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'1st time founders talk about product, 2cnd time founders talk about channel'.

If you go to the Drug Store and look at the variety of aisles, note that the products don't change much.

The channels to those spots on the shelf are locked down hard. New products into that space are usually by companies who control distribution.

What happens when a crack dealer shows up on the corner in someone else's turf? They get shot. Well, you're not going to just walk into some market without being a target.

Hence the dilemma.

Products that have natural breakthrough aspects already have a big advantage.

There are so, so many cool physical products that would exist but don't because channels are locked down by big players.

Also another note - the author's attempt at digital advertising seemed to be a big glib! Throwing $40 on Twitter won't get you much. Most of it has to do with the ad and the target market.

The author definitely has some natural marketing skills, due to their obvious ability to narrate a story and capture attention with this article I'd recommend he leverage that in some way, possibly with a YouTube ad of some kind to try things out.
It's unclear whether their 1.9x times include time dealing with parking. In some urban neighborhoods, finding parking close to one's destination can be challenging, inefficient, and highly variable. If the closest parking you find is a ways away from your destination, then it adds time to _two_ trips.
Even when we spend billions on transit we build it badly. US obsession with turning Light Rail into a Frankenstein that tries to fill all roles (eg commuter light rail). The resistance to electrification and reliance on slow loco hauled trains. Billions thrown at beautiful but not functionally helpful stations (cough Moynihan or Transbay). Not aligning new transit with development and not implementing station area land use changes. Etc. And of course top it off with how little we get for the money in terms of track miles. It’s tragic really.
That's literally just spam.
Yeah well... Those days are long gone. :-/
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As a middleground, at around 42 pages long, there's Divided by Infinity: https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/
This is a different Scott.
> they would've used it as a PR opportunity to bash the legislation

To what end? Needlessly pissing off lawmakers isn’t a smart strategy.
I’ve never had any real issues with wayland. It supports high DPI, fractional scaling, and high refresh rates very well — couldn’t say the same about X!

All of my struggles with wayland were adoption. It’s a struggle to force every older electron app to use wayland via CLI flags because the authors, even big ones, haven’t bothered.

I guess there are some unsupported things — like screen control. (If you wanted to control another person’s screen over a video call, it’s unsupported in wayland.) But it also actually sandboxes a lot of things which should be (like screen control!)

Adoption would be a problem with a different system as well, unless it was fully compatible with X. Which defeats at least part of the problem wayland solves.
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Exactly. I personally know several people in this line of work and none are botanists, but are instead organic chemists, geneticists, scientists of various types. The work companies are looking to do with plants requires those areas of expertise.

It's like engineering. Lockheed Martin and Boeing don't hire "airplanasists", they hire engineers and scientists that do the things they need to to to build a plane. The airplane part they learn in the job, the building blocks are science. Yes, there are aerospace engineering programs so this analogy only goes so far.
> Where to begin?

I propose you start with genuinely concerning problems. Operator overloading is a first-world problem and I've made a good career never depending on it (outside of my active C/C++ years at the start of it).

"Generics argument concepts" says exactly nothing, to me at least. Elaborate?

"Programmed move semantics" is, if I understand you correctly, a flavor / taste thing but I can agree it can be made better and more explicit -- say by not using the `=` operator for it. That I could stand behind. Still, it's only catching you off-guard while you're learning. 50/50 though. It's a concern but IMO not a major one.

And your final sentence betrays bias to C++. Well fine, use that, nobody is forcing you to work with Rust, right?

But if you're willing to bash Rust, please do so with concrete arguments. If you know something negative about it that I don't, I believe I and many others will benefit from informed objective criticism.

Do you have that? Already asked you in another comment and I'm still willing to listen to it.
For me, when setting up a call with a large amount of people on a webex/zoom meeting - will throw a timer up on the browser and screen share. Folks know when we will start the meeting again. I'm sure there are ways to do it with PPT... but a web page timer is good enough.
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what are you basing this on? the netherlands has a system of high speed motorways, along with rapid inter-city rail and a dense network of cycle routes. cars, trains, bikes, buses, are all viable ways of getting around, both within cities and between them.

why do you think the only worthwhile part of the transport network is the road network? and why do you think the only worthwhile road users are motorists?

it seems like you think nobody should have any choice except to travel by motor car. lack of choice doesn't seem like freedom to me.
You can’t trust Google. Period.
Yeah, i do that too, but sadly i'm in a fairly touristic city and in summer it become very hard to find available vehicle.
Speaking from experience, you're right given its convenience. Though, I (and any responsible lawyer for that matter) will then also look up the case on WestLaw/Lexis given Wikipedia is very much an imperfect source.
Had noticed their 'mortgage calculator' had disappeared for a few months, at least in the UK. It's since been revived.
Tiktok will definitely be replaced by a similar app if they don't start paying out to their content creators in a similar way that Youtube (still awful, but better) does.

