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> I didn't see the need to frame it by attacking Apple.

Other posters have already pointed out that this article seeks to clarify the history around Steve Jobs' (not entirely accurate) claims.

I want to focus on the fact that people find a need to protect Apple.

Apple is a 2T+ market cap corporation. It is not a friend, it is not a family member, and it is certainly not beyond reproach. It doesn't care about you -- it just wants you to spend more money on its products and services.

Don't feel bad for Apple when people call it out for bad behavior or historical inaccuracies. People should do this.

While there are people that work at Apple that legitimately care about making good products, in the macro the predominant factor is still money. It drives the whole enterprise. The very shape of Apple's solutions and good will are fit by an optimization function to obtain money.

Brand, supply chain, innovation, fierce competition, fostering loyalty, building a moat. These are the things Apple does. It's a machine that makes money selling products.

You might like Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, or many of the other product people and engineers there. That's fine. But don't form a fond bond with the company. And also realize the motivations of the leadership. They're humans -- they can do good, but they can also make mistakes and tell lies to serve their own needs.

If Apple makes products you like and enjoy, buy them, appreciate them, and leave it at that. Don't let Apple create a sense of nostalgia, closeness, or loyalty. This is artificial. The company doesn't care about you at all. It can't.
I'm feeling somewhat guilty right now and all I've done is chucked out a few resumes and booked in a few interviews

Fact is though I wouldn't be looking if the company was as loyal to me as vice versa I guess. I actually really like the job and the people but I need to at least keep up with inflation to avoid feeling like a clown haha
He needed to convey that he wasn't violating the agreement and that he considered any violation of said agreement to be egregious.
I never heard that Apple invented switching power supplies... how common is that train of thought? I've been using them since way before this article was written
If you try to use lossy compression on a dithered image it will increase the file size. Using dithering and saving in a compressed lossless format will have drastically different results.
Changing my iPhone to airplane mode for a few seconds always seems to work for me
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Currently an undergrad who interned in accounting and transaction banking. I’ll be joining an investment bank in their corporate banking team next year. Hours seem to be chill and pay isn’t bad, but I recently did more research on tech industry and it seems more interesting than finance. I was wondering anyone has the exp to transition from finance to product manager role? If so, what’s needed to best prepare myself? Thanks.
The only hard constraint on the creation of money is that you have a ledger big enough to keep track of it.
That point is incorrect; discussed elsewhere.
You could use the digits of pi as an end-of-file marker, which would indeed make it transcendent. ;-)
>No one is irreplaceable, and no one is an island.

I've watched a business fall apart slowly after the only developer on the legacy project left. Nobody knows the old framework, nobody wants to waste time learning something that won't advance their career, and finding an existing person familiar with it is search for a needle in a haystack.

A developer can find a new position in a matter of weeks. A business takes months to fill a position, then months more to ramp up as the new hire has to learn the unfamiliar code base. In a market with lots of competition, it can be catastrophic, but management has the mindset that we're all cogs until it's too late.
so what you're saying is that you support YouTube's censorship?

Do you have any principles when it comes to freedom of information? Just curious how far authoritarian you are.
Exactly, I always bring this up with the rust community, zero cost abstractions feels more like a sales pitch
So you agree that there should be restrictions on speech that negatively impacts public health then. You just disagree on where the line should be drawn.
Yes, looks like they're having a large outage
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Almost! The author is actually a self-described "anarcho-capitalist". He also dresses like Tweedledee for some reason.
I have been really annoyed by a recent change in React dev tools. Have you seen this? They hijack browser's console.log method, and report all logged messages as coming from react-dev-tools. Very useful for console.log debugging!

Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69071151/why-is-console-...
In theory free labor for big tech companies will reduce their costs and some of that reduction will then be passed onto their customers.

So the labor is still beneficial more broadly.
We don't have countless studies on how effective the vaccines over a longer period of time, and especially for those with two doses. Most seems to been done around 3 months, through most conclusions is based on simulations from observation data gathered by other vaccines such as smallpox, measles, mumps, and rubella. The observed half-life of neutralizing titers was 65 days for mRNA vaccines.

The evidence will be found in the future when we have more data. Most expectation is that while the protection will be significant lower but that there might be some longer term benefits. Highly vaccinated populations that has taken the vaccine in the last 3-4 months are going to be currently more protected than those that aren't, but that doesn't say much if we need a new vaccination this winter, next summer or the year after that.

It would be interesting to see a study done on those early groups of people that received the last dose of vaccine in 2020 during the summer and see how much protection that they still have now this fall in 2021. Got any links to such studies?
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This could also be a question of culture. Somehow Americans just spend more on silliest things, it seems.

