kimbernator

The fact that Dex has not made a bigger splash is entirely on Samsung's marketing department. I agree it's not -fully- there as a replacement for computers, but I remember owning an s20 for over a year before even knowing it was a thing. When I tried it I thought "finally."

We carry these things with us everywhere and they are more than capable (hardware wise) for what 99% of time spent on desktops/laptops can do, especially in the corporate world. The limitation is the form factor. I'm really just floored that there hasn't been a bigger push to turn our smartphones into our computers.

As is the case with many recursive acronyms, based on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

Story points are the pieces of flair of the SWE world. Trivial to have more of, but the only objective measure execs can freak out about

I started in basic IT, worked into SRE, and once I had established an understanding of it, immediately did whatever I could to transition into full time SWE. I went in hoping it would be cool coding to automate infrastructure, but it felt mostly like being tier 4 support.

I miss working in software that also utilizes my skills in infrastructure, but I do not miss the constant escalations, terrible on-call schedules, and only about 20% of my time being spent on the rewarding parts of the job.

I think every hobby that involves equipment has some version of this. I feel like we've been conditioned to believe that consumption of a product is equivalent to participation in that hobby, mostly because the biggest "reward" we get from it is often the appearance of having varied interests and appearing to the layman like you know what you're doing because you have the "nice" stuff.

Broad strokes, if you don't enjoy doing something with shitty gear you probably won't enjoy it with nice gear, either. And if you do enjoy it with shitty gear, you should spend enough time with said shitty gear to understand why you would need something nicer and be thoughtful about your upgrades.

Interesting that there are so many similarities between how people describe the distortions and fantasy creatures like orcs, vampires, etc. It makes me wonder how much our own fiction influences these peoples' conditions, or in reverse how people with conditions such as these have influenced our fiction.

Realistically, the simple answer is that it's probably not much of either; There's a "built-in" concept of what is scary in terms of physical features that has an evolutionary benefit in keeping us safe from certain animals that we can easily transpose onto humans, and that system is being tapped into in some form for these people in the routine processing of faces.

I've always been a bit confused about the idea that an advanced civilization would be uninterested in us because we've "only" reached the ability to communicate via radio waves. We're either a threat or an ally to these other civilizations, and if you were them and you detected a society that was clearly on course to eventually catch up, it would be in your best interest to treat them like one of those things ASAP so you can have a hand in their development.

To me it feels most likely that our signals just have not had enough time to get to them.

It just doesn't have the same ring to call someone a "milliardare"

The article does not mention this, but the second paragraph links a MW definition which does explicitly call out that this usage is primarily US-based: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonplussed

I believe it's valuable to think of this question in terms of how our physical reality really can't answer it. It's a tacit acknowledgement that the rules of the physical world we exist in are not universal; We live with causality, but for existence to begin it must not be a universal requirement.

High prices and high profit margin are not in and of themselves anti-consumer, otherwise every luxury brand would be considered anti-consumer. If people will buy the tickets at the prices marked, why should they lower them? If they push prices high enough that the demand curve starts to dip, they will rationally correct for that.

The only anti-consumer force at play is the monopoly power Live Nation is granted to dictate the price of tickets. There's very little that can be done via boycott when it comes to monopolies.

Seems harsh to blame somebody for simply paying to do something they enjoy when the alternative is just not doing it. Blame the monopoly, not the consumer.

It might be "retro" in the sense that it isn't the primary way most businesses host their services, but I still don't think there is any better way to actually learn the ins and outs of networking and server management early on than to have non-obfuscated control and responsibility for everything you're doing.

I think it's a useful exercise in simple port forwarding, proxying (via nginx, for example), and certificate management. So long as you're not serving port 80 beyond redirecting to 443 and those are the only two ports being forwarded to the pi, it's really not that risky.

I bought an HTC vive 7+ years ago and have middling opinions on its viability long-term as a major game platform. VR is fun and novel, but once the novelty wears off it can be tedious.

It's worth doing a vision pro demo in an Apple store if you can. I'm not planning to buy one in its current state, but it was immediately obvious that this was entirely new territory. It moved a piece of technology from fiction to reality in my mind. The eye tracking is hard to believe without having experienced it.

I'm not ready to say that this device will be responsible for such a large technology shift as the previous person, but I think it will play an large, perhaps pivotal role on our way to the next thing.

Disclaimer: I know a lot of people compare this to a device that I can surmise was meant to do a lot of similar things made by Meta; I have not tried this and may be attributing first-mover credit to Apple for things that Meta may have done similarly well. My comment is made from the perspective of somebody who has never experienced eye tracking in any capacity before.

"Optimal" in my comment was specifically meant to mean "consistent". Nintendo is never on the forefront of hardware (aside from their creativity in that area), but their product is absolute consistency. Games work very well and always the same for everyone.

Emulators are the antithesis of performance consistency. I love them, but there's zero way Nintendo (in its current form) ever officially supports an emulator you run on a typical PC.

