pg cat

pg dog

What's he going to name the next version?

pg emu ?

And now they're able to move to the phase of "let's now learn to actually use it effectively".

Also famously, while the tech elitists complained about all of its shortcomings, the broader consumer market fully embraced it and it single-handedly drove an entirely new generation of consumer electronics.

This only holds up for the "small" number of human interactions the average person gets. If my neighbor comes and rings my doorbell to say hello, I'm fine answering and shooting the shit, maybe invite them in for a quick coffee.

If every 5 minutes a strange comes in and rings my doorbell, I'm not getting up and answering it. And some people visiting will get angry and start pounding on the door and coming to my window and pounding on it glaring at me inside. And say, hey, I drove all the way from hours away to come visit you, the least you could do is open the door and say hello.

For them, it's their first human-2-human interaction that day, with someone they slightly admire even, and they're expecting basic human courtesy. To me, they're just the 42nd doorbell ringer today.

Just an absolutely lovely line of text.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gJazFZZaZ0OGKf516XpeO

I'm not a pilot, so i have no idea. But from watching vasaviation on youtube, it always seems to take like 5-10 minutes between when they first radio the control tower there is an emergency, then they go through their checklists and stabilize things, and then they're ready to talk to the tower for the next step. Now add more back and forth and the time to actually fly to get back to a regular path, and 15 minutes might even seem too short a period of time before you've finished resolving everything and can now kick back and tell the passengers the end result.

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...

But we've now lived it so much that it sounds ridiculous to try to argue that the internet doesn't really make _that_ much of a difference.

The author actually made the point in the beginning of the article.

> When I read Stack Overflow questions involving time zones, there’s almost always someone giving the advice to only ever store UTC. Convert to UTC as soon as you can, and convert back to a target time zone as late as you can, for display purposes, and you’ll never have a time zone issue again, they say.

But what if you're not actually storing "a point in time" but actually storing a "time at a location"? The trick is to follow the Stack Overflow advice, but just in the opposite direction. You store the time as a "wall time", and don't store a timezone or an offset, and convert it to UTC (an actual point in time) at the last minute possible.

For a given location, what timezone or daylight savings rules it's going to follow, are always up for change, so the only thing you know for sure is the "wall time" and the "location". Waiting till the last minute maximizes the chance that you've got the latest time library with the latest rules, so it follows the same principle as the Stack Overflow advice.

Now, my opinion might also be colored by experience working in the rental car industry, because the primary goal there is what the customer experiences. Because in their mind, they set up their rental in Phoenix, AZ to start at 9am, so when they're at the counter, and it says 9am on the "wall", the car better be there. They don't want to hear that time zone rules for Phoenix changed in the 6 months since they placed the rental, so "technically" their rental doesn't start until 10am. So in our database, we actually just store "07/23/2024;0900;Phoenix". It's actually incorrect to even store a timezone or an offset, because there's no guarantee those won't change, only the location won't change, so you have to do the lookup for the timezone and the rules for the given location at the very last minute, maximizing your chances of having all the latest time library updates.

People ask why they don't hear about it anymore -- oh, it's because we listened and banned CFCs and fixed the hole.

If Altman did literally nothing else for Microsoft, except instantly bring over 700 of the top AI researchers in the world, he would still be one of the most valuable people they could ever hire.