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> Which is still ridiculous. Even McDonald's don't have the same menu everywhere.

Except they mostly have. That's one of their huge selling points: wherever you go in the world, whatever weird cuisine they have going on there, if you can find a McDonald's, you can feel comfort in knowing you have a fallback - a place where you can find good food you already know.
Elaborate? Out of the loop
I think programming is equivalent to literacy. So treating it like piano or math school is fine by me.

BTW now that she is beyond the initial wall, after about 3-4 months 30 minutes per day, she is enjoying making games and coming up with her own ideas. It is amazing how much you can do with just lists :)
I got a QR code like this on the wall with the SSID and the password written on the paper as well as a NFC tag with the wifi credentials between the paper and the wall.

I think nobody ever has scanned the QR code.
Imagine a company paying people what they are worth rather than what they can get away with.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News and generally breaking the site guidelines? We ban accounts that do those things, because they destroy what the site is supposed to be for.

I realize HN (including downvotes) can be frustrating sometimes but the solution is not to double down with dramatically worse posts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm here for the top comment.
Good point, and it is/does for many products. EVs beyond Tesla all do this for instance.

I do wish there was a little more of treating your users like adults though. If I have enough battery to make an urgent call, but it puts me under the 20% recommended, I want to make that call at the cost of long term battery life.

My products treat users like adults, I wish it was a more common consideration.
This is the clashing of two different life paths ideologies' e.g. the union/public service employee. Of course people will have opinions on this, because they will be somewhat resentful of those on the other side.

The elephant in the room is that say you have $2MM in the bank and are living off that interest, or are a retired union/public service worker and then you look at how long it took at how long it took to achieve your financial success.

If you save 1/2 of salary in VTI (say 100k-150k range) coming out of a bachelors degree and work for 10-15 years at one of the large tech companies you will have 1.5-2MM USD, which is easily enough to retire on. And you'll be like 32-37years old and still be able to climb Mt. Everest, hike the PCT or AT and probably still have your health.

However if you are a teacher starting out in California, that would be a 44-50k year range https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/sa/cefavgsalaries.asp which yes is really low. Then you work for 40 years and hopefully are able to make enough pension contributions to be able to retire at age 62 and have a decent pension of that 5-6k/mo. By this time lots of people are starting to have health issues and will not be able to go on the adventures that a 32-37y/o would be able to. Also you kinda have to work an extra 30 years.

TL;DR: Incentive structure for being a teacher is not really there, also benefits are not really there. Maybe Scandinavian countries have a better compensation and work life balance?

Incentive to work in tech industry or similar high-paying jobs is there, as financial independence is readily obtainable within 10-15 years.
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Just guessing:

Podswap has stock of both new "blank" bud cases and batteries.

Crack open buds using some kind of jig. Scoop out the electronics. Solder to new battery. Cram it all back together.

That's how I'd do it.

Bonus points for choice of colors. I'd love clear or forest green or deep purple.

Watching a few air pod tear down videos, I find it weird the battery itself isn't part of the case. Like just use white instead of black. Have the barrel twist lock into place. Makes the battery replaceable. And that extra millimeter of diameter would probably be 50% more mAh.

I know replaceable batteries is un-Apple. But that's what I'd do.
Why do so few men read books by women?
Olive tree of Vouves
Your argument in the other link is that they’re not the only
thing thats required to get in. I totally agree.

Plainly stating that they do not provide scaffolding is nonsensical. Newbies have to learn the boundaries of the field IOT target their prep. Certs basically excel at this (and IMO otherwise useless aside from HR speedbumps).

Otherwise, you see a very common situation like this (verbatim example): someone wants to do cloudSec. They decide a good prep area for that is hosting a DVWA in the cloud and pentesting it is good cloudSec home lab work. Very rarely, short of a cert in AWS for instance to start off with, is it easy to ID that cloudSec prep is actually configuring IAM and hardening some servers, and there are a ton of jobs here and the future of SOC work.

Certs provide scaffolding. If you don’t think this, you’re giving your mentees pretty bad advice and should try to open up your view point here.

I’ve helped lead fairly large 0->Sec Job 1 volunteer/non-profit groups, and have seen X000’s of success stories and failures. Failures always share three things, successes always share the inverse

- don’t understand people-networking matters

- don’t understand certs won’t get a job, and they’ll only help re: credentials to get past basic HR boundaries. The field of Sec+/CySa is crowded as hell.

- do projects that veer very basic red team and overall fairly outside the territory of what they’ll actually be hired for. If they’d have taken a cert, a job description, and a cloud or SIEM localhost home lab, they could instead do very simple, almost out-of-the-box projects they’d work on immediately once hired.
Apologies for the undesired outcome. Have a good day
Note taken: never assume anything to be obvious to others.
The page might start a service worker and exfiltrate the data when connectivity returns even after the tab is closed.
Floaters are particles floating around in your eye's vitreous fluid. I have them, but I only see them in rare circumstances when sunlight is shining into my eyes at exactly the right angle.

