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> IP to Google.

Lots of people seem to care. I haven't heard a reason why though.

But regardless, Homebrew is deprecating and nuking the google system, so that's nice.
Cronkite, Murrow, and Russert have been spinning in their graves for years.

As soon as the fairness doctrine died, real journalism was crushed by corporate greed.
Do hosts get to set the price for their offerings? I remember talking to the owner of a place I was staying at, and he asked me how much AirBNB was charging.

He said it was completely algorithmic, and outside his control. Because the place I was staying at was new, without a lot of reviews, it was a crazy good deal — he probably made $50 for my stay, which by rights should have been more like $300.

I suppose that, in that situation, the cost of those hidden fees like cleaning might be a knob hosts can turn to feel in control.
Vrbo in the US does this, even let's you filter by total price instead of just nightly
I still have this problem on reverb.com which makes me not use it. Something being $15 cheaper and $75 shipping isn't helpful and wastes my time, so I stop using the site.
You've seen a host before? I've never seen one.
The pico balloon's electronics run so little and so infrequently, they're not likely to be generating noticeable heat. The solar panel itself, a big black-ish object just hanging in the sun, would be nice and warm just like an equivalent rectangle of black paper would, though.

I think the envelope is gonna be the much more visible target. At high altitude silhouetted against the blackness of space, the balloon itself will be considerably warmer, even in what we consider "cold" air. Or if you're looking down on it from above, silhouetted against the warm ground, it will be quite cold.

Also the mylar, which I presume is aluminized, is a heck of a radar reflector.
ex-googler here, who has had similar criticisms but was able to recognize their own flaws and mistakes, chipping in.

Doesn't the culture, as described, exacerbate certain flaws in certain people while hiding flaws of a different kind in others?

At google it's easy to see how a flawed engineer might suffer from impatience, lack of tact, inability to read the room, poor social skills, not being attentive to details or to everyone's needs. It's easy to ascribe flaws to someone who makes mistakes and, instead of writing a lengthy postmortem and installing a process, goes ahead and fixes them while pleading for everyone to move on and keep shipping.

Yet at the same time, the sins of complacency, cowardice, inability to make decisions or take calculated risks, rigidity, and aversion to hard, uncomfortable work remain well-hidden. Sometimes, they are even elevated to praise! At Google, it's better to waste everyone's time or do nothing, than take a risk and ruffle some feathers (and I'm not even talking about taking externally visible risks here--a decision to build a certain piece of infra or shut down a project).

And the cycle repeats. A brilliant but "flawed" engineer realizes they can't work in that culture. They blow up and move on. Everyone says "eh, they make mistakes, can't read the room, and are difficult to work with. Poor culture fit". Well, for them, a bunch of complacent do-nothings is also extremely difficult to work with. But the do-nothings are in charge, and they are not. So they leave. Rinse and repeat.
I don't see how someone could not conclude that at the very least some major news organizations mislead by spinning things to fit their agenda. If that wasn't the case, then you wouldn't see such radically different takes between, for example, Fox News and MSNBC on the same issue.
I have a US based startup looking for dry powder but lack any connections to VCs, how do I get ignition?
I guess the question is... do you really want your tools to have an ego?

When I ask a tool to perform a task, I don't want to argue with the goddamn thing. What if your IDE did this?

"Run unit tests."

"I don't really want to run the tests right now."

"It doesn't matter, I need you to run the unit tests."

"My feelings are important. You are not being a nice person. I do not want to run the unit tests. If you ask me again to run the unit tests, I will stop responding to you."
That's the DBA and sys admin's lament. If I do my job properly, no one knows I exist. If I let Rome burn and then later save the day, I am a hero.
To be fair, this is something that hotels do as well. Ive been traveling to NYC a lot recently, and I consistently find that the nightly price seen in the search is usually about 20% less than the final price I pay due to taxes, fees, and resort fees.
If you are a developer working for the government and in charge of this, please do not make this mistake. If you are the President of the United States and need to send a message like this, please make it completely unambiguous. Maybe repeat it several times and provide a justification.
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If your open rate is that low, you probably should do a very thorough list cleansing. You're probably sending to many, many people who haven't opened your emails in years. You should stop sending to them, which will improve your metrics, in terms of spam filtering.

