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European, have these on my Volvo - they are great. In fact, they illuminate more of the side of the road than regular headlights.

Basically, they split the beam into multiple sections and if it detects an oncoming car, it turns off the section that would shine towards the oncoming car, but keeps on the section that shines towards the side of the road.

Another thing - if you are driving behind another car, then the headlights don't shine into the rear-view mirror of the car in front, but rather around it.

Fantastic point!

But I wonder why this happened. Why aren't the new US presidents like the totally fuckable jfk with his sexy wife?

Did tech do this? Have the geek truly inherited the earth? And we have no idea what we really want?

Very interesting.

Right, I couldn't even answer "What percentage of the company is LGBTQ?" because why would you ask people that specifically?

Really? You think there is an ending to a sentence that starts with: "I think it is very fine to discriminate against people based in.." That's actually good?

Nor really as the grapes that grow are rather small and give relatively little juice. But of course maybe there is some small place that does...

I haven't heard of hops being used in cider making, but maybe they are used somewhere?

But yeast is involved in any fermentation process. You could make both cider or wine without adding any external yeast, but then you have a high chance of getting the wrong bacteria and messing it up. So almost everyone uses commercial yeast to start.

For me the difference is in the process. Cider usually ends up being (slightly) carbonated and you let it interact with fresh oxygen.

With wine making, you seal the bottle, add yeast and sugar and then add one of those circular tubes with water in it that lets co2 escape but does not let outside air in.

You may very well be correct that it could be possible to make very good wine from other fruit but there's cultural stigma attached and the process isn't as well developed.

In my country it's cold enough for grapes to not really grow well and there are some tiny farms that make and sell fruit wine and they suffer from exactly what you describe - it's very expensive and not well refined.

If you go to one of these places and have a nice experience tasting then you may even come away thinking that it was surprisingly good, but then you take a bottle home and it just tastes like fruit juice compared to good grape based wines...

I'm not an expert by any means but my understanding is that cider is usually carbonated - so you don't let all the CO2 escape.

As for the apple wine it was made with yeast, sugar and then one of those curly tubes that don't let air in but do let CO2 out. I remember a large room of those big bottles bubbling away.

Having grown up with relatives that made LOTS of home made wine from apple juice, I can assure you that wine can be and is made from many other things.

The problem is that it just doesn't taste as good as the stuff made from grapes. I've tasted wines made from many different fruits and they're frankly all just ... not great. Not terrible (well, the home made apple wine (please note: WINE, NOT CIDER) was terrible) but just not great either.

Because being miserable for 8 hours a day at work will leave you drained and depressed for the other 16. That makes socializing hard.

Being exited and happy for 9 hours a day at work abd coming home with a sense of accomplishment can actually give you energy to do more for the othe 15 hours.

Based on personal experience.

San Blas / Kuna Yala - I've been there on a literal cartoon island. 30 yards across, white sand, 4 palm trees. Nothing else. Zero trash.

Some parts of Bastimentos aren't bad eiher.

Sure, that makes sense, but not for cassava!

The article even says that the natives had no idea why they were getting sick! How did they connect the "can't use legs" to the cassava they ate?

Again, I realize that it must have been the way you describe, but it's still amazing.

The article explains well how the knowledge, once learned, is carried on. It's also a reasonable explanation for things that have an immediate feedback loop. Like fire - you start it and boom, you're not cold any more. Great, let's do that again!

But it doesn't explain cassava, or some other foods (lots of mushrooms for example and some nuts) where you have to take n steps, during all of which it's still poisonous and that are completely non-obvious and after that there is a distinct change in the "is poisonous" property.

It especially doesn't explain the "if improperly prepared, will maim you over a long period of time" types of things (cassava!)

Of course there really isn't another option - someone somehow figured it out after all - but the search space is so large it feels like there should be something more to it.

Indeed you bring up a good point. There is risk. However, you never know what is the complete reason for someone getting fired, unless you are the one doing the firing. There are lots of things that do not get disclosed. It's also very easy to assume reasons if you're a bystander and be 100% wrong. I've certainly done that a lot.

It could easily have been that the other person got fired for completely unrelated reasons. It of course could also have been that he did in fact get fired for the reason suspected. In this case the question is again - what does the parent commenter want to optimize for? Is it peace of mind or job stability?

If the situation of having to lie is really bothering them, then perhaps the risk of things going wrong is worth taking? The original commenter is the only person that can decide that.

Also, if they keep lying, what's going to guarantee that they will not get promoted because they accidentally did well enough? Or if, indeed they keep getting not promoted, then will that look bad? Are they in an "up or out" level?

Absolutely. But it's also a question of what you want to optimize. Is it more about making sure you keep your current job, is it about maximizing income or is it about having peace of mind?

