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> Nobody working those jobs can afford to live in those towns anymore, so you get a bunch of millionaires going off to vacation in their winter dachas, only to discover that there's nobody there to cater to them.

This seems like a price stickiness problem. If there’s demand from tourists buy food, but not enough staff, the restaurants can raise their prices and raise the wages they offer. At some point, either demand to go to restaurants goes down because people don’t want to pay (so the staff aren’t needed), or wages increase enough that the staff can afford to live. The end state isn’t peachy for everyone (the ski area becomes a place that only the most wealthy can afford to visit) but at least the problem of understaffing is solved.
> we’ll look back at this article in 10 or 20 years shocked that people would only do audio. I highly suspect that avatars or 3D video will overtake plain webcams for a true feeling of presence that’s similar to the real world.

I suspect there will be two classes of people in 10-20 years. Those shocked that people used to have audio only calls and those envious that people used to have audio only calls. And they will be the same people who currently make video calls and those who currently leave the video off today.

I don't like having my camera on (I do it for other people when needed, but prefer having it off) and I cannot imagine what anyone gets out of it. I do recognize that there are many people who do get something out of it, so clearly here is some answer. I don't get the "feeling blind" or "less lonely".
Fighter jets won't do crap against an ICBM.
DXVK to accelerate DX9 games on Windows
Maybe absurdly high salaries for SW engineers and opportunities to rise to the top made developers less inclined to stick to their piece of code, abandoning it for the next person to maintain, only to get corrupted by the same salaries and PM opportunities.
https://archive.is/2Dm9l
I personally don't find this particular popup bothering. I can continue to read the page without interruption. I also understand that they want me to subscribe or whatever so I know when their next article is up.
>while also making it my single point of failure

This is my concern as well. The whole idea of my passwords being in a black box that is tied to my hardware seems like a recipe for disaster if I am traveling and my hardware gets stolen, lost or destroyed.

(maybe there is something that I am failing to understand, but I've watched several videos that attempt to explain how a PW manager works and I've not found an answer)
This was limited to airliner taking off from a few west coast airports. That said it does take a little while for slack to get things back to normal, but no individual should have been inconvenienced by more than 15 minutes.
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I'm a founder at a stealth startup building a novel software for a specific industry, which in our tests have shown to be able to reduce costs for a specific budget anywhere between 20 and 35% for the client, which are very big private organizations, per annum. We're about to go to the market for the first time after the tests, but we have been thinking about the best way to price for the annual billing.

Our line of reasoning right now is: if our tech will allow our clients to spend let's say 1M/y less than before, it would be perfectly fine for us to charge somewhere between 25-35% of the benefit (250k-350k/y). Is this valid, in yours opinion?

We don't have good estimates for what our real cost of service will be, but we're sure we can make it work if we charged 25-35% of the benefit.

I think I should mention the cost for our client to adopt our technology is very very low compared to the benefit, so it's not much of relevance in pricing.

Any ideas or resources for reading would be much appreciated. I'm sorry for not being able to tell all the relevant info, but I'm happy do discuss and answer questions.

Thank you!

PS: English is not my primary language.
My girlfriend has been using 1Password for years without any issue, so I think it must be a decent service, at least in her book. The built-in password management on iOS and macOS has been good enough for me, though.
Ah, the Jagex method.
The problem with paid parking at least in North America is that many/most cities are designed so that you need a car to get around -- driving is a necessity not a luxury. This makes paid parking feel like a tax rather than a service.

Contrast that to, say, a dense city like Tokyo or Beijing where parking is both scarce and almost always comes at a cost. There is much less backlash, because you can get to pretty much everywhere just using public transit. In this case, people accept that point-to-point driving is a luxury -- you're choosing convenience so it's natural that that would come at a cost.
Nest already provides some smart people / motion detection. I could definitely see personal home security use-cases if you're building something DIY. Curious as to why you might prefer a system like this over what Nest provides. Is it the more granular metadata?
The most ridiculous thing with Apple is that they don't even allow installing OS updates they themselves released to devices they declare obsolete.

You can't download updates since Apple no longer host them and there's no option (at least official) to sideload them even if you had the files.

This is an utter disrespect for the customers no one should tolerate.
Having worked on for a short stint with some power plant control systems, I can say that, at least the systems I worked with, were quite niche. The actual control was happening on these racks that ran a VxWorks OS on some Motorola, I think they were, MCU's. Despite this, the systems were interfaced with some Windows machines that did supervision. When they were operating, they had redundancies, and were quite locked down. Of course, at that time, I was a noob and did not understand _everything_ that was going on in there.

