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> _remember where exactly I heard a particular sentence_

Ha! Yes. Sometimes VLC doesn't remember where I was in the book so I have to faff around a bit and try to figure out where I was.

When I skip to content that I've heard before, usually I not only remember that I've heard them before, I remember where I was on my walk when I heard them!


Mitsubishi is an interesting company.

Cars, industrial size generators, erasers and now I see pitch black pencil.

Their Boxy eraser is amazing. Hard to get nowadays though.

Anyone know of a better one?


The Mitsubishi that makes stationery (Mitsubishi Pencil Company) is completely unrelated to Mitsubishi Group, they just happen to share a name.


...and also the same logo. Go figure. :-)


Everything I see has a "uni" wordmark for the pencil company. However, AIUI mitsubishi more or less means "three rhombi" -- the companies are both named after the same family crest.


I felt like kind of a numbskull when I made the observation that "Asahi" must be a similarly diversified company (Asahi Pentax cameras, Asahi beer) and was informed that "Asahi" means morning or rising sun by some patient soul.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi


It happens everywhere: Ford's Theater (Washington DC) is not related to the Ford Theater (Utah); similarly unrelated to Ford Motor Company, Ford Instrument Company, or Ford Meter Box Company.


Although interestingly, Kingsford charcoal is related to the Ford motor company.


They also make the mitsubishi k-18 pencil sharpener.

https://www.leadfast.org/blog/2017/2/20/mitsubishi-uni-kh-20...


These are the best sharpeners for the price and then some.


> Their Boxy eraser is amazing...Anyone know of a better one?

Erasers continue to improve. One of the newer foam erasers, such as from Sakura, will probably perform better. There are many informative customer reviews at JetPens. Check out this sampler of their most recommended erasers: https://www.jetpens.com/JetPens-Eraser-Sampler/pd/19499


Been there, done that, caused a burnout after a long time. 0/10, wouldn't recommend. Pay was good though.


During the Covid pandemic, I watched from a distance a group of 6 people start and destroy a project.

After the 6 months, they didn't even have a a MVP.

This was run on a 6 month fund from the local government. They didn't know each other but they all knew that after 6 months it'd be over unless they'd secure more funding.

They spent the time faffing around, configuring things, splitting things, ... effectively making things harder for themselves.


That's what we're currently working on.

Only 20% of the work now goes into actually improving the product.


That may be better than 100% of the work going into improving the product, taking 1/5 the speed it should.


We're still doing 100% of the work but with 20% of the quality.


Are they scam?


"I suspect ... are probably somewhat okay ..."

This is not an argument against what he said.


A brilliant XKCD for survivorship bias: https://m.xkcd.com/1827/


4% quitting. But what effect does it have on the other 96%?

Quitting is an extreme response (not wrong, and I totally understand people who'd decide to quit).

But what's the response of the other 96%? No response? Lower productivity? Toxicity? Less helpful? Indifferent? Revenge? Destructive?

I doubt the 96% will have no response.


How about you click the article link and find out? It's even at the very top of the article for once:

- 88% of workers will demand to know the salary range for their current position, if permitted by law; 68% will demand the highest end of known salary range

- 1 in 20 workers would quit if it’s revealed co-workers earn more money; 63% would demand equal pay

- 85% say they’re more likely to apply to job that lists a salary range

- 42% say the salary ranges companies list should be limited

- 63% worry salary transparency will cause problems among co-workers

- 92% of workers support salary transparency laws; 61% say laws will improve wage gap


You're right. I worded my reply very badly.

I was thinking about the psychological effects. The article mentions it but doesn't go into it: "However, 63% do fear it will be problematic to know how much their co-workers make"

If you look at the list of problems I wrote you see they are psychological.


I think this is way beyond a "a fault in our system" error.

Until KFC publishes a detailed incident report I'd be keen to assume this was done by more than one Nazi sympathizer.


>due to some issues

How messed up does your DB schema need to be that you have issues with ordering entries by date?


I think with the scale requirements of YouTube, we can not assume that the search is powered by one single DB or any traditional, relational DB at all.

Some things that are easy with one DB, get surprisingly hard when you scale up. Lets give them the benefit of the doubt regarding technical issues here.


I don't give them the benefit of the doubt, because they should have had proper testing in place before anything like this reached production. This is either intentional or grossly negligent.


What are you going to do, go somewhere else?


I've written a YouTube clone, so yes, that's my plan eventually. That's the same argument used in domestic abuse situations.


Going by Vitess, they may still be using heavily sharded MySQL.



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