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That is quite a list. Some of the choices I don't agree with. For me the first thing I install though is Ublock Origin. Can't use the web without it.

> I struggle with colleagues who don't even both checking if the spot is available.

I had the same issue in my last job at a large enterprise. What I found out was that many people actually didn't know how to use that feature.

I'm not sure if it's about making them taboo. We're not "banning" the words white and black. We're not saying you can't use those words to describe color for instance (e.g. "the wall is white", "this car is black"). The way I tend to see it is that we reached a level of sensitivity that leads us to be more explicit about our choice of words. I would call myself somewhat socially progressive but now I have to admin that I've never questioned the terms whitelist and blacklist. Now that I do, it seems obvious to me that "black" and "white" prefixes aren't good terms to use in the first place. How is someone even supposed to know which one is "allow" and which one is "deny". "Allowlist" and "Denylist" or something like that would be way more descriptive AND would simply be more sensitive to what's going on in the world. Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, we can't ignore social issues.

I was too until I heard that it might not be the most stable desk, something that's very important to me. So I'm looking at Effydesk[0] right now.

[0] https://effydesk.ca/collections/electric-standing-desks

Parent seems to be referring to https://www.autonomous.ai/standing-desks

The best person to answer that question is your future manager.

For sure salaries don't compare but that wasn't the question. If you want to maximize salary then you probably want to work for FAANG and go through the interview process.

Absolutely not true, at least in my experience. Could it be a Bay area problem? I'm in Vancouver BC and interviewing right now and it's definitely different here.

I'm starting to agree with that. And the older I get, the less I feel like I want to study for a couple of weeks for an interview process that has a high probability of not resembling the work I'd be doing. The other day an Amazon recruiter called me up and even said that that's the case.

But each their own, I'm sure people are happy going through that process and then also enjoy working there.

My guess is it's because phone or cable companies don't apply comparable measures, at least not that I know of. Targeted content for example.

While this is a horrifying story, I'm having a hard time seeing the relevance here. There is nothing in the article indicating that the errors were caused by the family agreeing to organ donation.

Lots of generalization in here. I find that #1 and #3 are often under people's control. With the right setup, dedicated room, dedicated hours and time keeping it's easy to not let those happen.

What you mention in your second argument is interesting, I always forget about that one. In most of Europe and most of North-America I would assume this not to be an issue.

I had the same issue yesterday signing up in the McDonald's app. Please don't judge.

Indeed very fascinating.

Reminds me of doing something similar, albeit a thousand times dumber in ~2004 when I had to find a way to "compress" interior automotive audio data, indicator sounds, things like that. At some point instead of using traditional copression, I synthesized a wave function and and only stored its parameters and the delta from the actual wave which achieved great compression ratios. It was expensive to compress but virtually free to decompress. And as a side effect my student mind was forever blown by the beauty of it.

Not OP but you can achieve higher availability through means like redundancy, availability zones, multi-region deployments, etc.

I'm assuming this is an app with a GUI. I wish there were screenshots showing what it looks like.

I've been using https://notable.md/ for a while, works well for simple workflows.

I can recommend https://notable.md which I sync to a private git repo.

Having 4 or even 6 wheels per landing gear.

It does look a bit asymmetric on the left there. But difficult to say given that there are 4 wheels on each side.

IANAL but for it to be "murder" there usually needs to be premeditation so I think the comparison is not appropriate in this case.

That page actually explicitly says otherwise in the context of Uber/Lyft which I'm assuming OP refers to.

> In January 2015, the Associated Press Stylebook, the collective that sets many of the news industry's grammar and word use standards, officially adopted the term "ride-hailing" to describe the services offered by Lyft and Uber, claiming that "ridesharing" doesn't accurately describe the services since not all rides are shared, and "ride-sourcing" only is accurate when drivers provide rides for income. While the Associated Press recommended the use of "ride-hailing" as a term, it noted that, unlike taxis, ridesharing companies cannot pick up street hails. However, the Associated Press has also used the term ridesharing as well.

While "ride sharing" sounds nice, because, you know, sharing is good, that's not what Uber and co primarily do. They offer "pool" versions, sure, but the number from 2016 I found said those account for only 20% of all rides.

Sure, you could say I'm being pedantic but I do think "sharing" is a different concept and has a positive connotation that might be deliberately being used here.

There are "ride sharing" companies out there where people actually share a ride to the same or similar location.

I always thought about the market here as a healthy competition. With car2go gone, I wonder what that'll mean for the market now?

Also Evo has even less of an incentive now to fix their broken Android app.

You mean ride hailing?

> It costs almost nothing to run a EC2 instance in the region of your choice

I might be wrong about EC2 pricing, but at least for me, ~$11 per region is not "almost-zero-cost". Unless we're talking about on demand instances.

I wonder if there is a community run VPN service to utilize instances more efficiently.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin...

Off topic, I'm wondering, do people on here tend to have subscriptions to sites like wsj.com that are behind a paywall or is there a known way to get past it without one that I just don't know about?

> I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings. If they can't be convinced to transition to EVs for ecological reasons, give them another reason because it doesn't matter why they drive EVs, just that they do

This actually opened my eyes, I haven't thought about it that way

Isn't that the situation Uber is in. They surely seem to be doing fine.

It wasn't my intention to accuse them of lying. I guess I genuinely don't understand what their point is.

All I (unsuccessfully) tried to point out is that the two scenarios are different.

Sorry, that was referring to the homeless population from the article.