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Personal anecdotal data, but to be fair to Airbnb, they have repeatedly looked out for me..

Just recently I had someone cancelling on me whilst I was in the car driving to the place. Airbnb were straight on it, instant refund, extra credit towards another place and someone rang me to try and help me book an alternative for that night (I was quicker than them and had thankfully booked the next door unit before they even rang).

I've had a few bad stays over the years (getting woken early doors by bailiffs was fun), but they've generally been sorted out really quickly.

The times I've tried the alternatives in the last few years I've come up short and regretted the lack of support.

I've used airbnb for many years (since the glory days!), but have to agree the fees are killing me now.. just give me the full price up front..

Mac: USB-C

Magic Mouse: lightning

I have this work provided combo, and the mouse is the only device in the house that takes a lightning connector.

Cue frantically trying to find that cable every time it gets low..

USB-C and I could just plug the wall charger into it and be done with it.

Or, run a short track butting up to the end of their track, buy the cheapest locomotive and park it at the end. Wait for the inevitable crash of locomotives.

Repeat, and watch the AI's company value crater. Buy them for $1

"2) Weird internal ranking system."

I thought this was a given?

I realised years ago that if I visit LinkedIn I appear in more searches and seem to get more connection requests.

I've gone through periods of not using LinkedIn, and I get nothing, then I log back in, flick through my feed and within a day I've usually got at least one new connection request from a 2nd degree connection..

LI does seem to reward engagement, so I'd suggest you start engaging and see if it helps (though as per all the other responses, there's also a few good reasons that it's quiet at the moment).

Does that count for cable internet too?

We were one of the first to get cable in the area, so our ping was generally about 5ms..

This was when many others were still on bonded ISDN for a (nice stable) ping of about 120ms or dial up (150+ ping).

That made up for a lot of skill :D

“how can we guarantee stability of the network if anybody can connect anything they want to it?”

Sounds hauntingly familiar.. "How can we guarantee the security of the phone if owners can just side load anything onto it."

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/23/22546771/apple-side-loadi...

Like AMP..

Google does what's best for Google.

Not saying that's necessarily always a bad thing for the end user, but they do play the long game. Chrome was great at the start, did a lot to drive the web forward, and is now suffocating those advancements with Manifest V3 etc (including delaying removal of third party cookies).

It almost feels like embrace, extend, extinguish..

Even if it is easy to end the contract (just ask to terminate it option), it is quite common that you have to give X months notice.

They rely on the fact many members will go less and less each month before reviewing and cancelling, so they get paid for 5-6 months.

Am I reading that right, that if you point Keepass.exe at any .kdbx and simply add an export option to the XML config it'll export it without the master password?

Granted you need local access to modify the config, but generally the .kdbx is stored (securely) on some shared environment. Grabbing that would mean you could export passwords at your leisure in this setup?

As long as it's within 30 days..

Consumer laws give a much longer window, and the retailer is responsible for resolving the issue [0], but any time I've had to try and get something replaced after the time limit it's involved going back to the original seller, hoping they still exist in the world of random TM company names. Never understood how Amazon gets away with this.

0: https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/what-do-i-do-...

"The retailer is responsible If what you’ve bought doesn’t satisfy any one of the three criteria outlined above, then the retailer that sold it to you is in breach of the Consumer Rights Act.

This means that your statutory consumer rights are against the retailer – the company that sold you the product – not the manufacturer."

Almost like you need a CLI as the OS that simply launches the visual UI program for specific tasks.

A pretty desktop background and a prompt would go a long way.

I'm now picturing something like ChatGPT (or a specifically trained model) integrated into the shell, so a user can simply type / vocalise what they are trying to do, without knowing specific app details, rather than having to navigate a bloated UI.

The Induction Industry Is Paying HN Influencers to Gush over Induction Stoves (2023)

Tongue in cheek, but nowadays it's so hard to establish what is a genuine appraisal and what isn't..

"As a counterpoint, my experience has been that having a recurring 1:1 on some cadence makes it feel less weird to flag an issue."

Agree with this completely, and is something I always introduce straight away with my team.

If someone stops me in the corridor / sends a slack to say "Jim's tapping drives me nuts" (as a lame example), then it's now a big thing. I have to stop what I'm doing to establish how much of a problem it actually is, and how soon I need to deal with the issue. It takes a lot to interrupt someone for something that potentially is a small, yet personally important thing, so people are less inclined to do it.

If instead, at the end of a regular scheduled one on one, as we're winding down, at the inevitable "anything else" stage, someone mentions "oh, yeah, small thing, but Jim's tapping drives me nuts", then we can discuss and establish a path forward in an open environment. Invariably they feel listened to, we can decide a way to approach the issue, and it's far less dramatic.

Having just re watched Gremlins with teenage children (for their first time), there is definitely something about that era of movies.

Dodgy animatronics were first scoffed at, and then forgotten pretty quickly as everyone just got into the pure enjoyment of that movie.