Hank Green has a great video[0] on the difference since he is on both platforms, and unless there is more compensation to the creators, they will get burned out chasing the high of the occasional viral video.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZapFzpP64
To worry some people, the commission certifying this also downplayed the three miles incident.

"However, the NRC faced the same problems in obtaining accurate information as the state, and was further hampered by being organizationally ill-prepared to deal with emergencies, as it lacked a clear command structure and did not have the authority either to tell the utility what to do or to order an evacuation of the local area."

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
Wow I absolutely love the styling on that page on mobile.

When you scroll past the "8 signs of successful musician" guide to the list of musicians, it pins the guide to the top of the screen so you can compare every musician. Really natural, should be everywhere.
The implication of your comment is that you'd feel equally comfortable fucking a 19 yo as a 91 yo.

I'm not sure that would be the case for everyone if they were presented with the option.
i would just link you mine but this is a pseudonymous account; however:

most nix-darwin users i know have a darwin-configuration.nix that's nearly identical to the one the installer plops down for you, with the exception of more items under `environment.systemPackages`, and using nix-darwin solely as a declarative alternative to nix-env is totally viable

other than a few built-in service configurations and plist defaults, darwin-configuration.nix typically grows much as configuration.nix does on nixos. define or modify a couple packages here and there, shove them into `pkgs` by setting `nixpkgs.overlays`, etc etc. the ux is intentionally very similar to that of nixos

what this means is you can look at a lot of people's nixos config repos and get some idea of what you can do just as well with nix-darwin

i can, however, offer you my anecdote:

nix-darwin has let me completely forget that brew and macports exist, and even let me get away without installing xcode at all -- it's perfectly competent at “getting a suite of dev tools onto a macbook”, but what really sold me on it was just how straightforward adding a new package is:

mypkgs $ bc <<<$(cat *.nix | wc -l)/$(ls | wc -l)
32

that's an average of 32 lines to go from “obscure thing that literally nobody packages” to “bona fide part of my system”, and that includes meta blocks with homepage/description/etc, because i periodically try and get some of this stuff merged into mainline nixpkgs

the language itself is a little quirky and the evaluation model of the module system is somewhat fraught with fixed-point knot-tying fuckery, but between the process of packaging being so nice and brew/macports pissing me off, i found it easy to drink enough koolaid to get to grips with those aspects

i've been using nix-darwin and for almost exactly one year, and replaced all my linux installs with nixos, and i have not looked back whatsoever
So many possibilities of a small key based computer.
Given the mention of security issues in their custom PostScript extensions, and that PDF files are often malformed, I wonder why they chose C as the language for the new interpreter. I don't want to write a typical HN comment (cough use Rust for everything :)) but surely there is _some_ better language for entirely new development of a secure and fast parser in 2022.

The post has no explananation of this choice. Does anyone know?
> Seems like you believe that it’s less work to spend an hour with a 19 year old than a 91 year old?

Of course it is. Every fiber of her body is telling her that the 91 year old is non-viable and repugnant.

Every fiber of her body is telling her that the 19 year old is not only viable but yummy.

The flat fee is basically the 19 year old subsidizing the 91 year old for the immense effort that the escort has to make to override all the red alarms going off in her brain, heart and gut about having sex with a 91 year old.

On the contrary all the indicators are green when she's with the 19 year old but he has to pay the same rate of the 91 year old.
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But there are bike lanes available. And markings that say yield to pedestrians. And lights for bikes in some cases. These things are generally completely ignored, leaving the pedestrian with the burden of watching everyone else.

It's fine to have a preference for a bike-friendly city over a car-centric one, but one has to consider that almost any vehicle is going to be dangerous to a pedestrian, not just cars. Would you feel comfortable with an older member of your family taking a walk on a Sunday while trusting e bikers not to bowl them over turning around a corner on the sidewalk, going the opposite way on a one-way street, or running a red light?
In a lot of places, if everyone using public transport were to use a car instead, they definitely wouldn't be faster than before; most likely much slower.

