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a small market farmer's weeding robot in France is about 25k..not 120k. And they rent it out to farmers. We have no such system here. And even there it's not so prevalent but at least they are trying in Europe.

I sent an email to a univ that created a research farm robot that is being developed in Australia. They admit that it's not for production. Or a pricing issue. I spent a lot every year on unreliable labour. Even for a small farm. Even if I write it off in five years, a farm bot is immensely useful to me.

Regardless, why would I say if I have a 25k or 120k or 500k budget when I am trying to scope a project? I lose all bargaining power if I reveal how much $$ I am willing to spend? I am not trolling. I sincerely want to know how it's done in tech business circles. I am even willing to pay a retainer to assess their abilities. For all I know, they have no skills and are figuring things out at my expense. Thoughts?
I'll give this a good workout later today. I'm a music tech teacher and use Cubase, and this fills one of the biggest holes in Cubase to my mind - bezier-type automation and the tools available for creating and manipulating that data. It looks good, but as others have mentioned, using a third-party app for this can be a little obtrusive in terms of workflow (I know there's no way round this for you, so it's not a criticism, more a statement of the unavoidable).

I've lost count of the number of times I've had to create an automation 'curve' using points to approximate a curve (particularly for filter cutoff frequency for fairly obvious reasons), so if I can find a way to integrate this well enough to make it work for me during sessions then it will be hugely appreciated. FWIW I'll give it a review on my (tiny) YT channel.

The sad thing about this is that these kind of facilities have been asked for for -years- by users of Cubase, and they haven't made it in to the feature set, despite the clear advantages they would give in creativity. I'm not a programmer (IANAP?), so I'm not sure how many man-years went into creating this, but surely it's not beyond the ken of people who have created something like Cubase to do this, or is it that there's something lurking in the code already that makes it much more difficult to do than if you do it from scratch? (Is this technical debt? I see the term sometimes)
Or find a company which pays the entire premium for the entire family. They do exist. I work for one and it's awesome.
It's not what the author left out (eg. proof, evidence) that makes me suspicious, it's what they put in.

To wit:

- in the 3rd paragraph, it includes the gender wage gap topic. Usually companies keep employee salaries hidden from each other, so the way its included here feels more like box-ticking of a feminist talking point

- also in the 3rd paragraph, it establishes the character as somebody who is not overly "privileged", which is important for liberals (privilege undermines your platform of victimhood; if you're writing something like this, the less privilege the better)

- the 4th paragraph introduces the ideals of respecting human beings regardless of their gender, sexuality of religion. It's like the writer is going for a broad thematic sweep.

- also in the 4th paragraph, it refers to the concept of "triggering", another SJW trope that other people would probably cringe at using

- this sort of thing just sounds like it was written by Lena Dunham: "Uber finally broke me by destroying my dignity as a human being, and reduced my aspirations by attaching their worth them to a female reproductive organ. Like they did to Susan, Uber killed a part of me that was most precious."

- this bit sounds very far fetched, like the author is trying to work in examples of misogyny that they've witnessed on the web: "They had private chats where guys wrote sexual fantasy stories about female colleagues and supervisors where they performed all sorts of demeaning acts on the women."

- the author seems to have a hang-up about high-heels, another feminist issue, and even works it into dialogue: after casually asking me if I was married or in a relationship, he told me that he liked women in heels. “You know what heels do don’t you?”

- weaving in another grand feminist theme: "I would wonder why I went to grad school instead of wearing heels and marrying a rich guy so I would never have to work."

- as others have noted, the personal detail that is included doesn't seem like it's written by someone really concerned about preserving their anonymity. And at the same time, the rest of the article seems strangely impersonal, running through generic feminist tropes

I am not saying the basic details are entirely implausible, but the way it's written leads me to strongly suspect it's fake.
About 2 years ago I started feeling some chest pains at night. I was just over 40 at the time. I phoned the NHS helpline, who had a paramedic at my house within 1 minute (literally) and she hooked me up to a portable ekg. She found nothing wrong but thought it was a good idea to go to hospital. She stayed with me till the ambulance arrived about 45 minutes later. Ambulance staff was brilliant, and everyone at the hospital too. I checked out about 3 hours later after free everything (x rays, blood tests, egg, etc). I know the NHS has some problems, but they were outstanding in all respects that night, and not havin to even think about the financial side was pretty good too.
In the UK taxi tipping is often just rounding up, so an 8 or 9 pound fare is £10. The driver won't be upset about giving change, but £1 times 10 5 days a week adds up. (disclaimer: my prices are based on 10+ years ago and always paying cash).
citation needed. If that were true, quite a few router models available would be illegal, so it probably isn't.

