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I'm in the process of migrating PrintNanny.ai's remote command/event system off Cloud IoT Core. I've been running on IoT Core for 1.5 years. Here's my breakdown of the costs...

- $236.99 in usage, approx 1% of project's total revenue

- ~20 hours to implement pub/sub applications running on a mix of Raspberry Pi & GCP VMs. Implementations were in Rust and Python. It would have taken much, much longer to stand up a managed MQTT broker and identity/key management that I felt comfortable using in my own home, let alone providing to customers.

- Hundreds of hours implementing and debugging glue between GCP's Pub/Sub product, websocket-based subscribers, and MQTT subscribers/publishers.

I don't regret my decision (wouldn't have shipped otherwise), but I'm looking forward to the next phase. Here's what I'm migrating towards:

- NATs message broker. NATS supports connections via MQTT and Websocket protocols, besides NATS own protocol.

- django-nats-nkeys for org, identity, and JWT management (not production-ready, don't use this until I've been eating my own dog food for a few months) [1]

- AsyncAPI schemas [2] for core message APIs, including schemas for 3rd-party printer software events (OctoPrint, Moonraker, Repetier, etc). This will underpin PrintNanny's plugin system.

[1] https://github.com/bitsy-ai/django-nats-nkeys

[2] https://www.asyncapi.com/
Aren't you simply justifying the cost of AppleCare+ to yourself?

What if they gave you a working product as one would expect at that cost? AppleCare+ is pointless.

If they gave you a defective product with no Applecare+? Tough luck?

You are also coming at this from the perspective of someone running a business, purchasing bulk items. Not that it is justified on Apple's part, but AppleCare+ would lead to less 'friction' from Apple as far as repairing defective units that are more likely at that number. Likewise, you could probably claim AppleCare+ as a business expense.
Midpoint of a 20 year war. Inflation, combined with the financial engineering of the 90s and the deflationary power of the internet.

My parents bought a house when I was born in NYC in the 70s for $20k, sold it for 10x more in 1990 and that buyer sold it for 10x more circa 2007.

The deflationary power of the internet powered costs for business. My employer has 1/3 the accountants they had 30 years ago, but 5x as many IT people. Specific occupations make more money, but most make less due to dropped demand. On the production side, you can pretty trivially source goods from a anywhere on the planet. Again, reducing cost.

But the hard assets go up. Housing, food, durable goods. The average white good like a fridge costs 50% more and last 50% less time.
I've seen several people echo this, but for me it's the opposite. I start from the end goal and all the code is only there to serve the end goal. The end goal usually being the product and the value it's supposed to provide to its users.

What I have trouble with is marketing and sales. I've never sold anything directly to consumers, so that will be the most challenging thing when going independent: selling to people.

Let's say I sell the product for $50, I would have to sell to 2000 people in one year to make $100k, which means I have to sell to at least 6 people per day. Now it would be great if people just found the product and bought it on their own, but at least the first 1000 costumers must be acquired "manually" so to speak for the business to even take off.
I don't understand why people compare now to before (Boomer adolescence) in the United States. The USA basically had no competition when Boomers were in their 20s. All of the major powers destroyed themselves and their economy.

I'd be interested to see this analysis done per country.
Don't discount the change in population. The US population has doubled during this period. Everyone has an opinion on how that change would have affected the economy, but it would be foolish to assume that it did nothing.
We've moved off GCP for exactly this reason recently. It's enough. They're probably not going to shut down the lower level infrastructure, but they simply can't be trusted.
> I imagine depending on your usage, you might blow out your unreplaceable hard drive even sooner.

It's possible, but seems unlikely since TBW ratings are super-conservative.

> Say you make a lot of 4K and 5K movies, I can't imagine a tiny 256 SSD getting files written to it, and delete it from it over and over again will last that long.

Honestly, that wouldn't be enough to do much anyway. I'd venture that pros are more often using external TB3 SSDs (often in RAIDs) or a DAS. I understand that the boot drive may be used for caching even in that case.