In London, you often see from route planning apps that the time for using a car (including waiting for an uber) would be less - except during the rush hours, which is when most people need to.
Most right of way systems specify that the smaller more nimble participant is required to yield in conflicting right of way scenarios. Pedestrians yield to bikes, bikes yield to cars, cars yield to trains. On the water too, a swimmer yields to a row boat, which yields to a jet ski which yields to a motor boat which yields to a yacht which yields to a cargo ship which yields to a carrier. It's more a recognition of the laws of physics than it is a exclusionary practice.
URLs are even better but pretty good ux for nabbing a link. The idea that the visual filename is a viable object handle makes sense.
I don't know if the author will see this or not. The RF shielding probably didn't get wet. It just looks like that. I have a TI-83 Plus Silver Edition which sports a semi-transparent case. I'm the original owner. I never got a drop of liquid on it. And the RF shield in mine looks exactly like yours. It has since the day I bought it.
Sorry I might have meant Hutterite
The two examples above aren't in the 64%.
Given how many elderly I see on bikes - not really.
Unlike that other hyperscaler, AWS is very aware that raising prices erodes customer trust faster than deprecating the new chat app they forced on you. I am certain they’re never going to do that.

As for the other companies you mention, they don’t give the hyperscalers any serious competition. Even some of the (so called) hyperscalers are unable to compete with the other hyperscalers.
Train boarding at least could be decoupled from slowing down and stopping. Just have a "Shuttle Wagon" depart pre arrival from the train with those who want to get out and another one speeding up with new passengers after the train as it passes through the station. Under ideal circumstances, a train would actually not even have to slow down for this. Con is that there is always a Shuttle in the station.
Sounds like this was the first thing Google killed in its Simplicity Sprint.
> I mean people don’t put up with those costs and complexity for no reason.

Consider the cause and effect here. You live far from everything because cars make that possible. The world after cars became designed for cars. There are advantages and disadvantages to car society but to participate at all as a baseline member of society you need a car. Part of owning a car is just recovering what functionality you would have in a world that wasn't designed for cars.
Also when discussing Quantum Immortality and Sci Fi, one must certainly mention Divided By Infinity.

https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/
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>there must be something unique about her.

Well, years ago she was doing sexy mime routines on cam, so that was pretty unusual.

I have encountered her writtings time to time and they usually are interesting read.
I used to love taking the bus when I lived a block away from a major bus line. It took maybe 25-50% longer overall but I could actually use that time rather than driving and sitting in rush hour traffic.

Honestly I’m not sure why anyone is surprised that public transit takes around twice as long. It’s self selected. The people who are going to use it live close and us it because that worthwhile. So on average it makes sense that it would be some multiple of the time it takes to drive.
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Never in public speech that was intended to be be published.
GNOME supports unit conversion too, by pressing Super and typing in the queries. And iOS too. Not sure about Android though, because IIRC the search bar just directs you to Google search.
And being covered in sweat in a 100 degree day? Cars have air conditioning.
That is why I proposed to eliminate parking minimums (I might add to tear down existing parking garages). Even a free-market equilibrium under the Downs Thomson would have less cars than what we have now
> there is a silver lining. These relics are excellent machines for learning low level programming without the complexity of modern hardware.

My thought exactly. Give kids a calculator app for their phone, and I'm positive far fewer would end up writing code for it - and fewer would end up as developers.

There's something so cool about writing a little game and showing it to your friends when you're in 9th grade. "Dude, you programmed a game on your calculator?! You're a genius" is so fun to hear at 14 years old.
> wealthy psychopaths who you would be absolutely charmed by at a cocktail party.

If the psychopath can be superficially kind for a few minutes, to charm me at a cocktail party, then I don't mind being in a store with them. All they have to do is behave in a civil manner when I'm there and not cause a scene. The sort of psycho that bothers me in public is the sort that can't mask themselves. The kind that compulsively pick fights over imagined sleights, or generally cannot control their behavior and act on impulse.
Does anyone know much about the Artifex team? How big it is etc?

They seem to be the kings of working with PDFs. I’ve not really looked at the Ghostscript code (and I’m surprised to hear their interpreter was still in postscript), but I’ve looked through the mupdf code and what I saw was really nice.

