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I’ve personally felt like it has been progressing, but I’m hoping you can expand my understanding!

We do have to acknowledge that putting in the effort to learn a second language (whatever language) "takes more skill" than watching a dubbed video, ya?

I took up the hobby of learning a second language to challenge myself. If I watch the videos dubbed in English, where is the challenge?

> failing to acknowledge that the world is diverse and people have diverse needs that we can't even start to imagine.

I think you missed my point because I (lovingly) called my dad dumb -- Youtube has absolutely liberated him and given him access to a rich world of woodworking content that cable TV could never. This feature is helping him access more of that.

Youtube also gave me a world of Japanese content that I could never imagine, but this feature is hurting me by making it harder for me to get the content I'm looking for. Maybe I'm no longer Youtube's target audience, but 1 toggle switch to disable this feature and I'm back in the target audience.

By doing this, Youtube has probably 10x'd available content for "dumb" ppl to watch. Respectfully, my parents are in that cohort, and I suspect my father will happily watch AI translated and dubbed woodworking channels and not care at all. He "wins" here.

I have to acknowledge that there are probably more people like him then like me who want to have Japanese videos in Japanese in my US feed.

YT needs to make it configurable and I'm fine to turn it off, but the fact that I need an extension to do so is very much lame. As well as that I'm not sure uploaders are aware of their videos being displayed in this way.

I think this very much depends on how companies are "outsourcing"/hiring.

Like, if the devs you are outsourcing to are delivering you a "project-based app with ongoing support". Did you hire "developers" or are you doing business with a development company?

For many large tech cos, they also have local entities or PEOs, where people working for Facebook work for Facebook Ireland, or Facebook India.

So I'm not sure how much impact it has -- probably mostly for smaller shops that might hire 1 guy directly in a different country?

2. I go to a local Japanese restaurant (one location in my city) and they order their dashi directly from Japan. International tariffs will absolutely impact them. I also just ordered some historically accurate stone mortar from a small business in Pennsylvania. It’s literally a guy and his family on a farm mixing sand and lime. They import their lime directly from Peru.

These are two small businesses in both senses of the word (profit and scale) that are engaged in direct international trade.

Also, I don’t know if you realize but the internet makes ordering things from anywhere in the world pretty easy. You can get a lot of items to a port as an individual importer. Getting them through customs is another story but placing international orders is very doable for a “small business”. (I’m not even in business and I place international orders all the time that are now impacted by tariffs.)

I built a UI where you can add elements and change their text. I then built a listener where if you press backspace twice in the element it will delete to avoid having a “x” in the UI.

I came back to the interface a month later and i forgot about the backspace twice option!

I travel NY/LON a lot, and I rarely have any ear popping. If I travel on a smaller plane say NY -> Miami, I easily get the clogged feeling.

Which, I oddly had respect for.

Bingo. One of the worst problems is helping a client piece back together a corrupted repo when they are using snapshots. Check my profile to see how I know. :)

It's usually an OMG down scenario, and then you are adding in the "oh no, now the restore is corrupted."

It's fixable but it's definitely annoying.

Do you know what caused the weird 404 thing? I'm almost more interested in that at this point.

(For anyone else getting the 404 flash -- content looks to be here https://github.com/KittyCAD/documentation/blob/main/content/...)

NYC needs more, but I think the tide is turning the right way.

Broadway has had large expansions to its curbing from the flatiron building to union square.

Its a slow process but its getting there.

Do angels not get terms to "cash out" in secondaries/later rounds?

I was under the impression that some angels effectively acted as bridge financing to get to later rounds (in this case A/B/C) and to then exit if they wanted to?

This depends on where your flat salary lands right? 200k base pay for remote is a very good salary for most of America.

The hiring process will weed out the middling ones.

> You think the quality of Anthropic’s salespeople had much to do with them crushing their numbers as Claude exploded?

You are right -- a rising tide raises all ships.

> it’s dumb that non-salespeople can’t participate in that abundance.

I think most people can't stomach the risk of the variability. Or else they'd become sales people :D

I... think you are thinking more "Customer Support Representative" (how to reset a password) and not Support Engineering.

An engineer that can talk to customers, find bugs, and fix them, is not worth $200k?

One of the Oxide Support engineers was (still is) an INSANELY strong performance engineer who helped solved performance bugs when he was on my team. We were actively using strace weekly to troubleshoot deep process internals to optimize perf.

(Hi Will, I miss you, and you are definitely worth $200k don't listen to this guy. <3)

Because sales people also do not make money if they don't sell?

What's your counter proposal on how they should pay and attract top sales folks?

I know some sales folks who would love to have $200k base with no variable component: The bad ones.

Every salesperson that I've ever worked with that was worth their salt was worth the commission they made.

Once you can run any command, you start passing in whatever commands you want.

- cash bonus

- RSUs

- More OTE Options

You got to pick two and your ratio. IIRC, 80/20, 60/40, 50/50.

Replace garlic with whatever industry it is that the gov wants to strategically invest in: semiconductors, automobiles, aerospace, weapons, renewable energy.

Physics nerds, would a “larger contact area” give the baseball more velocity?

I’ve been speculating that moving the mass lower effectively increases bat speed because its a “shorter bat”, but all of the commentary is acting like the larger barrel is “more power”.

I’d expect larger barrel increases odds of contact, not increased power transfer?

(But I also think of a car with bike diameter wheels and that could obviously change the power transfer)

> but that does not diminish the vinyl as a controller being superior to a tiny plastic spin wheel on a digital controller.

It's absolutely objective, but the feel of vinyl on a slipmat is absolutely so much nicer than a jog wheel.

But many ppl barely even use jog wheels these days. Just nudging to get in time.

When you spend countless hours getting the right light touch on a vinyl that Tactile feel is absolutely lacking when it comes to more digital interfaces.

I'm not arguing vinyl records sound better. GP and me are arguing that it feels better.