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> EU is a densely populated place where having multiple charging networks of incomparable plugs will be horrible.

In the short term, yes. In the long term however competition between these different standards will cause consolidation and overall technology improvement. The next step will be regulating wireless charging so that all devices have to use/do the same thing, rinse-wash-repeat.

> Europeans don't trust that the industry will always come up with the best solutions for the user, Americans usually don't trust the government doing something well unless it's the military. Let's agree to disagree.

A better way to think about this is that both "groups" can learn from one another. For example you could say that Europeans should be suspicious about USB-C manufacturers and advocates effectively being granted a monopoly in the name of convenience. Americans should better trust that certainly in the case of infrastructure it makes sense to have a single standard "plug" for electric vehicles because we really need as many people driving them as possible in the most convenient way.
If what you claim was true, apps would at least be consistent with each other. This couldn't be further from reality.

What I see in Dark Sky or Weather app is very different from what I see e.g. in Windy. Where I am now Dark Sky is almost completely wrong (neither real-time conditions nor predictions), while Windy manages to at least show accurate radar data and lets me make a short-term forecast myself.
There are places without lightning? How does that work, isn't it just caused by quick warm:cold transitions and don't these happen everywhere?
Staff could buy meals there was a staff menu separate from the main menu. An incident where someone (just one single person) complained kitchen staff didn't have to pay for meals erupted in a decade long snit. The kitchen wouldn't make mashed potatoes for staff. I think even until this day 17 years later.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

When my son was playing youth sports, many of his peers started doing speed/coordination training with a coach in 6th/7th grade. This was usually 1-2x/week and applicable to most sports. Focus was more on first-step speed, running form, and full body movements (jumps, "suicide" sprints/shuttle runs, etc). I thought it was pretty crazy at the time, still do, but at least it was generic.

These days, neighbors have kids in with pitching coaches at age 8, playing travel league baseball 3+ nights/week, plus 2-3 games/weekend. 9 months of the year. That is REALLY crazy to me. How about some swim team, or soccer, or anything else?

Back when I was in high school (mid-90s), the best athletes were all multi-sport athletes. Football/basketball/track-field was a common combo. No idea if that's true today, but I suspect there's a lot more single-sport athletes at the prep level, which is kinda sad.
I'm starting to get more militant about zoom calls. Trying to avoid angering people explicitly, but still pushing back as best I can to protect to the team from incessant zoom calls to have conversations that would be faster on slack, and better documented in email. Zoom calls just invite conversation that has to repeated again because 80% of everyone on the call forgot some amount of detail.
Pretend he said "phone unlock code" instead of email password. It's 2022. Everything is digital. Auth is essential.
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Instead of "enforcement" I would appreciate good "standards". This allows for improvement and reasonable exceptions. I would provide a "customer traffic light" informing about specific features.

More specifically I would shift from implementation (How?) to actual requirements (What?). The implementation is a decision of the manufacturer. Examples:

* User-replaceable batteries # By Screw? Coin? Flip/Notch on outside? Behind Backcover? Whatever.
* Hardware-maintenance-manuals # Explosion Diagrams? Text? Step-by-Step? Whatever.
* Locally user replaceable firm- and software! # By Thumbdrive? SD-Card? USB-Cable? Whatever.

Historic example. Do we want enforce a specific engine type {turbojet, turbofan, turboprop) on planes or a specific noise level? The later! Similar for the EU-Cookie-Directive. They should have stated that tracking of users is forbidden (What) and not how to handle Cookies (How).
It happened to me once. It was a cheap no-name hub so I don't really blame type c for it. I also haven't heard it happen to anyone else and most of my friends and family have an android.
Professor = Jordan Peterson

Entrepreneur = Gary Vaynerchuk

Honestly not a good look.

Otherwise cool demo!
it's literally in the first page

in so far as they are
capable of being recharged via wired charging, shall:

so you can have all the funny cables you want, as long as you provide the USB-C plug

If there is no wired charging, there is no problem of funny cables.

but companies are free to experiment all the kinds of wired charging they want, it's just more convenient to have a standard and they'll comply happily I guess, now that they are forced by the law and can stop competing on stupid stuff like charging cables.
You don’t need to have your second device to get past 2FA in a disaster scenario. You can phone up Apple Support and as long as you know the code you use to unlock your old phone (which is a reasonable ask), you can regain access to your iCloud account, and hence to your iCloud Keychain/devices.

Apple don’t know your unlock passcode, so they can’t do it for you, but this is designed to cover the “my house burnt down with all my devices inside” type of scenario, or your own “I no longer have access to a device”.
It will be 6 months before hardware bypass devices show up on alibaba.
Is there a software implementation that would work without a TPM module where I can generate the keys myself?
Refusing will either get you the job plus some respect for having some boundaries, or will result in them immediately dropping you from consideration because they have deemed this additional testing to be essential to the process.

