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Pet peeve of mine is trying to buy those packaged cups of pre-cut fruit in liquid. In the US at least, the fruit can be found floating in several subtly different liquids, including:

* a light sugar syrup

* a heavy sugar syrup

* a naturally sweetened stevia syrup

* fruit juice from concentrate (usually/always white grape juice even though there are NO grapes in the product), with no added sugar/sweetener

* the fruit's own juices, not from concentrate, and with no added sugar/sweetener

* plain water and nothing else

The sugary syrups taste fine but I don't want added sugar in my fruit. Stevia doesn't combine well with fruit, because the fruit (peaches, say) is already sweet and the stevia taste clashes badly. Same for the white grape juice from concentrate - why would I want my peaches to taste like grapes?

Only the last two are acceptable to me - I want the fruit floating in _its own juices_ with no modifications made. Water is also fine but is even more rare than juices-only.

Guess which types are the hardest to find at the grocery store? Yeah, the last two, juices-only and water-only.

Similar story for applesauce. There are several different sweetened varieties, but unsweetened applesauce is comparatively rare. The best applesauce is unsweetened with cinnamon added ... mmm! But make sure it's not the type with apple skins floating around in the sauce, that's just wrong.
Using Emoji on the Web
or phone dial tones?
This is one of maybe 10 articles that made me a decent low-level programmer when I got a job in computer graphics 10 years ago. Shockingly relevant (cache tradeoffs haven't grown significantly since core/lane/memory bandwidth considerations haven't changed in CPUs). I still regularly send this around to people getting started.
Your reward for shovelling the most shit is a bigger shovel.

Frankly, it sounds like you're the problem here.
Leave. Email me nico@ramp.com
You don't get promoted this way, the reason these people get so little work done is often because they are working on getting promoted instead. Optics win and your ticket points is not it
Top UK universities are still globally elite. I don’t know how important that is.
You're not accounting for time spent waiting for transfers.
This is a whole bunch of revisionist history dressed up in political us vs them, conservatives vs progressives arguments.
Ah yes, the greatest of all weasel words: "problematic."
Personal experience, with Apple maps I almost never make the wrong turn or miss a turn but with Google maps it happens quite often. The way Google maps zooms in or doesn’t zoom in I always feel like I’m further from the turn than I really am.

On the other hand, when driving somewhere in the boonies G maps tends to be a lot more accurate.
Are there any clients of note?
How to Implement Usage-Based Pricing with Stripe?
It should ask and show what it wants to send so the user can give informed consent.
> its easy to have discount programs for those that need it.

Actually its not that easy. You need someone to check income threshold (how?), have a separate program to distribute that special fare, monitor for fraud, special fare system, etc. Tons of people that would benefit from cheaper fare end up not having access to it if the way to get that discount ends up being complicated (as many social programs are).

I agree transit should be cheaper, not free, but often cheaper helps everyone and encourage habits to change, even among the middle class.
Preamble: While I do live in a city mentioned in this article, I don't use the public transportation here.

I recently visited Tucson, Arizona for a company summit and was pleasantly surprised when taking the local trolly. I didn't have to think about where to buy a fare, how much I would need, which stops I would have to get off/on at, or the fear that I might accidentally get on/off at the wrong stop and be forced to repurchase a fare. I just walked on and off.

I'm happy that my tax dollars might go to something like this that would make the lives of tourists, or those who can't afford personal transportation, that much easier.
> Lawns aren't the problem

> The original forest was nearly completely clearcut...just a few species of timber trees.

So clearcutting and planting non-local, dominating plants isn't the problem,but clear cutting and planting non-local, dominating plants is the problem.

This is obviously two sides of the same coin, when you remove native plants, native wildlife goes away. Just because certain species of wildlife can make it work in the suburb doesn't mean that large lifeless lawns, especially in areas without intermixed native green space, are not killing off birds, insects, etc.
This is a really fun, and atypical, science fiction story.
What agenda? I don't understand how there is an agenda in describing the physics and science of the climate.
Agreed. Is it so hard to render the street names most relevant to your route? It seems to always render the most important names last as you zoom in, when they should be first.
Are you sure that's all they are doing?

When a new coder joined our team they always got loads done as they were left to completely concentrate on their work on the board. Meanwhile, the rest of the team where dealing with support requests, sales requests, pulling stats from the database for random execs, security audits, fixing the build system (again), CV reviews, design documents, code reviews, customer requests, 20 email or slack chains that they are somehow on, invites & menus for the staff party, …
Are you able to extract an image showing the screen in the fMRI machine, as the subject can see it in between pictures ?
Compare that with Google Maps, where anybody can easily add businesses or other places of interest that are missing from the map. How do you go about doing that in Apple Maps? Without an Apple device?
I'm guessing you enjoy doing the work of writing software, because I think most people who are productive like that do.

