This is 100% true. Classical electromagnetism is not the most difficult physics, but even the fundamentals of it are university level material.

And if you tackle explaining magnets by talking about electrons and spin, only a couple of "why?" questions later you are deep in advanced material.

xkcd.com/1489/

Gravity is WAY more mysterious than electromagnetism ; )

It's my most idiosyncratic pet peeve. People make fun of the Insane Clown Posse and are like "ha ha! I learned about magnets in elementary school!"

I'm like, you did Maxwell's equations and Lorentz transformations and spin/angular momentum of electrons in elementary school? That's cool.

Rarely does a question answer itself so perfectly.

In fairness to tankies, that is the story of the 21st Century as a whole, not just them.

Except I guess Perfect 10 helped by binging a bunch of cases it lost rather than a bunch of cases it won.

As JW is to First Amendment law, Perfect 10 is to copyright law.

Reminds me of a bar I stumbled upon in a small Mexican city: “London Irish Pub”

Too few American lawyers know Rumpole.

Watching SV means whipsawing between laughter, horror, and the sinking realization that you might have actually worked on the case being satirized in the episode.

A guy with my, quite rare, name was arrested in Argentina few years ago for child sex crimes. A few people sent me very angry messages on twitter - I was like, er, a quick review of my profile will reveal I am not the folklore producer based in Buenos Aires.

We are on the road to mass-de-skilling

This is generalizable - the people who make a credible case that coding tools help them are the ones with deepest expertise. They know what AI can effectively automate and how to check & safely use its output.

They go faster while mediocre coders use to the tools to fill the codebase with asbestos.

We swim 3 Sundays a month at Aquatic Park and 1 at Crissy Field. The same group also organizes (more expensive) swims in the Bay, like from Alcatraz to Aquatic Park, or from the GG bridge to the Bay Bridge, or from Alcatraz to Angel Island. Join a swim if you ever visit:

sanfranciscoswim.com

My open water swim club in SF is mostly regular folks but top college swimmers & even former olympians sometimes show up. One time Berkeley’s entire swim club was there - it was amusing watching the same pre-swim briefing being given to 20-30 middle-aged normies & 20-30 super fit college kids.

I was once on vacation in Tofino Canada and as I paddled out on day one someone launched and landed a big 360 air nearby. I was like, wow, the Canadians can rip … turned out there was a contest at the beach the next day and all the visiting pros were out practicing.

If I'm doing my time zone conversion correctly I was quoted as "Senior IP and Product counsel, Mozilla" in a story that ran about 3.5 hours before that was no longer true.