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Soda is addictive. At my worst, I drank 6 Cokes a day. I've been a heavy Coke drinker for a long, long time. I have a psychological dependence on it, so when I'm particularly stressed, I need to guzzle it down.

I'm down to about 1-2 Cokes every week. I will crumble and drink a 20 oz Coke about once a week and drink water or ice tea (either unsweetened or low-sweetened (90 calories)).

The irony is that an equivalent glass of milk has 2x the number of calories as Coke, but I'll drink a glass of milk a day for the calcium, etc.

It's an interesting idea but ultimately it doesn't work in the real world. It simply incentivizes too much fraud.

There are simply too many real-world corner cases that will fail. What if someone dies? Can you go and raid people's accounts before their estate's executors can find them?

If used for something like unclaimed money from the state, it's a very easy way for people to fraudulently make an enormous amount of money.

I have collected 4 magsafe chargers from the various companies I've worked at because when I returned my laptop or got an extra, they never asked for the chargers back. It was very convenient, but now that I'm on the 2018 USB-C one, I have to throw all of them away via e-waste because I have literally no use for them.

> Unfortunately most teachers teach at the level of the more advanced students, not at the level of the slower students. I don't know if they mean to do this, it might be unconscious, but they definitely do it.

This is almost universally false. They target the least advanced students and let them more advanced students fend for themselves. In the US it's even more pronounced because of teacher evaluation by test scores, etc. Teachers are incentivized to ignore the smarter kids because their test scores are high already, and they get more bang for their buck by raising the scores of the kids at the bottom of the range.

I will never ever buy a MacBook Pro if they don't get rid of the TouchBar. The sheer arrogance of Apple to think they know better than their customers infuriates me. I only use a 2018 MacBook Pro because work supplied it, and because my 2015 MacBook battery was dying and the only option the IT department gave me was to upgrade to the 2018 model.

I may simply go back to Windows at home if that's the case, and will use a Windows Laptop at work if possible. Seriously, fuck Apple for this arrogance.

There isn't a true meritocracy but it's "good enough" in Silicon Valley. Nothing will be perfect but what we have right now is better than any union. Unions will select for those workers with more seniority which is objectively worse than selecting for those with more skill.

>>Sure you would, because you believe that you'd be able to find another job.

No, I don't. I honestly believe that if I can't keep up I don't deserve a job. Period, end of story.

>> Some of us think the system is broken and benefits the few at the expense of the many, and that doesn't seem "fair" to us.

I don't see this in Silicon Valley at all. I think underperforming tech workers deserve to not reap the same benefits as the performing engineers. The bar keeps rising every year, I know this because I've been here 25 years, but it's fairly applied, or at least as fair as can possibly be applied.

I believe people are different and there needs to be differentiation between those that are more skilled than those that are less skilled. I support that more skilled people getting paid more than those that are less skilled. I think it's fundamentally fair.

In Silicon Valley, most tech jobs are not nooses around anyone's neck. And that's a great environment to live in that would have been ruined by unions. In fact, things like progress would have been thwarted by greedy unions that slow everyone down.

I don't believe that seniority deserves more rewards than younger people. I believe the best person should win. If I can't compete anymore, I'm okay with being out of a job. As I hit 50, I'm aware that my skills are getting out of date but it's fair. I would rather live in a fair environment where I'm out of a job because I'm not as skilled than others rather live in a blunted, slow, environment where union execs make money off my back for decades and decades.

Tech unions are a way for bureaucrats to take a tax off the backs of hard working tech workers with no benefits.

I am well off, have a flexible work life balance, and I enjoy my job. There is nothing that a union would bring to the table for me.

If there was a union in Silicon Valley in the early 80s, we would be no where close to where we are today. Look at the stark difference between a Silicon Valley worker vs someone working at Boeing or other unionized shops.

First thing before any code review is that your team/company needs to have a coding standard. This is the first rule of engagement and eliminates most problems. Without a coding standard, code reviews quickly devolve into crap.

Once you have a coding standard, then the reviewer needs to differentiate between opinion and fact. If you don't like the variable name but it conforms to the coding standard then it's not a valid review comment. The coding standard should give some guidance as to what a variable name or function name should be.

If there's a bug or if there are potential for issues then that's what I focus on.

I have a Model 3. I hate the all-touch screen controls. I found the voice control utterly useless but I haven't played around with it very much, mainly because everything I tried failed. At the very least it's not as good as Siri, and I think Siri is generally useless.

I feel the same way about the Model 3.

The touchscreen interface is fine for a computer or when you're parked but when you're driving it's utterly useless.

At the very least, they need to move the AC to tactile knobs and buttons. I can't change anything to do with the air while driving because it takes too much of my concentration to figure it out. The glove compartment also needs to be moved off onto its own real button but that's minor compared to the AC.

If a human has to be behind the wheel, then it will be even more expensive than Uber. They won't be able to handle the demand and wait times will be huge. So as a competitor to Uber I can't see how it will be effective. It's definitely an interesting development but financially it doesn't make sense unless the human is out of the equation.

I'm on homelab. It's for fun.

It's the same reason why we have cars that have hundreds of horsepower when you can't drive above 65 mph on most highways and even accelerating fast can get you a ticket for "exhibition of speed". It's for fun, and a lot of the people on homelab use it to learn for their job.

