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I'm no expert with LEDs' technical bits, but I purchased LIFX bulbs which were pretty expensive and they've lasted for almost a decade now.

From the article: > ...This was a problem for a startup with investors anxious to see fast monetization growth.

Seems as if Duolingo had been more conservative with its fundraising, it wouldn't have needed to resort to actions that might take it further away its goal of teaching a language? Do you really need almost $200M to build a business like Duolingo?

Cars have a safety rating, I wonder if houses could have the same kind of rating?

Would it be a better situation if houses for sale/rent will have a transparent safety rating visible to tenants and contractors could choose whether they build expensive, high safety buildings, or cheaper, low safety buildings?

Might sound dystopian, but to me it seems like the preferable solution. I know I live in an old house that would probably not fit for an earthquake, but I also know that if I want to live in a safer house, I'd need to pay more or move to a less desirable location, so I'm OK with taking the risk that an earthquake will kill me while I'm in the house.

The question is whether the market could balance itself enough so contractors don't build just crappy houses and take all the new margin to themselves.

This looks great! In my previous company, we somehow ended up building a whole ERP around Google Sheets. Google Sheets is a very powerful tool, but the JavaScript definitely felt clunky and outdated.

A solid C# foundation for building on top of excel could probably be very useful for some companies.

I do wonder though how you can nail down a target audience for this kind of tool, seems like you'd need a special kind of tinkerer and I'm not sure how many like that are out there. In my other company, which was a small company, the ones who headed it were essentially engineers that transitioned to executive positions. I doubt there are many like that out there.

I'm no dietitian but how much nutrition there actually is per 1kg of beef compared to 1kg of potatoes/pumpkin/onions, etc.?

My sister is vegan, and whenever we have a vegan meal, I'm already hungry 2 hours after the meal. On the other hand, if I eat a burger for lunch, I might not be even hungry by dinner time. Again, I'm not a dietitian so I'm pretty ignorant about these things, but if it has to do with proteins, I think the ROI for meat proteins is going to be a lot higher compared to vegetables.

I realize this gets complicated, but just another counter argument for ROI of meat compared to vegetables.

> Normally vegetarian food costs less than meat. It's because the animals need to eat (surprise surprise) vegetables! When you eat the vegetables directly instead of having the animal eat the vegetable for your, it's cheaper.

Actually, as far as I recall, a counter argument to this, is that fresh vegetables are more expensive since their shelf lives are a lot shorter. I can buy most types of meats (chicken, beef, etc.), freeze them for weeks and the taste would still be great, while fresh vegetables will normally only last for a few days.

Of course you can go for frozen vegetables, but this is only limited to some vegetables, and in my opinion, don't taste as good as fresh vegetables.

Yea I was working on a Unity game that originally had a WebGL build. At one point I implemented a 3rd party plugin that required multi-threading for real-time rope simulation (Obi Rope), and at that point WebGL basically became impossible for the game.

Could be that Albania has a unique Muslim majority in Europe so it would be more sympathetic to other Muslims, in this case refugees from Iran?

More than 10 years ago I built a Firefox extension that was using the clipboard. It was for Multilanguage users that accidentally type in the wrong language, once they notice they type in the wrong language, they clicked a button/hot-key, and the text would switch to an alternate language in their OS.

I was eventually in the process of switching it to a Windows app, so it could also work outside the browser, but never actually finished it.

Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure something like a password manager would also need the clipboard.

Can anyone actually think of an actual discovery that harmed people?

I'm missing some actual examples of what they're trying to protect people from.

Zapier is definitely one of the most successful ones, although, I'll take anything about market-size and valuations with a grain of salt, especially considering these are pre-2022 numbers.

The beauty with products like Zapier is that they have a very clear idea of what you can do with it: "connect product X with product Y".

Many of the other no-code/low-code products are very much open-ended and leave a lot of freedom to the user, on paper this sounds great, but when you try to explain your finance admin how they can build an app that will reduce 90% of their workload, they just got no idea what to do with it and keep on doing manual work.

