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The 747-8 was announced in 2005, and started passenger service in 2012. Planes have increased in complexity in the last 50 years.

It is legitimately very difficult to make a plane as cheap and efficient as airlines want, and as safe and (relatively) quiet as regulators want. Boeing and Airbus are not a duopoly because of a lack of attempts. And even they screw up; the 747-8 and A380 turned out to be duds because they were too hard to fill and four engines needs more fuel than two.
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I know we're supposed to reflect on how this is some commentary on today's society and whatnot, but I can't help but think about how you'd go about fixing this perverse incentive.

Let's assume that 95% of hires are "good" and 5% are "bad." Let's say a manager hires 3 people a year, and currently oversees 100 people. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like the point of URA is to make sure managers fire the portion of that 5% who don't quit voluntarily. If the voluntary portion is 2%, then we'd expect the manager to fire 3%, or 3 people in our example year.

If 100% of those fired were of the 3 that were most recently hired, then obviously there's a problem. We'd expect each of new hires to only have a 5% chance of being "bad." The thing to do is to track what percent of the manager's hires within, say, the last year were part of that URA. If it passes some threshold, then either the manager is doing a poor job of hiring or they're trying to game the system.
It is about 9 times faster on land than on water, so unless the bridge was quite congested it would still likely be faster. If the bridge is so congested that it is faster than taking that car in the water, the roads after the bridge are probably also congested so all you gain is jumping ahead in the congestion.

The situations where the bridge is very slow but past the bridge is not are probably sufficiently rare that it is not worth the extra complexity of an amphibious car for most people.

It might be more interesting and attractive in places without bridges. Depending on the speed and frequency of a ferry service, it is possible that the car on water would be faster.

Ferries will usually travel faster (the Seattle car ferries are around 2.5 times as fast as the Amphicar, and the fast passenger ferries are about 5 times as fast), but the Amphicar could still win if you have to wait a long time between ferries.

For example, the car would take about 2 hours to go from Seattle to Bremerton via the water. The state ferry on the same route would take about an hour, but the ferries are almost 2.5 hours apart so it would take you from 1 hour to 3.5 hours by ferry depending on how your trip aligns with the ferry schedule. (The car could do it in 90 minutes if you went by land instead, but that route goes through Seattle and Tacoma, so you could hit a lot of traffic which could slow you down considerably).
It crushed me last year when we ordered extrusion/machine work samples (a lot of 10 pieces) from a major American brand and some from "Ricky" a Chinese machine shop connect one of the guys here heard of through doing other parts sourcing in China.

The Chinese ones were better machined, had no issues, and were 1/3 the price. I weep for American manufacturing.
Leveling up is OK. Fake Internet points may drive some people to weird behavior, but it's manageable at this level.

They shouldn't have entered the job search space. The moment they offered to help their users find work, suddenly those fake Internet points (and activity behind them) started to carry a real (if probabilistic) monetary value.
> It allows us to continue to operate as an independent company with our current team and with the backing of a global technology powerhouse.

Uh-huh.
How about:

- give employees and managers enough context to understand the business goals and empower them to make intelligent decisions and affect positive change
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These are some excellent points. I think the big takeaway here is that RPA isn't what it used to be, and the rapid changes in this space help explain why RPA is gaining traction (seemingly inexplicably, if one still assumes that RPA = screen scraping mainframes).

RPA products are increasingly becoming integration products. For example, and vendors like UiPath increasingly provide native API integration capabilities where possible. I've even seen integration products that formerly would have fit into the "iPaaS" space market themselves as RPA solutions, even though they are primarily providing what is essentially an API abstraction layer, and they have no roots in "true" RPA.

I think this is happening due to the hype around RPA, and how effective the terminology is with the target audience.

I agree that "traditional" RPA is already a legacy solution, but at the same time, RPA vendors are rapidly pivoting to support API integrations (see UiPath's recent acquisition of Cloud Elements).

I hate the muddiness, but I've also had to take a step back and re-orient how I think/talk about RPA products due to how quickly the space has evolved.

Source: Also work in the RPA and Integration Platform space, primarily on the Product Management side.
So the core thesis of the article is fundamentally flawed, since the decision maker for hiring is not the same person who decides on firing. In other words, Inc. is perpetrating a lie, along with all the other publishers who jumped on this bandwagon.
That's fine, we all make mistakes. But here's the interesting part: Inc. has a perverse incentive not to be too diligent in their reporting, because if they look too deep underneath the carpet, they could come across the truth that the OP shared. Once you learn how things really work, you can't spread your BS anymore because you can be sued for libel. But if you just pick up someone else's lie and expand on it without bothering to verify the fundamental thesis, you're 100% covered. Inc. was careful to start their reporting with:

1) hey look, we're linking to someone else who said this before us

2) and please note, there's the obligatory "appears--at least on the surface" statement, so if this comes back to bite us, we told you you shouldn't have believed us in the first place.

Here's your startup idea: find a way to hold journalists accountable even when they operate within the legal grey area of journalism, which is becoming prevalent and will only continue to grow in intensity and harmfulness.

