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Now with the cloud none of this is necessary. With data at rest laws, all our email older than six months is open game.

That’s so gross. Ick. Great finding. I’ve actually wondered about this in the past.

Neither boat pictured in the article is a superyacht.

There are benefits to standing but it isn’t without risks. I messed up my body a bit through a lot of years of standing. So I traded standing body issues for sitting body issues, to some extent.

Like others have said, make sure to mix it up by sitting and standing. Also like sitting, standing requires proper body dynamics (standing straight, keeping your weight evenly distributed, desk at proper height). If the desk you get has a way to preset both heights, you will be more likely to get it right each time you change.

Lastly, a gel or cushion floor mat for standing can be really helpful.

Reminder to run some continuous streams through your ssh tunnels so your keystroke patterns aren’t detected as easily.

This is everything sailing isn’t. If that makes any sense.

With apologies for being the pedantic person, you're not really asking the AI in your pocket. You're just using the web browser on your pocket computer to compose a message to the massive AI system running in some datacenter somewhere.

Ironically, if this problem does get solved, you could have the whole AI system in your pocket.

When I order anything off Amazon, which is more and more rare these days, I wish there was a shipping option of “let the workers go pee” or “donate 30 minutes off task to a worker” or “don’t penalize the driver”. I don’t need the speed. There are just some items that you can only get at Amazon.

But overall, with the number of fakes, the treatment of employees, the complete shit show of site design and browsing tools, not to mention the dark patterns and other nonsense, shopping on Amazon is a guilty chore, one that I take only as a last resort.

Good for these people for getting some workplace victories, but it would be so much better if Amazon gave in willingly and actually ran the warehouses and delivery operations with an ounce of compassion, even if it came at the cost of some speed slowdown.

Maybe the button option on the website should read “choose to get your item faster but three employees will have to hold their pee or go in a soda bottle”. Let’s see how many people would choose that.

Hyper capitalism is destroying everything. It’s just a question of whether we chose to change course.

They’ve (SiriusXM) made cancelling a lot easier as of late. They even give partial refunds and let you pause. I wouldn’t say it’s perfect, but I have been able to hop on and off over the last year without major heartburn.

The writing has been on the wall for some time. It's clear that they are focused on growing the company and maximizing revenue. Nothing wrong with that, but my family's needs aren't going to satisfy a hungry capitalistic company. So I've had plenty of time to have alternatives, which I've been using. 1Password has been in parallel with another password manager and once they end support for 1Password 7 my family will turn this one off and switch.

The experience with 1Password 7 isn't all that great right now anyway, so I'm not losing much really. The syncing is super useful, but there is a solution to that too.

It's been a good ride. Now it's good riddance.

Just one data point, but I recently talked to a guy that bounces between being a mortgage broker and a tech worker. When the housing business is booming he switches to mortgage work, then when that slows down he jumps back into technology. I think he said he was in some kind of pre-sales role in tech.

Now that they're both slow at the same time, I'm not sure what he's planning.

I hadn’t touched Gimp in five years or more but last month I had to slice up some large images for easier printing and Gimp rescued the project. I found it easy to use, mostly intuitive, the install was easy, the UI was snappy, and all of the features I needed were available. I have to give a big thanks to their dev team for providing this software and saving me from the Adobe nightmare.

Throwing heavy objects.

What a nightmare. Ick.

At one of the Open Source Conferences (OSCON) I saw Damian Conway use a tool like this (I believe it was asciinema) to give one of the best command line based demos I've ever seen. He was typing away like mad and not one typo! It was mesmerizing and the demo was totally awesome, of course it helps that he's a superb presenter to begin with.

Later he revealed the "magic trick"!

Very well summarized. This really captures the dilemma.

Did I mention every single Ethernet cable had to be cut to length and if any server moved all the cables had to be remade ? Lol. They finally hired a wiring company to do all that work because I think we all protested to programming during the night and cutting cables during the day or vice versa.

Jobs was a believer in the live demo. So when he was demoing a new product, the app actually crashed mid demo. He was so seamless in his delivery, it was like the audience was hypnotized.

For many of it was a life long dream to work at Apple, and to work with Jobs, but it didn’t take long to see it was not healthy.

Hey, you don’t have to tell me, I quit immediately after the project, after bouts of both verbal and physical violence. I left likely tens of millions of future earnings behind as a result. But there’s simply no question that the guy was a visionary. I personally saw many other examples of crazy abusive behavior and I don’t believe the ends justify the means.

Somewhere in Steve logic somethings are black, somethings are silver, that's just the way it is.

iTools, or as it's known today, iCloud. It was supposed to be a dial-up service, if you can wrap your head around that. But halfway through the project he realized that doesn't make sense and pivoted. A timely, brilliant move.

I was there in 1999 as OS X was being developed, and the beta was just about to be released. I was building another product that was released at MacWorld in 2000 (and still exists today)!

I have a lot of funny stories. Steve didn't like our data center rack mounts being silver, we had to pull them all out and spray paint them black, because silver just wasn't acceptable, in a datacenter. That was my first day at work. And no, I'm not a datacenter employee, everyone on the team did everything, there were just very few of us.

We had to work from about 10am to about 3 or 4 am every day to make the deadline, we sometimes got Sundays off. There was a lot of rage and anger at many management levels.

Steve would get a question about a two button mouse at every company meeting, he was super pissed every time about the question. We enjoyed trolling him.

Steve's attention to detail was unbelievable. I once witnessed him make a team work overnight just to move an icon 10 pixels to the left.

The guy had a vision that seems unparalleled. He was able to figure out the concept of "cloud" well before its time, and make a shift towards that.

Of course, he was an supernatural presenter. I witnessed him present through some really messed up errors in live demos and no one I asked in the audience afterwards even noticed the errors.

It was an insane work environment, never seen anything like it.

This is truly bananas and wonderful. As an "old" that had a Vic-20 and a commie 64, this just warms the heart.

Where did the author get these recordings? A very interesting read.

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Well, this is oddly personal for hackernews but what the heck. This is pretty interesting to me. I’ve been living outdoors for the last 12 months, and I’ve noticed some significant changes in libido. It’s been on my mind quite a bit (not only for the obvious reasons but also wondering why this is happening to me). There’s a lot of factors of course, going from a mostly sedentary indoor life to a mostly actively outdoor life but this is fascinating. My SO is much more careful than I am with UV exposure and hasn’t seen the same change but again, too many factors to control for in this sort of anecdotal experience.

It's not just about the money. The menus, information, and other details are just wrong or go out-of-date because this pizza restaurant changes things on a daily basis. Additionally their business is not setup for take-out at scale. They do the occasional take-out but when the phone starts ringing with to-go orders they were not anticipating, they are not staffed or ready to meet the demand. They call to remove themselves and then a few weeks later they end up back on there.

I worked at Apple in the late 90s, they wouldn't even tell me what I'd be doing during the extensive interview process. There was so much secrecy. After all the paperwork was signed, I met with the team (on a Saturday) and found out what it was and that I'd be working 7 days a week, 14 to 16 hours a day for the foreseeable future. I wasn't disappointed, but it was a really strange way to start a job.

It's disheartening that there's so much due diligence required just to conduct the most basic transactions right now. I have a narrow list of vetted restaurants, where I understand the costs and to the business, the delivery model, the safety (food handling and Covid precautions), and I only take out from these particular places. I tried a new place recently, only to find out I had been duped by Grub-hub, even though I thought I had placed the order on the restaurant's own site (or so I thought). When I went to pickup, the owner set me straight and gave me his card with the correct number. He showed me that I had paid an additional $25 in markup, as well as the fees he was charged, and this was a pickup!