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Wouldn’t this be due to the Lunar New Year, a massive holiday that shuts down wide swaths of the country? UPS has a bunch of Asia delays right now too.

https://www.ups.com/cn/en/service-alerts.page

It took the use of poison gas to get countries on board, and some will still use it. Just more carefully.

Would China, Russia, or Iran agree to such a preemptive AI weapons ban? Doubtful, it’s their chance to close the gap. I’m onboard if so, but I don’t see anything happening on that front until well after they start dominating the landscape.

It would help solve bots absolutely, but there are other ways to approach fraudulent activity. I don’t see a huge downside personally, but I’m not in the industry. Given it’s a large, competitive market and this change appears revenue neutral, I think there must be underlying reasons neither of us are aware of.

If the majority of artists and labels wanted this system I don’t see why they couldn’t lobby and negotiate for it?

So each listen would have a variable payout depending on how much else you listened to that month? If you only listened to 1 song, the rights holder would receive all of your monthly payment (sans Spotify’s cut)?

That seems overly complex and more volatile. My guess is that there is no pressure from the artists or rights holders to do this. It’s revenue neutral for Spotify after all. Tidal is the most “artist-friendly” service and they don’t work like that.

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The video looks awesome, but I couldn’t get the demo to work using an iPad, so I assume mobile isn’t supported fully? I’d use it for my personal dashboard and for organizing llama.cpp chats if I could.

I’ve never heard of that happening in the U.S. with major ISPs. It’s completely opaque vpn traffic to them. What would the ban be for? With remote work and corporate vpns it’s extremely common to have the same traffic patterns.

Just use Tailscale? I have all my services running in Docker containers using Tailscale or Caddy Tailscale (for automatic https cert) sidecar. A secure private cloud has never been easier.

> But even then, I'm afraid I am not producing the software to the highest standards of the industry

Realistically, you’re not, but does that matter at all to the company? I’ve had your role in a small company, the job wasn’t really about the tech. Unless there is a dedicated product manager, that is your role now too, and it’s one to take seriously.

You have enviable freedom, do not waste it. Be straight with your boss and explain the tradeoffs regarding availability / tech debt / accuracy you may be making and why.

Above all, understand the business, how your boss sees it, and anticipate their needs.

> If only companies would learn that tasteful ads are possible and would likely give better returns, but the web has been infested with garbage so most people have their guards up.

For better or worse, many of the brightest minds of the past 25 years have been working in online advertising, if “tasteful ads” worked better that’s all we would see. Consumers must drive the desired outcome with behavior or law.

> The Post employees (including acquaintances of mine) are begging subscribers not to leave. They insist that Bezos doesn't interfere with the news reporting, only with the op-ed pages.

Even if you plan to resubscribe in the future, cancelling is the only action subscribers can take that will make any difference in the future.

Cavern diving certification is still a multi day course, open water certification does not prepare you for it. The 130 ft PADI guideline (AOW cert) applies to open water wreck diving and is quickly broken at most sites I’ve seen. Dos Ojos is particularly sketchy. On overcast days it can be impossible to see an exit at several points even when not silted out. Your guides will usually be side mount with two tanks, backup lights, and a safety spool. That redundancy isn’t for you, it’s because they are trained not to take the same risks you are. Caves are pretty awesome though.

> My third and fourth dives after getting my open water certification were in cenotes around Playa Del Carmen and that experience was just mind blowing.

Overhead diving, especially in caves, is extremely dangerous without extensive training. Too many operators down there will take new divers on very questionable “cavern” tours with sections of no natural light / visible exits, single primary lights, and single tanks.

Do your due diligence and remember nothing in the cave is worth dying for.

There already is a company doing this, I’ve heard the CEO speak at a conference. They are heavily involved in the cave diving community and will likely start making long distance mapping records in the next few years.

https://stoneaerospace.com/

Lung over expansion injury if he holds his breath on ascent like many free divers naturally do. He was taking compressed air breaths at depth and then ascending. If you fill your lungs at 33ft and ascend, the gas will double in volume at the surface, causing tons of damage and bleeding.

