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I think what your parent is saying (at least how I read it) is in the context of comparing it to boxed software. I buy MS Word 1995 for $100. Then they release added value and box it up as MS Word 1998 for $100. Then they release added value and box it up as MS Word 2000 for $100.

Now we pay $10/mo. If you average it out, it's not too different than just paying for the added value as it grows.

And worse, if I cancel I don't keep to keep using it without the added value. So I'm painted in a corner. It's objectively worse in that sense.

And the person who originally chose to not buy it can bid on it. Potentially buying it for less than list price!

I have a vivid memory of myself swallowing pennies when I was probably 4. I think I saw my dad pretend to do it for a magic trick or something. I did it in secret … For all I know it’s still there. :)

The PayPal forgot password form had this bug just a couple years ago. I changed my password to a generated one. And it was too long. But it didn’t tell me. Just silently truncated.

I used the password reset to change it. This time I used a pretty short password I could type (to rule out a weird copy-paste bug or something). Logged in, went to the change password option and THAT page informed me there was a character limit.

C# and .NET is an MIT licensed code base.

Not to mention with a community that built an alternative implementation so strong that MS ended up buying the company the emerged from it. And this was before .Net Core was fully open sourced.

I’m not worried about C# or .Net getting nuked.

You just blew my mind. What a great comparison. I love it. Thanks for that thought. What a clear way to describe the problem.

It’s worth noting that if you plugged them in via USB they always worked.

It’s the wifi (not BT) connection that never worked off-platform.

We’ve done almost all our Christmas shopping there for years (younger kids). Still were able to do a lot of it there this year (tween to young teen age groups).

The toys there are some of our favorites (Lego and Calico Critters) and they have a lot of fun toys you’ve never heard of but are fun for the kids to try.

Crystal Caves was a ton of fun.

I’m still amazed at how many people are able to get their dr to prescribe them antibiotics just by asking.

I knew someone who had a cold and said “but I asked my Dr for some antibiotics and I’m taking DayQuil so I’ll be better in a day or two”

Im always left open mouthed gaping at them like… even if YOU don’t know. But at least the Dr should …

As Jenkins CI was gaining popularity, before they added native support for templating (which I think they have now. At least in their enterprise solution?)and a few other things. I hacked a plug-in together that implemented templates. You’d configure the “template job” like any normal job, except you’d use a variable syntax ($whatever or similar) for any values you wanted the template to use. Then you could create new jobs with only one step “implement template” which had some prompts for the variables used in the template job.

It would rewrite the implementation jobs whenever you saved either the template or the implementation. It wasn’t super fancy or even that difficult to be honest. Just would copy the xml and do a text replace then force Jenkins to reload it.

It was a pretty inelegant and somewhat fragile solution. But it worked for what I needed. It even was the top google result for “Jenkins templates” for a while. I eventually had someone else start contributing bug fixes and I made them the maintainer.

My kid bought a Lego set a few weeks ago. Ordered it on Amazon. So naturally, it arrived 2 days later. They were DYING with excitement and couldn't believe they had to wait so long!

It reminded me of when I was a kid. I'd subscribe to the Lego magazine. And save my pennies until I could order something. I remember one time I ordered something that took so long that I was completely surprised when it finally came. I had completely forgotten I had even ordered it.

The language has definitely evolved a lot from then. But so have the major frameworks. While not perfect, building a web app in spring boot is a whole world better than doing the same using Java-6 era frameworks.

I’ve also been annoyed by this. I don’t have it handy but I did find the ticket where their conversation to implement this first happened. I guess before it would just update without notifying the user.

The idea in that conversation was, at least what I took away from it, that the user gets the notification and now knows at the end of the day they should close the app and in the morning it’ll be updated!

Seems fine on paper. But the messaging in the notification doesn’t tell me that at all. And it turns out despite all the nagging I always forget to close things before I step away.

I hate the execution of this feature. So much. All the nagging. All the confusing messaging.

On top of it all, I don’t feel like snap gives me any qol improvements in exchange.

My wife has a saying, “you don’t get what you want unless you ask for it”

Similar I’ve heard “if you ask you might not get it. If you don’t ask, you definitely will not”

Even if the OP didn’t get their guitar, what did they lose by trying? Nothing. But since they were willing to put themself out just a little they ended up with something I’m sure they love.

There’s a fine line between this attitude and demanding from people to things you think you’re entitled to. But with the attitude OP had, I think this is a really healthy way to realize your hopes.

Or wifi that can see through walls. Etc etc.

It’s to the point where we need a new amendment to bolster the 4th in the modern era.

Not saying we SHOULD need one. Because I agree the spirit (and honestly the letter) of the 4th covers us. But clearly bad actors are winning the fight right now.

Klaus, Jingle Jangle, and Christmas Chronicles are on our annual Christmas watch list. Some of the best holiday movies ever made.

The Steam Deck is quite excellent. And it just shipped.

Though I would love to see a game come out of there again sometime. :)

Yup. :)

A local media company runs a "classifieds" on their online site. It dominates locally. Craigslist has been worthless for ages here because of it.

However, Facebook Marketplace seems to be slowly gaining traction. Which I hate for all the reasons you mention. I dread the day it takes over :(

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing.

Though the naming is strange since Apache Ignite exists already. But I’m definitely going to play with this.

Yes, which is what I'm using now. But it doesn't use the Docker APIs to allow you to (mostly) reuse a dockerfile to build a VM or a container.

not sure if it would be better than Vagrant. But it was still very interesting.

This reminds me: in 2015 I went to Dockercon and one booth that was fun was VMWare's. Basically they had implemented the Docker APIs on top of VMWare so that they could build and deploy VMs using Dockerfiles, etc.

I've casually searched for it in the past and it seems to not exist anymore. For me, one of the best parts of Docker is building a docker-image (and sharing how it was done via git). It would be cool to be able to take the same Dockerfiles and pivot them to VMs easily.

Yes. Each Firefox container has its own cookies.

To be fair, I think it's a lot different to see a startup disrupt a market, than to see one of the biggest companies of all time do it.

Anti-competitive behaviors from a behemoth are scary. From a startup? I mean... what can they do? Usually nothing. So it's kind of fun seeing the underdog make some noise!

Is that how it happened? My memory is more: Content started disappearing so Netflix started producing original content as a safety net.

Ugh. I was told by the administration that I couldn’t test out of my intro to programming class in college. Then I had several professors ask me why I hadn’t tested out.

I’ve wondered if the professors didn’t know or if the admins just didn’t believe me I would’ve been able to. (And this was with a passing AP test score from high school)

I feel like Accreditation is to blame. It’s such a racket.

For Christmas we replaced my moms vitamix. She had her last one for well over 20 years.

We’ve had ours for 8 years and it works like new and doesn’t smell like the motor is burning out like so many cheap blenders do.

I also would like to know. My guess is maybe password dumps?

Oh don’t get me wrong. I get it. maybe “easy buck” was lazy commenting. Being able to work your own hours, focus on the family you prioritize, work from home, etc etc. I get all that and is exactly what I was trying to say with “easy buck”. Poor choice of words.