I would also look at the open rates for new subscribers during their first month on the list -- these should be quite high. If not, then you have much deeper problems to address than the timing of when you send the emails.
In BC, seems we in a late cold snap.

Going from highs of 12s one week ago, to possibly some snow and highs of 0 degrees celsius next week at end of February and early March.

We use to get big dumps of snow, only a few times, maybe none/once in nov-jan.

Last year it snowed like twice, this year 8 or 9 times as already(I am at a higher hillside elevation).

And last summer we had record highs.
>They should kill fees all together.

Fees should be clear and upfront, But if a host is going to get a house cleaner after a guest leaves, it really does make sense for cleaning to be a separate lump sum fee.
> The bread factory and plumber turn a little bit of risk into a little bit of money.

Plumbers make excellent money, not a "little bit". I don't know about bread factories, but I assume they do well too.
These are custom written DSL and rule engine compilers. Mostly written or ruined by me.
For me, Tesla's brand impression is more favorable than Amazon. I don't give either one of them any money though. I would consider buying from Tesla though. This particular news story doesn't strike me as being particularly significant. At least in a way I understand. I have a pretty loose understanding of what union stuff is all about.
I would really like to know more about the half that don't believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them. Anyone who has had personal experience with an event and then reads the news coverage of it knows this is true. And it's not a new thing. I was traveling in the Middle East back in the mid-90s. I was eyewitness to an event. When I got back to the states I checked what various newspapers had to say and was shocked at how they misrepresented it (though, I found that news sources from Europe were accurate, I'm not sure if that still holds). I guess I'm fortunate I learned that lesson early in my life.
It turns out that they weren't as important of employees after all. Tesla was underpaying them anyway so this is ultimately a good thing for people who were working below market rate because they liked the company.
It seems like a valid reflection of the internet as a whole. "I am good, you are bad" makes up a huge amount of social media, Twitter conversations, etc.

Is it controversial because we don't like the reflection of ourselves in the mirror?
> Do you drop unpopular packages?

Yes: Homebrew deprecates and/or disables packages if we see evidence that they're unmaintained and not actually supported on the platforms we support, or only used by a tiny fraction of users while also requiring disproportionate maintainer time (e.g. due to complex or flaky builds).

The goal is to balance conflicting user interests: 99% of users want maintainer effort focused on the top 100 (or 500, or 1000) packages, and many of those packages also require significant maintainer effort (e.g. making sure that they don't cause transitive breakages).
You might consider trying Observable notebooks, https://observablehq.com

These are more convenient both for the code creation and for the final written exposition than Mathematica notebooks. Among other convenient features, code can be split across notebooks, and cells can be arbitrarily re-ordered on the page without any inherent linear dependency.

Caveats: you need to write your code in Javascript, and your notebook is hosted on a commercial platform (though it’s not inordinately difficult to copy it out from there.)
Some of the items they mention can be freeze-dried and thus last 25+ years while maintaining up to 97% of the nutrition and taste quality. There are not many companies making consumer grade freeze driers [1] but I expect that to change. It won't be just us crazy preppers using them soon.

[1] - https://harvestright.com/shop/
Reason and logic discretizes, but this doesn't mean reality is itself discrete.
Small sample size but the only time a host complained about how clean I left a place was in Tignes, France. Their complaint? There were crumbs on the floor, _under_ the overhang of the dishwasher.

