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GaSaaS would be a great product for a large majority of Fortune 500. Oh wait that already exists, it’s called “consulting firms”. And they are useless most of the time.

Unfortunately for this to work, ALL parties need to “give a shit”. Sure this might work for a small “boutique” firm working with another small “boutique”. But at the end of the day, big firms are probably farming the work down to a low level employee or contractor (think VP -> Executive VP of Acquisitions -> Managing Director -> Director -> Manager -> Lead Project Manager -> Project Manager -> some person working with project manager) with a set of requirements.

Initially it was to be completed in 4 weeks. But in order to impress their boss, one or more of these people kept reducing the deadline and suddenly it’s a project that’s wanted to be completed over the weekend.

Low level person doesn’t give a shit. As long as it meets min spec, it’s Gucci. The further questions asked by the 5th vendor will probably get ignored.

Upon completion, everyone is “happy” it’s delivered before their anticipated deadline.

Except upon delivery the product is “half assed”. Nobody is really happy but they keep their mouth shut and accept it anyways so they can pump their numbers.
My last full stack passion project I used Axum for the backend/API, Mithril.js with Coffeescript for the frontend, then S3* and Meilisearch for data storage.
I own my car, and that's about how much I drive; less, actually, I think. Not having a daily commute and mostly only using the car for longer trips (I live in a walkable city with decent transit) helps. It's nice to have a lower insurance rate for driving much less, too.

I've considered it might be overall cheaper ditching the car and renting (or ubering, which I do sometimes) when I need one, but I value having the car ready to go at an unplanned moment's notice. And I just prefer having my own car that I'm familiar and comfortable with.
The concept you outlined is technically very feasible but economically prohibitive. There are high value situations that incorporate these techniques as standard practice. For example, the diagnosis of rolling mill fault conditions with FFT vibration monitoring has been in practice for at least 50 years. Of course when a cold strip mill goes down, the damage can be measured in megabucks.

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> But Uber drivers also tend to drive their vehicles into the ground. This higher rate of utilization can lead to a lot of damage — certainly more than Hertz was anticipating.

I'm mainly curious how Hertz got this so wrong.

They must have gathered some kinds of stats on Tesla repair rates per mile driven -- why did the math turn out to be wrong? Does driving an EV 10,000 miles over the course of a month damage it far more than driving 10,000 miles over the course of a year?

Or if they knew there were big unknowns, I'm surprised Hertz didn't or wasn't able to offset a lot of the risk of higher damage rates to Tesla as part of a fixed-fee maintenance contract or something.

There's always the possibility that a low-level analyst just messed up their spreadsheet, but it's hard to believe that passed executive review. When a team pitches their proposal to the execs, it's precisely the execs' job to look at the slides and challenge each and every number and say "hey wait a minute, these numbers for wear-and-tear seem in line with historical, but two slides ago you said 50% of the fleet will be for rideshare." If they missed it, that would be a gigantic failure of management.
Oil changes? How does the ECU know? Only if someone resets the oil change indicator. All you have to do is reset the indicator and not change the oil.
It is actually nice to see people trying to make old crypto mining hardware work. For the most part, it is all e-waste, but I'm sure there is a few gems out there.

My operation was majority on super old model AMD gpu's (RX470 - 580), so there really isn't much use for them now anyway.
> Thoughtful.

That single one word is the one thing he systematically uses to weasel out of difficult conversations.

The full sentence is usually "this is a difficult issue, we have to be very thoughtful about it".
I use Typescript and Python. Usually Svelte or Vue and Django. For Async components of the backend I write components in Go.
At least the Wii U can just be powered using a 15V PD trigger. The maximum current requirement of 5A isn't met, but works just fine. Since the Wii needs 12V I would add a DC-DC converter but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work.
The thing is, express's foot guns are well known and well documented, and you basically just enumerated them. If you pick another framework then you'll be left exploring its footguns on your own. That may or may not be worth it to you, but it's not obvious to me that choosing the well-known framework is a worse choice than choosing the ones that try to solve its problems but don't yet have the rough edges discovered and documented.
Email the authors, ask for a copy.
Ah damn I need this! My Skoda has squeaky brakes, except they only squeak when you aren't pressing the brake. Clearly something is rubbing but I can't see what, and it's intermittent and also impossible to Google.

