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> What you are not seeing is the piles of grounds that would be needed and the tangle of logistics to get the grounds from where they are produced to where they can be used.

so many of these ideas seem to hand wave over “we’ll need to implement a whole new waste stream worldwide. don’t mind that we can hardly manage >1 stream as it is”

considering the mass of a home, what’s the efficiency difference between letting the temperature stay in uncontrolled for 8+ hours and then trying to rein it in quickly vs just keeping it in place the whole time? remember to account for wear and tear on the relevant HVAC equipment.

going to be a rather unenthusiastic army if it is stocked with folks who thought they were getting cushy office jobs.

fly new hires some place and make them work in person with somebody for a week.

i think remote work is great, but some early face to face can fix a bunch of problems imo.

i did some contracting for a place that i think hired one of these guys.

in his case i think he more or less knew what he was doing, and showed up on calls, but delegated the work to some other people.

we’d hear people in the background of his audio discussing things really oddly similar to tasks he’d been assigned and had outstanding. he was putting in (bad) PRs at all hours of day and night, and never had any recollection of any email, slack conversation, or his own PRs.

the company fired him after six months or so.

> May I just say, that the most ridiculous thing in this news really is selling a 15% stake in a company for $100?

no kidding. i wouldn’t sell a 15% stake in a lemonade stand for $100. that doesn’t even cover the hassle of reviewing the contract and signing a bunch of notarized paperwork

> > I don't see how you can get away from having a defined serialisation format.

> Yep, that's exactly it. Your TLS certificate is not sent as string, and neither are your TCP packets, nor the images contained in them.

...all of those things mentioned have defined serialization. i expect all of them have had security issues because of problems with deserialization code.

i’m sure it seems like “everyone” is on twitter when you’re permanently online, but even the peak MAU figures don’t look anything like “everyone” in the US let alone the rest of the world.

any government messaging plan that revolves around twitter was irresponsible. same with whatever other single social media platform you want to name.

> Then make an example and disband the company and all shareholders lose all equity. Have people realize they will lose money if they don't pay attention to details.

do you not make mistakes, or do you not work with anything that matters?

the US criminal justice system, which isn't very popular, seems to be more tolerant to human error than you.

> With that, Americans also don't accept the United States as someplace people are from.

Nonsense.

> Even if you're family has been here for 500 years, people still want to know where you're family came from originally.

I can only recall one person ever being unsatisfied by the name of a state when asking where I was from, and they were satisfied when I named a city.

This is why jmkb referenced synchronization rights, which (as I recall) were invented when they seemed useful. jmkb is suggesting a new right might be created, not claiming that they already exist.

(even if it wasn’t sync rights, there was something else musically related that was created in response to technological development. wikipedia will have plenty on it)

will you be providing us with a list of acceptably cheap entertainments?

> We can probably expand this to things like coffee, but you could argue that it provides value.

why should anyone need coffee, when they can just take caffeine pills?

why read new books, we have plenty of old ones. those authors could be slaving away for the planet

i can take something like Octave (very GPL) and do commercial things with it all day. the GPL would only be relevant if i start distributing Octave itself. (or, in your suggested world, if i started distributing the hypothetically GPL'd genera)

i’ve had it come up with new function names, or prepend some prefix to the names of functions. i had to put some cleverness in on my end to run whatever function was close enough.

> anything assembler or C I have ever asked it has turned out to be at least somewhat wrong

i've found that its quality is proportional to the amount of questions about the subject on the internet. if i ask it for help with popular javascript frameworks, it vastly improves my productivity (i'm not a frontend person). it still coughs up wrong stuff half the time, but even then it can cut through the constant churn of the frameworks' terminology and give me enough hint to find what i need in the docs quickly.

if i ask it about, say, specific details of the STM32 HAL, it knows just enough to come up with something that i'll waste my time reading.

do you ask all of your interviewers the same set of questions to ensure they’re all suitably impressed by you?

if not how do you decide to allocate them?

> The superficial take on FDB is "waah, where are my features? it doesn't do indexing? waaah, just use Postgres!".

i love fdb, but, most people _should_ just use postgres. you should have a very precise explanation for why you want fdb instead of postgres. you're trading away a lot of things when you go to fdb.

> I would encourage everyone to at least take a look at FDB.

yes, make sure you're aware of it so you can spot the situations where it _is_ the right answer.

this sounds like it was dreamt up by a bunch of lawyers trying to get themselves more work. there's a lot more paperwork and bullshit involved in going into bankruptcy than just being bought out.

some newspaper translator had to figure out how to translate the novel(ish?) phrase 歯生え薬. what do you want? it's not like this is FDA-approved marketing materials for something that's actually available.

> Somehow it was decided to launch on an underdeveloped platform which strew debris and dust

unless something comes out in discovery, they didn't know it was going to do that. and they had a reasonable basis for that belief, in the form of the static fire tests.

there are no whistleblowers popping up. i haven't even seen any youtubers popping up with "i told you so!" claims based on all of the footage that was available of the launch site beforehand.

> considering what we've known since the Saturn V.

the saturn V launch facility is an absolutely massive pile of earthworks; it's perfectly reasonable to try and engineer something smaller than that when you want to build a couple dozen of them.

to the other commenters: there’s a difference between a week old wreck still being investigated and one a hundred years old.

same way there is a difference between photos of dead bodies undergoing forensic investigation, and those undergoing archaeological investigation.

> It is very common among people who organized or were very active in summer 2020 anti-police violence protests

> ..., fraud, low level drug stuff...

fraud has a specific victim, someone who was defrauded. plenty of folks are out there fighting against drug laws. you're not going to find a lot of folks helping you defend fraudsters.

> I'm sure mine are just more criminal

i don't think any of that makes your friends, or those protests, sound better.

look up "photorealism".

> More surprisingly, we realized the time their current engineers and managers spent evaluating these takehomes just wasn't really a consideration for them. We tried to frame it in terms of "here's how much it costs you to evaluate these take-homes wrt time spent vs. us", but it was a difficult sell regardless.

employers don’t know, or seem to care, how much it costs them to replace and/or onboard somebody. usually because they have no idea how they’re off/on boarding hires.

not too surprising that they wouldn’t care about the cost of one component of the hiring process.

> after a casual 30 minute chat.

which you have to pay them for

local legal communities have long memories. they’ll be griefed about it at their retirement parties.

> The point being made is about misallocation of resources, not news coverage.

what resources? were US and canada supposed to ship deep sea ROVs over to the Mediterranean to help refugees?

even if you wanted the US/Canada to help, it wouldn't have been the north atlantic coast guards doing it.

different countries of very different sizes and capabilities were near the incidents.

the US and Canadian coast guards don't operate in the Mediterranean, and (presumably) couldn't have gotten ships there fast enough to do anything about it, anyways.

oceangate seems like a clown show, were there hydrophones on site, in the first ~24 hours, that were not operated by them?

at this point i expect it had imploded before the coast guard or anyone who knew what they were doing was on-site.