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This is about mass layoffs, not terminating individual employees for "personal reasons".

I am not an expert, but I think the union claims that this is one thing that is now worse for the Spotify employees who are laid off?

Meaning, sure, there is a degree of basic legal protection, but during layoffs, having a collective bargaining agreement will give you better conditions than that?
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… I’m not even sure what he’s getting at. Are multinational corporations the exploited proletariat in this analogy?
Please not ID. I was with you right up until that point.
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The quality of the information is such a concern that Google decided to remove the app from their app store.
Looks like the planform they used before GitLab was Flyspray.

I assume this brings better integration between SCM and bugtracker.
> “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”

Says the oligarch to the masses.

That word is often used in only a post-Soviet context, but the word is Greek and far older than the Soviet Union, and the Wikipedia page has a pretty clear definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy and whilst the word triggers near-allergic reactions from Americans it does seem to reflect the power control in the US recently.
> The way our unions are being portrayed by Americans is ridiculous.

Americans policymakers believe in freedom of association only when it suits them.

Its cool for Google or banks to close all your accounts without any reason, and make your life impossible.

Its wrong for all unions/workers to refuse to work with Google and make their business impossible.
That’s the camp I’m in. DnD 5e feels pretty shallow compared to the DOS:2 system.
At the time of the third age Middle-Earth is indeed spherical. Eru explicitly changed it after the fall of Numenor, putting Valinor out of reach. It was flat before.

The final war with Morgoth also destroyed a good chunk of western middle earth

With such common and devastating divine interventions it is not surprising that plate tectonic is not a good predictor of geography :D.

Note that Arda is supposed to be planet Earth , circa ~10000 years ago, but of course the geography only vaguely matches.
This is the government that ignored reports of child sexual abuse for decades resulting in the sexual abuse of 1400-2000 children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_explo...

End to end encryption doesn’t actually harm children and may in fact help them by allowing whistleblowers and others to safely report government misdeeds.
Maybe. I just miss the hard rubberized steel from my Motorola Milestone.
Spotify also had a breakdown with unions and its workforce. With no where near the fall out that Tesla is getting. Surely that is a bigger deal than Tesla service centres!?

Anti Elon, anti American sentiment?
Depends on where you connect stuff. Directly to some wiring loom that is already there? Bad idea, not all connected equipment will take the aditional loads well. Going directly to the car battery with dedicated wiring? Doable, but since start-stop is a thing, battery management and other stuff migjt not like that very well neither. Second batery? A bitch since start-stopp.

Hence, one needs some good knowledge around that, what to connect where.

In the old days, well, just go directly to the main battery with your aftermarket wiring and Bob's your uncle.

And none of that, battery management, which equipment can be connected where, has anything to do with the voltage but rather with all the other stuff modern cars have (bus management, battery management, ECus,...) all of which might or might not accept voltage and amp fluctuations very well.
And yet the vast majority of humanity, who do not use Twitter and who, at best, merely know about it in passing, are not in a position to observe this rebrand and would be confused by even calling it "Twitter/X", as though that's some sort of new product under the Twitter brand. Calling it Twitter just reduces confusion.
>Then why would you do that? That isn't a feature of the game, that's a feature of the player?

I'd be broke, dead 200 times over, and missing a ton of fun contexts if I didn't savescum. It's a feature of the game. Not a bug of the player.

Even on Explorer mode, the game is laughably stacked against you sometimes. The dice rolls make no sense. I've spent an hour trying to get a D20 on savescumming once.

I like high completion so I don't have to replay games and go through the 80+% of repeatable stuff I already did again.
Arrests don’t always lead to a conviction (eg not enough evidence or the suspect might genuinely be innocent).
Obviously not. Next time state your definitions when you redefine basic terms from normal use. Or just refrain from the discussion when you don't want a constructive dialog.
>In the early 1980s, NASA's Landsat program was facing a severe data tape shortage and it is likely the tapes were erased and reused at this time.

Wow, just wow. That's mind boggling. I actually had no idea. While I get that hindsight is 20/20, it doesn't take too much intuition to realize if you're sharing something worldwide or the rest of the world watched it, you should probably keep the highest quality copy. It's like you filmed Gangnam Style in 8k, downsampled to 720p for YouTube and then threw the original copy away even after you saw the views climbing to 10s of thousands (or in this case, 10s of millions).

