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Correct - this isn't new, it's how it works there. Single new grads in the 80's & 90's were being offered government funded beach holidays on graduation where they were paired with selected dating partners.

In the 80's in business non-verbal communication was by physically moving printed pieces of paper from desk to desk. Producing these was noisy and laborious. Laser printers in were an absolute breakthrough technology and together with print focussed word processors optimized that paradigm to its peak.

In today's world, does word perfect give you anything that markdown in obsidian doesn't? (other than weird key bindings and file format)

Maybe it does - distraction-free writing is a thing. Something vibed off wordstar but made more relevant could be pretty cool.

to clarify for those of a nautical bent - that's about half a blue whale for about 4/5ths of a dozen nautical miles

MCP client for `codex_apps` failed to start: error: unexpected server response: HTTP 451: {"message":"no_biscuit_no_service"}

Quick! Someone call a caterer, This AI needs a biscuit NOW!!!

The obvious question: is there a single point of failure / common piece of infrastructure involved with failures across all these providers?

Its interesting that codex/gpt-app are screwed because their APIs (including auth) fail, but gpt web still appears to be working.

exactly the same thing happened to me with Litecoin on GDAX.

They sold off my entire holdings for $0.01 - $0 after fees. At the time LTC was trading for something like $25/LTC.

It took about 3 weeks to get anything but an automated response from their support team.

This was the response:

"After further review, this sell was due to a margin call of your margin position on the LTC/BTC order book. A series of large sell orders were placed on the LTC/BTC order book on May 21, 2017 around 1am UTC causing a large price decline which triggered a margin call of your position when your maintenance margin ratio was exceeded.

The trading engine and margin call functioned as designed. The large price decline was due to the relatively low liquidity on the order book at that time."

They eventually refunded the coins.... but a couple of days later removed half of the refund with no explanation. I'm out of pocket by about $1200. I'm still waiting for a response from them on that one.

TLDR; Northern hemisphere:definitely, Southern:Maybe.

It's in cygnus, which is always visible in the northern hemisphere, and visible in a lot of the southern hemisphere low on the horizon in the winter months.

The event is not certain, but is highly likely to occur. The date is "2022 give or take a year", so if it occurs in Southern winter then it will likely be visible to the Southern hemisphere.

yeah, nice to see PMD still getting some love. A very well implemented tool that just does what it does awesomely well.

Because the orbital ship is structurally unable to cope with higher atmospheric density so must be assembled and maintained at altitude and never go below the height of the station. There's a few challenges there...

Why bother with the rocket? It sounds mad, but you can actually just send the balloon. to orbit... http://www.jpaerospace.com/atohandout.pdf

I honestly couldn't finish this. Who exactly is comparing today's startups to the manhattan project? Yes many projects are aiming for more ad clicks, but so what? In the 30's movies and radio were doing the same thing and what? Why are they being compared to the manhattan project, or to apollo, or to the search for the Higgs boson, or world peace, or whatever?. Is there anything to this beyond the obvious strawmab cllckbait?

Depends on context. In the early days many s100 users assembled the boards themselves and doubtless wouldn't have blinked any eyelid at hacking 8080/z80 bios code if they needed to (I remember the first kid at school to get a computer around that time, programmable with physical switches, binary LED display). By the time the commercial software market for CP/M became established with killer apps like word star, the users would have been rightly horrified by bios hacking.

From the history page: 2007-06-12 – Project start

It's pretty cool seeing these long lived projects going from strength to strength

For context, this launch cost around $60mil and carried $200mil of satellite (spacenews http://spacenews.com/spacex-successfully-launches-2nd-pair-o... ) Spacex are aspiring to a 30% discount https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/03/31/spacex-hopes-to-sell-u... Until the tech is well proven this would seem to only be a compelling offer for lower cost sats. Theres also the catch 22 that the first mission will be almost uninsurable. I reckon we'll see an LEO demonstration launch maybe with some cubesats n the first one.

More like a Pepsi can with a bloody big brick in the bottom 9*470 kg merlins). Main threat to stability would seem to be wind, but doesn't seem to be the case in practice

First rule of the Internet : all comment threads tend towards comparison to hitler. Multiply by 20 for YouTube.

Not sure about that with the HN audience. I have only the most passing interest in biology and aging research but I automatically made the association.

Amazing technology, but we are finding it a little limiting in production. True and False values are good, but we're finding that often the data value is in an in between state. We believe that a quinary operator would give significant advantages over the current binary booleans (TRUE/FALSE). Is it possible to implement a quinary boolean along the lines of TRUE/FALSE/MAYBE/MOSTLY/KINDA.

for example earth_harmless:FALSE is not quite true, whereas earth_harmless:MOSTLY is exactly what we need.

Wow tough crowd :(

I for one appreciated it. Good actionable advice with minimal bs. There's a pint waiting for you next time you're in London.

Are you doing model driven development for the contract - building the contract artifacts first (e.g. the wsdl/wadl/whatever) and generating documentation and some of the code off them? If you can then the documentation problem goes away. You just regenerate the docs from the contract as part of the build.

Mocking takes time but means other teams can develop against your API before you've written any code, so while your coding effort is a little more, the elapsed development time across all teams is shorter. That can be a big win.

Meeting clients is more about freelancing, and some of the meetup groups are useful for networking there. For contracting I'd say the majority of people use jobserve. They advertise fixed term mostly fulltime contracts, usually 3-6months initial contract, and usually with at least 1 or 2 renewals expected if your work is ok.

have a look on jobserve and see what comparable contract rates are. As a contractor in the uk market for 15 years, 3k per week is unrealistic outside of banking. Universities are regarded as low paying generally. Android dev would be paying 300 at the low end and 550 p/d high end. The pay depends on the sector. Experience doesn't affect pay so much for pure development roles, except that entry level is usually 2 years relevant experience. Also location has less effect on contractor/freelance pay than you might think.

length of program: ...in general no more than two feet of teletype printout. Teletype feet as a unit of cyclomatic complexity is retro-cool.

Except the term "web service" is just as overloaded as "API" - its got the very specific old school meaning of a SOAP/WSDL API which typically isn't exposed as a service on the web :(