PS: I get it, you hate Amazon. So do I. Try to think for yourself for a minute and let's engage in this conversation as if we were talking about your favorite high school teacher who just had their career destroyed because some dude needed to get a few extra pageviews.
Sick, thanks for the process details. Are there plans for larger releases? if not, do you know what is preventing that from moving forward?
Sure. NPM is the easy case because the package-lock.json file can easily be read by Nix and contains hashes for all of the packages. This means that simply be importing the file into Nix you can have a reproducible build. No Nix-specific maintenance required.

In the linked case I use this library to manage that https://github.com/nmattia/napalm (in that example I use master but for production I would pin a version). It simply parses the package-lock.json, downloads the packages and uses npm to build the node_modules folder. It also provides some convenient functions for building packages with "bin" files or just linking node_modules inside a build.

Note that this is more for project development. It doesn't use the "system" packages (intentionally) for Node, it fetches whatever versions you have specified from NPM. Nix will only provide the "native" stuff like Node and NPM themselves and any native libraries.
> Manipulating some numbers in equations and coming out with absolute certainties is hilarious bad

The author went ouf of his way to make sure people understood that probabilities are NEVER certainties, they are just about chances of things being true... yet here we are.
From their blog post:

> It allows us to continue to operate as an independent company with our current team and with the backing of a global technology powerhouse.

Sure, sure.
> Amazon, it is not possible for a hiring manager to hire people they plan to fire. The choice is not theirs.

Speakig as someone who is an interviewer, your point means nothing. The interview process is tailored to get people in, but it's totally independent of the decisions to decimate teams.

Where managers step in is in the company's yearly performance review process, and those tend to be brutal. unlike the hiring process, that has higher-ups (L7 and up) involved in deciding who performed according to the manager's expectations.

> How? It's not their choice.

The choice of who gets in is irrelevant. It's the choice of who gets out that matters. The hiring process gets bodies on desks, and afterwards managers decimate them.

Getting the orange badge is a feat, and I've been to meetings where orange badges were quite blunt in stating new hires they were in the company when blue badges get in, and they will stay in the company when said blue badges get out. This is not new to anyone working in the company. What's the average tenure at Amazon? Less than two years?
My experience, a while ago I will admit, is that your experience will vary wildly based on what you’re doing with it.

Writing Haskell in it was a joy, but Ruby was pure pain. I actually never could get RoR to run (this might have changed), so I gave up and went to OSX for that stuff.
Management is a difficult topic to discuss online because the average commenter is statistically far more likely to be an IC than a manager.

Before I transitioned to management, I would read these stories from the perspective of an IC. That is, the one being fired. None of us likes to think of ourselves as under qualified or deserving of being fired, so these stories feel deeply unfair. They also play to tropes about businesses being inhumane or rigged against the individual, or the idea that everything that goes wrong is the manager’s fault rather than the blameless employee.

As a manager, I read these stories and immediately think of the problematic employees I’ve had to deal with over the years. Firing people is never easy, as you said, but one of the epiphanies of management is watching a team’s performance and morale improve after a refractory employee is removed from the company. It’s hard to truly understand until you’ve been through it, but some times it’s just not possible to manage underperforming or even troublesome employees into good team members. It’s also not fair to the rest of the team if you have to spend 50% of your time dealing with 10% of the employees causing all of the problems.

If nothing else, we have to acknowledge that interviewing is a highly imperfect process. It’s unrealistic expect companies to never make an incorrect hire, and it’s also unrealistic to expect companies to never fire any incorrect hires. Every company of significant size will always have some number of underperforming or troublesome employees. They don’t benefit by hiring people to fire them, but they do need to induce some targeted turnover to avoid accumulating incorrect hires.
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It is still one of the most interesting podcasts I’ve listened to. Jeff and Joel completely chanced how I view hardware. So far they’ve been right in that scaling out isn’t something most of us need to worry about for a LONG time. Modern computers are insanely fast and capable of much more than we think.
A Reddit/HN clone. For the moderation system, each user uses their own user whitelist.
In all Western countries that I know of - including UK - those courts are effectively arbitration courts, so they're very limited wrt the kinds of rulings they can make, and even then both parties have to agree to abide. So they're not really a separate legal system.
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Easy to build out the platform, difficult to build out the knowledge base (especially since so many areas have already been covered on SO)
A lot of people miss the environmental factor. It's
the biggest one. The various room modes will have
the most impact on your listening experience. No amount
of equalization or other DSP hackery can defeat the
laws of physics.

Objectively, this is true beyond doubt and can be easily measured!

Subjectively I think it's perhaps a little more complicated since our brains already do a lot of "room correction." When we completely remove the room from the equation via absorbers etc. we essentially create a headphones-like experience which feels a little artificial to many people. It's like the music is happening inside my head instead of on a stage in front of me.

So, I typically don't really worry about room treatment, other than rugs and bookcases and furnishings. This is personal taste and I won't say you're wrong if you do otherwise!

Incidentally it's worth noting the living room of Floyd Toole who wrote "the" book on a lot of this stuff. https://www.thescreeningroomav.com/single-post/2019/03/06/th...
Its possible it was just the fact that a slightly different design was rated at a different secrecy level because of specific improvements.

