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To be fair the first thing I do is disable all ads. Most don't dig that deep. And due to Europe all their "oh are you sure you don't wanna sign up for all these" now has consistent no button positions.

I think w11 is fantastic if only they stopped all ad nonsense.

The issue is there are zero laws controling data collection. Online or from cars. And no ability to opt out. No practical ability at least.

Just to note, everything is rosy right up until another MTA profit conversation and suddenly how can we monetize literally everything.

Also facial recognition is error prone enough that I'm sure a few people will get harassed by the system constantly flagging them. When they're not evading.

And evaders might wear a reflective hat or something making them invisible to the cameras.

Wow. useOptimistic is seriously cool. These are all really great tools to eliminate more and more boilerplate. Can't wait to put it all into use.

Gotta say, I really love what the react team has been doing, sure it hasn't always been perfect, but it really feels like inching closer to a very smooth developer experience very time.

The barrier of proof for a bogus DMCA is incredibly high. Even something like "our system sends out 100k takedowns a day, so it had to be automaded and sometimes we face false positives" is enough to shut down a case.

DMCA has many problems and needs to be updated for 20 years now. Remember the DECSS issues faced?

8 hours a day, that's 12 minutes a case. They also need to hang up as quickly as possible on their calls.

Yeah, if your case is remotely complex, they're fucked. The reality is that bad management is a direct cause of these issues.

In any case, the challenge is is the risk worth it. And at some income levels, yeah.

I have a friend who works for the IRS. They basically can't spend more than a minute per client. Its basically "okay cool" move on. They gotta do like 40 cases a day.

The tricky part is that you're basically playing a lottery. If they audit you (and there's a very strong chance that in your lifetime it won't happen), you're likely to hit a bunch of fines. And if you know someone in the IRS they'll just tell you what you owe. And if they don't, basically nobody gives a shit.

That's what it is. Is the risk of a failed audit that much of an issue? Or not. And if you don't have the money / assets to pay the fines, they'll likely just give you a loan or maybe a reduced amount. The IRS rather get some money than no money.

Its... weird.

Twitter was notorious for crashing. The fail whale was a internet meme... Then they fixed it and for about 7 years I basically never saw a problem with twitter, even in the worst internet conditions.

Today the bugs are back. Things are constantly a problem. This isn't a "well all software has bugs" -- yeah true, but somehow for 7 years twitter was bug-free. Or rather the bugs were quickly caught and fixed. And now... nothing.

Musk got rid of all guardrails, and now we face the consequences.

Cynical but on point. My thought is I unfortunately don't trust Google for product launches because of exactly this. And I know anyone at startups might be thinking similar things.

Incoming layoff notices. Stupid decisions are usually explained by a desire to get voluntary resignations.

isn't english one of the most expressive languages out there...? has an explicit word for most concepts. its just a bit fuzzy on the top 2000 words.

I always walk in saying "let's assume no trade-in, no down payment, just talk raw car price with me, assume I can pay in cash, then we'll talk about the rest"

This lets me actually have 1 number to focus on and negotiate on, and walk out on. I always say "I'll be back in an hour" and really use that hour to think it over and come to approximately what the price will be.

If you get a 6 year loan, you can do the math dividing it up yourself and then worry about interest later. It's not thaaaat much.

Now. Once you settled on a price, start talking trade-in. The reality is if you know the value of your car on other sites, you generally know what they'll offer. Even with removal of taxes, you can easily calculate how much it is worth. Basically if you get more than $500 more for your car elsewhere, it is worth it.

And now the down payment and interest rate are kinda irrelevant. Their goal is to mess with those but not budge on the value of the car. But since you already did that... Now when you talk interest rates, always reject theirs, then take the next number and basically lower it by a percent. Get them REALLY CLOSE and just force that. The reality is that they ABSOLUTELY have wiggle room within the %. They'll usually try to make cash on you via an extra % or 2. So if they offer you 7% they can easily offer you 4.5%.

The down payment doesn't matter. It is just whatever you put in takes off from the remaining price.

I couldn't get into the books. Just didn't resonate with me.

8breally enjoyed the show. The whole thing. The story stands well on its own.

One word.

Run

Any company where non tech managers want to say gpt can do that in 5 minutes doesn't understand the small and subtle ways gpt will misinterpret making things very messy very fast.

