Apple TV doesn't really have the kind of catalog that netflix does, but a lot of their unique shows are excellent. The Morning Show and For All Mankind in particular were fantastic.
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PayPal offers nothing, afaik, to manage your community or tiered rewards and certainly has no ability to show how much a given creator is receiving. It was clearly never designed for recurring payments and when I've used it for those it seems like it was only grudgingly implemented.
None of these other systems have a good experience for the person, like myself, who donates to a large number different people. On Patreon I can easily view and manage all my contributions in one place. Becoming a patron for a new creator is seamless.
Despite my love for the platform though, them doing investment rounds seems bizarre to me. They've got a good thing going, and I'm not sure that dramatically increasing profitability requirements is a good thing.
Like others mention, I also get ready in the morning as I normally would, and bookend work hours by walking my dog.
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A parking lot clip could use the time-based notification to warn you that your meter is almost up and give you the option to re-up. Without having to walk back to the lot to do it. I imagine this would be especially useful in a tourist-heavy area since somebody who isn't sticking around won't want to download a whole app for the purpose.
Cost for a seat on Soyuz is $90MM, cost for a seat on Dragon is $55MM. These are the market rates, not the true cost. In that whole paragraph he's basically saying that the true cost of the seat on the Soyuz is still cheaper than the true cost of the seat on the Dragon. Is there any data to substantiate that? I suppose we'll see in the coming months and years if they actually reduce their asking price.
If you want the weeks/months/years to feel more dense then the answer is to do new things as often as possible. Learn something new, try something new, read something new, go somewhere new. Going to a new park or hiking a new trail is a great way to bookend a week that will help keep your weeks feeling like weeks. Making new recipes and trying new foods can also help, if less so - I've personally slowly been trying every variety of coffee available to me over the course of the lockdown. So every few days I have a new memorable thing engaging multiple senses, and I'm learning to appreciate the nuances of something I used to largely mindlessly consume. I also have certain activities pegged to certain days to try to keep some perspective of the week as it moves, e.g. study Wednesday, board game Friday, D&D Sunday, etc.
All this had definitely helped me control my retrospective perception of time. Managing my prospective perception has proven to be far more challenging, if anybody has tips there I'd be appreciative.
The US government's attempts to keep people afloat have pretty clear major issues, for instance. Is it really a bad thing to suggest that we should have a system in place to handle these sorts of events, even on smaller scales, rather than trying to rush something out when every day counts? I'm not arguing for UBI per se, but if somebody thinks it's the right solution then is it a bad thing to argue for it when an example of its usefulness is fresh in everybody's mind?
Obviously there are plenty of bad faith suggestions going around too, but I can't help but think platitudes like this do more to shutdown good ideas than bad.
Those things the ipad can't do are largely niche (now that working with files is well supported), and are solvable limitations. The software problem on the surface pro is pervasive and unsolvable. They've done their best, but you can't make every piece of software written for Windows suddenly not require the precision of a mouse or suddenly support navigational gestures.
I had a surface book 2, but got rid of it in favor of an ipad pro after using one for a while. I have a desktop that I use for gaming, but I would have that either way for the sheer power of it.
The only thing that the ipad can't do well that I'd use it for is programming. This is not a dealbreaker for me, as I don't like programming on the go anyway, and if I really needed to then I can remote into a desktop to do it.
I think the iPad will be the long term winner here. Legacy OS's are just way too reliant on keyboard / mouse. Having owned a Surface Book, I can easily say that the tablet mode is not workable with the software ecosystem that exists. You can mostly make it function in limited cases, but outside of a small handful of programs built specifically for it the experience is poor.
On the other hand, the addition of a keyboard just makes the iPad even easier to use. Using a mouse is slightly more awkward since you can't use gestures, but you can always fall back to the screen that's right in front of you. The extra precision is overkill, but it isn't painful.
Another layer to add in the tablets' favor: kids these days are growing up using phones and tablets. That's the way they interact with computing technology. It will be increasingly easier to convince these new generations to buy something that's familiar, but with some extra power and utility, as apposed to something that is foreign.
- Cosplayer? 3D scan yourself, you now have a model you can make minis out of.
- Need to replace a simple valve to help treat covid19? This does most of the work for you.
- Game dev? You can scan a real world item, either importing it directly or using it as an outline for an in-game object.
For most high detail or functional things you probably will need to make some adjustments to the scanned model, but it could make the whole process waaay easier.
Of course, being able to just bulk unsubscribe from an entire project and all its issues from the outset would be better.
I live in a city where I walk everywhere. The audio landscape of a city can be incredibly harmful. Notably the shrieking of brakes in need of replacement and the many awful sounds of construction. Walking around with transparency mode on, even when not listening to anything, has immeasurably improved my quality of life. I can still be aware of my surroundings without having to deal with anything but the first few fractions of these hostile noises.
True, but similarly few people would be able to swing the kind of discount they got at Oracle. I'd be really interested in seeing what those discounts worked out to overall.
I live away from my parents, but that was a choice of practicality - the amount of money I make by doing so vastly outstrips the amount I would save by living at home.
Back when I was on Fi I used ~2-3 gig/month. Switched to an unlimited plan on Tmobile (with throttling at 50g) and now I'm using 6-9 because I don't have to worry about it.
Fi was the second hardest service from Google to give up though, because their service is just better than competitors. Only Tmobile can remotely compare. But their customer service is... Google. I might have even stayed, but I switched to iPhone and Fi only gives half baked token support for iPhone.