Even when Apple does the wrong thing they get advertised.
Readit Newsthe-alt-one commented on Apple ranks LAST in USPIRG repairability report youtube.com/watch?v=nXq_N... · Posted by u/AtlasLion
> The best part about this is all the current first world countries could deal with that tax increase, and all the developing countries can't.
Well, if your way of dealing with such tax would be to outsource all the "dirty" bits to developing countries where they just don't care, or be like Germany, claiming of being oh so green while buying dirty electricity made from coal from Poland and Czechia, sorry, can't stand behind this.
> dollars spent on automation moved us zero steps in the direction we've been aiming for?
Things do get automated in, say, factories, but not in the everyday life.
When it comes to dealing with some governments who jumped onto this newfangled digitalization bandwagon, it looks like they have taken all the shit parts from the online processes, all the shit parts from the old paper-based processes and jumbled them together into the most abominable, inefficient form ever, while pretending to be so 21st century.
Another thing is the increasing siloization of platforms and APIs moving like quicksand, so if you ever try to integrate stuff to automate some of your workflows, you get into this place where there's constant churn.
And don't get me started on home automation, the only things the existing home automation solutions really automate are frustration and despair.
>When it comes to dealing with some governments who jumped onto this newfangled digitalization bandwagon, it looks like they have taken all the shit parts from the online processes, all the shit parts from the old paper-based processes and jumbled them together into the most abominable, inefficient form ever, while pretending to be so 21st century.
This isn't the case in many European countries. So many things are super easy to do in Sweden digitally. Denmark was also pretty good, one thing I liked about Denmark's system was how easy it was to get a hold of a real human.
>And don't get me started on home automation, the only things the existing home automation solutions really automate are frustration and despair.
The real home automation solutions are the washer, drier, and dish washer. Maybe also the robot vacuum (I've heard good things but never used one myself). These are all excellent, though I don't use my drier in favour of a rack.
the-alt-one commented on Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
While I agree with that excerice isn't a very efficient way to lose weight I think that you understate how many calories running burns.
When I run consistently I need to eat what feels like a lot more food to maintain my weight. Running burns about 700-800 kcal per hour for me (I have a quite small build) which ends up quite a bit over a week (I run 5-8 hours per week).
I have no clue how many calories running burns, but the act of moving around leaves you less time to eat :). Getting fat in the dark winters of Sweden is more likely for me, because I'm just bored and don't want to go outside as much so I sit inside and eat chocolate.
You're assuming that (i) I'm highly educated, (ii) I was well paid, (iii) I accepted the treatment and (iv) not accepting the treatment was an option.
No, I would hate to treat anyone else that way.
For reasons that I don't want to get into right now, it's not easy for me to find work that pays well. But I did start looking once I realized how toxic the workplace was, and moved to the next when I could.
Yeah, I know that I made some heavy handed assumptions based on where we are (HN). Especially considering that 1 and 2 would make 4 more likely to be true, and 1 and 2 is likely true on HN AFAICT.
>For reasons that I don't want to get into right now, it's not easy for me to find work that pays well.
Just to be clear: I wasn't expecting you to defend your behavior in this particular case, that would be cruel and unsympathetic of me to say the least. I was only interested in how in general this treatment can occur in places where people are well paid and highly educated (with the implication that they're likely to find work regardless).
At least in the United States, being "chewed out" means being reprimanded or chastised.
And why do highly educated people with well paid jobs accept this treatment? Is it because they want to treat others the same too? Before you ask: Yes, I am naive and ignorant :-).
For #2, I think any company employing people where the going language is not their native language should invest in language courses.
I live and work in NL but a lot of companies have international employees, which means the going language is English. But it's English where nobody speaks it natively, so you end up with this kind of expat-English.
Companies like that should invest in either weekly class-based lessons, or mandatory one-to-one language classes through e.g. online. Spelling, grammar, writing and speaking practice, as well as culture classes.
And related to the article, typing classes. I've encountered multiple people now working in IT, whose job is reading and writing (code, documentation, emails, whatever) who cannot touch type. I don't think not being able to express oneself on a keyboard in a quick way is acceptable anymore. I can recommend typing.com, five minutes a day at least, it doesn't take that long to learn touch typing.
>expat-English
So this is a big thing in EU politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
Regardless of skill, you're always going to have to be tolerant of others and their limitations. You probably have a couple of good people in your company with dyslexic tendencies, for example.
I'm the kind of person who likes to write stuff out while planning or figuring something out.
At my last workplace, I was chewed out for doing so because apparently I was "wasting time".
But we ended up wasting a lot more time over subsequent months because nothing was concrete, so plans kept changing, people constantly misunderstood, stuff had to be re-explained and discussed with people who'd forgotten or hadn't paid attention or who'd joined the team late, it was a mess and it really kinda pissed me off.
My current workplace is better in this regard, where stuff can be planned and finalised and put to paper before we begin working on the implementation.
>At my last workplace, I was chewed out for doing so because apparently I was "wasting time".
Here's more of a general cultural topic: When people say "I was chewed out at work", then what does that entail?
I'm Swedish, I'd call "being chewed out" to be asked questions on how I'm doing some part of my job, for example planning. Is this what people mean?
I'm exaggerating a bit, but in Swedish workplaces you can have a relatively light touch and still have great effect imho.
the-alt-one commented on What Color Is Your Monad patrickthebold.github.io/... · Posted by u/patrickthebold
Are you sure you don't mean 'commute'? Monads, being endofunctors, compose just fine. Though the composition may or may not be a monad I suppose.
"Monads don't compose" is a common sentence (google it!), for example here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7040844/applicatives-com...
Maybe you already knew about this and is still asking, though?
the-alt-one commented on Ask HN: How to make the most out of time at university? · Posted by u/_lnwk
>Should I be focusing on my GitHub portfolio? What ought to be my main focus?
Having a good time. Learn for the sake of education, not for getting a job. You're so privileged by picking CS, you'll get a job anyway.
You only have one life and this time only now, use it! Socialize, be political and foolish. Make fun experiments and share with people, make friends.