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The devil's in the details. Last week, my wife started doing DoorDash. She's loving it. I accompanied her on one of the trips and I enjoyed it. I thought, ya know, I like people, I enjoyed this a whole lot more than some of the other things I do for entertainment, I'd do this with free time occasionally. Boom, second job.

But then, I look back on my history as a developer. I've occasionally taken on some work. I sell things on e-bay/craigslist. I've always sort-of had a second income source, mainly to pay for things I would just go without -- phone upgrades, an extra vacation, etc.

I don't need it ... well, depending on how you look at the numbers, maybe I do, but is it all that strange?

I'm a bad example, though. My wife has told practically everyone she knows and many of her friends/family have decided to start doing it. None wanted a second job, though some surely needed it. None could take on a second scheduled or full time job but all had a few hours a week, a need for some extra cash, and found doing "gig work" to be a great fit. Many of them are simply making idle time more productive for themselves and they'd have never gotten a second job if it these specific types of "second jobs" (frequently first[0]) didn't exist.

[0] And I don't mean that as a "tragedy", either. Though there are stories of people barely scraping by, there are areas where the pay is far higher than other unskilled jobs (and many skilled in my area).
I was going to go on a long rant about how this article and comments in this thread were wrong for saying or implying that the Model M mechanism, and indeed other high-quality not-Cherry-MX-derivative switches, were not mechanical. But no matter how I tried to clearly show and prove my position, what I typed out still felt like it was being just as incomplete and selective as I was ready to accuse others of being. Any definition of "mechanical" I could come up with that felt more accurate than "doesn't suck" or "Cherry MX or derivative", granted the holy status of Mechanical to the clearly inferior and undeserving rubber dome mechanism. Well, shit.

So I did a little bit of reading to check my assumptions and found they were indeed wrong. I found a definition I like much better for its internal consistency, which differentiates between mechanical and capacitive[1]. What makes a mechanical switch mechanical is something physically moves to complete a circuit. And a capacitive mechanism changes the distance between two plates, causing a change in capacitance at that point in the keyboard matrix and thus the distribution of current throughout.

And with those internally-consistent definitions that don't make my brain itch, it is correct to state or imply that the buckling spring or Topre design is not mechanical, because those are capacitive designs

It does bug me some that "mechanical" has become a synonym for "doesn't suck to type on", but I shouldn't complain too loudly. That options other than than the cheapest-possible rubber-dome are now readily available is a good thing.

1. https://computer.howstuffworks.com/keyboard3.htm
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Example: a team I was on was using SQLAlchemy and we had a couple of services, one that did read only queries, and another that did writes and occasionally DDL (rebuilding the table on the fly, (which is unwise but that's a topic for another post.)) Because we didn't understand SQLAlchemy's default semantics, the read side would effectively open a transaction and leave it open, meaning that subsequent DDL statements would block, then causing the entire table to lock. (I think our solution was to use `autocommit=True`, which iirc is now deprecated.)

That said, I really like SQLAlchemy.
"über" is, but "ü" and "u" are two different letters (with different pronunciation) in German.

(don't know about trademark law, but do speak German)
> next to nothing

That’s not exactly true, I believe maintenance costs are non-negligible. It’s not like networks are “set up once and forget forever” - over time shit always hits the fan somewhere: lines degrade, network hardware goes haywire (frequently, in subtle ways), so after monitors (or customer calls) indicate an issue, it all requires dispatching people to check and fix. Ot doesn’t help that a significant fraction of the reported issues are in customer’s systems (poor WiFi reception, pets nibbling on the wires, malware, etc), and lots of issues are sporadic and non-persistent (something failing at random for 10 minutes a day is even worse that a complete outage).

I was a software developer working for a (non-US) ISP, and while I wasn’t working in the field I can say that our line engineers were almost always busy.

If it would be easy to set things up, no one would have crappy Internet. The ISP I was working for had a decent competition - IIRC on average our users had about 4-5 alternatives, so unlike some US monopolists we weren’t able to just ignore the issues.
Is this a substantial number of environmentalists? I've never encountered the sentiment.
Vertical farming mostly feels like a solution in search of a problem. It uses relatively expensive technology to produce low-value products. Putting seeds in the ground, tilling, and waiting is absurdly cheap compared to building growhouses. For some perspective, what farms actually do extend growing seasons is put "greenhouses" around cold-sensitive crops like tomatoes, but a "greenhouse" in this case is a wire hoop with clear plastic around it.

It's interesting if you want to support 50B people on Earth, but the resources required to build it out mean it isn't really even a viable solution for restoring farmland to wildland without massive amounts of mining.
You assume the store wouldn't replace the grocery clerk with self-checkout machines or install an amazon go like-system.

