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I'm with you on this. Integrated bluetooth is nice to have, but if you have just aux in then you can get nearly 100% of the same functionality via a bluetooth adapter. That would be my only reason not to get an old car but even then, the cassette tape adapters are pretty good substitute for aux in.
> The problem here is that they are deliberately crippling and limiting what the hardware can do in a way that avoid any possibility of competition.

Do you know that as a fact? Any documentation to that effect? Or is it just speculation? There is a lot of stuff that is the way it is not because of the reasons you think. Adobe Flash on iPad was argued about the same way. But the answer wasn’t because of an attempt to stifle competition.

> and freedom for the developers to use the hardware the best way they can

iPad is a consumer device. They don’t make it for “developers.” You aren’t their target audience.
> That nice collision avoidance/lane keeper and camera system? that was implemented as a countermeasure for increasing A and B pillar size after regulatory agencies decided too many americans were getting crushed to death in roll-over accidents.

I've never heard this. Anywhere I can read more about this?
tell me about a time you delivered awesome results while operating out of a pocket of badness
> To be fair, 35 hours in qualified jobs is really rare and this limit is only working for jobs that are paid hourly (when your employer counts the number of hours you work to determine your pay).

Almost all white collar jobs in the UK are 35 hours

> The vast majority of those jobs are paid monthly and, even if legal maximums exists, they rarely matter since, by definition, in monthly paid jobs, hours are not counted.

35 hours is the expected salaried agreement, similar to 40 hours in the US. I expect most of Europe is 35 hours and that is protected by labor laws.
Actually I did see that yesterday. But it was 98 degrees outside and an older car
> The thing is, just like a car can travel on any road a computing device can execute any software. Apple deliberately breaks this functionality.

But in this analogy, the hardware is the road, not the car. The road is the literal platform on which everything else runs. And Apple's argument is that they aren't quite building a "road", they're building a bespoke people-mover system that they continue to maintain (like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnel system).

Just to nit-pick the analogy some more, real cars don't run on just any road. Roads have weight limits, height limits, and speed limits (and most places make it illegal to drive significantly slower than surrounding traffic, effectively creating minimum speed limits). John Deere builds golf carts that aren't permitted on highways, and Scania's trucks too heavy for some bridges.
Someone needs to buy a new car so everyone else can get that deal on a used one. I played the lease game before, ended up driving brand new cars for around $2000 a year. After 10 years I paid around 20k, sure, but I also had a new car every 2.5 years (dealers are always buying out leases to get you into a new new car).

New cars aren't, or at least weren't, always this massive financial blunder people claim.

If it ends up costing you a few grand more per decade, why not lease, live within bumper to bumper warranties, and create the vehicles people actually seem to want, used ones.
Study suggests the "90% who are fine" may not all be fine.
I guess I might be paid in the future. There's no set plan right now.
the lab leak theory has nothing to do with science
Genuine question.
My position (like many in tech) doesn’t track my hours. I often don’t work one day a week so I can get some chores done or simply do something fun instead. Hasn’t affected my career at all, I’m making high six figures now.
I think this culture is OK or even good to a company in start-up because you have to be quick. Once it grow into maturity those rules should be abandonned.
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I completely agree. Ideally, we'd have a fleet of recent model year cars on the road, and would utilize them very heavily so in 5 years, they have ~200,000 miles on them and are near the end of their life.

I know an older couple with two vehicles from 2008 with 36k and 54k miles on them. They are in great shape, always parked in the garage at home, etc. While their natural life might be 150k, it's very likely they will be in a junkyard before then. Part availability becomes an increasing concern.

From an environmental standpoint, old cars were manufactured under less stringent emissions standards. At a certain point, the emissions required to manufacture a car are more than offset by the marginally lower emissions from a new vehicle.
Current Amazon engineer (not AWS, not in NA or India) here. I feel very surprised to see folks in India having such a bad experience working in Amazon, because we're almost completely the opposite here. I feel bad for those who suffered.

