That’s a good point. There is a type of delivery in the US that’s all-inclusive, where more than one delivery person show up and it’s assumed they bring it in and install it.

Standard delivery though is often some form of freight where final delivery is handled by a local carrier/vendor. Usually they arrive with a commercial delivery truck rather than a van or pantechnicon.

Unloading from the trailer to a loading dock is the easiest. Curb delivery is possible if the trailer is outfitted with a lift or a slide out ramp. But any further and the delivery can become a lot more involved, enough to throw off their delivery schedule.

Drivers often still offer to do it unofficially as a side-hustle, but if I don’t have cash on hand I won’t ask them to do it just as a favor.

Curb/dock drop: no.

Into home: yes, but at that point you’re “tipping” for an additional service usually purchased separately (eg, moving service, appliance installation)

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It wasn’t just lack of demand. It was that versus the actual cost of increased failure rates due to introducing multiple additional points of failure to every battery.

PowerCharge had significantly higher rates of self-discharge and potassium hydroxide seepage. They were more vulnerable to corrosion in suboptimal storage conditions, perhaps due to putting conductive film beneath the insulator wrapping.

In other words the proposed value-add of that product line (convenience) was also directly impacting their core brand (maximal reliability).

Thanks, OP

The latter, for Roth IRA.^A If you haven’t set one up before, it’s pretty straightforward.^B

^A: There is such a thing as a Roth 401(k) which if offered should definitely be your top priority up to employer contribution match.

^B: Vanguard is often recommended for simplicity and low fees. You can pick your funds when contributing. Typical starting funds are VTI and VOO (or the mutual fund equivalents with slightly lower fees, VTSAX and VFIAX).

Roth grows tax-free and has more long term flexibility compared to traditional IRA. The tradeoff is that it doesn’t reduce your taxes in the year you contribute. It’s the better option for most.

Assign it as a research collection task to a junior dev and forget to follow up.

(Fr tho, auto doc frameworks and related instrumentation are easily worth weeks. I will fight your manager.)

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Theoretically, I would say yes it’s possible, insofar as we could break down most subtasks of the development process into training parameters. But we are a long way from that currently.

ETA: I suspect LLM’s best use-case in this hypothetical would not be in architecting or implementation, but rather limited to tasks with human interfaces (requirements gathering, project planning and logistics, test scaffolding, feedback collection/distribution, etc).

If the unironic goal is to develop things without any engineering oversight (mistake) then there’s no point to using programming languages at all. The machine might as well just output assembly or bin code.

What’s more likely in the short term are software LLMs generating partial solutions that human engineers then are asked to “finish” (fix) and maintain. The effort and hours required to do so will, at a guess, balloon terribly and will often be at best proportional to the resources saved by the use of the automatic spaghetti generator.

I eagerly await these post mortems.

My apologies, I missed a few of your questions at the end.

• Yes, any USB4 rated cable can carry the TB protocol at whatever distance it’s rated for, otherwise it isn’t USB4.
• Likewise any TB3 cable should work for your application, if it’s actually TB3 rated.
• 3m is generally the max length I’ve seen. The theoretical limit may be higher but I suspect latency of the cable itself becomes a problem for PCIe tunneling, which is still a synchronous interface TMK.
• The TB controllers decide whether your cable is sufficient. They will negotiate a link if they can both verify a nominal link speed/multiple. So the lower rated USB cables won’t work for PCIe tunneling, even if your ultimate bandwidth requirements are minimal.

A few things to note if you’re shopping on places like AliExpress, eBay, Amazon, etc:

• Be wary of any long (active) TB/USB cable that’s cheaper than $30.
• Be wary of any cable that has a small connector, like one you would use to charge your phone, because the TB/USB4 connector itself must house an active signal repeater chip, making them chunkier and/or longer than usual.
• Similarly, the shielding requirements are fairly substantial, so the cable itself should be beefier than most USB cables.
• IME generally, PCIe over TB/USB can sometimes just be finicky. Of the 12 or 13 cables I’ve used with various combinations of machines, enclosures, docks and risers, there are occasionally some combinations that just don’t play nice, for whatever reason.

You may need an active TB3/4 cable. 30 cm is typically the longest passive cable you’ll see. Active cables are more expensive, though less so than they used to be, and can handle longer runs like 3 meters.

Daww it’s so tiny! I get it now.

I’d do it if I could add a blue light and dry ice vapor effect every time I opened the meds fridge.

I think you can also register 10 years in advance, or maybe more depending on the registrar, which would cover all other potential snafus like expired card info.

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IANAMD but simply using various accents, by itself, is perhaps less relevant clinically than the emotional disregulation and socially maladaptive behavior you describe.

Unchecked, compulsive aggression with fixation that requires coworkers to physically extract themselves (harassment) is certainly diagnosable, but not by us or by you.

This should be addressed formally by a superior, if only so that your coworker has the documentation necessary to get the help they need. Your coworker will not remain so for long if this continues.

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The refined uranium IHS doubles your clicks per minute and facilitates exfoliation.

Wait, that was your takeaway? I understand cumulative frustration is hard to reverse, but it seems pretty solid that they accepted an RMA two years after purchase, reported test results, and replaced it.

As much as I try to resist brand loyalty, I feel like that kind of support experience would probably bring me back next time.