The author's critiques seem nit-picky to me. I'd like to hear from somebody that follows this, scrolling through SciAm articles published in the past few years, it seems like the bulk of content is still normal popular science. While it does publish a large chunk of partisan opinions now, a lot of them are pretty normal party-line defenses of democrats and their causes with respect to science, health, and whatnot. While I see they published a half-dozen or so articles defending gender-affirming care in youth, it's not like this is so central to the rag that this was mentioned on the covers. Is the author trying to rationalize an aversion to partisan politics in a magazine coming from a nation with a climate change denialist party?
KYM is super biased in what ends up there, as it leans heavily towards 4chan and Reddit content, with heavy amounts of Twitch and certain genres in YouTube. It's missing a lot of memes popular among girls, especially from Tumblr. Similarly, it doesn't have a lot of TikTok trends & tropes that I'd consider to be memes.
After riding in both Cruise and Waymo cars in SF, I think that Waymo cars are so much more road-ready. While my Waymo rides all seemed pretty smooth albeit with a timid driver, my cruise rides featured extremely skittish behavior around other cars, missing several turns to avoid being around others, and stopping in odd places, especially for dropoff and pickup.
I think the future of hackathon/startup coding will involve tools to make infrastructure that's far more cookie cutter and easy to setup than today. This is a cool approach - starting with Rust is a ballsy move, though. I feel like the niche this serves for rapid prototyping might be more suited for python/typescript. Not sure if static analysis is easier or harder with those though.
For housing, like many issues, it's definitely partisan. One party is anti-density and one is a big-tent umbrella. Elizabeth Warren was on the podium saying, "build, build, build!" during primary debates, while both Trump & traditional Republicans grumble about liberals "destroying the suburbs."
Disagree, the fact that individual politicians support certain policy does not mean that policy is partisan. Neither party pushes the issue, which is why for example lots of blue states never advance on density.
I’d say all in all the progressive left sub party could be considered pro density but doesn’t wield enough power to do anything about it except in small municipalities like Somerville MA.
I went to Georgia Tech 2016-2020. CS 2803, 4803, and 8803 are all codes for special topics courses that haven't been standardized or established, so the class you linked is pretty obscure. The reddit thread you linked is 9 years old. I think the heavy emphasis on OOP in the GaTech CS intro sequence is the most outdated bit, with the worst offender being the "Objects and Design" course with lectures involving a dated and useless picture of enterprise Java design and a group project involving either programming an Android app or a JavaFX app: https://gt-student-wiki.org/mediawiki/index.php/CS_2340
Whoops, I could've sworn something on there said "May 3", my mistake. Guess it's just the Wiki, not the Reddit thread, that was relevant.
GT circa 2001 had an intro OO course that was "use classes to model airlines and seats for reservations in Java" that was... dated... even for then, sounds like not a ton changed very rapidly. ;)
Agree with these takes. My company's system having the channel #eng-<team name>-lobby as a q/a forum for all teams has been incredible for spreading information, although I could imagine some cultures where it wouldn't work as well. The emojis they have for "Thank you" and "I'm looking into it" seem a bit ambiguous; my company has several "thank you" emotes, but nothing dedicated to the latter. Not sure what we should add.
At my place we use :eyes: for I'm looking at it, but feel free to also look, and a custom emoji of the word "onit" for I'm taking responsibility for it.
There are also dedicated "thank you" and "done" emojis which feel great to see appear or to post, due to the unambiguous positive terminal message.
I think you are joking, but we had four generations in a room over the holidays. When the grandparents started talking about their favorite TikToks the teens looked around in horror. We all started joking how TikTok is "over."
I remember this conversation 6-8 years ago about FB. Is older people liking your platform really a death-knell? If so, I am curious what the timeline for TikTok would be.
