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Back in my Applescript days I wrote a number of small apps to remove various repetitive burdens (most have been lost to the ages), then carried on to Objective-C and shell scripting.

• "BatchPrint" : Standalone Applescript app with GUI front-end; allowed a designer to perform a query-based batch print of InDesign files. For example, "print all color ads running in tomorrow's New York Post to the 4th floor large-format inkjet"

• "GridMaker" : Applescript for InDesign; had a little bit of business logic in it to take an image frame in InDesign and split into a grid, following certain layout restrictions (specific gutter width, tag the boxes with metadata for FileMakerPro integration reasons, etc)

• "Filewrangler" : a publicly released Objective-C app for the Mac from before the launch of the Mac App Store (though it was on the store day one); batch file renaming using a custom visual filename "builder". Horizontal blocks in a chain combined to form a template for the new file name pattern, where each block represents one discrete chunk of text. Some 15 years later I still get email about it, asking if it will ever be updated for modern systems (no, it won't).

• The real workhorse tool, still in daily production use by my employer, is a shell script that turns Xcode Server into a lightweight CI system. It monitors for Github activity and creates and destroys XCServer bots as needed. With multiple servers, each can be assigned an "ID" which effectively allows them to load-balance. Only one bug report in 6 years. Alas, Xcode Server has been deprecated so we're migrating to CircleCI, which makes sense given the growth of the company.

• "Nuke the Metadata" : simple little shell script to run on files before posting them to public forums

• Various little shell and CMD scripts for Mac and Windows to do git checkout/prune trees/update submodules/etc all in one shot; return a project folder to pristine after running builds (for example)
Microsoft went into the HPC market aggressively very early as a differentiator to the AWS general computing strategy.

Azure has been focused on HPC much longer and has a head start on AWS. Not sure if they knew it would pay off with AI, but it looks like it’ll work out well for them.
Most POS systems do not charge per transaction, neither by count nor dollar amount. It’s usually an upfront or flat monthly fee, based on number of terminals, level of service and feature set.
My utopian fantasy is that all birds would end up at the equator at the same time, have longer than usual holiday, and when the pole flips, they'd fly to the opposite hemisphere that they came from. They'd love the new scenery and I wouldn't need to cross the globe to see a whole new set of birds.
Even without those arrows it seems very intuitive. It's just a subsection of the dpad with each button being an image that represents itself.
They could just cross the border illegally and be all peachy. Literally Millions do so every year under Biden administration.
Well, during COVID shutdowns I got into the habit of paying sit-down tips to takeout staff and 20% to patios because I knew how servers were suffering at the time, while I got to be a "laptop person" at home.

But now since there's been no formal "end" to the pandemic, it's hard to say when/if you change that.
Homeschooling my kids and they're already leveraging ChatGPT as a tutor and asking it all kinds of questions. This week about explorers. Next week who knows. I fear for children shielded from generative AI, it will have already won the future by the time they become adults and they will not have even had a chance.
Tipping is a system in which customers explicitly, optionally, and variably share some of the cost of labor. It has the features of allowing individual patrons to modulate the labor subsidy they provide, based on their current price sensitivity, the value they place on warm fuzzies (don't dismiss this!), the relationship they want to build with the business, and the service they perceive themselves to be getting.

You can't do all these things with prices; prices apply universally across customers, and for the most part in the hospitality industry they can't float (see airline tickets as an example of a floating price, and the sheer loathing it creates in the customer base).

Later

I also should have added, and probably led with, the fact that tipping addresses a big agent-principal problem in hospitality: in restaurants where servers rely on tips, their incentives are strongly aligned with those of customers; without tips, virtually all the incentives are aligned with that of management.
I mean, "require businesses to pay their employees minimum wage" is really not too big an ask in most countries.

Edit: to give you credit, I think that may have been your point. I lost track of context in the thread.
Used to work at a Rails shop, and led an effort to get type safety into the codebase. It was a nightmare that wasted endless time and added plenty of stress.

Sorbet is great on vanilla Ruby code that doesn't try to use too much arcane metaprogramming. It's "okay" on vanilla Ruby code that uses some arcane metaprogramming that humans can reliably reflect in RBS files. In a Rails codebase, which is (IMO) a huge ball of relatively hard to statically analyze magic and quite heavily uses all sorts of tricks for either API ergonomics/skimmability or for performance, it was a mess, and frankly, I had a pretty nightmarish time selling almost any of the feature set beyond (1) ADTs/Enums (2) the subset of Interfaces as exposed by `T::Struct`.

