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I never realized Lambretta was actually a manufacturer until I moved to Europe and saw a store selling Lambrettas.

When I was a kid in Brazil everyone called all scooters Lambrettas, even though none of them were Lambrettas. They usually were... Vespas.

Now that I know it is actually rivalling companies, I wonder how sad Lambretta and Vespa companies are, with eveyrone calling their Vespa a Lambretta.
> zoning out during meetings where you should be paying attention

Also zoning out during the meetings where your presence is required but unnecessary. If you don't pay attention to a university lecture, that's a skill issue on your part.

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The role of the worker is to extract as much value for their employer as possible; any productivity is a secondary byproduct.
Slight correction: it worked on Chromium and on Google Chrome canary.
I'll share a different perspective to this whole founder mode debate: my instinct is that "founder mode" is a useless phrase and founders can be equal parts helpful or detrimental. The leaders who we would generally uphold as being highly successful founders who built respectable companies didn't necessarily do so through something intrinsic to being a founder, but rather by deeply _giving a shit_ about the products they build and the customer experiences of those products.

It follows that founders (or employees who were early enough to have a founding mentality), often, tend to care more about their products and services than anyone else will and this can lead to centralized decision making being highly effective. This is the case for Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Howard Schultz, Brian Chesky, and Elon Musk (please set aside any recent personal opinions of him).

It also follows that "manager" CEOs and senior leaders are often hired into a role with different incentives that relate far less to them caring about the product, customer, or business, and more to the movement of specific metrics. In these cases, centralized decision making can lead to deterioration of a product experience to the point of irrelevance. This list might include Scott Thompson (Yahoo), Dennis Muilenburg (Boeing), etc.

I don't believe it is anything inherent to a "founder" or "manager." Simply put: centralized decision making can be effective in an organization where the centralized decision maker has the insights and is close enough to the customer and market to make good decisions. It can be massively detrimental if the person is detached from the customer and market.

It is just the case that a founder happens to be much more likely to be close to the customer and the market than a hired leader, and likely has much more of a desire to be so.

This might be wrong, but it has tracked in my career so far. I've seen great managers, horrible managers, great founders, and horrible founders. The only thing that has been consistent is that the great ones are _far_ more likely to deeply understand the customer they serve and the product they build than the bad ones.
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This is a bit bizarre; why would any musician take down their own recordings, where they continue to earn advertising revenue and gain fans? Even if they were planning to sell the recordings to a record label for some anniversary album, it would be daft to close down their main publicity channel. Very mysterious...
Why do you need to maintain formation? Can the just fly randomly and fix the problem storing the info and a software that gets the positions and calculate the delays?

For radio frequency I think it's possible.

For visible light, I guess you must do the interference using very accurate mirrors to aim to the central point and that move slightly forward and backward to get the correct phase shift. I think it's not impossible, but very difficult.
I disagree. It's exploiting a weakness in customer service provision in order to work around built-in UX degradation. Not many people would think of it.
Utility companies are unfortunately exactly that kind of stupid though.
UCSD has me on a bunch of lists as a former parent of an undergraduate. No way to unsubscribe. Infuriating.
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Does this finally solve the class of "6 fingers/hand" problems?
It wouldn't. It's the role of the HTTP server to set the correct content type header.
I get that, sure. But the language forscape proposes will soon need to be a general one if one wants to do big projects with it.

(And I'd love to rewrite my simulation code with something like forscape, because then the math code would appear as such and not as a mubojumbo of numpy operations)...
Unfortunately I've found the screens on the older ones to be quite fragile (at least the 4th gen)

I went through a phase of buying used 4th gen ones off ebay so that I could have physical buttons to turn the page, but within a couple of months they would always end up up with cracked screens

They would be stored in my bag next to my laptop (and in a case) but at some point I would end up pulling it out to read and find a cracked screen

I think I went through 4 of them before I called it quits, my current paperwhite is still going strong (just no buttons sadly)
Not following what could be sinister about a GET request to a public website.

> From a privacy POV, your VPN is doing nothing to them, because your IP address means very little to them from a tracking POV.

