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>Would you be willing to patronise a shop that charges 50% more for coffee than the shop next to it because it pays its workers more? I'd bet not.
I would, assuming that it’s not just the exact same product. I really enjoy going to different coffee shops and checking out what they’ve got and what they do differently. I don’t actually care about price; I would pay $20 for a cup of something really interesting. I’m not talking about drip from an air pot, think more WBC. I wouldn’t expect someone at that level in their craft to work at a place paying minimum wage, and I wouldn’t expect the coffee shop paying people min wage to have excellent coffee, which I’m happy to pay more for.

There is a market for McDonald’s coffee as there is a market for $20/cup coffee.
> if you depend on a static library, it will both statically link it _and_ embed the binary

That's fixed in Xcode 12.5 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-note...
Yeah, very nice. This gets something right that so many other generative music experiments get wrong, which is variation in note length (aka tempo). You see other generative music use Markov Chain for note choice but not note length and it quickly becomes very "same-y", whereas this has, for the vast majority of melodies it generates, a natural feel (to me).

I wish I understood the WebAudio API better to get a better handle on how the instruments are created.
> If a deployment takes 20 seconds, that’s 2 hours per day spent deploying!

My assumption would be to support this level of automation, the median deployment takes 0 seconds [of human time].
One of my first purchases with the first $1,200 stimulus check last year was birdseed.

The thing is, I used a debit card linked to my name. An hour or so later, I was on (redacted) and my post to an image board was greeted with an image meme making fun of birdseed purchases. It was almost certainly auto-generated. For add'l context, the site was located overseas, so it fell under jurisdiction of our intel agencies.

It's difficult enough to be happy while destitute and homeless, but you should never mess with a man's birdseed. He might get rowdy and cause a commotion, make you regret interfering with his ornithological aspirations.
Facebook data breach on hoping to stop media talk about its last data breach
I like Spotify for music. But i hate it for other content. I like overcast for podcasts. It’s not just ui, i like having separate channels separate. I wouldn’t want my movie in Spotify either.
I just did a cursory search. This video was posted a few days ago, but there seems to be zero chatter from American news sites (at least, ones with recognizable names) about it - not even Fox. I'd expect at least some of them to be firing back about "trolls" and "sexists" harassing and insulting Susan Wojcicki, like what happened with [female-protagonist-led Hollywood movie]. The silence is interesting, given the previous narratives. I wonder what's different now.
Study Finds 1 in 10 Healthcare Workers with Mild Covid Have Lasting Symptoms
> but why are they no allow to do the same job as a Google employee?

That is how it is if you are a contractor working for any tech company.

The actual shitty part about being a "contractor" is you are almost always a W2 for the contracting firm. Which means you get none of the benefits of actually being a real contractor. As a 1099 you can:

* Deduct (and potentially charge for) a ton of shit like travel expenses, hardware, software, internet, phones, home office, etc

* Set up a SEP IRA which lets you contribute 25% of your salary up to $58,000. This is far more than what you can contribute to an employer sponsored 401k (though as a W2 your employer can top your 401k to the same limit)

* Bill as high of a rate as you can get away with

* Easily work multiple gigs at once

* Use your own tools.

* It's your own business, literally. So act like it!

The drawbacks to a 1099 are:

* You are your own collection agency. Some clients are very slow to pay you.

* You have to pay your own social security and stuff

* You pay full freight for healthcare

* You are not entitled to unemployment

* Taxes get a little more complex

* You are a "flake" in the eyes of a bank... so getting loans for houses and stuff is a little harder.

As a W2 working through a bodyshop you get:

* Paid weekly no matter how slow their client is paying

* They provide you equipment... no matter how shitty it is

* Maybe some kind of shitty healthcare offering that disqualifies you from buying your own plan and deducting it on your taxes

* Maybe some kind of shitty retirement plan that disqualifies you from contributing pre-tax money to your own IRA

* You can collect unemployment. Helpful for that 6 month break.

* You get paid at a substantially lower rate than whatever they are billing the client.

* You are a cog in a machine.
Rainbow tables are essentially instantaneous so one day isn’t enough either. If you care about that kind of scenario I’d say your energy is better spent on just picking a more suitable hash algorithm.
The point does stand generally though. I have had to replace entire HVACs because the coolant is no longer available or because the cost to replace a certain component is too high because the parts are no longer readily available.

I think the only solution is to try to build as minimally as possible. A huge amount can be accomplished through passive heating and cooling (windows placement and size, site location and angle toward prevailing winds and morning / afternoon sun, etc etc). We are too often reliant on technology to allow us to ignore these things and we do so at our peril.
Castro on iOS. It uses an inbox triage model that lets me subscribe to a lot of podcasts and keep up with what they’re doing, without cluttering my queue or inducing decision fatigue. It has more granular (per-podcast) controls for smart speed, silence skipping, voice leveling, skipping intros and automatic triage than Spotify. It also lets me upload custom audio and subscribe to custom/private feeds. Support for scripting listening and feed management with iOS shortcuts is above a useful threshold.