Actually, now that I think of it, the WDPF system it was derivated off was used in some nuclear power plants as well.

Regardless, what I wanted to say was... being obscure, while it makes things mildly harder for skiddies is not a big deal for state actors or more resourceful attackers. The Stuxnet was highly targeted and they got access to specific vulnerabilities in the Siemens DCS systems that were running there. Just having exotic systems is no guarantee. I agree, obscurity is a layer of defense in depth, but no guarantee. Surely you don't suggest they use a new purpose built HW for each control system design. Also, control systems DO need to have their SW updated as well. It's obvious you can't make it hard read only. You do have physical lockout mechanisms for this though.
Judge denies Facebook's motion to dismiss FTC antitrust case
Makes sense that we need a new vaccine since there have been over 30 mutations in the spike protein. Evidently Pfizer will have one out in March, but it might not matter by then since most of us will have had it and will be naturally immune.
The real world rescue sequence really was confusing, and on top of that was comprised of a bunch of really uninteresting characters. They kept saying it was extremely difficult but it didn’t really come off that way in the film.
“This guy shamelessly cloned Wordle as an F2P iOS game with IAP and is bragging”
>I don't think I have even 100 let alone 400 logins.

And the real question is: how many of these logins require max level of security?
What an odd response. I don't want an ESR release. I downloaded v95 and v95.0.1 because they had potential relevance. The 95.0.2 was a patch for crashes on old hardware and os configurations which have absolutely zero relevance to me. The download or dismiss dialog is clear evidence of intention to let users skip unwanted stuff. If it were supplemented with a why link to the release notes and a hard refusal option then that would work great. What you are endorsing is incompetence at release management and ignorance from users. This is much like the passive hostility of developers working on high end hardware and then wondering why ordinary people have such bad experiences.
But neither can nuclear reactors that do not exist yet. Sure, there are a couple that got shut down, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to total consumption. If you want to get an alternative to gas in 15 years or so then maybe nuclear would work. But a better bet is to get people to install heatpumps and drive those with solar and wind in a few years time. Far more effective use of resources, and far quicker from start to finish.
I've been using Firefox for a looong time. What convinced me to choose that over any other browser is the following:
A. It ran on macOS AND Solaris (which I worked on for a looong time).
B. It took awhile for the feature to arrive but eventually I was able to sync my bookmarks across both platforms (this made me so happy).

At this point, even though I'm not using Solaris anymore (sniff) I'm so used to it I don't feel the need to try anything else.
I would bet that a large portion of first time GitHub users have never used ssh, myself included at that time. Anyone teaching themselves to code will find a lot of information right away about git and GitHub, but probably little about ssh until they've gone pretty far past the stage where they create a Hello World script in Python and save it to GitHub.
I'd guess they are comparable, but one difference is that US state propaganda is spread around the whole world, while the Chinese one stays in China.

The mere fact that Americans believe Chinese somehow cannot criticize their country's flaws - despite how obviously idiotic this belief would be - shows that.

(Or the belief that China is somehow trying to eradicate Winnie the Pooh, despite Chinese Disneyworld being a thing.)
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I have a vision to disrupt the oldest industry in the world. It is the Religion/Gods/Donations vertical.

I have already built the crude form of the app and its available on AppStore and PlayStore ( GodsDecentralized)

Now about the idea:

To bring the Popular and Mythological Gods to the Metaverse. Gods/Religions are the second most important virtual construct (first one being money). They serve a purpose especially in mental or spiritual well being.

The market is a huge one (6 billion people out of the 7 billion are religious/ritualistic folks). Donations to Gods/Religions are also HUUUUUUGE. (400 billion dollars )

There is a B2C and B2B part of my vision. The B2C part is a gamified prayer app for the users. The B2B version includes onboarding churches and temples and being the platform they use to advertise their services and collect donations across the globe.

Despite Gods being a virtual construct like money formed in the human mind, they live as statues in temples and churches centralized by the powers that collect money in their name. This is the only vertical not disrupted by technology and the pandemic has created the ripe environment for this.

End goal is to bring the Gods as NFTs on the platform, making a decentralized worship protocol, onboard all churches and temples and make it easy for people to worship their Gods and send money to good causes in a transparent manner.

About me: I am technical and understand technology and the religion/worship/crypto markets fairly well.

What I need is a cofounder who will compliment me on the marketing/growth/user acquisition/ community building side. Preferably you should have experience on that side, to grow the team, nurture talent. Location wise you should could be in USA or India as these are the markets which makes sense to start with.

