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Police departments aren’t understaffed. It’s a priority problem not a lack of resources problem. I live in a tech heavy, wealthy city. It’s small. No violent crime. Barely any crime at all. There’s occasional break ins and car break ins. When this happens it’s a big deal.

We had one last year. Everyone around has cameras. The cops refused to do anything about it. They refused to get recordings. The neighbor went door to door and gathered it herself. Cops refused to do anything even though you can see the car and the plates from multiple videos, multiple angles.

Guess what the cops always have resources for? Hiding behind bushes and trees to ticket people going 5 over. Or at turns where they know they’ll get people before people see the cop car.

Our HOA came together and asked the police department about this. They gave us bullshit about how custody of evidence etc is hard and even if they put people in jail, the lenient judges will let them go anyway. It was fucked up.

Our HOA was going in hard about installing floc cameras everywhere. I had to fight hard not to get that done. One of the reasons I won wasn’t because privacy, it was because the cops literally were like unless we can directly pull video feeds from cameras, we won’t do much. And that access wasn’t available to those police department. At least at the time.

There have been many other such stories I’ve personally witnessed in the cities I’ve lived in.

Cops seem to have plenty of resources to bully people of color, seize assets and hide behind trees and bushes to ticket people, reduce the period of orange lights so people get more tickets etc. but never enough to actually do their jobs.

You’re misinformed or willingly stupid if you think there are H1 hiring sprees with the last set of changes. H1 hiring has tanked.

Bro I worked in the windows team. I’m telling you how it was.

Trust the HN crowd to know.

^this is good, legit feedback for why this product/feature isn't good. It's not just "MSFT BAD!". Thanks for sharing.

HN seems to think PMs have a lot more power at Microsoft or large corps than they actually do. I assure you, a bunch of this stuff just comes top down because some VP's million dollar bonus rides on it.

Related but tangential: is there a way to grab video frames from a meeting? Audio transcript is great. Looking at a use case to grab participant video.

What does GPT-5 do that just wasn’t possible before or wasn’t possible as well as it is now?

In my daily use cases I only see regressions.

There’s a simpler non malicious explanation for this. Asians know other Asians in tech and hire based on who they are familiar with rather than their ethnicity. It’s also why women managers tend to have more women in their teams.

It’s not malicious. Just a side effect of people’s network. Should that change? Yes. You want a heterogenous team. And this is exactly why DEI is important hahaha

I’ve been here as a teen. It’s amazing! I was blown away by the creativity.

CR poll asks about any problems faced. Phone didn’t connect to the multimedia unit? That’s a problem.

Not saying MB quality hasn’t changed but given the large feature set the problem surface area is also very large. More opportunities for owners to find issues.

By comparison, Lexus uses tried and tested old technology to the point it’s boring to own. But it’s super reliable.

2nd thing not captured here: not all car models are equal. The lower end Mercs and other premium manufacturers models aren’t built to the same standards by my experience. There’s a difference in quality of a German car made in Germany and a German car made in Mexico. The higher end models used to be made in Germany (not sure if that’s still the case).

All of this affects this rating. You might be fine buying an E class but the experience of owning a CLA might be shit.

This makes sense. There are 3 “ways” a battery charges.

1. OS’s battery driver does the charging. This is possible when the computer is on and the driver has control. 2. Firmware driven charging. Typically used in sleep mode 3. Analog Trickle charge - no intelligence, no code is executing. Charge slowly from a dead battery so as to not damage any components.

#1 is the only case where an app. Can control any aspect of charging.

It’s close enough for the purpose of the article.

- My automatic (non quartz) watch. Another watch that’s hybrid - has a battery reserve and charges by solar and hand movement.

The only time I don’t wear them is when I shower.

No charging, no updates, no BS. Works 100% of the time while being stylish.

- 2011 MacBook Air. Replaced the battery last year. Still going strong.

Wait, you’re the presenter!

Man I used to tell family in India that the US is better despite corruption because the corruption was at very high levels. Companies paying to pass bills that benefit them. That as a citizen you didn’t see it daily. I even used examples of how cops in India do this sort of thing. How naive of me…