I believe in cycles. Things get worse, things get better. You never hear about when things get better.

For the last several years, people were saying that CA was in drought and that this was the "new normal". I didn't believe it, and I was right. This year is particularly colder than last year, even though we had 2 extremely hot days. This is how weather works, it's always changing. I think the next few years will continue to be wet in CA and then we'll hit another cycle of droughts and back and forth. It's also safe to note that the drought we experienced wasn't worse than the 1930s due to weather, it was worse because more water was being consumed by humans, which is a different sort of environmental disaster.

I do believe that the Earth is getting hotter, but I also believe we will get cooler over the next several years. But no one will talk about that because it doesn't get clicks.

We need to plant new trees and we need to incentivize countries to not cut down their forests. Places like Indonesia and Brazil, etc, need to be incentivized to keep their forests instead of cutting it down for cash crops.

I think the bigger crisis is plastic, pollution and chemicals in our water. We need to stop creating so much plastic and make extremely draconian laws controlling this. We need to stamp down on pollution from factories. Companies that spill into our lakes and rivers and oceans need to be fined with extreme prejudice. If they go out of business I simply don't care, I would rather see them out of business than have our water and environment polluted.

Sniping is the only rational way to big on eBay. You bid a single time, with the absolute maximum you would go for, and put it in the last 10 seconds. It prevents both you and your opponents from raising the price irrationally. Automatic bidding just encourages prices to go up, based on emotion. Sniping in the last few seconds removes the emotional component.

This literally sounds like Futurama, having heads in jars.

Thanks, so I can't stop senders from knowing I opened an email?

Thanks, so I can't stop senders from knowing I opened an email?

Can I turn off tracking pixels in Gmail?

The transformation of the US for largest importer to largest exporter in only a few years is stunning.

Unfortunately, this is a geopolitical tactic to crush Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing nations like Iran so that it defunds terrorism. The tipping point for the US between electric cars and gas is about $6/gallon from what I've read. CA is getting close, I'm paying $4/gallon but most of that is taxes these days. We can't move forward until we get rid of $2/gallon gas throughout the country.

Yes, I forgot to mention I don't visit any questionable sites whatsoever. I've extremely vigilant, more vigilant than 99% of the population I would think, and I take it very seriously. If I need to test a link, I'll use my phone. I built my own desktop so no worries there, I don't have a CD player and I only install trusted apps these days, the only ones in the last few years have been Chrome and Firefox.

It's not the most secure method, obviously, but it works for me. And if the environment gets more dangerous than the status quo, I'm flexible enough to know I'll probably be forced to upgrade.

I'm not security-ignorant btw. I used to subscribe to both BugTraq and NTBugtraq back in the day and kept up over the decades. I just haven't seen anything in the last several years that can't be solved via not clicking on random links or installing new software. As said, spear-phishing/breaking out of the sandbox or serving malware via ads is my biggest concern these days and if it gets more prevalent then it will warrant a change in my views.

I'm still on Windows 7 on a 2012 desktop. There's no reason for me to change. I've yet to run into any situation that has required me to upgrade. Since the world is generally web-first, the only thing that matters is Chrome and Firefox. Even running 4K video just required a codec upgrade as opposed to CPU upgrade.

Yes there are security concerns but I'm pretty vigilant. I haven't run a virus scanner in 15 years, I'm just extremely paranoid over what I click on and which sites I visit. I run an ad-blocker and pi-hole to decrease any attack vectors. If attacks like spear-phishing become a lot more prevalent and much harder to detect then maybe I'll have to upgrade to keep up with security patches but until then I'm keeping status quo with a lot of backups.

It was in dead-tree format only.

There was no DRM put on the book, it was book-form only. Someone copied it, made a PDF of it, and distributed it for free. His royalties plummeted to almost nothing.

There was no DRM put on the book, it was book-form only. Someone copied it, made a PDF of it, and distributed it for free. His royalties plummeted to almost nothing.

The lack of empathy in the responses is staggering to me. It's as if the idea that a content creator should be financially rewarded for his or her hard work is some sort of moral crime. Yes, DRM sucks, but what other way can content providers ensure that they get rewarded for the hard work and good content that they provide?

I have a close friend who published an engineering text book. He worked a couple of years on it and it was well received in his particular field. The book was pirated within months and is freely available on PDF. It's unfair that his hard work is being used globally for free.

So yes, having books shut off sucks but so does piracy.

Dammit! I had a 2015 15" Macbook from work that I upgraded from 2 months ago because the battery life sucked (less than 1 hour). I had to upgrade to this terrible 2018 Macbook Pro with the absolutely disastrous Touchbar which I hate. The only reason why I upgraded was because of the battery life. I could have gotten a new one for with this recall, dammit!

He is a hero, period, end of story. If you listen to the recording, and watch the computer simulation, it's crazy what he did and he did it with complete calmness.

there's a million different things you can do. You can simply strip out all links. You can strip out links and only allow white-listed links, etc. Once the site has been vetted then it could be allowed to be clicked on. Or you can just have a big javascript alert box that said "Remember, you are clicking on a link that is unvetted and it could steal your credentials. Be careful." I don't know, be creative.

Anything that will wake people up and stop them from just blindly clicking on things. For a financial institution like Coinbase where a hacker could compromise the security of the entire company, it doesn't seem completely unreasonable.