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That's the idea Elon capitalises on with showmanship. The story is worth more than the substance.
Problems listed are signatures, dedup, buffering, bootstrap, cron. Everything other than signatures and bootstrap, can be solved by having a counter in every webhook payload. It will increment each time. When you receive a webhook and the counter does not match, the consumer can fetch the missing data from the events API.
I agree with the author that providers simply saying "at least once delivery" is insufficient. they should have solutions that does not require an architecture diagram.
Bootstrap is better served with a bulk events API so you don't make one call per request. It can have an after/cursor pagination. Solutions that work for our internal Kafka might not be suited to work across services, over the internet.
GNU cash website immediately tells that it is not a Saas and doesn't need to upsell the latest trendy addons, for it to survive.
It tells that it is not "investing" in marketing to eventually turn a profit.
It is not looking for acquisition opportunities or next funding rounds.
If you want to see what a trustworthy website looks like, take a look at SQLite or postgresql or even this website itself.
I assume that an expert in CGI can point out obvious flaws in these outputs. But I wonder if it is possible to fix those details by prompting it to change only specific segments.
There is also the question of how much compute/money they are spending per second of output, compared to a high-budget Hollywood CGI.
If this is true, can you share your initial draft that you asked the AI to rewrite. Am I not right that the initial draft is more concise and better conveys your actual thought, even though it's not as much convincing.
- Is the market big enough to allow multiple players at a large scale? There are many viable and profitable ideas, but having a ceiling due to limited market demand is a negative.
- Apart from your technical expertise, do you have go-to-market capability to be able to capture the above market?
- Do the promoters have a vision for exit? Running a profitable long-term business is not usually the right venture for a VC. They need to see a possibility of either acquisition or market listing or further investment rounds at a higher valuation.
- Are you offering enough company shares in order for the investors to have some say in the company? A profitable investment without significant control might not be enticing for some investors.
- You have mentioned collaborating with another stealth start-up. You shouldn't appear as dependent on another company. Even having a large client as a significant fraction of your revenue can be considered as negative.
With all that said, it is a competitive market influenced also by macroeconomic conditions and fund cycles for the investors.
If you are already profitable, have confidence, and some personal financial stability, debt funding might be a good option for you.
> established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization
The 2020 paper establishing Chicxulub event as the driving factor of extinction also said that "prolonged eruption of the Deccan traps might have acted as an ameliorating agent" i.e. cancelling the negative effects of asteroid impact.
I was running `npm init` recently on a new private project, I meant to write UNLICENSED which means "all rights reserved", but I accidentally missed the "d" at end and it got marked with "Unlicense" license.
I can give username@ponymessenger.com email to new people I start communication with, like maybe part of a professional profile. An email to this address will receive an auto-reply. It will explain that message will be delivered later, and not instantly. Since this is a different email domain and opens a new line of communication, it will not carry an expectation of instant emails. It will be even better if this auto-reply contains a link to a webpage. On that page, they can modify their message or rephrase until the delivery time (with a countdown ideally). Maybe the domain name could be something that implies the delayed delivery part to make it even clearer.
From the recipient/reader side, this has to be a sacred space, away from the continuous traffic of other emails. It is not possible to turn all of our emails into delayed correspondence. Hence, this can not work as just an email client. It should help grow the network without becoming an email client.
Pony is just the messenger service needed in the ever-connected world. I had dreamed of using this kind of messenger. Thanks for building it. I hope this grows into something big.
> Connect it to oxygen supply through a breathing bag. Make some holes in the breathing bag. Eye the calculation so that incoming oxygen displaces at least 10 times the volume of exhaled CO2
You first need a clean and secure place to store it at pressure enough to be continuously consumed by a living breathing human.
Generating oxygen with this means will inevitably result in mixing impurities via the coating on the electrodes or any pre-existing corrosion on the electrodes. Salts mixed into lye, soda, or other salts added to increase conductivity, can result in toxic chlorine and chloride fumes. Heating at the electrode will result in further unexpected fumes.
You are suggesting plastic equipment around a 200A electrodes. If plastic is melting around the electrodes, imagine those fumes also mixing in.
These are just few of the problems that comes to my mind. I am sure an actual expert will know better. Please refrain from posting such garbage, especially medical information.
I still try to keep vim as close as possible as an open source alternative. Thankfully, a lot of editor features have been abstracted enough that the same software runs in vscode and terminal vim. e.g. ternjs for intelligent autocomplete in JavaScript, and the vim keybindings itself. Still, open source code intelligence isn't as good as the proprietary intelligence of jetbrains, so I bring vim inside jetbrains.