lacogubik (u/lacogubik)

lacogubik commented on Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook wired.com/story/how-teleg... · Posted by u/lxm

swah · 4 years ago

The "sad thing" is that Whatsapp is 10x-50x more popular in my country and its quite hard to integrate (APIs, bots) compared to Telegram, at least for "small business".

I wonder if Telegram would also be more closed if it was #1...

lacogubik · 4 years ago

WhatsApp recently launched hosted API [1] for faster and easier integration for small business

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/01/whatsapp-brings-its-busine...

lacogubik commented on Please make a dumb car techcrunch.com/2022/01/29... · Posted by u/wrycoder

salawat · 4 years ago

At that point, the driver really is to blame though. Manufacturer's job is to make things affordably; not to save himanity from themselves despite the ongoing insistance by governments that somehow the industrial sector should take on the onus for technically enforcing whatever measures that some bureaucrat sets their sights on today.

This mentality that the car should make up for fundamental defects in safe driving is horrifying.

lacogubik · 4 years ago

> the driver really is to blame though

Yes, I know I'm responsible. I do not want/need car/manufacturer to be responsible, I just want technology to help where it could.

> Manufacturer's job is to make things affordably

This maybe is your opinion, but that's not how it works. There is plenty of manufacturer's who manufacture things which are not affordable and plenty of people buy it. Pretty much any industry has luxury segment which also tends to be most profitable

> This mentality that the car should make up for fundamental defects in safe driving is horrifying

Humans are imperfect. Stress, distractions, tiredness etc could make anyone to make mistake, even yourself. Why would adding safety features be horrifying?

lacogubik commented on Please make a dumb car techcrunch.com/2022/01/29... · Posted by u/wrycoder

mwint · 4 years ago

I’m having a hard time understanding how “I forgot to change gears and then hit the gas” can be classed a UX problem. Sounds like PEBKAC.

lacogubik · 4 years ago

I think what they are implying is that car with so many safety features should be able to handle this situation. Volvo has lot of "collision avoidance" safety features, so one would expect that they could handle this as well.

This is common feature in other cars - I rented mazda few years back and it did automatically stop when I almost reversed into another car.

lacogubik commented on The 'hidden resignation': employees are checked out tidymails.com/business-in... · Posted by u/Apocryphon

hutzlibu · 4 years ago

"As long as I don't talk about Bruno I'll be fine."

Is that a reference to something known?

lacogubik · 4 years ago

I believe it's reference to new Disney movie Encanto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWRMAU6V-c

lacogubik commented on The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war economist.com/europe/2021... · Posted by u/jackbravo

thehappypm · 5 years ago

Poland was invaded in September 1939.

France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg were invaded in May 1940. Only then did the allies really start to fight back. Polish allies did nothing until France was invaded.

I agree there was not really a great solution after WW2 for Poland, the Iron Curtain was basically inevitable given how shaky the alliance between the USSR and the West was.

lacogubik · 5 years ago

> Polish allies did nothing until France was invaded.

On the contrary [0] - "Germany had started low-intensity undeclared war on Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938. In reaction, the United Kingdom and France on 20 September formally asked Czechoslovakia to cede its territory to Germany, which was followed by Polish territorial demands brought on 21 September and Hungarian on 22 September."

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

lacogubik commented on The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war economist.com/europe/2021... · Posted by u/jackbravo

hef19898 · 5 years ago

I think nobody will go nuclear over Ukraine or Syria. At least not intentionally. That might be different for NATO members, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan the Himalayas (India, China and Pakistan are nuclear powers). But before that, you have a conventional warfare phase. Being decisive enough could be a scenario in which the other side prefers to fight another day instead of using nukes. At least worth war games and maneuvers. Especially when you want to send a message to the Russians.

Putin seems to be testing the waters with Nato and the west, as is China. Putin got away with a lot lately. He is smart, so I just hope that doesn't overplay his hand. Because this kind of stuff can easily escalate. And today we aren't at our toes anymore the same way we were during the cold war, being aware of the risk goves pause sometimes.

lacogubik · 5 years ago

I think you are overestimating Putin's abilities. I'm not sure it was such a smart move with the war in the Ukraine.