I've been working for 2 years here now, never heard about the "intent to fire" thing. Our oncall is not perfect but we're definitely working to improve service stability. Working hours have been worse than before since the start of COVID (working at home makes it easier to overwork), but it's still manageable, and when we were in the office it was mostly a 9-5 (or 10-6) job. Unless you're oncall and get paged, nobody would expect you to think about work from the moment you walk out of the office in the evening.

Like people have said, managers really decide your experience. I've had some bad managers and did internal transfer to improve my experience. There were some projects where I worked with teams located in India, and sometimes I do feel that they're quite different. Some PMs and even leadership there would push really hard to get things done, to the extent that we could feel their pressure. That never happened in other projects we did before, and this post seems to give me some hints on why that happened.

Update: minor edits on grammar
Windows 10 had its sunset date announced back when it launched. Most versions of Windows have only come with a two year support life cycle. The LTSC lifecycle has been halved recently, but the 2019 LTSC release will still get 10 years of support like before.

Windows has, before Windows 10, had a support cycle of 5 years for feature updates and another 5 for maintenance.
XP was supported past that term for (too) long because people refused to or were unable to switch, and 7 has befallen a similar faith.

The news media recently found the support cycle page again after the leaks about the upcoming Windows 11 release, but none of this should be a surprise for people who need to look into long term support for Windows.

The difference here, or course, is that a big company like Microsoft is more likely to stick around than a small, open source project. They currently don't have any plans to stop support, but who knows what the future may bring. Covid is a stark reminder of how the world can change in just a few months.
Well, there's the part where you can carry 5 gallons of fuel in a can and instantly add 100+ miles of range. Try doing that with enough battery to go 10 miles... Then there's winter, and finally, there's cost. I can get a used ICE car (not a nice one) for $2K. I suspect the value of batteries alone will prevent electrics from being as affordable?
Veritasium missed that existence of the [Gödel 1931]

proposition I'mUnprovable leads to inconsistency in

foundations by the following simple proof:

Ever since Euclid, it has been a fundamental principle
that a theorem can be used in a proof (the principle of
TheoremUse), that is, {⊢((⊢Ψ)⇒Ψ)} [cf. Artemov and
Fitting 2019]. However, by [Gödel 1931],
⊢(¬I’mUnprovable⇔⊢I’mUnprovable). Consequently,
⊢(¬I’mUnprovable⇒I’mUnprovable) by TheoremUse.

• Therefore ⊢I’mUnprovable using
ProofBySelfContradiction {⊢((⊢(¬Ψ⊢Ψ)) ⇒ ⊢Ψ)} with
Ψ being I’mUnprovable.

• Thus, I’mUnprovable using TheoremUse {⊢((⊢Ψ)⇒Ψ)}
with Ψ being I’mUnprovable. Consequently,
⊬I’mUnprovable using ⊢(I’mUnprovable⇔⊬I’mUnprovable)

Having both ⊢I’mUnprovable and ⊬I’mUnprovable is a
contradiction in foundations.
Like all good things, we have to iterate.
> until more is known about long term effects

I'm curious about this line of reasoning. We've been testing mRNA treatments for other diseases for about 25 years now. The approach was abandoned for gene therapy because the effects weren't long lasting. We have follow up data on people who participated in those studies, and to my knowledge there aren't any documented negative long term effects. We know what the vaccine encodes, a spike protein, which is produced for a few weeks and the the mRNA wears out and is cleaned up by the cells. The proteins also don't persist in the body for very long. The other ingredients in the vaccine aren't anything special.

History also demonstrated that negative vaccine reactions typically happen quickly, and not years down the line.

With all of that in mind, why would one be concerned with long term effects? Is there something I'm missing? Is the position one of maximalist caution? If so, are you applying that to other areas of your life?
» Wasting meat is also disrespectful.

This I can completely agree with. Wasting food is completely disrespectful in so many ways and is mostly avoidable.

