Depends heavily on what you're building, but this kind of person is very useful in systems engineering particularly. You get all kinds of customers, people who really don't get technology, or who half understand something out there but want that things "except instead of x do y" and you learn that x and y are just incomprehensible gibberish and he really means something else, but no technical person can approach it without hysteria or barfing, or one of those things inducing the other. This kind of person also usually wants to protect his "idea" so he doesn't want to say how he is going to use it, so he's trying to black box you with absolute insanity. Nevermind that ideas are cheap, and in 10 years we've witnessed several companies with great ideas and first-to-market get wiped out entirely by having missed the right featureset or not having predicted the market, you won't convince these "entrepreneurs" that their secrecy is their undoing.
The role of said "Experts" handler there to his left, is to act as that intermediary. Instead, you have a stuffed shirt clown who would actually be the first laid off, as he's incapable of seeing the vision either, or of at least walking off with a spec or drawing of the goal to give to his Expert.
Nonetheless, the people who do this role best actually do come from technical backgrounds, but have soft skills. I have yet to work with an anthropology major who knew anything about semiconductor or systems design. I do know one who can write some application layer software if it can be kept relatively small.
Probably true, but if you work in a place where HR screens all resumes before you see them, and HR has bene programmed to select only people with certain degrees from certain schools (every company I have worked for does this, except one start-up), then that power is taken out of your hands.
HR more than anything else is creating the situation where only people with some kind of college degrees can apply to salaried positions, and where only top tier schools can be viewed for technical positions. It's wrong and needs to stop, but it is reality.
And that's great. If you live within the US, and are the person under investigation, then it should be between you and Uncle Sam as to whether you should be compelled to hand over that data, and possibly with whatever laws and diplomatic ties exist between the US and those countries as to whether it can be obtained without your consent. In my opinion if that data incriminates you, you should be within your rights to say no and not be held in contempt (but at least a couple rulings have run against that, which is wrong).
If you don't live in the US, it's subject to international politics and intrigue. But, you mention that you contract with Luxembourg and Microsoft Ireland. What is to stop either of those with storing your data in the US? In this case MS would already have handed your data over.
Part of the value of saying no to MS here is to force these companies to be more cognizant of where data is being stored, and the legalities behind that. The "cloud" is not about warehousing data in the lowest-cost region, it's about some measure of reliability, fault tolerance and availability. The details of this case are not very clear, and details are everything in this case, but I cannot get behind a blanket "I support MS" bandwagon.
Definitely not every American company outsources design, even Dell still has a very few in-house design groups, it used to be much larger but they alienated the engineers and ran them off. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and many, many others still design in the US.
In terms of manufacturing, your hyperbole is far closer to being true, Apple and Motorola have/have-had efforts here in the US to manufacture certain products, but for the most part that is sadly offshore for almost all high-volume products. However even when it comes to manufacturing, there are ways of guaranteeing higher quality through more capable management and oversight than others, and it shows on defect rate and initial-failure rates. If you simply stick your logo on someone else's end product, you are doing none of those things and essentially relying on the business relationship to pressure your supplier. Most business relationships fall victim to the idea that "I made money, therefore it's good enough" model, which ends up with mediocre products that are just good enough to be paid for, but not good enough that an end-customer especially likes the thing.
Microsoft HW I have had some insight into, afaik they do some of their own designs (or did 3 years ago when I looked) but are still primarily a label slapper, and definitely build overseas.
Dell pretty much ONLY sells other people's hardware these days, I'm not really sure what TFA is smoking. They have a few internally designed products left that I know of, but almost all of it is various tiers of rebranded bullshit, from just stamping a Dell logo on someone elses turd, to having foxconn, msi, etc. do the electrical design and integrating those into assemblies someone else also puts together.
Dell has essentially become a stuffed shirt operation with a big ole rubber stamper. There was a while when I thought they might actually take themselves seriously, but that was almost 10 years ago.
Why then is MS implicated at all, their Irish subsidiary should be involved and simply say "cannot comply, talk to Ireland", why is MS-US implicated? Admittedly TFA was shit, and I can't tell anything other than "narcotics" was involved and the data is located in Ireland. Details on this are very important.
