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Subsidizing ethanol doesn’t seem like an efficient way to subsidize food for poor people- that’s why programs like SNAP exist

It’s not that it’s unreasonable to think the word “patty” is ambiguous —it’s that it’s unreasonable to spend tax dollars on saving people from that ambiguity

n=1 but I gave this to Sonnet 5 medium effort (free model) and it had no trouble with it

It has way more character. The Ferrari basically looks fungible with every other EV.

Taxes are supposed to pay for public services. An efficient visa system is a public service. If you pay tons of taxes but don’t get a public service that’s personally very important to you, it’s natural to feel let down

3 just seems arbitrary in practice though. In my job we share code when it makes sense and don’t when it doesn’t, and that serves us just fine

Neat read on the whole, but was fun to see how huge the author believes Estonia is:

> When Estonia, for example, became independent of the Soviet Union, some 245 million square miles of collectivist farmlands were simply abandoned.

That website has some other more out-there stuff on it. (I love the tone because it’s impossible to tell how tongue-in-cheek it is)

Coffee and wine glass https://www.toxel.com/tech/2019/10/10/coffee-and-wine-glass/

Sofa made of pillows https://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2024/11/12/sofa-made-of-pi...

My version of that is to just use a (high-end) Chromebook. The OS never gets in the way, can’t remember the last time I had to change a system setting or manually upgrade anything

Ironically the UX on Reuters and AP wasn’t hugely worse than the blogspam: * the text of the blogspam is pretty faithful to the AP article * Reuters had a fullscreen paywall * the AP had a floating video ad and an interstitial you have to click to get below the fold

If I’m understanding right, he has a side hustle as a public speaker. So the website is an ad for him.

I agree it does a pretty good job of communicating that. I think the other commenters are pointing out that doesn’t show how to efficiently get all the smaller items left of the partition and larger ones to the right. While that’s probably second nature to most people who’ve taken an algorithms class or done a decent amount of programming, I guess it’s up for interpretation how obvious it would be to the “intended audience” of the ikea manual

It’s a class/geographical thing. In my early childhood in a fancy suburb of a big city, my parents and people in their social circle used mixes 0% of the time, but when we moved to a smaller town it was way more common.

When you’re too busy to spend the money you make, the observable effect of a pay raise is mostly the number in the account going up faster

Agreed. I work at a highly successful small company with a reputation for being grindy, and what that looks like in reality is probably 55 hours a week of largely focused productive work: typical core hours are 9-6:45ish, and you work longer a day or two a week and put in the odd evening or weekend hour. It’s hard to imagine working 9-9 every day

If it's 3% + $0.30, that can easily be 5-7% for smaller transactions, which are the ones where I most often get asked to pay cash.

Thanks for the correction- I did some math and my marginal rate is something like 46%, which, while it’s indeed not over 50%, still is pretty discouraging when weighing whether it’s worth putting in enough effort to get another raise.

Counterpoint: I’m in the US and my effective income tax rate is in the mid-40s, with my marginal rate over 50%. And I’m not in one of the few states with the highest state income taxes.

Google turned up this Harper’s feature which is pretty good: https://courses.washington.edu/psy315/pdf/HarpersMagazine_Lu...

For what it’s worth, this seems like the fatal flaw in the OP to me. If you need input on whether something is good to do, it’s very easy for someone to reply “yes” or “sounds good,” so just ask for input. If you don’t need input, just send an FYI instead of the weird asymmetric asking-for-objections-but-not-approval.

It’s really about (a) the wording (b) the level of risk.

For something that isn’t risky, I trust my reports to make reasonable decisions and wouldn’t benefit from the “I’m going to do this tomorrow unless you say no” approach. Instead, they can just tell me they’re doing it (or let me know after the fact, or add/FYI me on the code review, or not even mention it, depending on what it is).

For a decision that is more important/higher risk, they should get affirmative agreement rather than just hoping that I see the ultimatum and silently approve.

That’s why I’m with the GP that the ultimatum-with-deadline doesn’t seem like the best choice in any situation.

For what it’s worth, I just took the parent comment’s wording as metaphor.

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

So funny that my face was basically fixed in a smile the entire time reading.

You should try working in a compiled language. I need good music to listen to while I wait for gcc to do its thing

I was in a similar situation in my first job: really interesting domain, colleagues I liked, but no other software engineers. It was really tough for me, so I left for a traditional big tech job after a year. I guess I don’t have any advice for you: just sympathy and encouragement.

“This exact problem” isn’t the packing problem discussed in the OP, right? It’s a different problem about taking the union of overlapping rectangles with their bottom edges at the same vertical position.

Protobuf/thrift?

Same deal here in Chicago compared to the West Coast city where I previously lived

The article’s description of the feature is very inaccurate. The way it works is using secure two-party computation to aggregate data and apply DP server-side without Mozilla or the advertiser being able to see pre-aggregation data.

This has much better utility than applying DP client-side but still has similar privacy guarantees

This article makes a couple highly misleading claims about the privacy properties of the feature and its value - would suggest reading the docs to see how it actually works then forming an opinion

In particular saying you’re sending your activity to Mozilla is not accurate: you’re sending the output of a postcomputation step that makes it cryptographically infeasible for Mozilla to see your activity.