For example, rockets and turbofans all use the same basic mechanics to function, the but differentiators are still under ITAR
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That's a good point. I wonder why SO is so political? As an outsider it is just like a bunch of people asking questions and getting answers.
Or the reported speeds/altitudes are simply incorrect and rather than a low-IR stealth superweapon this was a smaller battery-powered drone at lower altitudes/speeds.
That depends. If it is a popular answer, people sometimes edit with latest version answer. For example, I answered something about Python/Flask many years ago which became a very popular answer at the time (simple stuff). Now in Flask's latest version, you don't need to do it that way necessarily and the answer was edited accordingly.
100% agree. The real value of these RPA solutions is their orchestration capabilities, but that's not how they sell it. They will start bleeding customers as those systems they're automating are replaced with those that provide more surfaces to interact with (like API).

The real utility RPA solutions are supposed to provide to the enterprise is cost savings. These savings should then be put toward upgrading those legacy systems that required the RPA solution.

I have never seen a company disciplined enough to direct those savings in that way. RPA companies have been so caught up in being a "hot item" and classified as a sub-category of AI (for whatever reason) that they don't seem to realize they've been selling their own demise.
It's not. This person doesn't like someone's political beliefs, so they're trying to denigrate them on a seemingly "objective" basis, which doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
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I can relate to that: my 85 year old aunt has Magnat speakers from the early eighties and they sound amazing to this day.

Never have I owned a surround set, I really don’t care about that.

The 683 were bought for the same price in euros I paid for my (not so great) 202i bookshelves 25 years ago in Dutch Guilders. Felt great.
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a 6 pack a day of an addictive substance that the users quickly develop a tolerance to often develops to a 12 pack and eventually a 24 pack.
Stack overflow's users, please.
You should raise money at the end of the first call.

The first priority is to get them on the hook. Sell them on what you can do.

Then get a picture of who they are as a company and about the scope of the project. This gives you a sense of the budget.

Then talk money. What are their expectations? Are expectations in line with budget?
I fork the repo, update the package in my fork, add the fork as a flake to my inputs and test my changes. When I'm happy, I create a pull request to the main repo.

I started using NixOS in all my machines last winter, and slowly decided it is for me when I understood the basics. It was a rough start for me, but I have a few decades of linux knowledge, that helped me past the starting point.

You can read my config and see how to create overlays from different sources. E.g. if your fork updates vim, your overlay overwrites vim in the definition. Then referring to pkgs.vim points to your fork. See flake.nix in the repo.

https://github.com/pimeys/nixos
Believe it or not, in the early days we actually were pretty enthusiastic about things like Extreme Programming. It seemed like an improvement over document-heavy processes you’d see a some places, or the complete lack of process you’d see at others.

I still think pair programming is better than code review when feasible.
Maybe it's like disk usage. You'll always find new stuff to brain on
Definitely eastern europe / asia focused
> As long as the new owner doesn't make it "pay to see", I can probably ignore them.

There was a very similar site about a decade ago, that would absolutely dominate in the Google search results - but of course, the answers were behind a paywall. Today, I don't even remember what their domain was called.
I gave my Moka pot away because cleaning it was a royal pain in the ass.
Wait, what? Which model V60?
weeblewobble's hypothesis: as an IC, your job is not to hit your deliverables but to allow your manager to hit their deliverables
I agree, but part of the problem with manufacturing in China is that American companies have become complicit in the abuses of a brutal authoritarian regime. The manufacturing efficiencies cannot be ignored, but it would be wise to take this into consideration as well moving forward. I’m just not sure if there’s a reasonable way to do so. This may be an inevitable consequence of globalization in the short-term.
That is simply not true. One person's success does not take away opportunity from others.
For those asking “where is the source that managers are actually doing this”: it’s linked but behind a paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20210511140314/https://www.busin...

BI talked to managers who admitted to doing this.

It’s odd to me to deny it. We have the motive, means, and the opportunity. And not to mention the admission!

Amazon is large so it’s unsurprising that some people here haven’t seen it.

One thing that I find interesting is that Amazon PR denied the existence of even URA rates, but I’ve heard managers IRL admit they exist.
TC39 explicitly rejected this sort of approach a few years ago, because of the unpleasant way it would fork the web. They _did_ automatically clean up some behavior in a module context when you knew you were using a modern JS engine, but they kept that to a minimum.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any links to articles written at the time about this, but they definitely did consider "use" options or script type="es2021" kinds of options.
Huh, I learned something new today. For some reason I never registered weary/wary as two different words. I associated both spellings and pronunciations with the same general concept. Kind of like gray/grey. I'm actually a native speaker and your comment is great because now I'm wondering about what other words I'm using incorrectly.
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This is a direct link.

Once you download please distribute on torrents and elswhere.

This guy and all of the criminals he worked with have to answer for their war crimes.
Usually it does the exact same things actually!
Glad to hear I'm not the only one that lost their S.O. account because they decided to try the amazing sounding OpenID.
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