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I imagine economies of scale are much greater with cars than cargo bikes. If it was possible to charge, say, 50% less for a cargo bike I’m sure someone would be, and they’d be taking the entire market with them.
It clearly is. As the article makes out, the tax code and regulation favours large vehicles. Gas is cheap. Acting alone, there are few reasons to buy a smaller car if you can afford a bigger one. This is exactly the market “working” and why regulation is necessary to change it.
Your statement is technically correct, which everyone knows is the best kind of correct.
This is more like it. The Thai rail network is not that extensive so trains probably aren’t part of daily life for that many. India has a huge rail network. In both cases, though, train tracks are much more accessible than in developed countries and it’s common to see trains clanking right past people walking along. In India people happily walk across tracks at stations and hang off the side of moving trains.
Compare this to the UK and Switzerland, two places I have lived with extensive rail networks. I can’t think of anywhere that the train tracks aren’t clearly separated from everything else — either by fencing or raised platforms or level crossings with barriers. I have never had to think “better look out for a train” living in these places.
Edit: Zurich does have a freight train that runs down an inner-city street a couple of times a day. It goes very slowly and has many staff monitoring:
If a DB check is needed to see if a sub is private or not it has to happen for every request. You can’t just limit the check to private subs because it’s not known if they are private or not at the time.
Reddit goes wrong often so I expect this outage could have any number of causes.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Anyone who claims being a parent is "super easy" is immediately outing themselves as either someone who has never done it or someone who is really bad at it.
It is incredibly hard to deal with kids while working — for either the kind of job where you have to sit and mindlessly make widgets for 8 hours a day or the kind where you need to think and focus. Kids are not awake 100% of the time but a) when they are they demand up to and often 100% of your time, b) you don't get to decide when they are awake. As for your idea of "oh just reschedule the meeting or delay it": sure, once or twice that's fine, but if you had kids you'd know that this happens _all the time_ and feeling like a total flake who can't concentrate sucks for the parent and the employer.
(Yes, they can find a new job blah blah. I'm more concerned with your lack of empathy though.)
It seems like the only thing you're interested in is insisting that your work arrangement is the best and every other one is wrong, even when you aren't doing them or don't understand their challenges.
Amazon is miserable unless you know what you’re looking for. If I have to search for something it’s almost game over immediately — I’m not going to wade through page after page of cheap junk with no sensible way to filter the results.
OTOH the casino in the Nevada side of Tahoe that I went to a few years ago reeked of smoke. I came out smelling like I was 18 and hitting the UK pubs again (which was late 90s for me).
Counterintuitively, the “correct” way to deal with phantom braking is to avoid the accelerator entirely and instead dive right for the brake pedal: this instantly disengages cruise control. But this is not an intuitive response, you have to learn it the hard way.
It is absurd that Tesla is allowed to sell cars that have this problem. Why isn't the NTSB (or whoever) insisting this is fixed and/or removing these cars from the road? They're unsafe. (I had a Tesla; glad I don't now)
It’s clearly not intended to compete with a smartphone. It’s 50 times the size and mains powered. It’s intended to be an always-on device with a wide camera and large screen that makes it easy for a few people to talk on video. Like video conferencing.
My family uses them so my parents can see my kids and they are great. We plop down on the floor in front of it and everyone has a chat, sees the kids, etc. propping up phones and straining to hear/see things is much inferior.
According to this Stack Exchange post from last year a full IPv4 routing table requires on the order of a few hundred MBs of RAM. This is indeed a tiny fraction of the cost of maintaining the global internet infrastructure.
https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/76562...
Units aren't clear from a callsite, though. That's the point she is making: nobody can tell if `credit_account(123)` is crediting $1.23 or $123. In a strongly-typed world if `credit_account` took cents and the called passed dollars they'd have to explicitly cast it along the lines of `credit_account(to_cents(123))`.
(Also worth noting: never use a float to represent dollars and cents (or whatever currency) amounts because floating point precision will get you.)
Infernally. Not internally. Presumably the author doesn’t like the word.
The assumption is that Meta and its ilk are picky about who they employ and that should be a proxy for an employee's ability or value. Of course, the layoffs will presumably involve those who perform worst so it's not clear if these people will be in a better position or not than someone who hadn't been at Meta.
Do you really learn that much at Facebook, do you really become that much more proficient?
I think for many there is a good chance of learning valuable skills at these companies. In my time at Meta I became a more proficient engineer by being around those who were a lot better than me, and I also got a lot better at non-technical stuff like giving people feedback, leadership, communication and so on. It's obviously not impossible that I could have learned these skills elsewhere but they are weighted heavily at Meta etc and it's more likely one will have absorbed them.
