jlbooker

"unbecoming" is the first word that comes to mind. Can't say it really surprises me, though.

It's a bit of semantics, sure, but there's a subtle difference. In something like Java, there's a very distinct complication phase, the compilation is successful (type checks pass) and the bytecode is shipped off, and someone else runs that bytecode later. In PHP, you ship the code itself and the compilation phase is essentially the same as runtime. There is no distinct phase where types are pre-checked and analyzed. In PHP, all the syntax and type checking happens during (a phase of) runtime.

So they are useless. My car warns me even if i don't look.

No, they serve a very specific purpose -- (attempting) to ensure the driver is at the controls and paying attention.

Don't confuse the FSD attention "nag" warnings with collision warnings. The collision warnings will sound all the time, with and without FSD enabled and even if you're not looking at the road. If you don't start slowing down quickly, Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) will slam on the brakes and bring the car to a stop.

I remember a lot of, 'a sad lad had glad fad'. And then yes, it descended into nonsense from there on out.

Probably a subtle push to sell the cloud-hosted Enterprise version. I bet the on-prem Enterprise will slowly stop getting all the latest-and-greatest features. Producing and supporting the on-prem version has extra costs, but probably doesn't bring in enough (extra) revenue to justify working on it as much.

Here's a good follow-up video from the same news org: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ICG0iaHqw

Spoiler: They ended up dragging the husband through the (raging, debris filled) river after he hiked himself down the mountain, instead of letting the helicopter pick him up. Not 24-hrs later, they were asking for private helicopter pilots to go do exactly the same sort of thing. According to the video above, the pilot had checked in with incident command at the Hickory regional airport, and they were only selling fuel to pilots who joined the rescue mission with them. The town manager in this video is stretching to defend the fire chief.

From Southwest 4Q and Full Year 2023 results [1]:

Full year 2023 operating revenues were a record $26.1 billion, a 9.6 percent increase, year-over-year

Full year net income of $498 million, or $0.81 per diluted share

I'll say again... They have _plenty_ of money (record-breaking, even!) to train their pilots on the differences between two aircraft models. It's not that they can't afford it, they'd just rather not spend the money unless absolutely forced to, because a better stock price is their primary goal/motivation.

[1] https://www.southwestairlinesinvestorrelations.com/news-and-...

They make millions of dollars every year. They can afford the training, they'd just rather have better metrics and not pay for expensive training, just to make the stock look better.

That would match with the leading mis-navigation theory. She and her navigator were fine and healthy, as was the plane. They were looking for the island to land on, but had messed up the navigation and were sufficiently off-course. There were US Navy boats in the area of the island that heard their radio calls. There was no emergency -- they just reported to be searching for the land that they should've found. Presumably they flew until they ran out of fuel and likely set it down in the water as gently as possible.

You missed the joke. It's been so long now since HL2 that the joke is to find any implication of "3" (or even work back to three via vague associations between random things) and say "HL3 Confirmed!".

How do you make "organic detergent"? Was it grown without synthetic pesticides, or...? I'm pretty skeptical of the word "organic" getting thrown around in marketing... so I'm really curious what makes a detergent qualify as organic.

This return a 404 now. Anyone have a better link?

I was never impressed with Nouveau, mostly because I pretty quickly ran into this system-crashing bug that I've had open for six years. It's "high critical" importance, plenty of reproductions, log submissions, etc... no developer ever looked at it. Nouveau was unusable. I gave it another try recently, and found it still crashing far too frequently to be acceptable.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100567

In the interview I asked the technical lead, "So, what sort of version control do you use?"

Answer: "Well, we just open the file on the server and Vim will tell you if someone else has it open too."

Nope, nope, nopity, NOPE.

I guess you like those cookie warnings that pollute the Internet these days? Because this would be cookie warnings all over again. Any site that's reasonably popular uses a CDN to increase scalability, improve performance, and add reliability. Half the Internet would need a new pop-up warning that a CDN is in use. The last thing we need is yet another pop-up when a page loads....

