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We at TogetherDB have SQL bookmarks as well and will Open Source in Q2 this year!

What a great thread, love all those projects!

For me it's https://togetherdb.com, my passion project that I enjoy working on so much. It's an online database for developers, you can also manage your existing databases with it. If you work with databases, then please check it out!

Next time you should check the conversion rate your bank applies versus the one Google shows you and you will see that while your bank seems to be charging pennies only it probably charges 2-3% of the full transaction sum on top of that via the conversion rate.

Stratechery had a good take on this: https://stratechery.com/2022/opensea-raises-money-bans-nfts-...

Summary: The open networks of crypto don't matter much because the platforms like OpenSea still control the demand, which is where the power lies.

> Users should be in control of the data they produce and consume.

For me this is the most exciting promise of web3. But do blockchains really solve this? Where will user data be stored? Say, the comments we write here on HN, will they be stored on-chain? Or all things I publish on CryptoFacebook, are they all on-chain? Would be great to have that answered because I was not able to figure it out so far.

Then I don't see the privacy problematic solved. As everything is tied to my wallet, this means that all my data is public. So after I send a friend a bit of lunch money he can see my wallet address and thus can check my subscriptions on CryptoOnlyFans, can see which words I am learning on CryptoDuoLingo and at which times of the day I am learning etc etc. Obviously this is horrific from a privacy aspect so how do we keep data private while it still being public?

You need to distinguish between what _can_ be done and what _needs_ to be done. Let go of perfection and only do the necessary, then you can realize maintainance with very little time investment.

This obviously does not work if you feel like all your code's libraries must always be on the newest version because simply keeping several projects' code running with the latest thing is quite a bit of work.

I have a profitable project that is still running on PHP 5 on Ubuntu 14 and it seems that now I finally will have to upgrade things, but it will be a single upgrade now after many years that may take 1 day instead of 20 separate little ones that may have cost 1/2 day each if I always had kept up to date.

GPT-3 is just a tool. If a product that uses it messes up you can hardly blame it on the tool but rather on that product or the company developing it (here Nabla).

For some reason Germany has a history of being super hard on any possible undermining of copyright on music. Notably the ban on all public WiFi (!) until recently for fear of people illegally downloading music anonymously and 3rd parties being able to impose penalties on everyone who uses file sharing platforms ("Abmahnung").

> Due to ClojureScript’s immutable data structures, there’s a lot of objects created and garbage collected all the time

^ From the article, sounds like a plausible cause for the speed difference.

Physical health probably.

Seems like until 100 years ago it was a lot of work to get obese while today it kind of happens if you don't watch out.

The headline was not "Everything is perfectly sustainable in Sweden" so I don't understand your criticism here. The world starting to produce steel with hydrogen is a great step. It is not necessary that everything is sustainable already to celebrate or at least posivitely acknowledge this news.

The feature checklist is only a part why people use a product.

I didn't try Zorbi yet but I tried Anki a few times and I simply hate its interface. Yes, it has all the features but it is far too clunky and bothersome to use for me. Zorbi in contrast looks like it has a easy, beautiful UI that I can actually use with joy.

Actually the brokers' prices fell drastically in response to this law. Probably because the landlords now have an incentive to take the cheapest broker.

I rather think the simple truth is that some cuisines appeal to many more people than others.

While surely every country and culture offers some tasty dishes I think there is a reason we see so many Italian, Thai and Japanese restaurants everywhere and so few German, Phillipine or Peruvian restaurants.

I am German myself and I am sure you can find more Italian than native restaurants in Germany, simply because it makes for a better dining experience. Not everything needs to be socially constructed.

The costs are just to enable the feature on the fly in the car you already own, so you will still need to buy gas and insurance.

They will exclude you from the "buy box", which "effectively" locks you out. (That's how I got it from thr article)

> Imagine a world where adding the equivalent of a 4 core VM with 8 gigs of ram is going to take 6 months from the time a team say they need it, until it's actually available

If this is the case then the CTO knows that something is very wrong.

I don't think your scenario of companies not knowing whether their teams are incompetent makes sense. You can apply this logic applies to all functions.

> You can use this for your own gains, let's say you are a bank employee or police officer who wants to keep tabs on your spouse.

I think it's obvious that the data would not be public domain but stored strongly secured somewhere with very limited access. There are already very strict data privacy laws in Europe and the trend is clearly towards even more strictness.

I, too, don't see any issue as long the as the laws punish misuse of private data.

> You don't know any people from Venezuela I take it, or any countries experiencing hyper-inflation.

I agree that this is a use case but due to BitCoin's extreme volatility it is not really good for that either. Any stable coin is much better suited for this.

I think you should take that comment as "some people buy Apple just for status". Because yes, many buy it for the quality.

But I also guess the headphones rather aim for the status-oriented crowd.

Check out this video, it works really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJ0GvsQeak ("Riding in a Self Driving Car - With Nobody Up Front")

> Anyone have experience with that?

Similar issue for me. I wanted to try Tailwind on my current project and started by including their CSS on my site which made it sluggishly slow (Firefox on Mac). It was in dev mode so no tree shaking but I was too bothered by this new slowness (e.g. select menues taking 1s to open) so I stopped that experiment.

That's not really a unique value proposition, as there are PayPal (and probably others) for many years already. And PayPal is free for private transfers, compared to BitCoin's ~$5/transaction.

Germany started in the year 2000 with guaranteed, high prices to providers of solar/wind energy and that their feeding into the electrical grid has preference over other providers. Additionally they employed grants for citizens deploying solar on their roofs.

That massively raised the electricity prices, resulting in the world's costliest electricity.

Around 24% (!) of the German electricity price is a Renewable Surcharge[1]. With a >$350 billion/year power industry revenue it is easy to see that Germany's contribution to kickstart large scale solar and wind power generation can hardly be overstated.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_German...

Coworking offices can fill this space: Meeting new, interesting people, coffee chats and after work beers.

In theory of course this should be the case, but in practice this is terrible advice IMO. There are tons of great successful businesses that wouldn't have passed this test.

Did anyone really need the early AirTable? No, you could just use Google Sheets. Did anyone really need WhatsApp? No, there was texting already. And so on.

In theory everyone should stay far away from building "nice to have" products and only solve hard business problems but that is a super high standard that even most companies that are already out there probably don't meet.

Of course, getting feedback and adjusting your vision is super important though and sometimes a radical pivot is needed.

For starters, I think in the Finder there is no way to see your current path, a file's path or to manipulate the path with the keyboard.

I run a russian-english/russian-german Open Data dictionary, https://openrussian.org

In Germany only ~33% of new cars are bought privately, the rest from companies.

Source https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/36714/umfrage...

> I wonder what's the stigma bout nuclear?

I am sure you know the answer but because you ask for it: Radioactivity is nasty. Example Germany: When I grew up my parents couldn't pick mushrooms and I couldn't play in a sandbox because a few thousand kilometers away there was a reactor incident and the wind blew it over. Today people living near a power plant receive free jodium tablets in case there will be an accident. The government spends endless years looking for places to store the nuclear waste because nobody wants it in their backyard, obviously. The waste in the old starage, designed to last 10000 years, leaked already and noone knows how to handle it. France built most of their power plants directly at the border so that hopefully we will receive all the fallout. Uranium mining is said to be desastrous for the environment. Probably there's a lot more.