Prior to Castro, I used Overcast and Pocket Casts, which have similar features.

I’m sure Spotify is the future but these third party clients are great for heavy listeners who want more control.
Maybe we are in different A/B groups but for me the podcasts are now in row 3 minimum, sometimes in the second row on home screen. So at times I see them.
Chapter support is a nice feature when it's available. There are some podcasts that I listen to straight through. I skip around others.
> Honestly surprised this wasn't about some internet connected coffee machine!

Whenever IT folks run out of good names they always turn to coffee.
That could be a very good thing.

Imagine a wiki page that skipped all the stuff you know and focused on things in your ZPD. You'd save a lot of time and have a much more positive view of learning.
I think the success and rapid adoption of Swift Package Manager as it has become a viable solution speaks to this deep desire in the community to have an Apple provided solution to it.

CocoaPods was a hugely important part of the iOS ecosystem and will be for years to come, but SPM is a great next step.
Some people are just like that. They consume and then they die. Not everyone has to achieve something and for me and you this may be unthinkable, but some people just don't feel the need. They are perfectly happy with spending their life watching TV or similar.
Beta Testing iOS application called SOCIA
Hey everyone,

We have recently developed an application and need help testing its functionality. The application allows you to create playlist's of content and share with your friends. Similar to how you can create a playlist of music on spotify, our application allows you to grab content from any source (Netflix, Instagram, Spotify) and consolidate it into a playlist. Here is the link, let us know what you think!

to download on iOS: http//testflight.apple.com/join/cQaj3sROv

website: www.joinsocia.com
Submit this - I'd be interested if nobody found it before or if it's a known issue that nobody's in a position to fix.
I don't understand why Facebook just doesn't hire these people. Clearly they're doing a good enough job with their wrapper apps since the FB legal team perceives them as a threat.
Multi-Tier Compilation in GraalVM
Beware though that "available on Spotify" (idk Podimo) doesn't necessarily mean that it's exclusive there. But it's very common around here and many people use it for convenience (and the podcasts can advertise it as "look we are in this fancy mainstream app", not weird (?) RSS, while they likely offer that too). I myself used Spotify for freely available podcasts too, only recently switched to Podcast Addict for nerdy automatic download settings
Swift Package Manager is the official package manager for Xcode. It's been available for a few years now and a lot of third party iOS/macOS projects support it. I haven't had to touch CocoaPods in many years. For the past 5 years I've been using Carthage, and more recently everything is SPM.
I dig your Netflix style categorizations, but it would be nice to have a Netflix like UI to go along with it. Still nice though
> would make everything 6.73X more expensive

Not everything. The weighted average.
Actually, the "Singapore was a third world fishing village" trope is mostly PAP propaganda. Singapore was very successful economically before WW2, and ranked second behind Tokyo or Shanghai as the wealthiest city in Asia by most measures.

Also, you're off by a factor of around 20x on your estimate of the costs of setting up a hawker stall: https://blog.seedly.sg/how-much-to-be-hawker-singapore/
Not the parent commenter, but there's a lot of features I like out of Pocket Casts that Spotify doesn't do as well.

- Queuing/auto-queuing to a next-up playlist (with features like add to start or add to end)

- Faster playback (e.g. listening at 2x speed)

- Alerts when new episodes drop to a given feed

It's very configurable and works well.

Also, I just dislike having to abandon my music queue when I listen to a podcast on Spotify. It's nice to have music playing at home, pause it, go for a walk listening to a podcast, finish the walk, then resume the same song/playlist at home.
I use PocketCasts (on iOS) and I'm happy enough to pay for a subscription (extra benefits are marginal though).

It's less about features, I think, and more about the overall experience. It's probably quite personal too, but in no particular order:

- Smoother and more responsive UI

- Less cluttered and more dense UI eg visual overview of all my subscriptions

- Silence trimming

- Sharing from a given place in a podcast

I do use Spotify for music though so I'm not completely anti the Spotify experience. In fairness to the Spotify designers I do think that they have a more difficult job in integrating podcasts into an app that is mainly a music player.
Backfilling the dependencies is a graph traversal problem. An author can put work in and add references for everything and it will help a lot. The problem is as soon as those links are to something that doesn't follow this pattern (most things), the student will be in the same position.
They’re attempting to make use of technicalities in the rules which are likely to be viewed with skepticism if a lawsuit were to ever arise. The law and regulations aren’t applied algorithmically. The lawsuit might not be won, but it’d be interesting to see.
Google Cloud region picker helps you make the green choice
Microsoft licensed their sensor to Analog devices, and you can buy the mega-pixel iToF sensor and build a iToF camera.
https://www.analog.com/en/products/ADSD3100.html?icid=ToF-ad...