I'm skeptical it would actually work well though.
This may be pedantic, but I'm baffled that PBS page doesn't mention every PBS station is available for free over the air.
It still does. Especially after heat cycling, and taking on all the garbage that gets past the rings, and all the moisture that collects in the crankcase. Maybe sitting on a shelf is fine, but in the engine it definitely will break down. It lasts longer than conventional but isn't indestructible.
That was supposed to be what Tinder was for! Then somehow it turned into people trying to find actual relationships on there, and then everyone else decided to try to copy their success. So we had the situation you describe, but it didn't last.
It's probably more a cumulative thing. In the western US, for example, there are a lot of bad mountain/desert/etc. roads that are rough on a vehicle, especially basic street cars. I've never taken a rental on a road I wouldn't have taken my own car on but I'm sure I've caused more wear and tear than just driving a car down the highway.
The entire premise of that analysis is broken by a simple truth - that while rarely discussed in "polite society", it turns out that women enjoy sex too.
s/available/acceptable and you have it.

There's a reason for this, how we raise girls is tailored to making good girlfriend/wife material. You don't see the incredible amount of effort that is spent over a lifetime to this end because we're
used to it.

Once you see the dynamic you can't unsee it. It even happens with bisexual women where the joke is, "I'm attracted to like 10 men and every woman."

For better and worse boys don't get this treatment. If you spent 10,000 hours under the weight of intense social and societal pressure to mold yourself into someone that you think of as attractive because your social status depends on it, where the idea of what's attractive that has been planted into your brain since birth lines up with what women find desirable in a partner i'd bet you'd be a catch too.

There's a huge impedance mismatch that is set up to hurt men which is that being the kind of guy that women find attractive hurts your social status among men. Pretty boy is used as an insult but you will find no shortage of women throwing themselves at them.
They do manage the risk. It's all priced in. That's precisely one of the reasons why renting a car is so expensive.

If they hadn't set prices to account for that risk, the rental companies would have all gone bankrupt decades ago.
One thing I always wonder is how did all these countries manage to find enough gold to run an (albeit tiny) economy off them? I've never heard of/seen a gold mine in the UK, and yet 2000 years ago they were mining enough to mint currency. Was it all relatively surface level and rapidly mined out, and now all gone?
I've seen a doctor literally commit suicide when faced with the mere possibility that he caused harm to another human being.
Apple never had product managers while Steve Jobs was alive.

The closest they had was Steve Jobs and Product MARKETING Managers, which are quite different than Product Managers.
>Perhaps the reason I'm confident is because this little thing of mine managed to replace entrenched competitors in a few places. Why can't I do it again?

It's much harder to get people to pay you for a product than it is to convince them to use your product for free.

As a fellow founder, I wish you success, but I think you're assuming success based on things that don't really correlate with success from my experience running indie businesses for the last five years.

I've fallen into the exact same trap myself, so maybe I can save you some time.[0, 1] Before you have money safely in your bank account from real, paying customers, all the indicators you see are highly noisy.

Non-paying users can be a good sign, but they can also lead you astray. You could have 1,000 non-paying open-source users actively engaged with your product, and that does nothing for your business if none of them are willing to pay. You're better off finding 10 users willing to pay $40/month and letting their feedback guide your work.

I recommend testing customer's willingness to pay ASAP. If nobody's willing to pay for what you're offering, it's a sign that your product hypothesis was wrong and you need to gather more feedback about what customers want and pivot.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/shipping-too-late/

[1] https://mtlynch.io/keep-growing-never-profit/
Hertz is the original meme stock, meming its way out of bankruptcy.

Its not about being wrong, its about doing things that get investors to pump money into your company. Tesla is meme-adjacent and Hertz knew that making headlines with Tesla would attract investors.

Now that Hertz lost money, its not their problem. Its their investor's problem. Or perhaps more accurately: its not the Board of Directors or CEO's problem that Hertz lost money per se, they did what they set out to do (ie: sell Hertz stock during a difficult time and raise money). All the Hertz shareholders who have lost real value are... well... that's the shareholder's problem now.
Yes of course most old cars are serviceable. I'm talking about things like not being able to close your door shut properly because the dimensions are slightly off. The quality control was non-existent because the plan took absolute priority and everything else was non-essential to the point the factory could spew the product with half of the parts missing, and ignore the angry consumers who got duped because they weren't affected by consumer feedback in any way.

I actually lived in a planned economy country and I know the bullshit you had to put up with. If you compare apples to apples, i.e. cars made in Eastern Bloc/USSR and the rest of the world of the same era, the typical experience of a car owner in communist countries was exactly like in Cuba - you were expected to constantly fix the half-assed crap you bought because it's literally falling apart. The fall of the wall and the Union led to the instant increase in the quality even during the turmoil of the economic transition. That was long before the prevalence of smart everything, planned obsolescence, "enshittification" etc.
It would be cool if other residents of Dubai got more 30-minute breaks after exercising doing construction/landscaping/etc. jobs in blistering sun throughout the day..
Mitochondria also can trigger cell death - there seems to be good reasons why evolution retained separated genome from the cell nucleus.
K-12 chronic absenteeism went from 15% to 29% from 2018-22
There is an app which [greatly] assists in determining if government-minted coins are in fact solid AUTHENTIC gold bullion -struck. It listens to the resonance after you tap the coin lightly with a lighter.

