Not yet! But I will make sure to link here once it's up in a few days (or post to HN? not sure what the etiquette around self-promotion is these days). It's somewhat functional but not usable by anyone other than me at this point most likely (:
Multiple lifetimes of thousands of the most brilliant engineers collaborating, sharing algorithms, protocols, mining, smelting, developing tooling to create tiny rocks that can think and blasting them to hover over the earth just so we can slightly annoy the person next to us with a conversation about the weird stuff growing between our toes.
From a technical standpoint, the ability to make VoIP phone calls from planes exists right now, at least on planes with newer and better internet connections. It hasn't been enabled because of ferocious customer opposition every time the idea is proposed. Which, frankly, is just fine with me. People can still send emails and messages from in-flight Wi-Fi, no need to subject everyone else to your phone calls.
Could? I flew a month ago on a flight with Starlink. I downloaded 10s of gigabytes of data without hiccups. Calling was not an issue. And it was completely free.
Not one time have I had a consistent internet connection whilst flying transatlantic on Delta, KLM or BA airplanes, to the point that I regretted having paid for it every single time.
I haven’t been to India for 7 years but I distinctly remember a very productive flight from Delhi to Heathrow on wifi while I was sshed into a machine and working on something for hours with no issue - far better than the signal I get on the train from London to Manchester.
Qatar/Virgin Australia, Sydney->Doha. I’ve never had really good connection either before this, and I tried many-many times. That was the exception when it worked as intended.
If you look at recent mined blocks, a majority of transactions are still public. So yes, even if the default is shielded wallets and private transactions for a specific wallet, most of the chain is not using them.
True, but as of this month 30% of zcash transactions are shielded, and 20-25% of addresses are private. That's a fairly large anonymity set. The percentage of shielded transactions is also increasing, at a rate that will make them a majority within a year if the trend continues.
Yes, to me this is a biggest feature of Typescript: A little goes a long way, while the advanced features make really cool things possible. I tend to think of there being two kinds of Typescript - Application Typescript (aka The Basics, `type`, `interface`, `Record`, unions etc...) and Library Typescript which is the stuff that eg Zod or Prisma does to give the Application Typescript users awesome features.
While I aspire to Library TS levels of skill, I am really only a bit past App TS myself.
On that note I've been meaning to the the Type-Level Typescript course [0]. Has anyone taken it?
Why would a manager who’s able to claim the credit of their reports in order to advance their own career then PIP the best ones? Wouldn’t they keep them around to keep claiming credit from?
I’m not doubting your story (I’ve never worked in India) I just don’t understand the incentive to fire a good worker in this scenario.
They already got promoted and might not be managing the same team, plus it sells the lie better, and most people wouldn’t go along with this forever and might start claiming things so they have to discredit you first.
Most CEOs and VPs in these companies are nepotistic and political. They are happy to take credit but will never allow their direct reports to become a threat to them. In general the structure looks like this
CEO
VP (usually a family member or a "chamcha" literally spoon, but means sycophant.)
Directors (all yes-men chamchas)
Worker bees
Not very different from most companies, in my experience.
Is sycophancy different there? I think in many places employees often praise their managers and agree with everything because it’s a survival strategy. Or maybe a misplaced hope to get recognized that way. I assume that’s all this is too?
In India loyalties run deep. It can come along the lines of religion, region, caste, family, color, class etc.
Many times novices to this game, work mad hours, only to realise a year or two down the lane, some guy who practically did no work but comes from the same state your manager does, is now promoted above you.
> some guy who practically did no work but comes from the same state your manager does,
I took over a unit where 80% of the engineers were from one state, and mostly from the same college as the previous hiring manager.
There was one particular misfit - competent engineer but didn't have any skills for my BU.
I tried to transfer him to the hiring manager's new unit, and he refused. So I told him I would have to fire the misfit. Guess what, the next day he found a req and took the misfit.
This was a pattern everywhere I worked. So when I was able to dictate hiring policies, one rule was that we would never visit the same college twice in row. This of course made me very unpopular with HR. Now they had to work harder to maintain connections with placement departments.
They don't care that much. Probably from their point of view the merit is theirs anyway and consider anyone below them easily replaceable. Also, good employees understand their value and will start asking to be rewarded adequately for their contribution- this is a problem, so getting rid of them or waiting until they give up and leave solves it.
"Professional riders number roughly three to six thousand worldwide, while professional drivers number roughly twenty to forty thousand across major sanctioned series."
> The ugly glass UX, the weird floating controls, the always on display, blah blah
I'm on the "some like it" boat, to my surprise. I think the glass effect is eye-catching in a good way, and is much-less of a readability issue than I had expected. I often notice how cool it looks over my rotating background photos. I also love the always-on display because I don't have a watch.
Your HEPA filters must be real ones. HEPA is just an acronym anyone can slap on anything, there's no accreditation.
Recent testing on the Vacuum Wars channel showed big differences between filters from the vacuum manufacturer and off-brand "HEPA" filters. Probably the same applies everywhere.
> HEPA is just an acronym anyone can slap on anything, there's no accreditation.
There are standards:
> Filters meeting the HEPA standard must satisfy certain levels of efficiency. Common standards require that a HEPA air filter must remove—from the air that passes through—at least 99.95% (ISO, European Standard)[4][5] or 99.97% (ASME, U.S. DOE)[6][7] of particles whose diameter is equal to 0.3 μm, with the filtration efficiency increasing for particle diameters both less than and greater than 0.3 μm.[8]
"You need HEPA" is just marketing. What you really need is CADR (Clean Air Delivery Rate) and third-party testing.
HEPA H13 only means the filter was tested to 99.97% particle efficiency at the most difficult particle size. There's nothing magical about this number. In reality air filters can often clean better with an E11 or E12 filter (tested to 95% and 99.5% respectively), because these filters allow much greater airflow from the same fan.[0]
Remember, the clean air is immediately mixing with the dirty room air. If you get twice the airflow while "only" letting 5% of particles through, that's a good tradeoff.
CADR (tested by AHAM, not just the manufacturer's claim!) is what really matters, not HEPA vs non-HEPA.
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