The IBM MBAs have finally taken over Redhat. Anything to squeeze another dollar out, even if it's counterproductive in the long term.

We knew it would happen. Honestly I'm surprised it took this long.

The yellow background is a bit abrasive, so I was happy to see a dark mode switch.. but yea, fuck me.

SpaceX used to sell a version of this in their online store. I bought one for my son. I'm not sure what company manufactured it, but it doesn't seem to have an Estes branding. You can pick them up on eBay now, with a significantly inflated price (they were originally ~$50 from SpaceX): https://www.ebay.com/p/1600662998

I'd argue it's two different products with very different levels of support effort. Larger customers require much more time/effort than smaller customers. I could list an hourly rate, sure, but most customers don't even know where to begin with estimating how many consulting hours they'd need. I'd hate to lose a customer because they over-estimate the hours and think they can't afford it, or have them underestimate and be shocked later. Every customer is unique and there's no useful way to break it down into a pricing chart.

Let's say we charge everyone the "big customer" rate.. The smaller customers couldn't afford it. If we charged everyone the "small customer" rate, we'd put ourselves out of business by spending far too time on the big customers while not making enough revenue to cover the costs of serving the larger customers. If we're practical about it, the smaller customers just don't have budgets as large as the larger customers. If we want the smaller customers to buy in, we have to reduce the price to something that fits their budget.

I'm the CTO of a bootstrapped SaaS product targeting the higher education market. We don't list a price on the website because there are many variables that affect the final price. Every school has their single-sign-on system, for example. There are obviously several popular options, but there's also a whole host of obscure options. Every university IT department has their own preferences about how the integration will go. That very much changes how time-consuming the implementation will be for our company, and thus affects the price. There's no way to know this until we talk about what kind of integration the school wants.

We also vary the price based on school size. Huge research-1 level schools pay more than tiny public liberal arts schools -- and rightly so. The big schools have more funding and more spare cash. They also have bigger, more complicated implementations since they have 50+ thousand students and hundreds of faculty. The size of the school also feeds into how expensive the customer is going to be to service, and thus affects our pricing.

How do I put all that into a single price on the website?

It's very clearly Beta. No one claimed it's perfect/done/finished. Why is everyone so shocked that beta software has bugs?

We can certainly debate whether it's ethical to put beta software out on the public roads. Perhaps the Minimum Viable Product method isn't the best approach for transportation hardware.

But... surely we can all expect that beta software has bugs. So yes -- I expect it to be driving like a drunk 10yr old. Ideally that'll slowly improve as the software matures. That it made a mistake and has a bug isn't really news though.

Restore from off-site tape backup. The kind of service where you ship them ~dozen new tapes in a lockbox each week and they ship you the oldest dozen back. It's supposed to be the "if all of a data centers happen to burn to ashes simultaneously" option. If you say "give us all of our tapes, asap" and then have some pour souls swapping them out as fast as the data can be read... it would probably take a few weeks.

all teachers are represented by a union that negotiates on their behalf

No, this is not true. Some teachers are represented by unions. In our state (North Carolina), public employees are prohibited by law from organizing into unions and cannot strike.

There is a "teacher's association" that lobbies on their behalf, but the republican-controlled legislature pretty much ignores the association. Without the option the strike, the association is pretty much powerless. They publish opinions and give feedback about what they'd prefer to have happen, but they have no leverage to actually make any changes.

The money spent out-of-pocket is not just decorations and sidewalk chalk. It's pencils, paper, erasers, folders, name tags, cleaning supplies, sticky notes, pencil sharpeners, "prize box" rewards (because you have to have a behavior reward system, it works wonders at practical level for elementary students). It's all of the practical things that make a classroom function on a day-to-day basis. Heck, sometimes they'd run out of paper for the copy machine and we'd buy a few reems just so she could have a particular activity the next day.

