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They just don’t understand selling to businesses in a way that Microsoft or Oracle does.
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The American Left:

> The most obvious result of this scheme is that individual voters in small-population states tend to have more power in choosing the President than individual voters in high-population states, and that difference can skew an election.

The Indian Left:[1]

> enlarging the numbers of lawmakers in relation to population growth in a way penalizes those states that have achieved more in terms of slowing down their demographic growth

Completely inconsistent, self-serving arguments which basically want to change the electoral system because their side is losing.

[1] Equality or Fraternity? Challenges of India’s New Constituency Delimitation (https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/equality-or-fraternity-chall...)
I think you did not got my point. My point is not that it is self-centered to "break the flow" (or whatever you call the reason that makes asking a question disruptive).

My point is that we had a situation where at least one person is going to adapt. The person self-centered is the one saying "the good solution is to have the other person adapt".

I'm NOT saying that the good solution is to have the other person adapt, I'm saying "why are you saying that having the other person adapt is the best solution? That's self-centered".

You answer me by saying "you are asking me to adapt to you, so, you are self-centered".

But I don't ask that. I don't force anyone. I'm just saying "why are you upset that this guy is forcing you to adapt to him but think that you forcing him to adapt to you is not self-centered".

I see the situation as very very symmetrical:

Some people needs A to be efficient, some people needs non-A to be efficient.

One aspect of the problem is that some people say "I like A, so let me just do A, and I let you non-A". But in reality, they don't let them do non-A. If you are a team of 2, and that you like not receiving questions but that your coworker like to ask question, there is no situation where we satisfy both.

The only solution is to act like adult and accept that I will do less A than I would have liked, but my coworker will do less non-A that they would have liked.

But here, some are saying "no! I want to do all A and it's to my coworker to adapt fully".
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> keeping yourself busy' should not be confused with procrastinate or simply passing time

Could you clarify - what's the difference?
Great, thanks. I think that should work :)
> But spending once 3 hours to search something might increase familiarity with the resources the intranet provides.

Assuming your company even has an intranet.
Consistent with my teaching experiences and observations: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-distract...
It's kinda funny that this piece is written with nothing about all the issues and changes at Cariad, VW's software group having all sorts of issues for years and is been undergoing a reorganization.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38131504 , and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35851369

Feels more like PR to encourage improvements are coming.
Some potential "costs" of voice/video: it's (often) exclusive to one person, it's immediate, and it's easy to expose your own emotional state. In an emotionally fraught, developing situation, perhaps your nieces want to take it slow, check what their friends think, not let on that they're upset, etc.

This is all just speculation, I'm not really a texter, but I do find it interesting when limitations might turn out to be features.
Cool. Now I have to redeploy a Node server to change the padding on a text input.
> How many people died

I don't know, have any?

To play devil's advocate, trying to adjust the AC using regular buttons on an unfamiliar rental car can be a nightmare too. Trying to decipher the tiny icons and lights while driving, what magic combination of button presses and knob positions will work?

There's an argument to be made that for something like temperature control with its various modes (heat/vent/cold, strength/temperature, fan speed, which combination of vents), a large touchscreen is actually a far superior interface -- easier to see and more intuitive.

(Physical touch buttons on the steering wheel for basic adjustments-while-driving like temperature up/down and volume up/down are still important though.)
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That's already happening. OTOH, people who are only ever exposed to flat earth garbage (or, let's say, young earth creationism, or homophobia) might get a glimpse of what the real world looks like, and look into it.
I'm going to put a tiled JPEG of an artist's rendition of the night sky in the background of my blog, to assert my liberties and affirm my right to be silly and have fun
It's simple: don't buy cars with shitty UX.
It is also possible to have a backend implemented in JS in similar way. Though I personally only have used in intial UI prototype which I latter swapped with Julia backend.
I won’t own a car with a touchscreen. Ever. If I were given such a vehicle, I would get rid of it quickly.

My last car purchase it was not easy to find a newer vehicle without that junk. I see such things as signs of low quality. I don’t want to spend thousands of dollars on anything connected to some cheap Chinese touch pad. It ruins the entire experience.

If I wanted navigation I’d use my phone. Any car I have to configure, I will loath deeply.
Not on the modern architecture.

