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> where if you cancelled early they would charge you an exorbitant cancellation fee.

I'm currently in the process of de-Adboe'ing my life because of the subscription model.

It's not htat you get charged an exorbitant cancellation fee, per se. It's that, from Adobe's point of view, you entered into a year-long contract. And so if you want to cancel after 3 months, the only option they give you is to pay for the rest of the entire year upfront.

This has a lot of artists really pissed off and many are saying they're finally done with Adobe.

Fortunately, I think we're finally in an era where Adobe doesn't actually offer the best products anyway.

For Photoshop I'm playing with Affinity Photo. It has a six month free trial and after playing with it for a couple of months I think I'm going to pay for it when the trial is up. And it's a flat fee / perpetual license.

I've been playing around with Inkscape as a FOSS alternative to Illustrator and it's OK. I might give the Affinity Designer trial a go since I'm enjoying Affinity Photo.

For video editing Davinci Resolve is so far ahead of Premiere that it makes me wonder why Premiere is still used by anyone regardless of other considerations. What's bonkers is that BlackMagic gives the standard version of Resolve away for free... and I have yet to find myself needing features that are in the paid Studio version.

It has its own FX tool called Fusion built-in, so After Effects also gets replaced by Resolve.

I never used Adobe Animate but am starting to get into 2D animation and really like Moho Pro. It's not free but it has a perpetual license and apparently the first version of this software was created for BeOS 30 years ago, and then got ported to Windows and Mac as AnimeStudio... so it's been around forever, has a cool history and is starting to get used by a lot of pro studios since it gives you 3D style rigging for 2D / "cutout" animation which was its killer feature for me.

Anyway Adobe is one of the largest companies in the world but I suspect big changes are coming in a few years because I can't think of any reason to buy into Creative Cloud in current year ... like not a single reason. Maybe if you've got some PSD files laying around that can't be opened in alternatives like Affinity Photo because they take advantage of very specialized features or something then you might be screwed but I haven't ran into any issues opening my old PSD files in Affinity.
Not breaking laws, because it can be eventually revealed one way or another? I only half joking.
If you're attempting to send marketing emails, then yes, absolutely, that's exactly how it should work.

If someone, say, signs up for an account on your website and opts-in to marketing emails, then sure, you can send them marketing emails.

If you have no relationship with someone, or they haven't opted in, no, you should never send them even a single marketing email.
> Leon Panetta, the former head of the CIA, said that the indiscriminate nature of these attacks makes him consider these attacks to be a form of terrorism:

This was the exact opposite of "indiscriminate". The Israelis blew up pagers belonging to members of a known terrorist organization.

People love to try an claim that they're anti-Israel and not antisemitic, but no other country in the world would be held to this kind of ridiculous standard in the face of constant terrorist attacks on a civilian population.
Assuming they know, care and want to spend resources writing a DMCA request.
There are some people you cannot help. They subscribe strongly to the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics. A few classic examples are:

- YC attempting to choose one startup to fund based on HN votes

- Winamp trying to open-source their code

- Jordan Henderson supporting the LGBTQ community

- Ellen Degeneres's sponsors offering to donate to a charity per question answered by her guests

- PETA offering to donate money for each person who chooses veganism

- Numerous open-source developers who give their things for free

It's important to know who your audience is. If they require unwavering purity, it's often better for your own sake to not engage with them. For my part, I stay clear of all these groups in a charitable sense. Everyone pays. The relationship is obvious. They'll go after the people who give them stuff for free. But for the ones who charge them it's just a transaction. That is good.
And a lot of those probably flew once to visit family at the holidays.
It's because hydrogen scales up to much greater energy capacity.

"Chevron joins Mitsubishi in 300 GWh hydrogen storage project as construction continues"

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/chevron-mitsubishi-hydrogen...

The ACES project aims to use electrolysis to produce up to 100 metric tons of hydrogen per day, which will be stored in naturally occurring salt caverns at the site. The caverns have a potential storage capacity of 300 GWh of energy, according to Mitsubishi Power, which is developing ACES jointly with now Chevron-owned Magnum Development.

For comparison, last year the largest battery system in the world was the Moss Landing project in California with 3 GWh of capacity:

https://www.energy-storage.news/moss-landing-worlds-biggest-...

