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I wish they'd just get rid of dealerships already.

For most households buying a vehicle is their second largest purchase. It is meant to be enjoyable/fun. But dealerships have managed to make it very unfun/stressful/bad.

And there's always "but what if you find the unicorn dealership?!" but frankly those are few and far between. If you talk to random people in the street 9/10 will have a negative dealership story.

Dealerships do nothing to control price increases, and suggesting they do misunderstands the market forces. What controls prices is competition (i.e. other vehicles, from other manufacturers). All dealerships do is rent-seek in the middle.

I'd like to know that if my next door neighbor and I buy the same vehicle, that we paid the same price, and had the same experience. Just open up "show rooms" that don't sell vehicles, then a website where you can order for home delivery for a fixed price.

The whole "local jobs" argument would have more merit if dealerships weren't a toxic influence on local politics, and nobody is suggesting that manufacturers won't need to continue to offer local repair facilities for recalls and of course to staff these showrooms.
Snowflake is the future. We shouldn't be writing code at all, we should be throwing data into a big hole in the ground and then querying the hole, or attaching a query to the hole so as data goes in the query does something wjth it, and chaining those queries. The fact that anyone is writing anything more complex than SQL to do this is a failure of imagination. Snowflake is intended to remove all the unnecessary engineering from you just putting data somewhere and doing something useful with it easily.
How does Toyota solve this issue ? Don't they sell through dealerships as well ?
I remembered I had a similar experience with IBM cloud last year. I created an account, created several VMs and deleted them. Then after half an hour, boom, my account was banned, telling me something like "violated our policy".

Interestingly, I just tried to log into my IBM cloud account and it was successful. I don't know how and when I was un-banned. I received the email about the ban but not the unban.
Here is a bevy video tutorial I did: https://youtu.be/j7qHwb7geIM

Source on GitHub.
They just need one prisoner to guess correctly - then they all win.
Regarding the base case scenario - if each prisoner guesses randomly, each has a 1/100 chance of guessing correctly, and hence they have an expected number of exactly one correct guess. So no deterministic approach can give 2 correct guesses, since no prisoner actually has any real information about their number.
Another anecdote: I have seem women be more confident in asking about leadership, internal promotions, and putting management pressure on ensuring that they are represented in leadership. Once a startup I worked at got to a certain size where we had 5+ teams or 2+ managers-of-managers, women started to ask why there are 0 women leads. And honestly when you get to multiple teams and multiple levels of management thats probably a pretty solid question to at least ask, even if the answer is a totally normal "it just hasn't worked out that way for now".
Are we talking about the scene where they discover white privilege?

I think that scene perfectly encapsulates what the poster is talking about. Beavis and Butthead are morons. We laugh at them because they are beyond stupid, they don't understand things in the most comic way possible. So they learn of the concept of white privilege and they take it at face value. They accept the premise and they go on their little rampage because that's what they think it allows them to do. Even though they are wrong. They are a caricature of the entire concept. And everyone can laugh at it.

The left because, to them, it's 'lifting the veil' so to speak. They are taking white privilege to the extreme conclusion. While no one outright acts like that, they feel there's the element of truth to it. The right because, like I said, no one outright acts like that. When Beavis and Butthead get their comeuppance, they can say, "See, even though they are white males, they still can't do whatever they want. There are rules."
> Real wages are not keeping up with inflation.

Nope? For most people Year/Year and also over the last quarter, real wages have gone up. It is only for the most highly compensated workers (top 10% or so) that wages have not kept up with pricing. [0]

[0]: https://realtimeinequality.org/
Is there any love for the Argo [1] project suite (Workflows, Events, CD) for this type of use case? I haven’t tried it out myself yet however it does look interesting.

[1] https://argoproj.github.io
I agree with you, because people used to say the same about Stonetoss.
Went into a dealership to look at a 30k ford bronco, dealer came back with a 60k price tag, said it was due to dealership mark ups. The worst. A dying industry taking its last breaths.
Yes, and if only 5% of work is architecture and advanced troubleshooting, while 95% of the work is plumbing in the language-du-jour then you see where the problem is.
And if you don't know what de-escalation language is, there are great resources and training available, and you can use de-escalation techniques in almost every aspect of your life (even when you're alone).

Online lists and such are great reminders,[1] but I suggest an in-person class where you can actually do and say things with someone who can provide informed feedback. Look for de-escalation training around you, probably in less expected spaces - I got mine as part of a soccer supporters group, because we'd have to de-escalate drunk fans from crossing lines in the stands.

