rubyfan

I wish we could stop looking for someone to blame or complain about and start looking for solutions. I think that’s the spirit of volunteering here.

Could you elaborate? Red flag because of risk due to using Plaid, what it says about the fintech or something else?

These could have similar issues with gaps in FDIC protections due to money is being “managed” by intermediaries or because of the type of account. Their fine print discloses as much.

As a sibling comment points out, Fidelity is seemingly a reputable enterprise with other business that would be adversely effected by poor management of this product and the reputation harm that would come with it.

Among other features Wealthfront are trying to manage around the $250K FDIC limit for you by moving your money into multiple insured accounts - this is probably a new area with not enough regulation.

> Yotta marketed itself as a "bank" where every time you deposited to savings you would get a free lotto ticket for the month based on how much you deposited.

The archive link shows something a little more nuanced than Yotta presenting as a bank.

The archive link in gp has a hero text that says “banking” and then a few lines down says: Yotta is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Evolve Bank & Trust and Thread Bank; Members FDIC.”

If I’m reading this as a consumer I’m thinking my money is protected but this Yotta thing is a lottery incentive to put deposits into those banks, maybe some loyalty incentive or marketing scheme on top of it?

Lesson learned, don't trust “not a bank” to deposit your money into the bank for you.

Seems pretty run of the mill. I can’t think of a good I’ve purchased recently that was made 100% by a single source.

This is great. I played Solitaire for an hour, maybe two.

You definitely are not the only one.

Is that where the addresses came from?

I’m curious what new methods have replaced this type of analysis?

A lot of them don't have addresses. I wonder if it can be intersected with another data set that has more complete address list.

Anyone know if this is commercial buildings only or does it include residential too?

Yeah bad choice of naming here. Oddly this project shows up first on DDG for “ractor” despite prevalent Ruby ractor documentation.

AI will make the problem of low quality, fake, fraudulent and arbitrage content way worse. I highly doubt it will improve searching for quality content at all.

See also

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

When I was 7 my family moved from the West Coast to the East. We didn’t have much money and my mom was deathly afraid of flying so we took a train. Seeing the U.S. this way is a treat and I highly recommend. Like TFA you meet interesting people, see and experience new things that you just don’t get to see traveling other ways.

Lunk alert!

I’d guess someone backed into that acronym when asked “why do you call these things daemons?”

I used to be a ruby developer and was almost 100% in auditory mode - never visualizing anything other than a UX and how I thought they’d be used.

Later in my career I became a solution architect and it was a struggle early. I think something like 99% of people in corporate are visual and literally could not understand the solutions I’d vocalize even when I’d talk to them like they were 5 years old. A more seasoned architect told me taught me sequence diagrams and abstractions. I got good at Powerpoint and my programming skills suffered as a result of using different parts of my brain more and less.

In a world where Raspberry Pi exists you’d think we’d be able to make such a TV happen.

I have a Samsung smart tv which I’ve never accepted t&c and never connected to wifi.

I’d love to make it dumb or at least get rid of the nags to accept t&c or connect when someone accidentally hits the wrong button on the remote. Anything out there to do that?

I really like the hide my email feature in iCloud for this reason. I’ve had to burn an email after making a campaign donation this year. They email you and put you on a million lists but then they also share your email with every other campaign in the ticket. It’s obscene.

I have worked with so-called “product minded” engineers who 1) do nothing, 2) do what they want, or 3) try to tell product how to do their job. It is dysfunction at its finest.

I was expecting it to address the common practice of product owners often not owning business outcomes.

Also would have loved to see mention of the hijinks that goes on around half-ass features often in conjunction with the abuse of the term MVP.

Dated experience here. I used OpenBSD a long time ago (20 years ago) as a primary desktop as well as within data center (physical not virtualized). I absolutely loved it, however expect you will spend more time configuring for your liking.

There were occasional situations where esoteric hardware support was iffy (especially software driven win modems). I anecdotally believe there’s a better experience today but would probably pay attention to GPU and wifi hardware.

Install is a breeze, probably one of the better install experiences out there. The port system was very easy to use to install 3rd party apps. Also pretty easy to build most things from source or modify for its particular differences.

The community around source contribution takes a little adjustment since there is a real focus on the OS design goals and less so on specific edge cases. Contributing to ports is a little more accessible.

I’ve used FreeBSD around the same time with similar experience. A little larger of a community there though I found OpenBSD’s contributors to be highly engaged and accessible.

Popular ideas are exactly the problem in the industry. I’ve been really put off by what I believe is a lack of critical and original thinking in tech. Bad leadership within management, cult and fad following seems to abound.

Thanks! Now I just need to filter my LinkedIn feed and the corporate AI leaders at work.

I sort of wish there was a filter for my life that would ignore everything AI (stories about AI, people talking about AI and of course content generated by AI).

The world has become a less trustworthy place for a lot of reasons and AI is only making it worse, not better.

depends which investors lose money

Is $1.5B a lot or a drop in the bucket?

Reminds me of autonomous vehicles a couple of years back. Or even AI a couple of years back, remember Watson? The hype cycle was faster to close that time.