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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • But base wage for those positions is also significantly lower than minimum wage because the tips are expected to compensate for it, so the ceiling is higher but the floor is also lower. So refusing to tip at all does kind of make you out to be the asshole.

    Unfortunately most people are just trying to survive and don’t really have the time or the energy to worry about the bigger picture.

    Personally, I just split the difference and refuse to tip anywhere it’s not already factored into the wage structure. It’s not gonna change the situation but at least it helps hold the line.


  • The problem is the workers who get tips generally like it because they can potentially make a lot more than a comparable fixed wage. On a good night you can make several times over the base wage, and under-report cash tips on your taxes (or omit them entirely, but the IRS might catch that).

    So a lot of workers don’t want tipping to go away any more than the restaurant owners do.



  • Ah right, so that would be a 3D array.

    • T* is a single row of T
    • T** is a list of rows
    • T*** is a list of “layers” in the third dimension

    This would be incredibly hazardous to pass around as a bare pointer with no context, though. I’d expect to see this in a struct that, at minimum, also includes fields for the size of each dimension.










  • Interestingly, developers in ecosystems like Go, Rust, and those utilizing native Web APIs—where robust standard libraries drastically reduce reliance on third-party code and strict cryptographic verification is built into the core toolchain—reported zero instances of a college dropout’s weekend project wiping out global logistics infrastructure today.

    As someone who’s built a career in Rust, it is 100% susceptible to an attack like this. The community is just generally paranoid enough to avoid depending on super niche packages.

    Even so, Cargo still doesn’t have code signing and crates.io doesn’t have 2FA. They just barely rolled out email alerts for new crates being published with your API key.

    And there’s dozens of single-author crates that are depended upon by millions of lines of code, any one of which could easily be a vector in a supply chain attack. In fact there have been attempted supply chain attacks against crates.io, but to my knowledge they’ve all relied on typo-squatting.

    We’re definitely overdue for a major attack.