Anything can be sold in America.
> In the US the GOP is technically for vaccinations and sane mandates

Some GOP members support these things. Many do not, as you mention the governors and reps.
This is not the same thing as goalpost shifting. This is just the result of changes to best-effort predictions based on information in an evolving situation. These changes often directly contradict each other as new evidence shows them to be false. A goalpost shift is usually by someone who ignores evidence that disproves their theory, and moves on to something else as a tactic for distraction and/or self-delusion. They change the subject but never address the item that they were proved wrong about.
Leaving a company is a six-week process where you give your notice four weeks in, after all your loose ends are already cleaned up. Part of that first section is finding out from both your manager and HR how they expect/want to get notice. There’s no way to do that without foreshadowing a bit, which also makes things easier when the time comes.
It is part of the reasoning. Another part is that Europe generally has better unemployment benefits and health care not tied to employment. This drives people to take worse jobs in the U.S.

In addition you have to ensure you look at comparable statistics on who is counted as unemployed. This is toften tied to receiving unemployment benefits or being able to work etc. so different statistics might count based on different criteria.
As a tenured professor, I've sat on many promotion and tenure meetings. Your comment reminded me of one that's lingered in my memory, of a faculty member undergoing review.

This person had as high an h index as any of the other persons at their level, but was committed to publishing in open access journals. I saw it as a reasonable or good thing to be doing, and believed their h index was proof it didn't really matter, but it started a debate as some of the senior faculty believed the journals weren't prestigious enough. They basically believed this faculty had been mismentored, and to prevent this from happening again, it was decided there should be a list of "approved" journals to be developed and circulated among the department.

It's one of the most absurd things I've seen, all the more absurd because this faculty was clearly getting cited and doing fine (citation indices have their own problems, but what does the outlet matter if the articles are impactful? Especially if these are well-known open access journals?).
I think that says more about JavaScript than NaN.

Also JavaScript:

"10"+1 => "101"

"10"-1 => 9
Yeah I was definitely right to quit, my career has been pretty great since then.

But I did get a lot out of the few years I worked there, even though a lot of it sucked. It was my first proper job and they’d basically let me work on anything I wanted to, even though I was incredibly green and was just figuring it all out as I went. I definitely fit a lot more experience and learning into those years than you’d reasonably expect a person to. I think a lot of my success today came from turning their incompetence into opportunities.
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Do you have a source for this? Because this seems very counter-intuitive.
You have evidence that fat person hate has decreased globally beyond reddit?
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Is this interesting? It's true for undefined, null, empty string, 0, maybe empty arrays sometimes, ...
New York healthcare workers fired over mandate won't get unemployment insurance
So, author, you claim to see the breakup coming. Yet, at the moment the employee gives their notice:

> find levers to negotiate

The time during which you "see it coming", when I the employee am asking more … pointed questions, usually about the company, how its run, the team's responsibilities or work or pay etc. … that, that is when you have the levers to negotiate. That is when you are still the BATNA.

But by the time I'm giving you notice, those levers are gone.¹

I also am pretty sure the last manager I gave notice to did not see it coming. He had a very quizzical look when I asked for the 1-on-1 mentioned in the article. He too, tried to fight what was by then destiny.

¹just in case someone tries to argue "everyone has a price": yeah, I'd agree. But I've not had anyone offer it, and by that time, it's far too high because of what you'd be asking. (Me to renege on a deal, me to stick with something I'm dissatisfied with, and it'd be a "pay replacing happiness" sort of an offer, which is why it'd be costly. You've had the chance to change the "happiness" part, and usually, the demonstration has been "we're unwilling to address those grievances")

(Also, too often, I think, the "problems" run deeper than the authority of the direct manager has control over. My last manager was in that situation: there was very little I think he could actually do. And that, in itself, is a problem.)
Cause:

'What's behind the price rise? Climate change-related weather events have affected key coffee-producing regions and global supply chain issues are hurting importers.

Drought and severe frost are estimated to have destroyed about 20 per cent of Brazil's coffee plants.'
It's crazy to me as someone who believes in mutually consensual relationships in all things (including business and trade) that doing something last week is implicit requirement that one does the same thing next week, and that withdrawing consent to additional future trade is seen as a "severe action".

"A job" is really a fictional abstraction. Every day one works is additional services-for-money. Either party should rightfully be able to say "no thanks, that's enough, tomorrow is a new day" at any time.
There's nothing to be open minded here. A person got fired because they violated an illegal policy, that was illegal the moment Google and Apple started their collusion, not when they were sued for it.
Data point: I'm an iphone user of average intelligence and attention span (you'll have to take my word for it), and I'm sure I saw this dialog. But if you'd asked me five minutes ago whether my iphone was findable when it was powered off, I'd have said "of course not, that's what being powered off means". So, either it's my fault for not having an eidetic memory about system dialogs I saw 11 months ago, or it's not a great design.
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>> That's a major change of perspective, from optimizing an existing workflow to optimizing the entire operation.