There is also a disfunction of your cornea, "Fuchs' corneal dystrophy", which can cause glare, halos and streaks, especially at night. I just found this by googling.

Wikipedia defines visual snow as a neurological condition, and I don't wish to conflate that with floaters or corneal problems.

I can experience afterimages if I look at a strong coloured light for a while, then immediately look at a white piece of paper. I'll see an after image in the complementary colour, because the image is temporarily "burned in" to my photoreceptors. I understand that this is a universal experience.

What I'm looking for is different names for each of these distinct visual experiences, if they have different underlying mechanisms.
> can't use the service if they have any external/cosmetic damage

My guess is that you're not getting your own airpods back, but someone else's. Quick turnaround that way and I think people want that for a product like this.

Positioning in Miami isn't ideal for turnaround, somewhere more central or a courier hub (Memphis or Louisville) would make more sense.

As repair-turnaround time is no longer an issue, and Airpods are small, they can fedex them to a low-cost country for repair. Miami has tons of connections to S. America, so maybe somewhere there.

Just a Fedex SmallBox holds a couple hundred airpods (they're 0.75inches if they were a rectangle, and smallbox is 200sqin), so they can really take low-cost to an extreme. If China, well, the batteries were going to be shipped from there anyway and that's most of the bulk anyway, but cylinders do pack better.

Here's a video of the whole process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE9aB5aPbMM

Many of these steps are scalable - could pre-tin battery leads, find a better solvent than alcohol to soften adhesive, custom heat protection cap rather than kitchen foil, dip metal cap in ultrasonic solvent bath, etc.

Maybe they have some domestic gigworkers in case they get really busy, but otherwise, save that dollar.
How about Big Telecom and Big Fintech and Banking? Or is it simply because the rest did not pay enough to the lobbyists?
You can't just blame this on "the Discourse" or Apple haters. I have owned countless devices with batteries over my life. None has made me as acutely aware of its battery degrading as Airpods. Eventually I couldn't even make it through a full workout or work call on a single charge. They basically became worthless through nothing but normal usage. There was no visible physical damage. I treated them exactly how I was supposed to treat them according to Apple and still only got 2-3 years out of them. That is frustrating. It also is unlike many other Apple products as lots of people are perfectly satisfied with their 5+ year old Macbooks and iPhones.
Haha, sure. But you don't need to install writefreely, you can publish anonymously to write.as, the "canonical" writefreely instance.
> With draconian penalties assessed per user infraction.

You mean like chopping off a limb/finger for every violation?

Unfortunately, that won't work for a certain lizardman CEO who is purported to be able to regrow limbs.
That's anonymous - there's no way for the Biden's to ever know the buyer. Of course, the buyer can just show them a picture of the painting in their house or whatever but that would be unethical.
> If anyone came to the office five minutes late, he cut their pay to a half day’s salary.

Isn't that illegal for exempt employees?
I have had asthma my entire life, and it definitely flares up with airborne irritants.

There has been awesome citizen science work going on helping people understand the direct link between anything that emits smoke and asthma attacks: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1315

They even found that parents waiting to pick up kids at schools with their ICE engines running increased PM2.5 inside the entire building by orders of magnitude.

This data helped the kids teach their parents to stop their engines when waiting outside the school in order to help their asthmatic classmates.

The transition to EV is going to have a positive impact on people’s health and make city life better.
So you're suggesting that commercial users use less electricity in during peak illuminance than residential? I don't buy that. If you want to place the solar where the electricity is being consumed between 10am - 2pm you're going to put it on a commercial rooftop.
A closer analogy is continuing to believe that motion is caused by invisible angels pushing on objects, after you understand physics.

You could argue that the laws of physics are the tools that the angels use to do their pushing, but you'd then be entering the realm of absurdity. Angels are unnecessary to understand motion.

Same goes for evil. After you understand the basics of human psychology, and you accept the largely deterministic nature of everything, insisting that evil is the driver for certain acts is as absurd as a belief in physics angels.

Evil is not an emergent abstraction. It's a fiction and a religiously-tied social tool used to demonize opposing tribes, justifying destroying them, as well as to control a group's behavior/identity (it's evil to worship false idols, etc.).
is being programmer in a start-up

different from

being programmer in a small company?
That’s actually among the few I haven’t gotten to yet so I couldn’t comment on it.
I think there is truth being told here, but that what it reveals is sad. People like this, their lives and identities are work and business.

With no people in the office, who even are they?
I certainly noticed this - over the last year I've gone from using reliever inhalers several times a week to not needing them for months.