I've worked in some cash strapped research labs so I get the need to repurpose when budgets are tight but come on. I don't know how expensive the medium was but I would have caused quite a stir about preserving something like this. Hell, I've preserved news broadcasts of work I've been involved with that made it to the news that I have to this day, and that is only significant to me really.
Perhaps the reasoning for obtaining any warrants should be admissable in court (if not already) on behalf of the defendent?
An old or a new one?
Most EU countries have very strict emissions testing. Why can't that be expanded to limit engine noise?
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Choosing between charging or audio shouldn’t have to be a choose when you consider it’s common courtesy to not spew your noise pollution into your public surroundings. Dongles big enough for passthru charging are too bulky to fit in a pocket comfortably. Now you also have another wire/hub you have to go out and buy & might easily lose or misplace, for what exactly? It sure ain’t to waterproofing or a significant cost-cutting measure. It can let a device be ever so much thinner but does being < 3.5 mm really benefit the user. I bet the manufactures love the revenue of the discount bundled wireless earbuds tho—whose audio is usually not good but labeled under subjective to all but the nerds looking at frequency-response graphs. And when those irrepairable buds can no longer hold a charge after a couple of months, I bet they like banking on users coming back to purchase that same ewaste again from them.
Except it's missing the "everything" aspect, payments processing, or the support of the Chinese government.
Aggressive American union busting tactics don't go down well in Europe. This isn't the first time this type of thing has happened.

Walmart famously crashed and burned in Germany, for example, because they treated the German unions like uppity communists.
While it might be a bit dated, the leaked 2009 Global Language Dictionary [1] remains pertinent to this subject. Essentially, it serves as a manual for communication. I discovered it through another intriguing resource, the documentary "The Lobby - USA." [2] Admittedly, the perspective it offers is somewhat biased, but it provides a straighforward presentation of the situation, especially through the lens of an undercover agent who recorded behind-the-scenes discussions among advocates of the Pro-Israel Information War.

[1] https://www.transcend.org/tms/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sf-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rgC8q0TVMf...
So it's not a matter of 'they are nazis' but more of an indictment of the american educational system?

Also... yes not much journalism happening in the USA these days.
My impression is that the quality of train firmware is generally not very good, and I hope that this scandal will lead to greater scrutiny. 3 years ago, Deutsche Bahn publicly complained of "grotesque" software problems with newly delivered Bombardier trains. For example, when train drivers changed the direction of travel, the train software would crash. It then took 1 hour to boot the train up again [0]. Switzerland had similar problems in 2018 [1].

As a computer scientist, I find this embarrassing. Just compare these modern trains to the old trains built in East Germany [2] during the 80ies that were pulling old West German carriages [3] from the 50ies here until recently. Minimal or no usage of digital electronics. No "boot times". They just worked. And if they didn't, the train driver usually knew where to hit the engine with a hammer to fix it. You cannot expect a train driver to hack into the train firmware and fire up gdb to find out why it doesn't move.

[0] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/deutsche-bahn-ic-1.47...

[1] https://bahnblogstelle.com/33872/twindexx-swiss-express-soft...

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-Baureihe_243

[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Wagen
8th gen intel i7, RTX3070. It's aging a little, but it's about as standard as standard can get.

I have dual monitors which might contribute to the complexity, but it's still a low bar to expect dual monitors to work on a gaming OS.
Different unions.
Clearly, I am horrible at communication or Redditors are horrible at reading something at face value.

I shared a recent anecdote about Reddit, because I was reminded of it from your comment. There was no point, I was just sharing what I felt the same way you did when you wrote about wishing HN to have a gild feature.

But if we want to go down the combative discourse route: you're hyperbolizing. Reddit became the mess it was due to a mixture of many things. One of those was its site design/UI; notably public display of post and comment scores that leads to a "dog-pile" effect, rather than natural voting patterns. Being able to gild just intensifies the effects, and leads to posts being interacted with not because the content of their message is informative or interesting, but because it has countless flashing symbols violating your focus, screaming "look at me! look at me!"
What are your top 5 (and even 10)?
Prices just have to be consistent so as long as most scams stay in that price range? But would love to see that rejection: “This scam is underachieving and will be blocked until the price exceeds $300.”
I don’t have a Facebook account. Are you able to share what they responded with?
10M people European country here, no issues. I get good results in the native language for "restaurants in [random 15K people town]", "[random local food] recipes", info about taxes from gov websites, recent local events, my own name (high school's website), my mom's name (her business website), random hobby forums.
> you should be allowed to set the pricing of your app however you like.

What about being allowed to curate apps in your app store however you like?
Yeah - foreignObject is super interesting, I had never heard of it before this thread. I even have a potential use case for it one of my projects, definitely need to check it out.
> A USB C monitor with two USB ports for mouse and keyboard would be enough for many people.

Yeah, sadly there are entry level laptops cheaper than a phone or said monitor plus a keyboard and mouse. I said "or" not "and".

Plus you know, people cursing Apple for making Mac OS look more like iOS. I don't think the great convergence will happen any time soon.

