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> I don’t know whether these switches can be opened when the system is under power or whether they are just used to isolate components for maintenance after a feeder has been shut down.

That reminds me of one of my all time favourite YouTube videos of a high voltage switch being opened.

https://youtu.be/5AwESp8zbcs
This is ridiculous! We need to start moving away from tipping. This reminds me of US restaurants. I'd much rather be charged mandatory service fees. It's a poor way to signal poor food/service by hurting those in front than the cooks behind.
Ugo Bardi: Diminishing returns a key factor in societal collapse
Office 365 outage
Aiven is a managed service vendor and uses cloud VMs. This is not a test of the AWS/GCP directly managed Postgres.
Obviously unethical government policies might suffice: Flint, MI.
Rather than see the coin flip as a useless toss, one might imagine it as a binary decision. This or that?

With this in mind, you can see text as the output of an algorithm (brain) taking many such decisions. The information entropy contained in this text reveals the complexity (amount of distinct binary decisions) which needed to take place in the machine (brain) in order for the text to occur.
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Firefox has placed tabs above the address bar by default for almost 10 years. Addresses are specific to (inside of/"below") tabs, so the default interface makes better sense.
(Wish I could add this as an edit, but the 1 hour mark just passed.)

Here's what that billing had to cover:

* My normal work hours [the thing we billed for]

* My overtime hours

* My annual bonus

* My benefits & retirement savings & overhead & employer-side taxes

* My time spent on business development & sales (most of which don't pan out)

* My time spent in training & development (probably ~4 weeks in the first year)

* The time of managers spent training & developing me

* My support staff (industry analysts, Powerpoint designers, internal experts)

* Multi-million-dollar IT investments to build tools and databases to support me in my work

* A couple first-class flights a week

* A few nights a week at expensive hotels

* Lyfts & Ubers everywhere

* All meals expensed

* The firm's partners working the case

* New employees for whom we don't bill

* Fees for market reports

* Fees for expert interviews with industry executives

* Office overhead (rent, power, insurance, etc.)

* Office support staff (HR, finance, janitors, etc.)

* Profits for the firm's equity holders

(Now a few of these expenses were billed separately I believe, but it shows the wide breadth of costs that a firm has to cover.)

Lastly, none of this opportunity would have existed without the firm, the network, the brand, and the partners. It's amazing to think that all I had to do was show up and work, and in exchange, I would get paid a high salary, get experience working with senior executives, get a prestigious brand on my resume, and accelerate my career relative to most career tracks. I don't regret the job, nor do I think it's surprising that there are crowds knocking on the door trying to get in.

Looking at other industries, I wouldn't be surprised if a cashier at a grocery store made less than 5% of what they put in the register each day. And I wouldn't be surprised if a oil drilling engineer got paid 5% of oil that they extracted each day. Even if we're the ones touching the revenue, we're still a small part of what it takes to run a big business.
"methodology and experience being provided by the firm behind you"

Bingo.

Also, the scale of impact that mgmt consultant provides is 'usually' greater than developers, at least on per-hour of service rendered basis. Hence, companies are willing to pay more.
I'm definitely in favor of improving the laws, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't criticize a company's policy, too, even if it's legal.
I went to Oberlin, where Bob is a professor. The pair of Campbells soup pictures were gallery framed on the wall of one of the classroom buildings
My wife looked into instacart and we canceled after learning they don't provide business car insurance for their drivers. What a scam.
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Is this common? When I tip it's always with the intent of helping the individual, never the company. The much larger original bill is their share, in case they've forgotten.

Are cash tips an effective method of keeping grubby corporate hands out of it?
There is a larger problem, but that doesn't absolve Instacart (or any other company) in this matter.
you have to admit it is at least slightly curious the bug received attention only recently since today $aapl is set to report their earnings

odd that this is so recent and the twitter account is so fresh, with so many facetime sessions esp with ios being popular among those in infosec
It is not "socially" mandatory as much as the workers suffer otherwise because they are paid less than minimum wage.
Ah, the most important rule - there are no rules, only compromises.
Washington state appears to not be such a state: https://www.minimum-wage.org/washington/tipped-employee-mini...
Of course. How else can instacart make money to pay it's developers at San Francisco hq?

You have to skim every penny from the bottom to sit on top.

#bezosDidIt

#gatesDidIt

#jobsDidIt

Nothing new
> That's right: the customer's tip doesn't get added to the worker's check — it just gets deducted from what Instacart pays. In other words, up-front tips go to Instacart, not to the worker.

My understanding is that the Fair Labor Standards Act does not allow for employers to whithold tips.[0]

Gratuity/tip is a legally recognized concept. You can't just throw the word in your app and do what you want with the money it generates. There are legal expectations around how the money goes from the customer to the worker.

[0] https://www.ramoslaw.com/is-your-employer-committing-wage-th...

