I’ll unsubscribe, but now call BS on the “this may take 14 days to take effect…” nonsense in 2024. If I’m getting more emails in a couple of days, they’re getting marked as spam. (Looking at you, TripAdvisor. If you can figure out how to build AI-generated itineraries, you can figure out how to not email them.)
The (most?) popular SQLite driver for Go often gets PRs to update the SQLite C amalgamation, which the owner politely declines (and I appreciate him for that stance, and for taking on the maintenance burden it brings).
Maybe they are all relevant upon full scrutiny, but that isn't obvious to me (albeit IANAL). I know what my kids buying a potentially violent video game is like, and I know it is very different than participating in social media. And regarding the CDA in the 90's, take some of the opinion:
In order to deny minors access to potentially harmful speech, the CDA effectively suppresses a large amount of speech that adults have a constitutional right to receive and to address to one another. That burden on adult speech is unacceptable if less restrictive alternatives would be at least as effective in achieving the legitimate purpose that the statute was enacted to serve.
That's just me grabbing a snippet from Wikipedia, but it seems like a different issue than the impact of social media and whether it should be allowed by minors w/o parental consent.
These rulings are 13 and 27 years old (the third is in progress), so I'd argue that revisiting the legal analysis of the laws and precedents is useful here in itself.
Let the experiment take place, I say. Just like Oregon’s now-repealed drug use decriminalization bill. It didn’t achieve its intended goals, but there is now a mass of data about what assumptions were wrong, implementation issues, etc. IMO there is real value in letting states put such changes into play to get beyond the debate and actually test the hypotheses.
Given that Things, Todoist, TickTick, and probably most(?) others don't support e2ee, I'd not consider it table stakes. If anything it could be a positive differentiator if they did add it, since folks in the forums for other apps often bemoan the lack of e2ee.
Yeah this is important for planning, and it becomes even more complicated when you're trying to optimize with AMT involved, reclaiming credits, etc. These things require multi-year planning, and the expected tax bracket is a significant factor.
I’m sort off in your boat, I think. Late 40s and quite tired of the tech rat race and money obsession. I’m about 6 months into a totally different thing: writing/selling my own apps (mobile). I have the luxury of a working spouse and some savings so I don’t have to focus too much on speed or high profitability.
I very much like the idea of building the thing I want to, to the quality and aesthetic I want (eg no ads or dark monetization patterns), and selling directly to customer. It’s still early days but it has put me in a good state of mind.
These seem more like notch filters and I’m hoping they work. At least they are trying something, and a large scale experiment can only help figure this out (even through failure).
This is an overly negative (“ruined the internet…”) take on the interface. I just tried it. I get a nice summary answer that has an “AI generated” disclaimer, and immediately below are actual reviews mentioning my search terms.
If anything I’m a laggard in getting on the AI hype train, but this seems totally reasonable and actually pretty useful (eg the product I was checking has no less than 11k reviews, so AI giving me a summary answer is also welcome)
My state of Oregon paid Oracle something like $250M for a healthcare system that never materialized. The lawsuit that followed was settled for $100M, but most of that was “free” Oracle licenses and no less than $60M of customer support.
Small bug: for today's (3/5) puzzle, the autocomplete lists two of the same correct answer (identical text). The first one is a win, the second a loss.
Now the term generally means the interview requires passing some type of coding challenge, typically very algorithmic. There are many sites to prep for this (e.g. https://leetcode.com, which probably is the source of the phrase), but “grinding” through many problems in one’s free time just to prep for an interview is often something interviewees want to avoid, especially if they have are more experience and/or other options open.
As I mentioned, I have been using local CPAs (though the costs are closer to $1k for my return)... a number of them. These are recommended, well-regarded folks. But when I check over the return closely, I'm routinely finding errors ("Why are you adding this income twice?" "Isn't this supposed to be a Long-Term gain?" "This Form 1116 looks quite wrong"). This stuff has added up to thousands if left unfixed. And in my most recent year, the return was so wrong that the IRS contacted me. The CPA ghosted me to resolve the matter, so I had to work directly with the IRS to fix the return the CPA prepared. That's the sort of stuff I'm trying to get away from.
So, while they might have a legal responsibility, it doesn't mean they necessarily fulfill it. And in the end it is my time and money and stake.
I like the idea of plaintext accounting and have tried a few of these options a number of times, sometimes pretty earnestly, but have never landed on a satisfactory flow. I've always ended up spending quite a lot of time building out the tooling around trying to fetch from now more than a dozen accounts and then munge/categorize things acceptably. In the end, I just fall back to pressing "Download All Accounts" in the clunky-but-serviceable Moneydance (local data FTW).
I'm using a standard T-Mobile prepaid plan with my name on it, auto-paid monthly using a CC with my name on it. The silly part is that this same phone is what they: a) registered my account with a few years ago, b) send their 2FA codes to for normal account login. But it is unacceptable to their support system, I guess.
The "unspecified reason" turned out to be me trying to transfer some money to a business checking acct that I have. That's against their ToS and could have probably been a quick reversal (when I finally got through to the right person it took about 5 minutes), but the phone verification thing gummed stuff up for a few weeks.
Marcus recently locked my account for unspecified reasons and it took a couple weeks to unlock simply because they weren’t allowed to send a verification code to my phone since it was on a prepaid plan (?!?). Quite nerve-wracking to have all of your “safety” funds inaccessible and stuck behind fairly helpless front line agents that offer no escalation path.
Yes. They seem to gate on a feature-by-feature basis, know when you bought the license, and you don't get access to the new features after 1 year (unless you're on their subscription plan). You do continue to get the latest app, which includes bug fixes, but the features released past expiration aren't available to you. https://dueapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360053244591-Wh...
I've purchased "Due" via the App Store, and it tells me I'm entitled to free feature upgrades for 1 year, shows a date when my unlock period expires, and offers a longer-term subscription. So it must be possible.
Will there even be "blockbuster" video games, movies, books, etc? If hours after release, there are hundreds of lookalike clones, will there be "hits" like we know of today? We see this in the App Store today. It is just hard for me to see that part-time product being a big success, when at the first whiff of an interesting idea it will get repackaged, probably into something more effective.
Not so for WebRTC. We use Snapdrop all the time to transfer between devices, and it just gets the two nodes talking, but the data xfer is peer to peer on our network. Works great.
I can relate to the author's story about discovering his dad's charts as a kid and being fascinated by them. I'd forgotten how much I poured over those things, especially with how dense they are. I'm sort of prompted to visit an FBO and grab some expired charts for my kids. (Do FBOs even still have that stuff just lying around? It has been decades.)