Man, had to deal with DORA just recently.. This kind of service is a life saver.
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I opted for a M2 Air in October seeing small differences in M2 pro vs M3 pro, so I guess I was right - the difference must be so small that Apple can't stomach the difference.
I'd rant about how they try to market new models with more and more stupid marketing when they don't have anything to show, but I guess this only means I don't need to upgrade for a while since they are all out of proper innovation...
Imagine being a fanboy for Apple this days. Nothing to look for. They are so blatant in extracting value and not bringing anything new to the table, probably best compared to Nokia in it's heyday.
- Output per person per day increased compared to 5-day work week (throughput increased based on surveys, performance metrics and personal experience of leads)
- Happiness increased
- Fifth day remains as a reserve for extreme situations (eg. some unexpected thing occuring that requires additional capacity in the system)
It is true that we're a dirty communist EU country, but so far this works for us.
Btw: the fear of working less hours and doing more is real. Even internally some teams/employees do not want to move to 4-day work week saying it's not for them or that they can't cope with the time limit. And then they move and everything works out better...
So implementing 32-hrs work for 80% of pay feels like a steal even with the overhead. You're probably getting better rested developers that output 100% of 40-hrs workweek.
We're a Google customer and of course we had our fair share of issues (btw: it's the same with Azure, based on our experience), and we always escalate to our account manager. That usually starts turning the wheels much faster.
Also, do not be afraid to ask your account manager for additional discounts. Everybody in sales has some wiggle room to get you a better deal. With Google their account manager actually suggested that we work through a reseller and we're getting % off the list prices.
Dealing with Google, Amazon, etc.. is not like dealing with code. It's not only transactional and you need to invest some time in the relationship even if you're the customer.
USDT is shady. USDT is not depegging. USDT FUD is a classic bear market move. Whales make a killing swapping USD for USDT and pocketing 5% for zero risk.
It feels like we'll just keep repeating the same story of tether depegging, without anyone actually looking at the redeem process and what would it truly mean for USDT to depeg.
What you're seeing is USDT-USD slip on an exchange that provides that trading pair. As it is with any other traded asset, if all of a sudden you get this huge demand for USD trading, to the point that the liquidity dries up, of course this will push the price up. Take that graph and zoom out, perhaps looking at 5 year scale. This slip actually happens once or twice a year, depending on the FUD that's on the market. Market is in extreme fear with cataclysmic level events occurring (Celsius and Terra events are close to what happened to banking in 2008 or worse) weekly. Obviously every news will cause increased sell pressure on USDT and eventually arbitration between entities will not occur fast enough.
Now let's look at what happened during the last "depegging". Price dropped to .90 cents per dollar and after a while it returned to 1 USD. Look at the circulating supply of tether - in the aftermath of Terra people actually cut 20% of all supply of USDT and converted it into alternative stable coins BUSD (by Paxos/Binance) and USDC (by Coinbase/Circle) being the primary benificiaries of the flows.
Now let's look at the "depegging" claims. Tether would need to not honor the promise of USD payout when you send them USDT. BitFinex is the exchange thats behind tether and you can redeem tether for USD. During the height of the last "depegging", you could always send your USDT there and get USD back at ~1:1 ratio (https://trading.bitfinex.com/t/UST:USD?type=exchange).
While we can talk about the USDT reserves and we can talk about shady/enron level practices and the court trials, we can also say that after 5 years of they have yet to break USDT. They've cut 20% of their circulation without breaking a sweat. USDT will not crash until there is a bigger functioning alternative. All the key players will ensure that; it's game over for crypto otherwise.
I despise shady accounting practices and I'm sure Tether is on par with a good american financial institution, but I highly doubt it they will ever default.
I know it's a long shot, but hear me out:
1. Their redemption process can be handled in a way to prevent an uncontrolled bank run. You can redeem 100.000 minimum, hence it's a not a retail bank run for sure. 2. They print the dollars for much of the old school crypto ecosystem, with all players acknowledging their importance. So unless the key players in the field want to take USDT down, it's not going down. Even the NYAG tried and gave them a penny fine instead.
And even the article here really lacks context. The USDT reedeming right now is tied to all the negative publicity in the media. I've traded through this current depeg (a week ago), that was purely speculative and generated by the panic. A twitter thread stared to report a depeg, and more and more people piled on the exchanges to swap USDT for BUSD and USDC. In the end a lot of USDT was redeemed, nothing happened, expect that some people made a lot of money on the panic itself (and the premium).
I've been hearing the same story for the past 6 years. USDT will fail, they don't have any backing, US will shut them down,.... And the world keeps on turning. Sorry to break it to you. Nothing is going to happen until key crypto players have a legit alternative that will keep the ecosystem alive.
