During my engineering undergrad I worked as a maintenance technician in a research lab and will always remember our manager told us to stop work 30 min before end of shift and put things away and clean up. Super valuable lesson when sharing tools and work spaces etc

Computer scientists don't need to learn math they just need to know how to add 1 to something

I think this is cool and am happy to see the post to learn more about punctuation. LLMs have really brought the en/em (and beyond because there are so many) dash into the spotlight in a negative way. At a previous dev job I handled copy being sent for translation and got feedback from writers about inputting strings with the incorrect dash.

This is industry-standard punctuation with real use cases, obviously there's a saturation point but that is more LLM induced than anything else.

From a coding standpoint I'm surprised devs are not more interested in punctuation like this because there are so many different operators and syntax across programming languages.

I grew up in the states with a close friend whose parents are both from the UK and she's the only person I've known to say "I beg your pardon" with regularity. Is that a British/UK English thing too? I never hear/read it used otherwise but it seems more succinct and "proper" to me.

Mentioning it because I'm actually slightly surprised to see the "sorry, what did you say" usage here and in the article because it seems so pedestrian

"I beg your pardon" like "Sorry" can have multiple meanings based on the situation and inflection.

It can be used to excuse not hearing something, to get someone to repeat something preposterous or to generally reply to something shocking without actually expecting the other person to reiterate.

I hear it most days in corporate tech.....

It's the perfect retort whenever someone expects a rose garden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eclUz-RYI

I'm American and I've heard Americans say "I beg your pardon", but like you I've always thought of it as a slightly proper (maybe WASP-y) idiom. People frequently say "excuse me", "sorry?", or "say again?". At least I do. Maybe I should get my ears checked.

I'm familiar with the expression but if an American said that to me, I'd probably think it meant "rethink what you just said".

It depends a lot on their tone. Most of the time I've heard it, it's a quick "begpardon?", sometimes with their ear cocked towards you.

When I see it in writing, I too for some reason picture an angry posh British man who is about to demand satisfaction.

They'll also commonly say "pardon me", which is a bit nicer "say again", but definitely nowhere close to "I beg your pardon" uptightness.

The usage of "I beg your pardon" is not uncommon in Australia, but more ironic.

“I beg your pardon” can be translated as “what the fuck did you just say to me?”

It’s getting quite serious if you have to whip that one out

You definitely shut up quickly when you said something as a kid and grandma whipped this one out

The proper response to ‘I beg your pardon’ (and ‘I beg to differ’) is always, “alright then, beg!”

That was me with Polestar like 4 years ago but really don't see many of them anymore in the PNW

> BYD ... is leading in battery tech.

Dang, it seemed not that long ago - 5 to 10 years - when Tesla had far superior battery tech. I know that isn't a short scale by tech standards but has BYD, and others, really leap-frogged that much?

I'm not in that space myself and do not keep up with EV benchmarks but am curious what advances or other changes were made. I recall reading Ford battery technology was also very good but interpreted that to be due to general advances in EV battery technology across the board rather than any one specific make/manufacturer.

BYD is one of Tesla's battery suppliers.

https://thedriven.io/2023/05/22/teslas-switch-to-byd-batteri...

Interesting I had no idea, thanks.

> Dang, it seemed not that long ago - 5 to 10 years - when Tesla had far superior battery tech.

It seems logical that if someone was going to surpass Tesla in battery tech, it'd be a battery company. BYD has, after all, been making batteries since its founding under the name "Shenzhen BYD Battery Company" 30 years ago.

Is this sarcasm similar to the quote "Everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot and everyone faster is a maniac"

Respectfully, as this is HN, I do not believe that is the purpose of the posted Github repository.

I was previously a long term dev contractor for a stock photography company. NFTs have function in the ownership of digital assets, though I do not personally advocate for them (the company or the use of NFTs).

Per a cursory question on the Goog I got: 95% of collections are now considered worthless.

I worked at a blockchain startup back in the day and despite the PTSD of working with insane people, I appreciate the concept of the blockchain. I've yet to see any mainstream value in it. Sure bitcoin is worth a lot but it's not because of the inherent value of blockchain finance, it's because there's too much money out there and everybody loves a fat bubble asset.

I never got what would blockchain do better except maybe distribution. And even there raise questions of efficiency of having data copied in a lot of places.

Correcting data is also always fun question. Your keys are stolen, now your house is not yours anymore as record is immutable. Oh it is not actually immutable if someone says it is not (replace it with new record )? What was the point again...

The appeal to me is that it is effectively a "serverless" shared immutable ledger. By "serverless" I mean that not a service behind someone's API that one just has to trust the data emitted.

I think it could be useful for contracts and governance but the whole crypto thing is just pointless (except ostensibly for cases of transferring money), which is helpful as a tool but as an investment just strikes me as nuts. Which is why I prudently said hell no to buying bitcoin at $20 because it was a stupid fad. Sigh.

Respectfully, I am starting to find "AI will become only better in the future" to be a cheap and empty statement. Optimism is good but it does not take into consideration the tremendous nuance of the topic and current thread.