To get time invariance I have to have guarantees provided by everything from the compiler to the hardware implementation. If I am exclusively, explicitly, and completely controlling all of those layers, good to go... But that means we know I'm at least not publishing a library for public consumption.
> There's an argument to be made that for something like temperature control with its various modes (heat/vent/cold, strength/temperature, fan speed, which combination of vents), a large touchscreen is actually a far superior interface -- easier to see and more intuitive.

There is no argument. This is a ridiculous idea.
I get the impression from Orwell that he thinks of these issues in too much of a top-down way. “prophecies of some infallible fuhrer.” It’s easy to mentally resist the propaganda of the fuhrer and his henchmen. You just have to parrot the lines, you don’t have to believe it.[1]

But these issues have become internalized, not merely something that the Ministry of Truth or whatever says. I think the introduction to Eclipse of Reason explains it better (published 1947).

In general I think “Truth” died due to Hyperreality. (If I could read French. Or understand Postmodernism.) Orwell’s vision has become too simplistic. I don’t really understand why his memes are so popular. Although perhaps on a meta-level it could be understood.

[1] The propaganda in Animal Farm was mostly delivered through the henchmen who personally berated the animals and gaslit them. It’s harder to resist even that.
A single cable.... can we at least get dedicated emergency flasher wiring?
My first guess would be something like a broken neutral wire, making the neutral voltage depend on the imbalance of the load between the AC phases. From the little I understand about it, you could have up to the phase to phase voltage between the broken neutral and one of the phases, with the voltage dynamically changing as devices are turned on or off. It's very confusing (since everything expects the neutral to be referenced to the earth, which is constant 0V by definition), and can burn up devices.
Survivorship bias; if the car brand hasn’t existed for almost 15 years, you’d _expect_ surviving examples to mostly be owned by responsible drivers.
Sure, and if you can't keep up then you should reflect on that. Meetings and discussions are great. Constantly nagging your coworkers because you can't figure out how to do your job on your own is not.
It helps reduce the number of hoops I have to jump through. Previously : hit a problem, use Google search or read the official docs, StackOverflow, etc; Now : ask Copilot and assess if the solution makes sense to me. Often, it does.
Hi, author here. If the writing on those adapters was easily readable by the visually impaired and surrounded by bright red/orange colors, this wouldn't be that much of an issue. I had one hell of a time trying to even photograph the output voltage etching specified on the adapter itself.
A coworker repeatedly ignored a person’s headphones and would interrupt them anyway. One day I put a bright post-it note on my headphones: “Joe, don’t bother me”. I was in middle of flow, making some huge changes, when I noticed Joe standing next to me, laughing. “Hahaha, someone put a post-it note on your headphones!” I coulda killed him.

“In startup land did CFO

A stately office plan decree:

Through EDM, the coders flow

Unless they were disturbed by Joe

Until we broke his knee.”
A long time ago, I was a kart racing enthusiast, so I've always appreciated the direct, visible connection between the steering wheel and the wheels. It offers a tangible, physical sense of control. Not sure what Tesla did with the Model S, but it almost feels like a kart car in this sense. The steering responds immediately, and I can “feel” the road. I obviously don't see the front wheels, but still I know exactly how they lay at all times.
They’ve replaced it since, but I’ve really come to appreciate the control scheme of my 2016 Acura RDX.

Two screens, one positioned and angled for touch, one for driver visibility. Physical controls for climate, volume, and accessing touchscreen functions & menus.

This doesn’t seem like an incredibly hard problem, but rather that designers (or the marketing folks) have been convinced customers are impressed by extremes. In the ‘90s, dozens of buttons on the steering wheel. Today, nothing but massive screens.
you can use one of your senses (touch) while operating the car with another (vision) with physical buttons. I feel like your argument supports better designed physical buttons vs more touch buttons, with zero haptic feedback
Technically it is a self-certification program, since it's the device manufacturer who signs the certificate, but that's not the whole truth. A manufacturer still needs to prove compliance (in the case of the EMC directive, either Annex II or III) or slapping on the mark is just fraud.
54% of the US market makes them a pretty clear market leader.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
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KDE's System Monitor is written in QML and supports most of this.
>write things like interoperability and data portability into law

This would be nice for sure, but I think the solution could be even simpler than that. The only successful way these centalized service platforms have managed to monetize is by gross privacy violations in support of pervasive advertising. Strong privacy laws would essentially outlaw their business models and leave a hole that a network of decentralized hobbyist services would fill.
This meme needs to die and people should pay attention to the full conversation before making fun on it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

It took one clarifying comment from the founder of Dropbox for BrandonM to understand and agree with the value proposition.

