take a look at that same sub from say, three to five years ago (which feels like a short time to me these days). Plenty of deeply unpopular, controversial, thought-provoking opinions. You don't have to like them, but they were real.

Please let's not let not washing your clothes become the trendy thing to do. Public transport can already smell bad enough. Just wash your clothes, keep smelling like flowers and pick something else to be different about.

Not saying people shouldn't wash their clothes, but that flower (or other) smell you seem to find pleasant isn't pleasant for everybody. Don't know why, genetically probably, but I really dislike most synthetic smells. It's also not just the smell but also the fact it's constantly there, sort of annoying me. I'd rather have people wash their clothes using water (lots of clothes don't seem dirty enough to really require soap, as far as I can tell) and then hang them outside to dry. Though I realize that is not an option for the majority of the population. But it would me nice if most of those products would smell less, or if at least people would use less. It's not because the marleting department of a product decides X is the right amount to advertise, that it's also what is really required,.

I knew about the keyboards when I bought mine, but didn't opt for Apple Care because they're offering a 4 year warranty on the keyboards whether you bought Apple Care or not.

Of all the complaints about the keyboard, the reliability issue with them are real, but also they're the one thing Apple owns up to. When I get the keyboard swapped they often also swap out a new battery for me.

Eating at restaurants all the time might be something many Americans can afford to do, but it’s not normal for the rest of the world. I’m in the UK and tend to eat out about once a week as a treat. That’s on the “doing well” end of things.

I didn't mean to suggest that people should be able to afford to eat out, I meant, if you have the money to spend on a bunch of take away, then why not just go eat at the store?

Maybe you're suggesting that take away is cheaper than eating at a store?

Ah, makes sense now. Eating out usually is more expensive than getting a takeaway delivered - maybe not a like for like on the main but it’s usually once you add a couple of alcoholic drinks. You’ll get charged for a glass of wine what you’d pay for the bottle at home.

I really feel I can make a helpful contribution on this topic. This article correctly asserts that procrastination is an avoidance mechanism for tasks that illicit an emotional response, but then tells you to figure out what that is by yourself. Good luck with that. So the problem is only partly identified to the reader. If this article at all interested or struck a chord with you then I strongly recommend an old-school procrastination book called The Now Habit by Niel Fiore to get a more complete explanation.

Like many commenters that chime in on these procrastination threads, I am a chronic procrastinator, and feel like it’s really held me back in life. I was completely convinced of having undiagnosed adult ADHD for several years (didn’t want to go onto stims, though) - until Fiore’s book threw a spanner in the works and identified some reasonably serious unresolved psychological issues from my childhood - the source of the emotional response identified in this article. In my case it’s to do with putting impossibly high expectations on myself, but there are other common examples explored in the book. I was absolutely not expecting that and it hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s obvious in retrospect, and now I’ve correctly identified the thought patterns that sit just below the surface of conscious cognition I can catch myself in the act. It’s helped enormously.

So have you largely managed to "fix" your chronic procrastination or is it something you still deal with on a day-to-day basis?

I still deal with it, but being aware of how it works has made it a lot easier.

No, Elon parted ways with OpenAI some time ago due to differences in opinion over their direction. Looks like we’re starting to learn the details.