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That's a definite it depends :)

In the case of Uber, all those didn't help acquiring me as a customer. I wasn't even aware of the existence of any coupons, referrals and stuff. I installed it because clicking a button in an app is much easier than calling for a taxi on voice AND explaining where exactly you are.

In other cases though, they help.

If you don't have a free trial or free tier and don't have an unique offering suited to me, how would I know if I want your product? As a small piece of anecdata, I would have never subscribed to GeForce Now if they hadn't let me try it for as long as I wanted in 30 minute sessions.

Coupons are a well known form of discounting for customers who have more time than money.

Referrals may be useful if your product needs to achieve critical mass.

Etc etc, I'm no professional marketer.
Thanks for working on it. Useful stuff.
For me, it was the argument passing syntax. I had to look up the magic sigil for doing hashref stuff every single time.

One day I tried Python, learned that everything is passed by object reference, and set Perl aside and never looked back. There was so much less mental overhead that Perl never lured me back.
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Check the article. They have a learned preprocessing step that translates time slices containing multiple data points into tokens, so the transformer is actually predicting larger chunks of time rather than individual time points.
I definitely did a double take to make sure they didn’t write Futurama.
What programs like that tells me is that I can get at least a 10% discount if I talk to one of your sales people. My wife doesn't consider something a discount if it's less than 20%, because "You can always get a 20% discount" (on certain product categories).

I did have to deal with a store where I almost couldn't buy something, because I refused to signup for the "customer club program discount card", which gives you a 20% discount. The staff just looked confused and didn't know what to do. In the end my wife filled in the form and got the stupid card.
"do neither" is not the opposite of "doing more". i'm arguing for good, productive uses of our resources
It's been an "ever shrinking market" since the 2000s, if you believe the news.

A thing to consider is, for the consumer market, machines have gotten good enough that most don't need a new machine for 5+ years, in terms of performance. Especially for casual household tasks.
Importantly, in the "side by side" fridge, the two sides are separate compartments; one side is a freezer and the other is the refrigerator.

In the "french door" fridge, the two doors on the top both open to the same compartment, which is the refrigerator. The bottom compartment is a freezer and opens as a drawer.
I don't think I ever got more than 20kbit on my 56k modem. Usually more like 12.
I think the answer to your question is yes: LSPs can’t do everything that a plugin can do.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2023/07/lsp-for-plugin-d...
We could use things like banner ads and side column videos to fill the gap!
This is a big reason why it's so hard to start a startup. You need access to high quality customers. You can't just start by making the beta version of your product free, because the customers you want aren't motivated by price. Implementing feedback from the low quality customers you start out with can make the product worse for the customers you actually want.
If I have 10 pounds of blueberries and you have 10 pounds of strawberries there will be a natural price for one in terms of the other based on our different marginal preferences for the two commodities.

Think of a dollar today as one commodity and a dollar tomorrow as a separate and distinct one. There is a difference in our marginal preferences and that is where the interest rate comes from.

Just as both of us can be made better off trading blueberries and strawberries without actually creating anything new, the difference in our inter temporal marginal preference will reward the lender with a return even in the absence of risk.
I am very much interested. Can we have a quick meeting?
What quality of users come from forcing people to give up their email address to read a single effing blogpost?
It is possible, but it mostly doesn't happen. And even when it does, "similar security and potential for attack" means needing regular security updates, which they tend not to receive.
There are still simple models. I got a whirlpool about 2 years back. All it has is a water dispenser and an ice maker on the inside. Other than that it's the same as my late 80s Frigidaire. Still seems to be mostly mechanical.

It's a lot more efficient than my old fridge though and a lot bigger. The old one had issues with it's design and defrosting as well that the new one has fixed esp being a lower cold drawere model vs the old one with freezer on top. I can't block the vents on the new one and they can't freeze up, but it does use a blower. The old one could ice over the vent and I had to modify it with a extra passive heating wire to keep it from freezing up.
Not even close.

Next is pretty barebones as a backend framework compared to mature solutions like Django, Rails, or Laravel.
The note at the end that referrals performed better than non-referrals _for drivers_ was interesting. Plus I'd say that even if this isn't earth-shattering insight, there is still benefit hearing the results for something on the scale of Uber.

I agree that including free trials with referrals and coupons doesn't make much sense. As others have commented, free trials are all-but-unavoidable in certain markets.
The UI is weird, that said, the feature goes back 20 years, see e.g. http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained/comments.htm... I wonder if it existed all the way back in a version of Netscape Navigator?

On Firefox Android, you can also just go to into settings, search, manage search engines, + add search engine. So, basically, exactly where you would expect it.

