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All your comment really shows is how little you know about how many people it takes to run a large business, and that you don't really understand what Peleton do.

Peleton design and manufacture their own equipment, they ship it globally, they have their own buyers and supply chains for that, They also build the tech that runs their business, from the customer portal to the video integration in the products. They make programs that include CGI and motion graphics. They do sales, and support, for nearly 6 million customers. On top of that there's payroll, and admin, and HR, and ... it's a very long list, that requires a lot of people.

We're bad at estimating large numbers so our first impression is usually wrong. It's important to factor that into any reaction to a number that sounds way too high. It's always worth taking a step back and thinking about why it might actually be correct.
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I can see their point. If you already paid in advance, you aren’t really paying again when it subtracts the value from your account.
I don't find it odd. Its actually kind of frustrating using tools that make your job harder. Everything else being equal, I would choose a job where I coded in Kotlin over Java since I get frustrated easily with Java.
Don't you think that it can be used as a basis to establish ownership of all those assets that are online though? Eg, I could see the basis for an automated billing for NFT + smart contracts for assets I have used online.

I'm not sure where you are with property ownership - perhaps this is a reference to Proudhon, or perhaps a reference to the legal fiction that we use to navigate this system? Whatever the case, given time, the legal system would likely end up supporting NFT ownership + usage fees I think.
Great contemporary poems, perhaps, but not contemporary great poems.

If we look at the current issue[0] of The Threepenny Review, the pathology is quite obvious. The three "poems" in the list all share certain features:

- A variable amount of syllables per line (e.g. no metre)

- No rhymes

- No other discernible differences from prose

At that point, why even bother calling it a poem? You might as well save yourself the time by opening up the day's newspaper in a text editor, clicking randomly, and pressing enter. When you feel there's enough line breaks, you're ready to publish.

[0]: https://www.threepennyreview.com/current.html
I was diagnosed at 25, about a year ago. I relate to the comment about ADHD being an advantage. I've often thought my brain is well suited to the information age. My home reflects this, I keep a lot of things in plain sight that stimulate my curiosity.

We live in times of unprecedented peace and prosperity, and rather than seeing my wiring as a liability, I see it is a competitive advantage. I may not have all the same strengths, but the ones I have can be very well leveraged.
I usually lift weights after my 9-5
The greatness of Picasso's formal skills can be seen in one genre: his prints for the Vollard Suite. His lines are quick and delicate and invoke a whole body and its suppleness. The economy of line is astonishing.
We've seen plenty of author acknowledged research grade models and datasets get used in production, this is part of how black people get labeled as "monkey" every once in a while
I was sure it was satire until I started reading GP's past comments. Definitely a very post-ironic moment.
I vaguely recall that the risks are closer than you'd expect when going by hours of flight, rather than distance. I'm not finding the numbers right now though.

In https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risky.html I did find some older numbers. For commercial carries, it was 1.9 deaths per vehicle mile instead of 1.3.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risk-01.html (99 through 03)

However, private planes are more risky and don't seem to be included in those numbers.
There was a whole other Newspaper/TV polling fraud scandal since that one, this time relating to Fellner's 'Österreich' / 'OE24', as well as several other scandals (search for "Pflegemilliarde", "Hure der Reichen", etc). There was so much that even a few months later it's easy to forget half of it.

Unfortunately the ÖVP knew of all the warrants on their offices ahead of time, so devices were wiped and documents shredded. Most of the recent scandals came from the files from a single Apple Time Capsule that someone forgot to get rid of. As fascinating as that is, I'm sure there's a bunch of additional corruption and fraud that we will never know about.
I heard it was a thumbdrive.
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> I don't understand why the result would had no value.

I exaggerated that one, it has value, but to a lesser degree, imo. The value of the painting is in the skill of producing the copy, not really in having the creativity or insight that the original photographer had when taking the photo. The subject is already in 2d, perspective already frozen, and if you're replicating it perfectly you're not adding anything substantial, you're just changing the medium.

Can a copy be considered art? Sure it can, like I said previously anything can be art if framed in an artistic context. I wasn't trying to be sarcastic.

> You seems to insist on one definition of art, which is super strict and exclusive.

I don't think I've tried to define or limit what can/cannot be art in any of my comments. I'm just talking about my personal criteria for differentiating between different levels of artistic quality.

