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complaintdept commented on Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian jonathancarter.org/2024/0... · Posted by u/pabs3
Hey at least it's not the worst behavior we've seen from a Linux file system creator...
I thought Carl Thompson's response was very good and constructive: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1816164937.417.1724473375169@ma...
What I don't understand is that IIUC Kent has his development git history well broken up into small tight commits. But he seems to be sending the Linux maintainers patches that are much larger than they want. I don't get why he doesn't take the feedback and work with them to send smaller patches.
EDIT: The culture at Google (where Kent used to work) was small patches, although that did vary by team. At Google you have fleet-wide control and can roll back changes that looked good in testing but worked out poorly in production. You can't do that across all organizations or people who have installed bcachefs. Carl pointed out that Kent seemed to be missing some social aspects, but I feel like he's also not fully appreciating the technical aspects behind why the process is the way it is.
> Hey at least it's not the worst behavior we've seen from a Linux file system creator...
I think that dubious distinction would go to Hans Reiser.
complaintdept commented on The Thin Purple Line harpers.org/archive/2024/... · Posted by u/walterbell
Police clearance rates of reported crimes have tanked in almost every category of crime. [1] Property crime saw a 30% reduction in clearance rates (17%->12%) from 2019-2022 despite funding/staffing staying flat or going up and crime rates/reporting rates going down.*
The marginal calculus could be tipping, but imo less from issues of social cohesion and more from an abdication of enforcement that necessitates more guard labor in the form of private security.
Another partial explanation is just that retail orgs are overreacting and/or cynically crafting a narrative to explain poor business decisions or changing economic conditions.[2][3][4]
> “Maybe we cried too much last year” about merchandise losses, Walgreens finance chief James Kehoe acknowledged Thursday on an earnings call.
> “Probably we put in too much, and we might step back a little bit from that,” he said of security staffing.
> However, it’s not clear the numbers add up. For example, data released by the San Francisco Police Department does not support the explanation Walgreens gave that it was closing five stores because of organized retail theft, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2021. One of the shuttered stores that closed had only seven reported shoplifting incidents in 2021 and a total of 23 since 2018, according to the newspaper. Overall, the five stores that closed had fewer than two recorded shoplifting incidents a month on average since 2018.
> The National Retail Federation had said that nearly half of the industry’s $94.5 billion in missing merchandise in 2021 was the result of organized theft. It was likely closer to 5 percent, experts say.
[1] https://www.vox.com/2023/12/23/24012514/police-crime-data-so...
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopliftin...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/organized-shopli...
[4] https://popular.info/p/off-target
*caveat that crime data is really complicated, don't take the numbers too literally
Econ or Bloomberg had an article about a month or two ago about stores locking up their merch and the motivations for it, and why it's such a stupid idea (sales plummet when you need an employee to unlock deoderant). One of the reasons for locking everything up is that they don't have good inventory management systems and when a manager or higher level person sees empty shelves they assume theft...but often times it either hasn't been ordered or simply hasn't been put on the shelves. Most real theft happens from the trucks delivering the goods.
edit: found it
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-01/why-cvs-a...
complaintdept commented on Unlocking the Pixel 9 bootloader breaks some Pixel AI apps liliputing.com/unlocking-... · Posted by u/edward
Sounds like a win-win scenario?
Yeah I'm not seeing a downside to this.
I hear that a lot, but have never seen numbers. Googling it doesn't help me either. Would you know of any resources?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-study-in-the-midst-of...
I'm sure there's plenty more out there.
I don't think this article's analysis makes sense.
If pharma companies lose revenue, they have to cut something. Presumably the intention is to force them to cut profits. I found this analysis of global pharma industry profitability: https://www.ispor.org/docs/default-source/euro2023/poster-is... They found that the average profit margin across the pharma industry was around 20%. So even if pharma companies cut their profits to zero, prices would only drop 20%, right?
And even the idea of cutting profits to zero isn't realistic. Pharma investment is similar to venture capital; investors make risky bets in the hopes that a few of them will pay off big. Why would investors agree to take that risk if they get zero profit in return?
Some people propose things like "the government should fund drug development". OK, that's a fine proposal; it has pros and cons. But that's a very different proposal than "the government should institute price caps on privately-developed drugs". Don't try to justify the latter proposal by conflating it with the former.
Pharma spends more on marketing drugs than developing them. If marketing drugs is prohibited, especially through dubious kickback schemes with doctors and hospitals, there'd be a lot more room for lowering prices.
The profit motive really doesn't deliver great outcomes in medicine, between the enormous information asymmetry between patient and doctor (and even other doctors), doctors with perverse financial incentives, and believing (whether it's true or not) that your life or wellbeing are on the line if you're wrong, it's ideal for all sorts of chicanery. (/rant)
complaintdept commented on Apple explores robotics in search of life beyond the iPhone bloomberg.com/news/newsle... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
With what happened when Google bought them, I doubt if Apple can handle thenlm. Hyundai feels like a much better fit. Japanese companies have had a longer history with robotics and less insistence on short term profitability.
Hyundai is Korean
TIL this exists. Does anyone know where to read more about these plugs? What do they do? I always feel like I've got a harder time understanding people than everyone else