Or build a camera with multiple sensors capturing different FoVs.

Samsung have published papers on a 1.2MegaPixel ToF sensors, but currently only have a VGA sensor available.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9365854
https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/isocell/visio...
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I usually dislike the "hub" approach to IoT.

There is a wireless LAN in my space, all devices that need connectivity should just use that LAN.

More hubs are more headaches. You need to not lose their power adapters when moving, you need to find a place to put them that is within range of all your devices (may not be as easy as Wi-Fi since they may be using other bands that don't transmit as well or have FCC restrictions, and I already have Wi-Fi mesh network everywhere, you can't easily mesh arbitrary protocols on arbitrary frequencies), you need to set them up using typically a shitty spyware phone app, you need to keep their firmware updated in addition to device firmware. And you also need a hub for every brand of appliance you buy. A Philips Hue hub will not work with some other brand of lights. Whereas you can mix and match hub-less lights and you don't need to have a pile of hubs on a shelf somewhere.
Hah Geico's internal claim system is a giant (internal) FTP dump of scans connected to a web front end. The FTP has endless scanns of claims checks, etc, including DL numbers.

Maybe they should change their dev environment SQL passwords from SA.
That "I don't have a clue" bit is what the parent was referring to as "conspiracy theory rhetoric." Asking questions without making any assertions, the only real aim of the text is to create doubt.

A lunatic can ask more questions than a genius can ever answer. Picking a likely theory and arguing for it is much more difficult than arguing that any of the available theories has a nonzero chance of being true.

Don't get me wrong: it's very fun. I love conspiracy theory as recreation. But engaging in actual good faith debate is a different sport entirely. It's both much more difficult, and a much better way to arrive at truth.
That was my initial reaction. If the employer's sole concern is to avoid using IP they don't have full rights to, then they can just require me sign over rights to my IP which I used in work projects.

That approach does create more complications though. What if the employee claims that they weren't paid for the game idea and didn't present it to the company, rather that a coworker learned about it off hours and "stole" it[1]. Or if an employee writes some software entirely during off-hours, but incorporates the company's trade secrets or patent pending ideas into that software. To avoid this, the company now has to document that rights for each work was transferred from employee to employer, and it has to document what is and isn't considered a trade secret, so the employee knows what information they learned at work they are and aren't allowed to use in side projects. From the employer's perspective it is much easier and safer to make the default that all IP rights are assigned to employer, and then document any exceptions they might grant.

In other words ideas (patents, trade secrets) are much messier than works (copyright, physical objects) when it comes to employee / employer contract.

[1] Also "game idea" was a poor example because game concepts/rules are not covered by patents or copyright, just trade secrets prior to publishing, but I'll continue his example as if they were.
so, why can't they simply build more housing in those areas? And the locals who already bought houses/land aren't getting screwed. they're beneficiaries of all that appreciation. just think of the couple who bought a house for 150K in boise, ID and it's now worth 500k+.
As a fan of Acid music this is actually pretty good. It even has "drop" measures where the drums disappear and the lead goes through a dynamic cutoff filter. Every now and then a bad lead/bass combination does pop up.
I'm reminded of a Berkeley CA bumper sticker:

Visualize Rent
In the future, unnecessary use of AI/ML that causes strange incidents will be the source of much amusement (and, well, bad things too, I’m sure).

That being said, the AI shell legitimately helped me remember some OpenSSL and ImageMagick commands.
Patreon is (currently) the counterweight keeping Spotify from sucking up a critical mass of the high quality podcasts. If Patreon were to fold for some reason, you might see a lot of professional podcasters heading under Spotify's wing just out of necessity.
> I think it's going to be another year or 2 before dropping CocoaPods entirely is a fair choice for libraries

For libraries this is probably true, but I would imagine that most apps could start on SPM from today and never need to introduce CocoaPods or Carthage (we did, ~1 year ago). There are certainly limitations, but they are disappearing fairly rapidly, and the advantage of simpler builds, no Ruby setup, simpler Xcode project structures, etc, are worthwhile.
I have a suspicion this is partly because the ordinary middle class are poorer today, comparatively.

We have more stuff, but it's lower quality. Anything built to last is beyond what many can afford. And there are structural reasons why it doesn't make sense to buy built-to-last items: nobody repairs them any more. You could save money and buy one or two really good pairs of shoes, like your great-grandparents probably did. But cobblers and shoe repair shops are doing out.

Instead of saving a month's wages for a pair of shoes that would last many years, it's easier to spend a day's wages on something that will wear out within a year. Plus, of course, you might be able to buy several pairs in multiple styles! Woop! More variety, more sales, more landfill.

Fashion à la môde, indeed.