I disagree. (1) Since I have javascript disabled, IP address is generally their next best thing to go on. (2) I don't want to give them IP address to correlate with the other data they have on me, because if they sell that data, now someone else who only has my IP address suddenly can get a bunch of other stuff with it too.
I can do more than that. I used to wake up sweaty half the time from sleeping as child. Now that never happens as an adult, i instead wake up with my sweater mysteriously taken off.
I wish sleep self would learn to put a sweater on if it turns cold though.
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I'd guess most people would react in one of three ways, including that one. I can understand all three.
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> These were seriously intense, competitive people who wanted to win, true believers; weird, fascinating people who read philosophy in their spare time, went on weird diets, and did 100-mile bike rides for fun. This, it turned out, was an inheritance from the Paypal mafia.

Sounds like a fucking awful place to work.
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Hi HN, I am hiring for a junior data analyst role and trying to prepare an assignment as a way to examine candidate skills. Does anyone know of a web-based GUI that resembles something like MS SQL Management Studio or Teradata SQL Assistant or Cloudera HUE that allows me to import a few sample datasets and then allow job candidates to write their SQL to solve the assignment? I have identified CSV Fiddle [1] and Simon Willison's Datasette Lite [2] as potential options but the GUI doesn't really accommodate easy development of long multi-step SQL queries. I also need the tables to be locked down.

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Any argument of the form "you have to write this idiom" is covered by "so either it doesn't happen often, or one can use a macro". There's cognitive overhead to using a macro, but there's also cognitive overhead to remembering car and cdr work on nil. The latter is already paid for, so changing Common Lisp now doesn't make sense, but in an alternate world with a different design it would be a point.
I have to solve captchas for Amazon while logged into my Amazon account.
> Because the major point of that infrastructure is to kill lots of Russians?

Because the major point of that infrastructure is to kill lots of Russians if they invade.

> Why might Russian military planners feel this is a threat? Because they can count corpses and they're not stupid.

Because they can count corpses after they invaded.

The logical conclusion was "don't invade", not "hurry up and invade while you still can".
was? :)
In the UK, any ballpoint pen is commonly a biro for similar reasons.
IP address is a fingerprint to be shared with third parties, of course it's relevant. It's not ulterior motive, it's explicit, it's not caring about your traffic because you're not good product. They can and do differentiate by requiring a sign-in. They just don't care enough to make it actually work. Because they are adtechs and not interested in you as a user.
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First, yes. They've long tried this, and it's an openly stated goal of Musk's. At the very least, you can buy a blue tick.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/8/6120079/twitter-commerce-b...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/twitter-testing-ou...

The current iteration, Shop Spotlight: https://ads.twitter.com/shopping_manager

Second, the "Digital Markets Act" has no "you must sell products directly to consumers" requirement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act - look at the list of "Core Platforms Services" it covers. Search engines, communications, ad networks - Twitter's absolutely in several of those categories. It's about regulating gatekeepers to the market.
I never heard about "that" Maxwell (1923-1991) [1].

Paraphrasing Wikipedia [2] [3].

"Robert Maxwell, described as a "British media proprietor, politician, and fraudster," founded Pergamon Press, an Oxford-based publishing house specializing in scientific and medical books and journals. Known for his flamboyant lifestyle, ultimately embezzled hundreds of millions from his own companies.

Pergamon (originally Butterworth-Springer), was established in 1948 to bring "Springer’s know-how and aggressive publishing techniques in science" to Britain. Today, Pergamon Press operates as an imprint of Elsevier."

I had no idea. Beyond wild!

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1: Not to be confused with James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), creator of "Maxwell's equations".

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Press
Musk "was quite successful in the earlier days of Tesla". lol as if he's still not kicking butt. Did you see his company plucked a rocket the size of the Statue of Liberty out of the air?
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Because it is a standard. Your proposed solution is ad-hoc which will work on your device(s), but nowhere else.

Just make a mind experiment - Is flash memory SPI or parallel NAND? What if it is a Parallel NOR? Is EEPROM I2C? On which address? Which I2C controller should you use if there is more than one? Is EEPROM SPI? Which SPI controller you should use? How you should configure your SPI/I2C/Parallel controller? Which registers, on which addresses? On which GPIO pins is your memory device connected?

You would still need some board specific mini device tree in your OS to resolve this issue. That's the reason why we have UEFI booting first and letting board manufacturer resolve it and then just providing a communication layer to make standardized queries without knowing all those questions above.
Hopefully this raises the bar of identity / access management across the industry by lowering the cost for implementation and management.