I think on desktop it's just as easy? Can't you just right click on most submit forms?
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Fully agree. I love my rack, and getting to practice things in the safety of an isolated environment.

Also, anecdotally, the best SREs I’ve worked with have had homelabs. I maintain it’s a good signal.
That's not how v6 works in Debian, or really anywhere. For one thing, you can't reach a domain with v6 if there's no AAAA record, so it certainly won't be trying to reach "all domains" with v6.

If your network has broken v6 then yeah, that's gonna cause problems. That's not v6's fault, that's down to having a broken network.
No, toxins usually have no effect, or a totally different effect until some the threshold dose.
Yes, HN is moderated, meaning that design topics, however rare, do attract discussion. Unfortunately some of that discussion is of the "designers have too much power" variety, but you have to take the good in with the bad.
While the effectiveness of the Accelerationist is questionable, it still introduces the third option of "doing something".

I don't think the story is trying to say "change is impossible", but rather that your only options aren't "status quo" or "leave".
if thats all he tried, i'm not surprised. never had anyone say "meh" after 3D xxx content! (pornhub has vr category too! :D )
They may run, but the power consumption your old fridge freezers are wasting would cover multiple brand new fridges many times over.

Anything over 10 years really should be replaced.

A bit like leds vs incandescent at this point time. Especially problematic given a fridge freezer runs 24/7 and is the largest contributor to your energy bills.

Also isn’t this a classic example of old things that survive are likely more expensive and well made. However, the cheap stuff back then likely got replaced sooner. Probably a similar thing applies where an expensive modern fridge will last ages too.
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39238010#39238589

tl;dr: side-by-side = one side freezer, one side fridge. french door = freezer on bottom, fridge on top with two doors
Cloudflare uses it for some of their challenges.
> T&C

I don't understand anyone who make this comment who isn't a a billion dollar company.

We are humans. T&Cs are fairytales written by lawyers to abuse our digital human right to interoperability.

People ought to be able to interact with their own accounts as they please.
Let me add one more: people who were signed up in some collective deal against their will e.g. cable TV). You bet I'm a bad "customer", I don't even want to be their customer!
We still use PHP for some of our projects and there's a massive gulf between PhpStorm and anything else, especially if you work with modern PHP and Laravel (Laravel Idea). Back in the day I used to like Netbeans PHP, but that got left in the dust as soon as Oracle stopped maintaining it and gave it to Apache. Half of the "features" being worked on at that time (by a handful of people and basically for free) were task needed to remove/replace non-OSS Oracle stuff. Last time I checked literally like 2 (two) people contributed to the PHP improvements and bugfixes in (one of the) latest major Netbeans releases. That's a random, minor release for PhpStorm.
Why pay the markup? Because I'm willing to pay it for the benefits it provides. Not everybody values things the same. You prefer to save the money, I prefer not to drink iceless G&Ts like some sort of savage. Economics at work.

It's not an SPF as the rest of the fridge doesn't rely on it to operate. Ours broke down last year (after about 14 years of continuous operation in a hard water area). The fridge continued to work fine and after about a month we had the ice maker replaced.
Oh you literally meant that there’s more types of roads.

Ok… thanks I guess.
The issue is, whilst I’m sure that cards are cheaper overall, they present a serious burden for people who can’t use them: unbanked people for various reasons, older people, children etc.
Don't use this with an account you want to keep.
I created an account in 2018 and barely visited as the top links were always so spammy. Felt like Steemit or one of those unmoderated Reddit-like sites that look like a link dump for every growth marketer in the world.
> If you pay someone to do X, and then stop paying them they will stop doing X even if they enjoyed it

That's because for 99.999% of people, being paid money has utility. So the payment provides some benefit for them. But for someone with $2B, my argument is precisely this: whatever it is that drove them to make $2B (inveting the best product, or whatever) is NOT what drives them to make the NEXT $1B.

> you can't just take all their future wealth and expect them to continue
> they will stop the instant they stop making money, just like any other person.

You cabsolutely can, and they absoluteluy will not.

That's the whole point again: assuming a high enough "cap", we are talking about people who will never not be extremely wealthy. Whether the cap is $100M; $1B or $10B can be argued, but the central point is that the utility of more wealth is diminishing. That's why me giving you $1B would make a massive difference, but then me giving you another $1B would make almost no difference to your lifestyle/happniess/whatever measure you choose.
For the most part, it doesn’t sound like these “bad” customers are doing anything illegal or in violation of TOS. They’re just exploiting offerings for something they wouldn’t normally spend any money on. To be surprised that they don’t stick around long or spend as much as non-incentivized customers shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone and shouldn’t be seen as some kind of failing. They would not normally have used the service anyway so why moan when they use it for a little while and then stop?
Because you asked for this feedback: Rust
The first thing the page shows is generating configurations in existing formats like YAML. For most of my use cases, there is tooling that does some updates of the configuration (e.g. bumping dependencies), so I'd really need bidirectional support to convert the updates back into Pkl.
Having read a fair number of century-or-few-old novels, I'd say that awkward encounters are an old, old thing.