Side note, if this company can’t pick someone after after interviewing candidates 4x, it seems to me they don’t really understand what they want / fungible requirements are endemic to their culture. That may or may not be a desirable feature in this potential employer.
Bavaria, having family around to help is a big big plus.

For money do remote consulting. You can take on a couple of contracts at a time and will be making as much as faang employees in cash (more work, but in a few years you’ll be almost ready to retire)
> not something you want to base your business around

If you think of dealerships as dealers, i.e. market makers, it's precisely their business.
ActiveX has had no impact whatsoever. How has it harmed the web platform?

XHR, just like MSE, which the person who started this thread is asking for, expands the usability of the web in a vendor-neutral way. MSE, better than XHR, went through a standards process to ensure web publishers wanted it and browser vendors agreed on the API. There is no reason for Apple to drag its feet on implementing MSE on iPhones, aside from protecting Apple's profits. It is ridiculous to see people defending Apple about this.
I did try all of that, was basically told no, use the official solution, and meanwhile deploy hundreds of applications manually on Linux servers, using shell commands.

And for the official solution, I kid you not, they had me fill in a huge Excel spreadsheet, print it, have my manager sign it, then attach the PDF scan to another Excel I was supposed to email.

And that was for a review by the architects team. One step out of tens of super similar steps (including the print and scan part).

I presented my project as a small, "skunkworks project", to try to get approval on the side of the main solution, to have some automation so I wouldn't go crazy.

If they were better organized and frankly less political, I would have tried to help them more. But at every step the impression was that they didn't want me there, I was a troublemaker...
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I enrolled two different keys.

It's a pain in the butt, and it's very limiting because adding another secure service means going to the bank, so I try to limit the 2fa through yubikeys to things like my password manager, my keycloak instance, and other very important accounts.

My take is that 2fa is still not there yet, and I'm a little worried about the push for webauthn, since I foresee a lot of potentially lost accounts.
For people looking for privacy: Briar is where it's at. A bit clunky UI (e.g. inviting someone isn't easy) but otherwise really well built client, and top notch network protocol and cryptographic features.

[1] https://briarproject.org/
I can just plug a usb-c dock and use my android phone with a keyboard and mouse if I wanted to. I could plug two android phones together with usb-c and transfer files from one to another.

Apple's phones are quite locked down, and I think a big reason why is that proprietary lightning connector. When you have a usb port for charging, there is no excuse for not implementing the full standard software-side.
Shunning, excommunication, exile have been around as long as we know of. But the SJWs will sometimes go far over the top, and they've earned their ridicule.
Apple who also has a recent history of being, since many years, the only company not selling phone and tablets with standard microUSB/USB-C port...

I hope this regulation will finally kill their lightning port.
They aren't basing it off of Scandinavia at all, it's the Netherlands, and they don't have a sovereign wealth fund at all. As far as I'm aware, that's only Norway, and I don't think Norway is really looked to as a model for city design or bike infrastructure, that tends to be Denmark.

And for those cities, no bike lanes won't solve all of their problems, but I think you're ignoring how the post-war car-focused development ended up contributing or reinforcing issues these cities face.

To look at other countries and ignore the benefits of their city design is fucking stupid. Ignoring happiness, we can see better health, lower emissions (and the Netherlands, for all their hype, do have higher emissions than their neighbours), fewer dangers for everyone using the roads, better mobility for poor people: why are any of these things not desirable?
Meeting as many people as possible really isn't important. Get someone in and get them to work. Best test ever invented.
It's never occurred to me that there are places that don't get lightning storms. I'm guessing that also means you've never had the joy of getting your garden or car paint ruined by hail?
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If you as a consumer prefer USB-C, buy a phone using USB-C. Why have the government involved?
You may even end up being one of the people spending much of their time interviewing the same candidates over and over and over
I have a recovery code for my iCloud written down on a piece of paper, in an envelope marked for my wife in case of emergency, in my office at work. There is nothing written on that piece of paper but the code.

It's not perfect security, but it's my security blanket in case my house burns down with my phone in it and I need to rebuild my whole house of cards.
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This why you see the giant inflated gorilla in front of the dealership, because many, many people impulse buy a car.
Sure, the Tesla connector is smaller, and a little sleeker. But from a functionality perspective, the plug types are basically identical. Both allow AC standard charging and DC fast charging. Electric cables aren't that complicated.
>That is luck not skill.

It's both. Even if an accident is the other driver's fault, there are plenty of cases where driving more defensively would have let you avoid it.

But yes, there's luck too. If you're sitting in traffic at a red light and someone drives into you, not a lot you could do to prevent it.
Daycare centers where I live are already stretched thin with staffing. It is already becoming less accessible because they simply can’t hire enough workers, anyone who wants to work full time can easily do that. Minimum per kid staffing rules mean that the staffing problem can’t be solved by increasing productivity.