Nothing Nintendo likes more than selling a sub-optimal way to experience their games.

You'd be talking about suddenly adding support for every game they've ever made running on a million unique hardware configurations. There is literally only downside for Nintendo's brand in doing such a thing.

I really wish Ansible would have chosen to use python instead of YAML (since that's what it ends up being anyways). Shoehorning actual programming logic into YAML files is just awful; Working with Ansible as a software engineer is without a doubt the worst work I've done in my professional career. Every otherwise simple logic structure in any programming language like loops, variable declaration, or conditional statements take 5x as much space and are very difficult to understand immediately.

My first love in this space was Chef, and honestly it remains my favorite in config management because you can write things in it that look very non-programmy, but you're still just writing in pure ruby. Obviously Ansible has the advantage being agentless, but I just cannot stand how popular it is.

I once took a job that involved managing Ansible playbooks for an absolutely massive number of servers that would run them semi-regularly for things like bootstrapping and patching. I had used Chef before for a similar task, and I loved it because it's just ruby and I could easily define any logic I wanted while using loops and proper variables.

I understand that Ansible was designed for non-programmers, but there is no worse hell for someone who is actually familiar with basic programming than being confined to the hyper-verbose nonsense that is Jinja templating of Ansible playbooks when you need to have a lot of conditional tasks and loops.

Nearly every element of Palworld seems to be a very blatant imitation of another popular franchise.

- Pokemon, obviously.

- The text when you enter a new area, the fonts, etc all scream BOTW/TOTK to me (among other things to a lesser extent like the into sequence and climbing mechanics).

- The immediate visual of a larger-than-life tree looming over the world is evocative of Elden Ring, and to a lesser extend the emphasis on dodging is very similar to fromsoft games.

- Basic crafting/base-building mechanics from every other early access game released in the last decade.

I'm still really enjoying Palworld, I don't want to sound like I'm being overly critical. It's fun to have all of these elements combined into a fun game that people will forget in a few weeks. It's just obvious that there wasn't a ton of original thought put into the game. It also lacks a lot of very basic features relating to multiplayer progression and team mechanics.

No freedoms are being taken away, save for those of businesses that would like to increase their margins by paying their workers less.

These fictional people who would love to work for less than $7.25/hr are free to do gig work that nets them less. They are also free to panhandle on the side of freeway off-ramps, which I imagine many would prefer to the concept of being paid $5/hour to take orders from a person who lacks enough respect for their fellow man to pay them more than that.

The removal of the minimum wage would simply be a gift to employers taken from the pockets of actual workers. Businesses don't just pay the minimum wage out of the kindness of their hearts; to pay that wage is code for "I would pay you less if I could."

> I'd be very happy to work for less than the minimum wage if that's all my work was worth and the alternative was no job.

Is this a scenario you feel you are qualified to answer for? Have you, as somebody with meaningful living expenses, ever been in a scenario like this? If not, I'm certain you do not have an accurate picture of what that would be like and what you would consider your options to be.

I don't mean to make assumptions about your life or your conditions, but in scenario A you describe a reality where there are a meaningful number of people who would be content to sell their labor for less than $7.25 per hour. I do not find this believable, given how little that amount is in today's dollars. At the point that you're okay with working for, say, $5/hour, why work at all? What lifestyle permits that as an income? What percentage of people do you believe would be okay with this?

Additionally, you are describing an effect where removal of the minimum wage would result in more people working, but what of the wages of people who currently work for minimum wage? Clearly the jobs are economical at that rate, but I have a hard time believing that employers paying $7.25/hour would continue doing so if they weren't legally required to. I would be willing to wager my life savings that the loss in income associated with that would dwarf the amount of money being made by the hypothetical class of people you're describing.

In my experience, most minimum wage jobs are awful; tedious, boring, and often with a lot of physical exertion. Add to that the fact that you're unlikely to be treated with much respect by your supervisor or the public (if applicable).

I'd wager that the number of people who are truly content doing this work as opposed to a higher-paying job is effectively zero. That is to say, a number of people so low that it is irrelevant.

While it's repeated ad nauseam, this was the intended purpose of the minimum wage, as quoted by FDR who signed the minimum wage into law:

“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.”

Selling the unit as a whole almost certainly is a loss for them, but they make money by having people buying games from them. Selling parts like that would be unlikely to have a similar effect, so they might not be able to sell it at a price point that makes sense.

"Property" only exists so far as there is law enforcing it and the infrastructure to support it. Taxation is not someone stealing your money, it is the buy-in to a system that allows you to reliably consider things you have to be your property.

And with cars, pretty much all parts/accessories will work for any "model" in that 5-8 year window. Phones are not like this.

I worked for a verizon reseller in 2014-2015 and 2 year contracts were not very common by the time I left. 0% loans on 2 year periods were big by then. Functionally I don't think "normal" people really see a big difference.

It absolutely does go down if you're not making payments on a phone