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> I think it demonstrates how little attention Web3 should be getting

Let people decide for themselves where to pay attention to? I remember "Internet" receiving a lot of hype in 1998 when most of the people didn't have any clue about what that actually entailed.

> The original promise of the Internet and Web 2.0 had clear use cases, where you could understand and appreciate the improvements to every day life

Hahaha, but no. Where I was in 1998, hardly anyone had any idea what Internet was about and yet there was a lot of hype. In the early days, I remember using it only for porn, random email forwards and chats. The way I use it now (searching for anything and everything, buying majority of the stuff I need, payments of all kinds, investments, ...) was unimagined.

> I don’t see any of that with the web three.

Have you ever considered that you could be wrong and that in a couple of decades, there might be something really interesting out of Crypto / Web3?
Another day on the internet where someone states their opinion as truth. Truly you have convinced me Brother I'm torching my android phone right now.
I don't know what happened either but it was a great submission and that's by far the most important thing!
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It's easy to dismiss this, but it's real. He showed me slide decks where they explicitly call out prioritizing certain classes of people, and would only fill certain roles with those classes due to the team being "imbalanced". I've known this person for a long time and trust them to not weave an elaborate fabrication including creating fake documents to make me feel better. This is a FAANG company btw.
> hey, juicero at least was electric

But could be bested by simply squeezing the bag with your dirty grubby hands.

Juicero is truly one of my favorite companies ever. The whole thing was a massive pile of extravagant hardware whose only reason for existence was to tell you "no, you cannot squeeze this particular bag of juice". It is the quintessential silicon valley echo chamber product. The fact that its founder went on to hawk "raw water" coming from spigots drilled into the hillsides along state highways only makes the story that much better.
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At Imperfect Foods we are all about groceries on a mission. Since 2015, our services have saved over 100M lbs of food. Our product and technology team is responsible for building our ecommerce platform and internal tooling, as well as ensuring smooth daily operation of our rapidly growing business. We are swimming in interesting problems around customer-facing features, scale, and logistics. If all of this excites you, come join us!

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Unfortunately going through a situation with a dog now which has led me deep into depression again. My dog which I adopted 4 months ago has resource guarding issues which has caused him to bite me and my roommates multiple times, and has unfortunately led to an ultimatum from my roommates which I got yesterday that its either me or the dog.

I have tried for months working with the dog and spent thousands on training and tools to try and train him out of his resource guarding issues with no success. It looks like I have very little choice except to have him go back to the rescue I got him from, as moving is out of the question with how much housing costs in my area (I live in a house a good friend owns and I'm paying under market rates right now), let alone even if I moved out I would have difficulty finding any roommates who would tolerate a dog which bites.

The dog has been a great companion and I love him, but having to let him go has made me feel absolutely horrible, and I feel the worst I have in years now.
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> Why would anyone think a silly picture of an ape would ever be a good investment?

Well, it depends on the investment horizon you are looking for.

Long-term? Fully agreed, betting on a random picture of an ape as a long-term investment is rather silly, unless you either treating it as a lottery ticket or know something others don’t.

Short-term? I can easily see why someone would think it is a good investment. There is a hype going around NFTs right now, they routinely go up in price significantly, and if you want to have your chance at a risky short-term play, then why not. As long as you recognize that it is very high risk (with a high chance of your investment not panning out), and you are willing to drop some spare money on it (and being fully ok with losing them), then I don’t see any harm in it.

Note: I primarily defend it from a risky short-term investment point of view. Because while I own no NFTs and have zero desire to do so, I regularly do small short-term risky investments by playing weekly OTM stock options. No, i am not hoping to become rich off of that. But it is a fun way to break up the routine, learn more about technical fundamentals, and I am still net positive on those risky plays. Though to underline, this is a tiny portion of my portfolio, and one should not treat very high risk plays (regardless of whether it is NFTs or OTM weeklies) as a basis for one’s portfolio. Moderation and not building up illusions of the high likelihood of success with those types of high-risk investments are the key.
Reading posts like this one, I am very glad that I work at a place where we have

1) an engineer on-call rotation for every discipline - no database engineer has to troubleshoot a broken CSS rule

2) on-call engineers get paid a big chunk of change, and even more on holidays

3) all the on-call engineers are much smarter than I am (a little harder to replicate this one, unless you're dumb like me)

I honestly kind of forget that it even exists because it runs so smoothly. Good opportunity for me to get some perspective and be grateful!

Edit: since someone asked, here are some other cool things that my engineering org does so smoothly that I forget they exist

- Very very good automated build monitoring: when you push code for review / to internal / to prod, you know what happens to it as it happens.