The largest pumped hydro station in the US stores 24 GWh:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

At 300 gigawatt hours this underground hydrogen storage system can store more energy than all utility scale batteries in the US combined.
Server side only anti-cheat is one of the problem domains that I'd really love to work on at some point in my career. This is the type of adversarial arms race that just seems really fun to think long and hard about.
I'm generally helped by my federal taxes going to help feed students in poor areas. Both from a feel good standpoint and that those students have a better chance at becoming more productive, which means they can buy stuff from me.

I also benefit from those foreign wars because they keep the US empire of cheap shipping open, so I can buy stuff for cheap from countries who've specialized in manufacturing
> On other hand, who are we defending from and why are spending all this money on world police when we have a ton of internal problems?

Because someone has to be this if you want the continuation of the post-WWII rules-based international order that underpins the entire global economy. The Department of Defense and US hegemony are essentially overhead that is the Least Bad Option to stop WWIII from kicking off or the world from fragmenting into spheres of influence (which is starting to happen already). Who else would do this and not screw over everyone else even worse? Russia? China?
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My friends think I'm crazy. I earn mid 100s, live in a cheaper home, don't live it up, and shop at thrift stores.

This period of having high income is new to me. I used to be homeless, living in a truck, couch surfing, begging for money for food and gas.

I'm terrified of losing it all, so I'm doing my best to not put myself in a situation where if I lose my job I lose it all.

They're okay with rolling a $25,000 credit card debt from card to card to fund their life.

I still pick up pennies on the ground.
Yeah don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-mock - real code is messy, and the ideal of the same tests running everywhere will never work, so mocks are necessary. But I do think there's a lot more harm from over-mocking, than under-mocking.

> file isn't a "real" configuration file then isn't it just a "mock?"

I want to say "no" but I haven't thought about it enough yet. My reasoning is that the file itself contains information about the expected messages to/from systems, since it is the body of whatever the system should respond to. And while it is only 1 layer separated from just creating the same object in memory for your test this "feels" different because you can't just pull it out of your codebase into curl.
I have to say: That looks as if they all value safety over uptime.

Thanks.
Not sure how Bitcoin is going to help food, water and medicine enter Gaza.

Regarding ‘genocide’, I don’t want to underestimate the destruction and the suffering, but if the death count is 40,000 people in an area of 2.2 million, we are talking about 2% of the population. If Israel had really wanted to commit genocide, we would have 2 million dead people.
>The Israelis blew up pagers belonging to members of a known terrorist organization.

And the people who happened to be next to them when they went off?
> they have 80% margin, according to the article

I have a pet theory about private equity: they're in the business of laundering boring jobs for college graduates. Few kids dream of graduating college to work at a chemicals plant in Baton Rouge. But working for Accenture in New York or Atlanta, now that's sexy. Even if you spend your entire work week *checks notes* working at a chemicals plant in Baton Rouge. (Investment banking is similar, though the transaction orientation makes the division of labour a little more sensible.)

Palantir pays less for its consultants (sorry, FDEs) than Bain et al. Few in their generation dreamed of graduating college to work at a soulless corporate consultancy. But a tech company, now that's sexy.

More pointedly: It's remarkable how an ostensibly 80% GM business only barely became profitable last year. Palantir's Q2 '24 cash flows from operations at 40% of revenues looks closer to the mark [1]. (Palantir's cost of revenue "primarily includes salaries, stock-based compensation expense, and benefits for personnel involved in performing [operations & maintenance] and professional services, as well as field service representatives, third-party cloud hosting services, travel costs, allocated overhead, and other direct costs" [2].)

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/0...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001321655/0...
Still works with a USB-C computer, or tablet, or Xreal's own Beam Pro. I'm sticking with my 13 Mini as a phone but still happy to travel with Xreal Air glasses.
> Not taking sides on the attack, but, wow, you ommited half the text

Regarding anything Israel/Palestine related, nuance and good faith left the chat a long time ago.
Patrick Collison (Stripe) credits the Transition Year in Ireland for his computer interest

" Ireland actually has this interesting thing called “transition year,” this year between two major exams of high school or at least Ireland’s high school equivalent.Transition year is a formally designated year that’s optional, where you can go and pursue things that you might not otherwise naturally tend to pursue, and the school tends to be much more permissive of going and spending three months abroad or going and doing some work experience in this area or whatever the case may be. And so, in that year, I basically decided to spend as much of it as possible programming, and so I did that.”"

https://networkcapital.beehiiv.com/p/stripe-ceo-patrick-coll...
It isn't just startups. Huge tech giants do it too.
It’s an equivalent key. It unlocks the same door. It doesn’t matter if it’s the same bits, because the only thing we care about is whether it unlocks the door.