This is a nigh on 40 year old film, with a lot of target references, yet it still hits the mark..

That said, rewatched transformers too, purely for the joy of the initial transformation (childhood toys coming to life..), and thoroughly enjoyed it (though it's already feeling a bit dated).

Not every game is on steam..

Modern titles with heavy handed anticheat don't work well on Linux (and likely won't ever). e.g. Modern Warfare 2 is classed as "borked"[0] in proton.

0: https://www.protondb.com/app/1938090/

Back when you could mod counter strike locally, skin packs etc.. (I'm sure that even before that when you could mod how others saw you.., but that may be rose tinted glasses).. so much fun.

It's obvious why they stopped it eventually (pldecal.wad pretty much became obligatory porn sprays everywhere), but those were the days.

Dusty Dunes in Holland FTW :)

Obviously(?) not stable diffusion, but the touching up of scenes is already there with the Pixel 6 magic eraser.

One touch removal of people and background intrusions (even goes as far as suggesting items for removal).

So, not far I imagine!

Because in the current climate that's not a sure thing..

If FAANGs* remove themselves from the equation due to hiring freezes or redundancies a lot of people will be left earning below FAANG pay in a non co-operative environment.

It is proposing joining a co-operative as a possible alternative to that.

That, and it's not always about the money. It's surprisingly rewarding working outside of monetisation of attention.

*Or whatever the latest acronym is

It's also low quality.

Not using WhatsApp isn't going to magically secure your details online.

As per GP's point, most services eventually seem to leak data, so it may as well be saying "Don't go online".

Compare that to the alternate response which provides solid actionable advice for how to limit exposure when these services ultimately leak your data, and you can see why that post was downvoted to oblivion.

Which museum is the first documented piece of AI art held in?

"I don’t think it would actually be feasible to implement, but I wish something like it existed."

It's feasible (in some contexts), and has been implemented in Wales in recent years [0] (though not exponential, there's nothing stopping it from progressing that way).

There used to be reduced taxes on second homes, recently changed to 100%, and now changing to max 300% (set by councils).

They've also closed a number of loopholes to stop owners passing these homes off as dysfunctional businesses (listed to let without taking any lettings).

There's a large disparity in wealth over a relatively short physical distance, resulting in a large number of homes in "idyllic" but poor areas being bought as second homes and spending the majority of the year empty.

They've also moved to a land transaction tax that makes the second home purchase more expensive [1].

I'm not saying they are pulling the ladder up, and good to see these initiatives being put in place, but they don't necessarily solve the issue with existing vacant second houses which most likely have benefited from the lax taxation over the years combined with increasing property values.

0: https://gov.wales/new-tax-rules-second-homes

1: https://gov.wales/land-transaction-tax-guide

"An MP4 file first draft https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33741701 This is a blog post from the Twitter Help Center. It explains that the MP4 file format is not supported by Twitter. It recommends that users switch to a supported browser or enable JavaScript."

Declared with such authority!

And trusted ones are owned by someone I know personally..

Thanks for the link!

I'm now on the waiting list for the next batch (couple of weeks to months), and apparently the new injection moulded version is way better, and a lot cheaper!

I always thought tech was used as the lever in a tech company..

Doesn't matter what you sell, or service you offer, but if you're leveraging technology to add large numbers of users with a marginal increase in cost, I see that as a tech company.

This generally means there is an internal focus on the technology itself as any improvement can have a direct link to a user's LTV.

But maybe I'm talking less tech company, and more tech led organisation..

Or a wrēnch..

"While it will not be the UK's deepest downturn, it will be the longest since records began in the 1920s, the Bank said."

They didn't say it would be the worst, just the longest.

They've also indicated that they aren't going to just keep madly raising interest rates, but expect to top out by next autumn:

"The Bank has done something it doesn't normally do in the published minutes of its decisions - it has given guidance that seems to suggest a peak in interest rates of about 4.5% next autumn.".

So it's far from scare mongering (on the bank's part, can't control how the media portray it), and more "this is not going to be a quick fix, we have some idea of how bad it'll get, and it's not as bad as the 80s. Please don't panic".

Quite a measured response in reaction to some bad news IMO.

Don't forget the recent "mini budget" also had quite an impact on the current and future state of the UK economy!

I presume the GP is referring to the GTA V fix, which was only 18 months ago [0].. having been ever present in a game that had been out for over 6 years!

I think it'll be referred to for years to come as an example of not only how seemingly simple decisions can come back to haunt you, but also how patient users can be if they really want to play something..

0: https://www.thegamer.com/gta-online-fix-loading-times-offici...

Haha. I bought a brand new 1050 for one of the kid's builds (For a system that would happily run Minecraft) from eBay. Pretty much a year to the day it suddenly wouldn't be recognised by the Nvidia drivers on booting.

Turned out it had a hacked firmware.

I now only buy my graphics cards from reputable sources..