Ukraine used to be divided in perception of Russia and it never had strong national identity. Eastern half of country was very pro-Russian. People spoke Russian, watched Russian tv and longed for Soviet times. Now it is very different, see [0] on how perception has changed and lot more people identify as Ukrainian. Side effect of the war in the east of Ukraine is that their defense budget more than tripled and its army is much more experienced and bigger than before.

Lost their hearts and made them much better in defending themselves in the process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Ukraine_relations#In_Uk...

lacogubik commented on Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 israel21c.org/israel-may-... · Posted by u/_Microft

weezer · 5 years ago

I don't think that is correct.

It looks like in November/December the rate among grades 7-11 was almost 3x the rate of those ages 35-39.

https://twitter.com/c_drosten/status/1347544994941431808?s=2...

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Also, most schools were closed from the beginning of January to March.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/world/europe/uk-lockdown....https://www.bbc.com/news/education-51643556

lacogubik · 5 years ago

Chart on the bottom here [0] seems to confirm parents assertion - cases for under 18s spiked after school reopening, but are now decreasing. Though atm schools are closed for two weeks (Easter holidays)

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/08/covid-uk-coron...

lacogubik commented on After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again nytimes.com/2021/04/07/op... · Posted by u/donmcc

arafalov · 5 years ago

This makes sense, but specifically promotion tied bundle? Or was it just a shortcut for "did not get promoted" AND "did not get next stock grant"?

I guess I am trying to understand whether this is causation or correlation relationship.

lacogubik · 5 years ago

Your total compensation at FAANG is base salary + bonus (usually % of your base multiplied by your perf and company perf) + stock.

When you get promotion your base salary will increase, your bonus will also increase (due to being % of base, but also higher levels have higher %) and your annual stock refresher will be higher, as you are now on new level.

She would get annual stock refresher even without promotion, but with promotion refresher would be bigger and total new comp could have compensated for drop after initial grant has finished.

You can check levels.fyi for comparisons of total median comps between levels at Google.

L3 - $189k[0], L4 - $265k [1], L5 - $350k [2]

[0] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

[2] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

lacogubik commented on Europe's Vaccine Disaster spiegel.de/international/... · Posted by u/danielfoster

illuminati1911 · 5 years ago

It is at least partly developed (or funded) publicly.

Lots of comments are complaining about how EU "paid less" for the vaccine than country XYZ, but actually EU funded AstraZeneca with hundreds of millions of euros to develop the vaccine in the first place.

In any case unless AZ, EU etc. are able to come to reasonable agreement I think this might eventually lead to EU simply breaking the patent and then anyone can make the vaccine. That would be extremely hardcore measure to use, but in current situation, definitely possible.

lacogubik · 5 years ago

Oxford A/Z vaccine was developed at Oxford university and AZ joined later to manufacture it (after UK gov intervened, Oxford team was originally in talks with US Merck). This article [1] has back story.

EU paid millions to pharma companies (€1.78bn), that's true. However UK paid more than that(€1.9bn) and US invested even more €9bn.[1] I personally do not understand why EU bargained to start with and why it did not invest more, when damages are much bigger.

I do not think EU can break any patent, they do not own it. "Vaccitech owns intellectual property used in the Oxford vaccine's development" [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/29/we-had-to-go...

[2] https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-professor-oxford-vac...

lacogubik commented on HomePod Mini apple.com/homepod-mini/... · Posted by u/axg

snyp · 5 years ago

How was the sound quality though? I don’t care much for the smart assistant features but would definitely consider getting it for good sound quality

lacogubik · 5 years ago

It's pretty good, obviously not as good as high end speakers, but for the price (I got mine for £200) it's really good value and effortless to use. Main feature is it can adjust to any room or place you put it. I find it bit bass heavy, though I prefer more neutral sound. I bought it just for listening of music while I work and I'm very happy with it. I want to get another one to pair them into stereo setup.

Some reviews:

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&i...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16976906/apple-homepod-rev...