I think it's exactly the same with iron railings. It's similar with domestic appliances, most consumer goods, food, etc etc.
That does not mean they can order you around like a slave. What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he cannot eat at a particular restaurant, or eat pasta? What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he cannot sleep on a spring mattress? What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he cannot walk a dog on the weekend? What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he can invest in a mutual fund? What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he cannot help his neighbor in his garden? What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he cannot pee while standing? What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he cannot get a divorce? What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he cannot help his dad with a computer problem? What if IBM tells him that as an IBM employee he cannot answer a stack overflow query?
Humans solve problems by adding complexity, even when it’s against our interests
Aside of the absurd nomination/awards: how come that YouTube is CEO-less company for media?

When FB screws up, Zuck's grim is everywhere in media, but when YouTube does the same orwellian stuff, it's just... YouTube, like there's no person behind it.
Performance is a feature, or at least it should be, of any good design.

Of course it might be a very low priority feature, so it would be valid to close any issue reports as "WONTFIX" if the devs have no time or feel they are better spending their time on other matters, especially if people on slow connections are not expected to be a significant part of the target audience, but commenting on potential performance issues is perfectly valid when discussing a site (re)design IMO.
Quite a few people here are bemoaning the MS lawsuit result as some sort of bad call or unnecessary burden on businesses. That's not the root problem, and misunderstands the scale of what was going on at MS.

I have personal friends that joined MS during this era. They were told by their managers, off record of course, exactly how to game WA unemployment during their 6 months on, 3 months off, contracting years. They were doing stuff like flying to Mexico for 3 months, then filing false job application progress notifications to unemployment from their laptop on the beach.

The root problem here is that sophisticated businesses can game what should be straight forward worker protections. The MS case is a bandaid. The problem is the erosion of labor rights and negotiating power that's been a decades long trend in the US.
guess there is too much stupid money flying around to not file at this point in time.
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There's a reason one doesn't exist and that is because of terrain. It's thick mountain passes there from Redding to Eugene. It's much more geographically feasible to expand Sacramento or Eugene north.
Teaching them skills and laying them off without cause is screwing them over. If you also consider that the skills they teach aren't enough to get them to the next level, it's worse.

This is covered in great detail in the article.
Well, why are we not coding on laptops from 1994?

The user interface can be wildly different.

Pocket casts changed recently but oh how I lived the old ui. Spotify had nothing on it.

Haven't had a reason to download Spotify since even though I haven't liked all the changes in the new pocket casts.
I've always considered Clubhouse to be a fad.
I think we are ultimately on the same page.. as far predictable abuse goes, the seatbelt and door detection strikes me as reasonable. Adding detection for weight on the front seat would be another good call but could further be defeated with a dumbbell. My point was that it isn’t up to Tesla to ‘baby-proof’ a potentially dangerous feature, but to make reasonable safety precautions, which it seems they’ve done.

Totally agree on the technology blind spot point and think the autopilot capability is over-hyped and the marketing angles could be dangerous when considering non-tech or older folks think it’s autonomous. However, that technology blind spot is addressed with the above precautions; if an elderly woman kicks it into autopilot thinking she can then leave the car or leave the drivers seat, the safety features will prevent her from doing so.

These guys had to ‘trick’ the vehicle in order to function as it did, and evidently evidently from the video the tricks were fairly involved and required a lot of understanding how the system worked, so I don’t think the blind spot argument can be used. It isn’t like an elderly woman started napping behind the wheel because she had a false sense of safety (also wouldn’t work bc you need to actively touch the wheel), they had to have intentionally circumvented safety checks and left the seat.

The ‘locked out’ bit is less relevant, agreed probably pedantic both ways, but to me locked out implies being unable to access your car without a locksmith or the like. In this case it seemed to further imply that the car was in a bad state, and mistakenly wasn’t letting its owner in... but that’s not the case- it was in drive and thus locked, it would be dangerous to have the car unlocked from the outside while driving, or from the inside too, preventing bumping the open button while groping for the window switches etc.

No he wouldn’t have to had climbed through the window... autopilot disengages when you take the wheel, all he had to do was grab the wheel a bit. He mentioned this actually. Or reach inside and pull the stalk up... or adjust the speed to zero on the wheel control knob.. regardless it isn’t relevant to the discussion at hand IMO.

The first video proves that these guys in the crash intentionally defeated the autopilot safety checks, nothing more. The second video, on the other hand, shows that Tesla has a long, long way to go to bring autopilot to a generally viable control system. So thank you for sharing these videos. I’ll pay even more attention on the highway now...
Playback speed, how many episodes to download on each podcast (some I listen to often, some rarely), what do with them when done, when to go to the next episode automatically, there's a lot. And I want these configurable per-podcast.
Only annoyance for me with Carthage is needing to strip architectures out of the built frameworks in order for the app to be validated when uploading to App Store Connect. It's an awesome solution though, and much better than CocoaPods.