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I love these wild sorts of aircraft. This one from a practical standpoint reminds me a lot of the Hiller ROE-1 Rotorcycle. It was a 300 pound folding helicopter that you could drop to a downed crewman, and James Bond style, they could unfold it and fly off into the sunset for 150 miles.

http://users.skynet.be/fa401913/article_american_helicoter_s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_ROE_Rotorcycle
I managed at Domino's back about a decade ago when they forced the transition to the updated in-store POS that was required for this.

To add a bit of color to what's happening:

- You don't actually hit an "It's ready" button. When you knock the pizza off of the makeline screen, it transitions from "so and so is making your food" to "it's cooking".

- The "It's cooking" phase is just a simple timer. It's supposed to be adjusted to the time of the conveyor oven (which can vary from ~3-9 minutes depending on the particular oven they use). Most stores never customize that setting in the system, and it stays at the default. And other stores may have ovens running at two different speeds.

- Average make time is one of the metrics monitored by corporate audits, so you do have gaming of the system by knocking pizzas off the make screen early. But you can also have a backup at the oven during rushes, where food sit at the end of the makeline ready to go in the oven when capacity opens. At the same time, some items such as wings have to go through the oven twice (depending on the oven configuration). In both of these cases, even without gaming the system there will be dissonance between actual cook time and the cook time shown in the pizza tracker.

- For those that did try to game the performance metrics, it came with an equal headache internally beyond just that "It's cooking" timer. The scheduling system used that average make time as an input into calculating labor needs. The more you knocked stuff off the makeline early, the more optimistic the scheduler became and the more you'd have to override the suggested schedule and the more "Labor Waste" you'd create by having more people working than the system thought you needed.

It was really quite fascinating to see that system transition before I started my career. I witnessed it at two stores under two different franchises - one did the bare minimum to comply and the other one embraced the new system and it's capabilities. There were a lot of incredibly capabilities and forecasting optimizations that were made possible by the update. But they all presumed accurate data in the system at all times. But in many cases, managers were either disincentivized to do what was required to maintain that level of accuracy or transparency, or a component of the system would be designed in such an idealistic fashion that it didn't allow for the amount of pragmatic flexibility it needed. Both of which have been really valuable lessons I've taken forward with me.
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There is huge amount of free mail service, unless you are talking about your own domain.

Even with custom domain, there are some mail providers that accept Bitcoin. See here: https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/

And, once more: my previous point was that even if providers know your id, it is not public. There is no service you can use to ask what is name of e-mail address owner (I'm ignoring "whois", which is domain-specific, not mail).
I suspect something like slave labor will be used to build it. They don't have a great record when it comes to treating their workers very well.
The one area that they're supposed to be good at, mobile telephone networks, they've totally flopped with Sprint.
I don't think that there's a general appreciation for the depth and configurability of the cocoa/nextstep text and keyboard engine among linux and windows users.

Almost all macos applications use it everywhere, so globally modifying keyboard bindings in all applications in all circumstances is easy. If I want to bind Meta-f to jump a word forward, I can have that behavior in every single text box or editing region in every single application. Url bars, forms, everything!

Accomplishing the same thing in linux typically means descending into the hoary netherworld of xkb mappings. <shiver/>
> I doubt Uber management is that dumb.

Should we tell him?
Ha, never thought to try that. I've been using my dorm room phone number from freshman year of college for 20 years now.

At the self checkout machines at Giant there is a "Forgot my card" option. It gives you all the discounts without entering anything.
Silicon Valley is always into R&D, tech quickly looses it value as new tech is developed. I don't think it would effect Silicon Valley in a negative way, it would only further push innovation.
The GNOME project has gone very far astray. Their UX "experts" are self-appointed tyrants who want to control how you use the computer and seem to get sick kicks out of telling users that they're wrong whenever users want do something even slightly different. "You THINK you want to change your mouse speed but actually you're an idiot and you're wrong" is a classic example of this.

GNOME is more of a problem than linux itself. It doesn't have to be this bad. More distros could be packaging KDE (or even XFCE?) as the default, but incentives seem misaligned.
I don't know if 'desirable neighborhood becomes less desirable because of over-gentrification' is necessarily 'economic collapse of a major city'.
> So close... ;-)

Must be Case IH then.
Genuine question: what's the purpose of raising the wholesale prices like this if so few people, if anyone, are paying that pirce? Is it so they can claim a higher tax deduction? Because, honestly, I don't see how that's much better.
It appears that Apple prefers to purchase IP to integrate with their existing product lines (like siri), rather than to buy up competitors for the purposes of horizontal integration (like Facebook buying Instagram and WhatsApp).
Calling it "infamous" is a bit critical, isn't it? "Famous" would make more sense.
> One that private pharma R&D is getting less efficient, creating fewer and fewer drugs per billion dollars

That is because government backed drugs can typically gain approval without as much bureaucratic overhead. When the government experiments on its citizens (like the syphilis experiments, for example), no one is held to account, whereas private companies have to have liability insurance, etc, and do things the proper way. If the government actually enforced its own standards on itself, it's unlikely they would be more efficient.
>I always thought MySpace ruined itself by allowing so much customization.

