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by mkipper 2y ago
> The Canadian dollar has collapsed VS the USD This might be splitting hairs, but I think this is more about the strength of USD than the weakness of CAD. I don't know that you can say CAD has "collapsed" when every other
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by mkipper 2y ago
In my experience, retailers will do this to make their “special” Black Friday sale similar to regular sales that roll around every few months, but I have never seen or heard of a company pulling this to the point where they’re selling stuff
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by mkipper 2y ago
Like everything, “it depends”. I used to work on a product that handled video, and I would regularly spin up prototypes where I’d stitch together gstreamer pipelines with different plugins to try things out. For reasons that aren’t importan
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by mkipper 2y ago
If you remove "develop" from the OP and stick to "prototype", it's a totally valid criticism, and you come across as a condescending jerk if you suggest that software can't be "working" unless it&#x27
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by mkipper 2y ago
Focusing on the dictionary definition of the word "recall" seems pedantic. Not all recalls are for big mechanical problems. I've received several recall notices for issues that just required the dealership to flash the ECU or
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by mkipper 2y ago
Chess might not be a great example, given that most people interested in analyzing chess moves probably know that chess engines exist. But it's easy to find examples where this approach would be very helpful. If I'm an undergrad d
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by mkipper 2y ago
I ran into this issue on an embedded system before it was raised / fixed: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8398 FWIW, I'm generally a fan of systemd. That's a pretty minor issue in the
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by mkipper 2y ago
That link is for the CTO of Walmart, but TFA is about the CTO of Sam's Club. It looks like they're one rung down the ladder so I'm sure they're doing just fine even in California, but they're probably making quite a
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by mkipper 2y ago
If (like me) you're okay with connectivity but not cameras, there are quite a few choices out there. The Roborock Q Revo is basically brand new, has just about everything you'd ever want in terms of features / performance but
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by mkipper 2y ago
Using those examples when comparing software and hardware engineering _in general_ gives a skewed perception of things. Three of those companies are only interested in hardware as a way to optimize their (incredibly profitable) software bus
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by mkipper 2y ago
I guess it depends on the headlines you're reading. You'll only see it on HN if it's a tech company, and you're probably correct in saying that it was incredibly uncommon over the last decade of incredible growth. But it
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by mkipper 2y ago
The difference is scale. Airbnb isn't trying to revolutionize home ownership. They can have a successful business even if 99% of homeowners have no interest in renting out their place to strangers. But when Musk talks about robotaxi, h
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by mkipper 2y ago
Also not all recalls are created equal. I have a VW that was recalled a few years ago for this: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2019/RIONL-19V615-0655.pdf > If the build-up happens, it may be possible to
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by mkipper 3y ago
You seem to know where to find these numbers (I don't), so do you know how that stacks up with luxury car manufacturers? Most of those companies do compete with Tesla, but the price range of a Tesla ($40k to $90k for most models) lines
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by mkipper 3y ago
> It's crazy to me, because when you look critically at what dog you personally have in this race, like of course you want the status quo where The Pile exists, and you and the only agitators in all of this - authors' guild aut
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by mkipper 3y ago
I still think knowing C++ is pretty valuable to someone's career (at least over the next 10 - 15 years) if they're looking to work in fields that traditionally use C++ but might be transitioning away from it. The obvious compariso
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by mkipper 3y ago
Going off reviews, it looks like Vizio has taken a nosedive in quality over the last 5 - 10 years. When I bought a TV ~10 years ago, rtings had various Vizios as their top-rated TVs at different price points. I remember my choice at the tim
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by mkipper 3y ago
Nothing has really changed. You just got older and wiser. MBB consulting is still a prestigious job for most students. It's probably not _as_ sought after as it was a decade or two ago, but I think most students at most business school
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by mkipper 3y ago
This is anecdotal, but whenever I read details about layoffs at FAANG companies ("$foo people were fired from the $bar team"), I'm shocked by the headcounts. I get it, developing and supporting some feature at a company lik
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by mkipper 3y ago
I also don’t follow that stuff too closely, but yeah, those examples are exactly why Boeing doesn’t stop making commercial airplanes and completely pivot to defense contracting. You _can_ make money hand over fist working with the US milita
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by mkipper 3y ago
In 2008, commercial airplanes were 40.6% and defense was 52.5% of revenues. I’m no fan of Boeing, but they’ve been focusing on the military for a very long time.
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by mkipper 3y ago
I'd imagine lots of people buying colour printers these days are parents whose kids need them for school. I can't think of many reasons an adult needs a colour printer, and home photo printing doesn't seem like a booming busi
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by mkipper 3y ago
Do you really feel that way universally? Would it be ethical to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry by removing all restrictions around drug trials? Heck, you could probably speed things up even further if you could administer experimental
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by mkipper 3y ago
This is kind of a nitpick, but Ethernet _does_ bother with encryption, at least in recent versions of its standards. Obviously Ethernet has a long history and this is all optional, but it's pretty straightforward to set up 802.1X &#x2F
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by mkipper 3y ago
This analogy isn't very convincing to me. Car manufacturing is a regulated industry. When I buy a car in the USA, even for my taxi business, I shouldn't need to hire a team of engineers to verify that it was properly designed and
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by mkipper 3y ago
The US government was passing AML legislation more than 50 years ago. Mass surveillance wasn't exactly practical back then, so I'm pretty sure those laws were passed as a real attempt to stop criminals rather than to erode the rig
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by mkipper 3y ago
Well, I'd argue that you're looking for a different term, but obviously there's no concrete definition here. I don't think a dark pattern requires any fraud or lying. I think the most obvious example is having users opt
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by mkipper 3y ago
This seems like a huge stretch of "dark pattern". Ultra low-cost airlines are pretty aggressive in upselling seat / baggage / food / fare class upgrades during the checkout process. It is annoying to have no idea wh
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by mkipper 3y ago
I've never worked in automotive but it's pretty easy to imagine how this might play out in a car, where a single update might bundle updates for several programmable devices. It's easy to imagine a central SoC receiving the u
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by mkipper 3y ago
Also, YMMV, but I've found their staff are pretty helpful. I once went in to buy their store-brand garden knife since I've had good luck with a bunch of their gardening stuff. As I pulled it off the shelf, an employee told me that

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