While I really admire, and often use no-code/low-code tools, it's hard for me to see a clear and sizeable target audience.

Often, it's some sort of variation of a very technically-savvy intra/entrepreneur that has limited dev resources, there aren't many like that.

Coders usually stay away from these kind of solutions because they're often not as flexible as writing code, and force you to work in a method that has to also fit less-technical users.

I was using Zapier a ton and I loved it, but I'm a jack of trades entrepreneur, getting other people on my team to use it was much harder.

There are self-driving trains:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system...

To me it seems like this is the symptom of a dying industry, the newspaper industry. I can't think of many people who are willing to pay for newspapers or news websites, let alone watch their ads(!). Eventually these papers are for-profit businesses so it's either go bankrupt, or find a way to make money no matter what. It seems that those who survived so far, are picking the latter, each to its own extent.

Hopefully, there'd be a new, sensible way of earning money for decent free press, and this is just a limbo stage.

Nice. Anyway to create a quick shortcut to this functionality? It's pretty deep inside the settings menu.

Living close to a noisy road, I play white noise on Spotify every night. Usually though I just go with a playlist or one/few particular tracks running in a loop.

Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track?

I also wonder if Spotify somehow adjust the earnings of these creators, as obviously I don't actually listen to their white noise for the whole night.

Bitburner?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/

And the same claim is void if warfare will turn to be drone/remote-based.

For cases when you have let's say a gaming PC and a Macbook connected to the same screen. You want a USB-C port so the Macbook will get everything from a single USB-C port (power included), but you also want your gaming PC to benefit from a high performance monitor with high refresh rates on a DisplayPort/HDMI connection.

Cool. Does G-SYNC/FreeSync work with the USB-C port?

I haven't yet seen screens with USB-C support that have refresh rates higher than 60hz, unfortunately.

Human power plant + palm gym.

There were a few companies that tried doing that, if I recall correctly https://www.bountysource.com/ was one of them (seems to still be active). I've been following the area and also tried to run a business in the area. My experience is that while there's some demand, it's either really small, or extremely difficult to grow.

Pretty cool exercise.

I wonder why governments are concerned over military use with this technology. If anyone wanted to bring a satellite down, wouldn't it be easier to just blow it up with a projectile/hack it/jam it/laser it? The military option of developing a complicated satellite robot to push satellites off orbit sounds stupid.

It's one of the reasons for why I intentionally avoid Adobe, despite often contemplating using their products. I wonder if these kind of tactics are really worth their while, leaving stung customers from ever coming back.

Interesting. My gf gave it a go after I did and she like you got a word starting with מ.

True. "A" does play a similar role. The thing with "A" is that there are relatively few words where it could be applied, while in Hebrew, almost every noun and verb I can think of can have a "ב" prefix.

True, but in English I think this is more of a suffix thing, for example you can have words like "soft"->"softly", "poll->polls". I think this effect is much more subtle when this happens with a suffix rather than a prefix.

I think this won't work so well in Hebrew. As an example, SPOILER ALERT, Today's word starts in ב, and when I try to think of words starting in ב, I'm constantly thinking of words where "ב" acts as the "in-" prefix for a word. I think in English this never happens as unlike Hebrew, I can't think of a letter than can act as a meaningful prefix.

*SPOILER for today's Wordle* *** *** Eventually, today's word is בהחלט in which ב can be considered as a prefix since ב-החלט -- "in decisiveness". ** ** *****

I've visited Italy quite a bit and been there for nearly two months in aggregate, spanning all regions in the north, and in the south spent weeks in parts like Puglia and Campagnia. My impression was that culturally, the Italians in the south are VERY different from the Italians in the north.

Even just the different driving style was very apparent.

Wouldn't you say that the cultural experience in a random village in Puglia will be very different from the random village in Trentino?