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Monory commented on Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams djmag.com/news/spotify-of... · Posted by u/buro9

jdeibele · a year ago

Honest question: have you ever run a business? You're talking about setting up millions of accounts to pay them $.02 or $.20 or even $2.00. ACH payments cost an average of $.29/each https://gocardless.com/en-us/guides/ach/ach-fees-how-much-do...

You're dealing with a bunch of people who will try to rip you off, so you need to have anti-fraud protections. Then you need to be able to override the anti-fraud protections because Alex, Alex and Bob, Alex, Bob, and Curt, etc. are all legit performers who want the payments to go to one common bank account even though you'd like one act == one bank account. Etc.

Monory · a year ago

SEPA seems to have no problem moving sub-euro amounts. I am not an entrepreneur, but I did send single euro amounts to my friends. Is it more difficult in USA?

Monory commented on Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/zolbrek

Beldin · 2 years ago

> German trains stop at the first Swiss station, when they finally arrive, and people gave to switch trains.

It's not just German trains. The Swiss are rather strict about train punctuality (more than 2 min is not accepted if memory serves), and if an international train would cause delays, the Swiss put on their own train on regular schedule and halt the tardy train at the border.

Monory · 2 years ago

You are almost correct, according to SBB [0], train is considered to be on-time if the delay is less than 3 minutes.

[0]: https://company.sbb.ch/en/the-company/responsibility-society...

Monory commented on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cec... · Posted by u/rmason

The_Colonel · 2 years ago

I'm surprised there's so much oxygen ... why is that? Why isn't there more Lithium (atomic number 3) than Oxygen (8)?

Monory · 2 years ago

I got interested in that after your comment, and apparently there are two main reasons for that.

1. Oxygen is being produced in stars by so-called CNO cycle [0], which is how stars heavier than our sun mostly do their fusion. More intriguing question is why there's more oxygen than carbon or nitrogen (which, as implied by the name of the process, are also created), but that's a different topic.

2. Additionally, oxygen-16 is a particularly stable isotope, as its nucleus has “doubly magic” [1] amount of constituents, so it doesn't get destroyed in other processes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO_cycle

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(physics)

Monory commented on No_color no-color.org/... · Posted by u/ducaale

quesera · 4 years ago

I think it's fairly common.

  NO_COLOR=1
  NO_COLOR=true
  NO_COLOR=yes

Rather than parsing all the permutations, the usual evaluation of env vars that are expected to hold a boolean type is just the equivalent of:

  #ifdef NO_COLOR

Monory · 4 years ago

Well, in ZSH [[ -v VAR ]] can actually differentiate between unset and null variables

And

NO_COLOR=

would lead to an non-intuitive behavior

Monory commented on Why I Have Settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 for AEAD mccarty.io/cryptography/2... · Posted by u/vlmutolo

formerly_proven · 4 years ago

Yes, OCB is still around 50 % faster than the next best[1] AEAD (which is AES-GCM) and almost 3x faster than Chapoly on current x86 and comes pretty close to 10 GB/s/core on a desktop CPU. That being said, all of these are really, really fast in absolute terms, way beyond line-rate even for 10 GbE, which is a measly 1.2 GB/s. In practical terms, all of these modern algorithms are so fast (with hardware support for AES) that very few applications will see a significant burden from symmetric crypto, so you can choose pretty much whatever you feel comfortable with. EtM was usually quite a bit worse, as the hashes used for hMac were usually much slower in comparison. Though Blake3 would seem to eliminate that concern.

[1] in terms of performance, on a modern x86, with AES-NI

Monory · 4 years ago

More and more both personal computers and servers are using ARM CPUs without AES acceleration, though.

Also, write speeds of modern SSDs comes to be over 5 GBps.

Monory commented on Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/ciconia

wanderingmind · 4 years ago

Let's see. Maybe we start with a 90% tax above 100K income to pay for climate change costs? Will that be acceptable inconvenience to folks here.

Monory · 4 years ago

Sure, if you get billionaires to pay it, too.

Monory commented on Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer shitlassian.com/... · Posted by u/mparnisari

megablast · 4 years ago

> like 2/3 of your team must be available at any time (regardless of the team size),

You don’t think this is a reasonable rule??

Monory · 4 years ago

My current team is 2 people. Should we never take a break?

Monory commented on Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer shitlassian.com/... · Posted by u/mparnisari

darthvoldemort · 4 years ago

I worked at a startup where the CEO reverted the unlimited PTO because one asshole engineer took 2 months off paid leave and then came back and quit immediately. We were angry at the engineer, not the CEO, because it was clear what he was doing was taking advantage of the company's generosity.

When I worked at Uber engineering which had unlimited PTO, I took between 6-8 weeks of PTO every year. Most years was at least 6, but one year I took 8. No one batted an eye. I think it all depends on company culture or maybe team culture.

I would never work for a company that denied me a PTO day, even if it was a single day. I would never irresponsibly take PTO but I would also make sure that I took at least 4 weeks off per year no matter what. The secret is taking 1 week off per quarter, and then another 2 weeks off during Christmas. That automatically brings you up to 6 weeks.

But make no mistake, unlimited vacation is a way to keep PTO off the books as a liability. In California you cannot lose PTO that you have accrued. They can stop accrual however once you reach a certain level. Once you max out on accrual, you are giving the company money, which is stupid so it's important to consistently take PTO.

Monory · 4 years ago

> took 2 months off paid leave and then came back and quit immediately

That's absolutely common practice in places where you can accrue PTO without limits. People rest with compensation they earned and then leave re-energized. And that's a good thing.

Monory commented on AWS doesn’t know who I am ben11kehoe.medium.com/aws... · Posted by u/kiyanwang

Aaargh20318 · 4 years ago

> My girlfriend bought an iPad for the kids to watch TV. It's shared by a couple of people. She had to log in with her Apple ID to set it up, and now her personal iMessages and emails are on it. It's stupid.

Apple considers iPads (and iPhones/Macs) as personal devices. You aren't expected to share an iPad, you're expected to buy an iPad for each user.

Monory · 4 years ago

Macs are definitely not personal — you can trivially set up multiple user accounts.

Monory commented on Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real? mattstoller.substack.com/... · Posted by u/horseradish

IfOnlyYouKnew · 4 years ago

To get approval in US and Europe, the trials need to be of the same quality no matter where they are run. Sometimes it may be cheaper in poorer countries because you don't have to pay your volunteers as much. You still need to check all the appropriate boxes regarding informed consent as anywhere else. And, of course, western companies are entirely capable to run trials anywhere in the world. The COVID vaccine trials were run in Europe, the US, South Africa, Israel, and really any place where the incidence was high enough.

And China and Russia are not "making big breakthroughs": just look at the vaccines again: BioNTech/Moderna/J&J/AZ all work extremely well, all things considered. The Russian and Chinese vaccines don't. Just ask/look at the charts of Chile. Or any Russian.

Monory · 4 years ago

Am Russian, am vaccinated with Sputnik V, would do it again. Yes, the study was rushed and details were missing, but, eventually, all things got in order.

And it's a real working vaccine, effects of which I see basically every day on my friends.