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Car safety rating is within class.

So when F150 lightning gets 5 star rating, it's within class. If you hit an overweight dumptruck you're going to have a bad time. Luckily dumptruck drivers know how to drive and that rarely happens.

However if you're in a ecobox compact, if you hit that dumptruck you're literally flat. If you hit one of the new electric vehicles which weigh in the area of 7-9000lbs. You're going to have a bad time.

If you were to properly measure safety rating not within class. It basically is just a measurement of size. So why do they do this? Clearly misrepresenting safety of smaller vehicles? It's entirely a political decision.

Bigger vehicles are more expensive. Transportation is one of the highest costs to society. So you dont want everyone driving the biggest vehicles. You want to adjust society so they choose smaller vehicles. The total cost of ownership to society is thusly less and you produce more wealth for your own people.

You can see where it's going. Private ownership of cars will remain, some people need full time access to personal transportation. However there's lots of people who really just need to be brought somewhere.

Municipalities can offer autonomous electric vehicles that say an elderly person can jump into and get to their destination much like a taxi at much lower cost than a taxi. The cost per trip is going to be measured in cents, maybe dollars with inflation? The cost of transportation to society dramatically decreases. We will be significantly wealthier.
Your assertion that it's not, is not sufficient. Especially when the very idea of having a talk caused so much tension. If it's a non existent problem, this talk would've been given no more attention than a presentation about bigfoot.

Such (pro)active denial usually indicates the denier has something to hide. Now that may not be the case here. But assuming you're right about this not being a Google problem but just small pockets like sexual harassment and racism.

Doesn't google still hold talks about racism & sexual harassment? I'm pretty sure they do. So why the voice against this talk, and this issue specifically?
I guess it's neat there is a game, but I am burned out on "industrial building type of games". It was cool back in the Starcraft era, but since then it has been wearing thin for me.
> I am not going to state "python is better than C++" just because someone wants me to say it...

You shouldn't, quite the opposite - you should be able to express your concerns freely or at least make them known in whatever form of a "paper trail" is available. Better yet, if you are able to provide examples of what might go wrong with a particular technical choice and how to address it.

> ...or back down from something I know is a fact, like "writing a file to disk is a complicated process."

This is where things get a bit more complicated, though.

If you disagree with an approach that the team or certain members might pick, to the point where it blocks progress and they're not intent on budging their own views either, then clearly work cannot continue.

In those situations, there are just a few ways how things might go:

- neither you, nor them concede, work cannot continue until an external intervention
- one of you concedes, work continues, good decisions are made and there are no problems down the road
- one of you concedes, work continues, bad decisions are made and there are problems down the road

So the only option for work to get done, is for one of the people to give in. Since sometimes you cannot always control difficult people yourself (with the resources available to you), it feels to me that giving in to sub-optimal choices is the only option in those cases, short of quitting.

> And I'm ready to quit over that.

This is also a valid choice, though it also probably reflects how hot the job market is in your country, how important having a job is at the present moment, as well as your tolerance or emotional involvement in the project.

Some might jump around various companies until they may or may not find the environment that they're looking for, others might have to temporarily tolerate some bad engineering until another project comes along, others end up feeling miserable when the culture is all bad. I guess it varies quite a bit.
Thanks for the correction; I swapped the two in my head and you’re right.
> I'm sure that the futuristic lay-person will have a better basal understanding of technology and how it's made.

I feel like we actively discourage people from having an understanding of technology for fear that they will understand it and complain about it and/or be in a better position to judge the quality of alternatives to our products. As a result, it seems like more people understood basic computer operation and architecture 30 years ago than they do today, but maybe I'm in a weird bubble. I'd think with the opportunities for the far more opaque operations and algorithms that deep learning has given us, people will understand even less about computers in the future.
> Now it's mostly down to "do you support Amazon?"

I don't know if this is still the case, but the Kindle used to be a loss leader. So in theory, by purchasing one, using Calibre only and never purchasing ebooks from Amazon, you are causing Amazon to bleed revenue.
a very simple timestamp hashing service (such as defined in RFC3161) will do that job.
The dictionary is a built-in official feature and includes options in few different languages but CUSTOM dictionaries are not. It's possible to add dictionaries beyond what Kobo includes but it takes a little bit of work.
My rule was something like 2Eur /10W/Month(~2A 5V Raspi) which comes down to 2,4Eur/W/Y.