I've always viewed this as MySpace's top feature and the direction away from this is why MySpace failed. The name even implied it was a users space of personal creation. Tumblr sort-of did well with similar ideas, but to a lesser extent.
Embarrassment? That's your lunch! At some point you have to take a stand and defend yourself against these animals that knowingly eat another persons lunch. What's next? First it's lunch, then it's your car, your identity, then your 3pm snack!?
I'm using a combination of Mailgun and Postmark to send emails, and heartily recommend them both.
Indeed, superheaters have been used since the early 1900s to dramatically increase the thermal efficiency of steam engines.

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

Also, IIRC superheaters are especially important in turbine applications because water droplets damage the blades.
To ratchet Rayiner's argument forward to its next step: if the difference between Google and Pfizer is that Pfizer's work is more important, why would it make sense to de-incentivize it by capping its profits? Shouldn't we want drug development to be an attractive industry for entrants?
I live in NJ and work in NY, and I consider 5 emails a week busy.
There is a certain management metric called "profit per employee" used for managerial accounting. Many ordinary business' have a fairly low number. Apple Inc at one point made a very public version of their "profit per employee" and perhaps that influenced/emboldened others.. at any rate, the drug discovery and pharma industries have very high "profit per employee" numbers which you can find in some annual reports and some industry analysis papers.
So? There are more abstract Western games like checkers, and plenty of Chinese games and media that's violent.

The idea that this is specific to the West just comes across as remarkably naive. Do you really need someone to list all the examples of violent Eastern media and games?
The introduction is always the last thing you write. Presumably Jean's not done yet.
>> I've got an HDPI laptop and I want to plug into an old non-HDPI era monitor. Doesn't work.

At all? That's unusual...

I've got a 4K screen and a 1920x1200 screen next to each other, I use XFCE. I had to fart around with xrandr for a couple of hours but now I have the desktop working better than Windows or OS X - no fuzzy font rendering when moving windows between monitors like OS X, no weird size jumps like Windows.
>> Look at the last StackOverflow dev survey

Just looked at it.

In 2018 there were 87,259 responses and 72,688 in 2019.

Developers with less than 5 years experience were 35% in 2018 and 13.4% in 2019.
Yes the KDE Usability & Productivity initiative helped a lot making KDE suck less in this regard. A lot of configuration dialogs were improved, a lot of small irritating bugs were fixed and the default are more sane now. And because Nate Graham blog about all these changes every week, KDE also got a lot of new contributors.

Btw Plasma 5.17 will be released tomorrow, so all the improvements of the last 6 months will be available very soon.
"Things break at random for reasons you can't understand and the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best" that's still Linux for me, nothing has changed in the last 19 years.
This seems fair. You follow rules in tournaments. It isn't really a platform for you as an individual, you are on their platform.

I doubt anyone expects to see or hear politics or religion in a videogame tournament.
If you could you make money shorting rotten apples at the store, visibly rotten apples would no longer exist and you would not be able pick them out at the store.

The EMH applies to stocks, not apples. Your analogy is nonsensical.
There was a time I fine tuned every aspect of every desktop environment I had. I had custom widgets on Windows 3 by replacing bitmap resources in Windows 3.1's SVGA.DRV. Did the same up until Gnome 2.

Then I stopped. These days rarely go beyond setting terminal font (I built mine, so it's only fair I play lab rat with it) and some Emacs settings. The effort spent in customizing every detail of every app is very rarely, if ever, recovered.

I feel a bit embarrassed I recently added overline support to tmux because I wanted proper overlined status lines on my terminals. In my defense, I did it for fun, not to improve my performance.
Got fed up recently and ordered a windows laptop for dev work; I'm hoping WSL will meet my needs and I can get away with a VM for osx, but we'll see.
So the initial implementation doesn't allow any inputs/outputs besides the tokenstreams, but some proc macros do access the filesystem. There's definitely more exploration to be done both with proc macros, and the general build system (which allows execution of arbitrary rust code as well, but which tends to touch the file system a lot more).

This definitely seems like a good starting point for adding security to the build system.
I had a Malaysian girlfriend at the time and she was “way into” Friendster, as were all of her friends - and she very much pestered me to ‘participate’.

