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I don't think we've yet gotten to the point where everybody is unloading their old consumer-level DSLR equipment that they no longer use because their cell phone camera is almost as good. Give it another 5-10 years.
I would slighly change it to relationships, health and purpose and I think this is a list that could apply to almost everyone.
Article doesn't present any data on that -- it ignores used prices entirely, discussing only what the manufacturer is charging. So, it's certainly possible!
Thank you for posting this, Tomte.
Most everything works fine offline (think: airplane mode) - where it all goes to crap is when there is a connection but it’s slow, high latency, or losing packets.

In fact, sometimes it’s worth it to hit airplane mode if your connection is bad until after everything is running.
Monty Python already did this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxSM5y7Pfs
> [Referring to Yahoo!] Within only a few years, this system was hopeless. The web exploded exponentially, in terms of “sites” but also it evolved ever-shifting ways of presenting and producing bits and pieces of content, such that the directory format of top-level sites was not even a great way of cataloging the world, let alone finding your way in it.

While this is true, personal directories are still tremendously useful - and could definitely threaten search again - now that search has lost its way (SEO, sponsored items, etc.)

See stuff like:

* http://marijn.uk/linkroll/

* https://goodtuff.simonpanrucker.com/

* https://gossipsweb.net/

* ... any “awesome” list for a language/topic

Curated personal directories can be really powerful in most niches. Many subreddits have these as well. It’s just the monolithic ones that have lost steam.
I don't know if you're making a joke or you're serious. If you're able to quit regular smoking and have only the occasional cigarette then more power to you. But for me, the "occasional" cigarette has doomed many long bouts of smoking cessation. Sometimes i'd fall right off the wagon and other times I'd manage the "occasional" smoke for months. But make no mistake: once I had that one cigarette and opened the door, the intervals between the occasional smoke would get smaller and smaller until I was back to my old habit.

I just passed the 10 year mark since my last cigarette. It's easy these days and I almost never think about cigarettes but I still wouldn't trust myself to have one.
Never smoked but always liked to get out of the office with my smoking friends for some (ironically) fresh air and a chat. There was a bit of zen in this. And hey, my lungs didn't have to pay price for it :)
Pools certainly do not cost that much.
Do you want to be the brand manager who said "nah, lets not bother with that" if it turns out it works?
The new paradigm of China, the current naval rival of the US in the Pacific, is more akin to imitating ants than to imitating sharks. The Chinese are expanding their spheres of influence, power, and control (e.g. in the South China Sea) gradually by a plethora of means that each irritate, annoy and distress the Americans. There is no reason for China to want to sink an American carrier. Extrapolating ahead 20 or 30 years, China can foresee a time when the Chinese economy and Chinese technology are number 1 worldwide, and US influence in the Western Pacific is negligible compared to that of China. At that point, it makes no sense for the US to have a fleet way over there, 8,000 miles from home, outgunned, outnumbered, with few or no nearby bases. The number one reason for having a navy at all will be as an employer of last resort. Given the developments so far, with peace working so well for China, expect China to advocate disarmament, not to instigate major conflict. I believe that the majority in the US would prefer naval disarmament to having Chinese ships and planes patrolling 13 miles off US shores the way US Navy ships have operated near China.
You don't have to be rich to buy luxury goods. In fact most of them are bought by people who can't afford them but desperately want to own them. There's credit cards, parents, using all your disposable income on them since you don't pay rent, etc.
I read it as implying that there are far fewer entrants into the market because people are using phones where they would previously have used mid-grade specialized equipment. The demand for mid-market equipment is drying up, but the high-end demand for professional equipment isn't.
> How I want the thing to be, "oh, the contacts permission is given but nothing here. Oh well. ". Same for location and SMS and other stuff.

Yes, that is a good idea. The user could also program in more elaborate filters, e.g. to expose a subset of contacts data, random data instead of the actual data, spoofed locations, etc. Also can be distinguish read-only or read/write, etc. (If the user does not have all of these elaborate options and more, then the app writer might realize what is happening and then might program it to complain if there is nothing there. Also, such options can be helpful for testing purpose as well as for user customizability, too.)

(I don't use the cell phone, but nevertheless such thing like you mentioned can be good idea.)
You have to go full FOSS and run debian on a pinephone.
I once pondered how I might generate IDs that were as compact as a machine word, without a value (or small set of values) revealing the size of the data set. One application might be user-visible customer numbers that don't easily reveal how many customers there are.

I eventually came across the idea of using maximal period linear-feedback shift registers to transform an integer variable through every possible value (minus one), but in a non-incremental sequence that depends on the LFSR arrangement.