Some real-world data: My M1 Air /w 1 TB SSD has written 368 TB total, and SMART thinks it's got 88% of its lifetime left. Depending on how good SMART is about estimates like these, that would give the Air SSD a TBW of 3,000 or so.
Why is it a horrible idea?
They've specifically pulled out only the categories that have risen faster than inflation, and didn't include any categories that have fallen relative to inflation. So it's guaranteed to get this result.
In my experience when there are design flaws Apple won't move a finger until there are class action lawsuits.

And good luck if you're outside the US. Not sure how it is in other countries, but in Mexico Apple doesn't do repairs. It's all left to authorized third parties that really will only try to get as much money from you as possible or get you to buy a new device.

I know a couple of people that were denied repairs/replacements on the infamous butterfly keyboards because these repair centers said they couldn't reproduce the issue themselves. Most likely they didn't want to do the repairs because their margin was too low.
Is Android 13 the version that will bring game controller rumble support? Or did that happen in Android 12?
There is a major difference between a state organization with shared ownership and management through democratic processes and private business. The police have enough problems as an institution. Private vigilantes are going to be worse.
I had a warranty on my Lenovo laptop included for which a guy came to my house and replaced the defective part at no extra cost - within 3 days of reporting it and almost 3 years after buying the laptop.

The laptop cost me around 1200 Euro in total.
Linus chose to only care about the kernel. So there's possibly some fault there.
You'll be fine for a long time. IPv6 is not quite right but not for the reasons that you'll usually see on HN/Reddit/whatevs.

It does work pretty well already but I put it rather below the significance of say global warming as a thing to really worry about.

Give it a go if you get a prefix from your ISP. It's worth a play.

This sort of thing takes 50+ years to work. You have to think like an Engineer with a lot of time to play with. The internet is everywhere, it doesn't change overnight.
In fact the last ec2 classic instances are due to be retired... by today! Though I'd bet no one waited until the very last day to migrate :)
Network size on a spectrum from "me and my dog" to "society-wide monopoly" should be taken into account. (Not arguing Discord is at any particular point on that spectrum; only that it matters when considering policy decisions and how it burdens a company vs. benefits the public).
Not if the offense is unwarranted, of course?
Given the banks know these people can't afford it anyway they will still allow them to continue borrowing despite knowing that it is already getting expensive for average people to do so quickly.

If some are rejected directly by the banks for getting these loans, then the banks can still get them by setting up a BNPL (Buy-Now-Pay-Later) competitor / service with even higher interest rates. Either way, the banks still win.

So you will own nothing, and you will be very happy. Even if you can't afford it, the banks will be very happy to charge you interest and you will still be happy.

The scam of the century.
The warranty has always covered a single hairline crack.

If there are multiple cracks, chips, or a POI on the outside of the glass. It's clear as day what happened to the screen.

I can't count on my hands or toes how many people will say they don't know what happened to the physically damaged machine. Maybe someone else broke it and they didn't know. But I can tell you that we fix more physically damaged machines than we do single hairline cracks. So I would say this isn't a huge issue that people make it out to be.

I think it's more plausible that people are surprise that their really expensive super thin and sleek computer breaks when it's physically damaged.
As usual, there's a few chart crimes in here.
Chart 1 shows CPI and inflation adjusted wages on the same graph? Why? Inflation adjusted wages already take into account CPI. There's no sensible reason to plot these two on the same graph.

The caption is "wages are up 80% but that didn't keep up with living costs" - you cannot draw that inference from this graph. This graph actually shows that in fact wages grew faster than inflation.

Housing is another red herring, of course, because the average new American home is 2x bigger now than it was in the 70s - and the average American family is like 10% smaller. Broadly, 1 square foot of the 'average' American home costs exactly the same as it used to in the 1970s. [1] So yes, housing is more expensive in big cities but that's because of zoning as Mr. Andreessen will tell you. Outside big cities it's still zoning, which requires minimum setback, garages, square footage, etc.