- Business tech is something I've literally never had to think about for more than eight seconds – laptop, idm, badge, slack, outlook, etc has worked absolutely perfectly the entire time I've been here (except, weirdly, this one meeting room that refuses to stay reserved.)

- Testing: we have a ridiculously competent QA apparatus. Our product is used by customers with extremely stringent UI requirements, and so regression testing is mission-critical, even for tiny UI bugs. Every team has a QA, but we also have a QA Architect position who helps guide org-wide decisions. Generally, QAs are also very respected and treated as peer engineers by feature developers, and I think it shows.

I work at a big SaaS company, and there are entire teams of people devoted to developer tools, so this stuff is all """basic""", I would argue; but man, it's easy to forget how much human effort has to go into making it basic, and how often we fuck up the "easy" stuff.
Have to agree exactly. Fed up in academia having to help students who haven't swallowed a dictionary to do science.
Extra verbiage when it's not exactingly explicit doesn't offer anything over a short succinct description.

I think there is far too much elitism over exacting English that makes papers as difficult to read as papers where there has been no oversight and no author who is a native speaker.
You'd probably need an effective carbon economy and regulatory framework that would reward soil with good carbon sequestration.

But to your point, the masters human race would rather destroy themselves that do things like that.
Like all the crypto stuff, I've started to think of this as "memtic pandemic"; the idea that it's worth spending absurd amounts of money on audio improvements / pictures of apes is spread over the internet and infects certain vulnerable people with adverse results.
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- Technical Artist: 5+ years exp.; Proficient in C++, Lua, Python and/or JavaScript

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Incredible website! Very functional for how experimental it is and full of neat surprises. Love that a screensaver comes on after it is inactive for a while.

(I found the pizza recipe btw)
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I am an experienced software engineer, and I have mostly been working on backend/server-side code recently. In the past, I have worked with many technologies, from C in the Unix kernel, to Java for Android apps, plus various PHP and Javascript bits. I have recently finished a contract in an experimental devops-ish team for a large European bank, and before that I was a senior engineer and 'code owner' (responsible for code/design reviews and deployments, as well as making my own contributions and mentoring junior devs) at an Asian unicorn.

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> c. Electric vehicles consume an order of magnitude more chips than ICE cars. EV demand is also skyrocketing

Source? My impression is just the opposite. Batteries and an electric motor is a relatively simple device compared to a gas motor. So you replace a fuel pump (and related sensors), cat converter (and sensors), transmission (and sensors), and a hugely complex (1000s of parts) engine (and sensors). Managing maximum efficiency, torque, and HP across the entire RPM range while minimizing emissions is quite an intensive process. Not to mention the interaction between the engine and the (compute controlled) transmission. Especially these days when the simple rules are gone and managing turbos, heat management, etc means that you might give maximum HP, but only for 5-10 seconds or even idling unneeded cyclinders, stopping the engine at redlights, etc.

Tesla in particular as moves many distributed chips into a highly integrated single board, various people (like Monroe on Youtube) claim the Tesla model3 has a market leading level of integration replacing dozens of distributed CPUs with a custom board/ASIC.
Not all that google indexes is public, primarily paywalls/loginwalls allow google IP's to crawl information unhindered but as users you are not, so a new search engine will have to get to a scale and popular enough for others to open up.
Quick example: Google can index many news sites, or LinkedIn profiles for example that a regular user with no account cannot.
Unfortunately, this kind of discussion ends up turning into a knife fight these days here.

I tried using HTMX recently for mainly a CRUD app for personal use, with limited dynamic loading. Still felt the need to rely on JS(Jquery) for loading images and triggering refresh on list of items without full page reload[1].

Did a small A/B test from dev POV using Vue.js, as it is one of the more lighter frameworks. Ended up leaning more towards Vue.js, as had to do some non-conventional(from HTMX POV)[1] things for a simple CRUD app not relying on full page loads/refreshes. Hopefully there is another step in this evolution.
Are you personally involved in any climate projects / looking to collaborate?
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Article contains embedded video of the entire interview on Twitter.
A little sharp but I think you're onto something. It feels like those writers want to be even-handed when describing Africa: talk about the ills and then extend goodwill. The problem is that, because they don't know what they're talking about, they default to platitudes. Cheap, naive words which to reveal more about them than their audience. The writer implies "I know you" with emphasis on the "know" is rejected by the audience who says "You don't know us" with emphasis on the "you".