I did also start a new medication, Montelukast, around the time of the first lockdown, so it could conceivably be due to that in my case - but not having a chest infection at all for the last 18 months whereas I used to get one a year or so has been lovely.
Retarget LinkedIn audience with Facebook ads
> hospital price transparency,

Wasn't this already put in place by the previous administration?
The native photo app supports QR codes on my Google Pixel phone.

Once it sees a QR code then it shows some text that you can touch to open the link.
They aren’t independent. Also you said ‘healthcare’. If healthcare produces health span, then it is still being consumed.
If you rent, you can't put an anchor screw in the drywall. Who rents vs. who owns is political!
Even in 2019, 2/3 of Americans supported breaking up big tech companies: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/18/20870938/b...

The political support is definitely there. But if you’re talking about rich Silicon Valley donors, yeah they might have a problem with it.
You can’t just claim that they’ve shifted responsibility without arguing your point. It’s clear you have an axe to grind, but at the same time, where do we draw the line of individual responsibility?

It’s not like we haven’t known for decades we were killing the planet…and yet here we all are. Why does the average Joe get off the hook here?
> Moore's law happens when the output of the system can be used to improve the system that produced the original output.

Actually I’ve never understood how this was true for microchips. Anyone know? I understood it as the industry just Moore’s law for planning iterations?
i noticed it absolutely helps. i get flooded with recruiter messages. it's a bit like on dating apps - the first appearance matters.
This is kind of apples and oranges though. The MPAA is more of a lobbying organization, it isn't an agreement between firms about how they will compete (or not compete) in the marketplace
You too can take out a loan against some collateral and have the same tax treatment.
I guess why not?
The Game Boy is much more similar to the Sega Master System & Game Gear than to the NES. Some games (e.g. Lemmings 2, Pinball Dreams, Spirou) were developed for both handhelds (or even for all 3 platforms) using a single assembly-language codebase.
The audacity of French nationalists; I love France but I really cannot stand that!

They speak of "the village", but it's in fact many major cities in the country (Marselha, Tolosa, Perpinyà, Strossburi, Brest, Naoned) that were not French-speaking less than a couple of centuries ago. For some people, anything out of Paris is a tiny country village without importance.
> I suspect statistically, the HN for X is HN.

I don't find that to be true for certain topics:

* unions and unionization (apparently 9 out of 10 HN uncles agree unions are bad news for a mountain of uncles' evidence)

* current state of research in the social sciences (you have to wade through inescapable trolls who wish to throw out entire fields of research because they once read an eviscerating blog by an angry grad student regarding p-hacking)

* geopolitical significance of Wikileaks since its inception (did you know humans can lie by omission? You did? Anyway, let HN concern troll you about it in the form of copy-pasta bots once roughly every full moon.)

* cost benefit analyses of Electron (HN almost seems to have made a sport out of overestimating the cost of memory and hard disk space in the year 2021)

* veracity of traditional news media (like playing duck-duck-goose except the goose is some poster quoting the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect" cocktail story in an attempt to do an end run around reading any of the books written by experts on that topic)

* how to absolutely position HTML text over the exact same position as SVG text. (That was my own Stackoverflow holy grail quest, but I'd be willing to bet no one will reply on this thread with the right answer.)

I'd love to know what other topics people find here that are typically filled with garbage.
And how do you feel about sharing the collected data of your conversations and travel with government agencies?
> how do so many incompetent CTOs get into the ground floor of startups?

You start a company, hire your buddy, and call yourself a CEO and CTO.
> > Which is still ridiculous. Even McDonald's don't have the same menu everywhere.

> Except they mostly have.

Which means they don't

So my point still stands.

You know, the point.

The one I made to demonstrate that even McDonald's don't have the same menu everywhere. Despite one of their huge selling points: wherever you go in the world, whatever weird cuisine they have going on there, if you can find a McDonald's, you can feel comfort in knowing you have a fallback - a place where you can find good food you already know.
You are not entitled to entertainment. If there is literally anything as petulant and first-world narcissistic it is the belief that one is entitled to entertainment.
It's a game of "Spot the Fox News viewer". If you're a fan, you believe the largest ethical quandary facing the nation in the last quarter-century is that a person related to the President of the United States is selling a painting in an anonymous auction.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-ethics-chief-hunter-b...
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> It might work out eventually, but hard to see the payoff for the massive investment to date.

I guess for many it was hard to see the payoff of "beep, beep" on October 4th, 1957. I likely wouldn't see its importance - by myself, but I've got good explanations. Now I see.

Virgin Galactic flight is lower than what Blue Origin promises to do in several days. Both of those systems are examples of pretty good engineering, and both promise even better performance in the future. I think VG's approach is overall better on the grounds of more inherent safety. And the safer the flights are, the easier it's to make them accessible to everybody - thus the path to the democratization.