I never ended up putting the idea to use, but I've always been curious about people who have and how it worked out for them. [Edit to clarify: It was meant for obfuscation, not security against a determined attacker.]
In my view, children's advertising targets all children.
They were actually going to do something almost as good in 2020 (plans got postponed due to the pandemic)

https://evisa.kdmid.ru/

Most western countries can actually visit without getting a visa in your passport beforehand.

The US and the UK also benefit a lot from tourism, and yet they have an extremely hostile border control system + an extremely onerous visa application process (I got a Russian visa a few times... It's definitely simpler)
I upvoted you but I think you and I might differ in our definition of friend; I think you're right that you have the opportunity to "cast a wide net" so to speak, but an internet search turns up numerous quotes from celebrities that find those relationships lacking in humanity and are void of meaningful connections. I don't think there's anything in fame that inherently precludes you to making true friendships, but you might have to sift more to find them.
Uhm... expensive?! ;)

The municipality of Triora, a beautiful historical town now nearly abandoned, very close to the Ligurian coast in Italy, is selling houses as low as 1 (one!) euro, in an attempt to re-populate the area and get someone to invest in restoring the historical landmarks...

https://1eurohouses.com/triora-imperia-liguria/

Honestly, this is a real bargain considering what this place is like and its historical significance.

Granted, you have to commit to restoring the place, but still!
I think TikTok is fundamentally changing marketing. If you go on YouTube, you see 1-2 traditional ads. On TikTok all the ads blend in and just appear as another video in your for you page. What I thought was really interesting was that 50% of the user base is over the age of 30.
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Interestingly, the time I succeeded, I did 100 hour weeks. However, I think working long hours was a mistake. For one thing, it encourages bad habits - if you're working double the time, you should be bringing in another co-founder or employee. My co-founder helped me a ton with the tunnel vision, but I should have just taken a step back and looked at the right things.
This is a kind of spooky comment that could be made in a future where war has already broken out.

Not to be melodramatic, but we should all keep in mind how terrible a war would be.
That 'outright majority' though is being eroded as more people are priced out of the market.

If the percentage of renters continues to grow (and property ownership keeps concentrating), you could see that math get flipped on its head (though there is an intermediate stage where 'likely to donate' outweighs 'likely to vote' to keep things as they are).

There are other possible policy scenarios, though. Sane densification of suburbia for example seems more likely than massive rural infra buildout.
The source is Sputnik a Russian state outlet which itself quotes Global Times, a PRC state outlet.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/202105281083022763-chinese-arti...

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1224755.shtml
Brilliant. Love getting insight into the cultural changes arising from smartphones.
I used to think it was hard too, but then I read _Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking_. I followed the instructions and continued smoking while reading the book, sometimes literally standing outside my apartment building with a cigarette and book in hand. I read it all the way through in two evenings in a random November. I forget the year; it was long ago. After I finished the book, I put it down and told my girlfriend at the time (now wife) that it worked. I haven't had a craving or cigarette since.

It was a 100 to zero transition. Previously when I tried to quit, spending time with smoking friends would get me to smoke again. This time, it didn't. One of my smoking coworkers, mid chat, said he would be back. I told him I can keep talking with him while he goes out for a smoke. He asked if I was crazy, I had just quit, he didn't want to be a trigger. I went out and joined him for some fresh air while he smoke and nothing. Not even a small inkling of a craving.

It worked.
Ideology?

Nope, I see the problem as financial and economic. You can't embezzle a country of billions (trillions!) and expect that it still has enough money to function properly. A country is really just analogous to a very large Corporation.

In what way do you predict the United States will go “broke”?

The US is already "broke". It has no chance in Hell of ever repaying its debt. The world has lost its confidence in the US economy. The use of the US Dollar as a Reserve Currency is now down to about half of what it used to be, and declining steadily.

Going back to the Cold War 1.0, BOTH the US and the Soviets ran out of money at the end of the 1980s. The US was unfortunate(!) in having the Reserve Currency Credit Card which allowed them to keep spending as though nothing had changed. So now, 30 years later, and 30-odd trillion in debt, the US has no hope at all of recovering - it's just in too deep. The Zimbabwe scenario is close at hand.

On the other hand, because the Soviets/Russians didn't have the Reserve Currency Credit Card, they had to to pull in their belts and try to pay off their own massive (but still manageable at that time) debt. That took them about 15 years, but now they are 'back in the black' and now have quite commendable foreign reserves. Their financial prospects are good.