[edit] Added "not"
>>The order will show up in a reusable tote–designed by engineers at UPS to withstand repeated journeys–instead of a cardboard box.

I've always wondered why the scalable/reusable shipping box wasn't a thing. To me, this is would be an incremental improvement over current shipping.
Analyzing street art seems like something that will surprise artists when police figure out they can retroactively identify all the places someone vandalized (if they're ever caught once and tied to a particular style). I wonder whether artists will figure out how to confuse or otherwise prevent these kinds of automatic identification?
> It’s easier for non-technical people to contribute to the modelling of the process in a meaningful way

The author presents this as an advantage, while in truth it is more of a mixed-bag.
Yes, this is common in the restaurant industry. But a few differences:

(1) Tips are expected in the restaurant industry

(2) Waitstaff knows what they're signing up for

(3) The restaurant does not adjust wages after tips have been received
That would be one of the places wages are allocated after they are received. It is not relevant to take home pay.

And of course retirement saving are stunningly in adequate for the vast majority. Likely because anyone who wants to save has to compete with people who don't and will work for a lower salary.

It should also be noted that in the past, employees frequently received pensions which rival their take home in total value. And even though pensions have disappeared, wages remain flat.
The whole tipping system should be stopped. The businesses will be forced to start paying fair wages to their workers.
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Curious to hear more about the "bypass Apple's implementation of ARMv8.3 Pointer Authentication (PAC) on A12 devices like the iPhone XS."

Is this new ARMv8.3 feature already broken?
Embedded C++ (EC++)

I know, Bjarne Stroustrup seems to hate EC++ and claims it is dead, but tell that to game developers and the NASA Curiosity Mars Rover. You can't tell that to Opportunity, which does appear dead, but Embedded C++ is not to blame, just some dust storms on Mars.
Or you could blame them for not doing the right thing, regardless of the law.
There is indeed more to it.

But his reasoning starts with the assumption that it is possible to know what the big problems are in a field. Which assumption this article started by questioning. And I'm sure that in the author's field, this assumption looks more questionable than it did to Hamming.
It's the norm in many states, so I don't think so. I grew up in IL where waiters make something like $3 / hour. If that + tips is less than minimum wage then the company has to make up the difference. Not quite the same as they don't dock your pay if you make good tip money, but same principle.
DoorDash does the same thing of “stealing” tips. Either you should tip in cash or not at all.
Finally it seems the performance issues on macbook pro with retina display have been solved, at least for me!
Agree. It's worth mastering this common error for your written communications for the rest of your life.

To quote Ian Fleming: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
The reason people take jobs like this is that they don't have other options, often for a variety of reasons. I know that a lot of the people I talk to need the flexible hours due to family obligations. For some these types of jobs are supplemental- they aren't the primary source of income, but provide a bit extra when money is tight.

For some people though there just aren't a lot of jobs available that match their education and experience.
Yep. They need to pay reimburse those workers with a penalty fee tacked on.
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The closest thing is probably https://letsencrypt.org/how-it-works/, which is at a very high level and may not answer your particular questions.

Other than that, it seems like this documentation mainly exists within client documentation, like

https://certbot.eff.org/docs/challenges.html

for Certbot. When people have more specific questions about validation, they normally bring them up on the forum.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/
I was a huge user of Instacart 2 years ago when my nearest grocery store turned into one of the busiest Whole Foods in my city that I didn't enjoy dealing with.

The way they keep working to create opaqueness around their tipping to the point that last year Drivers were handing out pamphlets explaining how to remove the "Service Fee" (which nobody but Instacart gets) to tip the drivers was a huge red flag. Removing the service fee was on a 2nd page you had to go to and by default I believe was 10% of your order. If you've never used Instacart the groceries in my experience have been quite a bit more expensive than they'd be in stores so they're making revenue on that end already.

I started using them a bit again this year and now there's only a "Driver Tip" section with I believe a hard locked in service fee. Does the shopper get the tip as well? Is the driver the shopper as well now? In my situation the shopper is doing FAR more work than the driver. I want to tip the people well because I know Instacart doesn't pay well, but I don't want to give a $26 tip for $130 in groceries (which is usually 3-4 bags) going to the person who only spent 10 minutes in a car to drop my groceries off at my front door (and Instacart drivers never read the Delivery notes, I've had to walk out and walk them over to me each time last year that I ordered).

Is the tip split between the shopper and the driver? It only says "Driver Tip".

Everything just seems to be disgustingly opaque with this company and I really do not feel right even using it anymore so I've used it incredibly sparingly (maybe 3 times last year) as of late.

edit: I just checked, there's an info icon and it says 100% of the tip goes to the driver. So should I not tip based on the entire process of shopping and delivery? I don't even want to use this app anymore because I shouldn't have to stop and waste time considering these things.

