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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Totally agree, but I feel like the problem was the booking system, not the taxi.

I was traveling recently, and Uber had partnered with a local taxi company to handle ride requests. It was awesome. You get the convenience and speed of calling an Uber, but the vehicles and drivers are all regulated and paid by the taxi company. No questionable gig economy work, no wondering if the driver is getting paid fairly, no concerns over shady drivers, no ill-kept vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Nice! I've been hoping for something like this for a while now. 10GB of storage is pretty abysmal if you have any kind of media in your vault, e.g. I have a bunch of old scanned PDF's that don't compress well taking up a few GB.

Also cool to see that they're bumping existing subscribers up to 50GB! Won't need to move up to the next tier at this rate.

 

End of an era. I'm sure many people here started their personal finance tracking with Mint. I certainly did, and I was using it all the way up until switching to YNAB early this year.

The CEO of a competitor, Monarch Money, posted a great article about the shutdown (different from the OP link). The article ends in a plug for Monarch, but he makes a great point about subscription-based services. I'll copy-paste a snippet here.

[...] After 25 years in the technology industry, I’ve seen firsthand how a company eventually becomes its business model. Google is no longer a search company, but an advertising company. Facebook is no longer a social network, but an advertising company. Similarly, Mint and Credit Karma are no longer personal finance companies, but advertising companies.

If you’re an existing Mint user and wondering how you should best manage your finances going forward, I would strongly encourage you to consider a subscription-based personal finance app instead of a free one.

A subscription-based app:

  • Aligns company interests with your interests. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this. When you are paying for the service, you are the customer. You call the shots, and the company builds what you want and need. If it doesn’t, you cancel your subscription. This aligns incentives and ultimately leads to a much better user experience. The opposite is true in a free service, where ultimately the advertiser is the customer as they are the ones paying the bills. [...]

(As well as a few other bullets that follow). Worth the read too.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have to write Objective-C for some unfortunate reason - http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/

If you have to write Objective-C for some unfortunate reason and your IT infrastructure doesn't like fun - http://goshdarnblocksyntax.com/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'm impressed, and I love how this project is pushing the boundaries for keyboard layouts, but damn if this doesn't make me uncomfortable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'd guess that most people with public social media accounts would be susceptible to something like this. As long as there are videos available with the person speaking, which are plentiful by way of instagram reels / tiktoks, the rest of what the commenter described above sounds totally feasible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah same. As a rule, I try to never put anything in my checked luggage that is irreplaceable (if it gets lost completely), or that I would need immediately if it arrives late (medication, etc).

I have also had cases where the TSA has gone through my bags and shattered the fragile items in there because they couldn't be bothered to repack it gently. So yeah, no precious or time-sensitive items in my checked bags unless absolutely necessary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure individual interviewers have their own styles, but yeah I'm with you here. Few things are more frustrating for me during an interview than wasting 30 minutes going in circles on something because the candidate isn't being honest with me.

Our role (low level software) is going to be full of things they haven't seen before. I would rather have a candidate who can quickly identify that they don't understand something, and likewise quickly try to fill that gap so they can move on to the next thing, than have someone try to bluff their way through.

I understand that there's a level of "fake it til you make it" during interviews, but the goal of the interviewer is to get as much signal on you as a candidate as possible. Admitting you don't know something may not feel good, but then it gives the interviewer the opportunity to test you on different things that could really highlight your skills. For example, we ask questions on multithreading during our panel. If you don't know how a semaphore works, and you tell me that upfront, that gives me the opportunity to explain the concept to you and see what your process is like working through new information.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nice! He puts out some great designs, and his prefabbed stuff is top knotch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cool! I think GM had (has?) something similar, which is great.

I'm personally holding off until I can get a V2H charger, but if I didn't have charging at work as an option, I'd jump on this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similarly, I've been trying to purchase less on Amazon, but the brick and mortar stores around me are also giants (namely Walmart). I haven't been doing a good job of it, but I feel like part of the process of getting away from Amazon is also accepting some inconvenience and seeking things out from local shops.

Things though like detergent, toilet paper, etc, I really don't know who sells them other than big box stores.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh boy... yeah WoW was around 3 hours a day x 5 days a week for about 4 years. Some days were more, some days were less, and I took a few breaks here and there. That comes out to around 100 days.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

oof. Given how desensitized we've become with the constant inundation of garbage he spews, I forgot how bad this quote was.

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