The only way they could employ more staff is by drastically increasing pay, but then daycare becomes even less accessible than it already is. It’s a huge mess that is probably unrelated to this proposal, but an excuse to go to 4 day a week schedules (because parents can fill in for 3) would probably be taken quickly.
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I came to suggest the same; windy.app is fantastic.
Small correction:

> Emacs is not bifurcated, but a lapse of judgment 40 years ago could’ve made it so

Emacs uses a gap buffer because TECO used a gap buffer (before it became Emacs, it was just gene ciccarelli’s TECO init file) and that decision goes back 60 years
I am a SWE in CA with 5 kids and no family support. We make it work…it’s hard but we have each other. Europe seems very different than US/CA for SWE so there’s likely a trade off there as well. One suggestion is to maybe focus on building up the initial wealth for a few more years while the kids are younger and then reassess. If you’re diligent you could get both. Family support/babysitting is helpful ideally until the oldest is middle school age where they then can start watching the younger ones. We also homeschool and I believe it’s illegal in Germany so that limits some education options.
Somewhere west of the Mississippi. I had also read "western Kansas" was the point at which they drop off considerably.
How did you get that? It sorta echoes with their choice as Peterson for the professor voice?

EDIT: they have responded it was text people tried. sorry for the link with Peterson in that case.
Digestive ability deteriorates under stress and usually snowballs into dietary sensitivities. The worst culprit for me was gluten.
The research for pregnancy is also not great in general so it really leaves a wide scope of attack. For example, there are arguments that alcohol in moderation is not bad for the fetus. For alcohol to be bad you have to exceed the mothers ability to process it. One night of heavy drinking can cause severe harm, but one glass of wine a day may be able to be processed without issue(I am not a doctor, do not use this comment as a justification to drink while pregnant ;-)
Quite the contrary. My aim is at those opinions that tell _me_ what to do, essentially not respecting my own opinion. I am more than happy for people to return to the office if that's _their_ wish but I am not returning to an office to be someone’s substitute for a normal life. To each his own, basically. As i said, there are valid reasons but not at my own freedom’s expense.
> Legislators deciding who gets to be VHS and who has to be Betamax is bad, actually.

They didn't make the decision. It's more like legislators observing that Betamax is failing and deciding that it's in everyone's best interests to tell Sony that they have to adopt VHS instead of creating confusion in the marketplace.

> Tesla's connector is nicer

Tesla's system only goes up to 400 volts. CCS goes up to 800 volts. The higher voltage supports faster charging.

(This is similar to Betamax's critical flaw. The smaller, more elegant Betamax tape compared to the clunky VHS tape meant that VHS could record 6 hours on a tape when Betamax was limited to about 3.5 hours on a tape. It also meant that feature length films were often recorded at slower tape speeds, thus meaning that prerecorded VHS tapes were often a better quality than the Betamax version.)
These are usually an attempt to:

1) Reduce the current account deficit (roughly defined as exports revenue minus import costs)

2) Incentivize multinationals to open local factories

3) Incentivize consumers to purchase from local brands instead of foreign competitors

4) Conserve foreign currency reserves for essential operations such as purchasing fuel, materials, or managing the currency value on foreign exchange markets
"Round" can mean different things. A phone screen can be a round but if during an on-site you speak to 4 people for 20 minutes each that counts as 4 rounds.

If we say half an hour for screening and 2h for onsite, that's 2.5h total for interviewing - seems very reasonable to me (still 5 rounds but it doesn't sound as scary).

Of course, I'm coming up with a generous interpretation of things. Some companies do take multiple cycles of interviewing and waiting for feedback after each one which is very tedious. My point is that you need to look a bit deeper than the number of rounds to get an idea of how smooth the interview process is.
During my whole career there was only one workplace in which I would store stuff critical for my personal life.
Related library in Rust: https://docs.rs/typed-html/latest/typed_html/
Your first point begs the question that people learn those topics from school. They are taught them, but the question is if they learned them. Seems as likely that what little people do know if those topics was mostly learned by popular culture's use of them.

Such that, I don't think you would get disagreement from the people that you are writing towards.
Just like this post about making a software bypass to a security check, there are hardware guys making bypasses to security checks.

Now you create a situation where hardware bypassed cameras have immense value to bad actors.
Hey, thanks for the comment. The "sample" must've been pulled from the "random" feature. It basically shows texts other people have tried. This feature might have been a bad idea. I'm sorry if it offended you in any way. Not sure if I have ability to moderate the content. Do you think it's best if remove the "random" feature altogether?
Yes, because regulators are the best people to design technical products.
The 4 day workweek. This is life just laughing at me for having the gall to try & start my own company. 30 years on I'm still trying. Everybody else who just went & got a job are now millionaires & retired. I wrote a news publishing system 2 years before Elon sold them. I wrote the first Taxi app on iPhone. On my todo list for 2 years before Instagram was "twitter with photos".
Cost of living and quality of life will be much better in Germany, unless you count talking to your kids from the rear view mirror during a traffic jam as bonding time.