Which is not to say that social media has done any favors for their frequency.
It's so bizarre to me what they have been doing lately. This and that horrible new UI designed entirely for 13" screens or tablets which just turns their IDE into VS Code. They are trying to compete with a free product by trying to imitate (but still charging $500+ per year..)
It could be worse. At least the spares aren’t VIN-locked (yet).
This is where Jordan Peterson's lobsters come in handy. They have a similar neurophysiology of socializing to ours in some ways. That demonstrates that far from being a modern problem it isn't even only a mammalian one. It reaches deep into evolution across, at least, the animal kingdom.

And of course it must, because just look at how non-trivial the stakes of social interaction are. It controls access to mates, protection from predators, access to food, etc. Socializing is a game of life and death for our genes. It can be easy, temporarily, to an elite minority. But by the nature of the scarce resources that it controls, social success must always be a limited resource.

When we're miserable from some social failure it's somewhat comforting to remember that we share the pain even with invertebrates.
>0.3% vs. 3-4%

No, the total costs of handling cash currency & coins for large businesses will still add up to 3% or more which is in the range of the fees of credit-cards processing. Costs of accepting cash also includes:

- paying for armored trucks and security guards to transport bags of cash to the bank

- percentage of cash lost to crime such as

--- employees/cashiers theft/skimming by handling cash,

--- robberies,

--- counterfeit bills

https://www.google.com/search?q=retailer+total+costs+of+hand...

For a business, a true arbitrage of not paying 3% credit-card fees would be convincing customers to pay by check or electronic ACH bank account withdrawal. Those payment methods avoid the costs of managing loose cash and also avoid the fees from the credit-card processors. But they also have the same privacy concerns as CCs if customers care about that aspect.
Any reverse osmosis system removes essentially everything from the water. I am using a counter top AquaTru device. They are much more expensive and complex than a “water filter” however.
That's my feeling too. Tools like this are trying to squeeze into the space between "straightforward configuration easily maintained in static files" and "complicated state management better served by real code in a real programming language". And that's a real hole for some applications, but it's a small hole.

Basically forcing everyone to learn new tooling (Pkl here, but lots of json/yaml middleware nonsense fits the bill too) just to deal with what really isn't that big of a problem seems like a bad trade.
Additionally I cant think of other such projects from Apple. They tend to build things that get used extensively till the end of their life is consumed.

I wish Apple would continue to open source much more. Especially old software much like Microsoft does. I would kind of enjoy a Linux Distro that can natively run old Apple software and tools.
She is a gym member maybe 1 out of 3 months because she is perpetually rotating through the deal she can get.

The secret to this stuff is boring - persistent, continuous effort.
If you can't even maintain a regular gym membership, you will not get that effort in.
She's been complaining for over a decade as she continuous this charade.
I mostly agree with this, but I've been a big fan of having primitive types in config. Most of the time if I have something I want to configure, it's either one of the following (or a map/list-based structure consisting of):

- scalar value

- feature toggle

- URI/enum option/human readable display text

Having float/long/boolean is trivial to validate in the config language itself, and if they're useful and simple enough isn't it nice to be able to validate your config as early as possible?
I strongly suspect that the reason cash is seen to be cheaper for these businesses is that they don’t report all of their cash income to their tax authority, rather than because cash is actually that much cheaper.

Alternatively, they were counting the time they spent cash handling as a business owner as zero cost, which isn’t really true.
(also note it will use any available cell tower operated by any provider and will preempt normal calls if the station is too busy, so the appearance of no signal/"bars" shouldn't discourage trying to call 911)
You can have complex interactions with an MPA.

Regarding latency, it's mostly related to the distance between the user and the database. The routing strategy has nothing to do with that.
The longevity and the power use are connected.

Modern appliances use a very low viscosity oil in the compressor pump, and as a result use less power, but also wear faster. The old ones use a much more viscous oil which gives decades of use at the expense of higher power consumption.
You would lose that wager. I’m in the southeast United States. My ISP, Spectrum, works fine with IPv6. My cellular provider, Total by Verizon, is IPv4 only.
I’m with you there. I don’t hate Perl. I don’t think it’s taboo. I just can’t think of a scenario where I’d want to use it over another tool.

Perl was the first non-C language I wrote significant amounts of Unix code in. In particular, I wrote lots of web and server admin projects with it. I know Perl well enough to 1) appreciate why people still like using it, and 2) not want to use it myself.
> It just requires competency, money and an infrastructure that isn't for profit.