I have a deep knowledge of technology and I can understand fluff from stuff and I am hands on. I can find the right people as we scale in each part of technology that is required. You should be the same on the user acquisition / growth side.

If you are passionate about a decentralized world/ religion/money and have a anarcho-capitalistic libertarian view of the future it will be great. Will be easier to gel from a thought perspective but that is not a must.

Building the app/ Raising money is not an issue. But changing human behaviour is hard.

So this is not at all going to be easy but I do have my sights set for first B2B church set with a 500,000 laity.

We can even decide if we want to apply for the summer YC batch. Maybe we might need to or can take this forward without YC.

If you are truly interested and think you are the right fit, shoot me an email to info@GodsDecentralized.com

If you are not the right person please upvote so that person can see this post.
Like I said, what if one of those planes had a malfunctioning transponder? It is a somewhat stretched scenario, but the NK military might have gotten bold and decided to shoot a missile all the way to the boundary of US territorial waters or airspace. In the middle of nervously tracking a missile that seems to be headed directly toward the west coast, NORAD suddenly sees another object that looks just like an airplane heading toward LA or SF, but it is not identifying itself. Now NORAD personnel have to take time to figure out if this airplane is just a malfunctioning civilian plane or some kind of NK attack.

Sure, NORAD probably tracked the plane from whatever airport it departed from, but during the missile test they probably want to have their personnel focus every second of their attention on the missile and not on checking some flight path.
Interesting application! We're working with a few people that monitor public streets in different ways so I can see this being useful to you as well! Feel free to reach out to me at mokshith@sievedata.com and we can chat more :)
This will run you afoul of existing no-cruising laws.

(...which were put on the books decades ago to keep taxi drivers trolling for fares out of high-congestion areas.)
Php/Laravel/Livewire == Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView == C#/.NET/Blazor == Ruby/Rails/Hotwire/Turbo

It's also slowly being integrated into JS frameworks although they're still behind as the focus has been clientside and static generation so far.
So you’re criticizing them for a sequence of events that exists only in your imagination?

And what do you believe needs to happen for MS to switch into “switch” mode? This change isn’t making people more dependent on GH, the number of accounts is probably growing slower than in the past because almost everyone has an account… What’s the piece missing for them to turn to the dark side?

I think I’ll wait.
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Agreed, it's not enough to just be car-hostile. Pain and inconvenience do not automatically lead to increased public transit utilization.
If you approach the issue holistically, you both improve transit and wind down subsidies and aids for drivers.

Tangent: there's an interesting equilibrium effect with commuter traffic - if a commute is served by an automobile route and a train line, the commute times will be similar. If for some reason, automobile traffic is delayed by loss of road capacity, over the long term some of that auto traffic will switch modes to the rail option, until the systems are in equilibrium once again.

Obviously in the real world this is much more complex but it's still observable... let me see if I can find a link...
The work is broken up by meetings and the meetings are broken up by work. Everything is so damn fractured it drives me crazy.

If we are starting a new epic then we should spend a day or two figuring out what exactly what we're building, then go build it. Instead planning itself is fractured 1 hour here, 15 minutes there and it's hard to keep track of what the hell you're planning on doing.
I was a little worried when the sub-heading said "Skying Skying..."

However, made it all the way down to their audio clip. Holy cow that gets totally psychedelic after just a couple of minutes. Such a bit of sample gold!
I made a less-polished version of this too, although mine uses the Oklab colourspace for interpolation:

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/widgets/css-gradient-fixer/
Thanks for sharing!
Its so frustrating that modern banks are split into two distinct categories: the classical banks and the neo-banks.

The first ones are slow, ugly and borderline unusable.

The latter ones are sleek and fast, but completely deceiving and unreliable. Those Neo Banks are best examples of modern FinTech - no Finance and no Technology whatsoever. Almost none of those unicorn Neo-Banks has a credit license, the most essential feature of a bank! And their technology boils down to having a mobile app. Hardly impressive in 2022. Is a barbershop with a mobile app suddenly a tech business?

Reviews like this really help - will be hoping for more
If refueling was already a highly questionable proposition given 5 or 10 years of fuel, having ~20 years of fuel certainly doesn't increase the reward in risk-vs-reward analysis.[0]

In what hypothetical scenario does fuel deplete at a greater than expected rate, in a way that wouldn't also call into question the reliability and expected lifespan of the remaining limiting factors?

Accidental commanded release? A leak? Station-keeping being more demanding than expected? Those would all move risk-v-reward in the wrong direction.

And it doesn't substantially decrease the cost or risks, other than what might be gained by an extended development period, which would need to be weighed against simultaneous advances better applied to and spent on a successor.