In fact if you look by cohort, inflation-adjusted, millennials are doing roughly as well as other generations did at their age. [2]

Their flagship claim that folks have 86% less purchasing power now holds zero water. The poverty rate remains basically unchanged since the 70s. [3] You'd think there'd be a lot more people in poverty if they only had 1/10th the buying power no?!

Some things are more expensive (college, healthcare, 1 sqft of house in a big city, new houses outside of town) and yes, productivity growth far outpaced wage growth - but wage growth kept pace with inflation. That means folks are just the same off, instead of the better off they could be. [4]

[edit] If you really slice it by decile, the bottom 10% of millennials is much worse off (like 15%) - that's what it looks like when you massacre the social safety net. But millennials as a whole are just as well off as previous generations.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...

[2] https://ofdollarsanddata.com/no-millennials-arent-poorer-tha...

[3] https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-un...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/heres-how-labor-dynamism-aff...
aren't taxes lower now, though?
> What good is cheaper tech if we just use that to add more features and keep the same price?

...having better technology, and therefore higher living standards?
Honest question, do you get HiDPI support if you write a raw win32 app nowadays? I haven’t developed for windows in over a decade so I’ve been out of the loop, but I also used to think of win32 being the only “true” API for windows apps, but it’s been so long that I’m not sure if that opinion has gotten stale.

As a sometimes windows user, I occasionally see apps that render absolutely tiny when the resolution is scaled to 200% on my 4k monitor, and I often wonder to myself whether those are raw win32 apps that are getting left behind and showing their age, or if something else is going on.
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I think there are published lists of domains used by e.g. mailinator, so if they see a match they just reject you with a "please use a valid email address" message.
"All users can rest assured that their message history, contact lists, profile information, whom they'd blocked, and other personal data remain private and secure and were not affected."

I do not understand how you can re-register someone's account to a new phone and not have the data read. If it is re-registered successfully, then you should be able to login. If you can login, you can see the data...right?
Usually referred to as Crime Converters in Australia.
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There’s no doubt that they have invested a lot of money but that doesn’t guarantee returns and data centers have a fair amount of cost to keep running.

The big thing I’d like is to have Google Cloud broken out as a separate business. While it’s true that shutting it down would harm them, I haven’t gotten the impression that their management are especially concerned. As an enterprise customer of both, AWS seems way more motivated not just to develop their service but also just to do things like show up. Trying to get GCP people to sell things like Anthos was surprisingly hard, like they thought it was 2005 and people would buy just because of their name.
What market is she talking about? Does the market for the executives of declining browsers that lost their market share and have no clear prospects command such wages?
In many cases a battery replacement = dead.

Im unsure about the 2012 MBP (not having had one), but if its an internal battery, battery death usually means user unfixable, for most users.
Yup, it _was_ , after a lot of feedback I've been working on a new version which adheres more to the Human Guidelines, more so now that Human Guidelines have been updated a lot and for the most part don't show old components or legacy design.
How much was the total price of that modest home? 14% of cheap is still cheap.
good cryptography was treated this way for a while, at least by the US government.
> Can you connect an SSD via USB-c and boot from it instead…

Yes, if it's Thunderbolt 3 or 4.

> …once the internal drive dies?

No. https://tidbits.com/2021/05/27/an-m1-mac-cant-boot-from-an-e...
Is there not a college there, UAPB? How is it helping them?
One of the items this article doesn't cover is healthcare spending, which has increased between 2 and 8 times since 1980 (depending on whether you're looking at individual spending or share of GDP). Here's a decent collection of charts: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

It has been shocking to me to see how cheap and effective healthcare can be in other countries, from an emergency visit to the hospital (in the US: I got a $50k bill for one emergency surgery) to an eye test and new pair of glasses (US costs running $500-$1000, although startups have chipped away at this). In the US, healthcare is effectively a collection of cartels -- an enormous parasite that will be nearly impossible to rip off our soft underbelly.
Ford Crown Victoria was sorta that until 2010.
Agreed. Compare to previous eras. Post WW2 America was an anomaly.
> Is the `try` keyword in the highlight section what you're looking for?