For large companies, having automated lifecycle management of accounts is considered table stakes. Those who have had to implement or support this are more than aware of the trend for companies to have SSO tax for this functionality so quietly hopeful the tax will be lower in future.
Maybe there are legal benefits because it's not from Oracle?
The funniest of them all is durex.

In Brazil is the name and brand of adhesive tape. In Portugal is the name and brand of condoms.
I saw this for go all the time a couple of years back.
I don't necessarily disagree. The comment was intended to avoid a flame war of someone arguing about his recent (personal) antics, not company performance. I updated the parenthetical to reflect this.
My eyesight has gotten worse and I can't read a typical book with its tiny print. The biggest Pro for me is adjustable font sizes. Another Pro is free books! After purchasing probably a 1000 books in my life; I'm done buying and storing books. I did the library thing for a few years when the library was only a couple of blocks away but book selection and availability was never good. Now I can easily get any book I want from the comfort of my home.
You only risk prison if you sell it to the "bad guys" on the black market. Sell it to people who can jail the bad guys instead; that is, our governments.
But why? Sending signal this way does not amplify the signal. Just point lasers directly at that point.
\* what operator is this? I have never seen it. Where can I read about it?
Examples are plentiful, read up on why Foreign material exclusion (FME) is such a major concern. Months of completely unplanned outage, 10’s millions in damage and even more in lost production all from a minor mistake.

Short term capacity factor is not the same as reliability, the grid needs power every day not some average over a year. Add some turbines and a given dams capacity factor drops but it becomes more valuable due to the added flexibility and redundancies.

Lifetime capacity factors of US reactors are a long way from 95% often in the low 80% or below that’s not because the grid doesn’t want their power but because nuclear is unreliable over the long term.

96.04% in 2017, lifetime 78.07% (unreliable).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browns_Ferry_Nuclear_Plant

95.7% in 2017 vs 80.25% lifetime (unreliable). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Valley_Nuclear_Power_St...

And before you think 2017 just had unusually high demand, nope 79.36% capacity factor in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Nuclear_One

That’s just another unpleasant reality when trying to actually use nuclear as a major energy source.
Le terme vallée, utilisé comme toponyme, doit être distingué du terme val qui est souvent employé pour désigner et nommer une région limitée dans divers pays d'Europe et dans leurs langues.

-- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vall%C3%A9e
I agree. it's weird. I'm sure there are other similar examples
the company was founded partly as a response to 9/11 and what Peter felt were the inevitable violations of civil liberties that would follow,

Peter Thiel, supporter of Donald Trump....supporter of civil liberties, I'm sure...
But we don't have CCTV in bathrooms, locker/changing rooms or swimming pools etc. You can't take a Tesla in there either (please don't give Elon any ideas though).

While I can't promise that all CCTV operators are honest people, at least there's some chance of going after the company involved if there's a mess-up. Random people on the street where you have no idea who they are filming you, that's a different thing.

Randos installing hidden cameras in women's toilets seems to be a big enough problem in South Korea that some of the public toilets at major stations are security checked for them every single day, as far as I know. I don't want those people anywhere near me with an always-on camera, even in public fully-clothed spaces.
According to sleep scientist mathew walker, it serves multiple roles, replenishment of resources obviously, but also behavior refinement (whatever you practice during the day gets practiced excessively while asleep), and sleep also is a creative and solution search.

He mentions that sleep is so crucial that despite how vulnerable it makes organisms to be debilitated 8 or whatever many hours a day, what it provides more than counterbalances that massive evolutionary vulnerability.
Sell it to governments. Biggest good guys bad guys.
Growing up in the Eastern Bloc, it was such a joy to own/get an original Matchbox. Memories...
As a founder as well, in the current global economy, I think the main driver for ‘founder mode’ is to improve the ROI of the product team by forcing the company to focus on fewer features (and lay off a part of the workforce)
I don't think this is correct. The difference between well optimized code and unoptimized code on the CPU is frequently at least an order of magnitude performance.

Reason it doesn't seem that way is that the CPU is so fast we often bottleneck on I/O first. However, for compute-workloads like inference, it really does matter.
It seems as if the implementation detail is the feature. Can't the program stand for itself?
The number of feeds with crap headers and other non-spec stuff going on; and loads of clients missing useful headers. Ugh. It seems like it should be simple; maybe that's why there are loads of naive implementations.
Correct might be debatable here as well. My blog for example sets Content-Type to text/xml, which is not exactly wrong for an RSS feed (after all, it is text and XML) and IIRC was the default back then.