Or massive government financing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
Yes, I grew up on the Amiga and think about this a lot myself. I think the Amiga occupied a sweet spot in the history of computing. You could kick out the operating system and hit the hardware directly like an 8-bit machine, but you also had a true multitasking OS, a lightweight GUI and a command line environment that approached Unix only on a much cheaper machine. And as you say, it was feasible to learn and master all of it. And the hardware was interesting enough that devs could be creative with it throughout its lifetime.

Accessibility, and ergonomic access to the power of the machine definitely has a lot to do with it. Blitz Basic is a good example. With Blitz on the Amiga you could write hardware hitting games, native GUI apps and command line tools out of the box, with no dependencies and none of the tedious configuration and administrative work that now accompanies supposedly high-level languages today.

You'd think that in 2024 our high-level language environments would be even more ergonomic, that you could open a window, play a sound or draw something in one line of code, out of the box. But we've let that fall by the wayside. It frustrates me every day when I think back to the future I imagined as an Amiga user.

I really hope that the Amiga's accessibility and immersiveness is something we can revive in some way. Our systems are now very complex, but I don't believe that should preclude such complexity being within a humane, ergonomic framework that can be navigated and known.
If you made, say, a dishwasher that notified you when something meltable was put into it you would probably find quite a few buyers.

Your examples aren’t really great for that reason.
Such robustness is currently a subject of government studies and planning. It's definitely an area of concern.

A personal-level outage is a problem but less so than with cash. I have three separate items on me I can use to pay - my card holder with bank cards, my phone and my watch. That's more redundancy than with cash, which is one item (wallet).

Power or network outages aren't a big issue. I've experienced those and it's smooth. Most payment machines work fine without power (batteries) or without network because they then store the transactions locally and send them later. I've even had lunch when the lunch restaurant was having IT problems and couldn't accept any payments - they noted how many people came on paper and I came back the next day to pay, as I'm sure the vast majority of patrons did.

Bank or card issuer outages are handled by using another card or payment method. If some bank's cards aren't working (uncommon but it happens), mobile payments generally work still, and most people have more than one card.

Major national level outages are a concern. It would be impossible to buy e.g. a train ticket as those require immediate payment, so if somehow Internet was down nationwide, you couldn't get a train ticket online or at the ticket machines. This is one major goal that the e-krona (state-issued digital currency) project is meant to address as e-krona is intended to also work offline.
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Well then don't offer them?
I’ve done the same with my washing machine, and a tiny bit of automation has homeassistant tell me when the laundry is done.
I wouldnt just write them off for one goof. It can happen to anyone. In the grand scheme of things this is a new market that is growing and adapting accordingly.
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I feel exactly the same.

Perl is a more expressive more fun language, but I do find that the more restrictive nature of Python leads to me writing better, if a bit more verbose code (better as in more readable and maintainable). I would start something in Perl using a few fancy tricks, then come to hate my "clever idea" a few days later when trying to debug it. I do miss it though.
Canada is also not great at providing high speed Internet outside of the more populated regions.
That's what I liked about Windows too. I had to move to Linux, but with wine I know I will able able to use some binaries forever.

If I write something that I plan to reuse or need again later, I will write it in perl
Real world control systems need to be able to scale up and down. Our financial and corporate systems only know how to scale up, middle along, or fail catastrophically. There is no mechanism in the world of capital and corporations for scaling something down gracefully if a market is mostly saturated but we still need some of something.

One solution could be to side step the issue by getting really good at flexible just in time manufacturing. This lets you decouple the company from products. When someone needs a fridge, a fridge is made. The companies running the factories could be big build to order companies that could make a huge variety of things and the plans could be for sale by “fabless” appliance companies or open source.

This is sort of how chip and electronic parts manufacture works.

In this model making something with a really long life span is fine. You might run low on fridge orders, but that just means your factories are free to make e-bikes or server racks or heat pumps or whatever the thing with demand happens to be.
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Or they could just do what Century Link has done here in Colorado: Let it rot in the ground. The pedestals around all seem to have lost their covers and are just sitting exposed to the elements, an eyesore (and they were no beauty to begin with :-)
Putting constraints into the config file is nice from a self documenting point of view, but I suspect that

a) nobody will bother

b) that one time they do, the constraint will be wrong in some circumstance, and the constraint will get edited out anyway.
Efficient use means ability to be deployed to consume. The point being that energy is over-produced as a matter of fact in order to be a reliable utility and bitcoin can be throttled on a dime to profitably match supply to demand unlike much else. But it sounds like you're purposely misunderstanding.
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