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Agree. I made this realization when at the end of every month I needed to submit my daily work log along with my client invoices I would cobble together notes scattered in different apps, conversations, notebooks, etc. I ended up building an app that would text myself (at the same time every day) a reminder to log what I had done for the day. After a while I didn't need the reminder, I would open up my phone a few minutes before the text would come through, jot down a few things and done.

I ended up releasing the note-taking/reminder app as a subscription service [0], for reasons most obvious. Over time I wanted more from these notes...

I wanted a way to separate notes of different clients -- folders.
I wanted a way to categorize all notes related to different topics of interest -- tags.
I wanted an email to send me a summary of notes in a folder to submit my invoice or produce a weekend reading list -- email summaries.
I wanted to do all my bookkeeping in my notes, and on..

I ended up releasing the parser for the notes as an open source lib [1]. Which could add a nice layer on top of any plain-text note system running locally.

0. https://www.tatatap.com
1. https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat
Beefy machines don't give you redundancy though. Beefy machines arguably make redundancy more expensive.

If you run on a single beefy VM, you need at least two of those running for redundancy, meaning you're 100% overprovisioned (m6a.32xlarge x2 = $11/hr).

If instead you run on 4 smaller instances split across multiple regions (or AZs or whatever), you only need to overprovision by 25% if you want to handle a single failure (m6a.8xlarge x5 = $7/hr).

Obviously if you're doing offline or non-latency sensitive processing, that doesn't matter.
If you need to store other info, it doesn't make sense to aggregate. Think of it in SQL:

SELECT a, b, SUM(c) FROM table GROUP BY a

doesn't even compile. You either project away `b` or group over both `a` and `b`.
> a message queue type of service, where the desire was to minimize latency and to have consistent performance over prolonged use.

Your requirements are probably similar to this C# queues class: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/VrmacVideo/Aud... That library decodes and plays realtime video + audio, both low latency and consistent performance over prolonged use were rather important. BTW that code runs on Raspberry Pi4, CPU performance is a fraction of what you’d expect on modern desktops or servers.
> The social dynamics indicate that too much imbalance in wealth leads to societal instability. In the realm of economic theory it might not matter that there is great inequality but in the realm of politics and societal mechanics it is definitely something to pay attention to.

You seem to have missed that what ties your first and second sentences together is that, above a certain level, wealth, by itself, brings political power. So, effectively, we end up with a system that's closer to $1 = 1 vote rather than 1 human = 1 vote. Understandably, the humans who only get 1 vote, while others get 1 billion votes, tend to get upset about this.
I kept my password/credentials in a single .txt file on a truecrypt volume for a time, just to maintain the KISS principle.
Random orthostatic tolerance experience. I donated blood, then jumped on a flight the next day, didn’t drink much then worked out after arriving at the hotel.

Suffice to say struggling to see your hotel room number through tunnel vision isn’t fun.
Wait a second, it's not Grindr gathering and selling a list of homosexuals interested into sex.

It's the users themselves who actively register on Grindr to announce their services and picture on the platform.

If this activity is illegal in the country of the user, the best Grindr can do, is to prevent users from these countries from registering on the platform based on their national ID, but that's basically it.
Hardly sounds trivial, and how would you ever enforce or manage that?
Also, that is totally counter to the current (US) laws that basically state you can record video (not audio) of any publicly viewable areas freely.

What you propose would require massive changes to essentially any camera that has any part of its view covering an outdoor area, and probably many indoor areas (malls, etc.).

Also, face recognition typically runs on live streams to build indexes, so encrypting storage would not do much. You'd need to implement something like an HDMI-style encryption to control what devices/processors/whatever can connect to a live video stream from a camera to try and control exactly how the streams are processed.
>A text file is incredibly flexible, and at any point, I can quickly glance to see what I've done that day and what's left. When a task is completed, which is the most common default, I just leave it. [...] I use Ultraedit because I'm familiar with it

I've also been using a plain "todo.txt" for 20+ years and also use UltraEdit. So far, it's been better than alternatives such as Borland Sidekick, PalmPilot gadgets, Evernote.

I agree with all the positives the author laid out but I also recognize there are serious limitations with my reliance on "todo.txt".

- no "live" schedule of upcoming events because there's no runtime that turns the text file into active reminders and a countdown of when things are due. A lot of people have a "inner clock" in their head and don't need countdowns but my brain seems to to lack this. E.g. the author has example of "11:30am meet with student Enya" and when I write entries like that, the 11:30am time comes and goes because I got distracted.