Sorbet is a herculean effort by some extremely talented devs. I don't at all want to discredit that. Tapioca is likewise an impressive DSL-reflection machine on top of RBS files, particularly post-0.8 release. But type safety in a Rails app is, at least in my experience, extremely high cost both upfront and maintenance.
My dream computer is a big noisy box that lives in a corner of my basement. That machine is my desktop, my laptop, my work machine, and my gaming machine. I can take any computer with a network connection, ping the noisy box, and I've got a desktop environment that is in the exact state I left it in. I want to shut down my main workstation at home, and open my laptop at work to the exact same windows and files I had open an hour ago. When my computer is old, I want to buy one (1) set of new hardware, throw it in the noisy box and just get back to work. I don't want to buy multiple new laptops and build an entirely new desktop machine every N years.

In a pinch, I can plug my phone into a monitor to show a file. I can use any random untrusted machine to open a window into my secure system. I don't have to synchronize files because they're all on the machine.

Basically, I want my computer to not physically exist. I want my computer where I am, regardless of the hardware in front of me.

I have an obsolete server in my basement now that represents more raw power than all of my conventional machines combined (except for GPU). And yet I still have to maintain four(!) individual machines in various physical locations.

I'm tired of having multiple computers. I already have one that can do everything, so why can't it just do everything?!
I'd rather just increase the minimum wage. Why do this pick and choose thing? If the minimum is not enough then it isn't enough for __everyone__.
Seems like a win for the consumer. You don't have to tip but if they raise the wages you'll be paying more for the same service and same product.
It's not just women.

I have a male friend in his late 50s who's been dealing with a stalker for the last 30 years. Every few years or so the stalker goes off his meds and starts harassing my friend. It's never gotten violent but you never know what kind of psychotic break is around the corner.
> Grocery stores have such thin margins, that isn't going to work.

That doesn't make sense. Credit cards cost them some 1-3%; debit cards cost them 0.05%. The difference is exactly the same for high and low margin businesses.

> There's nobody to negotiate with with online sales.

Which makes your proposition to address the problem non-viable for a sizeable proportion of all transactions.
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What? Who is harmed? Are we to pretend all waiters do an equally good job?
Good service gets good tips, bad service, not good. It's just an incentive system.

The only reason it starts to breakdown is because there are really cheap people out there who will skimp on the tip and then complain when waiters treat them like shit.

If you are a regular at a place and you tip well, they'll spoil you.
Servers in fine dining restaurants make much more than the minimum wage on tips. $25-$30/hr isn't a crazy high amount for a server to be making; $50-60k/yr is also a thing.
For my resin printer setup I bought a mylar-covered grow tent from Vivosun which has all the hookups necessary for an inline fan & carbon filter. I zip it up 95% of the way so it's negative pressure and pulling the fumes through the filter.

I can't smell anything after the filter—not even the 99% pure IPA which smells much worse than Siraya Tech Fast resin—so I don't bother venting outside when it's cold out; it vents into the unfinished basement side room.

I wear a respirator, thick rubber gloves, treat every surface as "hot," and UV cure all my paper towels and anything that resin touched.

My Ultimaker sits on the desk in my office and I mostly print on it at night. It doesn't get much use.
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I'm not clear why they would be responsible for his hitting a pedestrian.
Yeah I prefer PLA unless I need rigidity for a functional part, in which case I use PETG. I’ve not found abs that awesome except for the ability to smooth it in acetone vapor.

PETG is supposed to be similarly relatively inert and safe compared to ABS and the vapors relatively non toxic. The problem is apparently fake PETG is quite common:

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/p8c85d/which_br...

These brands I would avoid as they must be using something other than PETG and likely have additives you don’t want to breathe.
I know that. When talking about language and script transmission it makes more sense in my view to talk about Phoenicians rather than Carthaginians, unless there is any specific linguistic difference such as dialect that needs to be taken into account (and in this case I don't think there is any such detail). It seems like an assumption not based on fact to assume transmission via Carthage rather than other routes.
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> This isn't true of candles, though. We have a pretty good idea of what candles can do to you.

For beeswax and simple paraffin. I'm not so sure this is what candles are made from these days. I've ordered some raw paraffin from Amazon, and it smelled like a chemical plant*. I've had a few candles from big box stores that smelled similar. I stopped using candles, because it appears their ingredients have strayed.

* Reviews can be found for "beeswax" saying the same.
Microsoft is big, it has an entire office building full of lawyers who can get the "you must give up your civil rights to a jury trial and have to use binding arbitration even if you don't want to when you use this service" clause struck down as unenforceable, unlike us mortals.
Most places allow you to give specific instructions to the driver. It's intended for things like "gate locked, text ### when you arrive" or something to that effect. But I bet you could say something like "will tip cash upon arrival" and it would have the intended effect, maybe even better than a tip in advance.
> Tipping is about making sure the people who are performing that service for you are getting paid what they’re owed

Here in AU we call that "wages".

