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> with an in-game integration of marketplace for gold and items instead of going to ebay

That's what happened with Diablo 3's Real Money Action House and... It didn't end well.

They had to convert the RMAH to a regulat AH after some time.

Since we are adding our recommendations, I would mention

More than human by Theodore Sturgeon

And web-rings!

I thought DHTML stood for "dynamic html", not "distributed html"?

I actually find Calendly useful for recruitment interactions.

Even though it might seem like the recruiter's time is more important, to me it feels the opposite.

When recruiters ask for my availability, I need to reserve that availability until they get back to me. Often they ask for 3 to 4 slots of time, which depending on the week, might be hard to find, and then those slots are blocked.

When they send me a Calendly link, I can pick whatever slot works best for me and I then only that slot is blocked for me.

I recently went through an Amazon interview round and I had to send them my availability three times because none of the slots I sent worked for their interviewers, which really wasn't ideal and feels like their time was much more important than mine.

For regular meetings though, unless it's my manager or a higher up, I do agree that it feels like whoever sends the Calendly link is in control.

Thanks Colin!

Do you have any links about the tarsnap vulnerability?

I've been using it for a few years and was not aware of it so would be great to know if any backups were affected.

Seems more likely that those same Congresspersons (Congresspeople?) will try to stomp you out of existence, before making any changes to the law.

I don't imagine people with such amount of power and connections to just roll over because "they caught us with the hand in the cookie jar!"

But even if you can somehow make your own hardware, how long until governments start requiring interaction with certain services (health, banking, taxes, etc) be signed by an _approved_ OS/processor combo?

Imagine tax software (comercial or gov provided) refusing to work unless you use an OS with TPM support for "security reasons".

Or even worse, what would happen if gov regulations started requiring ISPs to stop working with non-compliant hardware? I.e. something like requiring network devices to attest they are "oficially" approved before allowing to connect?

I don't think this will happen any time soon (hopefully) but I can see how even making your own hardware might no be enough.

Yeah, I remember reading a lot about those playlists, and I understasnd that can be pretty disturbing or upsetting if you as a parent assume that a playlist is "safe".

However if YT already has the ability to mark videos as for kids-only, I have no idea why wouldn't they be able to restrict playlists that contain even a single video that is not kids-only.

I.e. if you want to have a YT Kids' playlist, then all videos need to be YT Kids.

But the other way around (i.e. a regular playlist with some YT Kids videos) seems irrational.

I can understand disabling the comments section, but for playlists I would've expected that you could only make playlists with all videos from the kids section, or if you add a kids video to a regular playlist, then that playlist can't be played in YT Kids.

But not being able to add a kids video to my own playlist, being an adult and such, seems... incoherent.

A bit off-topic but, does anyone have an explanation of why you can't save a video marked for kids, into a playlist?

I've encountered videos that aren't really "for kids", but are marked as so for whatever reason and when I click on "save" (to playlist) I get an error saying that I can't do that.

That does not make any sense to me...but perhaps I'm missing something?

Interesting. Did not know about that !

One more question, by fuels used to cool the concrete, I'm thinking you are referring to powering the pumps that circulate the cool water in the tubes inside the concrete slabs, right? Or is it cooled differently?

How does hydro produce greenhouse gases?

Is it because of the massive amount of concrete needed or because of something else?

A bank I used in the past does that AND also does not allow you to set consecutive numbers that increase or decrease, e.g. 12, 34, 87, etc.

No idea how maby bits of entropy it removes but it's absurd.

I was interested in using Aegis, but unfortunately I can't import my current keys from Google Authenticator.

It's "supported" but only via accesing the Authenticator's files (or by havitng root access) which in my celphone is not possible (OnePlus Nord).

Weirdly enough, Aegis does not support bulk importing keys from a QR code, which is how you can migrate from one Authenticator instance to another (e.g. to a new phone).

And I am too lazy to go over each key, reset it and load it up again in Aegis.

Hooefully they'll add this feature at some point in the future.

'Hardware' probably

You should read the comic at http://elan.school

It's unbelievable and if they ever make a movie or HBO-type series of it, it will need to be seriously toned down, lest it ends up being too horrirific.

Articles 5th and 6th mention genetically modified corn.

>Artículo Quinto.- Las Secretarías de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, de Salud, y de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, así como el Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, a más tardar en el primer semestre del año 2023, promoverán las reformas de los ordenamientos jurídicos aplicables para evitar el uso de glifosato como sustancia activa de agroquímicos y de maíz genéticamente modificado en México.

At the end: "...to avoid the use of glyphosate as active substance in agrochemicals and genetically modified corn in Mexico"

In Art. 6: > revocarán y se abstendrán de otorgar permisos de liberación al ambiente de semillas de maíz genéticamente modificado.

"... will revoke and abstain from granting permits to release into the environment genetically modified corn seeds"

Interesting.

Thanks for the insight!

I guess it IS very different to believe, for decades, in a mission that includes space telescopes than in the latest SaaS or productivity app or something more "mundane". Not that there's anything bad working on those kind of projects, but it sure has a different scope (no pun intended)

Any particular reason that they stay for so long at their jobs?

Obviously working on such cool projects must be a major factor, but it's probably not the only one.

Yeah, that sounds like it could work.

I guess that if the customer wants a feature further down the roadmap then it really isn't solving their problem yet so perhaps I should wait.

Ah, that makes sense.

It seems obvious but I guess I've seen too many salespeople tell the customer whatever they want to hear and I loathe that as it's definitely dishonest, so I felt like I would need to do the same to be able to sell, but apparently that's just a misconception on my part.

Thanks for the advice!

As a software developer, one of the things that I feel that always holds me back when selling something I made (an MVP for example) is knowing all the things that the software can't do or is not super polished.

How do you sell something when you yourself might have doubts about the product? not because it's not good, but because you know it can be improved?

Obviously you can't wait until the product is "perfect" because that will never happen and there will always be things that are slightly broken or unpolished, etc. so how do you get those first sales that might give you the push you need to keep going (financially, emotionally, etc) with an "unfinishd" product?

I can't believe I just read the entire thing from start to finish.

There are truly sick people doing truly sick things out there.

Thanks for posting this.

This is why I like installing a firewall in my phone.

I have used Glasswire and am pretty happy with it (no affiliation) because it allows me to block individual apps from having internet connectivity, and can configure it to notify me the first time an app tries to connect.

Of course, the problem is that it's a hassle to have to check and block new stuff, or unblock when I need to use something (e.g. Uber).

It's a reference to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011

I agree.

However sometimes I am looking for some error related to a botched nodejs install for example, or something that has to do with permissions being set incorrectly and other stuff that does not live in MDN and other documentation sources.

For the actual language questions I do go directly to MDN instead.

Well, none of those options do what I want.

More often than not, sorting by "Active", "Oldest" and "Votes" usually surface the same 2 or 3 answers, and I still need to scroll down to the bottom to find out the most recently posted answer that has more up to date info.

I don't see why I shouldn't have the choice to sort by "Reverse Oldest" if you will, when it's so useful a lot of the time.

One of the things that baffles me the most about SO is that I can't sort answers by _newest first_.

If I search for something related to javascript for example, I know there will be a ton of answers for older versions that I am most likely not interested in. However I can only sort by oldest first (related to date).

Old answers are definitely useful a lot of times, but the fact that there's not even the option to sort them the other way around tells me that SO somehow, at it's core, considers new answers less important.

A strange decision if you ask me, considering software changes so much over time.

If anyone has a possible explanation for this I'd love to hear it.