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Uhhh.. PediaLyte and Ensure are vastly different products. Ensure is a weight gain meal replacement drink and PediaLyte is fancy gatorade.

Soylent is somewhere between Slimfast and Ensure. I'm not positive there's a quality calorically balanced meal replacement drink out there? Maybe there is, but whatever that is, Soylent is the branded version of that. Not PediaLyte or Ensure.


The biggest thing I've learned from good lawyers, is that with the law - there's always an appeal, a different interpretation, and a challenge or request for exemption from a rule.

Applying to be a lawyer in and of itself can be a process of figuring out the correct paperwork to fill out and asking for a special exemption on a piece of missing information or a missed deadline.


I find it hard to believe that the "middle" 49% produce 73% of the emissions, while the top 1% only produce 15%

While I think it's still best for us all to reduce where we can - I also agree that the individual would quickly change their habits if corporations started to charge a sustainable price for their goods instead of leveraging the planets future.


Well, with that numbers the top 1% produces 15x their share of emissions, the 49% produce 1.5x their share of emissions. So the top 1% produce 10x more emissions compared to the middle. Doesn't sound suspicious to me, does it to you?


A short circuit is usually a wiring issue. A poorly manufactured USB cable can certainly cause a short circuit.

Fire investigators are also well versed in the forensic investigation of these scenes. If his expert analysis determined the cord was at fault, there's a good chance it was the cable and not the device.


> A short circuit is usually a wiring issue. A poorly manufactured USB cable can certainly cause a short circuit.

yes. also extremely high quality cables which have been damaged in the field can develop a short.

power supplies intended for use by users who cannot/will not inspect their cabling for damage (morally) should detect that the output is shorted and stop applying a voltage.

they're the only device in the "charger, cable, chargee" chain that can do anything about the situation.


I like typescript not because it prevents most errors in my code, but because it prevents some errors. Those errors, in my experience, tend to be ones that are time consuming to identify and solve.

A value of the wrong type passed forward because it's almost the right type can cause errors that make their way into production.

I hear you say "so unit test your code!", and to that I reply, we're a c# shop that has only recently started pushing some of our code to the client. If you can convince management that we should shift our paradigm to allow for the time to write tests that don't add much to the sprint we're in, I can send you their email address.

The fact is, a large portion of unit tests solve the same problems that strong types solve.


I've spent more time helping people hunt down "undefined is not a function" and "Cannot read property of undefined" than just about anything else. Two observations from this:

1.) The fact that I even got involved meant the issues were particularly hard to track down

2.) These errors seem to be more of a time sync within a larger team/project than many realize

Typically these were caused by either scope issues and/or some context object that's been riding dirty all day. In the case of the latter hunting down the code that did the naughty can be particularly soul crushing.


I don't believe slippery slope applies in this situation. For the most part Youtube has been fairly lenient as to which accounts get heavily moderated and/or removed. I may revise my opinion if it is ever shown that they become more aggressively restrictive to what is hosted on their platform - but for the most part you seem to be given a wide berth to upload what you wish.

The worst I've seen so far is that their video promotion algorithm can be used to "shadow ban".. but I personally believe they have every right to decide how their internal advertisements work.

There is also still the free and open internet as a general platform. Torrents and direct downloads are available as a distribution method if there is truly no other platform willing to host your media.


> For the most part Youtube has been fairly lenient as to which accounts get heavily moderated and/or removed.

Ah yes, because people have never had their entire Google account terminated because they posted one too many emojis in a chat...

https://9to5google.com/2019/11/09/google-account-bans-youtub...


Nobody complains when the most blatant kooks get disappeared (Alex Jones), but it's absolutely affecting more mainstream content creators, who can't even produce opinion pieces reporting on related news without their videos getting deleted or forced into Private.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO4cPAm7QkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30g_pIVUGpQ&t=814s


You really could have said all this without being nearly so derisive and insulting.


I stand by my words. At least I put my name on it. The parent comment was mindless and petty as was already pointed out by other commenters.

Telling people who are probably working their asses off to get things done that they are subpar because (because of what exactly?) I think is enough reason to be at least a little bit derisive about.

I added some additional information to point out there might be a good reason to do test at night since for example, SST missions tended to launch on mornings.


I expect that overwork of the day shift is the far more likely theory. Elon Musk expects employees to work 80-100 hours a week. I've done 100 hour weeks before and I made a lot more mistakes than when I've worked 40.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-80-hours-per-...


I have roughly the same experience. At the beginning I am sustained by the urge to get something done so I stop noticing warning signals and when I finally notice it is exactly because of inability to focus and because of mistakes I make.


You're yelling at a strawman.

If 'obviously' there is no night shift, and people had to adjust schedules for this, then this is an instance of "highly fatigued day crew". Because there is no night shift, none of the rocket workers are being insulted.

Also, 'petty' is a very bad description of their argument.

Also, the comment doesn't say there was no reason to do the test at this time. Obviously there was some reason. The comment is questioning whether the reason is more important than having the best engineers in their most awake state.


Only because they capture a lot of data and keep the row level information.

If you just grabbed clustered coordinates without any device information there wouldn't be enough data to be able to reconstruct identity information.


There's a lot of ways it can go wrong though:

- If they provide a unique ID with each coordinate. Now you can deanonymize by correlation

- If they provide a coordinate for every used in the system. Now you know where everyone is

- From the above, if the data is presented in frequent intervals, you can correlate coordinates with last know coordinates and start drawing paths

I'd be comfortable if the request is "give us a coordinate for every area that has more than N users in it" for some large N. Filtering out apartment buildings shouldn't be too difficult.


> every useD in the system

Funny typo, or perhaps not? Reminds me of Stallman talking about Facebook and switching out "users" with "useds".


Seattle itself has a reputation for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze


"Steve is our best salesman, but he keeps sexually harassing the interns and crashing the company car. Joe janitor just put in his resume..."


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