colinjoy

> They still take the same money, but we have to pay more, so that ...

… smaller businesses who cannot evade taxes quite as easily may compete on a more level playing field.

> SUVs, but Audi is already in that market..... they'd cannibalize each other.

Almost all of the VW car brands have SUVs in their portfolio. This includes Bentley, Lamborghini and, indeed, Porsche. I would not be surprised to learn that Porsche sells more SUVs than non-SUVs.

The challenge for legacy car makers seems to be less about electrifying the drive train and more about moving to a capable software architecture and UX.

I have no idea what it is worth, but it is currently valued closer to $105B.

It does get a bit hot an sluggish sometimes, but nothing too bad. I restart it every week or so and that's good enough.

When Tim Apple announced the iPhone X in 2017, they stated it would "set the tone for the next decade". To me, it feels like that still holds true and my bank account is happy for it :)

Looks like the site is still under construction?

https://learn.gorillaterminal.com/projects

Shows generic placeholder content.

Is the pricing info merely hard to find or omitted by design?

The interesting bit:

"According to the paper, the new Volkswagen CEO has also announced changes in software development, which has ultimately delayed the planned electric vehicles across the Group. The dispute over the direction of the software subsidiary Cariad was one of the reasons for the change at the top of the Group.

Volkswagen now cut (out of necessity) the target set by Blume’s predecessor Herbert Diess himself of developing at least 60 per cent of the software for its car operating system on its own.

Continental may now play a decisive role alongside Bosch to accelerate software development. The DAX listed Group will develop the so-called middleware for VW’s operating system, writes Handelsblatt, quoting industry sources. The middleware enables data exchange between the software and hardware of a car. Neither Continental nor Cariad commented."

Not researching, finding and learning a new git GUI is also going to cost you more than $70. Year, after year, after year ...

no.

Same here. I use the last version that works without a subscription (v7).

If they ever offer a version upgrade with a proper license, I will buy it without hesitation. Sadly, I don't think they want my money.

Most likely, I will use this version until it dies with breaking macOS changes. Then, with regrets, I will move to the second best password manager with a buy to own license.

How'd you come up with the name? Does it stand for something?

Entirely?

https://www.apple.com/services/ https://www.apple.com/logic-pro/ https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/

Of course, these are not the bread and butter products.

I find it a bit pointless to separate their hardware and software. I know few people who run Windows or Linux on their Apple hardware. For me, Apple is primarily a products company that excels in fusing hardware and software together. They are increasingly expanding into services, too.

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

Just because you label a protest march as "spontaneously going for a walk", it is still a protest march, especially if you organise it (here: via Telegram groups).

The German constitution (art. 8) generally grants the right to assemble peacefully and without weapons without requiring an explicit permit. However, if you plan to do it outdoors in public space, you need to declare it to the local authorities (with the intent to ensure safety for both the protesters and the general public). Spontaneous gatherings are exempt from this, BUT, if you organise a "spontaneous walk" days ahead via Telegram, arguably it is not very spontaneous anymore.

A declared demonstration can be approved with additional requirements (e.g. limiting movement to predefined areas) or even prohibited, provided there are grounds that it cannot be conducted safely. From what I can see, the reason that many anti-covid protests fall victim to this, is that the audience has demonstrated a tendency to break regulations that are in place to ensure public health and safety (e.g. mask mandate and distancing).

If you don't like the regulations, you can protest against them. If you break the regulations however, you cannot.

Claiming that some scientist or study stated something or other is not useful unless context is provided. At least it should be clear when it was said, since the position of science is subject to change as new data is available or the situation changes.

The quote that you probably refer to, is this one, from 3 Sep 2021 (translation by deepl):

"My goal as a virologist Drosten how I would like to become immune now is: I want to have a vaccine immunity and then saddling on top of that I definitely want to have my first general infection and the second and the third at some point. I have resigned myself to that for a long time. And then I know, I'm immune for a really long time and I'll only see this virus every few years, just like I see the other coronaviruses every now and then. As a relatively healthy adult, I can take responsibility for that. There are other populations that can't. But I can only answer for myself, for my own health, because I am now twice vaccinated. And I have to admit, I would also like to be vaccinated a third time."

On 9 Nov 2021, he's on the record with this (translation by deepl):

"One can debate whether one has grasped this correctly at the beginning. I think that the plan to work with two doses at the beginning was correct. Because what changed here was the virus. But now we just have to acknowledge, the vaccine is not specifically targeted to the delta virus, but to a virus that is not even circulating today. The virus has changed."

So definitely a preference for more than 2 shots and not suggesting that anyone do this, other than he himself, personally, given his specific risk profile. Is his stance on delta equally valid in light of the new omicron variant? Maybe, maybe not?

