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Can you give any examples of those difficult domains?

I'm an ok-ish web developer, and would love to fine some niches to specialize in like you mentioned.

Why can't we just make a new pronoun that is "they" but singular?

Like "Theya".

Theya is my friend. It's singular, non gendered, and then we can just get rid of every pronoun except "they" and "theya".

What is "CT" ?

I'm obsessed with other people's forever projects. Have you written up the "grand idea" in a blog post or anything? Love to hear more.

I'm trying to break my own BIG IDEA into manageable experiments or profitable side hustles somehow too.

The data I'm looking at makes the Facebook decision a little more sensical.

Yes there was a Big Spike in VR interest around Oculus, and most of the people who bought one have it sitting in a corner collecting dust...

But a significant subset of people continued to use it, and their usage is steadily growing. There are huge numbers of people willing to pay $500 -$2k, on each new device that comes out, just to "see if its ready".

There are tons of people who work from home on a couple monitors, who WANT to have a VR work setup that gives them screens the size of walls. Obviously the comfort, battery, and visual performance is not there yet, but most people have a feeling that would could just be a generation or two away from it.

I would guess that more than 50% of hacker news readers over 40 years old had an MP3 player BEFORE the iPod. They were all garbage and completely replaced when the iPod came out, but for the 2-3 years before the iPod, all the early adopters new something like that was coming and they were hungry for it.

I feel that's exactly where VR is.

Angel's, no. I think the Pope is summoning Satan again.

For people who are curious about SREcon.

"SREcon is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale."

How could that be ever really be enforceable?

If I use an AI tool to design my Superhero, can't I just submit it without disclosing the help I received from an AI.

I get that it would be very nice to prevent AI SPAM copyrighting of every possible superhero, but if I use the AI to come up with a concept, then quickly redraw it myself with pen and paper, I feel like it would never be provable that it came from an AI.

I Piss this game all the time.

I drink the largest soda the gas station has in Las Vegas and hold in my pee until I get to Eddie's to go for a high score. (Ghosty Brotato if you see me)

Yes touching the screen is dirty, but we are all washing our hands right after going to the bathroom, right? So I can tolerate the germs for a second or two.

They also have insanely good maintenance at Eddies, I wouldn't be surprised if that glass is getting wiped down every two hours.

This is a great document. But it's his 10 year plan from 8 years ago.

I'd love to get insight on how his 10 year plan would look today.

The design of these case studies is pretty freaking awesome.

Your first job as a regulator, should be to realize that McDonald's is the government.

Your second job is to not piss off "the government".

Not a fan of the implicit approval of drinking and driving.

Do you have a Youtube? I'd definitely follow and would love to see when you figure out what the switch is exactly.

Once you reach 65+ people tend to lose weight until they die.

A lot of it is explained by muscle loss.

You would definitely have that level of control. These signals don't map to your inner monologue but they can pick up your intention to physically do something.

So if you think LEFT, you can move the selector on the keyboard to the next key to the left. And if you think CLICK, you can trigger a click. But you are focusing on asking your hand to physically make that click. Which your hand can't do obviously, but they can track those neurons to simulate the action for you.

How much does it cost to have a single environment running overnight?

Not shutting down my machine saves me 2-5 minutes probably. Which seems like it might be worth a few pennies, but I hate the waste and environmental costs of wasted energy.

What we really need is a program that shuts off a devs environment, but then can boot it back up 5 minutes before they start working and somehow open all the applications that were running back to the exact state they were in before shutting down..

Even if they could detect changes in the WHOIS ownership they wouldn't be able to determine an appropriate change from an illegitimate one. People accidently let domains expire and renew them, or sell them legitimately all the time.

That's impressive. Makes me feel like I need to up my Dad game.

SEO. Backlinks for old domains are valuable.

It's not fair to judge the microphone when you didn't use the camera to position it correctly.

There is an exact distance and tilt the phone needs to get the best sound, and its not really possible to nail that without the help of the camera.

You can actually cut a little slit in the mouth tape, so that you won't panic. Breathing a straw sized amount of air through the mouth if you need to, will prevent suffocation anxiety, but also limit your mouth breathing enough that your nose does most of the work.

Watch this guys two videos on a DIY CPAP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8JzXEoT9LI

Has anyone at an unprofitable company ever been told that they "were NOT on a trajectory to profitability"???

I feel like that the statement that you are on a path to breakeven, means absolutely nothing. And that you should ALWAYS consider yourself to be in a high risk situation if your company is losing money.

Alex, I'll take Things that never happened, for $500.

I let Tesla FSD take over completely for driving my kids to school in the morning, which is approximately 90% of my driving.

I might feel like intervening, 1 out of 10 times at this point. I might not be the typical driver, but I definitely feel like its ready for early adopters now.

However, even though I'm a big fan, I don't see how these can easily transition to "mass consumption", because as we get into the uncanny valley where the auto drive is good enough to take over, the masses are going to completely check out of their responsibility to be a good backup driver.

So I feel like we are going to be stuck in the current space for a long time, maybe 10 years. Until you Auto Drive is so good, you can ride one without getting a drivers license.

Neal.fun is the only blog I have subscribed to get new post notifications from in 10 years.

If you do hit his subscribe button, there is a really cool animation too.

I love that diet, but have never been able to sustain it in the long term.

Are you really able to give up all desserts 100%? Or do you just do beef and eggs like 95% of your calories?

I thought exactly like you for 20 years. That lower weight meant EXTREME hunger.

But what changed for me is the following, losing weight is HARDER than gaining weight. Gaining weight typically happens for me at a maximum of 2 pounds per month, over the course of a year with no dieting.

Why would losing weight, something that is harder than gaining weight, be expected to happen faster than gaining it? I set my goals to 2 pounds a month weight loss, and I almost never hit that goal. I usually come in about 1.5 pounds lost per month. I also get WAY more nutrients and vitamins than my body needs by eating lots of liver, and taking athletic greens. That way my "hunger" is always for calories and never for nutrient deficiency.

I've kept this up for almost 5 years now making it a life changing amount of weight loss.

A lot of "Sugar Free" desserts will cause my Glucose to spike even higher than their full sugar equivalent.

I was shocked when I tested myself after buying the diabetes friendly "Sugar Free Worther's Original" candy.

I've been cycling "liver, eggs, & steak" + I add BONEMARROW.

Been doing this for 5 years, and I've lost an average of 1.5 Pounds per month, for a total of 90 pounds.

Pretty sustainable, considering I'm only keeping it up roughly 50% of the time.