My top comment in this thread merely stated that using someone else's photographs to photocopy into a painting without applying your own insight is a less-creative form of art than if you are framing and taking a picture yourself and you use that as an intermediary medium before copying it to the canvas.

Me building a wooden chair by looking at a picture on ikea's site is a form of craftsmanship.
Can it be called art? Sure it can, I might even take a picture and post it on reddit.
Is it great art? By my criteria, no. I would say that a chair built by Gaudi has more artistic value than my chair, and please note I'm not saying that my chair isn't a piece of art, just a lesser one.

If someone finds my preserved wooden chair in 1000 years it's historical value would be great but I wouldn't be so sure about it's artistic value, unless it's the only remaining representation of a chair left from the 21st century in any kind of medium.
> Zoom is most definitely here to stay. I am confident that remote work culture will continue to be a part of normal working culture going forward.

I'm with you on the second statement. I don't see the first immutably flowing from it.

Zoom is dominant, but switching costs are small and their competitors are well capitalized and eagerly assaulting its fortress. Add to that their geopolitical vulnerability and their long-term dominance is far from assured.
I have to go out of my way to get cash. It’s not that I avoid carrying it, it’s that I never use it for anything so I don’t have it on hand. I never pay for anything with cash except tips, and the smallest bills I can get from an ATM are $20, which (except in the case of movers) is already more than a typical delivery tip.
No software company wants to sell hardware outside of Apple. They only do so when forced to support their services. Software scales with a marginal cost of $0 and is much less messy.

Before smart phones and generic hardware was a thing, I worked at a company that wrote software for field services (“sending people places to do things”) we had to resell and maintain custom ruggedized windows mobile devices, mobile satellite receivers (cell phone data wasn’t reliable), etc. We were glad to transition to generic smart phones. At later jobs, when I worked in the same space, we used generic Samsung Android tablets.

Microsoft doesn’t even really care if you buy an XBox, it’s a loss leader. They would be more than happy if you bought their subscription gaming service and ran it on someone else’s hardware.
I applied to Peloton and was about to work there as a backend engineer for one of its departments that works with businesses and their HR departments. I'm very glad that I got away from all this. At the end of the day, this is a company that sells a piece of hardware with some pretty simple software on top. I was always baffled by the number of loyal consumers Peloton has, and found it delusional how the company kept labeling itself as a FAANG company.
I'm not surprised.

That is something I became aware when practicing competitive programming as a teen: anyone would have an opinion on how nice/pretty the outcome was, but only the few thousands people actually involved in the competition would have an actual clue about what mattered, what was important and what was actually hard to achieve. It's hard not to notice the same pattern in any activity one is deeply involved with, be it sports or arts.

It is to be expected, after all, that specialization implies some form of impediment to communication.
It's a tough sell for me. I pay $40 a month for the whole family at the local rec center with multiple pools, water slides for the kids, an indoor running track and every piece of workout equipment you could want.
It's a lot cheaper than a monthly gym membership, but way more than say, Apple Fitness and others offer.

Having not used their software or hardware, I'd assume that for people purchasing a really expensive bike, $40/mo isn't bad. Still...it feels steep.
> conspicuous consumption of digital goods

Yes, and I think this is a big part of how big the flashpoint is. We're about to hit a big economic squeeze, especially for energy costs, and people for whom everyday consumption of food, housing and energy is becoming less affordable are going to be really unimpressed with the new virtual yacht class.

Smaller cosmetics seem to have become OK, in the way that people will generally not begrudge each other wearing branded sports gear that's surprisingly expensive. Multi-thousand-dollar ugly profile pics though are entirely out of reach.
Exactly. And people get to choose whether they buy them or not. So you know if people are spending their hard earned money, they want them.

There are definitely times when governments need to force the people to work collectively and spend tax dollars together, but there are many times when they don't. For instance, I don't drive a car very much and when I do, I'm happy with dirt roads. I would much rather we didn't spend billions on roads and maintenance. Other people will have a different list of seemingly wasted spending.

The great thing about the private sector is you're letting people choose. That's not just a selfish act either because it unlocks their power to guide society. The consumers in a free society are a hive mind. The proles in a centrally-controlled society are just blobs that sit there.
Wellbutrin can help too.
Think of all the e waste and logistics saved by avoiding third party payment hardware that would’ve previously been needed to support accepting contactless payments.
Well, "Hover around hunting for the NFC antenna" is less catchy than "Tap to Pay".