I worded it poorly.

> Allow for Error short circuits

I was trying to say that I liked the feature as-is, because it Allows for Error short circuits. There are a lot of common patterns that modern languages avoid idiomatically, despite their widespread use in roundabout ways.
there was a significant recession around 2007
They just retired EC2-Classic, one of the largest services they ever had
The joys of an industrial economy without too much automation.
> However, I'm not sure I can craft a really clear narrative that connects this back to stagnant wages. But it seems related

but the famous productivity/wage gap chart shows it started in the 70s to 80s. What makes you think it's due to the dotcom bubble?
My memory is hazy, but iirc Alan Greenspan brought out a lot of easy money in response to the dotcom bubble bursting, which then helped inflate the housing bubble.
Why this pressure to make me necessarily reject or accept an idea? Seems like a false dichotomy. Instead, why can't I be aware of all sorts of ideas, have them bouncing around my head, loosely held, and believe more or less in them, even opposing ones, as I learn more?

I'm never really sure about anything, really, so there's a constant internal debate going on over various topics. While that's not necessarily good for making quick decisions, I do appreciate the mental flexibility that my uncertainty ends up giving me. Weird, controversial, silly, or obvious ideas can be useful also in order to connect with other viewpoints, practicing empathy in a way.
Most places are fully back in offices, no research papers needed.
> To be fair, most (the vast majority) of people I know in gen z I know works significantly less hard than my parents did, I did, etc.

Any possibility this perceived "less-hard" working is an effect rather than a cause?

> Those who do work hard are fairly well off. They work two jobs, didn’t go to college, but own their homes and have a steady income.

Any possibility that Baby Boomers achieved this with just one job?

> There’s definitely systemic issues, but work ethic is the major issue. And that’s a cultural issue.

> Would you want the gen z you know building your house? I know some that I would, but not many.

I'd take literally any Gen Z to build me a house because I'd know how to compensate them for their work. It's largely unskilled/low-skilled labor, hence why almost anyone with some physical fitness and capability (Gen Z or otherwise) can do it.

Bear in mind: lots of Gen Z are children of Gen X and may have already witnessed the negative impact of inequality on Gen X and Millennials, which could very well be the "cause" for lower perceived participation in the workforce among Gen Z.

Either way, this is an exceptionally low-EQ take.
Plenty of low-mileage 90s cars are on the market. If you’re being sincere, just filter by low mileage and single owner and you’ll find your dream car.
This isn't a chart of declining GDP. It's a chart of declining purchasing power.

The US economy is thriving. The profits just aren't getting to actual workers.
There are other costs, with deployment and maintenance. Well built HTTP site works on its own until browsers intentionally stop accepting it. HTTPS site works for few months and then a new certificate needs to be obtained and deployed. This has real cost in additional risk of outages, support requests, and not the least, becoming dependent on the goodwill of the certificate issuer.
>As usual, there's a few chart crimes in here. Chart 1 shows CPI and inflation adjusted wages on the same graph? Why? Inflation adjusted wages already take into account CPI. There's no sensible reason to plot these two on the same graph.

That's absolutely right - it's a gibberish chart.
I use OPNsense router, ULAs for my devices that need a static local ip. I also host many services over ipv6 with dynamic prefixes by using a DDNS client that scans for ipv6 prefix changes and updates my dns. OPNsense can automatically adjust firewall rules as prefix changes, but your hosted services cannot use ipv6 "privacy addresses".