Robots & specialized technology solutions are year-over-year going down in cost. If labor continues the upwards cost trajectory we'd simply be accelerating the replacement of unskilled labor with robots.

Great example is Knightscope. It's able to meet security guard compliance & insurance needs at an hourly rate cheaper than humans. And given enough time, I'm sure it'll end up more reliable.
https://www.knightscope.com/
This article is more about indoor farming than vertical farming (is it even vertical if there's only one row?). I grow lettuce indoors. It serves as a nice houseplant and fresh source of salad greens for lunch. It's fairly new, so the cost isn't that much different than just buying lettuce. Once I start building my own "pods" instead of buying the brand-name pods, though, I expect it'll be a bit cheaper than buying 4 bags of lettuce every week (although it doesn't produce enough to fully replace buying greens).

Mine produced ~4 bags over 6 weeks for an energy cost of ~$5 and a negligible amount of water. I think I can get the per-plant cost down to ~$0.50 once I start using my own seeds, so around $10 over 6 weeks to replace 4 bags of salad at around $3 each... a grand savings of $2. We're moving around 4 bags of greens a week between 2 adults, so I'd need to 6x that to replace all the greens we're eating, which gets the savings up to ~$2/week.

The cost savings is negligible -- I do it because it's neat and I like having a houseplant I can eat. It's also MUCH easier for a residential system to offset its energy usage than a commercial setup (I have way more square footage on my roof than I would ever "grow" inside my house).

The calorie argument is more compelling, but how many thousands of years did it take for people to get wheat so calorically dense? I think it's going to take time to develop nutrient-rich crops specifically tailored for indoor farming.
Dude, I'm just glad to hear you're alive! Hope you're doing well.
US wages have reached an all-time high, powered by strong growth during the Covid recession[1]. With higher compensation it makes sense that more people would trade off leisure to work additional hours at attractive pay. Including getting a second job.

[1]https://www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.nr0.htm
I mean why not? If you say it’s a mistake then you give back the title. Doesn’t seem that weird honestly.
Low profile mechanical keyboards are definitely gaining more attention in the market. For a lot of my friends that complained about how keys were too spaced or too high profile some keyboards marketed as "slim" or "travel size" worked a lot better.

I myself am close to buying whatever I can that has much lower travel height and switch weight (my current keyboard is lovely but can make my hands cramp after a couple hours if it's cold or after repetitive use). I'm convinced the only real metric that is worth chasing in expensive keyboards is build quality, followed by whether you like how the switches feel and the form factor.
Might be significantly higher efficiency overall though vs. putting solar panels on the same roof?
> The creation of EC2 originally (which at the time was not AWS -- AWS was originally the XML-RPC and SOAP APIs that allowed people to interact with the www.amazon.com website) was done by a skunkworks project in South Africa.

AWS did indeed start out with E-commerce Services (2002) and Alexa Internet APIs (2004), but in mid-2003, when Andy Jassy took over AWS from Colin Bryar, he completely changed its charter to build an "Internet Operating System" instead. EC2 happened in South Africa in 2004 after Jassy and others had ear-marked compute as one of the key building blocks, along with Storage (S3) and Database (RDS / SimpleDB). In fact, S3 launched before EC2 did. SQS launched even before that, in 2004, though in limited beta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS#History
I implemented a visual-inertial navigation based on the algorithm called MSCKF. It would be really interesting to know what kind of algorithm they are using. They mentioned state propagation in the article. This might indicate they are using an algorithm based on extended kalman filter.

It takes quite some care to make those algorithms robust. Even when you run in an environment covered with diverse visual features. The state divergence is a real thing which essentially means the copter is falling from the sky (Do they call it like that on Mars?).
I wonder how many people each year make at least $1m from startup equity appreciation (that is actually liquid).

Because it's between 1500 and 2000 people that win at least $1m in lotteries in the US every year. Granted, lots more people play the lottery than start or join a startup, but it's an interesting comparison.
Depends on what they are responsible for.

Airline pilots, I believe, have a no-drink-within-X-hours rule. I'm not sure whether X is 12, 24, or more. So even one drink the night before a morning flight would be prohibited, even though logically a single drink with dinner the night before should be a non-issue.
Mistakenly lays some blame on renewables, which are overperforming right now in Texas. Renewables are not in play here, we are having major problems with natural gas and coal plants not being prepared for cold weather.

That preparation, previously recommended twice, is an example of the sort of regulation people would like to see: requirements, rather than recommendations.

All in all, seems misguided a bit on both left and right when it comes to blame, but the economics of it are good.
>"I happen to be in Amsterdam that day, so I will jump in and out, and generally not available"

This was especially egregious given that the CTO insisted that everyone else make certain that there should be no interruptions the entire day and that they are 100% available for the team.