I always assumed the term tap to pay caught on since the early EFTPOS terminals had the NFC antenna in a separate portion of the terminal, or under a non-touchscreen panel, so the tap of a credit card wasn't detrimental to the user experience, and now we're stuck with the term.
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I use this regularly, with good results.

Here’s an example comparison of flight footage from a RunCam 5 Orange on a 5” freestyle quadcopter: https://youtu.be/1ZORzfJ1sog
This seems pretty nice for small retailers.

Apple pay is not a big improvement on normal tap to pay, although it still feels cool 5 years later to pay for stuff using my watch. The gamechanger exceptions are:

- Transit. I can use my watch/apple pay for transit in many cities. From experience, I have only used it in 2 cities. Slow and annoying in Vancouver, but much less annoying than the alternatives. In Japan, instant and more convenient than using my suica card or suica function of my phone. Back in 2016 I bought an Apple watch within hours of learning that it supported suica. The only slight inconvenience is that I prefer to wear my watch on my left hand, and the card reader at gates is always on the right.

- Online commerce. Only twice have I had the good fortune of finding something I wanted to buy online available using apple pay. But wow, was it a good experience. No login[1], no entering my address or details. Just approve apple pay by fingerprint or faceid, confirm my address, and wait for the goods to arrive.

[1] I have a common name, and an email address several dozen people think they own. Making a new account on any site/service is a nightmare. If I can even make an account, Logging in 1 year later is usually impossible because someone has tried to reset "their" password 50 times. Fixing an account on any service that profits from its users (eg venmo) is usually impossible. They won't cancel an account misusing my email so long as the transactions go through.
Oh great, split an infinitive and your conversation partner begins a 35 minute monologue

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I almost feel bad making such a trivial point in response to such a nontrivial article, but they're not solving the ancient problem of doing it with a compass and a straightedge (which was proven impossible in the late 1800s), they're solving another problem that shares the similarity that there's a square and a circle.
The average of 15 and 30 is not 22. The average of 51 and 03 is not 22.
Keep track of your average goal-progress growth rate over time, and the timescale of the discounting factor of future rewards - longer timescales w/ really unpredictable progress is the riskiest combo, but that doesn't mean that's totally disqualifying.

Hopefully early progress leads to somewhat multiplicative growth of future progress - compound gains on early achievements.

Additionally, you're in a good situation if you can be at 80% peak effort and 20% peak effort at will - balance it about 50/50 imo. Lean on help - ask professors for mercy, order takeout when you're exhausted, etc. - to nudge your life towards that ratio, when possible.

Otherwise, if you're operating at max burn almost all the time, no matter how hard you work and how much it pays off, it won't be your dream - it'll be your yoke.
I agree with it feeling unbalanced. I don't register that statement as being complete. Putting the parenthesis on its own line is the same as putting a closing curly brace on its own line in languages that use those.

int foo() {
return 1; }

(This example actually breaks up vertically in my mind. As if it's just the number 1 being bracketed)

Maybe it could be broken up differently though to avoid the lone paren.

assert (outputs.get("foo.bar.baz", "default") ==
pytest.approx(time_recorder.time_taken, abs=0.0001))
The majority of those aviation rules and regulations are written in blood. While unfortunate, it's not surprising to me that automated vehicles may follow the same path. Regulators are rarely forward thinking.
I mean, Fitbit had 2000 people when we sold to Google.

The Peloton stores are the wildcard factor that likely gives them a much larger number.
Low friction web rtc based tools like streamyard and jitsi meet will probably become more popular than “native” apps like zoom and teams which tend to get slower and just generally worse as they are updated especially with large corporates driving the feature bloat.
Cool concept, would you turn it into a marketplace ?
tl;dr version - Naive "tow all the trucks away" ideas are ~useless in the real world, because towing just one heavy truck out of a tight spot, when the driver is friendly, is very difficult and laborious. At scale, against hostile truck drivers, when the tow truck drivers are (as a social group) quite close to them? Hahahaha. There would be plenty of easy solutions, if the Canadian government was comfortable with Evil Dictator tactics - but for some reason(s) it is not...
How about people who say “I've done professional work in 17 languages but none is much like Blub. Blub looks interesting and I'd like to give it a try.”

That seems like a less dubious motive.
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Sure would be nice if Apple and Google got together to accept each other's systems. Or even better: If there was a standard that let any device send money with any other device (using compatible hardware).

Imagine if there was a regulation that required interoperability. Or if the banks were forced to allow (authenticated) payments between systems without transaction fees.

