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New comment by samcal in "Tesla sues Swedish state agency over number plate blockage"

samcal — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 01:30:30 +0000

This is just how labor unions roll in the Nordic countries. McDonalds learned this in Denmark [1]. The sooner Tesla realizes they need to negotiate labor contracts through the unions to operate in Sweden, the more money they can make.

[1]: https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...

New comment by samcal in "The Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw over Silicon Valley Bank"

samcal — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:59:42 +0000

I don't know if you should knock government investment in technological development, seems to have worked pretty well for COVID vaccines, space shuttle for the Moon, and brutally convenient murder machines

New comment by samcal in "Issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones"

samcal — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:16:09 +0000

911 generally does perform their job well. Your issue is with the police and is valid, but there are many other public services an operator will route to you (ambulance, firefighter...)

New comment by samcal in "Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service"

samcal — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:05:58 +0000

Not sure that protection is a utility, but even then I think the reason Cloudflare gets criticism/critique (not harassment...) comes as a result of the online nature of LGBTQ communities and Cloudflare's location in the closest thing to a physical epicenter of those communities.

I don't know what distinction you were imagining, but I think this one is relatively simple

New comment by samcal in "How Segment Found Product Market Fit"

samcal — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:53:09 +0000

Yeah, it's even in the OP: "Users saying that it's a good idea / product after a demo doesn't mean that the product has PMF. Users desperately wanting to use the product and pay for it ie., retention / repetitive usage is PMF."

The bigger issue is clearly that the advice boils down to something more like "if you don't have buyers, you won't make sales", which is just common sense and I'm surprised we need to have a whole buzzword about it.

New comment by samcal in "Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain"

samcal — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:19:19 +0000

You're right that a quote is not necessary, but GP was describing what needs to happen for a quote to become a contract. The quote's existence is the premise.

New comment by samcal in "Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq"

samcal — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 02:44:59 +0000

Have you checked out https://www.nushell.sh/? It seems like exactly what you're describing. Although I know of people who are happily using it as their main shell, I only really use it when I need to read and manipulate data in files.

New comment by samcal in "The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal"

samcal — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 18:41:48 +0000

If you finished that paragraph (or even that sentence), you would have found that the author agrees with you!

> It takes years of practice to become a terminal guru, but here's the good news: we can take a shortcut. We don't really need to know 98% of the stuff you can do with a terminal. If we focus on the most-important critical fundamentals, we should be able to become comfortable with the command line in a remarkably short amount of time.

New comment by samcal in "Today’s creator economy was built on subscribers and patrons – what comes next?"

samcal — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:09:15 +0000

Wages are certainly included in the conditions of work, some would say they're among the most important!

New comment by samcal in "Today’s creator economy was built on subscribers and patrons – what comes next?"

samcal — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:37:21 +0000

The whole point of a union is to have a way to challenge management effectively if their work conditions are worsened in the name of "efficiency".

This comment drastically underestimates the amount of capital spent on suppressing union activity, it's not as if they're operating in a vacuum.

New comment by samcal in "Ask HN: How did you correct your sleep patterns?"

samcal — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 03:33:53 +0000

Well, it seems like you can't do those things when you're asleep... I suppose either you find a way to move those responsibilities to when you're awake or you can't use this technique.

New comment by samcal in "Rust Moderation Team Resigns"

samcal — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 01:00:22 +0000

I actually disagree with 2 parts of your premise

1. I don't think we're actually talking about that much power, in most instances the issues amount to "not behaving professionally in an environment that wants to have a professional character"

2. What would it need to be for you to consider what power it gives as "earned"? I'm surprised since it seems that power being explicitly delegated by the project should be enough by any measure.

New comment by samcal in "Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge"

samcal — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:28:49 +0000

As curious as I am about what you think snitching to Paul Graham would accomplish here, the comment is likely downvoted because it undersells the importance and stickiness of defaults for most customers.

New comment by samcal in "I want a better shell (2019)"

samcal — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 01:20:42 +0000

What features do you gain by architecting tmux/screen that way? It seems like you'd lose a nice feature, the ability to persist sessions' appearance after the client exits

New comment by samcal in "Restaurant workers quit at record rate"

samcal — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 01:48:42 +0000

I agree (I think), we need either free college or a livable minimum wage or both to solve this problem. Disagree that we need to have any low-paying jobs at all, but I suppose your high school could run a fast food joint for the students, if we really need that sort of thing?

New comment by samcal in "Return of the Mac (2005)"

samcal — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:31:16 +0000

I think it's true, just meant to be a little less literal. Things like communicating over the internet, taking notes and yes, automation are all useful. However, when they start, the UX is academic and inaccessible to a "normal person". The arg is that it takes ~10 years to construct the correct abstractions so that the normal people can do those useful things.

New comment by samcal in "Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'"

samcal — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:00:37 +0000

Yeah, I heard this a lot about go. Agree that gofmt is a good call, but it’s not hard to get that one right. I’m seeing more and more of these “included batteries” being deprecated, it’s almost as if standard libraries don’t stay shiny and new forever ;)

New comment by samcal in "Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers"

samcal — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 03:41:30 +0000

"Arriving in droves" is much more telling about the external conditions of the job market. I think it's safe to say that it sounds like a good gig before you have a good understanding of what the work is. Then, after working for less than a year you see it for what it is and get out of there.

New comment by samcal in "NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report"

samcal — Mon, 31 May 2021 05:16:12 +0000

I think it's probably most accurate to say that there are democracies of different sizes. Your country is a more of democracy as more people have equal agency over their government. This obviously has never happened to a complete extent, and it's still an open question whether that should happen. But a discrete separation between "democracies" and "not democracies" will run into these sorts of problems in any case.

New comment by samcal in "Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children [pdf]"

samcal — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:58:08 +0000

What? It's not that there's just one Zuck, it's that there are fewer Zucks than parents. The strategy would be the same if there were 5 Facebooks competing for market share.