Something to do with harmonics [I have a fairly good ear for this, myself, but only with well-known currency]. Similar to a digital guitar tuner.

But this simple app really left me awe-struck. Many of the laser testing machines can be fooled in certain gold-plated frauds. Gold's "ting" is unmistakable. It's nice to have a virtual co-agreement when dealing in high-stakes quick transactions.
AT&T sold its Unix-related IP to Novell, which then relicensed some of it to SCO. Whether Novell transferred enough to provide a basis for the lawsuits is itself a question that was argued in court -- and ultimately not decided in SCO's favor. Summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes
Steve Jobs and his inner circle were, arguably, the product managers
Shouldn't we first be looking at the physiology of humour, starting with the rawest stimulus that induces amusement and then trying to determine its evolutionary origins? Philosophical explanations feel like attempting to layer abstractions on top of something whose fundamental nature we fully don't understand.
Undoing self-sabotaging thought patterns is the essence of cognitive behavioral therapy though.
FWIW I was planning to respond “yes, it is the de facto solution, even if I wish it weren’t” and probably leave it at that. Granted I don’t have my pet project to recommend (I left it behind with previous employer), and maybe I would if I had it to recommend. But I’d still acknowledge first that express is the de facto solution.

Also FWIW, there are a bunch of other popular options… but nearly all of them have roughly the same interface and follow the same general principles as express. Again, I wish it weren’t so. But you’re right, that isn’t responsive to the question being asked.
I can't post a comment so I'll report a typo here:

"People are hired based on whether they’d represent no treat"

I think author means "threat".
Consulting firms aren’t useless, they’re just not useful in the straightforward way one would presume their value would manifest.

They’re great catalysts for change, they’re fantastic scapegoats, etc.
A very good point, and it’s probably even worse than random distribution: people are more likely to call Uber in bad weather.
I asked bard to make a comparison chart of OpenAI, Claude, and PaLM's specs (size and context window) and it repeatedly gave me a nice looking table with obviously wrong values.
> Or if they knew there were big unknowns …

It’s possible the driving habits in a rental Tesla are unique as well. There’s already the general principle, “Don’t be gentle on a rental”, but perhaps the novelty of an electric car with a unique pedal system (compared to a gas vehicle) leads to more aggressive driving?
This would be ideal, but as so many people own their own homes, this would be politically unfeasible.

I would increase property tax exponentially after the 5th property or so, to hit the big landlords and investment funds, while keeping the homeowners and small landlords appeased. Then take that money and build or buy public housing to rent for cheap prices, to bring the prices down for everyone.
Open Source Time Appliance Project by Open compute project, nice open source hardware and software to build scalable time sync applications.
In terms of off-road capability it goes: 4x4, rental, rental 4x4.
> Imo, having "on call" rotations is a clear red flag and bad software practice that has somehow made it in the mainstream.

"Just throw more humans at it!"
What’s the NPV of a human being ?

If the US could get a human in 25 years vs now how much should we pay for that kind of growth ?
Yeah, it's usually a pretty cursory check. I've definitely had a number of scrapes over the years that weren't major but weren't totally trivial either and they've never been flagged. Right now I'm driving a rental that has some gouges in the paint up front that I had to make sure got added to my rental contract; presumably these were not identified after a prior rental.
I can’t believe this is getting downvoted. I wonder how many people who downvoted cook for themselves 100% of the time. I’ve never met anybody that does that. Usually you trade cooking nights with a spouse or roommate. You occasionally go out for a nice meal. You use preprepared ingredients.

Is a ready made meal from a spouse worse than a meal cooked by yourself? Is a frozen store bought dinner worse than a pre-cooked meal that you personally cooked and froze? Is a meal made by a chef at a nice restaurant worse because you didn’t cook it yourself? This standard is ridiculous.

It’s especially funny to me, because there’s a running joke in my family that a meal cooked by somebody else always tastes better than when you cook it yourself.
Probably just the classics: K&R, Abelson/Sussman, Knuth, Sterling/Shapiro, Geoffrey James, Tanenbaum, Polya, Crockford, Stroustrup, Bentley, Russel/Norvig, Fall/Stevens.

For fiction authors, I feel like I'm not an author kind of person. Tolkien had a big influence on me, same for Poe and Neal Stephenson. I don't really read a lot of the authors that are considered classics/great writers. If someone asked me if I'd rather never have read "The Great Gatsby" or "Silence of the Lamb", I'd readily purge Gatsby from my brain. I suppose the fiction author our generation will remember is xGPT.
For sure there are plenty of anti-apple comments that lack merit and deserve a downvote. I certainly won't disagree with that.