(TP-link started locking down at least some models, in response to FCC rules, and some manufacturers don't allow you to downgrade, but there is no legal requirement to do so and often ways around it. Other manufacturers like Linksys openly advertise their routers for use with OpenWRT)
My wife asks if you are male or female? (I understand if you'd rather not say.We have read that female often have this type of gradual heart attack - my mother-in-law being one)
LOL and I just said the same thing.
In Europe, your bus fare would be half of the price and probably you would need one or two connections.

The public transport is much more developed and to me seems like a much better mass transportation alternative. More ecological, cheaper, less cars overall.
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From a happy Wii U owner (mine is indeed not dusty, we use it all the time)- Nintendo needs to give up on hardware other than the GameBoy.

The answer for them is to stream their content to any device they choose as a premium option of sorts through their own LiquidSky copycat service and let whatever their current-gen Gameboys (3DS?) are act as the controllers. Let the handheld act as a phone too and they'll have something. Then they keep their massive portable market, at least the one that has decent battery life and get a solid answer on a good home console.

It shuts everyone up on 1080P or 4K Mario games, through 'NintendoSky' they can just pay for whatever resolution they want and access it on their Macbook, iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, Windows10 or whoever they want to work with. I'm assuming they could do it on iOS, macOS and Windows10 without any gatekeeping or royalties at all. And it seems like a really nice value-add that Apple should be eager to sign onto their AppleTV. I'd much rather not have yet-another device and just pay Nintendo directly per month for their service. I can't say it's a great idea for most, because few actually have good enough games to warrant a monthly fee but Nintendo does.
Auckland "winters" haha, try a Dunedin winter buddy
> I agree that's the signal, but that doesn't mean it's true.

Eh, public transit it is, then.

Not that this is a sacrifice for me. I also hate how chatty most Uber/Lyft drivers are, so I rarely use them anyway.
Architecting for a physical data center is also a non-trivial problem, and not all that different than architecting for the cloud.
Reminiscent of the automated religious booths in THX 1138: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138
Now the really puzzling question is: How would someone learn about this particular saying without seeing it in writing? Are there actually people still using "hear hear" in everyday speech?
INAN (I'm not a Norwegian) but the questions are something like this:

- is data surveillance a positive thing to DGF?

- yes, they think it's good for privacy(?)
- they haven't decided yet
- no, they think it conflicts with human rights

- which party votes in favor of DLD?

- (three parties mentioned)

- what does DGF stand for?

- (three options)
That's how we roll, too. I don't know how dual-earners do it. When the hell do you pick up the house, clean, pay bills, spend time with each other? Seems like it'd be an incredibly hectic way to live life.
As I posted in another thread: it's really sad that the crazy state of tipping in the US makes people think like this.

I want to have the option to tip for exceptional service or if I really enjoyed taking to the driver, but I do not want to feel obliged to, which is the issue currently with the low wages.
> can you or someone else explain how the driver makes less when taking on more passengers?

Summer Lyft driver here.

As a passenger you get the option to choose to get a ride alone, just you and the lyft driver, to your destination like a taxi. This is the default option and it's the most expensive one.

The new option that Uber have and Lyft is doing is pooled rides. Instead of having the Lyft car to yourself, you're willing to share that car with other passengers. Lyft can stop the driver and pick up more passengers that are opting for the pool ride along the way.

The one trick to save money is just do the pool ride option and maybe you won't have a passenger to share with if Lyft can't find any other passenger to pool with.

Club goers such as a bunch of guys or girls wanting to get a lyft ride to the same destination and are friends usually do the first option. It doesn't count as a pool ride. You're all friends not stranger going to the same place and such. There's other trick but that's not as important. If those club goers or group of friends went pool option that won't work because iirc it's meant for single passenger sharing the car with other passenger.
It also helps that Europe and its cities are ... smaller.
Your comment sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I was confused about how burning 1L of fuel, which weighs ~1kg, could possibly produce ~2.3kg of CO2.

(This page confirms Toyota's number: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=307&t=11 )

The answer, which took me far too long to realize, is that the oxygen pulled from the air makes up the bulk of the mass of the CO2. Oxygen has an atomic mass of ~16 to Carbon's ~12, which means that 1kg of pure carbon can be combined with oxygen to produce ~3.7kg of CO2.

So yes, your calculations sound about right. Contrary to my first impression they do not violate the law of conservation of mass.
d. N where N is >= 1 and less than 1e9.
I like the "bank teller" analogy used in the article.

> it would be like hiring a bank teller who was trained to hand over all the money in the vault if asked to do so politely, and then entrusting that teller with the key. The only thing that would keep a bank safe in such a circumstance is that most people wouldn’t consider asking such a question.

This does not only work for deserialization issues.

It is a great analogy for a huge class of IT security issues!