Ohh, and yes. We spent plenty ($100's) of our own money on school supplies at Wal-mart and teacher supply stores. The kids also had an extensive supply list that parents were asked to purchase, but it was never enough.

My wife was an elementary school teacher. She worked 7am-4pm, then came home had dinner and time with the family. After our son went to bed, she'd spend 8pm-11pm grading papers and working on lesson plans for the following week. She also spent time on the weekends developing lesson plans. That's a nine hour work day, plus three (or more) hours most evenings. That's easily a 60+hr work week.

Ohh, and there were no breaks during the work day. Most days she was required to be supervising/helping kids in the lunchroom during her "lunch break", so she couldn't really sit down to eat her own food. Good luck finding a time to use the restroom.

There are no vacation days. You can't say, "I'd like Friday off because my son has an event on Saturday and we need to travel there the day before".

If you were sick, you were required to find your own replacement from a list of substitutes that the school provided.

There are no public employee unions in our state (North Carolina). She made low $40k when she quit. Per-hour it was less than minimum wage. I've always made double or triple her salary in Tech, for half the hours.

The summers are "vacation", but they're also unpaid. She was only paid for 10 months out of the year. Ohh, and she had mandatory teacher workdays over the summer (unpaid), which were essentially 3-4 days of all-day training. We couldn't just leave for vacation.

Fast food is really a better gig. You can leave the work at work when the day is done, and it pays better too.

My wife also left elementary school teaching shortly after the pandemic. She had a child throw a sizable textbook at her, only missing her head by an inch or so. Felt the air as it wizzed by. She sent the kid to the vice-principal for their grade level. Thirty minutes later the kid was right back in her class, and once again causing disruptions.

They lack any ability or willpower to meaningfully hold students accountable. My wife felt physically unsafe with this student in her room, yet apparently nothing could be done.

Not in all states. In my state (North Carolina), teachers participate in the public employees retirement/pension fund. However, public employees are prohibited by law from joining/forming a union.

Yes, the get "summers off", but there are also mandatory continuing education requirements that must be completed, so they're still working (unpaid) during those two months.

Teachers also cannot request a vacation day. If you need to call in sick, you're responsible for securing a substitute (school provides the list of approved people, better start calling them frantically).

The trials lasted long enough to gather the statistical evidence needed to show that the vaccine prevented the trial group from becoming infected (and that it was highly unlikely the trial group did better due to random chance). When that point was reached, the trial was deemed sufficient and was ended/unblinded. When people are dying by the thousands every day (in the USA alone), how much longer would you have wanted the trial to go on? We found out what we wanted to know. The vaccine worked. There's no need to carry on and ask the placebo group to continue with the risk of being infected.

You'd think that the corporate overlords would prefer the machine to be working so they make money from the sales...

And that's where the intrigue and accusations of foul play are coming in. It seems like McD's has mandated this model of Machine and Taylor agreed to make it worse (they supply better machines without these issues to other fast food chains). Taylor profits from the service calls and I'd bet some McD's exec are getting kickbacks to keep it that way (by mandating a worse machine that makes franchise owners less money). The Kytch device came along and upset that status quo.

Another question to consider is why the repair is 16k

If you watch the video on 'Rich Rebuilds' YouTube channel that this article comes from, they mention the problem... The battery pack _can_ be opened and repaired, but it requires special training, equipment, and a specialized area of the service center to perform the work. They mention that Tesla _used_ to do this work and some of the Service Centers were properly equipped/trained to do handle it. However, Tesla found it was cost prohibitive to do at individual Service Centers, so now they have one central facility that repairs/reprocesses packs.

Rather than equip and train every Service Center, they've found it makes more sense to just replace the whole battery pack and send the old one back to the one central facility for service.

The battery pack is considered a high-voltage part. Tesla, by their policy (safety and liability reasons, presumably), won't sell you any of the high-voltage components.