Where the data is physically located may be irrelevant. If MS-US owns the data, and the data incriminates MS-US (which isn't how that usually works), then it could hide behind the 5th amendment. In any other case, if MS-US owns the data it is obligated to hand it over if due process has been followed. If MS-Ireland owns the data, I don't see why this isn't subject to treaties or diplomacy with Ireland. But the fact that MS-US is responding, suggests that it does in fact own the data, and it thus it isn't Irish data, it is American data stored overseas. Possibly MS doesn't have an Irish subsidiary but is directly managing that data in Ireland, in which case it has put itself in the position of being between the hammer and the anvil.
I agree with Microsoft here. On this issue, they are fighting the good fight.
I don't. If MS wins, we will now have established corporations that are above any law, who can shift data around as convenient. I understand and agree with various/.'ers opinions on wanting privacy and the government to be forced to follow due process, as well as the government's possibly unconstitutional level encroachment of the 5th amendment. I don't give two shits about the "war on drugs" either. This is not the right solution to that problem though, this is enabling the rich & powerful with a get-out-of-jail free card. Your data will still be handed over if it is convenient, after all, in the cloud user data can be shifted any time, anywhere!
The right solution is for MS to lose this. MS (and others) will be forced to manage the data within national boundaries, and honor local laws and give the users more control over where their data is held. If users themselves opt to move their data offshore, then it's between them and the government... and we can start to tackle that 5th amendment issue directly. It bothers me a lot that anything in my gmail account may be in some shady server in Shenzhen, when I neither think it should be there, nor would elect to put it there if given a choice.
I won't argue that's a good idea if you don't know some HDL or how to use the tools, or even have a good idea for a project. But there are a few reasons to actually use a real FPGA, and particularly a real toolchain:
- Not all HDL code synthesizes. Great designs get ruined when they meet an actual synthesizer that doesn't understand the construct you are using. This can be heartbreaking sometimes. - You may want to use tri-state logic internally in your design. Never do this. Even when using tri-state buffer features, use a wrapper module. Xilinx, Altera and various design libraries often do this differently because of the large variety of buffers, most of which aren't interesting to you for the blinky light. Just save yourself some trouble here. - Complex buffers (DDR, serdes) have a lot of detail that everyone implements a bit differently. You want real hardware to make sure these work properly, and you may need to implement extra circuits to handle the implementation detail. Or, and this is fun, sometimes the vendor has limitations that will break your heart (particularly on low end FPGAs) - Not all code that simulates well actually runs well. The list of gotchas is near infinite, but ignoring buffer complexity the best ones are reset conditions (xilinx has no POR, it all initializes to 0 unless otherwise specified, and that is fine if you implement a clean reset ckt), setup/hold violations from external interfaces, and everybodies favorite: bus doesn't quite work the way you think it should and the way you coded the BFM. - You can do squirrely things that you shouldn't really do at all, like double edge triggered flipflops, or latches. Technically this goes in "doesn't synthesize", but sometimes it will and will do funky things that a simulator won't pick up on.
There's value in messing around and $25 is compelling, but don't buy the $600 PCIe kit until you know what you want to do and already have a good design and have done your homework.
It doesn't surprise me. Apparently there are also people who don't want power windows, power locks, power seats, floormats, CD/Mp3 players or A/C in their car. That there are people who don't want sophisticated electronics comes as absolutely no shock. If I were running a rental agency or owned a fleet of cars for professional services I might also not want some of those things.
Those things that turned out to be useful, which have competed directly against similar features such that their price is reasonable, most of us want. Many built-ins for cars currently suck, are inconsistent, require a full evaluation to comprehend (more than a 15 minute test drive) and often have hidden back end cost (built in nav systems with $500 upgrade fees? Fuck you very much!) I see Apple/Android integration as the next step in getting them to be useful, and to be worth some money, but it's probably still going to be broken. Ultimately I want to plug my tablet into the dash, get power and car sensor information, and maybe control some of the car machinery (ex: a/c, radio, any better antenna based service) but otherwise have nothing from the maker in my way. I can see why makers are not that excited, they are mostly cut out of the money loop. Thus we can see why Google & Apple are rumored to be working on competition. In the very long view, cars are going to drive themselves, we're going to be less interested in the car as a vehicle and more in creature comforts of our transport bubble. Auto-makers are not seeing how to differentiate themselves in that market. As it is they are having a hard time selling to mostly broke, in-debt 20 somethings who can barely afford rent.
Pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship, paganism... I mean really I think GRRM went through the list of things that might get a nuns panties in a bunch, and found a way to write them down.
The TV show might in some ways be considered censored for good taste!
Or we don't approve but don't care enough to stop it. Or, and I think this is the case, are raging hypocrits about our cell phone rage versus our cell phone use.
As long as people are quiet an don't flash too many bright lights, I really couldn't care less what another table does during dinner. What is appropriate at my own table depends very heavily on what is going on. I can't imagine I'd drop a great conversation to check my work email. But I've never been that thoroughly entertained, and some people will go on about things I don't want to talk about (namely other people) and fuck yes, I will send all sorts of messages that I want to move on.
How can you *become* *happy campers* in *pleasant combinations*, without a *picnic* *together*? *silly cows* want *sauce* in *Pretty Space* from *sisters*, who *spread the wax*, are *squishy*, *surprising toys*, *take* *together* in *slippery places*. To *pull* *people energy* of *happy campers*, we must *slide* to *slow time* and *spit* *special things*.
How can you maximize the advantages of outcome-based education, without standardized linguistics targeted to areas of core competencies? Hiring managers have expressed interest in consensus oriented, business ready, net native, grey hats, who speak in code and collaborate in dynamic non-traditional employment. To breed a culture of millenial code beasts, we must reach into their social sphere, and peer coach them with best practices.
All of my employers have reimbursed wifi on approved business trips. I even had one reimbuse wifi on a cruise because I had to be working with a contractor. I think it depends on exactly what the circumstances are and what you can talk your boss in to. I do at least make good on my use, and keep it for work and get their moneys worth.
Well no, even when travelling on business all my docs are on a web-server, often with images. Also, VNC is an essential part of my job, in that I cannot run the sims on a puny IT issued laptop, and need my desktop or datacenter to see waves and do any form of debug. But wifi as it exists makes this painful.
Certainly youtube/netflix/etc. would be nice, but at this point the I'd consider mail, web and vnc as "essential".
Well, if I stand outside in the hot texas sun for over half an hour, I do develop a bad skin rash that burns, itches and stings for a day or so. Sometimes it's also accompanied by nausea and lethargy. I suppose I have EHS!
Of course doctors don't diagnose me properly, instead they ask me to apply this skin lotion before hand, and warn me if I keep going out without it I may get cancer. I have tried to sue the sun, and have asked it to turn itself down, but it never complies for more than 12 hours a time, frequently less.
I think if you have to teach that we are ignorant, you are acknowledging that your students are simply not very curious or are regurgitating data to pass the exam, get good GPA, enter workforce to earn money. Which is, in fact, the reality the majority of the time, and that's just fine.
I see no reason to teach people what we don't know, because to quote Rumsfeld about something entirely different: "...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know..."
How can you teach about ignorance from a stance of known unknowns? You have to rely on the student, at some point, to look critically at something and say "that's bullshit". Science is built on a fairly solid foundation, but it isn't granite. Students should be challenging not only the new stuff, but also the stuff we think we already know, not simply sitting in their seats listening to the Pastor give his Sermon on Physics.
Almost all of them would do that, it costs them nothing and what are they going to do with an extra salad? But no that rarely happens. But brining the high chair for my 3yo without asking, that's bonus points. Bringing extra napkins to a table with two kids. Bringing water as well as any alcoholic beverages, without having to be asked. Refreshing given restaurants "free" items (bread, chips, fries, whatever it is) without having to be asked. Just generally not trying not to see you. Those are all ways to earn extra tip.
Yet still, I deserve all this, and should not have to tip because I'm paying anywhere from 2x to 10x the cost of goods and labor for a meal and their boss really should be paying htem.
We're only tipping in the US because their boss doesn't want to pay them. Almost never has a waiter delivered beyond my expectations. In fairness, it is rare that the opportunity exists for them to do so.
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But then if you do learn history, you learn we keep repeating it anyway.
