Well for marketing and sales your bigger competitor is already doing the work of showing companies that they want the functionality at all, and the cheaper competitor's sales and marketing pitch can be: we are much cheaper.

This is pretty much what blacksmith.sh does -- GitHub Actions but it's on faster and cheaper hardware. I'm sure they spend non-trivial amounts on marketing but "X but much cheaper" doesn't sound like a difficult sale.

(edit) And the design, sadly, can be as simple as "rip-off bigger competitor" -- of course if one day you are the big competitor because you "won" in the market, you'll need to invest in design, but by then I guess you'll have the money?

The different Heathrow terminals have different security requirements. I suspect it’s based on countries they fly to from each terminal, but it could be age if equipment.

It is frustrating for security to act like you’re a total idiot for following a process another terminal says is fine (like leaving very small electronics like Kindles in your bag).

Oh, well.

Indeed. Other airports in Europe even have separate terminals or areas for Schengen and non-Schengen destinations, with passport control and sometimes security scans again between them.

Bonus points to Zurich (Schengen but not EU, just to test the edge cases) - I think they have an airside metro where each car is segregated for a different security category of passenger.

That was one of my jokes going between terminals (always by bus): has this country thought about discovering trains?

Once leaving a terminal the staff said we’d take an internal bus and I asked if that meant we wouldn’t have to go through security again, but they just meant the same one as the rest.

All of our trips were non-UK-entry but possibly some terminals do have heightened security to meet one-stop-security requirements. Didn’t seem like it but can’t be sure.

This sounds amazing! Is it also protected from being lost forever by trivial mistakes that are very common?

Yes, when managed by someone competent, just like Gold.

The commenter did say up to 3x, so up to ~730K higher than that job in a major city (with possibly better facilities but who knows)

It sounds like it needs to be higher than 3x then

Probably one of those things were the money ceases to be a concern when the rate is already high enough at nicer locations.

Doesn't mean you can't keep upping the rate and getting one anyway, but probably it becomes more cost effective to literally ship the rural patients instead of the doctor.

G includes MAFD extensions for non-embedded (I) applications. That's multiplication and division, atomics, single and double-precision floating point. It also includes the control/status register and a instruction-fence instruction. I think it's there to mean "the base plus the standard bits that people generally want in a processor if they're writing C for it".

Ah, ok, thanks for the clarification. When I last played with RISC-V it was in (hobby) FPGA stuff and the cores I was messing with did not specify G.

Shopify had this between ~2017 and ~2020 -- every project was expected to complete a "health check" every two weeks where anonymous participants gave a 1-3 score on various metrics including velocity, quality, making good decisions quickly etc. You couldn't see the scores until everyone had answered and there was cultural pressure towards honesty. All that was stored was the average score and optional comments.

If you left comments, it was generally possible to figure out who said what based on idioms etc. but they were kept separate from the scores anyway.

I thought it was a good system but I'm pretty sure it was gone by the time I left in 2023. If nothing else, I don't think a system based on that kind of radical candor can survive the first or second round of layoffs at any company.

I saw this on HN and though “great I was just about to write this but now I don’t need to” - I have a legacy blog, a link blog and another thing I update which all produce RSS and I want to create one big feed of stuff I write, regardless of which platform I chose to put it on. Seems like I can use this for that.

But almost every RSS reader has this feature.

I use FreshRSS and you just put all the feeds in one category and then you can click on that category to show all the feeds together.

The reader has to add every RSS feed. What if I as the producer of those feeds want to ship a combined feed so they don't have to do that extra work? Or what if I'm a curator of RSS feeds and want to release one combined "low-tech computer news" feed sourced from 100 smaller low-tech computer news feeds?

This is already solved with dynamic opml, which freshrss implements

Wasn't Hoare's "billion dollar mistake" back in Algol? We'd been suffering with it for 30 years before Java decided to include it.

1965 according to a quote on his page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

Shopify only went remote in March 2020, after being strongly anti-remote for a long time. You're right that they have leaned into 100% remote since the pandemic, however.

There were remote employees before (especially in Production Engineering and much of Support), but R&D was almost all in person.

(Source: I miss the productivity of the Elgin Street office ...)

I'm talking about the period from 2006 to 2008 or so. source: that's when I met Tobi and a few other early people.

Glad to see someone already posted this. I don't know how anyone writes something like "this is what Slovaks are like" and doesn't stop to think about their biases.

I originally thought maybe he was from Slovakia (I have occasionally made jokes or generalisations about Irish people, as I am one) -- but then the footnotes make it clear it's not self deprecation. It's just prejudice.

He is obviously from Slovakia. It says on their about page that their homebase is in Bratislava.

Are you assuming that nobody would be based in Bratislava who is not Slovakian?

Spoiler: you're wrong, the author is Canadian.

But what is his background? Canada is not a melting pot and many keep strong ties cultural backgrounds.

His name is pretty Anglo Saxon, he had a solidly well off Canadian childhood and he has previously lived in Russia, France, and Austria.