Anecdata, for sure, but my experience working at several big companies in tech is that they won’t significantly bump your pay (and especially not your stock grant!) when they promote you. If anything, they will move you to the minimum of the salary band for the new level.
In my experience, you’re better off getting the promo and looking for the next job at your leisure. It sucks that that is what the system rewards, but I certainly don’t fault people for playing the game that is given.
Commensurate to the risk, of course. If you ignore the risk component then your best bet is to forget having a job and spend your days playing Powerball. The system offers much, much, much greater reward there.
If you keep risk in mind then it's not so clear cut. Staying at the job you have, even with lower pay on paper, may end up being the most profitable option in the end. But sometimes you just have to make the gamble and find out! There are winning opportunities for sure.
Risk depends on the market strength. In good times, you could easily jump to a new job with a raise in weeks and there's little risk as long as you're not outing youself at work.
In bad times like this, probably not worth it. The search takes months not, if not over a year, and there's a non-zero chance you're laid off anyway.
Weeks can be a long time if it doesn't work out. And that is, by your own comment, in the good times. The good times don't last forever. Upon some dice roll it is going to turn, and when that one doesn't work out now you could be looking at months or years.
Staying put isn't risk-free either. Not by any stretch. But is comparatively less risky. It is the devil you know, hence the lower risk premium.
It's getting worse as time goes on, too. Things like Cooperation, "Common Good" and Community are not merely ignored. More and more they're being actively opposed. Individualism is no longer: "I don't need community and society." It's become: "I don't need community and society, and you shouldn't have it either!" Rugged Individualism has become Toxic Individualism.
Honest question: what do you (in the general sense, not specifically asking the parent) use Siri for? I think my main (only?) use case is setting a timer.
Maybe I find conversational UIs awkward, or maybe I just got jaded REALLY quickly from Siri’s lacking capabilities early on, but I have hardly used it in the decade or whatever that it’s been around.
I use it almost daily for something that is simple but under appreciated I don’t know why it’s not in every marketing video: “Siri, remind me tomorrow at 10am to do X”
I outsource so much of my memory to the phone via Siri ALL THE TIME. It’s so useful. Even for things in 20m. I’ll easily forget if I don’t do this, and it’s reliable so it gives me confidence. It also keeps the notification present until I actually do the thing, so I have a kind of string around my finger until the task is accomplished. I can also snooze that notification as needed to rebring it up at the right time.
Every time I do this around non-tech people they go “wow I didn’t know you could do that.” I swear it’s literally life changing, particularly for anyone over 30.
Especially with Shortcuts, Siri can have some pretty useful functionality. My personal big improvement I'd like to see is being able to better able to tap into those actions without having to set things up in advance.
A year or so ago I remember someone pointing out in a podcast how LLMs are great at taking something like general language and turning it into a series of predefined commands (the stuff available to shortcuts). It would instantly make Siri much more useful.
I think Federico Viticci rigged up something similar or at least a powerful demo using Siri + Shortcuts + ChatGPT to be able to answer all sort of questions better than native Siri.
Yep. Reminders is #1 by far, followed by sending texts, turning lights on/off with HomeKit and timers which are similar.
I can’t imagine reminders w/o Siri because that’s how I add 90%+ of them. Grocery items, things to do at time X, or when I get to (or leave) work/home are the big ones.
Raising blinds, turning on/off lights, and unlocking the front door. It is convenient since I can do all those things with one command (raise all the blinds and turn off all the lights, or raise all the north blinds and lower the south ones), it would be a hard problem to create physical buttons to do what we needed without running around the room to hit various switches.
Google can also do this. Alexa has lots of problems, but it can raise a blind in a pinch. We also spent a ton on Lutron shades because we discovered that we were just managing them too much manually (Siri then is great for controlling that).
You can also ask Siri the weather in the morning, useful in figuring out how to dress the kid.
For me it really is extremely close to 100% for timers, I barely remember it being wrong and I use it several times per day. Finding my phone via the HomePod also works pretty much every time, may be 90% for me but it doesn’t recognize my wife so for her it basically never works. The others I don’t use enough. But timers and reminders work really well for me and it’s also what I need to most from an assistant.
I’ve seen similar. They really don’t have two person houses down pat - timers work great for me (as long as I never have to ask how much remaining; I’d die for a “count down from 30 seconds”) - but for the wife; nothing.
Since they removed “hey” and I got the latest phone, I’ve noticed many little situations where it’s faster to speak to the device than tap your way around. E.G. when it’s locked you can say, “Siri, open Spotify” and look at it for face unlock, boom. Random stuff. Also Alexa has surprised me lately, like a rational response to, “how many sandwiches is too many?”
The sensor typically goes on the back of your upper arm (your tricep). You can accidentally bump into things with it, but it was infrequent enough that it didn’t bother me.
The needle is only used in the application of the sensor. It’s spring-loaded and retracts after the sensor is attached. I hate needles, but I found that the tape on the sensor provided enough stimuli to overwhelm my brain and not really feel the needle when it went in.
I imagine a not-insignificant number of those who preordered will return it. Anecdotally, everyone I know who bought one plans on doing just that. Sales numbers have been higher than expected, but I do wonder where they net out after returns.
Do airlines that have a “bare metal” livery still coat the planes with something, then? (I assume there’s a clear coat.) Does that weigh less than white paint?
No, there is no clear coating. It's bare metal that gets polished:
> The metallic fuselage skin of modern airplanes is made of alclad aluminum alloy.
The word “alclad” means a thin layer of pure aluminum is applied over the entire aluminum alloy fuselage skin, generally a variant of 2024 alloy, at manufacture.
This pure aluminum layer almost immediately turns into aluminum oxide: and then begins its magic.
A bit of polish applied periodically keeps the pure aluminum layer at a silver shine, otherwise it grows dull — but still continues to protect.
> Alclad has been most commonly present in certain elements of an aircraft, including the fuselage, structural members, skin, and cowls. The aluminium alloy that Alclad is derived from has become one of the most commonly used of all aluminium-based alloys. While unclad aluminium has also continued to be extensively used on modern aircraft, which has a lower weight than Alclad, it is more prone to corrosion; the alternating use of the two materials is often defined by the specific components or elements that are composed of them. In aviation-grade Alclad, the thickness of the outer cladding layer typically varies between 1% and 15% of the total thickness.
Yep. Absolutely this. I get the frustration of people building fragile junk and bouncing before the house of cards falls, but I wouldn’t hold switching jobs every couple of years against a candidate when a significant difference in salary is potentially on the table. A 20% raise, compounded over a couple of switches, is massive.
I got way more by switching jobs (after 4 years) than I was ever going to get by staying.
In my experience, you’re better off getting the promo and looking for the next job at your leisure. It sucks that that is what the system rewards, but I certainly don’t fault people for playing the game that is given.