This company just screams deceptive to me. Guess I'll be done with it.
Exactly. I get that GCD can be pain to work with, but the OperationQueue class wasn't even mentioned as an alternate.
Because they need the money.

People that are desperate for money are frequently exploited. Whether it's through wage theft, or unsafe employment practices, or simply demeaning behavior.
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I take that as a signal that I probably didn't care what was on the page anyway.
You're only hurting the workers; their employer's don't care.
If you aren't aware, usually a significant portion of speaking slots are filled because organizers reach out and solicit speakers. Indeed, I don't know of many conferences that could fill their schedule if they relied exclusively on inbound speakers, and doing it that way would be a recipe for having the same twenty dudes speak each year, which isn't going to create the best possible event for attendees.
It's weird seeing my username come up in a comment.
This was posted by "Working Washington", so it seems reasonable to look at Washington state law: It requires tipped employees to be paid minimum wage. So does the rest of the west coast, including California (where Instacart has it's HQ).

https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

It is, of course, entirely possible that the worker in question is not on the west coast, but Instacart is still welcome to pay a fair wage even if not required to by law, and Instacart should certainly avoid lying about their business practices either way (from the article: "Even Instacart seems to know how messed up it is to pay workers less when they get tipped more — which is why they’ve denied the practice when speaking to reporters at Business Insider & the Miami Herald.")
Well if you're paying a salary then you automatically have to tack on 15% employment taxes above the cost of salary plus costs of payroll and any benefits. For most employers this falls in the range of 20 - 30%. So that potentially increases your cost from $125 to $162.50. Good luck turning a profit if you ever have to pay them for an hour you're not billing a client for. (In most consultancies that would be about 30 - 40% of the employee's hours.)
So you are essentially thanking and tipping instacart, not the worker. Evil like a villain from a disney movie.
Not only do they steal tips, they also jack up the prices of the food itself. I make six figures and honest to god I have no idea how anyone affords to use DoorDash.
I have to agree. Table of contents is a bit too ambitious. Anything that wants to cover "Air conditioning", "Fire protection" and configuring Nginx and Apache is not going to be practical.
Not everyone is a software developer with companies fighting over them. Some really don't have options, and the choice is either get no income and be unable to pay your bills, or get screwed over but get some money to pay the bills.
There 'embedded' means 'a library included as a subsystem in a larger application', not 'embedded systems'.

PAWN for instance is explicitly 32bit and interpreted, so would run dog slow on something like an Arduino.

Something refcounted like TCL implies tons of heap allocations, which implies fragmentation at the very small RAM sizes of a lot of these chips.
Along these lines:

> Putting a number on maintainability is less easy than measuring benchmark performance. Anecdotally, as the person who has worked on both systems, I can report that it’s no contest. The current Racket implementation is fundamentally put together in the wrong way (except for the macro expander), while Racket CS is fundamentally put together in the right way. Time and again, correcting a Racket CS bug or adding a feature has turned out to be easier than expected.
They better hope there's no binding arbitration clause.
Maybe the landscape has changed a lot, but when I was a consultant working at client site way back when, I was getting paid $40/hour, while client was billing $65. There was no 401k matching, health benefit, or vacation though. It was W2 in name only. The only thing the consulting company did was to find my resume online and send me to client site for interview.
IHOP will adjust wages based on tips, they try to equal it out to minimum wage. My wife lasted about 3 weeks there. It was also by far the hardest I've ever seen her work, and for context we met in the Army.
The blog post linked from the release notes has some more information about AV1:

https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/mozilla-celebrates-release-o...
I was responding to iamleppert's assertion that it'd be easier to use a gantry based system versus a SCARA arm like T Mobile used. Either method runs into most of the same issues including the end effector (pokey-bit that touches the screen like a finger) which seems like the bit Huawei was having trouble with given that's the bit they stole.

Ultimately the real trouble probably isn't the actual arm or gantry but all the software around it to determine what's on the screen and if the phone is functioning properly with respect to the expected test results and the response times which seems what they were interested in. Maybe that's just my bias though and there may be some major hurdles with the function of the fingertip.
My brain almost loosened reading the previous comment. I think you're right about the patients. He uses them as some kind of weapon when he gets angry, apparently.
Because they need to. We're talking about unskilled work. You take what you can get. Such companies know there are unskilled workers that will put up with it and take advantage of that.
>My personal rule of fairness is that 1/3 of the direct-value an employee brings to the company is probably the most that can safely be paid directly to that employee without hurting the health of the business and its indirect-value employees.

I personally don't think it would be fair if 1/3 of a supermarket's revenues went to the cashiers. Just because you're bringing the revenue in for a business doesn't mean your labor is irreplaceable.
Turn any program that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server
Just because the law allows it doesn’t mean a company must do it.