This strikes me as a terrible way to lead people - demand everyone else give it their all, while phoning it in yourself.
So that's the solution!

That was one of life's greatest unsolved mysteries for me. The hours I spent trying to figure that out...
Having multiple family members and friends that work in retail or the food industry, this is very common among them. From what I can tell, this happens for two major reasons:

1. The pay is too low, so a second job is required. If you are making $12/hour (which is pretty good for retail), that is only $25k/year at full time, which is not enough to support yourself and certainly not a family. Raising the minimum wage, providing health insurance, and paid time off could definitely help here.

2. So many companies refuse to have employees work full time. It seems like it is impossible to get a job at any big box retail or food company that will actually work you 40 hours per week. I assume this has to due with not wanting to pay out benefits for full time work. It seems like most of my family members and friends hover just under 30 hours per week. Even if they were making $15-18/hour, at less than 30 hours per week plus no benefits, this doesn't cut it. So they end up with a second job where they are also part time. And balancing two part time jobs, both with schedules that constantly change, is incredibly difficult and stressful.
I agree 100%, but in this case there was no one who mattered measuring tickets closed. At least the group I worked with knew enough to avoid that kind of fallacy. In general, Goodhart's and Campbell's laws both apply.
> My guess is that they use the ‘straight line’ distance rather than the actual distance traveled.

My god, don't tell me they are still doing this? The incompetence knows no bounds. Enough time to make their own chat app but no one around to dig up Dijkstra.
It's not the ergonomic model, but I have the K840 and I love it.

https://www.logitech.com/en-ca/product/k840-mechanical-corde...

Then again, I also loved and have used extensively the Apple chiclet keyboard before the new magic version... ~2015 model?

So my opinion might be as good as heresy around here.
Right. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that the book doesn't cover that scandal (which it couldn't have, as you mentioned) and that the Pixar story isn't all roses.
What else is there? Nuclear? I'm with you but it'll take decades before we realize that solar and wind just don't scale and decades more to rebuild and expand nuclear infrastructure. In the short term, it's either natural gas, wind/solar, and hydro (if your geography allows for it).
This is the main lesson we've learned in Texas this week. Why go it alone? We're asking for help from the rest of the country anyway (Federal emergency funds, etc). If we'd just played nice to start with we wouldn't be in this kind of trouble at all.
And at that point I would expect them to run the transactions to some people who are exactly trained or capable to verify that this transactions is correctly recorded.

If you are doing something really really specific against usual procedures no UI can save you...
Then yeah it's bad or misleading.
Jean-Yves Girard is another one.
Degraded soil quality and adverse biome effects can reduce the amount of available food.
How about severe penalties for breaching your SLAs? Can't deliver power? Give customers $X per minute of downtime.

Now let's see you assess your risk when it comes to installing heaters and insulation.
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And? Is it a documentation problem then, that the SQL alchemy devs don't think it's worth the time to explain to devs familiar with active record what they gain using SQLA?
> Considering that vast majority of child abuse is at the hands of someone they know, rather than a stranger (see this DOJ report, page 10), it begins to feel as if keeping kids indoors — with a babysitter, parent, relative, sibling, or step-parent — is actually LESS safe than them getting on their bikes and riding around. Let’s not restrict kids’ freedom due to a misunderstanding of actual risk.

The majority of child abuse happening at the hands of someone the kids know could be because we don't let kids out of our sight more. If we let kids out of our site more would that number still be true?

Point #2 reinforces this idea (anecdotally). It shows that child abuse has slowly been declining since 1991. The article says, "yeah well all crime has gone down" but are there any studies that show how that number correlates to increased protectiveness?

I'm not saying the concept is wrong (I believe kids should have more freedom and wish my kids did). Just saying this article could tighten up its arguments better.
With the rise of remote working its becoming easier for tech worker to collect multiple full time salaries too.
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Indeed, this is a great argument for UBI, since it will not be possible to maintain a job supply which can provide everyone with a life. :)
It is clear from context that the comment is about how they are on states' rights and telecoms. Unrelated differences, no matter how stark they are, are not relevant.
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Yeah, my first reaction was, "Who's actually trying to grow wheat indoors at scale???"
Yes, unfortunately current manufacturing practices forced them to switch over to Chinese clones of the Cherry MX. I'm writing this on their late 90's Cherry MX Blue based keyboard (which I'm lucky to still use) which were switched over to the cheaper Chinese switches in the last decade.
I feel like whenever I hear about people interested in vertical farming, it's typically centered around greens, or something where freshness is highly important. Is this responding to some group of people who are actually enthusiastic about indoor vertical farming of cereal crops?
Notably absent from this is discussion of transport, storage and refrigeration. People have long complained about the 3000 mile ceasar salad. Is it better to grow lettuce and tomatoes far away and ship them to mostly urban consumers, or is it better to grow those in/near urban areas for local consumption? This is a real question; if someone has numbers on the per-serving energy cost of refrigerated shipping, and how they compare to the lighting energy cost, I think that would be an important comparison.
You didn't calculate the cost of your work and time, isn't it worth more than $2 per week?
P.S. a potential sweet spot for Elixir in the broader scientific computing community comes when you combine native numerical libraries _with_ Phoenix LiveView! Realtime scientific dashboards are amazing. There's nothing I've found that makes interactive dashboards as easy as with LiveView. Actually there are projects in R, Julia, and Python that are great but they're much more difficult to deploy and scale IMHO.
For anyone on Android, I never missed any task when I was using COL Reminder [0] which has repeat reminders until you mark something done.

