unless... maybe... https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-pos...

my read as a US person is that math academy is optimized towards students who would otherwise be well served by an in-person supplemental math program. at the earlier grades for math academy (grades 4-5 etc) the main competition i've encountered are in person programs like AoPS, Russian Math, or Kumon. The prices for those range between $450-$100/mo and for a student or student and parent combo that may be looking to supplement their math classes or for somebody who needs to home school for a period of time, mathacademy at $50/mo is a steal.

i suspect that a lot of people applying to a lot of jobs and not hearing back are applying via an inbound webform or even, unknowingly, through an agency or intermediary like Indeed. my experience (on both sides of the hiring process) is that inbound applications are generally considered fairly low-signal unless they are paired with a highly-specific job req or come with a referral attached. i'd be curious to know how you applied to those companies to get such good response rates.

as an anecdote, for some jobs i've applied to, i received an internal referral to a specific recruiter and it just never went anywhere (although i could often observe the recruiter looking at my linkedin profile from linkedin's own upgrade promo emails). in many cases, i would have preferred a 5 minute call to see if i was even a good fit so as to cross a job off a list.

i'm not anybody special, also degree and over a decade in, but it seems like a market where i could be connected 1-1 to an internal recruiter that is actively filling a role but where on several occasions i was ghosted is just a different sort of environment than what you're describing.

All were web forms except for the startup job which was inbound off of a hackernews "looking for work" post I commented in.

To be fair though the only online application that went through was Atlassian.

this has happened to me once, appropriately enough with some hauntology tracks. the songs are weirdly enough still available in the ios app to play but not to download via the web. presumably they're still somewhere in bandcamp behind a boolean, but i never got around to downloading them (to be fair, i have them on a _cassette_ that originally included bandcamp codes, so i mean, i really can't complain, i knew what i was getting into)

the unicode angle is great for moving sparklines back into the terminal especially making it into a postgres function, since it makes so much ad-hoc analysis easier at the point of query.

it also solves the problem where sparklines feel useful to somebody reading a summary and not so useful to somebody that's just exploring data "in the moment." having it be available in postgres is brilliant.

a bit of shameless self promotion, i had done something similar ages ago but with a custom webfont and some small js to handle scaling of the input dataset, solving the problem of unicode graph characters not being baseline aligned well. http://nsfmc.github.io/chartjunk/ (turns into dust while looking at the last commit date)

i think the library's approach to DI is pretty neat (and meets a team where they are which is worth a lot), but i think you're running into an issue where people are saying that instead of working around the realities of your codebase, team and testing needs, you should have done something like this.

  const useCountdownValue = initialTime => {
    const [time, setTime] = React.useState(initialTime);
    React.useEffect(() => {
      const interval = setInterval(() => {
        setTime(t => t - 1);
        if (t === 1) clearInterval(interval);
      }, 1000);
  
      return () => clearInterval(interval)
    }, []);
    return time;
  }

  const Countdown = ({time}: {time: number}) => {
    return time > 0 ? <>Time left {time}</> : <>Done</>
  }
  
  const ActualCountdownInContextSomewhere = () => {
    const remainingSeconds = useCountdownValue(60)
    return <>
      <Countdown time={remainingSeconds} />
    </>
  }

i'll say, i have never written a test for a hook or looked into what's needed to actually do that, but i suspect you don't need cypress or webdriver to test something like this has the correct output

  <Countdown time={-1} />
  <Countdown time={0} />
  <Countdown time={1} />

or likewise you can probably use sinon or jest's fake timers to test the hook (however it is hooks are tested without triggering that error about not calling hooks outside of a function component, i guess you need to mock React.useState?).

but like, whatever works for your team! i think it's fair to argue for either direction, but neither is zero-cost unless you have buy-in for one direction vs another from your coworkers, which honestly is all that matters especially if you have to eat lunch with them occasionally.

i'm not sure if you're serious, but the california public utilities commision's public advocates office (what a mouthful) describes california's rates as generally higher than most of the nation[0], with southern california's rates being highest (with both increasing).

you can see, for instance san diego's rates [1] which are $0.38/kWh in the winter and $0.48/kWh in the summer. for context, this means if i pay 11 dollars in electricity generation (because i'm part of a municipal electric generation coop), i'm still paying $36 for distribution/transmission/etc, which is $47 for 106kWh used or ~$.44/kWh which is roughly what electrify america charges ($.48/kWh) when i go to 'fill up my car.' as far as i can tell from talking to people, this is is more than most people anywhere in the country (including hawaii) pay for their electricity.

[0]: https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cal-advocate... [1]: https://www.sdge.com/sites/default/files/regulatory/1-1-24%2...

fwiw, San Francisco is at $0.51/kWh for peak usage.

oooooph

It's a bit more nuanced than that (and PG&E deliberately makes their bills difficult to read). In Oakland for the baseline tier on the time of use plan:

Peak is $0.51536 (delivery) - $0.10556 (baseline credit) + $0.16225 (generation via East Bay Community Energy / Ava) or just over of $0.57 per kWh.

Off-peak is $0.48701 - $0.10556 - $0.13772 or just shy of $0.52/kWh.

Add that baseline credit back in for when you reach tier 2 (currently 12.9 kWh/day for my apartment which factors in winter usage and electric heat). I have about 3.5 kW of baseboard heaters (and use 2.75 kW at most). Whatever the duty cycle is to keep the apartment at 60°F 24x7 is well more than 12.9 kWh so obviously I don't do that anymore. Rates are set to go up again in March or April.

Gas is $2.43888/therm with tier 2 kicking in at 6.72 therms/month and minimum charge of $0.13151/day.

i submitted a few shows to this and included a handful of stills to go along with it, it was an a+ contribution process, but there was still a lot of work i didn't do, so i can appreciate why there's a backlog. great project!

here's another piece in the issue that addresses your concern https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-consid...