^^^ This. I would urge anyone who got tangentially excited about this whole thread to:
1. head to eBay and search for used iPod Classics
2. give Rockbox some love
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1. head to eBay and search for used iPod Classics
2. give Rockbox some love
https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/2026/08/03/giving-police-a...
> Case in point: a giant bacterium called Thiomargarita magnifica can extend about one centimeter in length, so large that it can be seen by the naked eye. It does so by breaking the surface area-to-volume rule, filling between 65–80 percent of its internal volume with an empty vacuole. In other words, it pushes most of its molecules to the cell periphery, thus shortening diffusion distances.
There is also a captioned image of bubble algae in the post.
Is it cool? Yeah. Did I ask for it? Ehhh…
Yes, that _you've_ seen. I think the person you're replying to is referring to use cases of your location data that you don't see.
From the PR this links to.
> Beijing asserted that it wants a "user-centered approach," meaning users don't need multiple logins, and can instead use a one-stop platform. Government apps should use a government cloud and central authentication services hosted there.
So, not just de-uglifying the UI, but also the UX and login capabilities of multiple applications. I wonder what powered the authoring of the central auth services in Beijing.
I was raised in middle-class suburbia, in the North East U.S. My family wasn't wealthy, but wasn't hurting either. I did well in school, but didn't have to try very hard to maintain grades in Advanced Placement classes. Outside of school, I worked easy lawn-care gigs with my neighbor and we made decent cash with 20-30 hours of work per week.
It afforded me a life of coasting, leisure, and throwing away my downtime.
I am nearing 30 years old and just realizing that I'd consider my behavior to be bad habits I need to kick. I want to work harder, and I have to teach myself what that means.
I worked for a multinational bank headquartered in the U.S., whose corporate team came up with a sexy program to snatch up recent Computer Science graduates. The program offered them a "fair" market rate for an entry-level jobs in industry, and let the graduates try two to three different teams and/or departments in their first year. At the end, if the company still liked them, the candidate got to pick their permanent team for a full-time position. This position, however, did not see a bump in pay, and by that time the program effectively filtered out candidates that weren't performing at an accelerated level.
The results were great for the business: young programmers that were often more proficient in COBOL than their new peers were costing them $60k-$70k a year. The senior, or "tenured," peers were in the $200k-$400k range in some cases.
There are probably a number of people of different walks of life and usage of the lang that voice opinions regardless of their relevance or significance in modern adoption of the lang.
Meetings can be messy, full of ambiguity, and "unsolved" at then end. If you feed a number of these experiences into an LLM, would its knowledge base be _that great_ at helping teach somebody about the company holding said meetings?
I'd argue that in order for your LLM suggestion to be effective, the input to it would need to be human-written content. I.E: the knowledge that the OP is discussing. In that case, the human effort is still required up front.
Vaccines inevitably lead to stronger viruses, but would you argue we should go back and not have began to use them?
Cloudflare and Google may be some sites' only hope to staying alive in the event of network-driven attacks. I suppose this landscape is a double-edged sword.
The short version of the story is that at this point in my life, that conflict eventually dissipated at some point. Perhaps my parent(s) arrived at a new inflection point. Perhaps they became more mature. Whatever it was, it seems they've at least come to terms with the fact that I'm going to pave my own way regardless of their thoughts and feelings on the matter. Ultimately, acknowledging that if they want a relationship with me it simply looks different than how they originally envisioned it.
If you ever care to share your story, I suggest doing just that. Therapy and simply talking through the issues that my experience cultivated allowed me to see things from a birds-eye view a bit better, and dissolve my ego from the situation. I'm all ears, FWIW, and I wish you the best of luck in finding peace somehow in your own sticky situation.
If you are finding yourselves struggling to keep your existing open source projects alive, perhaps it's because you really don't find yourselves needing them that much?
That said, if you _do_ need them, but they're simply not getting the traction or Github stars you were hoping for, then it sounds like a marketing or niche problem. I'm not positive there's a particularly perfect playbook in the form of processes that should be the focus over purpose and putting the word out there.