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Is there a warranty?

Yes, we warrant against manufacturing defects for 30 days after you receive your order.

Is this the shortest warranty on a consumer electronics device ever? What on earth are they thinking.

Even if you simplify your thinking of orbits to a 2D (square area), it's a lot of space.

This is not a spatial problem. It's an intersectionality problem.

I guess the Montreal Protocol was "degrowth talk" for you too, huh?

I stopped taking this guy seriously after he proposed "just" digging canals to bring desalinated ocean water into the U.S. desert.

I find it interesting you label the majority of voters in the populace who voted for Brexit as "far right", and not just "right".

Great, so all I need to do is to authoritatively check each plausible combination of domains that _might_ work and rule each of them out before I can make my claim, according to you?

What a load of pedantry.

Within the last month both Mapbox and Etsy blocked my attempts to signup using a Proton Mail alias. How many services do you sign up for in recent years, on average? The practice is becoming incredibly common and more than likely you're just grandfathered in.

Within the space of 2 weeks I had both Etsy and Mapbox block signups with Proton Mail aliases. The practice is rapidly becoming more common.

Disliking mass immigration isn't xenophobia.

Immigration has been directly responsible in the last decade for the huge run-up in housing prices in New Zealand.

It is not _the only reason_, but it is a big reason.

And it's criticisms like this that isolate people further from each other politically and emboldens support for the parties you dislike.

There are valid and reasonable reasons to dislike large-scale immigration beyond supporting despots for the sake of doing so. The mainstream parties are not offering alternatives, can you blame those who are disaffected by this rapid societal change from reaching out to support the first name that voices critique at policies they dislike?

Yeah.

So what will realistically happen, if we look at the trajectories of other countries, is that immigration will continue to rise, more people will be peaked by the discontent it can sow, and the popularity of this party will rise further.

People always seem surprised when someone in CS or SWE doesn't care for anime or cutesy pictorial graphics of girls.

Without these kinds of policies you'll just see the rise of more "new-right" parties like One Nation in Australia and Reform in the United Kingdom (yes, I am aware both are not "new", but they are newly popular).

It turns out there is a sufficient amount of immigration that is disliked by the populace that they will dump support for long-standing parties in favour of those who promise change.

This is written beautifully. It's like a much more inconsequential variant of Chernobyl.

The constituent particles of nature are under no requirement to be apparent or achievable to you.

Having juniors and mid-levels is about being able to promote an existing mid-level that knows the team and the system, with zero downtime. It's much easier to replace a junior than a senior.

Yeah but the point of this post is that it makes an assumption that your company doesn't have mid-levels or juniors.

That's probably the bulk of senior developers. We're not all inverting custom proprietary binary trees.

This is pretty much what's occurring in New Zealand right now, yes. 2020–2023 had pretty much zero international movement due to closed borders with COVID-19, with a low official cash rate which caused business to be in desperate need of development resource; so salaries were high.

Market rate for developers has either stagnated generally or depending on the role dropped as hundreds of applicants are willing to undercut each other on what constitutes an acceptable pay check.

But most employers don't go around reducing previously-hired people's salaries for a variety of reasons.

A senior engineer says “I want a 40% raise or I’m leaving,” and the company’s ability to respond depends entirely on what their alternatives look like.

Except where I live there's a glut of people wanting any job they can find—for a variety of reasons ranging from high levels of immigration to layoffs in the last two years—and willing to accept discount rates because the alternative is being unemployed for another 3 months (New Zealand).

Both the employer and employee know this. So the employee is either foolish or risky enough for asking and gets turned down, or they do actually leave and the employer can hire a new senior engineer at below market rates to accommodate the specific learning they have to do for their new role.

End of story.

Steve Jobs existed in an era where he could show us new technology when new technology brought a sense of joy and amazement; whereas due to a multitude of factors, new technology no longer causes such emotions for a substantial portion of people.

We didn’t have any. The project manager set it at 3 story points.

Agreed. I'm very pro-solar but there should be incentives for residential solar and solar on commercial buildings first. Covering up farmland and natural environments should be a last resort.

- it's not the norm but the exception

I bet makes the person dealing with the outcome of being surrounded by them feel a lot better.

Do you think that Goodwill should be able to offload all liability for everything they sell at their thrift shops to their often anonymous donors?

I don't even think this is an appropriate analogy worth answering. Goodwill are selling products to consumers in a direct exchange of money-for-goods.

No one is buying Linux.

An open-source project receiving open-source contributions from (often anonymous) volunteers is not even close to analogous to a storefront selling products with a consumer guarantee they are backing on the basis of their supply chain.

Most humans also write plausible code.

Ironically Phillips screwheads are often considered subpar compared to more recently (relatively) invented screw types.

Kagi offer unlimited searches now for $10/month. Arguably the best value for money plan and it stops you worrying about how many searches you have left.

How do these withstand strong winds? How are they secured to the ground? Where I live we've had 21 of the last 30 days with a gust over 50km/h, with one day gusting 113km/h.

Unless the structure is _very well_ secured to the ground, the fabric material looks like a rather inviting windsail, and the supporting structure doesn't seem to inspire confidence either. My immediate thought is that these very much look "designed for where it's 72°F and Sunny", and don't reflect real-world post-disaster conditions.