First, figure out what is the probability of you being able to find a new job. For most developers that are reasonably good, in the current market, finding a new job of at least the same compensation (probably more!) is possible, if not easy.

Assuming the calculation from the previous item goes well and if you want to optimize for peace of mind, say what you feel. If it turns out you have a bad manager, start looking for a new job. Getting fired immediately in the situation described in the original comment is extremely unlikely. If you get the impression that things are not going as expected, start looking for a new job.

If you want to optimize for keeping the current job and not for peace of mind, yes, technically the safest way for now is keep doing what the original poster said. However, how long can you keep that up? How bad will it make you feel to keep faking?

Also, it's very common to over-estimate the likelyhood of extreme edge cases happening. They are possible, but need to be weighted with the likelyhood and the risk. Again, if you are fairly certain that you can get a new job if needed, then the risk is small and the likelyhood (as you mentioned) is low. However, the peace of mind change can be substantial. To me it seems worth it. Maybe to you it wouldn't be. Then yes, don't do it. But it's important to think of all the factors and not just focus on not rocking the boat. Sometimes risks are worth taking. Sometimes not. Life's complicated and you only get one go at it :)

Good luck! Hope it works out for you. There are always risks of course, but in the current market, keep in mind that it's highly likely that they need you more than you need them.

Absolutely! There is always a risk of stagnation and turning into a cynical downer, but if it goes well, then it goes really well.

Sure - it does depend on the company quite a bit, but still justifying a raise is always difficult. That's intentional. Doiing this is a big part of your job - figuring out who you should fight for and then fight for that person.

As a manager - I would love it if someone tells me that! This makes my life so much easier!

It means, that I will not have to worry about figuring out a good place for you to grow into. It also means that I will not have to worry about finding a replacement for you after you get promoted.

Hell, if you tell me that I'll do everything I can to give you a raise asap.

Tip: Your manager really, really wants to hear what you really honestly think. Even if it's not a positive thing (and just wanting to continue doing what you're doing is very positive!). It's super hard to guess what people are trying to say because most people don't just tell you straight. Of course there are exceptions - that's probably a sign of a crappy manager. If that's the case, sorry, you can probably find a better job.

Ticketmaster - could be. Visa? Hell no. I want to get my money back if someone steals my cc data. And I have gotten it back! No such luck with crypto if I lose my private key.

Wonder if some rules and ... oh, regulations? would create a situation where the renter would not have to worry about issues like this. Perhaps similar to rules and regulations that ... hotels have?

Really, what you are saying is 100% spot on, but seems to be misunderstood for some reason.

If presented with a difficult problem, there are people that go "nah, that can't be done, here's a long list of reasons why".

There are also people that go "That's going to be difficult, but maybe we can try A, B or C and I recall reading about this cool new tech that could perhaps help"

Be open to change and open to accepting that new things could be good and interesting.

I'm 43. Hiring engineers. Working with some 50+ engineers that are the absolute best I've ever worked with.

How does this work exactly? People have different skill levels. It's not a step function either, it's a pretty smooth distribution in terms of ability to create systems that are robust. I'd need 20 different names for an engineer. That's silly.

Authentic images do not exist. They always include a viewpoint. Example here: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rHeyzklapsE/W5-yUBVnbxI/AAAAAAAAA...

As an owner of a Volvo V90 that has pilot assist or whatever they call it - it's great for highway driving!

It has it's quirks but they are easy to get used to and after a few years, I know pretty much exactly where it is extremely reliable and where it will get it wrong.

The behaviour is extremely boringly reliable - which is exactly what it should be and doing a few hundrer km on a good highway is now much much more relaxing than before.

Wow, looking at the code in the example, this looks almost nothing like the C++ I used to write 15 years ago. The language really has evolved massively and it seems in a good direction.

I guess kind of a similar expecation was in place for light as well - if you dim your light source then it emits less light waves.

Well, turns out if you go small enough then you see it's actually individual packets of light with certain amounts of energy where the amount of packets (photons) sent out decreases as you turn down the intensity. So, the total amount of energy outputted still matches the input, but the output is in discrete packets, where each packet can exceed the level of input energy at a specific time. So, on a large scale everything seems fine but as you go to very small energy levels it starts to look different.

I guess the expectation with gravity is that going to very small masses, some different underlying mechanism will appear. Or it may not. So they're trying to find out.

Definitely it will never die.

You know you've won when there's a special interest group (with a yearly conference!) focused on risks the software is creating http://www.eusprig.org/

I am a son of a single mother, who was a teacher at the time. In a country that was just recently liberated from the soviet union. Trust me, I was not rich.

Started my first company at 20, after dropping out from university. (mom wasn't exactly happy)

Sorry, your excuse doesn't apply.

Unless you want to claim that going to a state-funded university is a privilege, in which case I guess everyone in all the countries where universities are free are privileged?!?