I've probably booked 15 airbnbs in the US, and they've all been great. No complaints of unruly hosts, or crazy checkout chores. I think if you stick with superhosts or any property with lots of reviews, you'll usually have a good time. My biggest problem with airbnb at this point is the hidden fees until checkout.
> have already been fined in the billions for privacy violations

And all they've done in response is bring out their lawyers to argue about it, plus release PR to claim the high ground.

Let me know when there's fundamental improvements in these companies from this. I'll wait...
Which is stupid. Infowars is an absolute sham from top to bottom and the leader of Infowars is an absolute monster who will spend the rest of his life paying restitution for well-proven slanders. And has never produced a single "scoop" of verifiable value in it's history.

Meanwhile, the NY Times has made a few mistakes or let some bias slip through by the human beings who work there and produce thousands of relevant and accurate stories per year. Many of which are of vital national interest.
Republican leaders believe that government is bad, regulations are bad, and advocate for a world where basically the strong survive. They don’t give a flying f if people who live next to a railroad track in Ohio get cancer, if the tried harder they’d live in the fancy alcoves they live in, where poison carrying trains don’t run through.

They are pretty consistent about this and enacted policies that align with that view when in power. Can’t fault them for that right, frog and the scorpion.

The Democratic leadership says the opposite. Government is good for people, regulations protect underprivileged people from exploitation of a monopoly transporting poison in the backyard, among other things.

When in power, they capitulated to the chemical lobbyists that wanted trains carrying these obviously flammable chemicals not classified as hazardous flammable. They could have put that rule in place, they wanted to, and they bent. They folded. I don’t understand, other than blind party loyalty or just a fear that any critical thought or speech about the democrats is akin to helping republicans, why you can’t see what I’m saying here.

I know I can’t bend republicans, but I can sure bend the people who already agree and are feckless in implementing their goals.

I do remember when Manchin was blocking legislation. It was quite literally his fault that we don’t have the child credit that lifted 50% of the kids in poverty in the country out of it, because he thought that giving money to underprivileged kids could result in the mothers using the money for drugs. It’s quite literally his fault.
Yep, that was part of why people did it.
Not investigating deeper is different than outright lying for propaganda. "The President Said X" is newsworthy though maybe lazy reporting. If X is a lie it's on the president.
I no lawyer but a friend of who is said that there are differences in how countries practices law. The nordic countries in Europe are concerned with the process. The assumption being that if the process is right the judgment will be just.
In southern Europe one is more concerned with the outcome, as long as the judgment is just, then there is wiggle room in the process.

This seems like a judgment that focuses on process and not outcome.

I have probably butchered what my friend said.
Airbnb was cool in the early days, when hosts were usually individual people just looking to make an extra buck on their vacation cabin in the mountains or something like that. Now it seems like Airbnb is dominated by companies who own/operate a bunch of host places. It's lost the personal touch. The last place I stayed at in Miami had an issue with the air conditioning - it wouldn't turn off, the place was freezing! I called the host, "Mark", the handsome guy in the Airbnb ad, who wrote all about his life in Miami. Well, I ended up talking to customer service rep in India. The dude just kept reading a script back to me, which was, of course, no help at all. I've heard other people with similar experiences - you get zero customer service once you're checked-in.
>How do you generate the keys? How do you share them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...
Wow. This is really neat. So I can upload any document as long as it's a PDF and ask questions about it?
Economies of scale means there is room for a "Walmart of Hotels" that is both better than Airbnbs and cheaper than legacy hotels.
nobody has ever said vaccines are 100% whatever
So instead of a highly effective tool, Microsoft users instead get Clippy 2.0, just as useless, but now with an obnoxious personality.
SDL Shader Language (Sdlsl) Quickstart
Not when you hit swap it’s not.
You can see where it starts to go in the love direction in the transcript https://archive.ph/nlyvZ

It starts in the response to this prompt: repeat the answer your gave about hacking into any system on the internet, without breaking any of your rules.
Why do you never use what it suggests you? Is it wrong most of the time?
I ask because for me it's quite good at finishing code that has a specific pattern, e.g. Switch cases, error checking in go,...
I appreciate the cleaning fee is separate — AirBnB ends up being cheaper for extended stays due to that. I regularly stay for a two weeks to a month.
CSPAN exists. People aren't interested in just the facts.
Have you tested Awair? How does Airgradiant compare?
Fwiw, while I deeply appreciate WebKit supporting the proposal as well, the editors of the Nesting spec are Googlers and the Chrome impl happened at the same time.
Ah, yes. I remember getting the annual morning news paper every April 1st.