Yet, just last year we saw supply chain breakdowns that caused farmers to dump so many potatoes and so much milk among everything else while people were in queues for free food.
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>how long you keep a car is your decision

You do repair work in the desert don't you? I mostly agree with your sentiment. However in the rust belt we spray corrosive agents all over our cars and within 5 years loosening half of the fasteners takes 10 times what you are probably familiar with.
There is a Black Mirror about this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
I agree almost 100% with this. The only thing I'd add is that as you head towards double digit ages, you really do have to pay attention to things like corrosion, fatigue and general accumulated wear and tear in anything that moves. Even if the vehicle has been well looked after, there can be serious safety implications from sudden metalwork failures and the like, including in parts that you wouldn't necessarily check and periodically replace as part of a routine maintenance schedule. It definitely pays to know a good local mechanic if you want to run an older vehicle.
Because the user makes poor choices, that’s the point - don’t do the clever thing, do the straightforward thing. Lambdas are discouraged in Python, and that’s not just something Guido van Rossum thinks (who, by the way, is not BDFL - there is none anymore and there hasn’t been for a long time now.)
We bring you over 1000 years of Black history in the German-speaking lands
We can talk about how things should and shouldn't be as long as we want, but that will not change human behavior.

When you're disabled you must come to terms with this reality and accept it quickly. You cannot waste time with theory. Theory will lead to your death. You must be practical and efficient to survive.
Most of the listed accounts for me have no activity in recent months, and the ones that do engage on different topics (they are quite technical; I am not).
We have a 1999 Honda CRV with 66K miles on it (we bought it in 2007 with 48K miles on it). Insurance and maintenance cost us on average about $200/month. For the amount of driving we do, it just plain wouldn’t be worth spending more for a new car. We’re figuring when this car finally becomes too expensive to maintain, our next car will be no car, and we’ll just use rental/Zipcar/etc.
I left a place that was full of death-marches. Those old habits really can stick with you. It took me months at my new job where I kept asking myself, "why do I still feel stressed? No one is behind me telling me I have to deliver" Because I was so used to that constant stress, I had begun to place those expectations on myself! What's worse, I was frustrated that no one else was on Slack on Saturday at 11am to look at my PRs... I've come down off of that lately. And it's such a relief.
I'm not discounting it. I just care more about point-source pollution than carbon footprints abstracted across a global supply chain.

The footprints can be reduced at scale over time, whereas these cars will be continuously producing more pollution as they age.
Ye I'm with you. I personally would like to see all jobs offered as as a fractional % (with some lower limit e.g. 3 days for 60%) - this is quite common in Switzerland for example.

A 4 day week is a much easier "sell" in the short term though
Wireless keys are a feature from the 90s.
Equity is a rough approximation of royalties. It doesn't exactly capture the value of your particular code, but it's pretty hard to figure out exactly what portion of the companies income is due to your code specifically, assuming you aren't the only one working on a product.
> At this point, the odds of getting COVID are small.

That's because the herd around you has been vaccinated. So you are OK with others getting vaccinated for your benefit but wouldn't do your part to benefit the herd. Awesome!

Maybe your post is parody. Can't really tell.
While I was consistently surprised how many cars were still on the road over the past 18 months, I'm sure I drove less than a thousand miles. So basically didn't move the needle in terms of replacing my ten year old car.
The biggest issue with with cars made in the last 25 years is the amount of plastic used in both the engine and interior.

As plastics age and go through heat/cool cycles the get brittle and easily fail. It’s infuriating to have to dismantle half the engine just to replace a $5 coolant elbow because GM decided to use a plastic one instead of metal.
Yesterday. A man with a truck at the top of a mountain pass, waiting in a camping chair with a jug of water for his tow.
Also "Russians abroad had a reputation for shorting out whole city blocks by plugging these babies into 110-volt sockets".
Since I assume this is a basic resistive heating element, with resistance determined by the wire gauge and length, wouldn't it draw quarter power in a 110v socket compared to a 220v one?
I don't get how it could cause overcurrent in the generally thicker US wiring.
I have this feeling too, not so much about the pilots testimony, as about the way the videos came to light.

