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I feel like we've probably all made this kind of mistake at some point in our careers, so I do feel for the dev(s) that made the mistake. Ideally though, when your subscriber count is in the millions, you have policies/processes in place to prevent this kind of thing.

Anyways, I sure hope no one loses their job over it; it's a good learning experience & a great (even if embarrassing) way to improve overall process. :)

I'm "young" and relatively unexposed to capital gains; I have some index funds, etc -- but I'm not "loaded".

Capital gains taxes are purely based on profit; you can carry over $3k in losses each year, and that's a "common" tactic, to sell losing positions at EoY to reap the $3k benefit (which can carry over if >$3k).

Why don't we tax capital gains higher, perhaps average it over 5-10 years even, and continue to allow carryover of losses, etc... ? Surely there's middle-ground here that [most] everyone could support....

Thank you for the link -- is a very informative post. My small organization recently adopted (and loves) FrontApp, it's been a tremendous upgrade over trying to handle inbound support via shared inboxes.

That said, it's pretty darn expensive & it's probably "overkill" for us -- we only have ~5 team members. By the time we added in all our forward-facing "aliases" (ie support@gameX, support@gameY, media@gameX media@gameY, etc) plus a few Twitter accounts, our bill ends up around $240/month.

Comparing the two services via the [relatively] detailed comparison breakdown at your link, it sure seems like Missive would scratch the same itch that FrontApp does for us currently -- possibly better even, especially for a small team like ours -- and looks like it'd be ~50% cheaper than FrontApp.

Will definitely be taking a closer look in the future; I don't look forward to the migration (though sounds like it can be done pretty smoothly), but it's certainly an attractive product and the price point makes it quite tempting.

Valve [Steam] does this "inverted" model, as of ~ December 2018... It wasn't overly well-received on the PR front -- though I do suspect that it earned them a decent bit of AAA title/publisher credit, heh.

Realistically, that's probably where much of the money is at; if anything, props to them for getting away with it.

Very cool & interesting. Also interesting is that only 91 of these craft were built & delivered -- that seems like such a tiny number. And, apparently, only 68 are earmarked to be kept & maintained ('SLEP') it seems:

"All of the planned 91 craft have been delivered to the Navy. A Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) is currently in progress to add 10 years of service life to the craft design life. A total of 68 LCAC will have undergone service life extension by the conclusion of the program in 2021."

Really interesting, ty. Agree with the sibling comments, needs normalization of course, but if that doesn't warrant funding I'm not sure what does. If I can throw a few bucks at it, please let me know how!

There are also more games than ever right now -- it's extremely competitive, even relative to just 5 years ago. Source: Am founder of a small indie 'studio', recently released our second title.

You haven't been in devops 'hell', then! ;-). Has been many years for me, but SSHing into a server with a high load and trying to diagnose = now sounds like training camp to me, hah.

I remember waiting multiple minutes on a production system on more than 1 occasion! =D

Hate these partisan threads, but....

I'm not saying you're wrong -- I just haven't read it. I don't read a lot of obviously left/right news, I try to divide my time equally, and to the best of my knowledge there was 1 deceased Capitol Police Officer. I don't know cause of death, I think I recall that they were investigating a singular individual -- but if you have a legitimate source, would love to read it.

I have both of these -- both purchased at the same time via Amazon, needed two mounts and figured I'd use the "better" one in the primary location:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K9MQTB1/ and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T3KCQ94/

They're both extremely similar; you really can't go wrong for <$25. I actually have 3 of the cheap one now, only 1 (the initial order) of the more expensive one. They're functionally identical for my usage; and it's a huge ergonomics win no matter what.

Also, if you have a desktop mic, buy a microphone arm for it; is similarly fantastic price-vs-value proposition (though monitor arm is massively more useful upgrade just due to how much you use it).

Go to an allergist. You may end up getting referred to a GI. But it's a sure-fire way to know if you have actual allergies or not.

Source: Wife's visit to allergist & subsequent referral to GI doc today (no allergies).

That's about the same as the non-summer part of ToU plan in NV -- both peak & off-peak. It's about a cent cheaper off-peak right now.

On the TOU plan in NV, weekdays in June thru Sept, from 1PM to 7PM, it's ~0.45/kWh -- but rest of the time it's under 6c/kWh -- comparable [or less] than your rate.

Hard to believe we haven't figured out efficient, reliable, & redundant long-distance electricity transmission at this point.

I generated almost 100kWh today & have used ~half that; it sure seems like transmission is almost as big of an issue as storage.

Can be had much cheaper, especially if OK with a non-zero failure rate (and/or bit more latency). Note that my hands-on experience with this stuff is now relatively dated, from a "prior career" -- coming up on 10 years now, even. If anything though, then I'd guess that it's become cheaper over time, not more expensive.

