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Oh wow, $GLAB is down 31.68% YTD and they are announcing a massive restructuring and work force reduction. Is this th en---oh wait, AI!!!

Sounds like both a lack of trust and communication between you and the team.

If you have better metrics or management skills than what everyone in the world has figured out, myself and many others would gladly adopt these approaches.

Oh boy...

edit: One issue might be they fear that bad news will lead to a knee jerk reaction that gets them or their teammates fired. They should feel comfortable to encounter problems and openly discuss them in the open with out fear of repercussions. In fact, I would argue this is one of the major advantages of a team; pooling collective knowledge and abilities. If people fear honest communication then the performance of the team is impacted. The manager has the greatest ability to fix this, IMHO...

Call your credit card company. They can block a merchant, perform a chargeback, and/or issue a new credit card number. I don’t know the rules for a debit card, but you’ll at least be able to get a new debit card number.

FWIW, actually, one thing I learned in practice that’s wasn’t highlighted in my Algorithms course: overhead (constant C) matters. You can feel good about yourself for choosing an algorithm that scales in O(lg n) time, but if your you ignore the cost of each operation (C) you might be slow.

For example:

1. When n is small, an array is almost always better. Arrays have very little overhead compared to even a hash map.

2. Algorithms with the same O() may still have significant differences at runtime and might be balanced differently between insert and search times. AVL trees take longer than Red Black trees to insert, but might be 1 level better in height. That means one less access. Useful for a routing table, for example.

So, in summary, if your looking at other people’s code and see lots of arrays don’t get too smug…n is usually small.

I've removed one and never heard anything. I doubt they even check if it's functioning unless they are attempting to repossess the car. As I recall, some modules have the ability to unlock and start the car as well (I think; it was years ago when I found one and researched it...)

We leased a new Jeep Cherokee from a Miami dealership some time ago. It was a company car and was financed. Some months later we noticed the odometer was blinking constantly so we took it in for service to a different dealer. The tech pulled it out and told us about it. He said they didn't do it at that dealership, but some do it.

It was just hanging off the OBD2 port, so if you're concerned about it when leasing or buying a new car then just make sure to check that port.

I still have it in a box somewhere. I'm not sure if there's anything interesting that can be done with it...

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In Colorado a law was recently passed to deal with this. According to [0]:

"During its initial committee hearing, sponsoring state Rep. Mary Young, D-Greeley, said allegations of neglect or lack of supervision have been on the rise in Colorado, even as the number of substantiated cases are dropping. In 2019, there were 3,854 allegations of lack of supervision; 82%, or 3,169, were unfounded, she said."

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/31/colorado-reasonable-in...

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Presumably the City of Los Angles isn't confronting the problem due to an unwillingness to spend funds. If she is successful, the cost of doing nothing will increase. So her goal isn't to throw them out, it's to force the city's hand.

Yes. Back of envelope, took physics in college many years ago[1] analysis:

E=mc^2, or energy = mass * (speed of light)^2. According to Wikipedia a candle can produce 77 watts of energy "combined." I guess that means 77 joules (1 watt = 1 J/s). So we have:

77 = m * (299792458)^2

Solving for m via Wolfram Alpha:

m = 11 / 12839369696240252

Which is in grams. That's a _very_ small amount, but it's not zero.

edit:

[1] If I'm being honest, I got E=mc^2 from watching the Twilight Zone as a kid, not college physics.

While both RB and AVL trees grow at O(lg N) height, the constant for AVL trees is smaller. This means that for a large AVL tree it might be 1 or 2 layers shorter than the equivalent RB tree. This comes at the expense of a higher constant for insertion and deletion.

In certain contexts saving a node transversal will have a meaningful impact on performance.

I would be surprised if they did this for Workspace accounts. Deleting data from a organization would be a disaster for Google. I.e. an account may be at a center of a lawsuit or subject to data retention laws.

Indeed, this says no:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/38173?hl=en

From a security stand point you should at least have uBlock Origin installed for Chrome and Firefox. It can block JavaScript easily. I would trust NoScript as well which provides fine grain control over scripts. I get not wanting any extensions, but blocking scripts will unfortunately never be viable in a user base that doesn’t know what a “script” is...

Yeah, but in this instance we’re talking about Facebook. I could care less about what Apple charges them. I do feel for indie developers and don’t support the 30% fee, but in the case of $FB (or zoom) allow me to introduce you to the world’s tiniest violin...

Also, I’m sure FB is only piling on because of the privacy changes to iOS which harm FB’s core advertising business. FB would charge 30% in a heart beat.

Again, I would do away with the 30% fee, but please find me someone other than Facebook to feel sorry for.

I wish insurers weren't so heavy handed with this technology. If it's possible to tell if someone is a "good" or "bad" driver via this technology, why not at least just tell the driver without the big brother BS? Many drivers might change their habits based on this information.

I know insurers have apps that you can install on your phone or ODBC modules you can install. Does anyone know of any way to collect this data privately without reporting it to an insurer?

There have been no reports of either Google or Apple selling personal data to a third party. It is against there privacy policies and stated intentions. Google certainly collects and uses your data for it's own ends, but unless Google starts selling auto insurance it's not particularly relevant.