Do I imagine that Texas will become Belarus? Good question. It's certainly possible that, as a previously independent Republic, when the SHTF that the Texans will refuse to subsidise the other very destitute states with their oil money, so that they can sort out their own Texas financial problems. I'd guess that maybe it's a 50-50 chance that Texas will 'de-merge' to prevent their going down with the rest of the US.
I read this 8 months ago, and forgot most of the technical details except that to use memory efficiently, you have to make good use of spatial and temporal locality.
I quit smoking ten years ago (smoked for about 15y before that) and the only thing I miss is the enforced ritual to go stand outside for 5-10 minutes.

I’d pay for an addictive product that gave me that back without killing me!
Some niche markets are irrationally expensive e.g. bicycles.
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Realistically I think it's probably targeted at anyone who's willing to [get someone to] spend money on it.

Conspicuous consumption has been a thing for ages, and it's always been about presenting an image as having enough disposable income to be able to buy these sorts of things. The fact that some kids have parents who can afford to lavish this stuff on them only adds to the mystique.

I'd argue that it's also inaccurate to characterize this as just a kids thing. Plenty of people my age and older dump money into brands like Rolex and Mercedes. The main difference I personally see is that the price tags are even higher, and the brands themselves turn over at a slower pace.
I wonder how many analytics domains exist out there unregistered and what you could troll for by registering them.
This is just job count. One might try to make a qualitative analysis. For example one may have pointed out that the top paying jobs are in centers like San francisco / bay area. If an employer is willing to pay more, it must be because there is more value being provided. If more value is being provided then maybe the talent group is higher. If one wants to work with the top in their industry they likely will go where the top talent is. (All on average...)

This is the typical rhetoric for why endure San Francisco.
I see. I think that makes sense. As the EOS "Rebel" market is replaced by phone cameras, the pros still need their equipment which tend to be the higher end equipment which would drive up the median price.

I just looked at the Sony site and the 70/80-200, 200-400, prime 2.8s, etc., look to be in the normal range.
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On queue, here's Walter to tell everybody to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Shut the fuck up, would you?
Yeah, hard to justify buying a low end camera when your phone has a better one built in
Oxford and Cambridge don’t charge any more than other universities in the UK, and the Oxford and Cambridge club is a private members club that isn’t meaningfully affiliated to either institution.
This reminds me of Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver: https://norvig.com/sudoku.html
This is pretty much exactly what results when economists just throw numbers at things without context.

Pretending that an IT helpdesk job and a systems programmer are the same type of 1 unit of job leads to ridiculous conclusions.
Agreed. ideally you want both.
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That’s an interesting point, so I went and checked briefly on what used Canon lenses are going for, at an online dealer that specializes in such things.

https://www.keh.com/shop/lenses/canon--canon-eos.html

And whoa. None of that is cheap.

So, my guess? It’s as you said: a lot of the market was APS-C cameras, like Canon Rebels or Nikon D3xxx. And those were overwhelmingly paired with the 18–55mm kit lenses, and then with either a 70–300, or perhaps an 18–250-ish superzoom. Most DSLRs were effectively welded to the lens that came in the box.
I was shocked when I started shopping for an electric bike, to see that in my city, there are multiple bike shops selling e-bikes from 5K to 15K a piece. I'm surprised that these businesses can all survive, because the median income before taxes here is about ~62K. I mean who's actually buying this? But I guess if you're selling 15K bikes, you only need to sell about two a month to pay the bills.
Mobile internet in Germany.
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This is what I keep thinking about. I feel it’s going to get even darker on the internet when these influencers have to begrudgingly hand the reins over as they get traded in for the newer models.
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If there is software entirely in a web page and does not send data to internet, then you could just save the HTML file (and other needed files, if any) to your computer and then use that.

You do not have to connect to the internet to access a local HTML file. If you disconnect the internet, then anything in the file that tries to access the internet will not work, so you can also know that it isn't sending stuff to the internet.
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There's tons of research trying to figure out how to achieve various feats. Not because the researchers are curious whether it is possible "in a pure research mindset" but because they accomplishing their goal is a stepping stone to industrially useful applications.
> Considering a tomahawk costs roughly 1 million dollars, it may be more efficient for the Navy's power projection goals to use more portable missile platforms instead of a mobile airbase.

That was the idea between both the “arsenal ship” concept that hasn’t (yet) materialized, and the SSGN conversion of a number of Ohio-class ex-SSBNs, which has.
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When it comes to PC Desktops, I do feel there might be more money to be made in still allowing modularity that allows PC enthusiasts and builders to still build their own computers. There is a massive consumer market for it.