Just for my curiosity though, Where did your 1Eur come from? The prices were >20ct for 10 years now. Or do you calculate without taxes and stuff?
If you marketed yourself as the Pizza place that gives slices away for free then people would expect that. If they showed up for their free slice and you said, sorry, now they cost money, you can be sure they'd be angry. To extend your analogy, imagine they had taken a taxi to your pizza place to take advantage of your offer only to find they could no longer afford your pizza. Now they are forced to take another taxi to get to a different pizza place or go home and cook their own and they are mad as hell.
Meanwhile in EU, I can configure any Volkswagen-group car down to the finest detail and have it delivered to a dealer of my choice, and the price will be the same across all dealers.
Writing this on a new account because my main has been shadowbanned

Why don’t they switch to an alternative cooling method like ground cooling?
Disney+ did not surpass Netflix, go look at the earnings report. All Disney properties (Hulu, ESPN+, Disney+) lumped together surpassed Netflix. And some of those subs are potentially double and triple counted because of that.
Egocentrism is definitely not the same as selfishness. It's just an inability to understand that other people differ from you.

In fact, it's possible to be highly egocentric and altruistic at the same time. You see this with parents who might deeply love their children but can't understand how their child's perspective might differ from their own. They might think their kids have the same likes and dislikes as they do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentrism
Most developers I've interacted with have extreme limitations outside of their immediate expertise, and some (especially those who seem to be getting culled lately) are barely functional. With that, I'd suspect one of two possible futures:

1. Insufficient skill to make such automation work

2. A large enough number of people are capable of making this happen, and after that, everyone else('s career) dies.

I for one welcome our new overlords.
A dark money group is lying about Medicare cuts
I don’t have a “wrong or not” claim to make. Only that trucks are manifestly more aggressive looking than they historically have been. Whether it’s a reaction doesn’t really factor into it.
No offense, but your perspective does not sound open minded.

I'd recommend being open to other, unexplored (by you) possibilities, since one person cannot be everywhere at once, nor understand the experiences of everyone at Gigantic Mega Corp (100k+ people).

I think having a perspective closed to unexplored possibilities is arguably a good definition of naive.

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(of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
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That said, I think you have good intentions-- You appreciate your employer. But that said-- this likely also results in certain biases.
I'm in a similar situation and I run a small group meetup program. I select 4 random people from across the company and have an hour long "get to know you" zoom meeting. That way you meet folks in a positive environment rather than waiting until there's a work problem that impacts them.
Isn't the whole point of edgy humor that it's unsafe? If it's humor you can deploy in any situation without fear of durably offending people, it's not edgy; it's safe, practically by definition.
I could play the same game and say perhaps you didn't read the article.

The article doesn't suggest it is a problem unique to Google. It suggests that Google's efforts at DEI, which you are telling us are industry best, have a blind spot on this subject, as evidenced by the way they handled this situation. A story that sounds plausible to me.
Can you help me be smarter?
India is going through a ethnic nationalist revival. That creates a victimhood complex in which criticism is taken as animosity towards the group, whether that be all Indians or Hindu Indians.

So I can see someone who is not themselves discriminating on the basis of caste taking offence to someone suggesting it exists. Add Google’s elitist culture (nothing wrong with that per se, but it creates blind spots) and I can see how reasonable people may conclude the problem doesn’t exist.

That said, internal activism is unlikely to be effective. By the time it worked for e.g. racism, it was an established problem in popular opinion and the law. Companies generally aren’t at the vanguard of social change.

We need legislation and case law. In that respect, firing the organiser was a strategic blunder—it frees her to meaningfully penalise Google.
Everybody describes the tax breakdown in the receipt. The variance between countries is in the menu/catalog price scheme.
It’s done through seemingly simple questions.

Usually dealing with what city they are from, what city are your parents from, are you vegetarian, are you having dessert?

I've never experienced or seen the thread searching. Larger person grabs your shoulder to see if the thread is there. But that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Maybe, but it could also be the reverse. I few years ago, I was hiring for some Data Engineering positions in a European country, and highly disproportional part of the most qualified applicants were Chinese, but with below average language skills. (Chinese people are a VERY small minority in the general population in my country.)

I would expect many companies to not consider many of them, due to the communication limitations. That would mean that those who ignored those issues could get a LOT of them, and possibly at a lower-than-average salary, for their technical ability.
It's easier when you remember that is is named after Leonhard Fuchs.
"Bug" commonly refers to terrestrial arthropods in general (e.g. spiders, centipedes, and other non-insects) and can sometimes even extend to earthworms and other small invertebrates. It is not a synonym for insect.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bug
I have a very old Kindle (3rd gen, ~12 years old) and I am unsure how it will be impacted by this. My understanding was that Kindles didn't support EPUB files. It seems that Amazon now intend to roll out support for EPUB, but I highly doubt a model as old as mine will get an update.

