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That's one scenario. You can actually have sticky, engaged customers at huge scale, and even marginal profitability, while lacking Product-Market Fit. But breaking even/modest profits do not equal success for venture backed firms or mega-corps.

A good example is the voice assistant hardware from Amazon and Google. The speakers are everywhere, basic daily use stats are likely solid, and retail display square footage remains huge. Yet almost no one will pay for the associated subscriptions or other premium services. The hardware was sold at a loss(?) expecting downstream revenue from services that customers simply don't value enough to buy.

This is how Lightstream Studio has provided stream overlay for consoles[1]. Some years ago Microsoft added them as an official destination using a better protocol and dropped the need for MITM hackery.

I used to work in this space and Lightstream was always doing interesting things, even if they never seemed to find PMF.

1: https://support.golightstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/38643168...

Anecdotally, it feels like Opus, Fable, and Sol "get distracted" when you use them for writing code. Great at reasoning and coordination but they will go off on a tangent and refactor half the code base. I only use them for reasoning (of course) and coordinating subagents.

Semaglutide does an incredible job of keeping my autoimmune issues in check. The only side effect I've had is needing to drink more water or else I feel like I've got the flu. Minimal tradeoff IMO

Apple TV is a little worrisome, surprised the A-series devices jumped so much. They're on older lines and have mostly been a way to recoup R&D for flagships. Theyre either subsidizing other products to soften the increase, or older process nodes are under serious demand suddenly.

Doesn't bode well for the industry. PlayStation and Xbox both switched to mostly-commodity hardware this gen and are years old, yet also facing the same price pressure apparently

It was sealed sets, still NIB, not individual pieces. No one would bother selling $200k of loose bricks on consignment.

It's due to fragmentation in implementations. The YAML spec is fairly large, and library authors understandably aren't excited at the prospect of dealing with all the minor details of less commonly used bits, like anchors.

You end up with YAML libraries being widely available and they all implement _most_ of the spec, but the portion not implemented varies. Plus there are minor variations in how people have read the spec, and even options _within_ the specification on how to handle parsing:

https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#chapter-10-recommended-schemas

This isn't really a problem for projects like Kubernetes where most of the ecosystem uses the same library. On the other hand, OpenTelemetry is rolling out "declarative configuration" across all the supported languages. I work on OTel, and have avoided contributing in that area because I lack the patience to deal with the inconsistences - I don't hate YAML, but it can be frustrating.

AFAIK, the only 100% spec compliant implementation is libfyaml.

Prompted the Jules preview to see what would happen. The implementation is pretty naive - there are much easier to read approaches I can think of. So not _awful_ considering the very short prompt I used.

Changes are on this branch for the curious:

https://github.com/matt-hensley/typed-ffmpeg/tree/feature/mu...

If you use the product filter it only shows laptops that come pre-configured with 2TB of storage. If you choose a custom build you can configure the latest X1 Carbon with 32 GB RAM, 2 TB storage, and a 2.8k display.

If you choose the custom build route some even can ship with Fedora or Ubuntu, so presumably Linux support is reasonable.

Know some folks who used to work at Genscape. The whole business was selling live power generation data. They mostly accomplished it "hands-off" and without the permission of utilities.

If you had property adjacent to a power plant they would happily lease space to setup sensors.

Apparently there are tons of businesses like this gathering data that is mostly live and selling to hedge funds etc.

Everything is either in development or stable. There aren't statuses like alpha, beta, release candidate, etc. except for individual library releases. Metric clients will be marked as "development" until it goes "stable" [0]. Consequently it can be hard to determine the actual maturity level of any given implementation.

Tracing is very mature, with metric and logging implementations stable for a number of popular languages [1].

the "experimental" status was renamed "development"

[0] https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/versioning-and-stab...

[1] https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/#status-and-releases

Over 50% of the increased prices are from producers not just recouping their additional expenses, but also increasing profit margins.

Typically you would expect this to be an opportunity for competition, but generally speaking companies are suspiciously raising prices together. They've taken advantage of the COVID shortage and inflation narratives to squeeze consumers.

https://fortune.com/2024/01/20/inflation-greedflation-consum...

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/08/05/ftc-grocery-prices/

Java has really good OTel coverage across tons of libraries. It should mostly Just Work™, though you'll still need to consider sampling strategies, what metrics you actually want to collect, etc.

Would say .NET isn't too far behind. Especially since there are built-in observability primitives and Microsoft is big on OTel. ASP.NET Core and other first party libraries already emit OTel compliant metrics and traces out of the box. Instrumenting an application is pretty straightforward.

I have less experience with the other languages. Can say there is plenty of opportunity to contribute upstream in a meaningful way. The OpenTelemetry SIGs are very welcoming and all the meetings are open.

Full disclosure: work at Grafana Labs on OpenTelemetry instrumentation

Any iPad with a USB-C port supports video capture via UVC. This allows you use devices like the El Gato Cam Link for as a video source.

Also, I cofounded a startup eons ago that makes an iOS specifically to do multi-camera video production and is still trucking along. There is definitely a market for using iPhones and iPads to produce video.

Could use an optical sensor like the Timex Datalink watches from the 90s[1]

Could set the earrings on a phone screen and transfer the patterns over. Sounds like a fun project.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink

Hit me up if you come back, there is a decent tech community in Louisville and Lexington.

The Mountain Eagle and Appalshop both have no reason to be as good as they are. Consider supporting both!

We've had the same experience. Prime shipments were 5-7 days regardless of order size, now most items show up in 1-2 days.

Not sure the logic in that.

I daily drive a T14s with a Ryzen 5 CPU. It's easily the best non-ARM laptop I've used.

They already sell the X13s: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/th...?

I've been sorely tempted to pick up a refurb off eBay, they're only about $500. Supposedly can run Linux OK too.

You're likely in for a treat if you haven't written C# in a while. The language has evolved quite a bit, especially around all kinds of nice ergonomics. Interesting things like pattern matching, using statements, and performance oriented primitives.

I got back to writing C# full time earlier this year and it's a joy.

Blaming shrink may be a way to not spook the market for issues with their business:

> Target’s business has struggled for more than a year with company-specific challenges, including a glut of unsold inventory, backlash to its Pride merchandise collection and a pullback in consumer spending on discretionary items such as apparel and home goods.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/target-says-it-will-close-ni...

Didn't realize it was available in a liquid form like this. I've been buying "child" tablets and breaking the 3mg apart.

10mg is the same as an edible for me, and super unpleasant when trying to rest.

France has sort of done this - they have 56 reactors in operation all based on the same 3 basic designs[1]. It's pretty incredible how quickly the plants were designed, tested, and built. Over a span of 15 years they brought 56 reactors online[2] - in the US we'd be lucky to build and commission a single reactor in that time span.

[1] https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t... [2] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/read...

If it's something reasonable, I don't mind it at all. My GitHub profile is pretty sparse as everything I write is for work.

A 30-60 minute skills check is nbd, especially if it's used to understand how I approach problems.

Stripe is still saying they are extending loans via Capital with no change to recent terms they've been offering. Confirmed with our account manager this afternoon, just in case.

I'm surprised that Stripe Capital hasn't extended a similar offer for customers of SVB.

Dog harnesses that attach to seat belts are sold at most pet supply stores in the US. There are also short leash like tethers they connect to seat belts and hook to a typical walking harness.

I have a very severe poison ivy allergy. The techniques in that video are the only way to stay out of trouble.

Three things work for me, in order of escalation:

1. Rubbing alcohol 2. Dawn dishwashing soap and scrubbing 3. Mean Green hand cleaner and more scrubbing

Talk to your account rep, think they can help you out with that