For local lan services I make a dns entry in my router pointing to the ULA. I have had no issues but it took awhile to figure everything out. I host matrix chat and many other services using ipv6 without issues. YMMV.
Sure? Companies do get to dictate things to their customers: they can build things, or not build them. Customers don't get that control: their recourse is to the market.
Razer's support is underrated. They've easily been the best for any company I've had to deal with multi-thousand-dollar replacements/repairs for, and coincidentally they also serve a very similar niche to Apple (high-priced, high-performance, well-built laptops).
Even after the pairing hassle, every time I play music on my Apple AirPod Pros (that cost over 200€, btw (!!)) the first second or so of songs consistently sound like garbage. Evidently whatever transport they are using can't handle sudden changes in bitrate, and they have to use a lower quality for that bit. Absolutely crazy to imagine that this passed QA at Apple!
Windows Server, version 20H2 has reached end of servicing on August 9, 2022
You can get a 32" Fire TV for $99 on Amazon right now...I'm not sure it makes sense to make cheaper, especially when you have used items on Craigslist that covers the gap.
Based on his outlook one would have thought he'd be growing vegatables on a remote island by now.
The cars would still be fairly expensive. The upgrades on a low-end car are topical and aren't the expensive part of a car. Basic cars

A basic car only costs ~20k brand new. Some cars are as low as 12k.
American-style anxiety in action: the "miniscule" amount of time JFK was in a car was enough time for something to happen, likewise for AA Flight 11 on 9/11.

Not an American, but the missus and her family are, and what consistently shocks me is the anxiety over terrorism. The goal of terrorism is fear, and my god, it seems to work.
Setting a trillion dollars on fire in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Of course Putin's doing it now in Ukraine and maybe China is about to do it in Taiwan so don't worry, the rest of the world is catching up to America's stupidity.
No, because a key is generated every time you reinstall/register in the app, and it sends along your contacts when you login (hashed). So there shouldn't be a way to see anything shared in the past .
I always see the healthcare cost to consumer compared to other countries, but that isn't the true cost to society if the govt is subsidizing the rest. AFAIK the US healthcare is still truly more costly. Monopolies or something, idk.
Lacking an open-for-all-comers API is not in fact an antitrust violation.
There are many people that are complaining about this issue. But the total number of owners are way higher than the typical laptop. The MacBook Air M1 is allegedly the world's best-selling laptop.

I'm curious. How many screen cracks is too many, and should be considered a design/manufacturing defect? How is something like that determined?
Anyone who's read my comments knows I don't usually have the patience to be charming or whatever. I had a battery start bulging with a polycarbonate MacBook and they just gave me a battery off the shelf no questions asked. There was some other underlying problem, and I eventually scrapped it. Its replacement eventually heated up the charging cable enough that the insulation browned and flaked away (computer side so it's not replaceable). I got a free replacement with zero hassle. Both were out of warranty.

Phone side, I had an OG iPhone SE and decided to get the battery replaced right towards the end of the free replacement period. The first/only appointment I could find was at the Emeryville store so I dropped the phone off. Unfortunately they had a runaway thermal event so the store got evacuated. I was told to come back later and pick up my phone. Eff that, I'm not sitting in traffic and paying for bridge toll for their mistake. It took a bit of persuasion, escalation, and a minor tantrum but they did FedEx my phone back to me. Eventually I dropped that and broke the screen. They couldn't fix it and they no longer sold the 64 GB version so I got a new 128 GB one off the shelf for the price of the repair ($130) without even asking. Or 32/64. Whatever.

So, yeah, Apple's been good to me with hardware stuff (with and without AppleCare). Clearly they're not making everyone whole. The problem as I see it is that Apple is relying almost entirely on the discretion of their retail staff instead of having a formal policy in place.
You say this like other brands products are flawless and don't randomly break ever. So far Apple is the only tech brand I have had no issues with and has vastly exceeded the experience I have had with alternatives.
Yikes! I've noticed the lower left corner of my M1 Macbook Pro 13" is brighter than it should be - I only noticed it when watching a movie and what should have been black, wasn't. I'm not looking forward to that getting worse.
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