valdiorn

> Credit cards will become widely accepted in Europe.

I'm sorry, what? Credit cards are available and accepted basically everywhere in Europe. I've been to 15+ European countries and never had a single issue paying with a credit card. Credit cards are also widely owned and issued all over Europe.

Why would you make this statement? What am I missing?

They know the risks, if they choose to be idiots that's on them.

Invest in some good PPE that doesn't get in the way. I have an air-fed mask I use when spraying lacquer, I do woodworking as a hobby. My small shop is set up with two different filtration systems to keep dust and VOC out of the air. I refuse to use isocyanate catalyzed compounds because of the health implications.

Engineered stone has been around for 60 years by now. Something tells me they weren't tracking silicosis cases as diligently back in the 1960s as they are today. Most likely, cases are up because they are better diagnosed and tracked today than before engineered stone was a thing.

I don't understand how you could possibly draw this conclusion based on the evidence we have.

It never, ever gets my order wrong, though, which is something I cannot say for the workers with limited to no English comprehension that used to take my orders (accents are hard)

Paywall :(

Fatal crashes are prosecuted by District attorneys / Crown prosecution services, not insurance companies (which would cover property damage)

You can pry uBlock from my cold, dead hands.

I'll continue smashing that "Purge all caches" button for as long as I need. And I will not pay to watch content that was provided to YouTube for free.

Uh, quite the opposite. Thermal mass is a thing.

How houses are built in Iceland: https://youtu.be/7RuTizbnH4s?si=JxRjqzVFy4NLg3wa

(Spoiler; we cast them from 1 foot thick concrete slabs)

haha, you think the fact that Peter Thiel talks to the FBI is the worst thing about Peter Thiel? :)

Uh, deja vu? Didn't Canon have a system very similar to this, and it famously got cracked over a decade ago?

https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/03/2133218/canons-image-...

Or he's quite capable of negotiating his own salary.

I personally agree; I don't want a unionized job. It doesn't work for me.

It's a net benefit on average, but I'm an aggressive negotiator, and I out-earn my industry, and I know how to squeeze big bonuses out of my employers. So a union would have a negative effect on my ability to earn.

I've worked for 4 different quant hedge funds and interviewed with about a dozen others to reach final stages and comp negotiations.

I can claim with full certainty that comp is entirely discretionary and is not beholden to any "percentages". They pay you min(market worth, amount to make you stay) - and those figures are reviewed every year.

Percentages only apply to discretionary traders who are allocated a book to trade. They get to keep a certain percentage. For everyone else, especially techies and researchers, it's discretionary.

Is this PCBWay challenging JLCPCB and EasyEDA? Looks like it. I welcome it, EasyEDA and the super slick integration with JLCPCB is a killer feature and the reason I use JLC exclusively for all my boards.

If this works well I might give PCBWay a try.

> Ultimately the citizens of N Korea are 'free' to move elsewhere

They literally are not. They are held in by landmines and barbed wire. Nobody is going to execute Brand and his entire extended family if he moves away from YouTube. But that WILL happen if you leave North Korea.

Quit your sh*t.

I'm assuming you did the correct thing and engaged an an Office Space-esque penny-stealing operation after learning this? :)

Wait until you read about this guy

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/27/innocent-andrew-...

The maximum compensation you can get in the UK is around 1.1 million IIRC. They were going to deduct several hundred thousand pounds from that for "room and board" while he was in jail, leaving him with just over 700k

Yeah but, it's not like I have some god given talent the next person can't obtain. I went to a shitty university, and it took me 4 years to finish a 3 year undergrad. From there on, it was all about building skills, and making very intentional decisions to steer my career.

There's the classic joke of how to pick up women: "Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: don't be unattractive" - which is funny because you can't change your appearance. But if you have a skill gap on your CV it is absolutely within your remit to fix that. Don't like your current job? You can change that. Don't have what it takes to pass the interview rounds? You can fix that. Spend 2 weeks doing leetcode exercises and you'll ace any coding test.

They sell them to recruiters

FYI, this is a dirty secret, but the correct way to use Indeed is not to apply for the job per se; it's to get in touch with the people doing the hiring.

Basically, submit your "application" for a job, get a call back from the recruiter, who will then promptly say "yeah forget about that job, I've got 20 other interesting jobs that might fit you better".

... I'm pretty sure in most cases the initial job doesn't even exist.

wtf? The recruiters in your area sound horrid.

A lot of the recruiters in London and VERY on top of technology and know more than I do about current trends, languages and frameworks and exactly where to find people to fill every niche need their client companies have. To the point where they can follow the logic of "Client needs F# developers, F# is a functional programming language. I should look at former employees of companies X,Y, and Z because they use Clojure and OCaml, so those guys might have the necessary background - but I really need to sell it to them because they might be scared away by Microsoft and .NET".

How come I keep reading these types of posts, hearing these stories, yet I've never experienced anything remotely close to this? Job hunting has always been the opposite for me; being inundated by sharks trying to aggressively recruit me.

