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New comment by alexlesuper in "Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids"

alexlesuper — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:19:12 +0000

We have health warnings for food that contains lots of sugar, fat and/or sodium in Canada

New comment by alexlesuper in "The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform"

alexlesuper — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:33:56 +0000

I feel like this is the way we should have learned Fourier and Laplace transforms in my DSP class. Not just blindly applying formulas and equations.

New comment by alexlesuper in "Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle"

alexlesuper — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:07:07 +0000

Not mention that less cars on the road means improved travel times for those that are obligated to use their car.

New comment by alexlesuper in "Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle"

alexlesuper — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:04:25 +0000

You're paying for the fair market value of those streets.

New comment by alexlesuper in "People are happier in a walkable neighborhood: the US community that banned cars"

alexlesuper — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:24:51 +0000

There's a difference between using a car every day and using a car once in a while.

New comment by alexlesuper in "New York Is Full. And it’s the housing market’s fault"

alexlesuper — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:16:21 +0000

I think zoning is a big part of the problem. Before WW2, it was much easier to build the housing that new immigrants needed when they arrived. Toda, there is miles of red tape and zoning regulations that keep new neighborhoods from forming and maturing. It's a real shame.

New comment by alexlesuper in "Practical comparison of ARM compilers"

alexlesuper — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:08:44 +0000

I certainly didn't predict my reddit thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/13ozrn9/what_is_t...) would trigger so many discussions hackernews threads and blog posts. Glad I positively contributed to the embedded community :-)

New comment by alexlesuper in "Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard"

alexlesuper — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:35:35 +0000

I have hope that Blizzard revives the Starcraft franchise. The RTS genre needs some love atm.

New comment by alexlesuper in "Arizona limits building as groundwater dries up"

alexlesuper — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:41:46 +0000

Aren't they building a water-hungry semiconductor fab in that state?

New comment by alexlesuper in "A Low Cost Approach to Improving Pedestrian Safety with Deep Learning"

alexlesuper — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:46:47 +0000

Not sure "forcing cars to be smaller" is an easy action

New comment by alexlesuper in "FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank"

alexlesuper — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:01:46 +0000

The problem is with MBS but not for the same reason.

New comment by alexlesuper in "Qualcomm says ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU and 3rd-party modules in one chip"

alexlesuper — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:29:09 +0000

5-10 years isn't that long. I guess it depends on the management philosophy, but if someone told me I would my company would be losing a large market share in 5-10 years I would be panicking.

New comment by alexlesuper in "Apple Event Live Blog: iPhone 14, Apple Watch, AirPods Pro, and More Expected"

alexlesuper — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:37:08 +0000

New comment by alexlesuper in "Heat waves and flooding: Why U.S. infrastructure can't withstand extreme weather"

alexlesuper — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:50:53 +0000

Most people can't afford those options

New comment by alexlesuper in "Baby Boom or Bust?"

alexlesuper — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:52:02 +0000

Child care costs are a false excuse. If raising children was entirely free, I think the birthrate would barely nudge higher.

New comment by alexlesuper in "Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees"

alexlesuper — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 01:36:00 +0000

I feel like this is a case of having your cake and eating it too.

New comment by alexlesuper in "The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences"

alexlesuper — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:08:38 +0000

Excellent post. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by alexlesuper in "How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)"

alexlesuper — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:08:51 +0000

I think they are really repositioning the company as powering general computing through their cloud platform as opposed to powering general computing through their OS.

New comment by alexlesuper in "Teslas Aren't the Future"

alexlesuper — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:41:03 +0000

We're not about to raze suburban cities to the ground, so electric cars are a good in-between.