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He didn't say Python was simple. He mentioned simplicity, those are different things.

The iCloud web apps work just fine in Firefox, I use them all the time on Linux. They'll get there.

> German companies come pretty close.

Worked for one with this setup. It was all great until the stock price fell to ~20 % of its original value and has stayed that way since. Employees didn't like it, which was kinda funny (it's a risk they signed up for).

This is a rabbit hole miles deep, and don't get me wrong, I sort of support the idea, but:

> Just like Jeff Bezos can sell a portion of his Amazon stock to buy a new house, employees at ESOPs can pull money out of their stock accounts to pay for tuition, medical bills, or as a downpayment on a primary residence.

Maybe I'm missing sth, but, erm... what happens with the stock after? Because that portion of the company is no longer in the hands of its employees, and it's unlikely that it's a closed circuit.

I get that your stock need not be publicly traded. But that brings a variety of other issues to the table.

It’s ok, I’m not an exception. I’m talking about baselines here. I actually care about both groups. Are you pissed? Don’t show it to the customer, come yelling at me, I’m paid for that.

5 years customer service manager, over a hundred reports, 4 years before that in B2B customer service. And yes, I am radical. I know what I'm doing.

> ...salary

That's a discussion you're supposed to have with your manager, customers don't care.

> it's a vicious circle

Yes. And you, as a member of the staff, your employer's rep, are supposed to quit it, asap.

> It taught me a lot about people, and the lack of respect some believe you deserve when wearing an apron.

Tell you what: stop looking at the customers as walking wallets, and you'll have your respect. Greater tips too. Guaranteed. 99 % of the time, it's the staff's fault.

And repeat this every morning: When the customer receives astonishing service and a mediocre product, it’s likely they give you a tip, maybe try again. If it’s the other way around, unlikely, and the enterprise is just a fluke. Do I expect undergrads working for tips to know this? Yes, god dammit!

Reconsider. Learn to listen instead. Learn to control your body language so you radiate confidence. That's powerful stuff.

I like SvelteKit + mdsvex, which is built on top of remark. You can generate a static site with the static adapter.

I have CD-Rs more than twice as old that work just fine. Would I place my bet on it? No. But it's not set in stone.

New Hampshire: Live Free or Die? :)

Trust me. It’s bad. Real bad. ‘Cause when it’s a startup, there are minimal restrictions. You can share what you want.

> For Matrix, you can say "go to chat.company.com" and click log in with Google.

And half of them logs in with their private Google account.

Many graphic design professionals stick with older software, and hardware. I still use CS5 on Win 7, although I'm no longer actively pursuing career in the industry. I know a renowned typographer who still uses FontLab (v5 I think?) on a Power Mac G5. The reason usually being familiarity with your tools. It's very similar to photography: it takes years getting to know your camera to the point when it becomes the extension of your body and brain, despite what marketing people say.

Copyright laws don’t care that nobody cares. This is a misconception of the concept.

This is exactly what I meant. That’s why I said it just one of the implications, out of many.

Let’s say I make a painting and put it in the drawer, never to be seen again. Do I lose the copyright then and someone is permitted to come to my home and take it away? That’s just one example of possible implications. My point being, trademark is directly tied to the dynamics of the free market, while copyright only indirectly. And copyright is not forever.

100 %. There's a sweet spot. I worked for both, start-ups and huge corporations. It's not one or the other, you want the right combination of maturity and fresh attitude. We often don't realize it can take years to steer back to find the balance again, but not oversteer, which is usually the default :) Just as with any other organism.

Crawlers? I'm behind a fixed IP, along with thousands of other people who happen to be customers of the same ISP.

A comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening. Comes with updater scripts for Windows, macOS and Linux.

The project has a well-maintained wiki. User overrides go to user-overrides.js so the updater script can pick it up and append the contents at the end of user.js.

Sure, there are forks such as LibreWolf. I understand the reservations regarding Mozilla Foundation, although I generally like what they've been doing. Every org has people with stupid ideas. However, the way I see it, it's unlikely that the community will be able to produce a competitive browser in a broader sense (stability, performance, security, cross-platform...), meaning that the likelihood of Firefox being still around ten years from now is significantly higher than that we build and maintain a comparable browser ourselves. Then come the evolving web standards and lobbying power...

I don't understand what is wrong with Firefox. It is open-source, highly configurable and reasonably secure (if you have the time to configure). Yes, it has shortcomings, but what doesn't.

This is a complicated topic. These days you can shoot in bursts, I don't remember the top rates you can achieve with high-end mirrorless/DSLRs, but it is a wild number. While some take this for granted, it's still a relatively novel technology. On the other hand, famous photographers in the past did not have such luxury. I love film cameras, but taking a truly good picture with one that was manufactured up to the early 70's requires years and decades of experience, and luck, especially when the subject is moving.

Probably the most famous example of an ongoing debate regarding authenticity is Robert Capa's Falling Soldier [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Soldier

I highly recommend the movie Bang Bang Club as well as Greg Marinovich's book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bang-Bang-Club-Snapshots-Hidden-War...

I think #426

I’ve been doing just fine ignoring AI altogether and focusing on my thing. I only have one life. Fridman had a guy on his podcast a while ago, I don’t remember his name, but he studies human languages, and the way he put it was the best summary of the actual capabilities I’ve heard so far. Very refreshing.

Yep, it's still hard to beat Gmail as a product. I had been with them since beta, I think it was by invite only back then. Time flies. I'm giving iCloud a try, even though it's rather painful on non-Apple systems.

> They barely improved their product within my >4 years of usage.

Same with mailbox.org, having had my (paid) account with them for over 4 yrs since I went sans-Google, it was mostly a terrible experience. I recently tried Proton and they just kept flooding the inbox with conversion reminders, which I absolutely hate. Which different provider did you go with?

You're taking it too far. KYC concerns legal entities, that's a different story. In regards to individuals and their privacy, there are ways to greatly minimize personal information processing in "plain" form while keeping records (or access to records) to fulfill legal obligations.

Having had conversations with people on security and anti-fraud teams, many experts clearly share this view.