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For reference; here's a quick summary of my job history: Mid 20s, I was working for a retail bank in Iceland (where I'm from), doing ASP.NET and C#. With about 4 years of experience, I decided I was a "big fish in a small pond" and that I needed a greater challenge. I was interested in finance and wanted to move to London and do quant trading or HFT, so one night I applied for about 5-6 different jobs posted on Indeed.co.uk. At 7AM the next morning the phone started ringing. 3 days later I was in London, doing five interviews a day for 4 days straight, and long story short, ended up doing about a 15-20 interviews and ending the week with a dozen offers.

Since then, I've done the occasional round of interviews, just to determine whether I'm "optimally employed", and they've never been an issue to set up. Basically just message a couple of reliable recruiters on LinkedIn, tell them "hey I'm interested, and I'm looking for X" and they come back with job specs on a silver platter. I've NEVER not got an interview somewhere I wanted to work. Literally never. I've been rejected a handful of times, most of which I'd chalk up to the interviewers or the hiring process being terrible. I've rejected or cut short A LOT of hiring processes, though, I have some insane stories to tell regarding that.

Now, I work almost entirely by referral. I didn't even interview for my current role or send them a CV, because I'm working for and with people who know me. And I have a feeling that's how it'll stay from now on.

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So, now that I got that out of the way - why the F00k is my experience so askew with these horror stories? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to put anyone down, or brag, or say they're doing it wrong or something, I'm simply asking; what causes the difference in experiences? Is it the fact that London finance runs on recruiters? Is that not a thing elsewhere? The last time I submitted an application directly to a company was in 2009. Since then, I've always had recruiters do it on my behalf.

Literally everyone in quant finance knows about knight capital. It even has its own phrase; "pulling a knight capital" (meaning; cutting corners on mission critical systems, even ones that can bankrupt the company in an instant, and experiencing the consequences)

indeed - I would have thought a separate battery to run the cabin and safety features would be a good idea. I would only have to be 1/100th the size of the motor batteries.

So, re-fitting all those converted factories and warehouses back into factories and warehouses, you mean?

> And there is usually a provision prohibiting "artificial fractioning" of payment, i.e. in theory if you buy something worth 1,200 and the limit is 1,000 you cannot pay that with two invoices/receipts 600 Euro each.

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

Also illegal in the US.

If someone is paying for farm equipment, vehicles or livestock with tens of thousands in cash, you can absolutely be certain something very, very dodgy is going on. At the very least someone is doing some serious tax evasion.

So sounds like exactly the kind of transaction this law is supposed to block. working as intended.

can you elaborate? what companies? why did they get sued?

I mostly agree. I'm not exactly a fan of Big Tech; Meta, X and co. are all pretty horrid companies, but it does feel like some EU politicians think they've discovered an "infinite money glitch" and they just lob random fines at these companies expecting them to cough up cash to stay in their markets. some of the things they're getting fined for is pretty ridiculous.

A rather naive take that ignores a lot of history.

I drive a diesel 2016 VW Passat. A very "average" car by UK standards. My car does not qualify for the ULEZ and I'd have to pay the toll. I don't drive a giant gas guzzling truck. Not do I drive a 20 year old banger. I drive a "responsible" family sedan. Yet this is not enough to escape the toll.

When I bought that car, diesel cars were heavily favoured as the more environmentally friendly option by the government. People were encouraged to buy them, there were subsidies and various incentives to buy a car like mine. Then Dieselgate hit and everyone went running away from diesel.

Now consider that the government is extending the ULEZ to cover a huge area including millions of people. Those people are all being told "cough up £12.50 EVERY DAY or buy a BRAND NEW, expensive car". Well, not everyone has 20 grand to drop on a new electric, so they're just shit out of luck. 12.50 is an hour of their salary post taxes. That's an HOUR every day that poor people need to work extra, just for the privilege of getting to and from work.

How angry would you be if you were forced to work an extra hour a day just for the privilege of getting in and out of your own neighbourhood?

Also, regarding your take on public transport; public transport is great in central London. If you go to any of the neighbouring towns, where the ULEZ is being extended to, it's a different story. Train lines only go one direction: towards London. If you're going from town A to town B and public transport is your only option, you may find yourself needing to go into London and then back out again. That takes a long time and is very expensive. People need cars to get places in those towns. Also, as someone who recently became a parent; public transport and infants do not mix well.

In short; it's a tax on the poor (doubly so for people with small children), with a side order of revisionist history punishing those made responsible purchasing choices 5 years ago.

what even is an "AI generated game"?

AI/ChatGPT/Copilot are miles off from being able to produce an entire, runnable executable, with all assets and code required for a functional game. So what does it even mean for a game to be AI generated?

Are they talking specifically AI art assets? In which case, do procedurally generated assets count? Is No Man's Sky going to be dropped from the shop?

this is such a stupid discussion from start to finish it's not even worth having.