Automating a workflow is the best optimization from the users point of view.
> I almost feel like people are siding with the anti-vaxxers out of "principle".

This is called "spite". Turns out that the aphorism about one cutting of their nose to spite their face is incredibly apt.
You dodged the question of what you actually would believe.

You were linked a government study, then said "science is not done in the media"
I think these mass distributed stories work against the movement.

I’m looking at these stories, wondering why they’re running a story about a guy in NC when local Nebraskans are dying. Why aren’t they covering the local story?

Why is it cross posted across local news outlets.

Just lazy journalism or a concerted message. Feels gross either way. And not pursuasive. At all.
So I want to share a story about user asking for a feature then not using it.

I run an email forwarding services(https://hanami.run) basically you add your domains in and add some records.

We had this one heavy users who has like hundreds of domains. So our UI isn't design for that. Who has hundreds of domains? So they approach and asked us for a way to organize those domains into a hierarchy structure.

All good.

They are paid our highest tier ($30 per month) so we prioritize the requests and work on it.

2 days later that same user downgrade to the lowest plan and delete all of their hundred of domains...

That complicated features remain unused to nowadays...
excellent, thanks for this context.
Same! A refreshing take on the startup world from the outside.
IMO no, it's never a good idea.

Once you announce your intention to leave, you've broken trust with your employer and manager. Why assign the good projects to someone with one foot out the door? If they decide not to leave, was it because they want to be here, or because nobody wanted them? Are they going to leave in a few months anyways?

It's like when your significant other says they want to break up with you - "no, please I can change!" is never the right next step. You can end up together, but spend at least 3 months apart first.
> you are implying that emergency use approval protocols are just as safe as normal protocols

No, I’m saying that EUA protocols exist with defined standards for a reason, and putting things that mert the standards through them is not moving goalposts, since its exactly where the goalposts have been set for quite some time.

> why don't we follow emergency use protocols all the time?

We do, if people apply for an EUA. Of course, very often they don't because the standards that exist for EUAs would rule them out.
Not only do we pay extortive costs, by doing so we help subsidize healthcare in other countries:

"Americans also pay some of the highest prices in the world for this treatment. Our high costs offset steep discounts drugmakers give to poorer countries where rabies infections are more common, says Willoughby, the rabies expert at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin."
I’ve found most private English firms have no difficulty letting people go if they need to.

It seems a different story for public orgs like schools and government positions. But private companies have a lot more freedom than some in here have been suggesting.

It’s likely a different story elsewhere in Europe though. There’s a lot of countries with their own laws in Europe
I've had something similar happen to me, and quickly learned not to assume that your customer POC will effectively relay information to the end users in their organization. They were pinging us constantly about a new feature because it was on their list of things to ask about. Once we told them it was done, they crossed it off their list and we never heard about it again until months later discovered by a chance interaction that none of the product users in the organization even knew we had added the feature.
> Seen people with hearing lower than 20Hz band

This is called subsonic hearing, and it is not any blessing. Those who can hear frequencies lower than most often experience pain. It's the low frequencies coming from diesel school busses that are most painful to me, when no one else nearby can even hear the bus at all until it gets close enough. What the GGP is talking about is supersonic hearing, which often also includes that extra detail of pain.
Reminds me of Charles Hoskinson (Cardano) who ranted about some competitor trying to pouch his employees. Somewhere in this interview with Lex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKh8hjJNhWc
I meant specifically the party leadership (since US political parties don't have formal representation) - If you look at McConnell and even Trump (when not hyperbolizing) you'll see they very consistently message that everyone should be vaccinated. One of the things I sort of appreciate about Trump is the fact that, even while getting booed at most of his events over it, he's continued to mention that he was vaccinated and it's perfectly safe. (This isn't meant to devolve into things we think about Trump - I just wanted to call out that single point).
Do these countries all count unemployment the same way? There are a lot of games that can be played with unemployment classification.
There is such a thing as "key man insurance" or person. It pays out if a person leaves or dies or what have you. It depends on management recognizing a person's importance so they can purchase the policy before someone leaves.
This statement feels too strong. An algorithm completed Beethoven's tenth symphony, and it did a passable job, maybe better than what a graduate student could achieve. That's exciting for tool-assisted composition, even if it tells us nothing about Beethoven's historical vision for the symphony.
> With Bitcoin, for example, users have the right to not just money and the right to a known money supply, but the right to dissent from the majority of users by rejecting unwanted features.

