CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I'm not worried about it. There's apps and websites that show you all the charging locations. You have to figure out much more complicated stuff than that while traveling. I'd love to get an EV rental but I'm not willing
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I would be curious to see absolute values on this rather than percentages. Not having to do oil changes could easily be a 50% decrease, but oil changes also really aren't that expensive overall on a few tens of thousands of miles, righ
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Rental cars are prime candidates for EVs as they get driven a lot more than the average car. I don't own a car, but whenever I rent one I'm putting a lot more miles on it per day than any car I ever owned in the past. I only rent
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's widely known that maintenance costs way less on EVs than on gas-powered cars. There are plenty of data points everywhere to confirm this. EVs are much simpler with way fewer moving parts and fluids to worry about.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
They might force you to lower the mask for the facial recognition scanning, like at the airport. I thought about this too but it's too obvious so it must not be working. Plenty of people are still wearing masks to theatre-type events i
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It has a life of its own way beyond Jim Cramer these days (also Jim Cramer is pretty terrible at being a pundit overall). As for fintech companies, it's just a different field, with different norms, expectations, and overall pay struct
907.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
There's a big difference between planning something and actually going through with it. The military makes all sorts of contingency plans that never have a serious shot of seeing use. Per the linked article, the Allies were expecting s
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I don't know anyone who refers to the element as wolfram in English. The abbreviations are internationally standardized and many don't stand for the English words anyway (Latin is quite common, e.g. Pb means plumbum, for lead).
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
People who actually live in high crime areas know how useless 911 and the police are, and don't rely on them for their safety. Gunshots don't get called in in these areas; they're just background noise. Life's way too sh
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
The app will take every dumb 911 complaint at face value. Most 911 complaints simply aren't accurate. For every one real gunshot called in, there's many more that end up being a car backfiring, fireworks, etc. And this is true for
911.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Who has the time to listen to police scanners every waking moment on the minuscule chance that they may yield useful information?? This is not a healthy way to live. Also, your story is not very compelling. There's a small chance somet
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I was just in Vegas and the Flamingo didn't even have their birds out in display because of avian flu. The different bird species (including flamingos, natch) are all quarantined from each other somewhere else.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Yeah, that could be it. But in a lot of cases Google is writing its own stuff for real reasons. Maybe I'm just older / have been in more diverse parts of industry, but I've literally worked at employers where open source sof
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
The number of products produced by a given company has never been part of the definition of FANG. And the exact companies in the acronym don't really matter anymore anyway; the overall 'vibe' of it is simply top-tier tech co
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> Part of that is that people really don't know how to to do voice interfaces well. Maybe that'll change now with ChatGPT. The problem I have with voice interfaces is you need something at the level of AGI to make it compelling
916.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
This is why: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-e...
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> Short-term investors will live by the sword or die by the sword, but long-term investors are fine. Well, and also some of the employees there, regardless of their length of service. This whole thread is more from the POV of the tech wo
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's not an economic trick. If my employer weren't paying for offices they wouldn't be plowing the rest of that on top of my salary. Indeed it's the opposite; fully remote workers make less .
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I don't know what to say other than that my experience here is precisely the opposite of yours. Different areas of the company? I use a LOT of third party libraries in the course of my employment, and third_party in my experience is
920.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
My overall political philosophy here is that individual elective donations solve few problems, and that large-scale collective action (whether by governments or large employers) is a much better solution overall. E.g. SNAP is a lot more ef
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> This led one candidate to hire people to solicit/collect these democracy vouchers. This sounds like what you'd expect an actually successful/winning candidate to do as well (explore all net positive fundraising avenues).
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Yeah I know about that, and it's terrible and shouldn't happen. Thankfully that plague doesn't affect our industry, and I'd hate for it to start. (Also worth pointing out that some of those tradesmen are legitimate cont
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> In net, your suggestion also results in $1k moving from google to the open source. It also amounts to a $1k pay cut for employees, which no one will be happy with. We already capture a small amount of our value add to the company in te
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
You are making some weird arguments in this thread. I don't understand how you think it's reasonable for employees to personally shoulder the burden of everything they use at work rather than work simply paying for it, which makes
925.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
Some problems with that: Why should I personally pay for the tools I use at work to make my employer money? Should I also buy my own work laptop? My own software licenses? It doesn't make sense. Then there's also the tax issue, as
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I'm aware of that program, but I think it has some problems. It only happens twice a year, there's a lot of process involved that dissuades people from bothering, the amount of money involved is tiny, and the awards only go to ind
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Not remotely true in my experience. Have you worked at Google, and seen the sheer size of third_party?
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
$10,000/month for a company the size of Microsoft is so little, though. And only one award per month is way too few as well. I still like my idea of $1,000/yr/engineer of allocations, with monthly batching on the rewards. Als
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I'm at Google and I wish each engineer got some kind of budget (like the peer bonus budget) that could be used to distribute funds to third-party libraries. My project is itself open source, does not run in the Google prod environment
930.
by CydeWeys 4y ago
> Your average Joe barely knows who Elon Musk is. You're underestimating the average person.

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