I'm personally super upset with basically all non-Chinese brands. They used the post-covid inflation to drive prices up and like many people are saying here, now the 12k entry-level car is a 25k car.
I bought a brand new VW T-Cross in 2021 for 19k and now the entry price is 27k, for the same exact car. It's insane. I understand people want bigger cars and even price conscious costumers are now going for compact suv (VW T-Cross instead of a Polo) so makers are definitely cashin in on this.
But there is also a Greed side to this story. Automakers have hiked prices, customers have kept buying and we finally (i hope) reached a breaking point. Jeep prices were apparently too high and sales plunged.
All of this makes me actually quite happy for the arrival of Chinese manufacturers. The price/quality ratio is extremely good and when i see the price i finally feel that it's a good deal. It makes me want to buy that car, while with most European manufacturers i'm just thinking of being scammed!
Agree, however i feel that NYT plays it smart. I currently pay only 4$/month which is negligible enough for me to keep it on.
Since i'm a happy subscriber of Bloomberg, i am really not keen to pay another 30$+/month for WSJ but i find myself trying to read some of their articles.
Would love to find a cheap solution that gives me limited access (max 10/20 articles/month)
I'm toggling between Disney, Apple TV, HBO. This also allows me to build up a backlog of a handful of high-quality shows on each platform while paying only for one per month.
The one i cannot cancel however is Netflix since multiple households now depends on my monthly payment.
Fully agree that the system propose the same challenge to many people and fully agree that my wrong answer is just diluted in a bunch of correct answers.
That's exactly why i was asking if other people were doing that. If i'm the only one..then yes, it's only useful for myself to fell less like a exploited brain, but if say 20% of the people start dumping random error on purpose...than the situation changes quite a lot...and potentially even the business model of shit-captcha might not work.
Glad you asked. Since i despise the horrible UX of these Captcha where i get exploited to train a neural network, i very often click on the majority of correct result plus one wrong one.
On average the captcha let me go through which is actually very scary, since it looks like it prioritize algorithm training over bot detection...
aaaand again China doing whatever it wants and nobody doing anything about it. When will this stop?
Personally i'm boycotting their product and services as much as possible.
Is it? Waymo seems to be doing pretty well, it has the largest fleet of autonomous cars and from what i remember by far the most extensive testing program on real streets.
This looks more like an attempt to spread the R&D cost on lidar by selling to third parties. I guess as more and more companies sell their lidar solutions, it becomes more of a commodity and less a differentiation factor, like self-driving software for example.
Am i the only one struggling to use Zoom properly since they introduced the latest security changes?
The slack integration (write /zoom to start a meeting) was working ok-ish even though we always had problem with the meeting not starting unless the host of the meeting was logged in (gosh...why so complicated?)
Now they added this waiting room, there is no sound notification to let you know that people are waiting. Doing daily standup become a sufference.
It's crazy how quickly they lost us as users with literally two badly implemented features.
Happy to hear if any of you also had the same struggle and if there is a good alternative.
I'm getting extremely pessimistic about our chances at stopping this. It looks like even though we drastically reduce our emissions (which looks very much unrealistic) we haven't yet factored in all these variety of negative feedbacks that exacerbate the problem even more.
It looks more and more like the chain of negative effects like the lost albedo effect, the methane released by the melting permafrost and tons of others will create a unstoppable runaway reaction. :(
That's a fair point. I guess a mine like Mountain Pass in California would still be a much cleaner site than a chinese mine, even though the EPA is now a clown agency basically.
Anyone can confirm this?
I agree with you sooooooo much! Those popups are extremely annoying and mostly used on useless SEO blog traps.
The whole notification UI should be much less prominent. If you really want to enable those notification, they should let you opt-in
This engine is meant to bring stuff (and people) to low earth orbit. Don't think of it as a plane, but as a space shuttle which will be fully reusable with no additional boosters.