If I put my conspiracy theorist hat, this "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science" smells to me to a "Intelligence Community" front.
Whenever I take a random weekday off I realize how quick I can run errands on that day. Going to Costco on a weekday? Much shorter lines. Going to USPS? No lines at all. Getting an oil change done? Barely any wait. I wish more companies adapted this 4-day workweek.
Ah ok, I read it as more absolutist than that. You don't think for example that children should be taken into care because they have only 1 parent?
The definition of what is Lindy or not seems arbitrary:

Yoga, which has been practiced for millenia, was not considered Lindy, but nightclubs are somehow deep Lindy.

Author talks about no breakfast because a few ancient cultures in the West did not eat it, but ignored other cultures in the world that have historically favored eating breakfast. Maybe it's true in some European cultures that breakfast was uncommon, but it is not a global preference.

Towards the end of the article, the author mentions that vaccines are lindy. Mr. Skallas probably took the mRNA vaccine, which is definitely not lindy.

Overall a lot of it sounds like post-hoc rationalizing of personal preferences.
What is really problematic is that from a management perspective they're doing really great: company is growing and extremely valueable, stock price is doing great, revenue and profits are doing great, and bezos is the richest person in the world.

Management has zero incentive to change any of problems you signal, and probably don't see them as an issue. Probably the opposite, they see this as a winning system, and who can blaim them. AWS practices are often used as examples of best practices: you build it, you run it, 2 pizza teams, api first, etc. Survivorship bias and all, the probably regard the other characterestics of the current system as best practices as well.
This is a bit of an ignorant statement.

I have an older 2005 Honda Element and the double-DIN OEM CD player no longer works. Both rotary encoders for volume and tuning malfunction, and it will eject any CD placed inside it.

So, I have been looking at these on Amazon as a replacement:

https://www.amazon.com/Double-Stereo-CarPlay-ABSOSO-Receiver...

I will probably pay more for a better quality version, but it literally is a double-DIN touchscreen with Carplay support and a backup camera for $118.

There is no shortage of various head-units with backup cameras for cars that did not come factory equipped, and quite affordble.
The arguments for and against pain in crustaceans is covered quite well in this 2018 article from The Guardian that focuses on lobsters:

Is it wrong to boil lobsters alive? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/11/is-it-wrong-to...

Some key points from The Guardian article:

- Boiling alive lobsters is illegal in New Zealand and Switzerland

- Robert Elwood, a professor at Queen's University Belfast, is a leading researcher in this field. He believes lobsters should be killed before boiling.

- Accepted wisdom about crustacean behaviour to painful stimuli is that it is a reflex, not a reaction to pain.

- No experiment can answer questions about pain in crustaceans definitively, but Elwood's research makes him see "as much evidence for pain in crustaceans as there is in many vertebrates".

- The argument against crustacean pain is that their brain structure is so different to ours. We know where pain occurs in the human brain, but those equivalent brain regions do not exist in crustaceans.

- Robert Steneck, professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, has been studying lobsters since 1983: "I'm not convinced they feel pain...The problem has more to do with how we anthropomorphise various critters"

- Maisie Tomlinson, a campaigner for a charity called Crustacean Compassion, says "It’s estimated that an edible crab that is boiled alive may take up to three minutes to lose consciousness. That’s something that would be unconscionable in a vertebrate animal, where they talk about milliseconds to lose consciousness [in a slaughterhouse]"

- Is there a best way to kill a lobster? For a restaurant, professor Robert Elwood says "I would have [a device] that gave them electrical stunning, which completely destroys the central nervous system in a microsecond".
I am pro vaccine, but youtube moderators are not subject matter experts, they are unskilled volunteers with very simple guidelines such as (made up rule by me, I don't fully know): "remove any video discouraging people from getting vaccinated". Therefore youtube removing a specific video doesn't say anything about the quality of its content, just that some random guy thought it violated the guidelines he was given. For example, for a long while youtube banned every video talking about covid no matter the stance.
Why is this flagged as dupe and dropped from the front page? The story has developed since that Reddit thread, story in the WSJ yesterday, more data about companies, etc

Glad we got that out of the feed so we can get… books about Lisp, Amazon is a bad place to work, and everyone wants a four day workweek. Definitely haven’t discussed those before…
> which is why so many people are pushing for a post ownership society / CAAS (car as a service) model instead of owning a car

This is great for dense city dwellers that don't use their car much, but horrific for suburbanites, rural Americans, and people that drive more than 15k miles per year.