So it seems that for now, while Amazon are just converting EPUBs to MOBI behind the scenes, everything will continue working. But if down the line they update their more modern devices to support EPUB and then stop converting to MOBI, I won't be able to email devices to my Kindle anymore and will have to sideload them via USB.

Is there anyone else in a similar situation who can tell me if this is true?
Not only is it not a good comparison but there's not even a good thing to compare it to, which would be some other form of discrimination happening within the work place that can't be discussed. What you're saying sounds to me like this problem does exist and it's so bad that even talking about it should be off limits. That's fundamentally unfair to the people potentially being discriminated against.
You are right, my speculation was unfounded on that.
http://freecivac.sourceforge.net/
And part of the reason kids are particularly susceptible to eating lead paint chips, is that lead acetate is sweet enough to be used as a sweetener in the olden days and called "sugar of lead".
most "1/2 ton" trucks like the F-150 have been near the legal max width (80") without needing extra lights for a long time, so that won't ever grow much bigger. Length looks to be very similar throughout the 2000s but generally it grew by a couple of inches depending on the config. Weight is also not hugely different. You would probably see a trend towards 4-door trucks that would elongate them on average and there has been a very clear trend towards increased frontal area and worse forward vision.

That said, this is the same time period where the old Ranger died which was one of the few compact pickups left. when it came back it grew to a midsize and it wasn't until a decade after the ranger died that Ford release the Maverick, which is compact but doesn't have the towing capability or long bed options of the decade old ranger.

So point being, I think there is a grain of truth to what the author is saying, but the evidence isn't well laid out and he should have presented more data about the various trucks available across the 2010's to make a stronger point.
Yeah that's inefficient.

My guess is that the rule supposes that bigger trucks carrying freight is more efficient (than many smaller trucks).
I know. Not only is it silly to call it a double tax, it’s also not even correct. Even in NH that money is taxed at least 3 other times before you spend it. Sales tax would be at least the 4th tax on the same money.
And for all practical purposes your social security is simply a tax as it goes into the exact same bucket as taxes.
I 100% agree on the savings of real developer time when end users can self service.

At the same time, I've also seen users do incredibly crazy things because either they didn't know any better or just didn't bother to "read the code". Good example of this is people just keep creating Statuses in JIRA until you end up with "Which of these 264 'Completed' statuses is the one I want?". It's similar to the Ops person "Hey, I wrote a Perl script that does what I want. Yay!" that turns out to be a spaghetti ball of copy/pasta.

This is maybe less of a point about programming and more about governance. Either way, you will still need specialized people who make sure that everything is being done in some kind of guardrails.
It's the most familiar to the most amount of programmers. Despite maybe Python, but that doesn't target the web so it's not ideal.

I just don't see a new language being created that can be a systems language, and is also the language of choice for web apps, etc. TS already targets everything, except native (although there is NativeScript and AssemblyScript and a TypeScript LLVM compiler laying around).

What I want is one syntax to target every platform, and when I click run, I can step through the code and it doesn't matter if it's running native or JIT.
> I think i'll invest in an semi truck, that'll show people who the man on the road really is.

International produced a line of pickup trucks that might suffice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_XT
Very complicated. Getting rid of consumption tax, means income tax is the sole source for citizen taxation.

To replace consumption tax, which ensures those with large savings, yet no income, still get taxed as they spend, you'd have to somehow have full disclosure of all assets, and tax that, along with all the privacy implications.

And just imagine all the work, with every citizen's assets being examined yearly.

Of course, there are other options, but not many which replace consumption tax.
I just cut the Ethernet cable and put RJ45 on it, I wasn't about to drill another hole in the wall of my house to accommodate the connector. It works fine, even though I'm sure it's out of spec.

There's really no good excuse for the router setup - SpaceX could still supply a standalone power injector with Ethernet on one side and the proprietary connector on the other side.
> not in a private company interest to promote discussion

Isn't it in a company's interest to nurture an environment where everyone they hire can thrive?
Great comment, fully agree.
It's partially safety. There is a minimum weight for road traction that's observed. It's not larger than an Accord, but certainly a classic Fiat 500 could never be made again.

Mostly it's the automobile as a status symbol.

