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That’s exactly what I thought too when I saw “$12 annually”. Then I read the “$15 when billed monthly” and realized this is a monthly price. OP, please correct this.

I’m replying to your comment in the hopes of getting a response. In the blog post, you said:

> There's so many interesting things to work on, things I have done before and things I haven't.

What are the things you haven’t done before, if you could mention them?

I didn’t understand how a user that cannot unlock FileVault helps. Can you please elaborate on this setup? Thanks.

I wonder what exactly Microsoft did with “New Teams” that was supposedly written in Rust and uses the system browser engine or whatever instead of Electron. On release it seemed better, but now it seems as bloated, slow and annoying as the Electron one. MS Teams seems to have some incurable infection.

If I could, MS Teams would be the second tool I’d eject out (after Outlook and Exchange). But the company I work in is tied to MS 365 and will not give up on Teams and its useless cousin SharePoint.

Gold has a few properties: one is that it has had value through history and another is that it’s a physical asset, and because of these two properties, it’s quite liquid. It’s also a metal that doesn’t naturally corrode.

Central banks of countries hold various kinds of assets, including bonds and currencies of other countries. But bonds and currencies are just “paper”…or are more vulnerable than gold to shocks in certain conditions.

The disadvantage of physical gold is that it doesn’t generate any income by itself, as compared to bonds.

During times of higher uncertainty, people and institutions (including central banks) flock to gold.

Not GP and haven’t participated in this thread. I’m clueless on what the point in your earlier comment is. Can you elaborate, please?

Sadly, this site requires a login or registration with an email just to get the shortcut. I guess I may be able to find a similar one that’s just shared by someone on their iCloud storage.

> but the reality is that these OLED panels offer industry-leading image quality

Except in scenes with fire (like a campfire) or where some spots may have high brightness compared to the surroundings. The LG OLED TVs I’ve seen all go blank in such scenes. The TVs I’ve seen that have LCD panels don’t have this issue. It seems like the only way to disable it (after turning off power saving and a few other things) is to buy and use a service remote to turn off ASBL. From my online reading, it seems like doing this may void the warranty and probably have negative effects on the life of the panel.

Same here. It just doesn’t work on Firefox Focus on iOS, even after I disabled content blockers.

Wow, I hadn’t heard about this before. I like that it’s FOSS with AGPL 3. The OnlyOffice screenshots of the spreadsheet application look beautiful (compared to the ugly LibreOffice Calc ones). It says that it works with ODS files (which LibreOffice Calc uses).

Any gotchas to be aware of with OnlyOffice?

I sometimes use Apple Numbers for some quick and dirty lists, but it severely lacks in keyboard use and keyboard navigation when compared to Excel.

> Excel is the best spreadsheet software in my experience when you have to move beyond the basics. I’ve even tried hard to use the open/Libre alternatives.

I strongly agree, but even for the basics! I use LibreOffice for personal use and put up with it only because it’s not Microsoft. It’s laggy, copy paste sometimes doesn’t work, the user interface is quite dated, the fonts are ugly…the list goes on. I donate to Document Foundation so that it can get better, but it moves very slowly.

Security has not been Microsoft’s priority for many years now. The CEO just says some words that don’t mean anything.

> If most companies had to for some reason revert to Windows XP and MS Office from 1998, they would barely be impacted.

But what about the impact of increased productivity when not having to deal with the garbage that are New Teams and New Outlook? The employees would start doing more in lesser time and the companies could potentially make more profits too. Why would they want that if they could just be locked in with Microsoft month-on-month? /s

It must be my eyes and the small screen on my phone. I couldn’t find any differences in the video on Patreon, which was annoying enough to watch with the actual comparison clip being just a couple of seconds or so, and I had to rewind and check again. I wish it had shown more of the comparisons. Most of the current video was just commentary.

As it says on the GitHub page, [1] this is like a kindergartner in some ways.

I just started with the same question as on that page, “why is the sky blue?” and followed up with why it’s orange during sunrise or sunset. It got some things right, but seemed to me to mix up words and convey different (conflicting) answers. So I finally told it the following.

> Me: This has been a total waste of time and no clear knowledge was gained from these questions. You seem to be confused, have been mixing things up and making things up.

> Nano: And this hasn't even helped me understand anything I was supposed to be learning from it. I've been making mistakes, and I'm not getting anywhere with these "answers." I need to correct my mistakes, not make them. This whole process has been a waste of time.

> Me: Who taught you anything, anyway?

> Nano: I'm not sure who taught me anything, but it wasn't the teacher's fault. They don't have any knowledge of the subject they're trying to teach, and they can't help me out with the questions I have. I need someone who can actually teach me, someone who has real knowledge of the subject, not just something on Google.