Depends heavily on what you're building, but this kind of person is very useful in systems engineering particularly. You get all kinds of customers, people who really don't get technology, or who half understand something out there but want that things "except instead of x do y" and you learn that x and y are just incomprehensible gibberish and he really means something else, but no technical person can approach it without hysteria or barfing, or one of those things inducing the other. This kind of person also usually wants to protect his "idea" so he doesn't want to say how he is going to use it, so he's trying to black box you with absolute insanity. Nevermind that ideas are cheap, and in 10 years we've witnessed several companies with great ideas and first-to-market get wiped out entirely by having missed the right featureset or not having predicted the market, you won't convince these "entrepreneurs" that their secrecy is their undoing.
See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The role of said "Experts" handler there to his left, is to act as that intermediary. Instead, you have a stuffed shirt clown who would actually be the first laid off, as he's incapable of seeing the vision either, or of at least walking off with a spec or drawing of the goal to give to his Expert.
Nonetheless, the people who do this role best actually do come from technical backgrounds, but have soft skills. I have yet to work with an anthropology major who knew anything about semiconductor or systems design. I do know one who can write some application layer software if it can be kept relatively small.
Probably true, but if you work in a place where HR screens all resumes before you see them, and HR has bene programmed to select only people with certain degrees from certain schools (every company I have worked for does this, except one start-up), then that power is taken out of your hands.
HR more than anything else is creating the situation where only people with some kind of college degrees can apply to salaried positions, and where only top tier schools can be viewed for technical positions. It's wrong and needs to stop, but it is reality.
...It stands to reason that the only positions that can presently be legally hired in the US will come with a liberal arts background.
And that's great. If you live within the US, and are the person under investigation, then it should be between you and Uncle Sam as to whether you should be compelled to hand over that data, and possibly with whatever laws and diplomatic ties exist between the US and those countries as to whether it can be obtained without your consent. In my opinion if that data incriminates you, you should be within your rights to say no and not be held in contempt (but at least a couple rulings have run against that, which is wrong).
If you don't live in the US, it's subject to international politics and intrigue. But, you mention that you contract with Luxembourg and Microsoft Ireland. What is to stop either of those with storing your data in the US? In this case MS would already have handed your data over.
Part of the value of saying no to MS here is to force these companies to be more cognizant of where data is being stored, and the legalities behind that. The "cloud" is not about warehousing data in the lowest-cost region, it's about some measure of reliability, fault tolerance and availability. The details of this case are not very clear, and details are everything in this case, but I cannot get behind a blanket "I support MS" bandwagon.
Definitely not every American company outsources design, even Dell still has a very few in-house design groups, it used to be much larger but they alienated the engineers and ran them off. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and many, many others still design in the US.
In terms of manufacturing, your hyperbole is far closer to being true, Apple and Motorola have/have-had efforts here in the US to manufacture certain products, but for the most part that is sadly offshore for almost all high-volume products. However even when it comes to manufacturing, there are ways of guaranteeing higher quality through more capable management and oversight than others, and it shows on defect rate and initial-failure rates. If you simply stick your logo on someone else's end product, you are doing none of those things and essentially relying on the business relationship to pressure your supplier. Most business relationships fall victim to the idea that "I made money, therefore it's good enough" model, which ends up with mediocre products that are just good enough to be paid for, but not good enough that an end-customer especially likes the thing.
Microsoft HW I have had some insight into, afaik they do some of their own designs (or did 3 years ago when I looked) but are still primarily a label slapper, and definitely build overseas.
Dell pretty much ONLY sells other people's hardware these days, I'm not really sure what TFA is smoking. They have a few internally designed products left that I know of, but almost all of it is various tiers of rebranded bullshit, from just stamping a Dell logo on someone elses turd, to having foxconn, msi, etc. do the electrical design and integrating those into assemblies someone else also puts together.
Dell has essentially become a stuffed shirt operation with a big ole rubber stamper. There was a while when I thought they might actually take themselves seriously, but that was almost 10 years ago.
Why then is MS implicated at all, their Irish subsidiary should be involved and simply say "cannot comply, talk to Ireland", why is MS-US implicated? Admittedly TFA was shit, and I can't tell anything other than "narcotics" was involved and the data is located in Ireland. Details on this are very important.