Maybe we should use that one when communicating with the media. This this works much better than the usual burglary analogy. I like how it points out that this is about stupid and/or malicious behaviour (code), where the attacker (hacker) just needs curiosity, and may find this out even by accident. The attacker did not have to break something, and did not damage anything, to get into something. In particular, this makes clear that this is caused by irresponsibile behaviour of the organization and/or other entities to whom they delegate trust.

Even for more complicated scenarios, I like the bank teller analogy more than the classic burglary analogy. In that case, the attacker observes multuple bank tellers, and notices e.g. that if you ask the first teller for form A and put in certain words, another bank teller will accept it and give you a stamped form B, which you can show to a third teller in another branch office who will look a bit confused, but finally accept it and hand over all money to you.

We need to get over blaming the messengers[1], buying zerodays and declaring cyberwar. What we really need to do is to finally make our[2] computer systems secure and trustworthy, at least up to a certain minimum-level of sanity: no exec, no injection (i.e. typing/tagging), no overflows (i.e. static analysis), input validation, testing, fuzzing, you name it.

And this cannot work by just adding more and more complex security measures outside, but more importantly simplifying and cleaning up inside. Although rewriting software from scratch is very risky, radical refactoring is not! And every good software engineering course tells you how to do it correctly.

[1] security researchers, but also "amateur" hackers, or just someone running into it by accident because the security issue became so large it finally had to be noticed by someone.

[2] in the sense of: everyones!
Because dead users are not watching ads?
I've interviewed with Skyscanner (hackerrank, then skype, then onsite in Edinburgh) last year and had extremely positive impressions about process and company.

After each interview where people were involved they gave very detailed feedback and interviewers were very positive and knowledgeable.
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As far I know, there are no other active directories.
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At my company, we've decided that if multiple AWS regions are down, we're down too.

We use so many AWS services that porting to a second cloud provider is cost-prohibitive at this point. So we're willing to accept that if 2 USA regions and one European region are down, we're down too.
Virginia first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver
They probably won't do tasks that people want a human to do better. i.e. I think there will always be human card dealers because, despite being able to gamble against a machine just as well, some people prefer to gamble against a human. There are many customer-centric jobs such as that. I've got no idea how that will work out.
And these statements are based on what?
There have been some major earthquakes around the world in the last 20 years, are they also caused by global warming? Do you project an increase in them in the next 20 years?

Here's a page with good, updated information about global warming and hurricanes:
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
Scala is an official Intellij plugin as well. Installing it takes two clicks.
On the other hand, if you decide to use Kotlin, you'll post a job listing, get only a handful of candidates, and nearly all of them will be outstanding and the type of curious, driven engineer that you'd normally have to sift through a mountain of dime-a-dozen, uninspired Java hacks to find.

It's not until you've had to hire Java devs that the mystery of why so many people feel the need to ask a question as facile as FizzBuzz becomes clear.
Totally agree, time and again, I see people use Eclipse (for pretty much anything) would be ten times better off in IDEA.
But it's human labour in the hot sun that brings food to our table. Isn't it important to figure how to move beyond manual labour when we have tech available for creating something we need for our sustenance?

We can survive without cars..self driving or not..but not without food. Which deserves a tech revolution? It's not a competition..why not both?

Even if we don't have to 'break our backs' ourselves..in say..America and our vegetables come from Mexico or Guatemala or Honduras or wherever its cheap so it's plentiful for us..people are still working hard in those countries? Shouldn't this be an universally urgent issue to resolve? People die of hunger in poor countries. We send $ or clothes or someone sends aid etc..but if they are able to find a way to eat..to exploit and preserve and regenerate natural resources, they don't need any help at all, no? I would like to think that tech has a reach beyond borders and solves problems that are crippling. I don't think I am wrong in that expectation.
Actually not true. If you love making software you will probably use Scala without its esoteric features (for the better, imho) and you have a powerful and useful tool, yet very pleasant to work with.
Duly noted, but that's not the doo-doo I'm talking about!
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I don't think so, our CO2 emissions aren't coming from the poor.
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Which part is causing the crazy pills effect?

Webvan existed in 1996.

Dozens of variations of these delivery & order services have existed spanning 20 years in the US, at start-ups and at large companies.

It's about perfecting the concept, deploying fully across the nation at high quality, acquiring access to 300 million people and owning the US market (worth tens of billions in sales in total once it's saturated).
The British Parliament still uses it frequently, as does my Grandad. It means "Hear Him!" as in "Listen to this guy, because he's right".
Considering how Uber and Lyft are both loosing money as it is, using government intervention to force them to pay their drivers more will just increase their chances of going out of business and mean there will be no driving jobs at all.

In this situation I'd prefer letting the market decide the prices for drivers. They had jobs before Uber, and if Uber starts paying too little then they can try going back to those kinds of jobs.