The story of that comment is not “clueless power user doesn’t understand regular user needs”, it’s “user makes respectful criticism and changes their mind when confronted with compelling arguments”. That exchange is a prime example of what we should all strive to do, not a target of ridicule.
html doesn't have events that can be connected to actions.

Doesn't resize decently, doesn't respect user's settings.

And a browser is much much slower and bigger than a qt application.
> Because, you bring up sales, I am assuming that is your area of expertise

I'm not in sales at all. Having an overview of the different bits of the business isn't a sales attribute. It's just an example of "what your job is" - which might range from weeks of uninterrupted detailed technical work at Microsoft Research, to presenting to clients, to running teams, to making technical decisions and getting agreement, to writing code.

Thinking every engineer's job is "writing code" and anyone who thinks wider is wrong is what the pushback in this thread is all about.
Of course it is good, if the sales team succeeds. But it is bad if that means that the developers are unable to do their work.
> They could reach new highs with alternate business models but only at the cost of short term reduction in revenue from ads.

Yes. Long term, if you control peoples attention and their flow of information, you will almost certainly figure out a way to control their pocketbooks.
I love my VW GTI and I won’t replace it with an electric car until someone releases something equally good in a similar form factor (hot hatch or close). The physical button UI is a huge part or why I love the car. The mockup here is better than no buttons but not as good as my 2018 car.
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Tactile feedback is essential for fast operation. Touchscreens have done nothing but slow everything down in exchange for ease of use.
Maybe you didn't know, but on the vast majority of cars there is a physical link so if power assist fails, you are still turning the tires. But as someone who drove a Toyota pickup around with completely manual steering, I'd say it's only really bad at low speeds, where it's a bit of an arm workout.
Or the friends of the C-suites who own all that real estate for some reason
You make it sound as if people always have a single reason.
Two words, Fiat Money.
Interesting, this book looks really cool!
Obviously! As with AI powered smartphones and internet connected household devices, this gets harder and harder.

That being said, I like the UX of our cars. But the newest ine is from 2020, the oldest one from 1982...
Same discussion about USB-C, Thunderbolt, etc and how users would be confused.
> Why do you immediately go to an attack? How do you even know their political affiliation?

Two reasons: one is that the idea that there was mass censorship of scientific debate is a right-wing trope – anyone who was on Twitter knows that all of these topics were discussed continuously throughout without being censored, unless you crossed the line of making known false claims, personal attacks, etc. – and the second is that their list of purported victims is the right-wing grievance list, carefully worded to look more neutral if you weren’t already aware of the details. For example, they describe Robert Malone as “an internationally recognized virologist and immunologist” taking care not to mention that what lead to his Twitter account being banned was promulgation of known-false claims about Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine as cures and falsely claiming that the vaccines were cytotoxic. He was engaged in propaganda targeted at a particular audience, not science, and the careful selection of the purported victims and how they’re described makes it seem unlikely that this wasn’t intentional, as does the fact that the most charitable forms of these ideas were all extensively discussed by other who were not banned suggests that the reason was not scientific dissent but false claims, especially with regard to dangerous known-ineffective treatments.
As I read some of the aggressive, cynical and unpleasant responses here to any suggestion there might be some benefits to an open plan arrangement, it's dawning on me that one possible benefit is that it tends to filter out people with attitudes like these.

I prefer open plan setups and am glad that working in trading environments has ensured my career has been spent in them, so my natural reaction to the title here is "erm, not all of them do". I actively enjoy being interrupted to discuss something unrelated to my current task, and often return to that task with a fresh insight afterwards. I enjoy helping my colleagues with things, and doing so helps me build a positive reputation in a way that has helped my career. I enjoy camaraderie and conversations about my colleagues' lives outside work. I would refuse a job in an enclosed office or cubicle unless there were very strong compensating factors.