It’s not getting bent, it’s lung over expansion injury from taking a compressed air breath at depth and ascending afterward as a free diver. Yes, you could explain the danger to him, but people panic and forget.

> When I ran short of air at the wreck, Tom would swim over and hold out his backup breathing line, known to divers as a "reserve regulator." I'd catch a breath to stay down longer.

Taking breaths off a scuba tank at depth is something only someone trained as both a diver and freediver should do. I don’t get the impression the reporter is either. Tom seems a bit cavalier.

> They end-up making there managers happy, yet in the long-run everybody is panicking and they are considering refactoring or even building the application from scratch after 4-5 years.

As mostly a startup dev I’ve never worked in a company with a runway long enough to afford worrying about a potential rewrite 5 years in the future. I’ve had to rewrite some of the most spaghetti founder code ever, but surviving long enough to do so was a sign of success.

Author isn’t wrong per se, but code purity isn’t always a worthwhile goal, and needs to be balanced by the needs of the business. Virtually all of the code I’ve written over the years has been tossed by acquiring companies moving everything to “their stack”, acquihire, company shutting down, product pivots, or better 3rd party software becoming available/affordable. I’ve pushed some trash tier code over the years because it worked just well enough to drive growth/revenue and keep the lights on.

That’s personal use, his commute doesn’t count though does it? Doesn’t read to me like it does.

"You will be eligible to use the Company aircraft for (i) business-related travel in accordance with the Company’s travel policy, (ii) travel between your city of residence and the Company’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington and (iii) your personal travel in accordance with the Company’s policies, up to a maximum amount of $250,000 per year, which amount will be based on the aggregate incremental cost to the Company."

> Not sure why this is such a big deal or any different than the thousands of c-suites that commute this way.

Starbucks pretends to care about the environment and sustainability much more than most. Or at least they used to, he may dial that back since his commute will be mentioned in news articles for at least the next few years.

If you keep your business and personal computing separate, Recall looks amazing.

Who believes it’s a recent development? I’ve never heard that opinion that I can recall. It’s stuff we’ve been doing for 20 years, conveniently bundled into a nice to use package with good documentation.

For small projects if I can avoid using react and just use htmx/tailwind I will. It’s quite pleasant to do simple tasks in.

He definitely committed fraud, but at least it was against counterparties that were unequivocally aware of the tail risks and capable of managing them. He didn’t directly fleece retail investors like SBF, Madoff, etc..

He deserves prison of course, but I’d raise a glass to his legend. At least he fleeced the savvy.

Aren’t there are a ton of live culture yogurts available in most supermarkets? Noosa, Siggis, Fage, Yoplait, and Chobani for example.

They just genrally have too much sugar.

> Uniqlo (in Japan and at least in SF) has a cool checkout method.

Saw this in the Honolulu location and was similarly impressed. It's got to be pretty close to a theoretical minimum in check out speed, while requiring no labor and no accounts.

I believe Harvard destroyed all the nude student photos, would you have insisted they kept those too? I don’t see much value in either.

Couldn’t one argue that the current system is expressly in the interest of the US government? We are entering a new technological age with the US at the forefront and the EU falling further behind while busily erecting more obstacles. Economically, at least.

If it’s not US companies, it will just be Chinese ones. Homegrown isn’t an option the EU places much value on.

> intent/spirit of their laws

As inconsistently interpreted by the member states, each with their own political biases and concerns. It’s a complicated, increasingly risky, and unpredictable market for tech firms.

Ultimately that’s fine, it’s not a necessity the EU be a leader in AI (except perhaps in defense).

Did you take many taxis before Uber/Lyft? It was an adversarial relationship - your taxi driver would try their very best (they practice every day!) to rip you off any which way they can. Their lobby stopped any competition or reform, and they exploited the most vulnerable.

I have no sympathy at all for the taxi cartels - only their victims.

The end goal is automation and functionality regardless of how difficult it makes manual repair. Almost nobody values manual repair capability when purchasing, so why would manufacturers?

Consumers just want easy repair/replace when it happens, and the more resilient the product the less they care.