I remember noticing how her ‘friends’ included non-singular entities... like a ‘friend’ which was actually a proxy for her school’s alumni, which all her former schoolmates were ‘friends’ of. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it then, but what it was alluding to was the lack of a notion of communities or (in Facebookish) ‘Groups’.
I write for my day job so I spend a lot of time in "office" software.

I used to deal with a lot of MS Office documents, less so now. Most forms and web docs are PDFs and there's a growing crowd of people happy to send Open formatted docs. I've used Libre/Open Office for about 5 years as my main office suit and had no issues. It does feel less polished, and I do miss the "styles" thing you can do with MS Word but for copy I find it perfectly adequate.

If I need professional typesetting, or really anything more than Libre Office can handle, I use LaTeX. It's actually very quick.

You can also use MS Office online; their web editor is very good. I use it when I need to preserve an MS Word themed document's formatting.
Freedom to choose.
Do you worry that Substack is going to eat your userbase here?
Well Uber IPO'd this year in May, so given that he/she left in 2018, I would count the parent poster as unlucky if they forfeited those shares after leaving.
The flip side of the story is that Sublime died. I know they have had some updates recently, but for years it was completely stagnant. The hole that was left by Sublime was filled by VS Code. Maybe Sublime would've survived with a subscription model?

When you're paying a subscription you are paying for the maintainer's continued interest in the product over time, which is not to be underestimated. Software rots quickly.
You are allowed to copy other's books. You just can't derive a revenue from them.
I weighed this for awhile because it was a concern for me. I finally did end up moving my organization off Google Suite to Fastmail and I haven't looked back.

Australia's government sucks ass, yes. But Fastmail seems focused on its product and has been conveying their positions and opposition to such legislation. Google does not do this, they run Google Suite like it's an automated hobby project. I'm quite certain that it's more likely that our data with Google would be used to provide data sets that could be used for advertising or sold/adapted to state surveillance (sensorvault anyone?). Even if it wasn't, we're still worse off when they arbitrarily suspend accounts and only provide us with outsourced customer service lacking an escalation path that only takes calls overnight.

Fastmail wrote a blog post about the law: https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/
It's not a site but I always think of ICQ as one of the original social networks.
This is why we used to have anti-trust law.
One could argue that Diaspora did not really fail, so it has no place on this list.

The network is chugging along nicely, albeit outside of any limelight. Hundreds, if not thousands of people communicate there daily. There are no real dramas, so it goes unnoticed by the big media.
Wait, saying both C and UNIX aren't small and beautiful seems like one major oxymoron. Care to elaborate on those?
IIUC, both of them were created in a small and concise design to perform tasks that most systems of the time failed to hold up to. In fact, the very reason they've endured such long time spans must be enough proof of their beautiful concise yet efficient design. Take any language or operating system today, they just cannot design them without some inspiration or functionality derived from C or UNIX.

Complexity today is insane, take Linux for example, but the darn thing works! The original UNIX was the exact opposite of today's major operating systems in a way, which was designed to perform tasks based on the UNIX philosophy. Linux or any other OS today take complexity to levels the creators of UNIX never foresaw and is one of those aspects they wish today wasn't done. But the world itself has changed since the 70s, and so has Linux too, evolved into having thousands of system calls, whereas the original UNIX had 20.
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This is purely anecdotal, but I worked at Uber and just looking through the ex-Uber alumni groups I can see a lot of people who I know worked in SF have moved elsewhere (to NYC, LA, Austin, etc.) Also, Uber's workforce is more "decentralized" than most and more spread out throughout the country. I would guess fewer than half of the layoffs were in the Bay Area, especially if this impacted ATG which has a large presence in Pittsburg.
They don't have to. All you need is a video of a swerving car hitting one person and missing the other. The "why" is irrelevant.

The implication will suffice, in light of the public/media's understanding of ml / ai. They will think the car "chose" which person to hit.
> presumably that agency designed permitting system with the assumption that people with limited time and attention would be vying for the permits by having to visit the site themselves to get one.

That's quite a very large assumption that I don't think we can accept as fact.

> that those who register early, or are very motivated, or simply those with a lot of free time to refresh the site, will get permits.

Perhaps someone who writes a script would count as "very motivated"?

> Does that make me more deserving of the camping spot?

"Deserving" has nothing to do with this in the first place. The only way that works is if you define "those who register early", "motivated", "a lot of free time" as "deserving". I could maybe see an argument for the first two classes of people as being "deserving", but I don't think you can justify "I have a lot of free time" as a reason for deserving anything, really.