So maybe not an absolutism, but an already highly-unlikely proposition who's chances of implementation just decreased dramatically due to the new information at hand.

[0] By ending up with an older/ closer to failure but refueled satellite, and a decreased relative value of remaining potential science/observations, presuming highest value science is done first.
Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml
>tipping is a cultural norm, hence people wish to tip

More like feel obliged to tip.
You can pretend there's no difference between this and a computer virus, but there clearly is.

The users of this software pull it, explicitly, voluntarily. The author says it doesn't serve any particular purpose, and in using it you understand that. the software itself did nothing malicious, it just stopped working. It's not the same thing as slapping a license on a computer virus and forcibly foisting it onto an unwitting victim. It's not naive legalese loophole workaround thinking. When you choose to use the software you agree to abide by the license, which includes no promise of utility whatsoever.
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Same here. If I was starting from scratch, I'd consider Bitwarden, but 1Password has been so flawless for me over the decade and a half I've used it (off and on) that I can only lose by moving.
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1Password on desktop stores items in a standard SQLite database, in an open format: https://support.1password.com/1password-security/#transparen...

They also store regular copies of your vault in a backup folder. If Satan buys them and they try to lock you out, just decrypt your backups and move somewhere else.
I'm wondering if there are cultural practices in play regarding your mention of SFH being used as "overcrowded communal living situations".

For example, it's not uncommon in Asia to find multiple generations living in the same household. AFAIK California has a lot of Asians.

While not in California, the town my parents live in has had an influx of Chinese immigrants the past decade or so. This has resulted in situations like the above, where multiple generations (grandparents, parents, grown children, grandkids) are living in the same SFH. Often times all three adult generations are driving, so that's at least 3 cars. Even more if say, each working individual have their own cars.

The result is that the street in front of my parents' home is jam packed with parked cars that would not fit in these homes' driveways/garages.

I don't not-sympathize, being an Asian myself, as I also happen to think the American obsession of kicking out adult children out of the household ASAP regardless of circumstances is stupid (or from the other side, clawing tooth and nail to achieve so-called "independence" from parents regardless of circumstances). At the same time, the street parking situation is not sustainable.
Well, first off "normal" antibiotics don't kill viruses so that kinda makes it different from the start. But even then, most antibiotics kill bacteria etc through disrupting their cellular processes and leaves the DNA mostly alone. Resistance against antibiotics is created through natural evolution; those bacteria that can survive better in an environment where antibiotics will reproduce more than their cousins which can't.

OTOH, Molnupiravir works by: (quoting from Wikipedia again)

> [it] exerts its antiviral action through introduction of copying errors during viral RNA replication.

So it deliberately stops virus reproduction by introducing errors in RNA copying. The vast majority of time this just makes the virus nonfunctional, but it is technically not impossible that it creates a viable mutated strain. This mutated strain may or may not be worse than the original virus. It is not unsimilar to how `cat /dev/urandom | bash` just MIGHT start off with `rm -rf /` and delete everything, but usually it will just create a crash because the random bytes don't parse into a valid bash command.
"lazy" is a moral judgement. You are talking about sound business decisions.
I don't think sending a car on an errand is cheating in any way. In fact I think it's one of the great promises of self driving cars. People already do curbside pickup of groceries, dry cleaning, restaurant food, etc... There's no reason a person needs to be in that car.
At that point I doubt it. I was expecting that answer in fact. Smalltalk had a couple problems Java didn’t. Its syntax scared people used to C while Java made them feel comfortable. The tooling was also free, which was not the case for Smalltalk at the time. Finally, the idea of storing source code inside a memory image didn’t help with interoperability (something I also observed while working with Zope).
> if there's a case in the class we've got to keep our kids at home for a week

The answer to that might be to just all agree not to do this any more. Vaccine or not, the policy of shutting down a whole class if anyone has a case of CoVID is just silly for preschool aged kids.

A more cynical view:

There is already a known safe and effective way to develop antibodies in children to stop transmitting CoVID, and that's ... letting them get CoVID!

So actually if a child in the class gets CoVID, maybe they should be required to sing to the whole class in a small room for a week.
You’re definitely not allowed to drive or park in a bike lane, nobody would do that.

On some on way side streets they have this weird system where the bike lane and takes up half the road and shares it with parked cars
I checked the rules and they're more complicated than you give credit. If he had a negative test, he was allowed to travel.

The way it played out was poor, and few are impressed. We're still yet to find out fully what happened behind the scenes. A lot of misinformation is circulating.

https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/internation...