This is the crux of the argument, yet it doesn't let me tell if the author is actually a Bitcoin maximalist or a Bitcoin Cash maximalist, leading me to believe that maximalism is a contradictory belief.
Slipping in here with a question that will probably seem obnoxious, but isn't intended so.

If cloth masks are effective (I'm not arguing either way) and those who wear them felt endangered by those who don't, could they simply double their mask? Particulates passing in or out, in either direction, would be subject to the same amount of material as if both were wearing a single mask.

guy with mask + guy with mask = two masks

guy with 2 masks + guy with 0 masks = two masks.

I'm not suggesting that anyone should have to bear the responsibility of another, but the effect should be the same for the wearer if non airborne contaminated surfaces are of low risk. Unless it's a matter of directionality.

Could it be tested to observe a controlled situation where group A) exhales only through cotton while inhaling without, while a seperated group B) does the opposite, exhaling without and inhaling with?

Is this absurd to consider? I'm not feeling well and might actually be absurd right now.
I actually did not downvote you anywhere in this thread.

> I have useRef and useEffect all over my codebases, I have never used useCallback though

useEffect has the caveat that it won't update with useRef. On the initial mount you will probably be fine (because useEffect triggers after first render). But if your component is unmounted (or remounted), then useEffect will not trigger leading to bugs. Which can be quite severe, such as memory leaks. [1]

But my point isn't about useRef. My point is there are lots of these types of footguns with hooks in general. And when you hit one of these, you bang your head on the wall until you find someone had the same issue and wrote it up on their blog or stackoverflow.

[1] https://medium.com/welldone-software/usecallback-might-be-wh...
I'm not sure if I follow. How does "not trying to hire each others employees" lead to wage cartel? Wouldn't they instead have to agree to fix their wages for that to happen?
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As a British Columbian who spent over a decade living in Australia, I learned there that name-and-shame is indeed very effective at changing behaviour!
The primary reason I used Loom (free account, saved the files directly) was to get my face on the recording as well. I would guess that's why people will like Dropbox Capture too.
Health workers get panic buttons as Covid deniers get violent
And nothing came out of the lawsuit. 9/10, would do it again.
They can see the Union Jack design from close range whenever they're near their car, it doesn't need to be lit up.
You should be able to turn off the screen without putting it in sleep mode, but it should still display the microphone light.
Requesting features is like packing for a trip with a bottomless suitcase.
You might wear those shoes, read that book, or use that racquet, or you might
not -- costs you nothing to pack it, though.
I don't like Apple generally. And it wasn't "their" technology - but thank fuck they brought "better than 1080p" screens to the mainstream.

Throughout the 90's screen resolutions were getting better and better. Then LCDs came and 1080p stopped mainstream screen resolution improvements for at least 5 years.

Thankfully Apple got the screen resolution race going again.
> Apple is the only company I am aware of that manufacturers power supplies which are reliably completely free of perceptible inductor whine...I often have to replace non-Apple USB(-C) switching power supplies

it's a well-studied economic fact that monopolists generally sell higher quality products, and it helps them maintain their monopoly. With their market power and the fat margins they earn, there is plenty of budget to do R&D and have achieve scale benefits. Their optimum-profit product-mix and pricepoints are skewed higher. Nobody complained about IBM mainframe quality, nor Bell Telephone quality.

So, it's not testimony to Apple's prowess, it's simply a cookbook outgrowth of their product differentiation strategy.
In my country, the police came to my house when I dropped my wallet.

I strongly believe "Find My iPhone" has made iPhones significantly less valuable on the resale market and will have reduced thefts
> Ideally on Serverless infrastructure the system would "move" jobs around so they run on the optimal platform for what they are doing continuously? (Based on price or based on raw compute etc)

AWS Lambda supports about half a dozen runtimes, some based on interpreted languages, and some based on compiled languages. Thus you can't simply move golang or rust code between completely different architectures and expect things to work.

Also, one of AWS Lambda's usecases is having your runtime call precompiled binaries. I'd be pissed if my Lambda's ceased to work because AWS decided to run my trusty python-calling-C++ lib Lambdas in ARM just because they want to push people towards graviton.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is almost exactly what Mountain_Skies is describing.

If I remember correctly, Peter Watts has a somewhat more realistic take on this in his Rifters trilogy (under the Novels section here: https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm), where there's a brain in a box that sifts through loads of information and gives advice to political leaders. The trilogy as a whole is more... deep-sea cyberpunk than particularly centered on the brain in a box, though.