And I also agree, it is interesting how many Apple haters will read Apple articles. I think the reason for that is that Apple is such a powerful defining force for the tech world. What Apple does has heavy ramifications for everyone, not just Apple fans. For example, removing the headphone jack, charging 30% for the app store, creating the AirPods, establishing a market for smart watches, and now potentially establishing a market for VR headsets, particularly on the high end and with normal people i.e. non-gamers (I say that with love as I am a gamer).
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My company uses metrics and I hate it. The best way to improve metrics? Decrease vertical height so you can fit more shit on the page. Is this actually good for anyone? Probably not.
Srinivasan made headlines earlier this year when he made a bet
the bitcoin price would sky-rocket to $1 million per bitcoin by July

So CLEARLY a great person to use for about half the quotes in the article, amirite?

Those bags aren't gonna pump themselves.
There are some positive movements though. For example the addition of explicit synchronization that the nvidia driver needs to function properly into DRI3 / Xwayland https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests... is active as of right now, and it seems that it will succeed. The corresponding mutter issue https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3300
Yearly services are still thing? All newish cars I know are on a 2 years and/or 30,000 km schedule.
It’s neither. There are still occasional commits to its pre-release branch, last I checked. It’s more fair to say it’s stable than anything else.
More than a dozen years in tech have taught me that roles are simply ways of expressing organizational wishes. You want someone who thinks about something as a product? You open a PM position. You want a team lead? Here's an EM position. Job titles are elements of fiction that allow us to play that RPG called work under different angles. What you ultimately bring to work is your unique mix of talents and experience.

Some people will often break the boundaries of those roles, though, and that's ok. They have ideas and might even come up with their own job titles. An organization must be smart enough to let that people grow and thrive. That doesn't mean one cannot thrive as a PM, or do great work; it's just that an organization usually cannot invest time in deeply knowing who they're getting onboard and so offer precooked roles.
Seems obvious that taxis are used heavily through the day. As rentals probably have more down time either by not being rented out or just sitting in parking lots when people renting them are doing something else. And long distance travel is less wear.
And that's how it should work. The article is poorly written, but it does suggest more ownership from roles such as "area leads" which is close to Apple, I guess. With Jobs being the Uber Lead.
more or less yes. Everything that was easy to find and extract largely has been.
Are leaders sexier than managers?
https://archive.ph/G11qB

Sharing this as I experienced a lot of friction over the years with startups/scaleups that did the transition to (heavy) management too early and as a consequence there was a lot of wasted effort as inflexible plans had to be re-planed into new inflexible plans. All these organisations had the idea that a manager cannot manage more than ~6 people, so in a company with 100 people there would be 2 (sometimes 3) layers of managers.
It just does not add up for me.

> Men are more likely to say they got no matches on a dating site and complain

Does not really align with the fact that men tend to brag about their experience (hence: every single match is mentioned to friends)

> women are more likely to keep quiet of they get few to no matches and exaggerate the number they do get.

But they don't keep quiet, they complain about the quality of the men on display. And the ones who are successful usually don't mention it openly, to avoid negative connotations about promiscuity and such.

> Maybe men are more likely to blame the site or algorithm

In my experience, men tend to compain about the women (namely their behavior to be too picky). As apparent in this discussion as a whole.

> women are more likely to blame themselves

As mentioned, they're likely to blame the choice ("the grapes are sour"), or, if they get any matches, the quality of their dates.

> men must ask and make the first move in most cultures whereas women don't have to.

It's the same on Bumble.
Let’s get rid of on call firemen while we’re at it they shouldn’t really be required.

Let’s all plan our emergencies to 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. And don’t forget the scheduled lunch break at 1pm!
We weren't a very rich family so there wasn't much money to dive into that computer assembly jazz, that's why it took until my brother moved out that we had money to buy a machine specifically built to be good at running games, which is what I meant by gaming PC. I don't know where you get this idea that everyone had their own computer by the year 2000 because I did know families who had that but they were definitely making more money than average.

And again I want to stress that the stores near me didn't have many PC games and online payments were a much bigger pain for us until iDeal got more international support. Maybe there were cheap dedicated PC game stores and hardware stores and easy digital payment systems (read: not PayPal) but if so I wasn't aware of them and didn't know who to ask about it. What does it matter anyway? This was the situation for me as I remember it and I got little reason to lie as it's just a flavorful intro to an analysis into a game I love and want to talk about.
I agree. So, I think the question is, how do you effectively implement stewardship and accountability on product matters without having an organization strictly dedicated to it? The author doesn’t give much of a framework here
“AIs trying to manipulate you” isn’t a statement of fact, it’s an opinion about facts. AI exists, and content is created with it. Another opinion on the same facts would be “ai vying for your attention”.

So this is political in both the sense that everything is political, but also in the much more concrete sense that it is political.