So I agree with you that "just do less" is not a good answer, and will not actually lead to satisfaction. The risk is not only guilt, but even worse, the soul-destroying feeling of being a useless person just keeping a seat warm. Although I agree with another commenter that doing things like learning new technologies and reading and commenting on Hacker News is "work" that you can definitely allow yourself to do if you would enjoy or appreciate it. If you start resolving somewhat fewer story points but still way more than anyone else, nobody is going to notice/call you on it.

But meanwhile, you are doing work you enjoy doing, what exactly is the nature of your annoyance? Just that it doesn't seem "fair" that they don't work very hard? I think you have to get over that. It's not your job to discipline them, and who knows how hard they are working (maybe they work very hard, they just aren't very skilled) or what else they have going on in their lives that may be very hard and distracting them.

If you would just appreciate working on a team with other people at your level you can collaborate with, if you would just enjoy that more -- you aren't going to get that on this team. That situation is really not going to change on this team, and there's no point in trying to. You will have to find another team/job/role (maybe at the same organization, possibly not) to find that.

Perhaps there is someone on your team who would like to learn from you and get more productive? You might enjoy mentoring them if so, including even pair programming etc.

If you can't control your disdain for the other team members, you will have to find a new job. Neither you nor they are going to be happy if it becomes clear you think they are incompetent slackers.
Leave them alone. Their boss has no problem with them, so don't ruin a good thing for them
Interesting that it aligned with their AAD rebrand.
Surprisingly we still have a few things that could be sold off for a fraction of the price. Think about the long term savings in not having to put effort into continuing costly services and letting someone else do it instead!
Then they proceed to call the samn things “sprints” and except us to do them back to back to no end
I need a job I can care about or else I struggle to do the work.
I disagree. If the program is fast enough for its purpose, and my developers can write better code (as in, code with better architecture allowing for flexible development while being easy to read) and develop features faster, it doesn't matter which language is "right", it matters which one will get the thing developed in an acceptable amount of time. Users would rather have bad software than no software, as you can see with Electron apps that perform like shit.

I'm not saying that performance, memory consumption etc. are completely insignificant. I myself prefer to use faster tools that use less memory. But if all you have is a bunch of Typescript devs, and you want them to develop a CLI, you're not going to get a better result by telling them to do it in Rust. To get a better result you'd have to tell them to learn Rust and work in it for half a year. And yes, that would be better for users in the long run, but that doesn't mean it's realistic in all cases.
You aren't mentioning the people hit by this behaviour - people who use to run cab firms or drive their own cab. Or B&Bs and small hotels.

These people are potentially pushed close to bankruptcy and have to exit the area - because they can't sustain competition against a heavily subsidised competition.

That's value being destroyed - not in a creative way by something better, but as a side effect of a financial shell game.

Also the state often picks up the cost of that - by supporting those people back into work - and the companies that caused it carefully avoid contributing to that by avoiding taxes - because they never make any money....

I think the Uber example is a very good one - bottom line why the predatory practice? Bottom line if they got self-driving cars working - then it would be transformative and they wouldn't need predatory pricing to grow market share.

Why spend all that money on growing the market share, rather than spending on R&D?

I can only assume it's all about engineering a financial exit....

And sure you can say buyer/investor beware - but as I pointed out above, the behaviour is costing others through no fault of their own - sometimes dearly.
The United States definitely has ads/promotions on the map.
What are your thoughts and experience with ads to support the channels? I'm not sure that I could go back to watching US broadcasts in real time without a DVR to skip the ~20 minutes per hour of commercials. US public television at least puts the non-content filler between shows, not in the middle.
Elaborate on this please, after all even in "autocratic" corporations we have internal power struggles etc. So are they democratic too? Suddenly everything is like democracy?
I want to output a lot of numbers (double) and be sure they are in "C" locale (generating JSON output). So it's actually fprintf_l. I can set/restore LC_NUMERIC in a wrapped function, but having a _l version would be nicer.
For me, Apple Maps replaced Google Maps, and Google Maps then replaced Yelp/Foursquare/etc. Apple does a better job of getting me where I want to go and Google does a better job of letting me know what’s around when I get there.
As someone from an actual developing country, I see a lot of very talented people moving there, and they are very happy with their transition. Most of those people could easily get into FAANGs through leetcode interviews, but US visa system drives them to Canada, UK and Germany instead.
> Why is that?

They answer your question: “the sweeteners stand out to me as disgusting.”

There are some people who sense different flavours differently. Those who preceive cilantro as soapy is a famous example. Makes sense to me that for some artifical sweeteners would taste off too.