In toy problem scenarios gpt does pretty darn well... Because those are toys with obvious starts and ends. Gpt is useful for people who already know the answer but want to use gpt to type it up for them.

In any case, reasons aside... If your manager is hostile to seeing you as valuable leave. There's no way to improve things in that situation.

That's my big challenge, I want to get the money for the experience I bring, but ultimately companies don't see it that way. Just more bets I can't really afford to take. :(

I know many who have the same sentiment. And I wish we lived in a society where that was the case.

Difference is funding. Good luck convincing the population you need to tripple teacher salaries.

I mean we should. But good luck convincing.

10 years from now is likely a different administration and it'll be their problem. The "Someone Else's Problem" is a very strong motivator.

Similar to math teachers and programming. Most great math teachers can easily convert to at least mediocre programmers. And that translates to a 3x+ salary increase on day 1. I know people who converted.

How does academia compete?

We want to migrate to it:

"Okay cool! We'll sign you up! Good luck!"

vs

"We have a migration strategy, and partners who can help you lift-and-ship or at least consult to get you a lay of the land. Try these companies and see if you're interested, and we'll help you along the way."

Google is -- thanks for reaching out, you can certainly sign up and figure it all out, here's a few books!

Amazon -- things are complex, and here's a few books to read, but I know you don't have a few years so here's some people who know how to do this, and we've ironed out how most companies succeed in migrating. Also he's a ton of incentive to move to amazon-exclusive services.

The other comment mentioned how google didn't even acknowledge why they did it.

I have to say, talking to AWS and GCP, the AWS marketing, onboarding, and support arm are far far far far far superior to google's. In fact they are so far apart that our management has blatantly discarded google as even an option for moving our infra over because of how terrible our interactions have been. I'm all for de-throning the king, but it ain't gonna be done by the court jester.

In any case, point is, AWS has good strategy where it matters most.

It gets to the meat and potatoes at the end. They were forced to do it, so they put a positive spin on it as if they're doing it out of the goodness of their heart.

Still a positive, but man, that marketing messaging. I give props to the team who wrote that.

Even if it isn't 2.1, the off the shelf adapters will definitely cost, but it is a long-term strategy. If every card supports DP natively and everyone is shipping hdmi 2.0 adapters, monitor manufacturers will be strongly inclined to include a native DP port everywhere, no more HDMI only devices, including potentially TVs. At that point the card manufacturers stop shipping with the dongle.

Thinking about it more, there's no down side to DP. Every card manufacturer should spend an extra $2 and ship with a DP -> HDMI adapter and drop HDMI universally. There's no down side. And that $2 will be well worth the licensing fees they don't have to pay, and the software they don't have to write.

Hdmi has zero illusions about being ineffective. It was cracked the first day it was released.

It's a mechanism to force you to pay a licensing fee to manufacture hdmi devices.

It's why display ports are the way to go.

the readiness paradox:

If you are prepared, nothing interesting happens, life moves on, people opened a notebook and pressed a few buttons.

If you are not prepared, the texas grid freezes, people die, people lose their savings, and "nobody could have imagined it would be this bad".

This is why companies do this nonsense. The cost is so low, that its just the cost of doing business.

They need an additive punitive damage getting everyone $100.

In any case, sensationalist headlines aside, some lawyer is gonna make a lot of money.

And I'm guessing the case will be settled so we can't just go to small claims court and sue them for 3k each.

The cut is too universal and not neuanced. If it was a 30% cut on profits, that would make sense, and everyone would grin but deal with it.

But if you sell something for a 10% markup, having to give that + 20% to apple is bad. And now people ask "why do I have to pay more for your service on apple vs android". And now you're in a fun PR battle.

In cases of say fortnight, there are real server costs involved. Not to mention dev costs. In cases of say music, there's licensing you pay. If you order food, you are already working in the margins.

This makes competition vs big boys even harder. How can I compete vs netflix if any streaming service I make who doesn't have netflix's negotiation power has to pay 30% of every payment. I can't get close to netflix's price.

The list goes on.

The point is, it isn't just a grin and move on problem :(

To note, staff position requirements are very high. One because they cost a lot, and two because they're looking for proven people.

Going from senior to staff or principal is a huge leap.

Personally I have no idea how people expect to get staff at 6 years of experience. I'd expect a minimum of 8-10. You just need experience there. Below that you better be a genius.

The classical "the executives bought software because it ticked checkboxes, and they'll never be the boots on the ground using it"