The big investments are done today and last decades - remember SpaceShipOne? - but today we see another milestone reached, and even though it's $250K for 4 minutes (?) of weightlessness, it's way more than unavailability of the past. But we won't stop here, of course.
I think for tech, the forks/knifes are out from both parties, for different reasons. As for the other industries, I am much more skeptical anything significant will be done.

This administration as pushed lots of 'agendas' just for political show even though it new it had 0 chance for them to pass and wasting everybody's time.

Time will tell if this is just another political show, or they will actually accomplish anything.
DeBeers is going to be trying to block the space program when they read this! :)
I was thinking more along the lines of heavy fines.

I'm not a big supporter of violence against pharma, tech, and Ag CEOs. I'm not a big supporter of violence against anyone where massive fines will serve the same purpose. In fact, the fines would work better.
> Of course, international rights also need international enforcement, since a right without enforcement is just a nice thought. Perhaps we'll also have a world order to enforce these rights.

Universal human rights have exploded to be adopted by much of the world, without an international government.

Rights are not just nice thoughts. Even oppressive governments don't have the resources to control everything everyone does (of course). Just adopting the outlook, just believing you are free will make you free to a great extent.
It was, but apparently we’re not there yet in terms of compliance: https://www.axios.com/hospitals-price-transparency-costs-reg...
> the idea of living off the interest on your wealth is pretty insane and unattainable to any remotely normal person.

I'm not sure why you say that when this is now the dominant form of pension/retirement planning in countries like the US and the UK. People generally buy annuities with their pot, or keep it invested and go in to 'drawdown', living off the returns.

The couple with $6000/mo pension are probably guaranteed that income for life. It may even be inflation adjusted annually.

Someone aged around 60 who wants a inflation adjusted lifetime annuity here in the UK is going to start on around 2%/yr these days[0]. This isn't unreasonable given a 3% inflation expectation, 30 years of life expectancy, and 30 year UK gov gilts yielding just 1.2%[1]. So $6000/mo on equivalent terms could require a $3.6M pot

You can invest your lump sum more aggressively of course, but if you're not disciplined enough to keep withdrawals below a safe rate (widely believed to be 3-4% for a stock portfolio), and suffer a bad run of variance, you'll risk running out of money and dying in poverty.

[0] https://www.hl.co.uk/retirement/annuities/best-buy-rates

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Bond/TMBMKGB-30Y?count...
Right, he's the customer, but he violates the customer-supplier social contract by pirating.
> TBH I don't really understand why Blue Origin is so slow. Too much micromanagement? Bezos is famous for being an obnoxious micromanager, but maybe that works in retail and does not work in research.

One theory is that it is less micromanagement than bad strategy. SpaceX bootstrapped themselves using an incremental approach. BO tried to copy that by going from New Shepard to New Glenn, but a crewed suborbital vehicle was a poor stepping stone. Being crewed, it has to work near perfectly before it can be used in revenue operation. A cargo vehicle can be used when less perfected, since you can risk loss of cargo. But there isn’t much market for suborbital cargo. Also suborbital isn’t that great as a stepping stone to orbital, you can only learn so much. They would have done much better starting with expendable orbital cargo, just like SpaceX did, and then push for reusability and crew later.

Another theory is that Bezos’ choice of CEO, Bob Smith, brought a lot of slow OldSpace culture into BO. Bezos tried to poach Gwynne Shotwell from SpaceX but she refused. (It isn’t that anyone who comes from OldSpace has that culture - Shotwell started out in OldSpace too; I think the argument more is some OldSpace people say “this slowness sucks” and others are fine with it, and maybe Shotwell was the former but Smith is the later.)
I have nothing against private space exploration, I just don't see how this applies to this kind of space tourism.

They are not breaking any frontier or discovering anything, just using a huge amount of resources and energy to put very wealthy people in zero-g flights for x minutes.

I don't see how we can justify that given how unsustainable that industry is.
Automotive engineer that doesn’t work on EVs here… there is a lot that goes into the battery. Heating and cooling elements for instance. You’re right, max runtime is the number one factor, but this can be gamed just like MPG ratings.

I’m not sure many reviews are checking 0-60 times at 20% battery for example.

My EV has a hilarious “miles remaining” number that INSTANTLY changes when the HVAC is on, doesn’t matter if it’s only slightly on or not, I instantly “lose” 8 or 9%. It’s pretty loose. As to what I actually get? Doesn’t really matter, never even compared to rating, mfgs know we use these cars for city travel.

The small percentage of EVs you see on long haul highway, owners already know to carefully plan their trips.
People who think smoking pot is harmless are wrong on so many levels. Why do we need another bad thing to be legal?