It may be legal for instacart to take the tip money but it’s their decision to do so and they deserve the blame.

It’s wrong because the people paying the tip generally believe it goes to the person providing the service, not to the company. And it subverts the purpose, which is to incent and reward good personal service.

So the company ends up screwing their workers, deceiving their customers and disincentizing good service.

Legal, but wrong and stupid.
the market will necessarily sort itself out here. sad but true. if the workers are paid less, they will find employment elsewhere, the company will suffer (as they rightfully should).

Instacart has 1.9b in funding, if they are stealing from their workers, it only means that their business model is broken.. or we as consumers can fall into this dishonest game and normalize it.
Nice to know you liked idli and dosa. I do too, and so do plenty of Indians. They are staples of the diet in south India, and at least dosa/dosai (particularly masala dosa) has spread in popularity to many parts of the world.

A few minor points: the chutney is not a pickle in the sense of not being a fermented item, it's made and eaten fresh, just some ingredients ground up together, maybe fried lightly or not.

>mixing fermented rice and fermented dals

Close, but not quite. The rice and (urad/udid) dal (black gram - not black chickpea, a different species), are wet-ground together and then left to ferment overnight or so. Then the same flour/batter is used to make either idli or dosa. I don't have scientific evidence but idli is likely healthy, so is dosa, due to the fermentation, and idli is nice and light, as you noticed.

>I tried making it in my apartment but the fermentation failed a few times so I gave up.

Try asking an Indian or South Asian friend or acquaintance for advice, or ask on the IndianFood reddit.

Edit: Added Wikipedia links.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_dosa
> I have to say I've never really found a maze that was challenging enough to take more than a minute or so to solve.

http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/maze/larger.gif

Enjoy!

Note: This is from the "Think Labyrinth!" site mentioned on the Maze Design site:

http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/maze.htm

It is also not the "largest maze" on that page by far; there are a couple of larger ones (as zip'd files), and likely those aren't the largest today.

I'm pretty certain they are just meant as "art" - and not to actually challenge someone to solve them; but if you are so inclined, go for it!

EDIT: I just wanted to add a bit more about the "dense maze" - the start/end is at the upper-left/lower-right of the maze; the white line is the "path" of the maze (black being the walls). Note how the image "changes" depending on the level of "zoom" - if you fit it to a smaller size, the "white" of the image will take a "cross shape", while other areas are "darker" - zoom in on those various areas, and notice how the path changes; it's a very complex construct!
Ah, no need to give me all the details good sir. Appreciate the post. Also yeah, sounds about right with the pre-processing. That is always the case!
This article has a great overview, but it is dense and uses a lot of unique terminlology: https://moderngpu.github.io/join.html

In many ways, this paper is easier to read instead: http://www.csee.usf.edu/~tuy/pub/SSDBM17.pdf

But I'm pretty sure the "moderngpu" version of merge-join is more optimal.
It's an expected business structure in every state where the tipped minimum wage is below actual minimum wage.
If you touch that cable, you don't hear any distortion coming through the channel? If you have headphones on you'd hear it.
According to what ruling?

It depends on the agreement between Instacart and delivery staff.
I also spent four years long ago with LabVIEW.

Also 3, you really miss source control tools that are smart enough to merge changes by different people in different branches. And useable diffs.
> along with Google and other tech giants

This is the "deflect" part of FB's strategy to "delay, deny and deflect" [0].

Google, Twitter, Amazon and Microsoft all have significant issues, but combined their threat to society is a tiny fraction of Facebook's.

If everyone's doing it, if it's a global, industry-wide problem, then Facebook can't be held specifically accountable for their actions.

It's very similar to the facile "both sides are responsible" argument I see every day in polite political discourse.

It sounds even-handed, it seems unbiased, it feels "above the fray".

But when one actor is doing the vast majority of the dirty deeds, false equivalence is heavily biased in favor of the bad actor.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...
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edit: I misread the graphs -- some non-startup stuff is slower with Chez, but it doesn't change my overall point :)
> My understanding is that the Fair Labor Standards Act does allow for employers to whithold tips

I think this sentence says the opposite of what you intended it to.
This is a great question that I definitely don't know the answer to yet.

There is a trope around graffiti artists that their biggest fans are the police. Often an artist will spend all night painting a mural, and then by the morning its already gone, but the paint "buffers" submit a photo to the police.

I definitely think there will be a cat-and-mouse synonymous with the adversarial neural networks examples for hiding weapons in everyday objects.

At the end of the day, most street art is commissioned or done in pre-approved areas, so I don't think it will be a cause of concern with larger artists.
For many years, we've been in the habit of leaving restaurant tips in cash, because of various reports that restaurant managers would basically take card fees out of the tip. I recall hearing more recently that there has been some effort to crack down on that practice, but still, old habits.