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I suppose this makes some sense. In a worst case situation, if every customer makes 10-20 transactions per year, and they always round down the maximum possible amount, they would lose millions per year.
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As for sharing a tool that someone else has made that's useful, I don't think most people are advertising that the tools they've built are vibe-coded, so it would be hard to know what to share.
One personal use case that I'd love to see supported (when you get your mobile apps implemented) is the ability to add articles via the 'share' shortcuts. I get mailing lists with links, and I don't want to stop to read an article while clearing out my inbox. So if a link looks interesting, I use the 'share' feature to add it to Pocket, and then I'll go back to it later -- without opening my browser.
I reached out to multiple artists, and got one image back (from a good friend). I gave up on commissioning actual artists, and traced the images myself on a tablet. I imagine someone with the right knowledge of where to find artists and the willingness to wait on their schedule could have done it faster, but I'd have used this service if it had been around.
I suppose 60 hours might be a good spot for someone who doesn't have a family and isn't interested in having one.
https://www.familysearch.org/memories/
It's a service provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (of which I'm a member), which considers preserving family history to be a core tenet. To the point of storing family history records in the Granite Mountain Vault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Salt_Lake_Co...)
I'd message this directly, but she doesn't provide a method of contact on the site (reasonable).
It’s also one of a set of four museums, all of which are very interesting: Art, Natural History, Firearms, and Buffalo Bill.
As opposed to finding 'Oak Terrace', when a map book has 4 pages of 'Oak St' and its variants (a problem I ran into pre-GPS in Orlando)
I'm using one of the other commercial offerings for a side project, and the one we went with was largely chosen based on its capacity to work in dead zones in our service area. This looks like an interesting alternative if it's also able to scan when the internet drops out.
Clarifications as to what the 'hot drinks' section means has come over time, generally being shared during the twice-annual General Conference. The most prominent call came in 1921.
You can read more about it here: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/revelations...
Personally, I was homeschooled for a few years of my elementary education, and it helped me jump far ahead of my peers. My siblings homeschooled for a smaller portion of their education, and didn't find it useful. While their academic level didn't drop below their peers, it wasn't enjoyable and they were quite happy to go back to public school.
Years ago, I used a trainer in a gym to kickstart a plan, and I found it very useful.
In the US architectural process, an architect specifies a particular material (say a roof sealant) that has certain characteristics. During construction, the contractor will look at the material, check its price, and then use their suppliers to see what the best available deal is. The contractor identifies another roof sealant that's half the price. Because they've bid on the project for a fixed price, if they can use that other product and cut their costs, they'll increase their profit margin. So they put in a change request and submit the new product with its data. The architect may review it, see that it is functionally the same as their specified product, and approve it. Or they may look at it and determine that while they're both roof sealants, the specified one has a 10 year lifespan, and the proposed alternate has a 2 year lifespan. They reject it, and the builder uses the specified material.
Without the architect verifying that the material is comparable, the contractor (intentionally or not) will use a lower-quality material that will lessen the quality of the building, because there are no checks in place.
That said, I'm not certain that engineers are in a different situation. Judging by videos I've seen of collapsing buildings and other issues, I wouldn't be surprised if structural, electrical, plumbing, and other engineers also hand over their designs in the beginning, and then leave it to the developer / contractor to interpret them and 'value-engineer' as they see fit.
His greatest frustration was the lack of quality in the finished buildings he'd design. As he put it, the designs that Chinese firms were putting out were just as high quality as anything in the rest of the world, but the end result was always worse. It was largely procedural -- in the US, the architect is involved not only during the initial design phases, but throughout the project, and is responsible approving any changes and for certifying that the result matches the intent. In China, that's not the case -- they make a design, bundle it up, and then hand everything over the contractor. The contractor then makes whatever changes they want during the construction process, without any input from the architects. This means materials may get changed, the wrong construction methods may be used, etc, and no-one knows. From a distance, the building will look amazing, but the details will have been skimped on.
Zipcar involved looking for the nearest location in the app (typically a few blocks away, if near SF), picking your car and timeframe, showing up, and driving away. Fuel is included, just use the included credit card. No human contact or upselling required, and you can return the car at 3am.
If you only need a car for a few hours, Zipcar is much more efficient than a traditional rental.
With email, there's no expectation of that, at least not at my company. If you send an email, you expect a response sometime between the next few hours and the next few days. The only notification is a flag on my email client, which is easily ignored until I'm at a stopping point and can dedicate time to the question.
It was great.
Autodesk makes it possible to design the world. We have products likes AutoCAD, Inventor, Fusion360, Revit, Civil3D, 3ds Max, Maya, Recap...basically, if something needs to be designed in 3D, we probably have a software product for it.
I'm on the consulting team, where we design and write custom software to help the largest Architecture, Engineering, and Construction companies in the world use our products. Right now, we're looking for people with web experience, to help build solutions targeting our Forge APIs. .NET and React experience is preferred, though we do use other technologies as well.
We build lots of short projects (probably an average length of 3 months, with 2-6 projects at a time). Often this will include talking to stakeholders, designing a solution, writing the code, then helping the customer to deploy the solution in their environment. There's a lot of autonomy in your day to day work, with a good support structure of project managers and account teams to let you focus on actual work, not busy work.
If you have experience with the AEC industry, that's a plus.
Feel free to reach out to me at daniel@clayson.io if you'd like to learn more and get a referral link, or you can see the full description and apply here: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext/details/Sen...
Compensation is negotiable. The official target base pay is $127,000.
Autodesk makes it possible to design the world. We have products likes AutoCAD (the most famous CAD software in the world), Revit (building design), Civil3D (roadway and site design), 3ds Max, Maya, Inventor, Recap...basically, if it needs to be designed, we probably have a software product for it. Overall, a great place to work -- good benefits, interesting work, friendly people. We tend to have a lot of 'boomerang' employees -- people work here, head off to try something new, and then come back a few years later.
I'm on the consulting team, where we design and write custom software to help the largest Architecture, Engineering, and Construction companies in the world use our products.
We build lots of short projects (probably an average length of 3 months, with 2-6 projects at a time). Often this will include talking to stakeholders, designing a solution, writing the code, then helping the customer to deploy the solution in their environment.
We need people with full-stack web development experience, especially .NET and React. If you have experience with the AEC industry, that's a plus.
Feel free to reach out to me at daniel@clayson.io if you'd like to learn more and get a referral link, or you can see the full description and apply here: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext/job/Colorad...
Compensation is negotiable. The official target base pay is $127,000.
I built it back when I was doing my last job hunt, as I figured I ought to have some sort of presence, and I wanted to do something simple and clean. I keep intending to go back and use some css to remove the limited amount of javascript on the site.
Put all of those deaths together, and we'll say
So all that to say, a lot of people have died in the things you've named, coming out to a little under 1 million per year. So dozens of millions dying per year is still a staggeringly large number (though helped along by how many people lived in the 20th century, compared to earlier centuries -- I didn't compare using a percentage of the world population.)