Now I'm using iOS the closest I've found is Due [1] but it's exactly like you said, iPhone notifications are more transient and I have missed stuff.

> The system would be able to nag me more if I do not ack

This is where iOS isn't great, Due seems to get silenced or killed off if it creates too many notifications. So it would be better if there was a nagging service running somewhere else than the phone itself. Maybe an email based nag service would work, something that when a task is due it sends an email every hour until you reply saying "done" or "snooze 1 day" or whatever.

edit: Found an email based nag service - https://www.followupthen.com/how#tasks

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colapps.re...

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/due-reminders-timers/id3900179...
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Seems that you get a slightly worse price in exchange for the lack of the $5 trade fee: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-fr...
Those same countries have very expansive social safety nets that are non-existent in the US.
One of the most fascinating parts of this story, to me, is that Revlon's creditors were able to use a mistake made by Citi and a legal loophole in New York to recover debt that had increased in risk due to some allegedly-shady asset management by Revlon. It's like a perfect storm formed to repay bad debt.
Modeling their migration off the Python 2 -> 3 migration. Bold move, let's see how that works out for them.
They are. I think the argument is that a company that has to turn a profit can't compete with a municipal system that doesn't have to turn a profit.
No one has established any trademark violation. All we have are a bunch of angry emails and Google doing judge, jury and executioner in response.
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It should fit, as you said, but the last time I tried it the VHDL front-end for Yosys was not up to it. That might have changed as it was a few years ago.
Companies offer part-time jobs instead of full-time ones because then they don't need to offer benefits that are required for a full-time job. In other words, the current rules of the game are directly incentivizing this behavior.

The incentive can be very easily removed by legislating that a part-time job would need to offer a fraction of the benefits proportional to the amount of hours the employee works per week.

Ideally, there should be some sort of a credit transfer mechanism, where an employee working multiple part-time jobs that combine to 40+ hours a week could get benefits equivalent to a full-time job at one of the workplaces, proportionally covered by all employers.

Another option would be to crack down on monopolies and large chains. If you employ 10000 corporate drones, who are expected to follow the same corporate instructions day-to-day and can be swapped out by a fresh hire without any loss of productivity, they by definition don't have any economic leverage. On the other hand, if the same market niche is occupied by 1000 independent 10-employee companies, the overall efficiency is lower, but the leverage of each employee (and the salary they can negotiate through supply/demand) is higher. Because in a smaller company you are someone the owner trusts to delegate part of their business, and not just a line on the spreadsheet.
Whether or not a word appears in a dictionary has no bearing on its enforceability as a trademark.

Ultimately it’s up to the courts to decide. If your app could reasonably be confused for an official product of “Huevo” corp, it would constitute trademark infringement.
i would LOVE if someone could help us get the site to work on mobile. I can point folks to our scss and all of that and get it all going if someone can help. agree mobile is mostly unusable and new layout has probably some more problems since I started using flex layout for which I am unqualified to be touching.
From your link:

> The Vancouver motion however for the moment has no force in law.

A municipality doesn't have the authority to decriminalize drugs. They're just requesting the Federal government to act. It's not official, though it could eventually be.
> which I’m skeptical is accurate

Feel free to look for yourself. They list it under "powertrain" in the specs pages.

> is different from “broadly available”,

FWIW, my definition boils down to: available from most manufacturers, in the major form factors (truck, SUV, sedan, compact, sport).
It's a solution for taking trucks off the road and avoiding waste from spoiled produce.

It's not a solution for saving land.
>If you want to counter Ken Thompson’s “Trusting Trust” attack, you would want to start with a minimal compiler on a minimal chip; StoneKnifeForth might be a good approach.

Some people have been working on fairly good Forths for different, minimal hardware including the Parallax boards.

https://github.com/prof-braino/PropForth5.5

There's also Chuck Moore's GreenArrays GA144 if you want a high performance Forth machine which includes a proto area on the board.