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> As it stands, any private transaction on the Zcash chain stands out like a sore thumb

Is that actually still the case or has the change to defaults made anonymity more common?


If you look at recent mined blocks, a majority of transactions are still public. So yes, even if the default is shielded wallets and private transactions for a specific wallet, most of the chain is not using them.

True, but as of this month 30% of zcash transactions are shielded, and 20-25% of addresses are private. That's a fairly large anonymity set. The percentage of shielded transactions is also increasing, at a rate that will make them a majority within a year if the trend continues.

https://www.coindesk.com/research/inside-zcash-encrypted-mon...


Yes, to me this is a biggest feature of Typescript: A little goes a long way, while the advanced features make really cool things possible. I tend to think of there being two kinds of Typescript - Application Typescript (aka The Basics, `type`, `interface`, `Record`, unions etc...) and Library Typescript which is the stuff that eg Zod or Prisma does to give the Application Typescript users awesome features.

While I aspire to Library TS levels of skill, I am really only a bit past App TS myself.

On that note I've been meaning to the the Type-Level Typescript course [0]. Has anyone taken it?

https://type-level-typescript.com/


Why would a manager who’s able to claim the credit of their reports in order to advance their own career then PIP the best ones? Wouldn’t they keep them around to keep claiming credit from?

I’m not doubting your story (I’ve never worked in India) I just don’t understand the incentive to fire a good worker in this scenario.


They already got promoted and might not be managing the same team, plus it sells the lie better, and most people wouldn’t go along with this forever and might start claiming things so they have to discredit you first.


Most CEOs and VPs in these companies are nepotistic and political. They are happy to take credit but will never allow their direct reports to become a threat to them. In general the structure looks like this

CEO

VP (usually a family member or a "chamcha" literally spoon, but means sycophant.)

Directors (all yes-men chamchas)

Worker bees

Not very different from most companies, in my experience.


Is sycophancy different there? I think in many places employees often praise their managers and agree with everything because it’s a survival strategy. Or maybe a misplaced hope to get recognized that way. I assume that’s all this is too?


In India loyalties run deep. It can come along the lines of religion, region, caste, family, color, class etc.

Many times novices to this game, work mad hours, only to realise a year or two down the lane, some guy who practically did no work but comes from the same state your manager does, is now promoted above you.


> some guy who practically did no work but comes from the same state your manager does,

I took over a unit where 80% of the engineers were from one state, and mostly from the same college as the previous hiring manager.

There was one particular misfit - competent engineer but didn't have any skills for my BU.

I tried to transfer him to the hiring manager's new unit, and he refused. So I told him I would have to fire the misfit. Guess what, the next day he found a req and took the misfit.

This was a pattern everywhere I worked. So when I was able to dictate hiring policies, one rule was that we would never visit the same college twice in row. This of course made me very unpopular with HR. Now they had to work harder to maintain connections with placement departments.


They don't care that much. Probably from their point of view the merit is theirs anyway and consider anyone below them easily replaceable. Also, good employees understand their value and will start asking to be rewarded adequately for their contribution- this is a problem, so getting rid of them or waiting until they give up and leave solves it.


Horse racing didn’t go away and there are more people who race horses professionally than who race cars.


There are many more truck drivers than buggy drivers


there is a lot more buggy code than truck code


Truckers code better than bugs


Buggy drivers are adapted to racing conditions better than truck ones.


"Professional riders number roughly three to six thousand worldwide, while professional drivers number roughly twenty to forty thousand across major sanctioned series."


Horses also run faster than pictures of cars


Copium


> The ugly glass UX, the weird floating controls, the always on display, blah blah

I'm on the "some like it" boat, to my surprise. I think the glass effect is eye-catching in a good way, and is much-less of a readability issue than I had expected. I often notice how cool it looks over my rotating background photos. I also love the always-on display because I don't have a watch.


Sure but no-one uses Shen... or do they? Someone want to tell me they're a Shen user and why it's great?


Who are today’s innovators in the backpack space?


Your HEPA filters must be real ones. HEPA is just an acronym anyone can slap on anything, there's no accreditation.

Recent testing on the Vacuum Wars channel showed big differences between filters from the vacuum manufacturer and off-brand "HEPA" filters. Probably the same applies everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIYRykQkMk


> HEPA is just an acronym anyone can slap on anything, there's no accreditation.

There are standards:

> Filters meeting the HEPA standard must satisfy certain levels of efficiency. Common standards require that a HEPA air filter must remove—from the air that passes through—at least 99.95% (ISO, European Standard)[4][5] or 99.97% (ASME, U.S. DOE)[6][7] of particles whose diameter is equal to 0.3 μm, with the filtration efficiency increasing for particle diameters both less than and greater than 0.3 μm.[8]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA#Specifications


  >Your HEPA filters must be real ones. 
"You need HEPA" is just marketing. What you really need is CADR (Clean Air Delivery Rate) and third-party testing.

HEPA H13 only means the filter was tested to 99.97% particle efficiency at the most difficult particle size. There's nothing magical about this number. In reality air filters can often clean better with an E11 or E12 filter (tested to 95% and 99.5% respectively), because these filters allow much greater airflow from the same fan.[0]

Remember, the clean air is immediately mixing with the dirty room air. If you get twice the airflow while "only" letting 5% of particles through, that's a good tradeoff.

CADR (tested by AHAM, not just the manufacturer's claim!) is what really matters, not HEPA vs non-HEPA.

[0] https://x.com/Engineer_Wong/status/1899144721710408038


Here in India you can usually tell them apart by whether they are advertised as HEPA vs "HEPA-type".


AI reads them and identifies trends and patterns, or answers questions from PMs or others?


AI writes inaccurate summaries and then consumes its own slop so it can hallucinate the answer to the PM's questions after misreading said slop.

Much like dubbing a video tape multiple times, it's going to get worse as you add more layers text predictors.


> mostly nothing to do with technology or with support costs

Support costs aren't zero though. I work for a company with a lot of corporate customers and we get loads of SSO support tickets. People are always misreading the docs, (mis)configuring things against our recommendations, migrating systems, merging systems (due to acquisition etc)...


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