Doing first-come, first-served based on availability and the random possibility of a cancellation isn't ever going to be a "fair" system. This sort of system is put into place because it requires very little coordination and work on the part of the agency that maintains the reservations. Holding that up as some sort of standard for fairness, and suggesting that anyone who thinks outside the process is wrong... is a little much.
sounds hypomanic at the very least, you should get that checked out
When a start-up is privately held, they might raise a round of funding to grow their team. Investors get a piece of the company, the employees get paid, and the company gains an employee at the cost of diluting their equity.

When a publicly traded company wants to grow, they can give the employee stock. The employee can turn around and sell the stocks on the market. As above, investors get a piece of the company, the employee gets paid, and there are more outstanding shares.

I'm not OP but I think their point was that the two cases are not so different. The line between what is "trading" and what is "investing" is not so easy to draw.
Right.

1 port? Apple, I will go ahead and follow the USB C revolution. But you think that'll happen with effectively 1 port?
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I looked into this years ago when I worked at investment banks and was astonished to learn that 70% of the IT Department were actually contractors.

I may be inaccurate on the precise accounting terminology, but essentially a full time employee is a recurring cost, while a contractor is a non-recurring cost, and this makes your books look a lot better to those who aren't paying close attention.

During that period of time, it certainly felt that your job was a lot safer if you were a consultant vs FT. They also paid those contractors by the day, not the hour, and it also felt like they kept the FT'ers around for the "free" labor they provided for weekend work- How I even investigated that 70% number is that I was in theory at least relatively high up the totem pole, but got doing real drudgery type weekend work- checkouts after network upgrades and such since my team had so few FT people. I then mucked around with our api a bit and got the actual numbers and saw this wasn't a unique phenomenon to my team.
I think there's a third set, which is people who like seeing other people use the stuff they built, whether or not it makes money.
I live in London, 5 messages/day on LinkedIn is my average. I am 28. They probably mostly match Python and Django keywords on my CV, but I've also got other experience.
The self-driving car play is basically an existential threat to Uber. Travis Kalanick publicly stated, multiple times, that Uber cannot work without self-driving cars. The problem is, in my opinion as someone with extensive robotics experience, self-driving cars are very far from being reality (basically everything right now is demoware).

Flying taxis are actually a lot less crazy of an idea, although it is still very difficult technology that will cost a lot of money. Kitty Hawk's Cora is going to act like a sky shuttle for tourist locations in New Zealand and plans to begin testing soon (it will probably be delayed, but the technological viability is there). There are obviously technological challenges to be solved in that space, but the biggest one is probably noise. Kitty Hawk also has the Heaviside which is very quiet (only unmanned tests so far, but it's legit). But this is a single-person short-range toy for rich people. There is also the Lilium "jet" which is an industry favorite, and the Opener Blackfly. Fun fact: Larry Page owns most of the companies I just listed and is kind of obsessed with flying cars.

People have run the numbers. You can build an eVTOL aircraft with enough range to work for something like Uber Elevate is designing. But they are ignoring noise, and I believe that is going to be the chasm they cannot cross because the public will not allow that much noise pollution (they are really fucking loud - if you live somewhere with helicopters imagine them lower, whinier, and all the time).

I think flying taxis are technologically sound but will never get approval from the public, which is actually why we don't have supersonic flight (yep - the main barrier is actually it's too fucking loud for people to allow it and many laws have been written making it illegal to fly over anything but the ocean, although there were other problems with the Concorde as well).

Uber Elevate is meant to be a carrot to convince investors they are onto something big to float the stock price. It's much more viable than self-driving cars within the next decade, but I would not count on anything happening in the US within the next 5 years apart from aircraft testing.

Blah blah blah, it's mostly smoke and mirrors.
Taking one pill instead of six at different times is packaging and delivery. It's also transformed the lives of people with HIV.
Find your go-to rotation of music and podcasts so you can immediately plug in when you want to get in the zone. I highly recommend checking out https://brain.fm. I pay like $6.99/mo (about same as my Spotify subscription) and it has been an absolute gamechanger for me. Piano music, lo-fi, classical music are also great places to start if you have Spotify.

For podcasts, which aren't always great since they can be distracting, I've been enjoying Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast lately. It's absolutely hysterical hearing him rant for a few hours every week.
> It's a distinction without a difference. Whether you use legal or technical means, blocking an offending app that violates the terms of streaming service is not "anti-competitive", as the parent comment accused. Neither Spotify nor YouTube is obliged to offer bandwidth.

I think you're missing what the argument is.

Youtube blocking something that violates Youtube TOS: completely fine

One part of a massive conglomerate company blocking something because it violates the TOS of an unrelated part: anti-competitive

> I'd rather YouTube use legal means to remove offending apps from app stores, rather than technical means that would interfere with apps outside of app stores as well. I like having youtube-dl available, thanks.

Youtube isn't using legal means, in general. They get apps taken down that don't do anything illegal. So the distinction does matter.