I don't require others to feel the same way, and I don't think people are wrong or bad if they prefer greater separation from colleagues. Humans are diverse. However, someone who views their colleages, their work-related questions and their attempts at broader conversation with active disdain is unlikely to be someone I want to work with.
> would want to sacrifice themselves to play that role

Fuck that, I love being the DM! It's a good bit of prep but it's _so much fun_.
I think the difference here is that you are arguing that your first time adjusting the AC in a new car is cumbersome and distracting, which of course I think everyone can agree upon.

What the others in this thread are commenting on is the fact that in cars with touchscreen based controls, every time you adjust the AC in a car you drive every day, it is cumbersome and distracting.
Have you ever driven a Tesla? I drove one last year and literally all you get is a touch screen. IIRC you even use the touch screen to change gears. It's insane. I did get used to it, but overall I absolutely loathe touch screens in vehicles. If I can't modify something without averting my eyes from the road, then I consider it a massive safety hazard. I'll never understand how regulators approved these things.
As a European I would like the option to use the service as a stateless vagabond. Seriously, users need the option to disable the nanny hands of EU politicians.

And why shouldn't I be able to use the service as is? The EU would tax me?
> copy-protection bypass feature included as a cheat code that made it into the commercial copy of the game..

Was that intentional feature from the devs or did the devs forgot to remove a development/debug feature from the final production build of the game by accident?
Very true, but it's interesting the Figma CEO sounds disappointed, which feels like the game plan has been to be acquired and pay investors.

Adobe is the biggest player in the space, so if denied, might put a damper on future acquisition price.
Why not Square? Seems to be cheaper. Is the developer experience that much better with Stripe?
> I'm not in sales at all.

My fault.

> Thinking every engineer's job is "writing code" and anyone who thinks wider is wrong is what the pushback in this thread is all about.

Writing code is not the only activity of an engineer that requires focus and concentration. Most of my activities require that.
I was working on the same thing months ago and it works, but it was a purely trial and error way of doing it and the compressed prompts, naturally, wouldn't necessarily work for different LLMs easily.

I am not actually convinced this is a good idea, though. This path eventually leads to a "prompt compiler" that compiles prompts into byte code for a future "more efficient" LLM to understand.

Oh and it definitely didn't require its own language model. All it required was finding how many letters one can remove from a word and which words can be completely omitted.
I think assuming everyone's situation is the same as yours, or your imagined stereotype of what people must be like if they don't agree with you, constitutes a lot of the content that's being pushed back on.

Some businesses have huge depths of technical content to understand that can't all the memorised in a training session. Nothing difficult can. Even knowing who to talk to about an issue is going to be found out via a question.
You missed the key idea of the article.if you stopped reading after seeing Trump's name.
Renewables have massive seasonal overproduction. Nuclear only makes financial sense when it runs continuously. It's difficult to reconcile these two.
That’s fair. If you want to scam the scammer, darned if I’ll say you’re wrong for doing it. It’s not my thing, but fine by me if you do.
I'm not when it's normal noises, made by non headphone wearing people.

Normally people are conscious about the sounds they make and restrict them a bit. If you're coughing in a group, you try to do it softly, or you leave the room. Things like that. When people wear head phones this kind of subconscious self control seems to be a lot less effective.

I'm certainly not the only one to have made this observation.
Rent... a tennis court? I've never even heard of such a practice before. You just wait until there's a free court, then use it. I can imagine places where it's exceptionally popular and the perfect weather where a rental system would be viable, but I'm curious if it's the norm in places.
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But why would you see it if we have access to the same information? That's the point you made that I'm disagreeing with. Are you now saying that yes, even though I and my doctor might have access to the same information, that doesn't mean I should never ask my doctor things?
Two Times in a row i got home from fosdem absolutely sick. It's always cold, rainy, the campus is an order of magnitude to small for the amount of people in attendance and the lecture rooms windows aren't opened long enough to deal with all the People Smells that accumulate. If you go there, were a Mask at all times and desinfect your hands frequently or you will end up sick.

Oh, and drinks are cheapest from the vending machines because they are from the university, not from the commercial vendors.