Having to do quick maths while under social pressure and the threat of having your service quality degraded to make up for an employer or state being unwilling to pay workers enough to live might be called "coercion", but certainly it is externalising costs onto the customer.
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I consulted Wizard James when I was involved in a bitcoin trading scam. It was unknown to me that there were systematic ways to retrieve scammed funds.
I came across a business website who promised a huge return on investment. I was so convinced. The website was good and after all the convincing, I ended up depositing 150,000 USD, unfortunately, I fell into the wrong hands.
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Except many other industries don't have tipping and the price of labor is just built into the cost.
Yes, because the complaint is about it.
I canceled recently. they suck. they keep making the platform worse and worse and it's following the trend of every single paltform

was good...got shitty....I unsubscribe...my life improves...I find alternatives and rediscover the way things were before streaming ruined it....forget about the stream until a new article mentions they are laying off staff... remember I was using them until recently....stop thinking and move on..put on an album and relax.
If we’re bot careful, this could “tip” in the wrong direction, where consumers will actively rebel against tipping, and I am nearly there.

I was just in Europe and it was refreshing to eat in restaurants and never have to worry about tipping. If a meal was €50, that’s exactly what I paid and not a cent more. Even though prices in many places were more expensive than in the US (also considering the USD to EUR exchange rate), eating out ended up being a lot cheaper than in the US in the end.
The existence of restaurants, barber shops, delivery services, all over the world in first world and developing countries indicates it's possible to run a business successfully without relying on charity or variable pricing models.
Looks like it is maestro which I don't think quite works like that. Looks like Trellmor posted info that explains all of it.
My physical backup in case my phone dies is my other older phone with offline maps installed. I wonder why more people don't do the same.
That's not a counter to anything tptacek listed?
Should we tip doctors then? Surgeons? Software developers? Are we to pretend all professions do an equally good job?
You could try (depending on file system) running a {hard|soft} link dedup program (that replaces duplicate files with hardlinks or symlinks to a single data file, and then archive your tree with tar | zip using a --symlinks flag.

WARNING: - I've read about this .. never used it despite storing and archiving for backup and data rention for decades.

I prefer to keep file trees 'clean' (no extranous dupes) and fully store them as they are.
There are many plastics and even more polymers. We usually reserve the terme "plastic" to synthetic materials but there are plastic-like materials in nature, like amber. Polymers includes things like proteins and DNA, basically what life is made of.

So saying that releasing "bad things" (what does it even mean?) is a fundamental property of polymers is a bit too much. What "bad things"? What plastics? What dose?
Very similar but subtly different in my mind.

- Fixed: something was broken, and it has been repaired.
- Addressed: there was an issue, and we've responded to it maybe with a workaround, improving docs, maybe by saying we won't fix it/it wasn't broken.
- Resolved: something wasn't working, and now it works. Maybe there were fixes, and maybe there were workarounds. But it works now.
I still have several of those HP Touchpad chargers. After I originally read this article years ago I tracked a bunch down when the Touchpad was having its big sell off. A little limited by today's standards but all of them still working really well.
> You mean the recently highlighted issue of gas stoves

I don't think it's a recent issue. It's law, where I live, to have ventilation to outdoors, at any source of combustion gasses. Most of the "recent" papers say that most of the problems can be removed by using that fan that's right above the oven, by law. I am surprised that it's not also law to have these fans turn on automatically.
The vast majority of very popular music is still created with emotions (even when those are forced). Human element is still critical, and I think will remain so for a very long time.

Algorithms have been able to spit out a cohesive sequence of notes for decades, that did not change anything in the music industry. Adding better production to it is far from enough to turn this into something that people would connect with.
I do think some stalking cases can be explained by conduct disorders, where people are significantly impaired to the extent that they aren't capable of understanding or controlling antisocial behavior.

However, I do not think the vast majority of stalkers are impaired in that way. If you're so impaired that you're stalking others, the rest of your life will also be a shitshow because of your impairment. Holding down a job, maintaining friendly and familial relationships, securing housing, staying out of prison, etc are going to be out of reach for people who are genuinely that impaired.

The vast majority of people who abuse and stalk their love interests are not that impaired. They're able to have real careers and relationships that would otherwise be prevented from real impairment. These people don't stalk or abuse other people in their lives, just the people they believe they're entitled to stalk and abuse. They are not impaired, they are selective about their actions and successfully compartmentalize those behaviors in ways that prevent them from negatively affecting the rest of their lives. That shows planning, intent and control, not impairment from illness.
Yes. Here in Canada it's a couple percent points less (15-20%, I here it's higher there) and servers have a proper minimum wage, but tipping is still expected here.