This type of game monetization essentially equates to slot machines with no monetary reward possible -- but it's otherwise nearly the exact same thing, and it's intentionally engineered to be that way. I'm an indie game dev and I really hate that the industry has become this way.

I also am upset that nearly all sports franchise games have become solely micro-transaction driven (ie Madden, Nascar, etc).

I definitely will do everything I can to prevent my kids from falling into games with these types of 'reward' systems -- and I'll personally only be making games if I'm able to do so without resorting to slot machine monetization tactics. Once it gets to the point that there's no other way to monetize, then even [the 'bad'] big tech starts looking like the lesser of the evils. =\

Government regulation is absolutely needed IMO, and I'm generally not a "regulate it" type guy.

I don't disagree, though it does come down to cost-benefit. Masks are a no-brainer IMO; they're cheap & data generally leans towards them having some level of efficacy even at the lowest ends of the cost-spectrum (ie cloth coverings), and they appear to have rapidly-increasing efficacy as the cost-spectrum value rises (ie N95+, respirators, etc).

I should have included the last sentence from that paragraph in the study, because it's pretty concise:

"Therefore, careful consideration should be given to the cost‐benefit of implementing such measures."

IMO it'd be impossible & fruitless to attempt to get even moderate numbers of businesses to do health & temperature screening, much less small businesses; it's just cost-prohibitive, and with the benefit being mediocre at best, there are likely better places to allocate resources.

Yep, exactly. It was pretty rare, and I think it mostly occurred on "3-way" switches that were capped/originally wired as 3-ways but changed to be normal switches with Insteon links to get the dual-switch functionality.

It only takes once-a-month of hitting a physical switch, then having to do a "double-take" and re-hit it to get the light on, before the proverbial rage boils quickly.

All of mine are indeed the newer style RF + powerline; I also had my Insteon hub fail once, which was frustrating because it required some re-pairing that didn't "just work" IIRC. I was using a dedicated Mac Mini running the Indigo macOS app.

I may give it another go in my office at some point, we'll see.

I recently was in contact with someone who has written a menu-bar app to monitor Tesla Powerwall status. It's in the Mac App Store already -- but NOT the latest version, because Apple suddenly decided that they wanted written proof that accessing the Powerwall APIs was allowed (from whom?! It's MY hardware!). Apple will not allow the dev to update his Mac App in the MAS; yet they approved & continue to leave the original older version [with known bugs] up, available for purchase.

So now the developer is stuck -- he can't update his app on the Mac App Store, and what recourse does he have as a 1-man-shop vs Apple?! =|

As a developer I find it absurd, as a consumer [who bought the app on MAS and wondered why I had the non-latest version], I find it absolutely baffling & anti-consumer.

Wonder how this will be handled for apps that are shipped on the app store via a 3rd party publisher. The publisher probably does >$1M across all the apps they publish, but each app / developer is likely far under that.

If there are no exceptions, it would mean that 3rd-party publishers lose tons of their value proposition.

The studies & data on "health checks" -- temperature checks, symptom screening, etc -- thus far shows that it is generally considered to not be very effective.

Here are 3 studies I found quickly, but this line from [2] sums it up nicely: "... screening is resource intensive and its effectiveness is limited due to a high proportion of asymptomatic or pre‐symptomatic cases, resulting in low detection rates."

[0] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014668/

[1] - https://elifesciences.org/articles/55570 (includes bonus GH repo w/ data and methodology)

[2] - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rmv.2192

Great link, this is what everyone's looking for. There's quite a bit of data here, definitely over my head, but I think page 24 has details on the specificity and sensitivity via results of the clinical study.

Screenshot of just that part: https://imgur.com/a/G5JVS2V

Edit: From the EUA itself (linked by someone else above), I find these conditions on their marketing to be hilarious:

"No descriptive printed matter, advertising, or promotional materials, relating to the use of your product may represent or suggest that this test is safe or effective for the detection of SARS-CoV-2."

Which is then immediately followed by (emphasis added):

"Z. All descriptive printed matter, advertising, and promotional materials, relating to the use of your product shall clearly and conspicuously state that:

· This home test kit has not been FDA cleared or approved;

· This home test kit has been authorized by FDA under an EUA;

· This home test kit has been authorized only for the detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2, not for any other viruses or pathogens; and ..."

Which is it -- authorized for the safe & effective detection of SARS-Cov-2, or authorized for sale but NOT safe and/or effective? Also, the EUA requires them to build a "results reporting website/portal" within 4-months.

Idk, it sure seems like a non-zero amount of subjective bureaucracy to me.

I did this on a prior home and then removed almost all of them just prior to moving. I haven't re-installed them in the 4-years we've been at our new home simply because the "failure rate" was so frustrating to me.