Have the same issue on my MBP with Sennheiser Pxa550. With Monterey I actually had to install a plug-in for Chrome that keeps my volume at max during meet calls.
List of my issues: - audio doesn't work - audio doesn't switch from call mode to HiFi mode - if I have a call running, it will not switch or work via my headphones - audio balance switches to right headphone ....
I tried every recepie and thread I found online. Nothing.
Apple sucks.
Funny thing tho, I actually have a pair of Jabra 75t. And they seem more stable than Pxa550.
Again - direct hate towards Apple. I'm guessing all works with Apple headphones, as they sprinkle that secret sauce in their drivers that nobody else has access to.
1. You need to mandate that everybody uses one tools and push for the use from the top down as well as showcase the use bottom-up.
2. Split responsibilities on a per team level; eg people working on product lead the product confluence page, people working on hardware lead the hardware confluence page...
3. Try hard to push all relevant discussions and decisions to the same KB.
4. Request that leads schedule time for updating knowledge base (we sometimes push for this via OKRs).
5. When people are leaving the company, we primarily push that they update the KB to the maximum (other work is not important after they give notice).
Problem is not yet big enough and the hurdle of getting into construction is not so high that it's impossible to learn the trade in 6 months.
On the other hand if that would mean that construction industry is not competitive, then well, I see a lot of Turkish and Chinese companies getting deals in EU.
Sure, there is a lack of young workers for janitorial positions, but not everybody is a boomer with a home and family that can afford (let alone thrive) to be janitor.
There are only three possible scenarios: either the wage goes up, the job gets automated (eg robots) or the job ceases to exist.
Stop making op-ed pieces from your pedestal, screaming there is an issue, when you're directly responsible for the issue, hoping that somebody else will bail out your ass. Op is a lender and a banker, work with the companies you're financing to increase the wages and make the jobs attractive.
Thought so.
Sad that it has to be like that, I view HN as the #1 place where engineers, technologists, geeks and nerds meet. Looks like they all enjoy some blockchain bashing.
This is the most anti-cryptocurrency tech page that I can think of, with daily negative sentiment articles popping up. It's either bitcoin will destroy the world, ether is a giant cesspool that can be implemented with a database or the favourite Tether is a huge scam and will destroy the world. Let's not forget the NFT's are full-on money laundering scheme and LOL why would you buy JPGs if you can right click and save.
Trust me, people (as in cryptocurrency realists) tried explaining in the comments, but the sentiment is too strong. Due to the meteoric rise in value and the fact that a lot of HN somehow ended sitting on the sidelines, people can't stop foretelling the impending doom and gloom while being oblivious to the underlying tenet that all of this crypto technology brings.
I fully agree with you that articles like this turn into vacuous slinging match between camps. It's not tho because there are no concrete answers from the crypto side, it's simply due to the population on HN - it's impossible to have a constructive discussion if the sentiment is so negative. So yes, I also flag such content, because these discussions represent catnip for me and provide zero value.
1. Being X is not a good long-term option, unless you like the job. 2. Not sure where you base you viewpoint, but I have a hard time finding a more competitive and global job market that favours candidates. 3. All high paying jobs demand much. Otherwise they wouldn't be high-paying.
Stop asking yourself this stupid question. Only bad developer careers die at 35. If you're good and keep developing your skills, you enter the gray-beard mode right around 35-40. We have our share of 40+ engineers and we've just hired a 50+. We also hire 20 somethings, and they are great, but totally different.
I laugh at the idea of a 24 year old senior engineer. Unless you've been hacking from 10, there is no way you've seen enough shit to prevent shit from happening. The really senior engineers really know their shit and are less prone to making wrong choices.
The only challenge you have with 40+ is culture fit. You can mold young engineers according to your culture, while 40+ is take it as it is.
So we search for 20+ that are open minded and are willing to grow and we're looking for 40+ that have not stopped growing and will fit in our culture. I've seen people at 60+ that can replace full teams of people in terms of quality and quantity of output.
The "age" problem exists only in your head.
We've had romantic Bitcoin maxis in the beginning, saying Crypto will change the world, we now have luddists screaming to stop the crypto as it will destroy the world.
Only a small portion of users are the Crypto maxis. And they truly can't care less about such posts. They might have been wrong about what Crypto means, but you cannot deny the use. BC is a reserve currency of a nation. EU is contemplating digital euro. People invented a way and are exchanging ownership of IP daily with various block chains.
Crypto is here. I highly doubt it its going away. Too much value and utility.
Perhaps it would be best to simply create a HN News policy to ban crypto related stuff as it really boils down to maxi-haters reiterating their views over and over.
But I do understand that is great for Karma farming.
