Except they can’t. We know this. Telling obese people “just change your diet and exercise” has roughly the success rate as hiring a witch to cast a spell.

I took that article a lot less seriously after seeing that the author just founded an AI startup

Why? Perhaps the author's opinion was the reason they founded the startup?

Don't the arguments stand on their own, independent of who made them?

It's still a definite conflict of interest; the author is making an argument that they have a financial interest to advance regardless of how true it is

I felt like it was fairly irresponsible hand-waving in the ACM.

Would you prefer an article about the future of AI written by a chef, or a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist?

I've always thought that "Silicon Valley" was just a broad term that described tech companies anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.

IDK about elsewhere but East of the Rockies, at least, yes, they're basically used interchangeably in many contexts and nobody cares that a "Silicon Valley" story may in fact be about a company based a few miles from actual Silicon Valley. Sorta like how nobody outside New York cares about the distinction between the boroughs except maybe Manhattan, so including or excluding that information, versus just calling it all "New York", makes no difference to them (/us). In fact I bet a lot of folks think "Manhattan" and "New York (City)" are perfect synonyms, and really, it doesn't much matter that they do.

That's a common misapprehension among people that don't live there.

For anyone in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley is some ways south of San Francisco.

That said, a lot of startups are in SF, because Silicon Valley is too expensive (though SF itself is catching up because of the second dot com boom/bubble), so it's not surprising that outsiders lump the two of them together as a hub of Bay Area tech activity (which they are.. but they're just two distinct geographical areas).

It is.

thanks, I needed a good chuckle today

You're welcome

It's very opinionated compared to the alternatives and it has a "batteries included" kind of approach. There's a "right" way to do things and you don't need to pull in a lot of third party libraries for basic functionality. The native typescript support is really nice too.

I've worked on react apps where some features use different routers, state stores and component syntax. Angular gives you 2 ways to solve problems and keeps things consistent and on the rails.

Having stuff included does have advantages, but, in my opinion, some of those included things in Angular are really badly designed (I'm looking at you, Forms)

I never use Angular for personal projects, and I have been using TypeScript exclusively for years. I.e. other libraries work really well with TypeScript as well (sometimes actually better than Angular, in my experience)

Good for them. I don't use any of their products, but I'm rooting for them

RIP Pebble. I still wear my Pebble Time Steel every day

I've been using Mutagen for years to offload running docker containers during local development from my Mac to a Linux machine and it works great. I'm glad to see more people talking about it.

What use does China have for icebreakers?

To my knowledge, the Bohai Sea (the large bay between Beijing and North Korea basically) does freeze.

Their rivers freeze also, but I assume they are lambing to participate in arctic shipping routes, maybe the one above Siberia to get to Europe.

Military capability in the arctic for a potential US conflict in the future?

Antarctic activities I guess

Polar Silk Route (see the news link I posted above)

This kind of research seems promising because it's not even a substitute, it claims to be the exact same product, only derived from a different source. A lot of people don't want weird plant based alternatives to animal products because of the taste or nutritional content.