Two different combinations for the same lock serve as backups for each other for practical purposes.

They could even be entirely different methods of access, like a Yubikey or backup codes. What matters is that you have independent ways to get in.
Personally, I've never met a cloud provider I would trust with holding my secret tokens. It just seems like such a juicy target for hackers. You have to trust that they have done everything right all of the time.
Let's be truthful and show the remainder of that parenthetical:

> (which would allow RPs to block you, and something that I have previously rallied against but rethinking as of late because of these situations)

I read "these situations" to mean "non-spec-compliant providers", where "spec-compliant" means to prevent plaintext export of resident keys.
> If a player joins with a different Steam ID but with an IP address that is already banned, the system now re-bans them

This works great until you realize you're punishing innocent players because of CGNAT and IP addresses getting rotated. Cheaters usually know how to get their router to request a new IP address. That IP address then gets assigned to someone else later.
Kudos to the author for using RFC5737[0] TEST-NET-2 address for:

> An example of an IPv4 IP address is 198.51.100.1.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737
Threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1844045388241915960.html
Wine Is Not Emulator.
I would wager it's not a matter of helping filter out CO2, but rather CO2 is one way to assess how effective the air management is on a plane.
> What he really wanted to close was the cultural gap between rich and poor

This sounds great!

> Then there is the financial aspect of TY: some parents just can’t afford it.

oh for fuck's sake
I think you misunderstand my comment.

Boeing has famously done stock buybacks of $43 Billion for the period of 2013-2019. Now they need to raise $10 Billion in cash. Whether they're doing that by issuing new stock or by selling bought stock is moot.

They converted $43 Billion dollars into stock (probably more since then, but let's make the point), raising their market cap from $57B in 2013 to $93B today. Which is a difference of $36B[1]. So they converted $43B in 2013 into $36B in 2024. It's worse than that, because if you account for inflation since 2019, The $36B is actually only equivalent to $28.8B [2] of the dollars that they spent on it.

This means, that in the period from 2013-2019 Boeing lost ~$14B in cash by spending it on stock buybacks.

My comment here is just that. They converted $43B cash (probably more) into $29B stock value. And now they need $10B cash. For which they will issue new stock, and likely tank the stock value even more. I would be surprised if there's enough float that they wouldn't just destroy the stock value entirely by trying to issue ($10B/154($/stk)) == 64M Stock. Their average volume (I assume float) is 9M according to Google stock, but they also say 20+M for the past few years. So I'm guessing we could see Boeing stock drop by half for this round of sales.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/BA/boeing/market-c...
[2] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=36%2C000.00&ye...
This reminds me of the quote:

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
How Long Does It Take to Climb Mount Everest
A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino
> I expect their bank to to report they made a transfer abroad and deduct spending tax automatically

So we're not taxing spending, we're taxing bank transfers as well. Maybe they just put it in a savings account overseas. Maybe they're paying off a loan for money sitting elsewhere. Who says it was a sale? Prove they bought something.

>> Having poorer people pay more effective tax rates than wealthier people doesn't strike me as fair.

> That's not at all what I'm advocating for.

But that is what you're advocating for, by pushing it to just an extremely complicated sales tax and complicated system of fractically more complicated credits for exports and subsidies for the poor to hopefully reduce their tax burdern and what not. Inherently the wealthy will spend a smaller percentage of their income. The wealthiest practically can't spend it as fast as they get it even flying private jets around the world, but tons of middle-class people seem to barely have anything in savings. You just keep ignoring it and offering half measures to address it.
In TY in 1998 I:

worked at an architect's, an archeologist's, a hospital, an epidemiological research institute where I got to use _my own computer_ all day - decided I needed to work with computers, got a summer job there.

earned the President's Award medal

had one class where we stripped an engine over the term

got my first aid certificate

learned how to develop film

took night classes touch typing (on an electric typewriter)

took part in the Irish language school music competition

took German

was in a play

got an award at the Young Scientist

I really developed as a person. I hadn't ever really stopped to think what my life would be like without that development but I suspect it was very beneficial. It certainly wasn't a "doss" - and it started to grow a self determination muscle - find your own work experience, find projects you want to try etc.
It's called a deny site.
Yeah, you would think they would rely on their secret cookie in that situation instead, to minimize false positives like that.
> Early Amazon was pro-customer in a way that I think most people have forgotten.