- not editable by others. Sometimes, important people in my life remind me I need to do X,Y,Z but I often don't get around to the tedious data entry of adding it to to the text so it gets overlooked.

The issues above are solved better by a cloud or smartphone app but I'd miss the instant access speed and flexibility of the text file. That's why I'm working on some tools to create a runtime that converts my "todo.txt" into something that pings me on my smartphone and gives me a better live dashboard for activities.
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That makes a lot of sense too! I guess the sweet spot is where you'd find the persistent seasonal flues. Mild enough for people to be reckless, but virulent enough to cause sufficient spread.
It's not about culture. China has been interacting with the rest of the world for millennia. It's about mindset. It's about them not willing to let go of their chauvinistic imperial outlook they impart on themselves and to the world.
Yeah, and sibling comment here make sense about their definition of commercial.

But still, someone could hypothetically roll up with a big bag of cash and try to get a license for all non-Hashicorp commits.

I don’t really see what the point of that would be though, since they would still be missing the (presumably large) part written by Hashicorp.

So what Hashicorp is saying is that they are the only ones that can (/have?) released their software under a closed license, thanks to their CLA.

But (as they themselves say in other places in the filing) they are still vulnerable to someone offering e.g hosted versions / forking and selling support or other complimentary closed source software, like plugins.
I think it comes from the old days when using "porn" on a forum was considered an unwanted magnet for people searching the web for porn. The other version is "pr0n".
A lot of these players are young, almost children, that have dreamed of playing in the world cup their entire life. If they're lucky and incredibly talented they can expect to get another opportunity, but I don't think it's fair to put the onus on them to boycott.
I guess the implication is you should market like you would for electricity, that is, metered subscriptions only.
> I have no idea what Enterprise Java was like a decade ago, but I can't imagine it was much worse or better than it is now

I have seen a bunch of it, well from pre 2005, and it tended to be horrific. You can still write java horribly, of course, but the codebases I've seen written in Java in the past decade are far, far better. I still don't like they approach Java developers take (the tend to architect in "elegant", ornate, massive OOP paradigms), but it generally is waaaay better than old enterprise Java.
If they are investigating retention then yes, but studying is more than that, right? You may recall a bunch of facts but have no understanding of what is happening.
I have been doing this for about 3 or 4 years too. I wouldn't say it necessarily makes you "productive" unless you work in a very isolated fashion.

By whittling it down to the bare essentials you at least know if you are unproductive it's not because you are faffing around with the tracking of your own tasks.
Hopefully he has a backup
Nothing squishy about it. The more indirection the more extrinsic it is.
Thanks, Fabien. I know SVG works on the worldometers COVID charts, so I'm not sure what it is.

But now I'm getting "Access denied. Your IP address is blacklisted." so I'll just wait some random weeks and read it over regular Internet.
This is very interesting. Even though I know nothing about this and had to google what orthostatic means, I wonder how they came up with the idea to do this study. Why drinking water? Why not roll on the bed for 10 mins before getting up? What prompted them to think water drinking would be effective?
Fast fashion drives more waste, environmental harm and illegal (or just shady) labour practices. If the cost of externalities were captured in the price, then fast fashion probably wouldn't exist. You can't sell a $5 dress without lax environmental and labour standards.

Slow fashion on the other hand is about creating items that last for years, even decades. Each item might have greater environmental cost to produce, but the cost per wear is far lower.
> Is there any country yet that doesn't just use GDP as their main measuring stick?

Bhutan uses "Gross National Happiness" as their metric. If you ask me, they've got the right idea. I don't give a damn about numbers at the bottom of some calculation. I care whether peoples' lives have gotten better.

See https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&ty...
GDPR only requires informed consent to allow selling of data as far as I know. Am I wrong about that?
> My company is not very big(100ish employees)

I don't get how this is relevant at all, it's more about how much data your company stores than how many employees it has.

I've worked for a company with 5000 employees that stored less data (fewer data?) than my current employer that has less than 100.

> No sane business is going to sign off on +3x storage costs on a risk that cannot be easily modeled

Probably not, but for us the cost is about 0.1x our aws storage costs, so it's a no-brainer.
Weirdly enough that's what the US is doing with government on a state level. With people claiming that each state is an "experiment" even though the people there likely don't have a choice in the matter.
China is involved in no less than 18 different border disputes. Is encroaching on India territory. Bribed Solomon Island government to switch. Refuses to abide by the law of the seas. Is debt trapping nations in Africa and claiming they aren’t because they don’t directly take control of the projects and instead have Chinese businesses buy large portions of ports and natural resources. Abusing trade agreements. Threatening everyone under the sun. Lied about covid. Tried to cover it up. Spreading propaganda about how it started everywhere other than China. Holding Canada citizens hostage. Persecuting races and religions and ethic minorities. Destroying religious buildings under the guise of “illegal structures”. Building wind and solar farms on land stolen from farmers.

