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May you please give some price comparisons for fairly similar items youll find in germany vs us (grocery or otherwise) - lets not talk about healthcare and bribing politicians :-)

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@StuporGlue ;

>>"Yeah, almost all of those prices are lower than in the US....

I think a gallon of milk is about $4.99 or $5.99 (usually ~$1+ higher if we are picking 'organic' (which is a shady subject in-&-of itself)"

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@SamHuk ;

>frakenstein of candy-floss, tiramisu, and ice-cream sundae <-- this sounds good except it being a 'morning coffee drink'

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What/where/how can we track "the cost of doing business" based on zipcodes etc. I find it really odd that california had a lot of oil refineries for gas vs mid-country-states, so proximity to gas (thus delivery) was cheaper - yet has the highest prices... because we have 45 million people in the state to grift off, so its not logistics that cause price hikes. But thats what they want you to believe.

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> (the original Oceans Eleven comes to mind—I don't drop many movies that I start, but I'm not sure I even made it to the 20 minute mark on that one).

Some movies were just never very good in the first place, I'd put the original Oceans Eleven in that category. On the other hand, compare the original The Italian Job to the remake. The remake has faster 'modern' editing but it's definitely a much worse movie than the (excellent) original.
Decouple from the geographical component and buy them on the internet.
This. As an IC my goals are pointless if they don't align with stuff that is already/is going to be funded. Say I make a goal of learning a different piece of the codebase that I find particularly interesting. Well there better be a bug or new feature involving that code for me to get started on, and it better be funded to a level such that I can take extra time to learn, because it was originally budgeted for the relevant SME, who's toes I'll probably have to gently step on just to get access to the work, let alone pass code review.

Needless to say that rarely happens, and even when it does there are often no available followup assignments in the same area to reinforce the knowledge, so you move on to something else and forget 80% of what you learned.
>If you work at a place for 10 years, is it really realistic to expect to get a $10k/yr+ raise every year? Goals or no goals.

If you aren't getting a wage increase above the annual inflation rate each year then not only you're not getting a raise, you're actually getting paid less for the same work (or, rather, for even more work, as your responsibilities will increase with the seniority).

For 100K wage that's like getting a 7K raise atm.
That's one heuristic you could use, yes.

If your goal is "engaging content", that's probably a reasonable one. If your goal is "human-generated content", it's not.
The perception of a singular power of "Government" is an illusion. Government in reality should be seen as more of an ecosystem, with numerous centers of power of various sizes and areas of influence. When a part of government is captured it means that individuals with power within that substructure have little ability to push back against larger external forces acting upon the structure itself. To override that would involve large numbers of people within the structure coordinating against their individual interest, or power from outside that substructure with the ability to apply a countervailing force.
Probably exaggeration for effect, don't take it too literally. But if the bike had been there from the beginning of time, finding the second where it disappeared requires no more than 57 frames to be checked. So if searching billions of years of history only requires checking 57 frames, why is it so hard to check a day or a week or a few hours worth of data? (Of course, if this was before digital video records it could actually be tedious, but hardly impossible, to check even a few days worth of data since that may force a linear scan at least partially.)

Given that they knew when the bike was there (presumably the physicist knew when they locked it up or near enough) they could have found that point and looked forward, and it would have taken far fewer than 57 frames to identify where it disappeared if you're only interested in getting down to the second.

So if they knew the bike was present at 1pm, and it was gone by 3pm (hypothetical since not enough information is given) then they can do a binary search on that 2 hour window, that's only 7200 seconds worth of frames. Start at 2pm, is it present? Flip to 2:30, else 1:30. Repeat. Even a week is only 604k seconds, which would require no more than 20 frames to be checked.
The implication of using K8s to avoid vendor lock-in might also lead to self-hosting your databases and other supporting software.

In this case, you're just standing up normal servers in the cloud, which is pretty trivial in all of the major clouds' terraform providers. As long as the OS on the servers is standard (say, CentOS or ubuntu), your Config as Code stack (think ansible/puppet) won't really care which cloud provider you're using.

If they need to scale, they can add in another server to their infra as code, and make sure the config as code can handle more than one server. Not really that difficult with a little experience with terraform and ansible. There's also room for Auto scaling groups, which all of the major cloud providers support as well.
So many puns...
Political: relating to the ideas or strategies of a particular party or group in politics.

> anything you don't like (or is unlike you) is "political".