--- source: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript174.pdf

Either that or the positive test is a fabrication that was backdated on paper to claim the „recovered“ status. I would also not rule out the possibility that there has not been a real positive test at all and that the tampering could include false data entry.

A lot of nonsense is being aired by a lot of people when they open their mouths. Even more so when they keep it closed and instead type messages to the internet on a keyboard. Until I see a proper study on that “hypothesis”, I would treat it the same as the hypothesis that the vaccines make you magnetic or turn you into a 5G modem (at least that might help with the current chip shortage)

Good question.

Long answer:

What I meant to say is that there seems to be more of a tendency for full stack or front end engineers to bleed into backend / system than the other way around. If we were to assume that seniority (here, strictly referring to days spent with bum on chair) is correlated with organizational influence, it would follow that there are less devs with focus on UI who end up in leadership roles. But as I said, I don’t claim to have an objective truth here.

If I had to choose between a great architect and a mediocre builder or a master builder and a mediocre architect, I would choose the former to build my house. I say that as an (UX) architect :) Plans are worth little if you don't have the right people to translate them into reality with the right quality - and in my experience that involves more than painting by numbers. Imo great UI developers are essential for building great UI experiences.

UX in tech is bad for a great number of reasons.

1. Good UX is hard and even harder to get right from the start. When teams* are faced with tight deadlines to deliver functionality, they invest too little time in figuring out how to best solve a problem. Even less time and effort is expended to follow up on something that was delivered in order to see if it works (it doesn’t) and how it can be improved.

2. Developers* have their mind set on optimization. This applies to ticking off requirements on a backlog item (I refrain from using the term "User Story" on purpose; the context of features isn’t properly communicated either). With UI development, there is a myriad of details to cover that require attention from everyone and developers* won’t complain if there is no detailed spec for input constraints, form validation, error handling, responsive behavior, keyboard interaction, a11y. Works as designed, why bother.

3. UI Development (for tech, the interface to the user makes/breaks the UX) is seen as "lesser" or "a complicated mess to avoid" by senior developers*. My subjective feeling is, that the seniority in UI dev is/stays behind the mean. There are more juniors around.

4. To a degree, the product quality in tech isn't great, it's not only bad UX. Bad UX is merely more visible, despite it not making the news as much as the backend engineering blunders of not sanitizing input or exposing databases to the interwebs.

5. https://userinyerface.com

* Not all of them. There are exceptions - appreciate them and treat them nicely, they are hard to replace :)*

that statement is false for the majority of cotton clothing. from dyes to preservation or even agents that prevent wrinkles, a new cotton shirt can be blessed with a nice array of potentially carcinogenic substances. and since you mention the manufacturing process: look up some studies on the deaths and environmental havoc caused by pesticides used in cotton production. chemicals are everywhere.

I see plenty of Tesla and BMW i3, even the occasional Porsche Taycan. I guess they are not distributed evenly across Germany.

I think SAP would qualify as a tech giant. Not very visible to consumers, but throw a stone at some large organization (state, university, corporate) and you have a decent chance there’s a SAP footprint in their processes.

„Cloud“ is increasingly more about services than just bare compute. I feel like Hetzner targets the cloud market from yesteryear. Maybe that niche is big enough to sustain the company - certainly while many are still making the intermediate transition from on-prem hardware to managed offerings. In the long run, I‘m sceptical.

„€10B over 7 years [...] to rival foreign corporations such as Amazon, Google and Alibaba“

Does not sound like lot when compared to the annual invest of even just one of the IaaS giants.

It took a few months, not years, for me.

I don‘t mind it. 99% of my time spent typing happens at my own desk(s) and the few times I use someone else’s keyboard don‘t justify compromising on comfort with my own setup.

A big part of what makes it hard for me to use a normal keyboard now, isn‘t so much the physical shape, but the programmability and additional modifier keys offered by the UHK, both of which I use a lot.

consider yourself part of a very exclusive and privileged minority, even if your local bubble might suggest otherwise.

It would be nice if you did not initiate a download on my behalf when I merely visit the "download" page via the main navigation. I would expect at least prompt for confirmation before you push a 180 MB binary to me.

Of course it is "just" a matter of time discipline. Unsurprisingly it is harder to pull off when there are fewer significant external cues, such as physical separation of workplace and private space.

At the office, I'm reminded about ttgtfo by the building turning dark and silent. At home, as Europe signs off, the Americas come online and the buzz keeps going until Asia takes over ... For people without kids or family and an existing tendency to work too many hours anyway, this is not helping. Also, communication feels a lot more time consuming now. More dedicated meetings to align, less time for craft: Either get less done or put in more hours.

I'm glad we've already seen a controlled re-opening of the offices here. I don't mind remote being an option, but I appreciate not being forced to work fully remote.