And the pandemic has shifted things and now everybody's got tip options on the takeout touchpad... I'm iffy on that. It was one thing when everything was shut down and so takeout was a fallback for restaurants with a lot of staff, but that's over.
Cost sharing isn't charity.
I was answering in the context of the difference between chargebacks on credit cards vs debit cards. You aren’t out of your money while waiting on a chargeback to be processed when using a credit cards.
Definitely got routed way out of the way, over a toll bridge when it was completely unnecessary by Apple Maps. I don't use that any more.
I live in a place without a tipping culture and significant income inequality.

I really don't like the idea that service in a bar might be prioritised according to who gives the biggest tips. That seems like highlighting inequality to me. It would go down very badly here. A queue is a queue. Queues are fair.
> If your issuer contractually offers zero liability for debit fraud, that is just as binding as regulations – and most do.

Every bank card or account I've ever had regularly send out notices saying they have changed their terms of service and your continued use of the account indicates your agreement to the new terms.

In other words they can change those any time they want unilaterally and you probably won't even notice (because who reads those terms of service?)

You may also want to read all the fine print to see if they carve themselves any exceptions.

The great benefit of the protections under credit card regulations is not having to worry about any such shenanigans. The bank can't change the regulation so you know you're always protected, full stop.

Also remember that fraud on a debit card hits your account balance immediately, even if you can later argue to have it credited. Fraud on a credit card simply hits the credit card and can't touch your real money. Think of a credit card as cloudflare layer for your bank account agains fraud DoS.

I'm always very puzzled as why in the US one would ever use a debit card (I say US because I'm not familiar with regulations in other countries). A credit card offers stronger protections, stronger account isolation and cash back rewards.
A paper map of the given area will tell you what declination to set on your compass
Any kind of dust isn't is definitely not good to breath in... i.e.: wood dust... don't think opening a window will help much though
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Most places in the world do not have tipping. The US has tipping because for some reason, the law allows restaurants to pay below minimum wage. I think that tipping should be outlawed and waiters should be paid a wage supported by the market, at least whatever minimum wage is (in California, that's $15.50/hr).
Prescription of some kind, maybe in a similar but less permissive vein as medical marijuana, seems right to me too.

I'm pretty much in favor of letting people decide what goes into their bodies but I can't see a lot of benefits to freely available fentanyl. But I would definitely like to see an approach that decriminalizes addiction. It's a really tough nut to crack though. Not sure what the best approach is.

One of the purported benefits of legalization is that you eliminate some of the black market incentives for distribution. Prescriptions still leave room for a black market so I'm not sure they solve much... I'd be interested to hear arguments for any approach that could make the problem better.
> In web development we tolerate that “View source” and Chrome dev tools are available to technical users, and will be used to reverse engineer.

...which is a great thing to be celebrated because the web is an open platform that you can inspect in order to learn how things are done.

But I guess in the AI-generated future all transforms are done serverside or within proprietary silicon and it's not like anyone is expected to understand it. (I'm bitter about the barriers to entry that some technological advances set behind them, but if I'm being optimistic I will wait for language model that can actually explain how it functions and how it came to particular conclusions.)
Germany has "a decent welfare state". Wait staff depends on tips to make their job worthwhile. Not as badly as in the US, but there's a reason they weren't rushing back into the hospitality industry after the Covid lockdowns were lifted: when they had to work elsewhere, many realized how much more they'd make, how much easier the job is, and how much less abusive the bosses are.

Tipping is just a cultural thing, the welfare state doesn't have a lot to do with it.
For cardboard packaging and cans they use to use some (more expensive) edible plant based wax. I see a video one time from someone with some healthy canned food business trying to return to it. Lack of demand drove up the prices even further. I suppose food is just to cheap?
I think it's an accurate way of looking at it but not the only one. Different company goes from making 10 widgets and 10 hours to One widget in 10 hours plus paperwork, that is a productivity loss in terms of widgets.

Sure, and entirely misses any difference in quality certification of the widget. However, the point that you are fewer widgets per hour still stands. It is a starting point for further questions. For example, Do you really need all that paperwork for the widgets?

In this case the analysis was conducted on housing square footage built and we are building less per hour. If we accept that we can ask further questions.
Thank you for your comment. My goal was to be as succinct as possible and cover most of the cases of “casual” feeling of loneliness.

Although I still believe that self-understanding and communication are fundaments, other people are also important factor in this equation.

I wrote complementary points in this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34497083