I think this is why I'm still such a loyal customer, and use Amazon for so many purchases. Intellectually I know that Amazon does super crappy things, both to their workers and around their website and sales. But I've been a Prime member since it was first offered, nearly 20 years now, and I still fondly remember when Amazon's customer service was pretty much better than anyone else's out there. It was actually delightful to interact with their customer service, which was (and is) so rare.
Some, like me, welcome developments in solar, wind, battery and nuclear. They are all viable in their own way, and constantly improving.
When I was diagnosed back in the mid 00s, the tests were:

- A blood test for elevated levels of tTG-IgA antibodies, which are produced by the celiac autoimmune reaction. This has something like a 5% false negative and 10% false positive rate, so it's generally a strong indicator but doesn't totally confirm the diagnosis.
- An EGD/biopsy of the small intestine. The lining of the small intestine is damaged by anti-tTG antibodies in a way that's recognizable under a microscope.
They addressed this in the section entitled "Problematic cases of IP address fingerprinting"
I'm a big fan of using identifiers reserved for examples. I use TEST-NET-2 IP's and example.com all the time in my documentation!
Risk there is that what ever id is generated tends to leak. So lot of cheaters will either tamper with it or circumvent it. So the game will continue and not actually be effective for very long.
> You mean by taxing labour and taxing commerce?

> Sorry for the snark, but come on...

> The Roman empire was built on never taxing labour, because that was seen as an atrocity (never mind the slavery). Instead they taxed luxury goods and debased their currency. The United States was built on never taxing labour, because that was seen as an atrocity (never mind the slavery). Instead they taxed importations and debased their currency.

Interesting, even though I don't see if you are for or against taxing labour, commerce or inheritance.

Inheritance tax is a way for the establishment to take land from small landowners. The state isn't a good counterbalance to "greedy" corporations, the state is there to support big business.

> It'll be sold to a mega-corp because they have more money to spend. So in a couple generations you kill off areas that are primarily small farms.

Please see Bruce511's comment above, he explains it better than me.

The thing is that with an inheritance tax, you make it impossible for someone to live with little or no money, and caring for their off-spring, by giving them a place to stay.

> Since all land was created by God...

Aha, but in the commandments it says that you shouldn't steal, so having property doesn't seem to be forbidden?

> But "territory" is an instinct so deeply ingrained that it's probably been with us for millions of years

So, is caring for your off-spring, kindness and brotherhood. What is your point?
I don't disagree that disregarding the Supreme Court is essentially a type of coup. However, the power which is being contested here is a power that the Supreme Court invented for itself out of whole cloth: judicial review was born in 1803 when Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that an act of congress was unconstitutional. That's honestly a bigger coup than what is being suggested here, and is only perceived as legitimate because a) it's been around for a long time, and b) the Supreme Court has mostly backed down from its most unpopular opinions.
According to this page, they are using an existing sandbox technology called Firecracker. The other features seem pretty basic. Correct me if I am missing something.
I hope they asked permissions for storing those cookies. Otherwise they're violating various EU laws.
https://www.wipfli.com/insights/articles/110727-tax-conseque...

"In addition, a special punitive rule applies to convert gain otherwise taxable as capital gain to ordinary income. If the property sold or exchanged (a liquidation is treated as a sale) between related parties is depreciable by the buyer (regardless of whether the property was depreciable by the seller), § 1239 requires any gain recognized on the sale or exchange to be treated as ordinary income."
> I even had a negative celiac antibody test.

Note you can also check your genetic config.log to see if there was a -DALLOW_CELIAC flag in your source build.

Unfortunately your body's settings dialog is shit and does not show you whether or not that feature is set to on or off. But if you were built without that flag then you lack the code for the Celiac algorithm altogether and are good to go. (There may be other sensitivities to gluten, but at least nothing that corrupts your nutrient slurping event loop.)