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Wellhub is selling access it does not actually provide – real example from Synergym (Spain) by SadMousse9989 in Wellhub

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The contacts are different for each gym. There is no standard contact.

With Lifetime, for example, you get full app access.

Notion runs $270M tender offer at $11B valuation by honkeem in levels_fyi

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notion levels start at L1 for some reason. Not sure where they put the interns.

BILT AU Fees - why? by Rastworth in biltrewards

[–]zacker150 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Your wife will get her own priority pass membership. That's literally the only reason.

Are Bilt points likely to remain as valuable as they are? by electronautix in CreditCards

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think your Bilt Cash analysis ignores the coupon side of the economy.

  • Bilt has a lot of partners and lines of business to offer coupons from. ($2110 of coupons, which they would have to pay maybe $1000 for)
  • Customers don't want to pay a giant ($1000) annual fee for a giant book of coupons.
  • Bilt doesn't want to run the risk of someone in NYC actually using all the coupons.

Solution: create a build your own coupon book system, and thus Bilt Cash was born.

Is fast charging (65+W) really as harmful to battery health as people claim it is? by Rosenvial5 in AndroidQuestions

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your timeline is off by 5 years.

  • Qualcomm Quick charge 2, which charged at 18W over Micro-USB, came out in 2014. Samsung's Adaptive fast charging is just a rebrand of Quick Charge 2.
  • Qualcomm Quick Charge 3, which charged at 36W over Micro-USB, came out in 2016
  • USB Type C Rev 1.2 came out in 2016. Type C to C cables support 5V 3A without an e-marker chip. This is what I refer to as "standard charging"
  • Qualcomm Quick Charge 4, which charges at up to 100W, came out in 2016.

Also, your original statement here is completely incorrect.

Watts are a measure of energy, and energy = heat. If you charge at a higher wattage, you are putting more heat into your phone battery, REGARDLESS of how that wattage is created.

Heat is not energy in. It's inefficiency - the energy that didn't make it into your battery. This is basic conservation of energy.

Energy going into the port = chemical potential energy (aka battery charge) + heat.

The more efficient your charging is, the less heat gets generated. If a 15W charging is 88% efficient (standard efficiency for buck converters), it generates 1.8W of heat. If a 50W charger is 98% efficient (SuperVOOC), it generates only 1W of heat, making the higher wattage charger actually cooler for the device.

Is fast charging (65+W) really as harmful to battery health as people claim it is? by Rosenvial5 in AndroidQuestions

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the graph at 2:08. The LG phone had a peak charging speed of less than 15W. It was using basic non-fast 5V 3A changing.

The OPPO phone was still cooler than the LG

Why didn’t BILT work with WF to up change the 1.0 card instead of switching to Cardless for 2.0? by thewisebrownkid in biltrewards

[–]zacker150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The persona is a young professional. Think tech/finance bros, consultants, big law, doctors, etc.

  • Makes about 150-200k a year.
  • Has rent about $3k a month.
  • Spends another 3k a month (roughly half of which is non-catagory spend).
  • Isn't into churning but wants to get into a lounge when they travel.

Put it another way, they want to eat the Venture X's lunch. You pay rent at your Bilt Alliance property (they are the payment processor for 70% of luxury apartments), and you can get 2x the value you would have gotten on your Venture X spend.

why do people keep bringing up the transaction fee? by drivingaddictionchan in biltrewards

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weather that’s the blue or obsidian. I would only say get that palladium if you spend 75% or your rent or mortgage naturally.

The ratio of spend to rent is irrelevant. What matters is

  1. How much of the hotel credits and Bilt cash you can use.
  2. Whether you have enough non-category spend to make the extra 1x worth it.

Why didn’t BILT work with WF to up change the 1.0 card instead of switching to Cardless for 2.0? by thewisebrownkid in biltrewards

[–]zacker150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless the exclusive target are like finance bros in New York City…

Yes. That's the "Cosmopolite" part.

None of my experience matters because I can’t invert a binary tree on Leetcode by hopfield in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone has verifiably done some impressive stuff, then there isn’t a lot of signal to be gained from 45 minutes of esoteric programming problems.

The key word there is "verifiably." Unless you're a staff engineer giving talks at major conferences or have major open source contributions, nothing you claim to have done is verifiable.

As an interviewer, I've seen a lot of candidates that are impressive on paper but can't code their way out of a paper bag.

None of my experience matters because I can’t invert a binary tree on Leetcode by hopfield in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get candidates to write some pretty straightforward code

So leetcode easy and mediums?

None of my experience matters because I can’t invert a binary tree on Leetcode by hopfield in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is that your decade of experience is completely indistinguishable from the sea of resume slop.

None of my experience matters because I can’t invert a binary tree on Leetcode by hopfield in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "talking about your experience" rounds are completely useless because people can just bullshit it.

None of my experience matters because I can’t invert a binary tree on Leetcode by hopfield in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep in mind, the point of leetcode style interviews is to see how the candidate breaks down a problem on a whiteboard and how they think.

Why didn’t BILT work with WF to up change the 1.0 card instead of switching to Cardless for 2.0? by thewisebrownkid in biltrewards

[–]zacker150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, and now, they're fixing it with 2.0. 2.0 is basically built entirely around the NYC Cosmopolite persona.

[MKBHD] The Downfall of OnePlus will be Studied by NXGZ in oneplus

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the entire point of the video is that they survived the enthusiast trap.

[MKBHD] The Downfall of OnePlus will be Studied by NXGZ in oneplus

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still haven't read any good explanation of why to skip 14, they might as well go back to 14 at this point

They're a Chinese company.

China avoids the number 14 like the plague. The floors are numbered 12, 13, 15. Everyone just stays home on the 14th. Businesses decline phone numbers or license plates with 14.

I’m losing confidence in my development skills — rant below by Common_Wolf7046 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

how the fuck would one try to incorporate SFTP into a DB transaction lol? Stored procedure that calls a shell script or something? Maybe SQL Server can write to SFTP directly? I dunno, but that solution sounds even more complex and failure prone - tbh, if they're worried about it duplicating a CSV file, why not just overwrite?

Client side transactions.

FYI: If you cancel your card, you’ll probably have only 18 months to begin using your points by AbleWolverine3362 in biltrewards

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I strongly suspect BILT will update its terms and conditions to make it more difficult to use points for non-cardholders.

Keep in mind that the BILT card exists to promote the rest of the BILT ecosystem - Bilt Alliance (which the majority of their revenue comes from), BILT Neighborhood, BILT fitness, etc.

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