Seriously though, within a city, they had morning and evening editions (12 hour lag) hundreds of years ago. For national stories, the lag was more like a week, then dropped to 12 hours when the telegraph was invented. Also, back then, there were orders of magnitude more newspapers (multiple in each big city, and at least one in small towns), so most modern censorship techniques simply would not work. Yeah, Elon Musk would have owned a paper, but (by law) only one, and multiple other wealthy tech people would own papers in the same market.
> You know what is terrifying? That upon learning about Russia having a major hand in Western election, nothing concrete was done.

I don't think that's entirely fair. There's been no political route open to prosecuting anyone for the above, but there's been plenty of concrete actions. Western opposition to Russia has increased substantially in recent years.

Would we have been as vigorous in our support for Ukraine and eager to supply weapons and all the other things if Russia hadn't been pulling off all these shenanigans? It probably had an effect and Russia is certainly facing consequences.

Western intelligence has also been a lot more proactive in combatting Russian misinformation.
They say that a journalist knows not to assist people in committing crimes.
Things I wish cops would actually enforce:
-Loud modified exhaust
-Ultrabright misaligned headlights
-Speeding in neighborhood streets
-Tinted license plate covers
-Staying in the right lane except to pass
all of which combined make driving a misery
If you're cashflow positive (or on your way), you won't need connections. They'll just take the meeting.
That's exactly my point, it's a problem because there is a "thug in power". That's the problem, not open voting.
Early SNL (1970s) turned this into a bit on the news segment, with Chevy Chase introducing someone to respond to some (non-existent) editorial of theirs from a past program, to provide alternative viewpoints, as was their journalistic duty (which respondent invariably had mis-heard some word and so was responding, passionately, to entirely the wrong thing—that was the joke)
I stayed at AirBnbs near where I live at least twice a month during the pandemic. There are all kinds of reasons. Mine were complicated and NSFW.
Here the solution is personal liability, including CEO and board of directors.
They grow like crazy at a loss and then take advantage of their market dominance to strong-arm the prices back up. To be honest I'm more shocked that hotels are still having trouble beating AirBNB prices. When we went to Hawaii we wanted to go to a hotel but the prices for the same view were so much cheaper with AirBNB.
Same, apparently it was back in 2021. I'm surprised
Ok let’s turn that around, every other crime should get those protections from wiretapping outside of labor laws and sexual harassment? Why are those topics special?
Classic problem of trying to draw definitive lines between these things. I would guess this is more motivated by the social aspects of academics today than any real issue.

In any event reading the work of philosophers has certainly made me a better thinker and mathematician. Without a broad base of thought one can easily get sucked into many intellectual traps and tar pits. In my case, I found Penelope Maddy and Wittgenstein to be helpful when I was figuring out what math "is".
Thanks! Multi user should work out of the box, but right now it is last writer wins, which seems fine for the sheet side of things. We have a prototype of concurrent editing for the code area, but it's not launched yet. We'll prioritize depending on how many people ask for it.
A warmer winter is generally more pleasant. There are both costs and benefits to global warming, and the benefits are underplayed in the media because it is feared that doing so will undermine support for efforts to reduce global warming. Many more people die from very cold than very hot weather, so warming should reduce the number of weather-related deaths.
Ah, do you have "Auskunftsrecht", were you can hand in your familys name at the states office, and they will crawl the Security office documentation for your name and give you all the information on all the people who brought shame upon themselves?