It flies at up to mach 5 and then switches to rocket mode, thus using it's own oxydizer instead of using the one in the atmosphere.
Completely agree on this one. I feel that a big chunk of "let's make it an SPA" is coming from the development team wanting to use and learn first hand these new exotic tech stacks.
In the past two companies i have been, there was no strict guidance on the technology stack for each microservice or web app, so it ended up being a jungle of microservices written in GO, Elixir serving apps in React.js, VUE.js etc.
Did the company or the end user benefit from this? Hell no. Only one benefiting were the developers who ten left and asked for a 10k more salary on their next job for sporting that fancy new javascript framework. NICE!
The idea of having many small fusion reactors is quite interesting. I never thought about it and i would normally dismiss it since building a big one is cheaper than building many little ones.
However, SpaceX and their 9-engine Falcon rocket teach us a different story. Sometimes building smaller yet complicated power plants is cheaper than building fewer ones but bigger.
Would be great to know more about the economics behind a multi reactor power plant.
For me, it has been the ability to build websites.
This is the very skill that changed my life for the better. Why? First of all it opened so many more job opportunities. I graduated in Economics and Management, just like tens of thousands of other kids. Very few of them though knew HTML, leave alone a full-stack web framework.
Coding was an incredible asset that landed me great executive digital jobs all over the world and made my low grades much less important.
So from a career and safe job point of view it was great. But even more important is that somehow i am the go-to person when a friend of mine wants to build a brand new digital business, which today's always requires a website of some sort. Being able to bootstrap a digital business is an incredible way to increase my chances to reach financial independence.
Being able to build any kind of website has thus been the greatest advantage and has definitely shaped my life for the best.
All the time spent reading programming books, tutorials and debugging my early apps really has paid off.
When i look back, i am amazed by how much each single hour i have invested into web development, has given back to me as financial return.
This however has shaped a bit negatively the way i relate to learning new skills. When i am comparing each potential new skill i have to invest time in, with the incredible returns i got from web development, i find tough to invest time in something difficult to monetize immediately.
In the end i guess each skill you learn enrich you somehow.
i'm sad to see a decline of nuclear energy everywhere in the world.
While renewables are the end goal, nuclear was gonna be the perfect transition source for the next decades, providing emission-free and continuous energy to the grid.
I have the bad feeling that cancelling a nuclear power plant, means building coal/gas plants in its place.
This article actually mention the renewaleble goal of Vietnam which are really unimpressive. 3.3% solar inputs by 2030...WOW, in the mean time how are they gonna keep up with the energy requirements of a developing country? Probably coal.
Why do you need this? Is it because you are paranoid of being tracked?
UTMs offer a transparent, honest way of tracking where a user is coming from. This is super important for any company that runs multiple channel marketing.
Making impossible for company to track their marketing effort doesn't protect your privacy. It just makes it tougher for companies to manage their marketing spending.
Marketing is not evil. It's how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.
I feel there is a paranoia about being tracked and privacy, where anything that is somehow tracking, is evil and must be stopped.
UTMs parameters are absolutely harmless and stripping them away offer no privacy benefit whatsoever.
Fully agree with you. If you use Ruby on Rails (but any modern full-stack framework would do the trick), building a CRUD is indeed 90% automated already.
All you have to do, and that's where the value lies, is putting the bricks together and building the other custom 10%.
Modern full-stack web framework have pushed productivty to an unprecedented level.
I had to switch back to Chrome since Firefox has been almost unusable on mainstream site like Netflix.
Can't wait to go back to Firefox as soon as 57 is out!
But there is also a Greed side to this story. Automakers have hiked prices, customers have kept buying and we finally (i hope) reached a breaking point. Jeep prices were apparently too high and sales plunged.
All of this makes me actually quite happy for the arrival of Chinese manufacturers. The price/quality ratio is extremely good and when i see the price i finally feel that it's a good deal. It makes me want to buy that car, while with most European manufacturers i'm just thinking of being scammed!