In any case, I appreciate the work they’ve done in providing fantastic tools to the world for decades now.
Idk if that's a better definition. It's better if what you are describing by "conservative" is a fairly narrow Anglo-American Conservative Ideology. Influential, sure. But not most of conservativeism, even within America or the UK.

I dont think "resistance to (specifically) quick change" accurately describes how most conservatives or non conservatives use that term, not the political/social groups generally see as conservative.

Affinity for "old ways" is absolutely part of what "conservative" is. Conservative movements aren't about a gradual move towards atheism or whatnot. They're about maintaining such traditional beliefs forever, as a rule.
Just want to make a plug for Paul Sellers. His YouTube videos on woodworking with handheld tools have kept me captivated for years. Through watching his videos, I learned how to cut mortise and tenon, dovetail, and dado joints without touching a powered tool. A weekend hobbyist woodworker, the pleasure I get from truly crafting by hand is immense. Paul is a heavyweight, and he shares what he knows without holding back.
At least in my country there is no ISP monopoly (I can choose between ~8 providers at home). You're right that we have plenty of upload bandwidth, but the internet looks the same as everywhere else.
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Writing C for the TI-83+ is generally not a very pleasant experience. Now, for the m68k TI-89, that’s a different story.
Tiny amount of UI feedback; I automatically wanted to click “cloud-synchronized” at the top to find out how it works technically, since the text is blue and I’d expect it to be a link.

May be better to just italicize or bold that rather than change the color. Or better yet, actually make it a link to a short “how does it work” page
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Same story, different tools through time.
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Most important part of the announcement - you can still revert back to the former interpreter by setting the `-dNEWPDF=false` flag.

While progress is always nice to see - I am also pleased that we don't necessarily need to update all the scripts that depend on ghostscript at once but can keep them running in their current state.
I’m in a different line of work, so what I’d do isn’t really relevant. But if I try to project myself into that situation, I think once I’m with someone I didn’t choose, how old or attractive they are doesn’t matter all that much. But that’s just me.

Also i’m in my late 30s. I’d feel deeply uncomfortable being with a 19yr old under any circumstances, and in ways that wouldn’t kick in with a 91yr old.
No love for https://e.ggtimer.com/6minutes ?
New artificial muscle is stronger, more flexible than natural ones
Do more than they're paying you for and hope someone notices and promotes you.
Nice, i would have guessed that duplicating the production infrastructure and the added loss of hydrogen transformation would be more problematic.

Do you have any actual numbers at hand?

"...is cheaper..." is a bit vague.
Read up on Ukraine that dropped it's nuclear weapons in return for safety from eg. Russia.

Guess what...
> now that the crypto market has crashed.

I don't understand this "crypto market has crashed" narrativ. Ether is +60% in the last month... It's crypto. It never really crashs. A crypto crash would be something like -99.99%. Everything else is business as usual.
But then you might as well go for the ‘Teslas in tunnels’ approach like the boring company.
Seems to be tracked by this, and its associated, issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/368326
“I used SBA to buy $2M in cashflow with only $300k down”
I mean, yes, I think it’s fairly well-known that the further out from Manhattan you are, the worse NYC public transit is. At the most extreme end, if you live in Statin Island you’re gonna have a bad time. Not coincidentally, many people there have cars.

IMO, the key idea here is that public transit is slower in places that have bad public transit. To find examples of really good public transit, you have to look outside the United States.
There are more people than ever. That want to eat farmed food. Drive on roads. And live in houses. All of this takes land.

Then there is the renewable energy production that needs land too. Rivers valleys turn into hydro dams. Grass fields into solar fields.
Yes but people seem to have this backwards. Denmark and Netherlands are actually one of the best countries in the world to drive a car, because so much of other traffic has been shifted away from roads. Even in large cities, people are surprised that you can drive somewhere within few minutes and there usually is parking - it's specifically because all the other infrastructure is so good that people are incentivised to cycle, take a bus or a train - so there's fewer people on the road.

So from that perspective - yeah, of course driving is going to be faster for you than public transport.
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When I was there (2007-2008), there was a popular phrase among the management class along the lines of "We like to measure things in the billions here." Meaning that if whatever project you're working on is going to last (e.g. get more funding, get more headcount, not get killed, etc...) it better have some extremely large and impressive internal metric (or have a credible growth plan to get there). Billions of users, billions of downloads, billions of dollars in revenue, etc. If something doesn't have that kind of metric, start the countdown timer...