Reduction in ownership is happening everywhere. Devices, media, now cars and homes. It's not a good trend for many consumers. We'll all wind up as serfs.
You have no idea what the issue even was!
Maybe in India but I don't recall leetcode being involved at all in my process.
That's the issue though, isn't it? If everyone got 3 days off a week instead of just you, those benefits disappear.
It depends what car you get. I have a 2014 Toyota Prius and it’s hit over 150,000k miles without more than basic maintenance. Not one part has broken. Fluids aside, it’s only needed one pair of brakes, two sets of tires, and five sets of wiper blades replaced in its lifetime.

This is a pretty common experience of Prius owners. There’s also a huge modding community for them, so it’s easy to find information about any part of them. There are even tutorials on how to replace bad cells in the battery pack. (Just don’t drop a wrench and cause a short.)
>The first is already there in the form of a strong etag

Unfortunately, there's no standard as to how that's computed, so it wouldn't be useful in an rsync style setup unless you controlled both ends.
tin foil hat on: that post is going to get removed.
The closest model I could find to this is a SaaS usage model (think AWS) or an all-you-can-eat subscription model (think Adobe Creative Cloud). I dislike these models myself as a customer. At least in a usage model, you get payment when your software is used.

Thank you for eloquently stating this. I've thought a lot about this as well.
Yes, also the mentioned example's speedup (from TFA) was likely at least partially from the accessibility of Julia, making some ancillary optimization easier or almost accidental. You don't need to beat Fortran "at fortran'ing" (the innermost column oriented processing) to be overall faster. I am imagining without evidence.
How does that work in places with minimum wage? It sounds illegal.
Some people prefer stability over software availability. Arch leaves much to be desired given it's lack of tooling that's been available for years for other distributions. It's an hobbyist project all along.
This works when the company is hot, but eventually it's not. When the last time you saw HP, or IBM positively on a resume?

Big companies breed big company problems that can leave engineers poorly equipped for the rapid delivery world of startups/scaleups.
The ability to refuel a 6000lb. truck in 5 minutes and then drive 400+ miles towing a trailer full of livestock when the outside temperature is below freezing? This is not some edge-case thing but a requirement for a lot of people in the USA.
I guess this would be good for you considering your objectives:"An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp". It is available for free here [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/eintr.pdf
I have four vehicles ages 22, 18, 14, 11 and one motorcycle at 43 years old. I personally do all maintenance on all my vehicles. I've never bought into the vehicle love affair like much of the marketing portrays automobiles today, I look at them more like you would look at at tool, like a screwdriver or hammer.
They don't come to that conclusion. They think the chance that extraterrestrial life could both travel to earth and be rubbish at hiding is very, very low
Housing isn't infinitely replicate-able like music is. That's why music is basically free now, and that's the fundamental obstacle I think.

My off-the-wall hair-brained solution would be to infill a ton of the ocean. Since the Earth is 75% ocean, we could double the available landmass and still have 50% of the ocean! That would be plenty of land for everyone!
I’m sure Apple has/will do similar. Isn’t the point of the cert not so much to vet the recipient but to create cost (including nonmonetary) to attain the cert and then have the ability to rapidly revoke the cert and nullify the malware installed base?

Even if Microsoft makes some pretense of vetting, no one can ever perfectly weed out malware authors in advance, as that would require knowledge of their future thoughts and motivations (hard enough to assess those in the present).

(If Microsoft has failed to revoke certs for known rootkits, by all means bash them hard for that.)