As an American living in Germany, I have also heard from Americans that even good German schools are too rigid and inflexible. You should consider what the schools look like and how they could be better in some ways and worse in others.

Flying to New York from Germany isn’t much different from CA, so I wouldn’t worry about that.
I think the family support in Germany is worth having, too.

Any chance you can work for a US company remotely?
I bought a 2nd hand petrol SUV recently and fuel is heading towards $10/US gal here.

It's still hard to find an EV with a high payload capacity and good range, especially when towing, and used EVs are still crazy expensive.
Some of the best programmers I know are lazy. They don't work crazy hours because they a) automate stuff b) don't reinvent the wheel and c) know what work is critical and what can be skipped

Overworking can lead to overengineering which has a knock on maintenance cost for years.
The dealers lost a lot of sales to sleep on it. They discovered if you put someone into a car that was close (wrong color, not quite the same options) they would happily drive it home and not return it. If you ordered the exact car someone wanted they will often call you the next day saying they changed their mind, cancel the order.
I use high math (very high math — control theory, numerical analysis, theory of optimization) in my day job as I finish grad school. I believe the article is correct in that I am one of very few in my office who actually employ this level of skill. I suspect that many enterprises are the same, in that a small number of technical experts are supported by a large cast of surrounding actors. But it is essential that the others share in the technical knowledge!

How could managers evaluate my performance, make decisions about where to apply my skills, or understand my value if they knew nothing more than high school math? How would I remain sane with no one around to rubber duck proofs or concepts to, to commiserate or bounce ideas with? Sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic; deskilling of the workforce makes the black boxes even blacker.

Every colleague may not know the precise details of my work, but that this remains a strategic decision and not a limitation due to their lack of skill is essential.
Can someone explain what the hell "Vichy" means in that context, my own brain and search engines seem to immediately jump to Vichy France but that's just nonsesnsicial unless there's a really contrived analogy.
> why not daycare providers

Why not, why not? You don't need extra staff, you just need scheduling.
I'm a homosexual person that doesn't give a flip about pride month or anything that's "gay culture", but that's overtly hostile. That person needs mental help.
We can copy the US if the cable freedom gives birth to superior cables on the long run. EU stuff is't written on stone, it changes as it needs to.

I guess In Europe we kind of like the idea of being able to overthrow the people in power if they screw us too much. It's much more socially acceptable to burn cars and occupy streets and decapitate politicians than shooting CEO's when you are really not happy with the way things work. It feels like you have control over the stuff going on in your country.
I had financing lined up and the dealer still blasted an app out to a dozen different companies and dinged my credit.
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Yeah but then there will be a new standard, I have to imagine waste is not the primary thing they are optimizing for here.
fan might generate magnetic fields.
Yes, I was sarcastically pointing out that working oneself to death is not a competitive advantage.
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At my work I get a couple of weeks of low intensity work for every 4-6 months when I have about 20 hours/week I can spend time on doing side projects or maybe learn something new. In the past I have taken on multiple projects that couldn’t be finished in 2 weeks and when I come back to them 4 months later I would have to basically start from scratch due to lose of flow hence it would be difficult to get motivated. Is there anything useful I can do that may be helpful for the world in these two weeks. I’m not too concerned about putting stuff on my resume. My primary goal is to be useful and secondary is to have fun. While I feel I do have a pretty good knowledge of algos and data structures, being a hardware engineer (RTL, HDL etc) my software skills, especially knowing the latest frameworks are not the strongest for sure.
But then I'm not aware of a FIDO key that works with random apps on an iPhone. That's where I, personally, have by far the most logins and spend money. Pretty much all of them support some sort of authenticator app nowadays though.
All things considered - if I went through 5 rounds of interviews I'd go for the final one, otherwise you wasted so much of your time. Also nobody says you need to accept their offer after this 6th round, it's up to you.
Off topic but …

> Most people have heard of files and documents in real life

I don’t think so. I’m late 30s and I learned of files and folders on windows long before I was introduced to the physical concept.

I still feel a small tickle in my funny bone when I see a real life version of the folder icon in an office.
Interesting that a language that targets embedded (amongst other things) has a default vector allocator for space for 4 entries of objects between 2 and 1024 bytes. I can imagine that being wasteful for code that has a lot of very short lists of non-trivial objects (e.g. something like configuration options).

Although I expect it is overridable in some way but I don't know enough Rust to know how.