Ultimately though, as we run out of unskilled jobs, we may need to implement some sort of living wage the government provides to everyone to give society a floor.
Uber pool wasn't meant to be for professional drivers. If he's doing that, he's doing it wrong.
Well, you can come here, get residency, wait 2 years for a permanent residency or 5 years for a citizenship and then move to Australia. That is what most people with ambitions do here
Probably I should have stated 1st world countries
It matters to me; I always buy from Patagonia if I can.

I've also seen consumer research that shows that a lot of customers, especially younger ones, want to believe that they are buying from companies that have a social mission beyond just getting rich.

You can see this play out in brand fights here.

Apple is either creating great products for creativity (good social mission) or is creating a walled garden to suck money out of everyone (bad social mission).

Google is either solving the world's problems (good social mission), or is sucking up everyone's personal data to better target ads (bad social mission).

Android is "open," vs. iPhone is "secure."

Etc.
It's bullshit to me that employers aren't more amenable to employees doing what they need to do for their families: get in "late" or "leave early" to pickup/dropoff kids, etc. It just seems like, uh, what? I've got to go pickup my kids. Period. Full stop. They're little human beings who rely on us, and need us in their lives. And some job, some company, has the gall to suggest we arrange for someone else to pickup our kids and watch them while we're meaningfully engaged in what? Answering the phone? Meetings? Responding to email? WTF
Totally valid point.

But I changed from Chevron to Shell because of their bad UX for Safeway rewards integration, and I've noticed that Philz never asks me to tip on their Point of Sale system while places like Signtglass do. And my noticing will likely have affected by purchasing behavior.
I think you'll like George Pólya's How To Solve It. That's one of the methods he prescribed on solving a difficult problem; by gently removing the most difficult part and look at it again.
Lack of MRI scanners doesn't shorten life spans significantly, lack of clean water and good nutrition is what's significant.
But if you're using it as a point of Uber above Lyft, keep in mind that Lyft gives its drivers a higher percent of what it charges in addition to allowing to tip...which is much more in Lyft's favor. The complaint should be more towards Uber not paying enough wages than "I don't like tipping" if one is making a living wage argument.

You also still don't have to tip if you don't want to.
Or you can not tip them. You can just leave the car and never tip them at all. They won't know it until you confirm and decide on tip or not. I was a lyft driver for summer.
Yandex.taxi existed for a long time. Initially it worked with various taxi companies, but now all the cars have uniform livery, so it's basically a regular taxi with an app. Ironically, it still doesn't operate in my home town (Perm), while Uber already does.
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I really wish I were a morning person. But no matter how many hours of sleep I get, I just am not a productive person in the morning. It's hard to even describe. It's not that I can't think or concentrate, but rarely can I get into a good groove before 2-3PM earliest. My most productive hours have always spanned across the evening.

There have been time spans (years, in fact) where I _had_ to be at my desk by 8AM or 9AM. But it was always hugely difficult for me, even when I had a good bedtime schedule that ensured a minimum of 7-8 hours of sleep. Since adolescence my natural predisposition has been to fall asleep by 2AM and to wake up about 10AM. I can (and do) fall asleep much earlier, especially on busy days, but regularly waking before 9AM requires an alarm clock, and anything before 8AM requires extreme motivation--like the threat of losing your job, or a kid relentlessly kicking you in the head.

My father is the complete opposite in every respect. He gets up by 4AM but only goes to sleep about midnight. His entire adult life he's naturally only slept about 4 hours or less a night. He has the best of all worlds. The world is quiet when he falls asleep and quiet when he wakes. He enjoys watching the sunrise every day. He always got to work early enough that he'd usually leave shortly after 2PM. (He worked construction and 6AM-2PM are the perfect working hours.) I really wish I got those genes, or whatever was responsible for that pattern. (Assuming his sleep pattern isn't related to some neurodegenerative disease. But so far he shows no signs of that, nor has anyone else in his family, a few of whom had similar patterns.)
Oh me too - look for me with my 48 rolls of TP in the trailer!
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I believe they meant that the driver gets paid less for each new passenger, but the old passengers are still at the slightly higher rate. A full car still gets the driver more money per mile, but each subsequent passenger is worth less to the driver. Presumably this is to make it so it's worth picking up the first rider, which might be the only rider you get for that journey.
>That would work in an ideal world, but in the real world laws will have flaws.

Well, sure, and it's incumbent on Congress to fix them, not the bureaucracy or the courts. Of course there is some gray area where you can try to gain extra deductions through miscategorizating expenses and such, but that really a question of the letter of the law and not its spirit.

>And just to come back, nobody can seriously claim that they believed it was in the spirit of the law to pay no taxes at all.

That is entirely irrelevant and not even true for almost half the households in the US.