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Along those lines, one of the things that I still struggle with after 20+ years of working, is squaring this feeling of not working enough/earn enough money to have a comfortable retirement, while at the same time trying to live my life and not just work myself until death (very original, I know).

So I've always had this conflict with the saying that goes something like "nobody regrets not working more, while in their deathbed".

The thing is... I'm pretty sure lots of people actually do, e.g. if they didn't manage to do well enough to have a comfortable retirement, or leave their children in a good place.

So sure, I'd love to spend my money traveling and enjoying the best years of my life... but I also see my parents struggling to get by with retirement funds that are suboptimal and I fear that I am not doing all I can to avoid the same fate.

Hopefully I'll be able to make sense of this before it's too late.

That seems ripe for (more) abuse.

Not really sure who comes up with these schemes but... doesn't sound well thought out.

That sounds... weird?

Not saying it doesn't happen, but if this is indeed the case, what is preventing the same scammer from essentially registering all still-unregistered UPC codes to do something akin to domain squatting?

(I am not familiar with how Target online works so maybe I am missing something)

I use Glasswire (Android) and block apps from accesing the internet, when not using them (e.g. Uber).

It's a bit of pain to turn it on before use, and off again afterwards, but I've realized it's much less stressful than having notifications popping up at all times.

YMMV

If you use/consume 4 of anything and 3 of those things are a bad experience, I think it's reasonable to have a bad opinion of said thing.

Imagine buying 4 Cokes in you life and 3 of them being flat. Most people would probably consider Coke a bad product at that point, even if the sample size _is_ small.

Or imagine going to a restaurant 4 times. and 3 of those times getting food poisoning. Most people would probably consider it a bad restaurant.

I don't even know if most people would even manage 4 visits after getting food poisoning twice, let alone thrice.

Awesome! thanks a lot!

Will check the videos out. I have not had the chance to repair it yet.

That's pretty wild. Thanks for the details

Out of curiosity, what can you do with data abour Russia's farm yields?

Probably a lot, but besides maybe predicting price changes of the crop, I can't think of much (I guess that's why I'm not a gov analyst).

Two things I was not expecting from this video:

- the amount of people that just keeps going at _full speed_ (even after violent shaking and noise)

- how much it would make me laugh. For some reason the absurdity of it all just cracked me up

> it has no real viable way of cleaning up or deprecating old answers

This is one of the things that baffled me the most.

Until very recently you could not even sort by "newest answers first" (I just checked and it seems it has been added now, but it looks like it was added this year?), which seems a pretty strange decision considering technology changes so fast.

As years went by, it became more and more difficult to look for answers as you would need to search through piles of old answers to find the most recent one (which was not necessarily the accepted answer or even the one with the most votes).

I mean, most places I've seen, that show data with a sortable Date field, let you sort by olders or newest, but not SO, no.

I could never find an answer fot this, but always seemed like a big obvious oversight.

Usually, when you inconveniece people with power, they tend to use that power against you.

If you did this without raising attention, you could get away with it I would imagine, but if it starts to become "a thing" and cops/politicians don't like it, I'm pretty sure they would drop the hammer on you pretty quickly.

Would love to hear that story!

Because your rented coworking space could be closer to home for instance

Ah, nuking. That brings back memories.

I remember you had to use NukeNabber to block attacks to TCP port 139 IIRC.

IIRC Steven Tyler is one of those cases.

He managed to get _legal guardianship_ of a 16 yo girl when he was 20 something.

That was actually my first line of thought as well, but I could never find a way to do that.

My low-level development expertise is pretty low, so perhaps there is a way, but after looking through the USB specification and other USB-development related docs, I just could not figure it out unfortunately.

The closest thing I found was to do someting like this (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13335402/unable-to-sync-...) but I never did.

Do you think that would have worked?

I remember when this came out, and was interested in getting one!

Unfortunately I was aiming to use it to generate TOTP codes (and replace my authenticator app), but IIRC it needed a RT clock and thus a battery, which was not part of the design.

Great project though.

Genuine question, what is the difference?

I've never heard the term National Forest before.

You can watch chess streamers like Gothan Chess and similar. It makes games more aproachable to some degree.

Exactly. That's why it's baffling to see them spend, what? 100-200? million dollars just on Joe Rogan, to then spend 0 dollars in podcast UI improvements.

I could imagine taking a Netflix-style approach perhaps, where you fund small-ish podcast producers and see what sticks. Perhaps develop a podcast-specific UI mode. Maybe create a monetization platform for podcasts (similar to Substack) so that you can attract talent and then extract the all-too-familiar XX% in platform fees?

I mean, I'm sure Spotify employees have thought of these things before, it's not like these ideas are revolutionary. But I see nothing that makes my Spotify subscription a must-have.

What about the podcast space?

They already invested hundreds of millions on Joe Rogan and can't even develop a half-decent podcast interface.

Maybe they could improve on that front and diversify a bit?

So I'm not the only one fighting the podcast UI in Spotify!

I've been trying to use Spotify for a few podcasts and the UX is just terrible.

I can't believe they spent millions of dollars getting Joe Rogan exclusively and then not invest a tiny bit in improving the podcast experience.

Interesting format. Never heard of it before.

What is an un-conference?

Never heard that term before.

In the "Skunk Works" book they explain that you could throw a lit cigarette directly into a puddle of fuel and it would not ignite, due to the very high temps needed.

Ah yes. Sadly that is the case.

I remember reading some time ago about a cinema chain that used a technique they called "bullfighter" or similar, that was designed to reduce the customer's anger by having several layers of staff handle the issue.

With each new "layer" the customer got a little less angry, until it came to a point where the customer would be in a more reasonable state, and then a solution would be provided which made the customer happy.

The dowside was that the first few staff members that had to deal with the customer would receive the bulk of the anger which I imagine wasn't fun.

But by making the customer feel like their issue was being "escalated" (even though the layers would actually be staff of the same rank), by the time the customer was sent to an actual manager, they would be more receptive to a solution.

A bit offtopic but I'm wondering what's Google's angle here, by charging so much for these kind of services.

They could of course charge 1M USD per request or whatever, but then nobody would use their APIs. And if that's what they want, it's easier to just stop providing third-party access, no?

I mean, obviously (?) the goal is to make money I think. But if you price it such that only very big players are able to afford it... then...I feel like I'm missing a basic economics explanation here.

Sure, greed and all that, but... I am still baffled so it's clear that I don't understand.

Hopefully someone can provide some light on this.

As someone very far from understanding what is going on, what is the rationale that governments are using to justify not increasing salaries/working conditions?

I know it's probably a variation of "there's no money", but, I would imagine nurse care to be something important for everyone.

I know I am being naive as I live in a country where the gov ia about to make significant cuts to health spending... but I always thought "first world" countries such as the UK would make saner choices in areas like this one.

Never heard about being able to reboot the airpods. How do you do that?