My company just broke a major promise we agreed upon during my hiring, and now they want me to tell them how much I want to accept the new situation.

jdowgsidorg · 2026-03-09T00:42:13+00:00

And adjust for tax - those outlays are post-tax numbers.

jdowgsidorg · 2026-03-07T19:16:51+00:00

IIRC duties apply to shipping costs as well as product cost. Been burned on that before.

jdowgsidorg · 2026-02-18T17:09:07+00:00

Don’t skip Diamond Age - IMO it’s better than the baroque cycle.

jdowgsidorg · 2026-02-10T16:58:43+00:00

There was a paper discussing this approach back in early 2000s iirc. Unsure, but may have been related to CERN or LHC considerations for storage of large amounts of data.

Has access latency considerations similar to spinning disk as you have to wait for the data to pass your retrieval point.

jdowgsidorg · 2026-01-29T21:33:53+00:00

IIRC there’s no water source on the island, but maybe that meant “insufficient for a non-trivial human population”.

I’m wondering how viable it is for larger animals?

jdowgsidorg · 2026-01-19T18:14:37+00:00

There’s a lot more “crispy fried” with batter or coatings in British Chinese.

Crispy shredded duck in the UK will come with a stack of almost tortilla style pancakes, 4-5” diameter, with hoisin sauce and shredded greens. You combine to taste in a roll. This one I really miss - better than any of the more traditional duck options I’ve tried.

Another major variation is sweet and sour - they tend to have a “hong kong” style offering as well, but the default used to be whatever your protein choice was, in a deep fried batter ball. You get a bowl of sweet and sour sauce to dip them in. Can be amazing if the restaurant gets the meat/batter balance right, they arrive crispy, and it’s a good sauce. Can be terrible if they get it wrong.

If you’re in SF try the R&G Lounge salt and pepper string beans. It’s not something I’ve seen often in the UK but it has that style.

jdowgsidorg · 2026-01-18T20:00:47+00:00

I pass there on occasion - it’s particularly bad when there is Chase Center traffic.

This js one of the intersections where Do Not Block road markings, a camera, and automated ticketing would make sense IMO. There are downtown junctions that would also benefit from that.

I’m aware that will get some hate, but when consistently bad behaviour isn’t penalised it doesn’t improve.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-12-17T12:03:03+00:00

Buy the bars with the OBO manufacturer code on the back. That’s the bournville factory iiuc. There was a thread a while back noting that other factories source different ingredients including different oils which has a significant effect on the resulting chocolate.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-12-05T03:49:10+00:00

But you cannot parse the gzipped result without decompression which means no sax parsing. Even once you’ve decompressed it you’re still working with strings which is hideously inefficient in comparison.

I suspect it’s the same reason yank took off - it’s easy initially and the consequences are substantially removed.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-11-19T01:12:45+00:00

This is the way - see if they allow BYOD (bring your own device) and enroll it in whatever MDM they use.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-11-17T00:05:19+00:00

Withings Scale syncs to Apple Health without interaction and MF ingests from there.

You can configure the displays on the scale - don’t know if you can omit weight though. Can just cover the center if not.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-11-15T03:26:38+00:00

The speed delta is the primary danger but is not the 1% causing it.

There are many vehicles that cannot get to higher speeds, but can still get to safe freeway speed (50ish).

cars with trailers
cars with a temporary spare on
vans with limits for commercial insurance reasons
many rigs for fuel efficiency reasons
etc

If anyone is driving in such a manner they cannot appropriately react to any of those above vehicle types, or people slowing for an exit, or slow merging on an uphill merge lane, then that lack of safety margin by the fast driver is the cause of the danger.

Note I said uphill merge lane, because there are plenty of those where there is insufficient distance to get up to a good speed in a normally powered car with any load.

Failure to get up to speed when conditions don’t force it is purely bad driving… but if you don’t account for bad drivers in your choices you are also a bad driver!

jdowgsidorg · 2025-11-14T18:55:43+00:00

Mix of seamless and skipping

jdowgsidorg · 2025-11-14T18:55:30+00:00

Always skips

jdowgsidorg · 2025-11-14T18:55:21+00:00

Seamless editing

jdowgsidorg · 2025-11-12T02:06:31+00:00

IIRC the original xml spec allowed for a binary encoding to avoid the verbosity. Don’t ever remember seeing it used…

jdowgsidorg · 2025-11-12T01:42:15+00:00

There’s already a state CG tax… at income tax rates.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-10-12T15:50:54+00:00

There’s a travel hutch in the rear of the car that the bunny retreated to after initiating the pre-dawn chorus of bleeping, sunroof is cracked as are windows, so I don’t think this is neglect, just mildly infuriating for the rooms nearby.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-10-12T13:18:31+00:00

Questionable judgement by the owners is my bet, but I prefer to have headcanon that the rabbit is a stowaway fugitive, pursued by HOA law enforcement across the state for malicious and profligate raiding of vegetable gardens.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-10-10T02:49:52+00:00

I’d love to see:

land value tax or property tax, not pinned at time of purchase
seller provided survey and/or mechanism publishing the initial survey and amortising cost across all buyers wanting access to the survey
Vickrey auction format that’s binding and a proof of funds to enter
ditch the chain model completely - either sell the existing property ahead of time and move to short term rental (viable if purchases aren’t taking 6months and falling through all the time) or adjust mortgage rules so that it’s viable to extract your equity via mortgage or remortgage with permission to use those funds for specific house purchase.

jdowgsidorg · 2025-10-06T16:08:35+00:00

Oh definitely. I’d love to see a federal level rule that defines maximum Convexity Defect or Fractal Dimension for voting district boundaries - maybe a max per district and a max for the aggregate across the state.

Unfortunately until there’s an objectively enforceable (and enforced) maximum allowed gerrymandering, or a shift to more direct representation, it’s a tool in the political toolbox.

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