People aren't going to be buying new desktops every 1-2 years, but many of them will buy new GPU's, or cases, or fans etc. The best part is that we get to upgrade the components that will actually provide better performance. For instance, why would I upgrade my entire machine just for a better graphics chip, if my SSD, CPU and RAM are still in tip top shape, short answer is I wont.
Your phone camera is not as good as a cheap DSLR paired with a cheap 35mm f/1.8 in absolute terms.

Your phone camera is way better at the job to be done, which is to quickly share pics of your cock, cats, or kids, depending on what age bracket you are in. Traditional cameras, in which I include mirrorless, are still terrrrible when it comes to quickly bouncing a photo to Instagram, and arguably even worse when it comes to quickly making a video for TikTok.
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The cause and effect you imply here are backwards I think. The products are better to justify their higher price, not higher priced because they're better. The first sentence has it right - if you're faced with lower volumes, the best way to cope is by raising prices.
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You’re being asked to consider the possibility that your family experiences have influenced this view. Not that you are incorrect, or even correct, the parent statement is simply saying you hold this belief because if you’re experiences.
When it comes to the Artemis program it's kinda funny listening to all of SpaceX competitors.

"All of SpaceX's prototypes have blown up"

Meanwhile they don't even have a design that's gone past paper.
In tech we call them thought leaders. DevRels if they’re not self-employed.

Are they so bad?
Next we'll see articles talking about how we've overestimated the centrality of New York for "money jobs".
(2018)

Some discussion from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16447337
>I don't think there's anything in fame that inherently precludes you to making true friendships, but you might have to sift more to find them.

I guess the quantity and variety of interactions you get with fame will quickly desensitise you to the point where normal interaction with people becomes awkward.
Yes there was an article in the Times recently about how for the first time in a long time enrolments in private schools are falling. Apparently a lot of kids also now resent their parents for sending them to a private school as they are made to feel awkward about it (i.e. that they have kind of cheated the system). Of course that's not to say this is the cause of the drop in enrolments.
>The web sucks because why would I possibly want random people to write code to execute on my machine when I just want to view content?

Your OS sucks, because it doesn't make it safe for you to do so. The freedom to just run something without worry about side-effects is what we used to have back in the days of two floppy disk MS-DOS machines, and it was amazing. Your OS was safe because of the backups, and the write protect tab. Your data disk was all you risked, and you had copies of that as well. Your side effects were well known and contained.

We need to reclaim our general purpose computers. Capability Based Operating systems are how we do it.
This thread is about an article Bill Gates wrote in 1996 foreshadowing the existence of smartphones. I'm not sure how this relates?
Also cameras and lenses are (generally) much much better than they used to be.

They really are. The cheap-o kit lenses they include nowadays use molded aspheric elements, and they are designed in such a way to take advantage of in-camera distortion and vignette correction. They are far better than the kit zooms you’d get back in the film days.
Quitting was very hard. I finally quit when my daughter was born.

For a year I still wanted a cigarette. Every day.

For two years I would still be smoking in my dreams.

That was over 20 years ago. I am no longer a smoker. I do remember the pleasure from it though.
this article is mindpoison to make you think individual computers & systems are important. imo they are fading.

all new systems of any interest are systems made up of multiple devices. standalone computing is fading. facing this fact is an existential question that personal computing, that free desktops must face, as must everyone else.

still some decent exploration of the value of file systems. I for one think the mind palace of a directory heirarchy is extremely worthwhile and that search only, giant nebulous seas of files, is a terrible idea that will leave us unmoored & adrift, forever lost & without concrete thought. but I could be wrong!!
You can put url shortcuts on your desktop. Also Figma is part of a terrible trend and I hate this crap as a web dev.
That's a surprisingly eutopian vision when you put it like that.
Note that much of the demand for professional equipment isn't coming from actual professionals, just from ambitious amateurs who want good stuff.
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For a single person, it is unclear if that's really even possible now. The only way I see that changing is if hardware advances to the point where the trivial rendering approach can actually run in real time. But even then, so much of impressive visuals from 3D engines are actually the assets / procedural effects you feed into them, so large teams might have the upper hand indefinitely.
> You are saying that we shouldn't give all the attention to a few arbitrarily selected writers.

No, actually what I'm saying is we no longer need some Oxbridge Harold Bloom knockoff to select those few arbitrary writers for us.
My dad started smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol in his teens. From what I’ve gathered, he had a rough childhood. If you’re not sure you’re going to live very long, putting harmful things in your body for the immediate high isn’t the worst. It might feel worse to deny yourself the pleasure of (temporary, and in his case ultimate) escape.
Yeah and other people don't like fines for painting their window trim the wrong color.