[1] https://www.crisisprevention.com/Blog/CPI-s-Top-10-De-Escala...
If You Can’t Buy It Twice, Don’t Buy It
Isn’t this mostly due to Bill Ackman (among others) not appreciating the type of videos they were hosting and having friends in high places to get what he wants? https://www.businessinsider.co.za/amp/bill-ackman-pornhub-mi...
> Just a few examples: https://imgur.com/a/xbBzLIU

Well, its just 1 example because BBC and Reuters were only in your Imgur link with a timestamp saying in 2020 that it was a recession.

And in your only example the person (Ben White -- CNBC) explicitly call out a double digit decrease in their claim of recession. The current situation is not a double digit decrease so it's not hypocritical. Certainly somebody is going to be hypocritical in when they call a recession but Ben White's two comments you've quoted aren't.
I use Lua all of the time, since it's such an easy language to embed in other projects.

I use it in embedded systems (think 128MiB of memory -- not tiny, but not enormous either) and it's fantastic. I can make changes to logic on the device without cross compiling things and I can make changes quickly to test things out.

I'm in my 40s, and definitely not part of the Roblox generation. I just really like the simplicity of the language and how it's small enough to pick up in an afternoon. More complicated topics like coroutines and upvalues might take a little longer to fully grasp, along with ffi in LuaJIT if you're going that route.
The token hire strip would be funny if it wasn't an actual reflection of the strip and it's lack of diversity (and the obvious reticence of the creator to consider diversity as important). What would have been a smarter and less controversial move would be to subtly introduce people of color over time, then add a strip about a diversity hire, with the other characters visibly getting ticked off.
> Often that content is filled with blatant lies which causes the engagement (to debunk/argue) in the first place. The cycle repeats, the user reacted and then it optimises to get even more such engagement, it shows even more such toxic content. There's really no functional dislike button, you'll keep on seeing shit that aims on riling you up.

While I cant't deny that that maybe something that could be happening, in my own experience, the more pernicious problem is the creation of filter bubbles where people only see and hear view points of those they already agree with and slowly get pushed into more and more extreme versions of their existing beliefs.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Arrives in Taiwan, Defying Beijing’s Warnings
Showdown!
But that wallet has a signed, notarized affidavit that says "finders keepers".
I don't know what you are referring to.
You should update your assumptions. This is the current composition of the Ivy League: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339041

You can take a guess how good your chances of passing the diversity filter are, if your main contribution is trying to reduce the discrimination against non-Jewish whites, by which they are 12-times less likely to be admitted to the Ivy League than their Jewish counterparts.
I've heard through the grapevine that car buying services (via Costco, credit union, etc) can get you to MSRP, if not better, for some in demand models.
Toyota dealership near me proudly advertised that they didn't mark up vehicles beyond MSRP.

They also wouldn't have a new vehicle available for 2 months as their cars were sold that far in advance.
The only crime is that you don't own a property
Technically speaking we only know the plane landed through this information. But will Pelosi set foot on Taiwanese soil?
Not saying an exploding offer didn’t happen, but it is very uncommon.

The blacklisted for a year thing sounds like the normal Google, “Try again in a year” messaging that happens whenever someone doesn’t get an offer for failing interviews. Again, don’t know if that is what happened, but it hardly constitutes anything nefarious.
lol. lmao.
There are legal issues with cutting dealers out, it's protectionism all the way down.

Tesla gets away with it (sort of) by having zero dealers anywhere. Even so, they can't currently sell cars within Texas, despite having moved their HQ here. Texas is not alone[0]. Most states require automakers to use dealerships!

Tesla operates stores within Texas, but only to show off the cars. If you express interest, they direct you to the website, as they are not allowed to sell to you in person.

Dealers feel pretty comfortable with their legal protections right now. They probably shouldn't, because things could change quickly, but they won't change easily.

0. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/03/where-tesla-can-sell-ca...
Yup, very good point. I think that something like gVisor should probably be your second choice after you've eliminated VMs for whatever reason.
He didn't start blogging about how great Trump was, he blogged that Trump had a high chance of winning the election and explained why. Can't you make the difference between explaining a phenomena and encouraging it?
Anti-regulation could also be put, "society must remain fractured. The actions of the left hand must remain hidden from the right hand".

A unified society sounds pretty good to me. Pitting one half against the other half is pretty bad.
Don't underestimate the fact that many companies also like younger workers because it is easier to pressure them to work more hours than they should. Less chances of kids or a family they need to attend to, and higher chances of falling for the "office perks" which is a ruse to keep you in the office as much as possible.
i can totally get why a lot of folks are anti crypto but from a dev perspective it is REALLY a fun place. It is possible to have fun and make money AND not be a piece of shit in crypto dev.
> You use the word "pseudoscience" to describe the training, so it's unlikely that you're receptive to this anecdote

Not the poster you replied to but it's possible that the quality of training was different
Yeah I'm not happy to read this, but this is basically what all big tech does nowadays. And small tech companies, even if they have better customer service will probably break your service by accident. In this case though he seems to be using the free tier which, if you need to use professionally, you shouldn't be using
I tried to use their free tier but when I tried to provision a VM it would say not allowed.