There were compatibility issues with other type headers, at least in the past.
haha got it- sorry for trying to start the flame war anyways!
Well, I guess I have a less cynical attitude than you. Sure, goverments and supranatinal organizations are not perfect and they deserve to be criticized. But, I also believe that many people who work there do care about these issues for the sake of humanity.

When you design a regulation like the DMA, how much revenue a company makes is a good proxy of their potential impact on citizens. It's not the only proxy, but it's also not the only criteria in the DMA.

I hate Musk just as much as next person, but it seems obvious that they don't fall under the criteria defined by DMA. I agree that the criteria should be adapted. So, we could discuss about adapting the DMA to include more companies as gatekeepers. And maybe this will happen, the DMA is a brand new regulation, and I'm sure there will be many amendments to it in the years to come.

But just retorting to calling the DMA as a money grab by the EU is not a constructive way forward.
Each half sleeps alternately. Perhaps sleeping in water as a mammal requires mich more processing power.
> This really is just a small monetary enhancement to one's wage

The IRS doesn’t view it that way — if people were just given an extra $70 a day for expenses not related to their job, it would typically to be taxed as compensation.

If they allowed this to happen unchecked and lots of people started doing it, the headline would be “Meta facilitates tax avoidance scheme for employees making $400k”
Next, I’d love to move in to text SPAM, the perplexingly unsolved problem that we’ve been particularly reminded of every election season for the past 20 or so years
def blocked?
user_agent_version_reported? && unsupported_browser?
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well, you know what to do here :)
Ok. If that’s the case they failed.
Great stuff, I tried it for the London area where I live, and tested it with pizza - it actually showed me the best places with highest reviews.

The results of the search are too fast, what tech did you use?
I'm using a Quest3 for coding when I'm travelling with the Immersed app. It is a bit of a setup, but it allows using a USB-C cable for the connection. It also can open multiple virtual screens. I usually have 4 screens open. The resolution is not as good as the VisionPro but having 4 screens in a slightly lower resolution allows me to be able to read everything quite well.
> Yes they did [EDF "bankruptcy"]

This is not true.

> 10 billion that France paid to take ownership,

Wrong. Until 2004 France owned 100% of EDF. They sold just 16%. And then took it back. It was always a state-owned enterprise.

> 50 billion of debt that they took over

The state did not "take over" €50 billion in debt. That is still held by EDF (and if you count the debt of state-owned companies as government debt, then it was always government debt, because, see above, the French state always owned vastly more than 50% of EDF. 100% until 2004, to be precise).

And that debt is not operational debt. As I stated before, EDF has been extremely profitable, and paying both taxes as well as dividends to its owner(s), mostly the French state.

Taking on the loans is how they financed construction of the nuclear power plants, which were not financed by the tax payer, but on the capital markets. With the loans EDF took on, they built infrastructure, in this case nuclear power plants. And with the (quite significant) profits from operating those plants, they pay back the loans.

This is what is known as "investment". Most companies do it.

> If the rules change today so that new nuclear plants have to pay for their own waste, then HPC would have to pay for all of Sellafield.

if (false) → conclude anything you like.

And of course you still only counted the income of a single reactor at HPC. [Picard voice:] There. are. two. reactors.

> Also, HPC will probably be the last remaining plant

False. UK is planning a 4x expansion of nuclear capacity.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/biggest-expansion-of-nucl...

They have started digging at Sizewell C.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24593672.sizewell-c-construction...

> who pays for Yucca Mountain

"Lacking an operating repository, the federal government initially paid utility companies somewhere between $300 and $500 million per year in compensation for failing to comply with the contract it signed to take the spent nuclear fuel by 1998"

It looks like the utilities paid the federal government for the repository, but are not getting the services they paid for.

Ahh yes, they did:

"The companies held up their end, feeding about $750 million into the Nuclear Waste Fund each year. But the department did not manage to set up any facility to receive the waste, forcing energy companies to store it themselves on-site."

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/05/how-the-department-of-energy...

Same in Germany: the utilities paid into the fund for the disposal, but the politicians blocked it.

Speaking of politicians blocking and Yucca Mountain:

"The Government Accountability Office stated that the closure was for political, not technical or safety reasons"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...