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For some reason, I can't get wireless CarPlay to work on my '21 Q5. Only wired.

In my country, customs is charged on CIF - Cost, Insurance, Freight, so that's probably the correct treatment. Not sure if that's the case in Brazil.

Was just about to post this. I listened to this yesterday, and it squares with what GP said about alcohol raising his BP.

I'm pretty sure this study was mentioned in a recent episode of EconTalk, where the guest was talking about statistical significance, p-hacking, etc. I'm Jamaican, so I perked up when it came up.

Ah, I must have been mistaken. Dziękuję!

> There's no need to know the singular for pierogi, because no one has ever eaten just one.

Ain't that the truth! My Polish friend also introduced me to 'pierogi rooski'? Apparently, a Russian take on pierogi, with more meat. Do I have the spelling correct?

> In return, I promise to continue working to stop Polish people from pluralizing potato chips as "chipsy".

As a Jamaican, where banana chips are like a national snack, it was amusing to see "chipsy bananowe" for sale. Fun times; I plan to go back.

I spent two weeks in Poland last summer. Might I recommend Zakopane, hell, the entire Tatra Mountains region while we're at it? Absolutely spectacular.

Down in Jamaica

I'm Jamaican. My mom (64) says that when she was growing up, it was standard practice to hammer nails into the soles of the dead, so their spirits couldn't "walk".

>the logical thing to ask first is "what do they understand that I don't understand?".

There's even a name for this: "Going from D to C - from disparagement to curiosity". I think I first heard it from @patio11.

I'm from Jamaica, and grew up eating lots of lychees as well. Never had any problems. Only ate them ripe. I haven't had fresh lychees in years though, mostly now buying the canned ones in syrup from China.

The owners of lychee trees, however, had tons of issues. It's such a loved fruit that if you had such a tree, it was pretty much guaranteed that praedial thieves would strike. It got so bad that I remember one nurse in the community cutting down her tree when the sight of strange men roaming her yard became too much.

I was a speaker at the inaugural PyCaribbean 2015 earlier this year in Santo Domingo - I gave a talk on doing the first and only Google Transit implementation in the Caribbean (in Kingston, Jamaica).

It was a great conference - Lots of camaraderie, talks available in English and Spanish, ranging from Python's type system to one guy's experience teaching Python in rural Argentina. Johnny Gill (a real character!) from Bermuda showed me a system using Raspberry Pis to collect weather data. Unfortunately, I missed Allen B Downey's talk, but caught Brandon Rhodes' (opening) and Jacob Kaplan-Moss' (closing) keynotes.

If you're anywhere near the region, come on out! It's tropical nerdery at its finest :)

@skfroi - It's Oswald, from Jamaica.

At home when I'm all plugged in, I have 3 Chrome windows, each with multiple tabs, spread across my PLP setup. Whenever I pop into a client, and awake from sleep, you can almost see the battery draining in real time. Edge to the rescue; and I'm glad they're putting the pressure on Google to do better.

Pro Tip: You think Edge saves your battery? Sheeeeit....Try using the Movies & TV app vs VLC someday. M&TV is a certified power miser - I caught up on several TV shows plus The Martian on a flight from Montego Bay to Frankfurt a few months ago, using my Toshiba Encore 10" tablet that isn't exactly known for its battery life.

Was a 2% drop really that noticeable?

I have an Asus 21:9 29", 2560x1080, not 3440x1440 like the LG you mention (which I've considered). The extra width is nice, and the aspect ratio is perfect when watching movies, but I find I need more vertical pixels.

Instead of the 34", wouldn't make sense to just go 4K (3824x2160) and get it over with? You're getting more vertical AND horizontal pixels. Personally, I'm salivating at the Seiki SM40UNP (40"). Anything smaller at 4K resolution and you'll need display scaling, negating the size gain. I don't think my 2013 ultrabook can drive it at 60Hz, but there are apocryphal reports that I may be able to eke out 50Hz.

>You might have thought that metaprogramming meant macros, type introspection, that kind of thing. Nope, I'm hijacking the word for today:

Not hijacking. Overloading. ;)

NRE = 'Non-recurring engineering', for those as ignorant as I was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-recurring_engineering

Sometimes, I put something in the freezer for a quick (30 mins) cooldown. Me being me, I'll forget about it aso soon as I close the freezer. I've lost several beers that way.

Now? "Ok Google...set timer for 30 mins." Much quicker than unlocking, finding the Clock app, and fat-fingering the time widgets. This also works for reminders and a host of other things.

Speech recognition is not a gimmick.

>but there should be an "I'm not a normie" switch somewhere...

Which will then summarily be used by malware authors and we're back we started.

It has a USB 3.0 port:

https://on.google.com/hub/#specs

Fascinating - I'd have thought the opposite. Any examples?

I'm back at school now, having dropped out after first year CS in 2006.

The best quote I've heard on the subject, probably from patio11, was something to the effect of "there's no conceivable universe in which having a degree will hurt you." But there are many doors closed to you without it.

Get the degree. The 3 or 4 years will pass before you know it. As a bonus, you'll also make friends in your field and expand your network, which is always worth something.

Man, this brings back memories. My first job - started out as a summer intern at an MVNO. We needed access via RDP to the host carrier's billing platform, so we needed to establish an IPSec VPN to their network. Of course, our little WRT54G wasn't gonna do the job...

Spoke with a network engineer at the host carrier, who recommended we try out m0n0wall. Played with it for a little bit, but then was led to pfSense, which we ended up using.

That was 2006. Time does fly...

Would't using them require application support, like how DAWs support the Mackie Control protocol, among others?

Mike, you're one of my favourite commenters on HN. But this is one of your concepts that I've never been able to wrap my head around. Specifically:

>....business-driven software engineering. It does not work.

My interpretation "business-driven software engineering" (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is one where business determines the requirements of the software. But if business doesn't drive those requirements, who will? You've repeatedly shown how terrible the typical dev is at business, and most devs would seemingly cozy up to their IDE rather than navigate the mess that is determining requirements. So who's gonna do it? Besides, which dev doesn't hate a fuzzy spec?

Additionally, or perhaps more fundamentally, a business hires devs to the ends of furthering their, well, business objectives. What, exactly, is so wrong with business setting the agenda of what gets built?

I ask because of a lesson I learned early (and painfully) in my career as a sysadmin. Technology exists for the business - Not the other way around. Unless, of course, you're a tech firm, where tech itself is your business. And even then, a business has to make economic sense, and as a programmer, I think I'm allowed to say we typically make poor economic choices. McLeod 'Clueless', if you will.

>He pays me 1/4 what I make in my full time job and gives me 10x the hassle.

Why do you still accept work from him?

> in fact I had decided against attending many previous such events due to the cost (in both time and money) of travelling down to the San Francisco bay area

It may not be my place to say, but...Is anyone else here....irked that a singular genius like Colin, with as impressive a product as Tarsnap still has to worry about money? Especially considering that said worry could easily be ameliorated by yielding to even one of patio11's entreaties?

20 USD/month.

Jamaica, on Digicel's network, HSPA+, pay as you go, tethering allowed, 2GB.

How can I contact you?

I once wrote a scraper for a Yellow Pages site in Python. It pulled down the business category, name, telephone and email for every entry, and returned a nicely formatted spreadsheet. The hours I spent learning the ElementTree API and XPath expressions have paid for themselves several times over, now that I have a nicely segmented spreadsheet of business categories and email addresses, which I target via email marketing.