Seems like the coke and women got to Larry Ellison's head and he's not really focused anymore
Indeed, I can't help but notice that in the first 4 comics cited in the article, the pointy-haired-boss is the protagonist and the employee the antagonist. Definitely seems like a reversal from what I knew Dilbert to represent in the past.
One explanation is this wasn't a mistake at all, but rather a deliberate bug introduced to let someone steal all the money.
Why? Government spending is a base component of GDP..
> everything feels like a personal attack, and I can’t help but get defensive.

I was once asked to spend some time making sales calls. Not only did I not get any sales, I realized that I was irritating some of the people I was calling. Up until that time, I thought I was a great "people person" (aside from being technically very good). It was very humbling. I don't think I could ever learn to be good at sales: I just (I now know) have no talent for it at all.

Is your customer support by phone, or by email/webform? If it is by phone, then I would suggest switching to email. Also, never respond the emails on first reading. Always read them, walk away, and respond later.
Design patterns are from hell (2008)
AWS is early? I was thinking about all the crap Unix did in the 1970’s that we’re still stuck with. The tty subsystem, for one example.
I can't say enough good things about EatThisMuch.com

Been using it since 2019 to fantastic results, tweaking my diet to both gain and lose weight as appropriate.

Edit: additionally this works internationally reasonably well, though I do find the odd ingredient that seems to be specific to the United States in some of the recipes, but usually easily swapped out and saved as a custom receipe.
But what about ppl who are trying to get rich off the downfall of others savings? This is web3, crypto
The more this keeps up, the more we'll be back to where we were in the 1990s - self-hosted apps on non-cloud infrastructure that are owned and managed by the companies and orgs who build on them, and not held hostage by cloud companies who have built rent-seeking businesses and eliminated any sort of human support while automating functions with unaccountable and flawed algorithmic decision-making systems.

Don't get me wrong, I see the economic benefit of the cloud and the freedom of not having to manage your own infrastructure, but increasingly the cost and risks associated with being beholden to an organization's arbitrary behavior with lack of recourse is not something you can depend on for the long-term. We're coming back full cycle to decentralized systems.
Have you considered a spreadsheet?

You can generate your rotation and plot it out 6 month in advance. And then see how long you can be bothered to follow a meal plan.

With regards to shopping lists I’m not sure how you imagine keeping an app up to date on what you already have, so I think that would be just as cumbersome regardless.
People that graduated in late 80's/early 90's are now hitting 50+. This is the big bubble, there aren't that many people older, but there's a big group now that we're in our 50's. There are workplaces now that have a big group of these people, which didn't exist before.
I have seen, first hand, companies have hiring guidance communicated orally that discriminates against older workers.

It was not hard to see, reading between the lines magic, or dog whistley. It was flat out "We want a younger employee" and a stated preference against hiring older employees.

I was high enough on the employee ladder that its possible I could be held responsible for these practices, but low enough that I could not change them without jeopardizing my career.

So I left specifically because of that.
> Because the definition of the word conservatism is "commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change".

The word conservatism is a descendant from the latin root conservare which means to preserve. What should be preserved is not necessarily defined. And preserving the functioning of a society or the value of truth[1] is something everybody interested in a modern and essentially free livestyle should be interested in. Conservatism as a word does not imply opposition to every kind of change, but that is often claimed, as my the previous poster did. Although for some self-proclaimed conservatives, that is certainly true.

A progressive movement that is in favor of race-based, age-based, sex-based or ideology-based hiring instead of merit-based hiring is repeating some of the errors of early communist countries. And they too will learn, like so many generations before, that it is far simpler to destroy a society than to create a better one.

On the other hand to preserve the western achievements, the western societies have to change, e.g. because of the climate or because of growing dangers from the outside. And they have to change because younger generations want to change some things. That is nothing new. New, is only the magnitude of the loudness of the wish for change.

[1]: And the importance of truth and honesty is under attack from the political left as much as from the political right.
I've been meaning to take a look at Bottlerocket[^1] as an alternative to a custom spin of Kubernetes but we haven't really had a chance to dig into it. The folks over at Fly[^2] have built an awesome edge platform out of Firecracker, and ultimately, where I want to take the next generation of our internal compute offering. I am eagerly looking forward to any and all presentations they do on their work.

[^1]: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

[^2]: https://fly.io/docs/reference/architecture/
It's funny to me that the future generation of greybeards (maybe greymanes as a less gender biased word, or greypubes? heh), will be like: "I started with a iPad when I was a toddler, and my dad who was a web developer taught me to use JavaScript" --- and then that will seem old skool. Hah.
I don't think looking at mean wages is the best to get an answer. Real median income is up Y/Y and the past quarter, driven by the still largely tight labor market. [0]

[0]: https://realtimeinequality.org/
I've settled on Apple Reminders (yes the stock one that ships with every Apple device).