> browser based debugging only, but there are cloud based versions of VS Code you can use

So nothing works offline.
My understanding is that the various unions view Tesla’s actions as a threat to how labour works in Sweden. There apparently isn’t even a minimum wage in the country as everything is governed by these collective agreements. So if they let Tesla come in and not play by the rules it could open the floodgates for other large corporations to come in and do the same, slowly eroding the system.
What does "Finished" mean to you?

BG3 was "finished" on release. If it never saw a single update after that, I'd have been happy with it anyway. What they're doing is providing excellent ongoing support to an already solid product.
The important detail which most people seem to miss is that Tesla's workers aren't behind this. They don't want to unionize, because there's no reason to.

The IF Metall union is striking because they just want to get their cut.
No, I don't find that (or multiplayer games) interesting at all. I treat games like books - a solitary experience between the author and me.
I think that war and continuous friction with other intelligent races might partially explain the lack of growth. Remember that the age of man is only supposed starts after the third age, so plain divine will keeping humans from growing could indeed explain it within the context of the legendarium.
> This is equivalent to 1.3%-1.6% of the UK adult population.

Did the not to editors just labelled 1.3-1.6% of the population as "perverts"?

I will go ahead and assume that this tilts disproportionately to male over female, so... 3% of adult male population in the UK is allegedly perverts? How about addressing THAT instead of carpet bombing personal freedoms?
Great advert for free and open source software.

As with dieselgate, this suggests you basically cannot trust anything containing software. Can't trust it to follow regulations. Can't trust it to do its job.

Can't trust the software. Can't trust the institutions that write the software.

All very "late stage capitalist software development".
Something I want to highlight here: no DRM of any kind and support for LAN connections.
If you're handy, you can install a mini split heat pump yourself. I have installed many, it is straightforward.

https://mrcool.com/diy-4th-generation/

https://buildshownetwork.com/contents/mrcool-diy-install-mat...

Solar is a bit more involved, but it can also be done. I am not a licensed electrician, but I have designed systems and helped physically build up to ~150kw systems (ground mount, nothing beyond ~20kw on a roof). Licensed electrician does the licensed electrician bits and signs off. If you're paying someone to do the install, you're probably going to pay between $2.50-$4/watt, depending on market. You can get down to $1.50-$2.00/watt if you do it yourself. Labor is unavoidable, the soft costs (permitting, sales/marketing load) is where the fat to be trimmed is.

I strongly believe we should be teaching every kid that goes through high school how to install a heat pump and small scale solar.
I'd wager 90% of in-person D&D groups do not roleplay sex or bathroom visits.

I did expect BG3 would have an NSFW on/off setting though - if only for the benefit of streamers. I guess not one thorough enough for okasaki?
Tolkien actually wrote a lot on this sort of stuff, you can find it in the Nature of Middle Earth. Elven marriages are, however, lifelong. Even the death of a spouse did not permit remarriage, except in on very exceptional case.

FWIW, Elven childhood and growth was actually also much longer than human childhood, but it was quick in the eyes of the Elves.
I may look at doing so, thanks for the tip! TIL!

For such an old laptop I'm not sure if I want to keep spending money on it, $15 to upgrade the ram, $10 for a new keyboard after I broke keys from taking them off to clean them, $25 for a new battery etc.

Even though it runs very hot it does seem to work ok, and I'm hoping to just buy a brand new $100 or so machine hopefully in the first quarter of next year, but we will see. I still may end up doing so though.

I think I would have to try and buy from Dell directly, as on ebay all the heat sinks were preowned, and may be no better than the one I already have.
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Telegram now has 4 million premium users which translates to around $16mln/MRR ($192mln/ARR) assuming an average sub/month costs $4.
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Tesla should crush pesky swedish unions, no matter what.

Buy ports, buy ships, buy trucks, buy electricians, buy a brand new postal service etc.

The $26 B cash on hand should be used somewhere, instead of usual executive package and share buyback.

Edit:- If my comment is not as per HN guidelines, I am willing to delete it.
> I was particularly thinking that if we end up "uploading" ourselves into computer storage, we might intentionally do some memory cleanup, and occasionally allow ourselves to re-experience things "for the first time".

If you're into reading fiction, there's some fun elements of this in Permutation City by Greg Egan
Why is this blog called Understanding AI when every single post is an opinion piece about anything but AI?
5.5 millidollars?
> The $26 B cash on hand should be used somewhere, instead of usual executive package and share buyback.

Yup, squashing worker rights for corporations everywhere sounds like a good way of spending $26B.

> Edit:- If my comment is not as per HN guidelines, I am willing to delete it.

Why don't you try to read the guidelines before posting, if you think you might be breaking some guideline?

But no, you're getting downvoted not because of breaking the rules, but because of the horrible opinion and lack of care of the common worker.
Fuck these companies that think they can break the unions our former generations built for the purpose of being treated fair.