As I understand the term, this is correct. Politics are a way of setting standards for parties who wish to negotiate resolution to disagreements in communities, or am I off base here?
Why would uniform pricing make a difference to anyone? Most people go to one or two stores.
Did you know there are 5 desal plants currently operating in California, with more in the permitting pipeline? 10,000x more capacity is not feasible and more importantly not going to solve this problem. Catalina Island now uses desalination which is the clearest and most obvious win for desalination.

The unsolved problems: energy, money, and brine discharge. Desalination is energy intensive. And with the highest energy costs in the nation, SoCal is in a really tough spot to use large amounts of energy on water. The subsidized water from the Colorado river is too cheap not to use.

Reservoirs: similar problem of money. The state has already dammed up all the cheapest and most obvious terrain in California. It gets more expensive to dam up new areas. Did you know there is another large reservoir in NorCal being planned that's almost a decade into funding/planning (Sites)? It's not directly on a river so will require active pumping. 2 more (Pacheco & Los Vaqueros) are being expanded in the near future from the same pile of money paying for the new reservoir. [1]

What California needs is rethinking existing potable water use and combine with smart rain capture. San Diego Airport in recent years has installed large capture cisterns for a parking lot that will offset its largest water use - HVAC for the airport. They've even piloted the capture of condensate from the land-based AC that is brought out to planes on the ground during turnaround. [2]

[1] https://cwc.ca.gov/Water-Storage

[2] https://municipalwaterleader.com/storm-water-capture-and-reu...
And probably coded to run multithreaded and using global variables for intermediate results. ;-)
I expect Xilinx's AI engines to never be integrated into anything AMD. Because Xilinx AI engines are VLIW - SIMD machines running their own instruction set.

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AMD is doing the right thing with Xilinx tech: they're integrating it into ROCm, so that Xilinx AI engines / FPGAs can interact with CPUs and GPUs. But there's no reason why these "internal core bits" should be shared between CPU, GPU, and FPGA.
The batteries are leased in this case, so aside from any other issues, that won't really be a problem.

They're heavy, which is why a mechanism changes the battery. No human could swap an EV battery without mechanical assistance - they're all in the 400Kg + territory! You drive up to the station, and the machine does it for you.
But they all seem to be locked up in streaming services and the like.
Your comments about filing for unemployment don't make a lot of sense. Someone who is terminated for underperformance can still file for unemployment. Failing to meet goals set in a PIP is not "misconduct" such that the employee can be said to have been fired for cause, which would make them ineligible for unemployment.

Even in clear cases of misconduct it's common enough to simply terminate.
Cost of living definitely varies in the US. New York being on the higher end.
Legally, it seems to me that this is as poisonous as "take a shot of everything in your kitchen cupboard and mix it up". It relies on handwaving away both copyright and GDPR concerns.
Eggcellent!
Because if everything that transits on wires is blackbox encrypted anycast content, then you can either 1) block it, and cut the whole internet for that individual, or 2) let it go.
I don't really have a Plan B for my career, but I almost studied linguistics in university, thinking I'd get into academia. I ultimately found working in industry a more rewarding path. My personal current backup plans would involve considering taking some time off to be a stay at home dad, since I am lucky to have an employed partner, or try to work on writing fiction. A back up career could be language translation, but it would have to be only supplemental to my husband's career. Maybe I could do some kind of project management, but I'm not sure what that kind of job looks like outside the software industry.

Some alternatives that don't involve college could be learning a trade like plumbing or electrician work. You could also look into community college at your own pace as you can afford it and find some other shorter term job in the meantime. I would also not give up on programming if it's something you enjoy. You could always try a coding bootcamp (CodeUp is legit) and work your way into the industry via a smaller company where tech is more of a cost center than a core focus area.
>There's a subset of users who are hungry for high quality applications and games. They will happily pay for substantial extensions and content upgrades.

Can you point to someone having this sort of success based on this model in the mobile space?
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Question should be: given that they're not useful, why do annual reviews still exist?
> "Apple" was a much better brand than {someone no one has ever heard of}.

This is of course true, but not relevant.

The personal jukebox was a junk product. Nobody would seriously imagine that the reason it didn’t win against the iPod was the brand.

Now imagine it the other way around - if apple had released the jukebox, and ‘remote solution’ had released the iPod.