List could go on forever.
My productivity app is basically this txt file, but with the vanilla apple notes app + a apple shortcut script that I write that generates the template for that week. It works really well.
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> Buying upfront hardware is not feasible even if I had the cash(which most don't)

You only need one server, slap on a hypervisor and your rocking. Heck you can buy entry servers from dell for budget; upgrade later.

A 10u rack, which is adequate for any small business comes to around $500 a month in LA. 4u would be more than enough for a startup and that's around $200/month.

Is the start-up not going to purchase computer hardware, monitors, television screens for their clients when they sit in the waiting room? Email accounts with Office365, a website, a domain name? If they can fit that in to their budget I am pretty sure they could afford a server and colocation space.

> What you are saying is similar to saying may be it is cheaper to buy the building /floor instead of renting space for office. - most small biz cannot afford do that, or expect their business to change (fail/take off) in the time frame ROI would come to take that commitment.

But colocation is dynamic. Contracts can be negotiated.

> buy into rent seeking business models

And AWS isn't a rent seeking business model?

Looking at EC2 instances, for 120GBHD, 32 cores "Dedicated" instance, your looking at 679.54 USD for a month.
120GB isn't much especially when the developers start doing their thing.

For $500 you can have so much more, and hardware you actually own and that if the company does not lift off it can then be sold. Is that not the better investment?

No remarks to lack of skills.
Please can we push back a bit against the use of the word "females"? The correct word for this title is women.
So what are some of the more efficient ways of doing it, if it's not too much to ask? :-)
We're not surprised by these problems because we saw them coming, it's just really disheartening to see the expected negative downfall of the policies enacted by the "green" party and its followers. Add to this the fact that this party hardly has any support - they are currently underneath the 4% limit and will most likely disappear from Riksdagen (the Swedish parliament) and it becomes even more incongruous that they have been allowed to have such an extraordinary negative effect on the future energy supply in this country. To add insult to injury they recently stepped out of the coalition (between the "green" "miljöpartiet" (which means "environmental party")) and the social democrats, less than a year before the coming elections. They're now in supposed opposition, acting as if the negative effects are all someone else's fault. May they never reach the threshold again so that those who care for the environment stop believing this party is the one to vote for.
If someone was threatening to kill you you would be motivated to defend yourself, even going as far as hurting them… wouldn’t mean that you would want or desire to hurt them.
Scoring opportunities may be bounded. Points are not.

So long as there's an ability to make an additional score, there is no limit to the capacity to award points. No valid score will lack a point award for lack of points.

The same capacity exists in an economy with a fiat currency or infinitely extensible government credit (equivalent statements FWIW). There is no limit on the government being able to award additional monetary units (points). What's upwardly bounded is the ability to produce real wealth in any given period.

The analogy breaks down in the sense that points aren't transactable; there is no basketball economy in which teams exchange points for economic goods and services and engage in entrepreneurial activities to develop new point-scoring abilities within a game. And in basketball, if a score is made, the point is awarded automatically, rather than being exchanged in a market.

But so far as the concept of points and monetary units not being constrained by any physical quantity, the similarity holds.

I agree largely with your second paragraph, and add to that:

"Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power."

-- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
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Ah, the linear no threshold theory of radiation.

If background radiation is everywhere, how can there be no safe dose.

It’s a fun analogy, but reinforces an incorrect assumption.
> (sparse tests, unmockable static fields) that made everything a nightmare

I had the same thought. I've noticed over the past few decades that most developers migrate toward static fields (i.e. making everything global) not for performance reasons, but just because it's requires less up-front thought. And when the only thing that shows up on your year-end performance review is "did you hit the date?" this is almost understandable. Maybe the folks at SO really are that good - they can code everything right the first time and there's no particular need for unit tests, but I'm used to finding bugs that have been in the code for YEARS that would have been trivially caught if the code had just been run even one time under observation. I'm also used to code that's so monolithic (statics that import other statics that import other statics) that it takes months for new hires to get any sort of proficiency in - and that's if they're really experienced to begin with.
> since EU citizens will be enjoying those protections and US citizens will not eventually this will translate into an advantage for companies doing business from the EU and into the US. For that reason alone there will be a big incentive for the US to make a law that is symmetrical to remove this advantage.