Americans don't get it. We Scandinavians are not built on a cultural foundation which circles around creating our own safety nets.

We are not lucky. We worked hard for it for hundreds of years.

Same thing goes for Wolt or Uber etc. They are not welcome here if they can't treat workers by their unions commitments.

Fuck the money and hail solidarity.
what are some games from the past that have absolutely nailed it for you?
The German industry inherits parts of the guild system too, even more than in Sweden. It's not all bad.
that would not settle it "once and for all"

it would merely settle "for now" becuase as soon as either of them get succeded you will have to repeat the contest
> Save scumming 75% off the time because almost everything needs a 15 or higher

The new honor mode makes savescumming impossible and is still quite possible. Savescumming is optional.

> or spending an hour on a 20 roll treasure chest

A 20 roll treasure chest with only the free guidance bonus gives you a 10-25% chance to open on the first attempt. Alternatively you can just smash the chest, contrary to popular belief it doesn't have any negative consequences like destroyed items.

> The characters were fawning over me, although I barely talked to them.

That bug was fixed long ago.
Not as strong as i.com.
Historically, artisans such as jewellery makers, butchers, etc. were part of a guild, which also provided training and apprenticeships.
Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/63251764
This is at times shocking but it really helped me get your head around the waste problem.
Good games stick with you. Masterpieces raise the standard.
Ah right, should've specified that. Of course an old one ;) A Td5. I call the other one "New Defender"
> The important detail which most people seem to miss is that Tesla's workers aren't behind this. They don't want to unionize, because there's no reason to.

> The IF Metall union is striking because they just want to get their cut.

What sort of people do you think IF Metall is made up of? It's the second largest union in Sweden, the people who are a part of the union are also workers at Tesla and other companies. It's not made up of "career-unionists" if that's what you thought.
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You could check the Elon headlines on Hacker News, like "Elon drives 9,500% increase in Pizzagate content."
I'm with you on the sex scenes (and bathroom scenes? I must've missed that). I never want or need them.

I was more responding to their complaints about turn based combat. BG3 nails that aspect, and it's strange to me that people don't like it. It's literally a turn based rpg.
>I want to support developers like this who make something out of bounds with math instead of same old same old (samples, kontakt player, half done synth engine)

There are countless of synth engines, from basic lfos and filters, to modelling circuits.

This doesn't have any special sauce.
Exactly. This is about our entire model under threat. And it will be Tesla's Afghanistan. Membership in unions is the norm in Sweden. People want to be in unions. I want to be in my union. We feel good about them and employers (who respect our model) feel good about it too because it is cooperative.

For many reasons, the US has a model which is not cooperative but built on bitter enmity. This is repeated throughout the nation with e.g. cars vs bikes.

We do not have that here. This is Musk bringing all his prejudice to a bunch of countries he doesn't understand the norms and culture of.
More clicks. Tesla is an American company and has an actual ongoing strike.

Spotify is Swedish and there is currently no ongoing strike. If you look for articles in Swedish, you'll see plenty.
As someone currently rewriting Ansible plays to build Bookworm QEMU images with ZFS support, thank you for this incredibly niche and useful bit of information.
How do you address that if that’s just how they are
A friend of mine worked at meta and said they already had a fullscale set of systems to mass export data to governments based on certain indicators (eg keywords) in response to subpoenas. Perhaps that’s obvious, but the mechanism for proper channels is there, I doubt end-to-end encryption blocks that.
So that makes a ton of sense why you wouldn't like this game. It's a turn based rpg.
What fraction of young Americans could even vaguely describe Joseph Stalin's 3-decade reign of terror (1922-1952), let alone have a sense of how many millions he killed? Or the Romani Holocaust? Or the horrors of King Leopold II's so-called Congo Free State? Or ...

(Yes, it's interesting that the article calls the Holocaust "one of modern history’s greatest crimes" - but gives zero words to any of the others. And there's no hint that the poll asked about any of the others.)

If your knowledge of history is pretty minimal, but you keep seeing "Because Holocaust!" used as some kinda magical rhetorical/moral trump card...then having serious doubts about that "Holocaust" thing is fairly reasonable, AS AN UNINFORMED EMOTIONAL REACTION. [Please re-read the shouty part there 3 times, before you angrily respond.]

Vs. if you do know the history - the Holocaust's "special cultural/moral status" still really sticks out. My pet theory is that, from the PoV of well-educated, middle- and upper-class western whites, the Jewish Holocaust victims "look" like just-one-thing-different-from-me analogs. Vs. the poor Slavs, Romani, Black, etc. victims do not - so killing "their kind" in 7-or-so-digit quantities just doesn't push the same deep emotional buttons.
But is it the hardware though? All the new flagship phones are using software/AI to enhance the photos well above the hardware raw, so I imagine that you might be able to fix this with a better camera app.