Startups with no brand succeed all the time, if they have a great product.
I wish I could tell Apple that I am fine with this airtag tracking me. I am open for a complicated process (not just a popup).
Re the bug:

It’s Fortran so fixed array sizes might be to blame. Being Fortran they’re probably using matrices to parallelize the calculations.
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Yes, it's about reminding us that they have the whip hand. I have a theory that the rise of similar loyalty rituals like sprint planning and standups sprung up in the vacuum created by the now-extinct one of handing out paychecks every other Friday. Nothing says "We determine how well your family eats this week, and don't forget it." like the boss literally walking around with a box of checks.
> free of the requirement to appease rich people

I don't believe this is the case now and it probably hasn't been for a long time, at least since the popularity of modern art exploded. Maybe it was true when the genre was still underground or generally reviled?
Especially for mission critical software that lives depend on.
My country is essentially paying all the expenses of parents who have children and we're still not having enough children to keep our population stable. When people were living on farms, more children were an asset. Most people live in cities now, so children are a liability.

What do you suggest would encourage people to have more children?
I've never quite related to the appeal.

My pet (slightly tin-foil hat) theory is that the draws to this kind of behavior is:

A) It's a status symbol of being able to afford a frequent 9.80$ expenditure on something as basic as frappé (or 5 for a normal coffee).

B) The typical sugar content of drinks (that have sugar/syrups in them) from places like Starbucks is addictive, like how fast-food chains add excessive sugar and fat their products (yes, there is a relatively high amount of sugar in their bread).

I really enjoy the occasional nice coffee with a friend or two, but a 9.80$ Starbucks frappé? To me, they often taste and look like some frakenstein of candy-floss, tiramisu, and ice-cream sundae.

One thing I would like to have some data on is what are frequent Starbucks customers drinking? Are the frequent customers predominantly ordering the addictive items, or is there no correlation?
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Yes you're right. So maybe the policy would not be exactly as you outlined.
Empty platitudes are all they have to offer. What are they supposed to do? Lie and say it'll never happen again? Lie and say they have the power to prevent it? Or to effect meaningful change? Tell the truth that the students in fact are at risk and there's nothing anyone at the university can actually do to prevent it?

The futility of the whole situation has resulted in a culture of ceremony around the devastation as a way to cope. Now that people have violated the coping ceremony, we're mad at them. But why? Because we are powerful enough to at least scold them in an attempt to preserve the coping ceremony. But they're not the ones shooting people. They're not the ones directing policy that causes mass shootings.

Instead, we need to direct all that anger to changing the situation such that they never are put in a position of writing letters about shotting victims. Instead of smugly stating they are worthless people because their jobs can be replaced by a chatbot, we should question why it is the case that someone's job is to write condolence letters after shootings. Why aren't we mad that's an acceptable job function in the US? The solution students are looking for is not more empathy toward shooting victims, it's fewer shooting victims in the first place!
Not at the moment - but it is an option for the future. Technically it is a cyanobacteria not microalgae
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> Over time movies have learned to cut a lot of fat.

Sometimes those scenes are fat. Poorly made movies are certainly not just a modern phenomenon.

But sometimes it's critical that those scenes are as they are.
If this site made sure to include store addresses, it might actually drive egg prices down. I buy my coffee and popcorn at a different store from where I buy the rest of my groceries, I could certainly do that for eggs when they're at $4/doz.
It is. It's just that the culprit is Apple. No demos, IAPs for free games, 70% cut on all transactions, those are the actions that shaped the overwhelming part of the mobile market into a casino-in-everything--but-name.
> the team member was really quite shocked to realise they were underperforming

That's a management fail, to be honest. The first time someone hears they aren't keeping up should not be because you started paperwork on them.
Gotcha, it sounds like terraform by itself might be enough too handle the autoscaling groups, that’s mentioned a few times here and something I was looking at with k8.
When will it come to turn based OSes?
What you're describing is illegal. If there's strong evidence, then the legal system should be brought to bear on discriminatory practices. I don't think that ascribing morality to the general case of people being able to freely enter into agreements at different prices is a good idea.
Sorry, didn't mean to be flip. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34876658

My understanding is that we have achieved very good pattern recognition, but that's only one aspect of cognition. IIUC a large part of our brain works that way, but for example there is also the language center which has recursion.

Also I don't think logic is just word games (could be wrong).

I'm sure we'll get there but I don't think this is it. E.g. AlphaGo was really good because it combined machine learning with tree search algorithms. Seems like logic and language and world knowledge could be combined with the excellent pattern recognition we currently have, merging first generation AI with the current stuff.

I have no idea how! I'm not in this field, just watch from a distance.
Even for low/level embedded drivers code, you don't use 50% unsafe.
Although Python is getting long a little in the tooth. It used to be a simple, easy to learn language, but who can honestly claim its async implementation is 'simple and easy to learn'?