When pressed, the writers will often claim they were just "sharing their experience". But experience alone is only one part of knowledge; certainly not enough to support their original, sweeping claims. I think that's why credible writers will carefully caveat their words; they want a real connection with other people, not a fake connection that only serves the self.
> - Enabled downvoting on results, like YT videos. (Has its own spam problems, just like YT)

They're going the OPPOSITE DIRECTION from this!! They recently removed all downvote visibility of YouTube videos from the user, so now downvotes only feed into their algorithm. So in the last line of defense of me ending up watching a shitty video, one of the most valuable tools has been removed by my betters. It's preposterous that people think that Google is doing a good job. They're actively getting worse, and ignoring everyone saying so.
Sorry but this sounds like "I want to see something, you don't know what it is, I won't tell you, and if I don't see it it's game over bye!"
I personally find them frustrating because they throw off our regular release cycle. Sure, we didn't deploy any potentially buggy work (or any fixes for known bugs...), but now we have to manage a giant release when we 'thaw'. And make sure no work gets left out, which is more likely since we're off our normal cadence.
Romania in 89 was the poorest country in Europe after Albania. a failed state just like the rest communist states
Can someone buy this, open it up and make a video about it? I'm willing to bet money it just has a bog standard Broadcom Ethernet switch chip inside.
Not sure how you're differentiating "seo spam content farm" from "website"
Uh, in an abstract way it's not wrong; I don't have kids and probably won't have 'em, and I'm not real happy about paying for other people's kids. But let me just give you a nauseating example of how your kind of thinking is real close to the edge of the rails...

I was in Spain and through some friends I was hosting an American couple, showing them around town. The wife was a bicycle racer and the guy was in the Air Force, logistics guy recently back from sitting somewhere air conditioned. So we had a few drinks and he told me about his views. He had a very negative opinion about Medecins Sans Frontieres, I'm not sure if they had done him wrong somehow (they saved my life, once, so I had a positive opinion of them, and we argued). He said this:

"Why should we give aid to Africa? They just make more babies. The population is already too high."

I asked him, "Do you mean we shouldn't make drugs available?" He responded in the affirmative. He said,
"Until they can make those drugs for themselves, why should we white europeans give them drugs to make more children?"

There was nothing humanitarian in his statements, he was purely a racist. It was one of (not the) most outright racist things I've ever listened to. I sat and absorbed it as we drank wiskey on my balcony. Then I told him he was a racist piece of shit, and kicked him and his-- wife who fell asleep on my couch, out of my house.

Now, even though I don't have kids and don't want them, do I think your Malthusian theory about growth trajectory is wrong? Yes.
An asset class similar to Gold - provably limited in supply and valued because everyone else values it. Also, much easier to transfer around the world unlike Gold.
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Hi there, history rewriter !

First of all, Romania wasn't the one of the wealthiest countries in the Eastern bloc at almost any point. East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and even the USSR for a while were ahead.

Secondly, even if that were true, Ceaușescu went on a North Korean craze (the OG kpop fan), massive parades and autarky (economic self sufficiency) included. The Romanian economy reached its relative Communist peak before 1980, because Ceaușescu crashed it afterwards trying to pay all foreign debt. Not some, all of it. Oh, and he built the second largest building in the world (current day Palace of the Parliament), spending roughly 1 full state budget on it).

Romania crashed hard because we were making stuff nobody wanted. We were selling it inside the Eastern bloc to captive buyers. On top of that privatization was delayed and initially it was only to internal cronies.
It would make sense that pre-existing heart issues would be worsened by vaccine that has heart complications. Similar to how covid itself is much more deadly with pre-existing comorbidities while being mostly harmless for healthy young people.
I worked at an ecom unicorn that did this and had been doing so for about a decade. I think it saved them quite a bit of money by giving extra time off to ops in exchange for their extra work during the holidays.

Code freezes (in my experience) don't actually reduce the number of bugs or incidents. I think in all probability they increase the number of incidents and cost money because of the warm up period.

But they do shift the timing when incidents occur, and that can be nice if your customers are sensitive to holiday sales. It's also nice to your employees. Paying your SREs a bit more for their tour of duty to the customers and employees is worth it.
I guess Paul's definition of "beating Google" is "creating a startup without clear revenue path aiming to be acquired by Google or a competitor" as I can't think of any meaningful way a niche search engine would provide a good enough value proposition against existing Google competitors or embeddable search engines (as well as SaaS like Algolia).
There was a 1password to lastpass importer at that time, I know because I used it
And what exactly is the "general point"?
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The issue is and will always be monetizing. Anyone competing with Google will need to have a robust monetizing strategy to survive.