Plus our sense of taste is affected by all kind of psychological associations. (For example many people preceive “expensive wine” more flavourfull than the same liquid branded as “cheap wine”.)
As they say, "life ain't fair"!
You are in a good position where YOU get to control the output. No need to slack off. Get your stuff done at a reasonable pace. Set aside some time to learn new technologies or other parts of the organization before grabbing the next ticket. Go home on time, and work on your own stuff or other interests outside of work. Sleep well.
yeah - it can mean "by" too... it has a number of meanings. It is the usual "almost but not quite the same as" you get when languages and prepositions diverge. Norwegian and Swedish are pretty similar, except when they are not.
8-Bit Numerical Formats for Deep Neural Networks (2022)
Elaborate, how are employees bigger losers than retail investors? The former would have to find new jobs, the latter could be screwed out of their life savings.
It's not clear to me how this is your problem. Presumably they were staying afloat somehow before you came on board. Does this level of throughput allow for them to remain profitable somehow? If not this would be a good topic to address in a skip level 1:1.

If it's just the principle of the thing that's bothering you, my advice would be to either go someplace where your peers will be closer to your level, or to just choose to not be bothered by things that don't actually negatively affect you.
If you work super hard, you run the risk of being irreplaceable.

And if you are irreplaceable in your current role, how do you expect to get promoted into another role?
But most people in the UK can afford to go to them, which is maybe by design.
You reminded me of this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxY0-Qr_l78
PinkyDoll Mesmerized the Internet
Agreed, this use of scam can quickly reduce to "most business models are scams." And that is less than useful.

I do think there is something there. At large, tech's chasing of "scale" robs so many ideas of the ability to grow and be acceptable in the small. Frustrating, as nothing works at scale. Pretty much period. And "in the small" can still be quite large and manageable for many successful people.

But so much of this argument seems to be on a redefinition of predatory pricing. Non sustainable pricing is not the same, all told. Especially when what makes it non-sustainable is the growth in the company. Either in market share, capabilities, or general offerings.

I'm wary of turning a lot of this into whataboutism argumentation. But it would be very helpful if there was a callout to what is pushed forward as an alternative model. I'm not seeing it in this article. :(
Maybe I’m just naive, but I would never have predicted that ad would be controversial enough to be banned. It seems like totally reasonable messaging for an e-bike company - why not play to your strengths? Maybe in the ad space it’s more clear where the invisible lines are and they really did mastermind that this would elicit a huge negative reaction that they could play up for marketing purposes.

When clicking on that link I was expecting to see some Italian Job inspired ad about their bike retrieval service. Camera opens on two slim but imposing men in adidas jump suits and dark sunglasses, looking down at an iPhone with a flashing red dot on a map. The lighting is dark, the feeling gritty. They look at each other with unspoken affirmation before kicking down a door in narrow European tenement hall. Inside the apartment is littered with clearly stolen bike parts. The bike thief looks up from his chop stand, VanMoof eBike leaning against a wall beside him, and makes eye contact. Without a word, the thief grabs the bike, hops on it and bolts out the window. The two men each grab bikes in some half-state of disassembly and follow him out. A bike chase across European roofs follows. Sounds of a helicopter above. The thief is eventually cornered on a rooftop, the two men close in, camera fades out. The camera opens now, to the same two men holding the bike, in front of another door. Except this time the lighting is bright sunshine, think classic happy retail commercial. They’re wearing khaki shorts and polos, looking like basic, friendly big box retail employees. The door opens to a woman who face is initially concerned, then upon seeing the bike, she is relieved, and hugs the two men. Scene fades out. “VanMoof Theft Recovery Service. We’ll get it back.”

That I could see getting banned.
My browser looks very similar to this: https://framagit.org/ariasuni/tabcenter-reborn/-/wikis/theme...

Tab list usability remains pretty much the same regardless of how many tabs are open.
Does Vivaldi nest tabs yet? Its been a few years since I tried it but it didn't use to.

With TST, I can open a link as a new tab (middle click) and it is shown as a child of the opening tab. This makes it easy to minimise or close a whole tree of tabs.
>Britain isn’t a developing country, it’s a regressing one.

There's so much research on developing countries, but I find deteriorating countries more interesting. There are many countries that used to be first world, and simply are not anymore. Argentina is the classic example, South Africa is the most heated example.
> For the self-driving car, it shouldn't know cultural norms and be "more careful" sometimes. It should always know how much it sees and what stoping distance it can get with max breaking and its reaction time and adjust accordingly.

I used to live next to two schools. In the morning before school the pavement and road outside my house was always full of school kids on bikes. During this time I'd drive with the assumption that at any moment a bike could drive out in front of my car because those kids were nuts and often did.

But to assume this generally just to be safe would be extremely inconvenient. In reality if I see a group of bikers wearing lycra I will assume their competent bikers. While I'll still drive carefully, I won't assume they're about to pull out in front of my car.