I'm curious if there are any newer alternatives that fit in the same niche.
Yes the exchange rate is not in your favor right now. I spent time in Germany 12 years ago and it was so expensive for me as it was around $1.50/Euro. Recent trips have been nice and cheap. I'm sure it will swing back eventually.

New York is always expensive though.
I love listening to audiobooks at 0.5x speed to really comprehend what I'm listening to. The people who listen at 1x speed are just there for the experience of listening to something and not to get anything from the book. /s
Wasn’t s nanny arrested for doing this in New York …?

/a Dane (still) living in Denmark :-)

Edit - yes she was; I see the link is further down this thread…
If an employee is shocked to be put on a PIP, then something's going wrong during communication. Feedback should be a continuous process so people, managers and employee both, can make small adjustments to ensure they're in the right spot. This obviously needs trust and goodwill from both sides.

For example, my annual reviews aren't so much about setting and discussing goals as it is about how the year actually went, both from a professional and personal standpoint. We talk about projects we finished or didn't, how the company and team is doing overall, and big strategic decisions made by execs that we don't really have control over but impact us in one way or another. Goals are generally set pretty frequently and are achievable. I have 1on1 with my leads every 2 weeks and we exchange pretty blunt but constructive feedback on how we are doing.
Thank you! Kudos :)
In certain regulatory environments it won't be a penalty. It'll be a recall and shutdown.
Yes, I have plans to log user provided inputs and the responses from GPT. You can monitor these inputs/responses to see if the responses that are coming back are of high quality. If it feels like you can improve the prompt, you will be able to use a prompt engineering tool which will let you experiment with different prompts and run them against a bunch of user inputs. You can then compare the new responses to the old ones and see if it's an improvement.

If you're thinking of integrating into another app, one of the next steps is to be able to take the AI web app you built and turn it into a component that you can put into your own websites/web apps. Also, at this point, you will be able to have inputs that are not just user provided, but can also come from your website/web app (e.g. data from your database).
No license statement?
A Starbucks coffee is not $10. A large, handmade dessert like a Frappuccino is $10. A basic cup of coffee is about $3.

Sorry to jump on you but people frequently post complaints about Starbucks coffee being super expensive but then using the price of the most expensive item on their menu that is not a normal coffee.
Couldn't agree with you more, but that doesn't change the political dynamics in place. Until Californians rise up against the real estate and big ag interests that control the state, things will stay the same. California has a reputation for being liberal and progressive, but that's really only in comparison to other retrograde states. It has gotten pretty conservative on all but social issues since the 1970s (and there are glaring hypocrisies on the social front as well when marginalized groups were involved).
I don't find this true at all in my bay area location. Their fish is still the freshest in the area, including when comparing to the local fishmonger. Their produce is well above the quality and freshness of other stores except one, which they can match. Their bakery is still quite good. Variety is roughly the same. It's the same old overpriced-but-reliable Whole Foods.
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> Now imagine it the other way around - if apple had released the jukebox, and ‘remote solution’ had released the iPod.

They probably would have both failed, in that case. Apple for delivering a product that wasn't good enough, and Personal Solutions for having no brand recognition and no retail partnerships/network.

> Startups with no brand succeed all the time, if they have a great product.

Launching a physical product back then wasn't as easy as launching a Kickstarter and eventually transitioning to an Amazon listing. Just having a good product didn't mean you knew how to get it into the hands of customers. Things are much easier these days, and even so... lots of good products still fail to reach market for reasons that have nothing to do with the product itself.
> The first time someone hears they aren't keeping up should not be because you started paperwork on them.

Seriously. That's alarmingly bad management.
Interesting point you make.

My wife and I have shared an icloud account since before family sharing was an option but i was way too cheap to by multiple copies of a weather app etc.

It works fine short of having to make some new tweaks each time i update/restore/add a device (mostly around setting options in iMessage and Facetime to uncheck my numbers on her device and vice versa on mine.).

I have been increasingly mulling over setting up family sharing. But I am also planning a longer trip to another country and bought some airtags for luggage etc, but also to use for our keys/wallet etc.

These comments have me saying sticking with the current setup would be preferred. Specifically for the airtags.
I very much disagree with this.
Allright, then an optimistic estimate of 3 times to "wrap up" the transistor skrinking with current tech.

Then some dies (or chiplet) will probably grow and consume more electricity: I am thinking GPUs... if they can be fed enough data fast enough though. Look at apple Mx dies.

That said, I have still no idea of the geometry of a transistor on a die to get an idea of how far we are (and I am not even talking about ion dopping not working properly anymore).
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