This website is pure nostalgia <3, pretty much every corporate page in the 90s looked like this! I was half disappointed they're using <div>'s and CSS for layout and not a bunch of <table>'s.
“But drugmakers also faced changes to the Medicaid rebate program that would have likely cost them hundreds of millions of dollars each if they didn’t lower their list prices.“
This was a fascinating read for a totally unexpected reason.
I’ve spent most of my life in countries where the metric system is used for distance, weight, temperature etc.
This year I’ve had to travel a lot to the US for work and found the constant mental conversions a PITA. I kept wondering why people keep holding out against such an obviously easier system.
Then I read this article about 8 hours of sleep would be 3.33 metric hours. How you wake up at 9:50 after sleeping at 2:75 and I notice real-time at the absolute recoil I feel reading this. Maybe I’m getting older , but I completely get how familiarity to numbers being represented a certain way is hard to let go of.
8 hours comes from the worker's movement anyway. 8 hours work, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest. It's clearly only chosen to make a nice slogan. In reality 7-9 appears to be optimal. If you were using decimal time you'd just say 3-3.5 hours and be done with it. Convenient enough.
Yeah, too much of our society is based upon 24 hour time.
The transition is also unlikely to have many benefits. Unlike most of the other units of measure, the everyday conversions are fuzzy. The only exception I've seen is when payroll bean counters expect minute precision converted to decimal hours, which is a pain! Everything in science and engineering tends to be maintained in seconds, which is decimalized anyway so there is no benefit there.
I don't see "metric time" making any headway, particularly since something like universal time would be much more beneficial yet hasn't gained traction.
I noticed an immediate loss of functionality via this redesign. The previous home page let me calculate quickly how much it would cost to do a transfer - arguably the PRIMARY value of the service.
now it’s replaced with two CTA buttons to sign up etc.
you're right, its a few scrolls down. It used to be right at the top, so it became a learned behaviour for me to go their site and quickly check the cost of a transfer versus what my bank offers me.
I switched from conda to poetry because everyone was praising it last year. Then I switched back because it's a pain to switch between OSes using poetry. I only use conda + pip install now, works well enough that I don't have to struggle every time I deploy in a new environment.
I use conda for my data analysis environments and poetry+(pyenv) for developing python libraries and application that are intended for running on machines others than (just) my own.
Updates work about half the time for me on mini-conda, but they break the other half of the time. When I look up the issue, I am not alone. I end up re-installing it a lot.
I have had this happen a few times too. I have found the best way to minimize this is to install nothing in the base environment except for conda and make sure you use a different environment for everything else.
Secondly, the vast majority of solutions offered by the many people who face similar issues don't work for me or, apparently, for other people reading the solution as well.
Chile has a great system which guarantees a free bank account linked to your national ID called Cuenta RUT. It has some limits like only a debit card and a max value you can store there but I think it’s a fantastic idea.
You just need to walk in to any branch with your ID and you’re all set with an account you can receive and send payments from. If you need something more from your bank account - it stands to reason you have the necessary documentation to apply for a ‘regular’ bank account which most do.
Even foreigners with any kind of work permit get this ID called a RUT and are eligible.
> Chile has a great system which guarantees a free bank account linked to your national ID called Cuenta RUT.
To me this reads as a dystopian nightmare. I want a bank account not associated with me in any way digitally or on paper; where I have total control.
Otherwise the government can seize my assets at a whim.
Funny story, in IL I have a bank account with chase. They decided to close the account because it wasn’t active (making regular deposits) (I’d do yearly deposits and use it to pay static bills) AND give it to the state. So the state of IL took custody of my bank account, without warning. I then received something in the mail I had to respond to within 10 days to get it back. I filed the paperwork, but nothing. Money just gone. I’m currently fighting to get my money back.
Anyway, the point is political actors can debank people they disagree with (see Wikileaks) and destroy them. Ideally, that wouldn’t be possible. The government should answer to the people, not control their people.
Sounds like you would consider the entire world dystopian then. I don't think there's any country, with the possible exception of a few failed states, that lets you have a bank account that isn't tied a real person.
You can actually do it in the US to an extent. Basically create a LLC with owners masked. Enable an authorized user to be an attorney and register with bank. Then use bank and routing number.
You can also use crypto and have a crypto wallet.
Prior to 9/11 it was far easier and widespread among elites to have effectively anonymous bank accounts.
There are a multitude of ways to claim unclaimed money that the government holds. I've used it to claim $15 before, it was easy. https://www.usa.gov/unclaimed-money
This process is not dystopian in the least. It's functioning system put in place by the government to help people.
Political actors can and do seize assets in private banks too. Private banks are also subject to laws.
I was wondering who else uses FDB beyond Apple and Snowflake. Found that CouchDB is rewriting their storage layer to use FoundationDB for their v4 release. That said I couldn’t find much info on progress or release dates.
IBM was funding that work and just recently announced that they no longer want to go ahead with the couchdb-fdb implementation and will refocus their support toward V3 related tasks.
I'm not sure of their reasons but Apple recently backed away from things like providing windows fdb binaries and had some problems with their foundation site during the jlog incident that may have been interpreted as a lack of corporate commitment toward costs like hosting for the FOSS community, so IBM may have decided there was too much risk in having this dependency.
Yeah, though it's hard to say which parts matter to IBM's bottom line since in terms of cloud DB sales they must be relying more on the trapped audience "not getting fired for choosing IBM" than on upsell to developers who try couchdb.
Really around 2.0 things like pouchDB were drowned out by a commercially funded choices and things more directly sponsored to work with each of the frameworks.
fair. just to clarify though - i find the expectation to be always online / checking work email at all hours also a sign of a toxic workplace. definitely could have phrased my original comment better.