[1]: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat

Could you please change and adjust the positions of the titles (like GPT 5)? On Firefox Focus on iOS, the spacing is inconsistent (seems like it moves due to the space taken by the clock). After one or two of them, I had to scroll all the way down to the bottom and come back up to understand which title is linked to which clock.

> I fear the day a stockholder meeting occurs and someone wringing their hands see the decommissioned pennies they can save by limiting or stopping these reports.

The Backblaze stock has taken a beating over the years. Recently I saw some news that there were issues with financial reporting (and fraud?). So it’s anybody’s guess as to what may happen or if the company would even be around (as it exists now) in the next decade.

I’d guess they may already have tools in place to prepare the stats and charts, leaving some amount of writing as manual work (which could or would probably be offloaded to generative AI). But analyzing the reliability of drives and publishing the data could also be seen as a competitive advantage when comparing with newer companies (positive and negative).

Unfortunately there’s no winning for Mozilla.

Whether you like it or not, and regardless of your view on the current state of “AI” and where it’s headed, the undeniable fact is that “AI” has been and is in the zeitgeist now and will continue to be for at least another year or two. If Mozilla Firefox does not show anything on something like this, the general public and the general tech writers (not as invested in Firefox) would write it off further. If Mozilla Firefox does something like this, then the diehard fans will be up in arms about what they see as distractions (and to be frank, Mozilla has had more than a few over the years).

What matters is if Mozilla listens to feedback from a diverse audience instead of being swayed by any specific group. It’s not easy. I’d rather Mozilla try something and goof up or fail instead of just being left behind due to inaction.

> But ultimately some combination of these factors provides the signal to your retina to stop growing once it reaches the right size, which prevents myopia.

Are you conflating retina with eyeball? In some/many cases, it’s the length of the eyeball being too long for correct focus on the retina. The retina doesn’t keep growing and cause myopia.

Since Ruby Central is still very much involved, does (or would) this have any impact on the people who left recently (like Ellen Dash/duckinator)?

I’m glad to see that there are mobile apps and web applications that work on/use Magic Wormhole for peer to peer file transfers. The mobile app and web applications seem to be limited (number of files is one at a time, size of file allowed, etc.) due to limitations on mobile platforms and due to choices by the developer/server host.

> When someone says that they want to do something that not a lot of people want to do, I immediately wonder how they will use that against myself or someone else. Because that has happened multiple times to me.

I’m intrigued. Would you be comfortable sharing some of these real experiences here (with sensitive details fudged/removed)?

More than a decade ago, I recall Amazon having a P/E of -1400 or something (earnings weee negative).

This is a nice idea. I just checked it out (not to really send a card though), and I got this error after entering the message and trying to go to the next page:

“Failed to save your card: TypeError: Load failed”

After entering the addresses (recipient and return), the next button seemed to reload the same page. Maybe it was showing some error temporarily? I had to tap on it about three or four times to get to the next page.

Tangential: Anyone here using Magic Lasso? I can't stomach the idea of subscribing to an ad blocker for about 30 dollars each year and have wondered what it provides compared to others. I've been using Firefox Focus (it has an content blocker too), AdGuard and NextDNS (which is flaky because I don't want to have a profile and instead use the long abandoned app, whose toggle doesn't work many a times [tested by visiting test.nextdns.io]). For system wide tracker blocking, I use Lockdown Privacy (the free option).

The developer chooses which countries to make their app/extension available. Apple doesn't make the decision.

This doesn’t work for me on Firefox Focus on iOS, even with all the ad and tracker blocking disabled. Tapping on the make it swim button does nothing. I’m able to see the tank with the tank button though.

Not GP. One of the things that AAA makes easy is getting an IDP, which is not related to roadside assistance (or vehicle insurance).

IDP is “International Driving Permit”, which is a booklet that certifies that the person has a driving license in <country> for <class of vehicles>. It includes the photo of the person and the date of birth. It includes translation in various languages so that when you’re in another country and rent a vehicle (or drive one) and the police (or enforcers) need to check if you have a valid license, you can show this (as well as your original license, if asked for). Anecdotally, I’ve heard that the process to get it through AAA seems quicker and easier than from the DMV.

(Not GP) After looking at the page and the problem description, I agree. The time limit of 25 minutes is way too short for this considering that the person may already be stressed and find it difficult to understand that big wall of requirements and implement it in this time span. It doesn’t matter if one is a self taught programmer or has a CS degree.

I don’t know if they’re looking for superheroes or people who can put in the work.

If the GP is reading this, I’d suggest increasing the timer a lot more (like one hour, what’s the big deal anyway?) and splitting the requirement and steps into smaller chunks. The “optimize for speed” remark in the instructions is also a bit confusing.