Given the lack of similar regulation in the US despite the situation being so bad that unsolicited spam subsidises the postal service and that even government agencies sell user data I’m not sure there is a desire for this from the general population.

It doesn’t help that politicians rely on a lot of what would breach the GDPR to help their reelection such as targeted advertising and unsolicited (and often misleading - pretending to be written by the official itself) email and phone campaigns.
Not all made per se, but assembled in China at least. china is not yet a powerhouse when it comes to manufacture top of the line SoCs for example.
Technically true. But I do consulting and some agencies put me on w2 with no FT benefits at all. https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/what-is-a-w-2-contr...
From hereon, I will start referring to my PC as "the hard drive". It's a common synecdoche, after all.
Is Mongoose related to ejabberd or is it a completely different implementation?
Can't say it enough, we need "framework" -type devices for all hardware. Then we won't need the iPad because we can use the fPad and create our own OS or apps without having to be bent over a barrel by the government or corporations.

The next thing they'll try to "lock down" will be Internet infrastructure. We need some sort of cheap wireless decentralized networking for Internet 2.0. Curious what thoughts are from others around that?
Doesn't the leadership have terms and need to be reelected? At least that's what happens with clubs here. As an associate, you can vote on the next president.
When sports are so high scoring and close with so many goals they just boil down to the last 5 mins of the game being the only part that actually matters.
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This is quite a nice platform -- I was looking into the SMS space recently as well and thought a similar UI (using SMS to get notifications around) would work.

I'm curious, do many people use the SMS note save feature? Or is many people the wrong unit of measure for an SMS service? (I've wondered if users would have a reversion to things like this as well...)
* London is the surveillance capital of the world*

That's only because China does not release much information publicly about their surveillance systems, but many parts of China are most likely far more surveilled than London.
even after getting so many apps, the old school ways are still awesome
- mine are paper,
- cards,
- text file using vscode
I clicked through to the author's article on "small web" and also couldn't understand particularly what it was:
"The Small Web, quite simply, is the polar opposite of the Big Web." ?!?!?
>swap the jungle for house

In all seriousness it may actually help. I notice when I swap to lower BPM music I process information differently. Same with novel music and lyrics, they change processing
You can suggest that they write a stern tweet or reddit comment, like everyone else who likes to pretend they're protesting so they can pat themselves on the back and then continue watching the sport.
This tool is in my essentials toolbox. I use it for everything, backups, comparing snapshots, comparing git branches, external drives, you name it.

Inspecting file tree differences is key to all of those actions, as far as I am concerned, and FreeFileSync does it best, and is multiplatform to boot.
Thanks! Works after I fill out the CAPTCHA. How strange, I thought I waited long enough on Fabien's page for the SVGs to render. I'll check back if my exit rotates and the IP block goes away.
Monetary inflation is the amount of new money that is created, i.e. how much the supply expands. In Bitcoin, inflation schedule is predefined and there's an absolute limit, and these rules can't be changed. This means that if Bitcoin's demand increases, then the price increases. In other currencies, supply will be expanded if demand increases to stabilize the price. This applies to everything else too, like commodities or real estate. Increased price will increase production, until the price corrects to cost of production.

Demand can't really be predicted, but historically we know that if supply expansion is predictably low (like in gold), most people would prefer to save their wealth in that money.

Volatility is expected to decrease in time, making it more practical in short-term transactions.
It's a slap on the wrist.

100x this fine would have been appropriate. Anything less just encourages other companies to treat privacy and data security as a joke.
Until Google suspends account for no reason.
It's still kicking. They released a 1.3 "Lockdown Edition" just this month: https://portableapps.com/apps/games/assaultcube_portable
Someone should make a Language language already.

(Let it be Microsoft or Google, for bonus points.)
There's a world of difference between "This politician is lying to you." and "All politicians are lying to you." One is a statement against a single incident which can be refuted or supported by additional facts. The other is an unprovable blanket statement which begs the question of whether the government can be trusted.
Symbol versioning is the feature which has kept libc at major ABI version 6 for all these years. The libc5 -> libc6 major version bump gave users trouble for many years afterwards.
Works with Mullvad (most of the time)
One thing I'm wondering with these fines is whether they are actually "dissuasive".

In particular, the revenue limit seems problematic. For a "normal" company whose profit margin is a relatively small fraction of revenue, 4% of revenue is huge. But for highly profitable large tech companies that make money primarily from ads, it may not be possible to issue a dissuasive fine if it is capped to 4% of revenue. Maybe "4% of revenue, or 200% of profit, whichever is higher" would be a better limit.
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