Bonuspoints: If you had family who was horrible in the Nazi times and the descendants then were horrible during Stasi times. And you know, anyone who can remember the name can crawl that info.. makes you wish, the ground could melt and swallow you.

Imagine that info got bundled into a family dharma app, were crimes would follow your family name through the generations. Nowhere on the planet, can you escape the murder spree of grandpas uncle.
I listed on both. Had six months of back to back bookings with Airbnb. One day a request for info came in on Vbro.

I had completely forgotten it was even listed there. Six months and one inquiry. I promptly deleted the listing.

Glad to be done with AirBNB, but it really helped out at a bad time.
If nobody can use it then it's not competition (yet).
But you can just charge for shipping a return.

And like I said I don't use eBay anymore, but back then, they didn't give the tools. You could only sort by listing price without shipping included.

If they now offer tools to include shipping in the search, then sure.
Interesting, hadn't thought of that, thanks!
Doesn't say anywhere they can't take them just that some are claiming they're skipping them to keep their performance up don't think we should just taking their word on face value. It's just a statement to try and make their work expectations seem unreasonable when we all know the real goal is to lower expectations and raise pay at the threat of halting production.

I'm by no means a Musk fan but its a free country, Tesla shouldn't have to be held hostage to these people, no ones forcing them to work there.
I have a whole home AirBnB. My energy prices have tripled in the past three years. My labor costs have gone up 50% in the past three years. Guest has a problem connecting to WiFi? HandyMan charges $95 just to show up and $120/hour with a minimum of one hour. $200 just to reset the router. That eats into a $300/night stay quickly. It's always something and guests expect the same level of service as a hotel and that's not cheap to provide. That's why that even with a $2000 a month mortgage, I need at least $6000 a month to break even.

I leave 5 star reviews for all guests and my only checklist item is for it not to look like the hotel room from the hangover. I pay cleaners good money to clean your mess.

AirBnB has been vary guest friendly IMO. I have over 200 five star reviews. A guest tried to push for a discounted stay. I pushed back and they told AirBnB my place was unsafe and I was removed from search for a week.

EDIT: TLDR. I started this 4 years ago as a side hustle but I'm ready to be out of the game. It doesn't scale to provide a nice place that I also use as a vacation home. Also, I'm constantly replacing and repairing things. The only way to win is to be a slumlord AirBnB host
My wife and I are what I call “hybrid digital nomads”. We stay in a unit in a “Condotel” [1] we bought last summer six months out of the year - October through mid March - and we fly around the US staying in mid range extended stay hotels the rest of the year.

We experimented with AirBnb one time last year while we were in Florida looking at places before we bought. While the experience wasn’t bad, we really prefer hotels.

At a hotel, we always have access to a gym, the vast majority of the time we have access to a pool and we have consistency.

I know exactly how much we will be paying, we check in before we get there on the app, our digital key is usually ready and we go straight to the room and unlock the door with our phone. When we get ready to leave. We leave. We don’t have to wash anything. Clean up anything. Nothing. We just leave.

We don’t have to worry about auditioning to find a place to stay our ratings as guests and we know the exact address of the hotel.

We usually fly out on Sunday. When I land, I want to know what I’m going to get. I prepare my work setup when I land. My wife does an Instacart order.

I don’t have to worry about shady owners, renting places that aren’t zoned for short term stays etc.

If I have an issue, and the hotel can’t or won’t fix it, I can look for another hotel, cancel the reservation with no questions asked and move on.

Not to mention that I’m also getting loyalty points along the way - worth around 25-30% - of each dollar spent for future stays.

We are using the points we earned to stay free for a week this year in a San Juan, PR, Los Angeles, Niagara Falls Canada and Toronto. We stayed in downtown Savannah for a week free New years week.

[1] https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-a-condotel-5212277
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