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This is a great way to get microplastic through abrasion into even more places within the foodchain.

Wonder if it burns nicely too, plastic after all is "frozen gasoline" - here mixed with sand.

/debbiedowner

The fact that none of these still exist proves that there is no market. It does prove that companies tried to see if there is one.

Playable in any modern browser: https://playclassic.games/games/4x-dos-games-online/play-mas...

Enjoy!

The goal of the public school system is to free up working parents from schooling kids, so they can, well, work.

It became an even more pressing need once women entered the workforce in full.

This became very evident during the pandemic, when so many parents suddenly had their kids at home during working hours.

If you can afford home schooling, awesome. Most can't.

Non-zero chance you might see a cure for type-1 in your lifetime.

https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/analysis/vertex-stem-cel...

It's a stem cell therapy, in human trials (not the usual "in mice" crap).

A single patient already had their diabetes disappear: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/vertex-diabetes-cell-t...

The downside of stemcell therapy is that it is essentially an organ transplant, aka requires immunosuppressants, for life.

Amazon built a literal rainforest for their employees:

https://www.seattlespheres.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2018/01...

Tell me you never ran a large code base in production, without telling me.

Past a certain point there are no "simple code changes" anymore. Automation and functional QA needs to ensure zero regressions, internal and external docs need to be considered, it all needs to be bundled in with many other code changes (feature and fixes), etc. There is no shortcut. Even FB had to dial back their "break shit in prod" mantra.

Of course startup devs hate this, real men fuck around in production, which is great. Running and maintaining a large code base is very grown up sport, more like running a country than building a house. For those on the other side, who inherit startup code and have to fold it in ... the hatred is mutual.

We're using it in our products, Superset is really good. Very active community, tons of movement. So much better than having to integrate Tableau, etc.

The metaverse will be built on closed protocols. Crypto is at odds with free bits.

both are trying to bring real world concepts into the digital.

they are at fundamental odds with the foundational tech and protocols of the current Internet.

people complain about Apple's "walled garden". Just watch what happens if the whole web3 is one big controlled ecosystem, pay for play. I can create bits out of thin air right now - I don't need to MINE them.

just insane how everything is going into hard reverse.

The Internet was designed and built by hippies (literally bearded dudes out of Berkeley). Open protocols, bits are free. Copying is a core function.

Open Source, BSD, GNU, ... all an extension of that thought.

While this was awesome for the spread and easy build out of the modern apps we all use, it had a massive "flaw" when it comes to property rights.

This was exemplified by what happened to music through p2p file sharing, e.g. Napster. Bits don't have copy protection.

The industry tried to roll back this fundamental freedom of the web via DRM schemes, with massive pushback from the old guard of netizens. But, freedom is never perfect, the devastating effect on artists is real. Streaming kind of solved the copy problem, but the amount you can charge for music now is miniscule. (Just using music as an example).

NFTs, web3, metaverse are all now being positioned to rollback this fundamental flaw of the Internet - copy protection, ownership on the bit level. Digital scarcity. There will be no Right-Click Copy in the metaverse, no screenshots in web3. The struggle with NFTs right now is that it is this idea of digital ownership on top of bits that don't support it, hence this mind-boggling maelstrom of crazy.

Personally, having grown up in HACKER CULTURE (see the name of this very forum, oh the irony) e.g. having spent time at copy parties in shady buildings, admiring the intros/demos on cracked games, the BBS scene ... this whole web3 thing creeps me out. I totally get why it's kids doing it, they don't know it better, and maybe this is just normal, the pendulum always swings.

Some VCs will get ultra-rich pumping this, big corps will be all over it (charging for bits? ironclad copy-protection? price arbitrage on premium bits?), even government will see the upside - no more anonymity, every bit is signed.

Bleh.

Some secluded tribes in the Amazon hence have the smartest kids.

All those physical health effects ignore the other aspect, which is mental health.

Alcohol is about self-medication, at the core of human civilization for a long, long time. China, India, Egypt so many early examples (https://www.cato.org/commentary/alcohol-caffeine-created-civ...).

How many people would be under more stress, have less relationships without alcohol? It absolutely works as social grease, loosens up nerves and is a very nice way of calming down.

I know so much in modern culture is about this weird asceticism, removing anything tasteful, fun, stupid and optimize for longevity - but what's the point to live in total boredom?

I like alcohol, it connects across millenia.

Nice to see two Austrian developers see the fruits of their labor.

Dependency management.

Why is everything so hard in a large code base?

Same reason.

Interesting how much wider Verizon covers the west vs. AT&T.

I am on AT&T and motorcycle quite a bit through the backcountry and use a real GPS navi for that reason. Trusting your phone is useless.

Such a change coming from Europe where I stay connected on any pass through the Alps.

TSA-PreCheck, Global Entry and Clear all already exist.

https://www.clearme.com/

The Afghan population is on their side. The size of the "army" does not matter. The ANA (Afghan Army) has no willpower to fight, just bail when confronted.

The US overthrew the Taliban, but never "liberated" Afghanistan as most of the population was on the Talib side. The alternative was warlords and constant civil war.

...and Pakistan helped quite a bit too :)

I have been using pwSafe across iOS, macos and Windows for years now, the file db was stored in Dropbox, now I moved it to iCloud.

https://pwsafe.info/ for Mac and iOS https://pwsafe.org/ for Windows

The underlying file format is opensource and developed by Bruce Schneier.

PG has moved to the UK.

I don't think that is true:

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

https://www.elcosh.org/document/1232/d000397/Deaths+and+Inju...

here is a tragic death of a child in the US, 2021: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/elevator-...

The Irishman is the perfect example of where the Deepfake is MILES BETTER than then classic CGI de-aging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSTWepkp_M

Just look at it, the CGI DeNiro looks like from the Polar Express.

Just watch until many realize that WFH leads to people moving within the greater US and what timezone differences truly mean to your work-life balance.

Living in pacific time zone and dealing with Europe, East Coast and Asia just suuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

It allows for file transfers via drag and drop - pretty sure it uses iCloud as the data cache inbetween.

It's a function of growth and success.

If the company is growing, winning deals, all people are busy it feels great. A lot of energy is pointed outwards, competing, hustling, convincing. Literally no time for internal politics.

Once a company stalls, the energy, actions, focus, drift inward. "Politics". Shit culture.

Now, what is correlation, what is causation?

I suspect results drive culture. Culture can't make up for overall failure.

And why would the numbers of any other platform be any better?

TikTok, Clubhouse, Snap - nobody independently verifies their numbers.

It is even used to create virality. Those 1.5mil likes on a TikTok? Why wouldn't TikTok spike that number to get attention?

Given all the IPOs in the last weeks, from Doordash to AirBnB, how does it feel to have lost out on massive opportunity cost? Same skill and effort as a Director, exponential payout vs. your grind for hand outs.

That's why magic spells use this weird language - to prevent accidents.

Wonder if these AI assistants will lead to the development of a new language.

Exterminatum Horix Abracadabra (Siri, play something nice).

Counter-examples: Printing, 3d acceleration, Sound.

Also package hell. I'll just update this one thing ... 16 hours later you're at kernel level.

I don't know, no broad brush statement works here.

Zoom shows a huge text overlay if you're speaking while on Mute.

It also has the space bar to temp unmute, basically a tap to speak mode.

I think the UI route for Zoom is wrong though as most users are just lazy and can't be bothered with even minimal effort. So, it should play a loud-ass sound when you speak on mute.

Or just electrocute, to solve humanities problems long term.

MS own LinkedIn ... I think you'd be surprised.