None of this is universal, of course. Any particular person might be great or terrible independent of their tenure at Meta.
The registrar could only read email if they also accept mail for the domain in question.
Apparently it is true:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma...
It seems .eu domains are more or less only available to people who live in the EU/EEA, hold EU/EEA citizenship or businesses that conduct business in the region.
I doubt this is an unusual situation.
I'm not falling on my sword to defend Facebook here, BTW. The company does a lot wrong. I just suspect it's not much worse than anyone else.
Facebook infamously allows for redundancy in development (each team developing its own solutions instead of trying to solve the problems across multiple teams)
Example or sources for this claim? I spent close to a decade working there and this doesn’t sound familiar at all.
I consider myself quite technically minded and interested in the workings of machines. I had not considered what was inside a steam engine's boiler before, nor what one would look like after an explosion. The pictures are indeed bizarre, looking almost like entrails hanging out in many cases. I find them even a bit creepy.
So for me, and likely most others, the title is not clickbaity and the content is not what one might expect.
(very late reply, only just saw this)
I'm not claiming to have never made a similar mistake. I have messed up in production a lot. But I would definitely recognise from this episode that the lack of good tooling led to risky, rushed, manual processes that can easily go wrong.
Most competitive Everesting attempts use a steep and typically short road. 3-5 miles of downhill on a 5-6% gradient is probably too time consuming (i.e. too much time spent not ascending).
Ronan McLaughlin, the current mens' Everesting record holder, used a 12%, 800m long segment:
https://www.strava.com/segments/876936
IIRC from a video I saw about it the prevailing wind is up the valley, so he got a bit of a tailwind on the ups but the headwind on a 12% descent didn't matter.
https://cyclingtips.com/2021/03/ronan-mc-laughlin-has-smashe...
And then, after you're done hand-rolling queries with Postman, immediately start planning actual, safe, tools to do this kind of thing when the need crops up.
My house (UK), built in 2006, has these plugs for lamps in various rooms. I'm not sure but I assume they're on the lighting circuit (5A) and the plugs don't have a built-in fuse.
One thing I haven’t seen suggested elsewhere, at least from a quick scan through, is that you need to get more help from your boss. Your coworkers need to improve and your manager needs to help you with that by holding your coworkers accountable and dealing with them if they don’t improve. You can help define what “improve” looks like but without the authority to fire someone who doesn’t make it there’s no incentive to improve.
If your boss doesn’t want to help try talking to their boss, and so on. Presumably someone somewhere wants this business to succeed and can be convinced to care.
If that doesn’t work it might be time to find a new job.
Does a password manager and browser extension not fix this? I use 1password on iOS and almost never have to copy and paste or (worse) type a password in. I just FaceID then pick the credentials I want to use to log in and the extension fills in the relevant form fields.
I flew out of LHR a couple of weeks ago. The security lines were longer than I have ever seen (took ~45m to an hour total, but I forgot some sunblock in my bag and had to wait quite a while for them to search it) but it was hardly stressful. I suppose if you're tight on time and cut things fine this could become a worry but that's avoidable by getting there a bit earlier. The airport staff were pretty good about checking for people on flights that were going to close soon, too. For me spending £2750 + VAT to avoid this is absolutely crazy (it's 5 years' worth of laptops) but perhaps I don't value my time as much as others here.
Isn’t choosing not to interact when you were able to still a form of interaction? I feel like once you’re exposed to the system and what it does depends on what you do (even if “doing” is nothing) you’re involved.
The “breakage” is happening. It’s just in the form of crappy solutions like CGNAT and DS-lite to work around the shortage rather than the internet just not working at all.
Not everyone deeply cares about their carbon footprint when by far the largest amount of CO2 generated is industrial.
Industry makes stuff that consumers demand, either directly or indirectly. It’s a bit of a meme to suggest that global warming is all down to companies emitting co2 just for lols. Of course, industry is sometime dirty because it’s cheaper, but it’s putting one’s head in the sand to pretend that consumers have no bearing on what companies do.
This is not to say that the blame lays solely with consumers. People are acting rationally — they want to go on holiday and can afford it; what’s stopping them? The issue is one of regulation. If emitting actually had a cost (well, a cost now, to the emitter, rather than to the whole planet at some later date) people would make better decisions.
This indeed. I have crossed the Pyrenees twice and the Alps from north to south by bike. We chose the fast and light options, riding road bikes and staying in hotels, but still the feeling of crossing a large map entirely under one's own steam is gratifying and addictive.