I don't mean hardware failure, I mean "intermittent, rare command failure" -- I've never experienced quite the same level of annoyance/rage from anything else, versus hitting a switch and having it either not turn on/off or having it be delayed by 1-second.

Granted, that was relatively rare, but having a wall switch not work even just 2-in-100 is enough to give me serious pause. I did love & do miss the ability to turn all lights off from a bedside switch, to run scenes, etc. -- but I'm just not sure it's worth the trade-off.

As an indie game developer, this kind of saddens me. I'll give you the benefit out the doubt, I'm guessing you make some kind of distinction as far as "SaaS" vs "bigCorp" vs "indie" -- but I still don't think it's the right perspective. I guess at EoD I'd encourage you/everyone to consider the content makers and support the ones that make content you enjoy, big and small alike.

I do. 75" version. Was budget price, decent picture. Only gripe is that it's slow to turn on versus my other TVs. Is otherwise solid, though isn't used often, but have had it for ~2-3 years now I believe and no major complaints.

It's a good question, even if it's likely not applicable practically yet. In a game my company created, we implemented cooperative realtime pathfinding using WHCA* -- an algorithm that David Silver published [0] (he's now working at DeepMind last I looked).

WHCA* turned out to be a bit too suboptimal for our use-case, people generally expected "perfectly optimal" routes to be used for aircraft, and they weren't even overly happy with most-optimal "for-all" paths either. We eventually implemented a relatively simple "AStar-3D", essentially just A* against a space-time graph, and it's greedy/FIFO -- meaning it's optimal for each aircraft at the time the aircraft runs it's path. That made people happy -- aircraft no longer did seemingly stupid things like "oscillate", or get "temp. stuck" for overly long periods, etc.

I had no idea cooperative path-planning was so damn difficult -- I remember estimating it as a 1-week mini-project initially. Wow, such naivety, and that's when you even have perfect information! Such a cool domain, tons of respect for the work that's being done here, even if there are some tricky/ethical aspects that are going to come into play eventually, inevitably. :)

0 - https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AIIDE/2005/AIIDE05-020.pdf

FWIW, I purchased it for exactly this reason. My goal is to end up with a URL that I can hit on my LAN that tells me the PH of my pool.

I don't need perfect accuracy, and checking it manually isn't overly time-consuming. It IS tedious enough that I only check it about once a week though, and I'd prefer to be checking it more often. And bonus points for being able to automatically track it & easily graph it, too!

Same here. I tried to replicate the experience when developing SimAirport; I'm happy with the way the game turned out overall, though there will always be lots of things I want to tweak/change/improve. That said, Theme Park was and still is probably the most memorable & engaging gameplay experience I've ever had. I can still vividly recall building the "water slide" around my park to improve guest happiness, etc. Many prefer Theme Hospital or similar, but Theme Park will always be the game that really had an impact on me far more than any other game ever has.

I'm "self-employed", ie employed by the company that I own, and so I have to shoulder the entirety of health insurance cost for my family of 4. Because I'm the only FT employee, we aren't eligible for "business/small group" health plans; which means we either have to buy private health insurance (often not meeting ACA Essential Coverage requirements) and/or purchase health insurance from the 'health exchange' marketplace administered by our state.

The first year, we could actually purchase decent coverage and while it was expensive, it was a solid PPO plan. The past two years however, there isn't even a single PPO plan offered on the exchange in my state -- not one -- I don't even think there were any "Platinum" coverages offered. The end result is that we pay essentially a mortgage-size payment each month and in exchange we get relatively abysmal coverage.

Worse yet? It seems they categorically deny ~75% of claims, which generally means we have to appeal & fight them on it (our success rate is high but it's time-consuming); if it's testing/labs that need done, we also have to front the cash out of pocket to avoid delaying diagnosis & any potentially needed treatment. Often that means $800+ out of pocket PLUS a 4-8 hour time investment over a 3-4 month span in order to try to recoup that money -- all the while, we're of course paying the absurd premiums each month.

Insurance & the financial aspect of healthcare is so completely broken in the US that it's sickening. I believe the problem is so severe that it's really hurting our country's economy and is incredibly stifling for individuals & small businesses. I wish I knew how to fix it. :(

That's awesome, not only for you but I especially applaud those who pay for your content. As a game developer it makes me wonder if there's a viable & addressable market there, to work on a single game "long-term" without feeling the crunch from Steam/reviews/etc.

"CMD + Tab" seems to reverse it just fine for me regardless of which app (ie I just tested it in Chrome).

I'm aware; there was certainly lag time between the event & the reporting, though. It's relatively likely that the PIC knew of the emergency declaration 10-20 minutes before it was triggering push notifications on devices. Regardless, I'm legitimately curious what the outcome of his flight was that day.