It's clear that the HN crowd does not like Bitcoin. So why keep reiterating similar arguments all over?
There is zero utility in the article shared. It states some anti crypto views and that's it. Even the author concedes that this is according to his own definition and not based on real life legal tests (which have of course shown that Bitcoin is not a ponzi).
Just let Crypto users be. I get it. You don't like Crypto, but at this point it's not like an opinion piece can change the their views.
Users transacted in the trillions of USD over last month. Crypto got institutions, countries, wealthy individuals, poor individuals using it every day. It's clear it has some utility to them.
It's time to reflect and consider that your anti Crypto position might be wrong.
Edit: clarity
- this was not a hack
- nobody stole anything, it's code LOL
- it's just shitcoins
- nothing is backed with real money
- good riddance, it's all a scam
...
As a blockchain / crypto enthusiast I'm actually unable to have a meaningful discussion on HN. It's gotten to the point where I can't even bother to share my views in the comments as it's not worth it. People are so dismissive and set that blockchain is a scam, that every debate becomes so heated with people reiterating the same position over and over.
So I fully agree with OP - a HN-like community, where people can discuss the non-price aspect of crypto and BC would be nice. I hate reddit and twitter as most of discussions seem price driven.
I'd guess that a couple of sessions in everybody running the experiment saw the potential to extort, manipulate and just plain have fun drinking/drugging and doing plain old illegal things under the pretense of "experiment".
If we want to have better products, we need to address issues that people have using them. Apple UX is slowly eroding over time, to the point that I planned to move to Windows camp after the forced replacement of my MBP.
Sadly or thankfully M1 really helped to put a curb into those plans :).
When BTC hits 250K per coin next year, expect 5x as much energy consumption to what it does use today. At 1M per coin we can expect 20x as much power consumption.
Highly unlikely that taxation can resolve this as global economy simply forces the miners to places where energy is cheap and abundant. And countries will view this as a competitive advantage as now there is a simple way to convert power directly into money. Many cases have shown that poor countries will use their environment to gain an upper hand and pull their country out of poverty. Sadly the impact to the environment is global.
Oh and let's not forget about the Ethereum fees and how shitty the tech is.
This really reminds me on how everybody perceived internet in early noughties, when everybody was telling me it's shit and it will never ammount to anything.
Man they were right, there was literally no value, just like there couldn't be value in standardized mode of exchange for digital goods - it doesn't have to be Pepe GIFs only.
Having the ability to take your digital cards and store them wherever you want and trade them with whomever you want is really nice, if you're trying to replicate standard offline trading card games.
One of the key issues of the TCGs is that in their digital form, trading of items is up to the whims of the game author. Providing a standardized NFT allows the players to trade in game items, just as you can trade physical cards today.
Just because you don't see the implications today (I agree, buying GIFs for 7M USDs is crazy) that doesn't meant that NFTs aren't a very interesting development.
Market doesn't care. Right now USDT trading is popular since people are used to it. There are so many stable coin alternatives (backed with various collateral, some like USDC backed by USD 1:1), so you can always remove the risk.
Good luck to those shorting crypto due to "Tether scam". If you're a newcomer, this kind of news makes rounds every X months and market sometimes reacts widely, just to return back and inexperienced crypto investors/users get spooked. I'm not saying that Tether is all good and for sure they run a hazy operation there, but there is a wider crypto adoption taking place now. Companies are diversifying their treasuries, starting to load on BTC as a hedge against inflation.
PS: Expect news of China banning bitcoin, India banning bitcoin, Russia takedown on crypto, Yelen commenting that BTC is a scam. All of this will be amplified to move price down and shakeout small time holders while large investors keep buying more and more.
No need to make them poor visibility tho. That would be just stupid.
Yes, Tesla has a huge lead in charging. Yes, Tesla has the best UX for charging. Yes, right now this is an important consideration point when buying an EV, especially in the US market that is lagging in terms of EV choice.
Do you really think that the guys at VW and others can't figure it out? It just takes a while. Just like it was with cars - they were behind Tesla, now they are in the driving seat in terms of numbers on the markets that are truly developed (in Norway Audi, VW and others are eating Tesla's lunch).
The chargers will become a commodity in 5 years time and Tesla really needs to figure out something special as the first mover advantage is going away. The chargers (and the fact that it's sold out) are the only thing that is currently preventing me to go and buy a Skoda Eniaq IV (size of Tesla X, costs less than Tesla 3). I'm sure that's changing in two years time when my current lease expires.
Perhaps it's a fully autonomous approach and perhaps they can really make it, but it's really hard to see through the PR bullshit Tesla produces. I guess we're in a phase where people are valuing Tesla more than all car makers combined (crazy, right?) and this hype obviously reflects in news.