Where the data is physically located may be irrelevant. If MS-US owns the data, and the data incriminates MS-US (which isn't how that usually works), then it could hide behind the 5th amendment. In any other case, if MS-US owns the data it is obligated to hand it over if due process has been followed. If MS-Ireland owns the data, I don't see why this isn't subject to treaties or diplomacy with Ireland. But the fact that MS-US is responding, suggests that it does in fact own the data, and it thus it isn't Irish data, it is American data stored overseas. Possibly MS doesn't have an Irish subsidiary but is directly managing that data in Ireland, in which case it has put itself in the position of being between the hammer and the anvil.
I agree with Microsoft here. On this issue, they are fighting the good fight.
I don't. If MS wins, we will now have established corporations that are above any law, who can shift data around as convenient. I understand and agree with various /.'ers opinions on wanting privacy and the government to be forced to follow due process, as well as the government's possibly unconstitutional level encroachment of the 5th amendment. I don't give two shits about the "war on drugs" either. This is not the right solution to that problem though, this is enabling the rich & powerful with a get-out-of-jail free card. Your data will still be handed over if it is convenient, after all, in the cloud user data can be shifted any time, anywhere!
The right solution is for MS to lose this. MS (and others) will be forced to manage the data within national boundaries, and honor local laws and give the users more control over where their data is held. If users themselves opt to move their data offshore, then it's between them and the government... and we can start to tackle that 5th amendment issue directly. It bothers me a lot that anything in my gmail account may be in some shady server in Shenzhen, when I neither think it should be there, nor would elect to put it there if given a choice.
"Data scientist", "Sanitation Engineer", why can't we call these people what they are? "Paid Busybody"
The #1 thing they will see on my telemetry is me installing cygwin.
I think the point is this isn't for people who smoke pot, or use powder based drugs. Apparently heroin is now a gateway drug.
I won't argue that's a good idea if you don't know some HDL or how to use the tools, or even have a good idea for a project. But there are a few reasons to actually use a real FPGA, and particularly a real toolchain:
- Not all HDL code synthesizes. Great designs get ruined when they meet an actual synthesizer that doesn't understand the construct you are using. This can be heartbreaking sometimes.
- You may want to use tri-state logic internally in your design. Never do this. Even when using tri-state buffer features, use a wrapper module. Xilinx, Altera and various design libraries often do this differently because of the large variety of buffers, most of which aren't interesting to you for the blinky light. Just save yourself some trouble here.
- Complex buffers (DDR, serdes) have a lot of detail that everyone implements a bit differently. You want real hardware to make sure these work properly, and you may need to implement extra circuits to handle the implementation detail. Or, and this is fun, sometimes the vendor has limitations that will break your heart (particularly on low end FPGAs)
- Not all code that simulates well actually runs well. The list of gotchas is near infinite, but ignoring buffer complexity the best ones are reset conditions (xilinx has no POR, it all initializes to 0 unless otherwise specified, and that is fine if you implement a clean reset ckt), setup/hold violations from external interfaces, and everybodies favorite: bus doesn't quite work the way you think it should and the way you coded the BFM.
- You can do squirrely things that you shouldn't really do at all, like double edge triggered flipflops, or latches. Technically this goes in "doesn't synthesize", but sometimes it will and will do funky things that a simulator won't pick up on.
There's value in messing around and $25 is compelling, but don't buy the $600 PCIe kit until you know what you want to do and already have a good design and have done your homework.
It doesn't surprise me. Apparently there are also people who don't want power windows, power locks, power seats, floormats, CD/Mp3 players or A/C in their car. That there are people who don't want sophisticated electronics comes as absolutely no shock. If I were running a rental agency or owned a fleet of cars for professional services I might also not want some of those things.
Those things that turned out to be useful, which have competed directly against similar features such that their price is reasonable, most of us want. Many built-ins for cars currently suck, are inconsistent, require a full evaluation to comprehend (more than a 15 minute test drive) and often have hidden back end cost (built in nav systems with $500 upgrade fees? Fuck you very much!) I see Apple/Android integration as the next step in getting them to be useful, and to be worth some money, but it's probably still going to be broken. Ultimately I want to plug my tablet into the dash, get power and car sensor information, and maybe control some of the car machinery (ex: a/c, radio, any better antenna based service) but otherwise have nothing from the maker in my way. I can see why makers are not that excited, they are mostly cut out of the money loop. Thus we can see why Google & Apple are rumored to be working on competition. In the very long view, cars are going to drive themselves, we're going to be less interested in the car as a vehicle and more in creature comforts of our transport bubble. Auto-makers are not seeing how to differentiate themselves in that market. As it is they are having a hard time selling to mostly broke, in-debt 20 somethings who can barely afford rent.
Pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship, paganism... I mean really I think GRRM went through the list of things that might get a nuns panties in a bunch, and found a way to write them down.
The TV show might in some ways be considered censored for good taste!
Or we don't approve but don't care enough to stop it. Or, and I think this is the case, are raging hypocrits about our cell phone rage versus our cell phone use.
As long as people are quiet an don't flash too many bright lights, I really couldn't care less what another table does during dinner. What is appropriate at my own table depends very heavily on what is going on. I can't imagine I'd drop a great conversation to check my work email. But I've never been that thoroughly entertained, and some people will go on about things I don't want to talk about (namely other people) and fuck yes, I will send all sorts of messages that I want to move on.
Fine then, let's *party*
How can you *become* *happy campers* in *pleasant combinations*, without a *picnic* *together*? *silly cows* want *sauce* in *Pretty Space* from *sisters*, who *spread the wax*, are *squishy*, *surprising toys*, *take* *together* in *slippery places*. To *pull* *people energy* of *happy campers*, we must *slide* to *slow time* and *spit* *special things*.
How can you maximize the advantages of outcome-based education, without standardized linguistics targeted to areas of core competencies? Hiring managers have expressed interest in consensus oriented, business ready, net native, grey hats, who speak in code and collaborate in dynamic non-traditional employment. To breed a culture of millenial code beasts, we must reach into their social sphere, and peer coach them with best practices.
All of my employers have reimbursed wifi on approved business trips. I even had one reimbuse wifi on a cruise because I had to be working with a contractor. I think it depends on exactly what the circumstances are and what you can talk your boss in to. I do at least make good on my use, and keep it for work and get their moneys worth.
Well no, even when travelling on business all my docs are on a web-server, often with images. Also, VNC is an essential part of my job, in that I cannot run the sims on a puny IT issued laptop, and need my desktop or datacenter to see waves and do any form of debug. But wifi as it exists makes this painful.
Certainly youtube/netflix/etc. would be nice, but at this point the I'd consider mail, web and vnc as "essential".
He's clearly allergic to the 5GHz ISM band.
Well, if I stand outside in the hot texas sun for over half an hour, I do develop a bad skin rash that burns, itches and stings for a day or so. Sometimes it's also accompanied by nausea and lethargy. I suppose I have EHS!
Of course doctors don't diagnose me properly, instead they ask me to apply this skin lotion before hand, and warn me if I keep going out without it I may get cancer. I have tried to sue the sun, and have asked it to turn itself down, but it never complies for more than 12 hours a time, frequently less.
I think if you have to teach that we are ignorant, you are acknowledging that your students are simply not very curious or are regurgitating data to pass the exam, get good GPA, enter workforce to earn money. Which is, in fact, the reality the majority of the time, and that's just fine.
I see no reason to teach people what we don't know, because to quote Rumsfeld about something entirely different: "...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know..."
How can you teach about ignorance from a stance of known unknowns? You have to rely on the student, at some point, to look critically at something and say "that's bullshit". Science is built on a fairly solid foundation, but it isn't granite. Students should be challenging not only the new stuff, but also the stuff we think we already know, not simply sitting in their seats listening to the Pastor give his Sermon on Physics.
Almost all of them would do that, it costs them nothing and what are they going to do with an extra salad? But no that rarely happens. But brining the high chair for my 3yo without asking, that's bonus points. Bringing extra napkins to a table with two kids. Bringing water as well as any alcoholic beverages, without having to be asked. Refreshing given restaurants "free" items (bread, chips, fries, whatever it is) without having to be asked. Just generally not trying not to see you. Those are all ways to earn extra tip.
Yet still, I deserve all this, and should not have to tip because I'm paying anywhere from 2x to 10x the cost of goods and labor for a meal and their boss really should be paying htem.
We're only tipping in the US because their boss doesn't want to pay them. Almost never has a waiter delivered beyond my expectations. In fairness, it is rare that the opportunity exists for them to do so.