For a month, I made lists for each shop I bought stuff from (costco, safeway, sprouts, etc) adding whatever I bought there. With those in place, the pain of grocery shopping is reduced to going through the list and picking the usual suspects.

One habit that made it even easier was to make sure the list is updated the moment I think I need to buy something. (iCloud sync across devices is a lifesaver here. Siri is also useful sometimes)

This extends to meal prep too. But that's not a problem I have today.

I look for no further solutions on this.
Let's be honest, here. Psychologists use preponderance of evidence based on both visible and self-reported traits to form diagnoses also.

Psychology is not engineering. They're not diagnosing based on log files or material stress reports. They're using precisely the same criteria and weighting as these silly online tests do.
GE Color Effects G-35 Christmas lights from about a decade ago used a similar scheme, except that they boot up in an "enumerate" state and use the first transmission to each figure out their own unique address (or pass the messages down the line). After that, they can each be addressed individually.

(Edit: jgrahamc beat me to it!)
> If developers could make a small mistake that caused this, imagine what could happen when The Merge goes through.

I don't get your comment: Ethereum itself has worked without any issue since it came out, in 2015 (?) or so. Many smart contracts, not built by the core Ethereum devs, have been exploited, but from Ethereum's point of view everything worked flawlessly.

Why would the Ethereum devs, which have create a blockchain working perfectly fine since seven years (including many upgrades), suddenly screw up the merge to PoS badly?

I mean: I don't doubt we'll see many more hacks (and I don't know why so many people are so keen on putting so much money in smart contracts) but the people in charge of Ethereum itself seems to be quite competent and have a track records of several years without any exploit to prove it.
> Connecting these services with a VPN is the very definition of shady.

I don't think OP mentioned using a VPN.

But even if they had: really, managing a cloud infrastructure via VPN is so far from shady that it's often recommended or required by many tech companies' security policies for people working from public wifi locations among other circumstances, as an added layer of protection against local eavesdropping and sometimes also for specific predictable networking routing within a cloud network perimeter.

I realize that OP is acting as a student/hobbyist, but there's no inherent reason why someone immersed in best-practice tech culture would necessarily be shady if they applied this VPN recommendation to their own personal tinkering. Many of the benefits of using one still apply.

It would, of course, be shady if Oracle intends to deny service to people in Turkey and the VPN use is to circumvent that restriction. But I don't believe that there is such a restriction on place.
I was never even able to sign up. "Customer service" just repeats the same thing on a loop.

Tech companies will slowly put themselves out of business with fraud detection algorithms.
And then there's PDK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGUVLBhzOE
Car salespeople are almost as sleazy as ERP and database salespeople. :-)

The company discount is why dealers around Detroit are amongst the richest in their communities.
I host personal stuff on the OCI always free tier and did a lot of research on this before deciding to go down this road because we know what kind of reputation Oracle has.

From what I found, people using the free tier often get their instances terminated and other resources removed and reclaimed. The suspicion is that there are some automated systems that when capacity falls below a certain threshold, they will take back resources from the "freeloading" users. (For the humor-impaired, that is tongue-in-cheek.)

This is well within their right and ToS say they can do this. Nobody should be surprised or annoyed that they do.

I've read reports that entering your billing details to sign up for a pay-as-you-go account will reduce but not eliminate the likelihood of this happening. You still get the always-free resources but Oracle's systems see you as a paying customer, on paper at least. This is what I did and I haven't seen any disruptions in the 6 months I've done so.

In this case, however, since the whole account was suspended it sounds like the author probably got caught as a false positive in some kind of automated fraud-prevention system.
3 .. power HDD

You can use a powered USB hub.

Also. Remember the old 2,5” external USB HDD y-style cables that had an extra USB 2 plug (connected with a thinner cable with just 2 wires for the power and not data) that you could plug into a second USB sockets so the disk draws power from 2 ports? Maybe such thing still exists for current USB disks.

You can then plug the second plug into a standard USB charger for smartphones or similar.
Wait, small/mid contracting companies (aka agencies) paying more than Google? Are you based in the US? Care sharing the company name(s)?
I once presided over a DB2 to Oracle migration for reasons that had nothing to do with technological considerations and everything to do with politics. The hardest thing to get right was the different interpretations of what was 'null' in a given column. It was a never ending stream of in DB2 it's null but in oracle it's not. Or vice versa. You wouldn't think you'd have so much of that to sort though but I would bet at least 40-50% of the issues we ran into were purely around what one database counted as null and another did not. The empty string in one database would null in another as an example.