If self driving cars operate with the assumption that every pedestrian is drunk and every bike on the road is a 12 year school boy then no one will use them. Do self driving cars try to this currently? If I jaywalked in front of a Tesla is it designed to always be able to stop in time?
1a. The cab shows up but then picks up another person who flagged them down

1b. You have an emergency and need to cancel or the cab can't find you and the company blacklists your phone number.
United States, they highlight retailers or restaurants on the map that are paying for ads alongside other large landmarks.
I can’t help but feel Stream Deck is too close to Steam Deck for many people, including myself.
Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/style/pinkydoll-social-me...
I see 2 directions you can go:

If you work remote, get overemployed and collect multiple paychecks and be decent at those jobs instead of a rockstar.

Else, continue crushing it, this job looks WAY too easy for you and you wont grow here without having the right challenges and learnings. Look for roles in other teams in the company where you are not the smartest one in the room. Once you grow there and start crushing it, you will grow naturally.
I remembered the same. I am pretty sure this was originally an article in either Motor Trend or Car and Driver which was posted on their website.
Private companies abusing works shared in good faith for free in order to profit is like communism? I'm sorry, that's just absurd "anything I don't like is communism"-level thinking. These are organizations operating under the incentives of capitalism to achieve the goal of capitalism (and lots of tech enthusiasts trying to come up with post-hoc justifications for the shiny new toy).
They probably has stuff talking 5V to connect.
> In my experience, engineers who don't use one are a detriment to the entire engineering organization wasting time and money

Well that's a strong opinion and probably a closed minded one.

Maybe you exposed your mindset and this is part of the reason you didn't get the job.

After all you're being judged on everything, including your attitude. Not just your technical prowess.
Probably PGO.

Even prebuilt Firefox tend to be faster than distro provided ones, at least at some point on the past.
As does most of the educated populations of rEurope and India etc - I’m an English dev working in the EU and the fact that I speak English is of no real advantage over my peers.
> You describe a world where you can watch the pattern slowly fade out and stop when it is gone.

Yes, this is a phenomenon that happens very often during alpha research. You discover something that is decaying already, and you join the wagon until there is no anomaly to correct anymore, at which point you should have found other wagons to join. It's an eternal race of finding new alphas while your previous ones decay.

The rest of your argument doesn't really make sense. You seem to be just against any form of statistical inference.

"Alpha" is called like that on purpose because it is _not_ noise anymore. If you regress it against your benchmark, you should definitely see a difference between alpha and epsilon, given you have enough points to reach statistical significance.

> one would have to show that stocks differ from random walk series

There is easily 40 years of litterature on the subject. You can convince yourself in 5m by running a PCA of stocks returns against beta, sector and country. Then you can run a second round of PCA of these residualized returns against momentum, size, value and quality. Quants funds find alpha against these latter residualized returns.
I used the term dumping specifically, because (to my understanding, and hectored at by an econ professor once who made it stick) it refers to trade out-of-your-home-market rather than purely "international trade"--and what 'home market' is is, itself, a thing for debate.

If you parachute in with enormous sacks with dollar signs on them from Silicon Valley and engage in deep predatory pricing in other cities and states both within your country and without, I'm comfortable calling it dumping.

Your other point wrt the FTC is, well...womp womp.
These systems don't pull the wheel when they detect something in another lane. They do pull the wheel if you try to change lanes and fail to signal.
> Also in recent times some people don't like them, because they did a big review of mask studies and found there was no reliable evidence that masks worked against COVID.

Oh.

I quickly found this:

"The new scientific review on masks and Covid isn’t what you think" Kelsey Piper

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/2/22/23609499/masks-...

Based on the criticisms, I expect Cochrane will revisit this topic.

Progress isn't a straight line.
Can you elaborate more on how the UK's workers rights are "literally worse than the US"? I would say things like statutory sick pay, mandatory holiday allowance, protection from unfair dismissal and the right to uninterrupted breaks are all pretty progressive compared to the States.
Potentially they were/are trading long term depreciation on their vehicle, as well as the opportunity cost of working for a traditional employer for short term cash infusions and not really making any money.
The Expansion of the Universe Is Just a Mirage
Growing up I assumed the UK was pretty rich. But then when you look at the stats, the UK is about as wealthy as Mississippi, one of the poorest states. Learning that people with college degrees in the UK make 25k GBP, and that is considered good, sure isn't that bad when GBP was worth 2x USD. But people are living in London for those salaries. The big expensive cities in the US, like NYC pay you much more to compensate for the high cost of living.

In the US I know people with GEDs working Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, Diesel Mechanics, etc. making $100k-150k in areas where a house in the nice neighborhood cost $200k. So the fact that you have people making so little in London where it costs a million to buy a house really shows how bad the UK has it.