cpitman

If we are both in the office, and I start using my phone to send you text messages that are harassment, and/or messages to our coworkers that make fun of you, is that the companies problem?

If we are now both working from home, does that qualitatively change the situation? When working from home, what even is "outside of work"?

It works really well. During the pandemic, everything I needed was within a couple blocks of me. I went so long without needing to drive that my car actually had issues afterwards.

I'm also receiving these emails, but didn't realize anything was different because my email is ready for people to accidently sign up with.

Please, if you are implementing an email confirmation process, include a way to say "this is not me". Someone has been periodically trying to activate their account in some website, and the no way for me to make it stop.

Utilization is Service Time times Arrival Rate, ie if requests arrive twice as fast utilization is doubled, and also if a service takes twice as long to process.

When the theoretical service is optimized to take half a long, the assumption is that the request rate doesn't actually change. So they use the above relationship to calculate the new utilization, given half the service time and the same arrival rate.

No, they certainly should, and according to them they are trying to. There is currently an unknown level of demand at the current price point, all we know is that it is probably far more than current supply. There's every reason to believe that they will increase production as fast as possible and still only meet demand over a year from now.

Once demand is met, there starts to be an argument for lowering the price and growing the market. Getting the price down to half the current price is when we start to see health benefits that outweigh the cost of treatment and an obvious win for insurance companies to start covering it for everyone.

But until there is supply, lowering cost just means more people fighting over the same supply, not more people getting access.

Currently they cannot manufacture enough to cover demand at $1000/ month. Why would the price come down before they can supply current demand?

The actual return on an ESPP is actually way better than the discount too. You get that discount, even for the money you contributed most recently. A 15% discount is actually a 17% return (1/.85), and you get that return on money you contributes 6 months ago and also the money contributed at every point up to the last pay check included. So if that last one was 2 weeks before the purchase, you get ~17% in 2 weeks.

Overall, it works out to a 90% annual return even if the stock stays steady or goes down. If it goes up, all the better.

Unfortunately, its not like you can "keep money" in an ESPP and actually earn that 90% over a longer period of time, but it's a great deal for short term illiquidity.

The window is required for emergency egress, not light.

Since they have identical signaling, why would you avoid a non approved adapter?

There's also the impact from telling everyone that future cars will all use NACS. Buying a non-Tesla for the next two years means dealing with adapters more and more often.

Couple things, all reported from Android Chrome:

1. The FAQ on the landing page hides questions as answers are opened, and it is not obvious that previous answers need to be closed to see everything.

2. On the FAQ page, when opening the hamburger menu, the menu is clipped and must options are hidden.

3. The FAQ question about pricing does not answer the question, and I see no where to get an answer.

4. Re: gamification, I think it is enough to reward users with making progress, and encourage them to use all the different kinds of modes/ features.

Even making deposits into the account incurs transactions. Sure, speed doesn't matter here, but overhead does.

We're a few months in, and it has turned out that we've not needed all that many passwords these days, with a lot of services supporting SSO.

Yep, same boat. I didn't realize the S10 went out of support last year. Other than the battery having less charge, it works well. Wonder how much longer it is safe to use?

There are lots of euro games that require a full play through to understand the game. And even then, many popular games where everytime I play with a new group I expect the rules to have been misunderstood in new ways.

Look at Root, a very popular game. It has one long manual just for your first play, and then an even longer manual that explains all the rules. They recommend you read that one later.

That's not accurate. The EVSE communicates a max current to the vehicle, but does nothing to actively control the current. It should monitor the current and kill the circuit if the vehicle attempts to draw too much, but that only happens after the vehicle has misbehaved.

Maybe it was that the manager was being pressured to PIP a certain percentage of people, and instead pushed back really hard to retain this person because they wanted to retain them instead. Before spending their political capital, they asked the employee if they were committed to the long haul.

In the end, they went to bat for the author and then ended up in the same place. They could have just PIP'd them with a lot less effort.

The article doesn't make the reason clear, but this seems more likely to me than vesting stock.

I only used OSH Park once before switching, but I ended up waiting many data just for them to have enough orders to batch together and send to the manufacturer. In comparison, I can order boards from JLCPCB and components from DK on the sane day, and get both around the same time.

Web Forms and Windows Forms were both relevant for over a decade. For front end tech, that's pretty good.

The Windows GUI tools definitely seem to be struggling. Developing native desktop apps is much rarer these days, so all the attempts to create a single toolkit for multiple form factors makes some sense. But that is actually really hard to do, and Microsoft is starting from behind when it comes to mobile frameworks.

FWIW, the last time I developed a native desktop app was WPF. I tried again recently, but my general takeaway was that you need full Visual Studio still to make it work.

No, it uses reference counting, internal to the shared pointer implementation itself.

You're right that there are some loans included in that number, but it looks like it is not even half of it:

"27% of students received Federal Student Loans averaging $4,835 and 10% of undergrads took out private student loans averaging $11,058."

At least for elite public schools, the average student receives more in "aid" than they pay, meaning they are paying less than half of the "price".

https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/illinois/university-o...

And yes, it's a source of bad outcomes that those that cannot afford the inflated price of elite universities do not know that they would never have to pay that.

Those breaks are massive. The average UIUC student pays 13,500 per year and receives 15,000 in "aid". That is less than half the sticker price.

https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/illinois/university-o...

Edit, you're right, this includes loans, but grants make up the majority of that figure. It's not entirely clear to me how each number is weighted:

"Grant and scholarship aid does not need to be paid back. 36% of students received Federal Student Loans averaging $4,863 and 9% of undergrads took out private student loans averaging $6,819."

Sure, but having a couple exits makes them extreme outliers. The entire point of the article is that quoting public tuition prices is an illusion obscuring the true cost. What is the average or median student paying?

Edit: At least according to one source, the average student pays 19,000 per year, including fees and housing. And they receive 22,000 in financial aid. Ie, the average student gets a larger discount than what they actually end up paying. https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/virginia/university-o...

Similarly, Michigan is 18,000 per year with 22,000 in "aid".

Also, both schools are top 100 schools in the US. So even at elite schools, the average student is paying a fraction of the "price".

Since average debt is still less than the average cost of college, couldn't this just be changes in the availability and utilization of loans?

But how much do students actually pay?

Air and Space has been undergoing a massive renovation, and reopened the first half last year. That includes a very good Wright brothers exhibit, easily better (IMO) than the one at Kitty Hawk.

Beyond that, all the new exhibits are great. Highly recommended for anyone that has not been back since they reopened!

There are plenty of companies that effectively cannot use AWS because it is owned by Amazon, and either they or one of their customers is in direct competition with Amazon. For example, if you are a vendor for Walmart, they do not want their data ever landing on AWS.

I haven't run into the need to do that, but there is the Kompose project that exists to help with the conversion (https://kompose.io/)!