Bigger is better according to lizard brain.
What you are "Giving" Gitlab is partial custody over your coding "children". You are having to trust that Gitlab isn't going to screw you in some way or another, which history shows is a "Bad idea". I think until we can get a situation where code is hosted on our own hard drives and accessible on the web at the flip of a switch, we are always going to have this "but you guys didn't pay for x" feature convo. The solution then is to not use Gitlab, but to invest in decentralized services that make Gitlab extinct. Problem solved.
The hard part of my job is rarely the programming itself. The hardest part is figuring out what to build, in enough detail for the blinking computer to understand it.
Yeah, this is the reality. I'm not going to name the tool but I went to a training session for one of these things recently and it pretty quickly devolved into programming: looping, branching, conditionals, etc. Except rather than raw text this was rendered as (basically) a set of bubbles containing icons and text, and with arrows between them. It was even vertically oriented the way code is.

I actually pointed out in the training that this is still coding - at least at a scripting level - with all the pitfalls that involves. Nobody there really understood, and some actively tried to deny this point of view (I thought that was a bit weird and culty, but there you go).

One problem is that if you, as J Random HR Employee, implement something with a bug in it (which you will do at some point), you may not be well equipped to diagnose and fix the issue. It's not that hard, not at this level, but the training sort of glossed over that.

And then I asked a question about the fact that all these services that were being integrated together were distributed, so what happens when something fails part way through a flow? What happens with consistency across the different systems you're integrating? Well... it depends on the adapter for each specific integration, but in most cases you're supposed to implement failure handling yourself.

In fairness they showed us an example with failure handling and enforcement of consistency for something that integrated perhaps half a dozen systems together... and it looked pretty complex, just as you'd expect it to.

And that's where I think these things fall down. You can build a happy path flow pretty quickly - in fact I suspect a lot of non-programmers could do that - but it's what happens when things go wrong where it gets really gnarly.

Basically, if something goes wrong either IT or DevOps are getting a call, or somebody in a business, HR, or finance function is manually logging into a bunch of systems to update them and bring them into a consistent state.

I don't think this is terrible necessarily, but I do think the capabilities of these low/no code solutions - particularly with respect to their use by non-techies - are way oversold.
I tend to agree with Randall Munroe on this:

> You'll never find a programming language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas. (https://xkcd.com/568/)
Cool story and glad the author found some community but man, I can’t help but see this through an Orwellian lens.

A single app for everything, that stores my social graph and medical info, tracks my location, pays my bills, books my vacation, orders my food. All flowing through the CCP. What could go wrong.
> Do they actually give a damn about building cars people want, rather than squeezing another penny out of consumers to make wall street happy and increase their bonuses?

No, of course not and that’s totally rational for them. Being mad at people for system’s problem is like being mad at a river for following the slope of the land. You don’t curse the river for destroying your house during high tide, you build a dam.
This isn't just true of NoCode, it's endemic to young tools. These products are over-optimized toward low friction on-ramps because the only thing that matters is growth in DAUs.

NoCode is just attractive because it propagates the myth that you can do things without programmers, and programmers are expensive. So you've got low friction + perceived lower cost == more users signing up.
Sure. Lots of people who cant code can put together a squarespace site. I know a decent number of barbers or other small business owners who have nice looking websites they tossed together in a few hours.
Define "East Asian only group". Do you mean a division that's only East Asian? Or a social group within the company that is exclusively for East Asians? And how would that come about organically? East Asians aren't really homogeneous, there is a lot of ethnic strife between the different East Asian groups (HK vs Mainland, Mainland vs South Korea vs Japan). So I can't really see how they'd naturally be a closed off clique.
The question in my mind is should we restrict quality of life, or restrict population to allow for individuals to live the quality of live they desire? We have limited resources and I think we're overpopulated. I wonder what the morality/ethics are of bringing more people into the world while restricting their quality of life and freedom to make choices.
Quickly tried it, I appreciate how minimal it was.
> If your company photos from leadership levels to the development room don't truly reflect diversity, the people in charge often end up multiplying the blindness to cultural bias

In traditional American Black/white photos, you are flat-out right. Many of the problems you allude to cannot be fully addressed until leadership is diverse.

In the context of caste, it is challenging for non-Indian Americans to discern the caste differences in such photos.
> First and most obviously, personal vehicles cause tremendous amounts of harm.

Large vehicles are safer for vehicle-on-vehicle or vehicle-on-object crashes, and vehicle-on-pedestrian crashes are a very small fraction of total fatal crashes. The core objection of this blog post^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H paper is nonsense.

I refuse to take seriously anyone who talks about "moral issues" like cars on purely qualitative, opinion-based grounds. When you're talking about hundreds of millions of people, you need to use statistics, and that is a necessary but insufficient condition for you to be taken seriously (as most papers of this type don't use statistics correctly).
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> letting the insane leverage their platform to elevate their voice

Can you expand on this?