Apple claims to go to extreme lengths to anonymize data collected from Maps. Any information about locations visited is kept locally on your iPhone. Whether you trust them or not, it would be major news if it where found to be otherwise.

I think a lot of people are interpreting this as mandatory with no easy way to switch off. The article doesn't indicate how it will work.

It’s so strange to me that after all this time they’re sticking with the high fee. The App Store is a major feature of the iOS platform and Apple benefits greatly from a healthy app ecosystem and user lock in. I would argue the 30% fee may not be a net gain for Apple.

Google is not operating at a loss, however. They are not paying people exorbitant salaries to keep them from working at smaller companies. They are paying them six figure salaries and making _billions_ doing it. Google seems to very much care about making money. Six figures seems small to me, if anything.

Did I miss something?

I don't think Google is operating at a total loss when they pay a developers these salaries? Software is making Google (and many other tech companies) hundreds of billions per year in profit and people are complaining about a 6 figure salary being too high.

If all I can afford to pay a developer is minimum wage, is he or she now obligated to work for me at my "market rate?" At what point does it go from not having enough money to afford a highly qualified developer to becoming "poaching?"

ed: Toned it down a little. I think tech is making an absurd amount of money and it's exasperating to see people complain about paying their workers too much.

Tell your credit card company that it’s an unauthorized charge and request a new credit card. Some will even ship it expedited for free if you request it.

But they do this already. In Colorado many insurers raised rates when we had a large hail storm that caused widespread damage. Allstate roughly doubled my premium because of it (or so they said), even though I parked my car in a garage both at home and at work at the time. I found a better rate elsewhere, but I’m sure others just paid it.

So the fact that they’re offering a reduction seems fair, I guess. Although I wonder if they’re really only seeing a 15% reduction in costs.

Well, let's see. They're soliciting for _donations_ to a business that hasn't asked for it and possibly doesn't need it. I doubt JWZ needs it. If you want to throw money at something, how about a legitimate charity. Maybe this would be welcome if it where opt-in, but c'mon. What's the point of trying to ram a GoFundMe down everyone's throat?

I mean, imagine of Facebook tried this and started spamming your friends asking for donations to help you. I can't believe that even in Silicon Valley anyone can be this tone deaf.

Are you giving your opinion as a legitimate “subject expert” or should we take it as a “non-expert” opinion?

It irks me too, but I can't really argue with the decision. X11's model of remote rendering is flawed; try starting up Firefox over a tunneled SSH connection sometime.

In order to justify network rendering at the windowing system level, I think you need a model that could reasonably give good performance to both local and remote applications without application developers having to care.

Sun's early windowing system was NeWS, which had a PostScript interpreter running on the display terminal. I think it was the better idea in the long run, but at the time X was easier to work with and wasn't patent encumbered...

I suspect the Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima Daiichi incidents also had a part to play in public perception.

Good advice!

Things like mobile boarding passes and the "Mobile Passport" app encourage and train people to hand their devices over to TSA and CBP personnel. In that later case, unlocked and with an app CBP/DHS controls already installed (with a lengthy ToS no one ever reads).

Wasn't part of the point of C#'s syntax was that it was easy for C++ and Java programmers to learn? Would any real C# advocate really tell me it would take months of manager supervised learning to pickup?

I've been writing code for a long time in many languages and I do my best to write "good" code. The principles that make code "good" in one language appear to apply equally to other languages...

The idea (I'm sure) is to avoid waste as much as conserve energy use. In fact I from an energy perspective it's probably awful. But they have to establish themselves; they have to get an inventory of products and a customer base. Then they can make deals to put recycling points in every supermarket and have their recyclable packaging available along side conventional packaging. In other words, don't think about today, think about where this can go tomorrow.

Also, if your packaging consumption consists of a jar of honey and a few personal items, you are far from typical (but good! Whole food diets are great). Many people consume lots of packaged foods and goods. In any event, you have to think of this spread across billions of people consuming goods.

Finally, reusable packaging is not new. You charge a deposit large enough to incentivize the consumer to return the packaging. This has been done with glass bottles.

I bet their angle is that they can handle a wide variety of package types and quickly calculate customer refund amounts. I.e., each container will have a unique id (QR code, rfid). I would say this is why the model hasn't worked until now...it was too difficult to manage the menagerie of containers and quickly processing refunds. So it might work for water or milk, but it wouldn't work for 300 different container types in a supermarket.

Side note: if each container has a UUID, you could track how fast people are consuming products. How much butter DID you consume last week? There are real privacy implications, as I'm sure that data would have monetary value to advertisers and health insurers.

It's worth noting that Black Hat was spun off from Def Con to get corporations to allow employees to expense it. Often speakers at Black Hat also present at Def Con. Def Con as a matter of policy does not collect any information about its attendees [0].

[0] Read the fine print: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20rec...

Check out “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler. It seems like a pithy title, but he’s quite serious and has interesting things to say on the subject.

Star Citizen is “Wing Commander but we couldn’t/wouldn’t get the naming rights from EA, so Star Citizen wink-wink.” It’s the modern day continuation of Wing Commander.

Edit: Maybe minus the space tigers...