We're 20 years overdue for this.
At an exit interview with my favorite employer so far, the HR person asked "What would you change about $company?" and I asked for walls. Walls are especially great for ADHD people compared to open-plan offices in which one must debug nginx internals while listening to sales-related conversations, but the literature suggests that the benefits of walls accrue to everyone.
Hell, none of these people seem to have even played VRChat, which is a brilliant crash course on how to use a public space to harm as many people as possible, as quickly as possible
But something solved for 20 or more years in IDEs for mainstream languages.
They're fixing that: https://beta.reactjs.org/
Tribalism is an inescapable component of humanity, at least for the near term.

Look: if different tribes can’t agree on the fundamental rules for peaceful co-existence, nothing else really matters. Whatever else different tribes and/or their members might agree upon are irrelevant: we have lost the fundamental peaceful mechanism for conflict resolution.

We are back at barbarism/warlords/autocracy.

January 6th’s “legitimate political discourse” is literally one tribe’s full fledged abandonment of the mechanisms we have used to ensure peace and prosperity for generations. That way lies a special hell for us all. No other interpersonal agreements/disagreements are relevant without peaceful mechanisms to manage disagreements.

You have a beautiful idealism about the irrelevance of bodily characteristics that is unfortunately deeply divorced from the reality of the world. Would be nice to live in a platonic ideal, but as it stands, while race is a fiction, racism is extremely real.
Nothing, but Java's "char" type is always going to be 16-bit.
Great explanation. The only part that tripped me up was in determining the number of octets to represent the codepoint. From the post:

>From the previous diagram the value 0x1F602 falls in the range for a 4 octets header (between 0x10000 and 0x10FFFF)

Using the diagram in the post would be a crutch to rely on. It seems easier to remember the maximum number of "data" bits that each octet layout can support (7, 11, 16, 21). Then by knowing that 0x1F602 maps to 11111011000000010, which is 17 bits, you know it must fit into the 4-octet layout, which can hold 21 bits.
That's the real reason why the heavy towing companies don't want to do it.

This all started with an epic failure by the OPS and the city of Ottawa for allowing vehicles right up the hill in the first place.

They don't have problems shutting down all car traffic for Canada Day, or other events like La Machine. Hell, I've seen specific barriers meant to trap and disable cars in the Byward market.

If you want to determine intention, you're better off looking at action over words. The action taken thus far by the OPS says a hell of a lot.
Historically, the semiconductor business has been highly cyclical. High prices make firms overbuild capacity. Then overcapacity crashes chip prices. There is a good chance we are at the top of a cycle with this chip shortage thing. When you are at the top there is only one direction you can go...
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Most likely due to the peanut butter content.

Other foods with ("a lot of") selenium: salmon, pork chops, and chicken breast
Yet the audience brags about absurd complexity in the name of scalability, availability, metrics, etc. generation after generation.
Sumit, and others..
Essentially give people the benefit of doubt.
Gym memberships range from 10$ to hundreds, but the big thing is the class price. If you want to do classes on bikes/dancing/yoga/whatever, they are usually an absolute minimum of 10$/each, which is what makes the Peloton monthly attractive for people I think
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Isn't that what the AppStore review process is for?

Or why not provide an extra approval process for the NFC API?

On the other hand they were not so concerned with bad actors when releasing AirTags.

Feels more that it's about control than safety and like that kind of decision that got them into all the antitrust probes in the first place.
It was actually deliberate to present our project through the political lens, today.

You will find a more streamlined presentation of Garage on our landing page at https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

Technical details are also documented (although it is insufficient and needs an overhaul): https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/design/

Thank you for your comments!
I wonder how large must a font be to display all UTF8 characters...

I'm also waiting for new emojis, they recently added more and more that can be used as icons, which is simpler than integrating PNG or SVG icons.
When I visited Australia in 2015, I was really impressed with the ubiquity and speed of TAP to pay. We aren't quite their in the USA yet, but I do 90% of my payments outside using my Apple watch (with a bit of a lag that I didn't see in Aus). At least we aren't stuck using QR codes.
anything less than $40/month is probably just access to weight lifting equipment

if you want classes led by an instructor, you're probably paying more than that -- e.g., the YMCA in my city starts at $50/month/person
Carrying cash comes with inherent risks.
That's a nice username I guess.
Not all iOS devices have NFC. This is an iPhone-only feature