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kalnins | 3 years ago | on: Twilio is laying off 17% of workforce

Can somebody explain to me where the companies get all these people?

A lot of huge companies doubled/tripled in size during pandemic. Did people just take on 3 jobs or where we hitting super low levels of unemployment?

kalnins | 3 years ago | on: Cost of public EV charging rises by more than 42% in four months

Depends on how you drive and how large your car is. My moms old Renault capture diesel uses around 5l/100km on average (combined city/highway) while she is driving and around 5.5-6l/100km while I'm driving. Just rented a Peugeout 208 1l diesel in Nice, France. Averaged 5l/100km during the week (500 km). Around 50/50 split regarding kms driven on highway and inside a city.

kalnins | 3 years ago | on: U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%

For me (I also use gas for heating), this would mean an increase of monthly expenses around 5-8% during winter months. (assuming 6x increase in the last winters bills). Though I don't live in an 6 bedroom glass house, so other people mileage may vary.

Though average food/fuel prices have also gone up quite a lot, so the total monthly expenses have gone up more around 20%, which is a lot more closer to actual inflation in my region.

kalnins | 4 years ago | on: Snowman native code to C/C++ decompiler for x86/x86_64/ARM

As Rust is llvm based, you don't need to compile it to C. Just write a backend that translates LLVM IR to C instead of x86_64. The IR is very C looking, it's probably overly complex.

Compiling down to asm, lot of information is lost regarding memory layout etc, so it's not the best source for generating code.

kalnins | 4 years ago | on: Pay Transparency: European Commission proposes measures

In practice, employers try to advertise themselves as high paying, to actually get some decent people. Even basic good stores like to have decent employees.

In most cases, the lowest number will be just below the pay of the worst candidate they are ready to hire and the highest number is the budget for the position. And they will offer you something in between.

kalnins | 4 years ago | on: Pay Transparency: European Commission proposes measures

Even if this gets approved, it still requires all the member states to change their laws.

Luckily for me, I already live in one of EU members that have such law in place. Allows me to discard job postings under my salary range.

Some job postings still have x - 5x ranges, but knowing the industry salaries, depending on how component the person is, I believe that it's actually the true range.

kalnins | 4 years ago | on: Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU

There isn't a demand for stolen car parts. There is a demand for cheeper/used car parts. This is in part due to lower salaries combined with people wanting to buy "cool" cars that are way over their budget hence they aren't able to afford new car parts for them.

kalnins | 4 years ago | on: Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU

I don't think they actually send them to baltics, as those are stolen from cars here also and they probably catch a better price in Stockholm anyway. Or sent a lot further than that.

The running "joke" is that insurers pay to put your original stuff back into car, as insurers somehow find "used" parts for mechanics.

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