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...and enough people find your content to have a decent conversation without you having to learn marketing?

We had an "interesting" bug where we inadvertently ended up polling postgres advisory locks around 6 million times per minute from a cluster of 200 servers. It added about 20% load to the database, enough to be anomalous but not enough to outright trip any alarms. The overall database performance was fine.

The golden triangle is a bit much. We started out on that route, but pulling up to the first marked site and seeing 50 coaches and throngs of old Chinese ladies all taking photographs in the same direction was offputting. But, we then left the triangle route and explored on our own, and barely saw anybody. Makes a lot of sense for tourist focused countries to keep tourists focused on a particular area or route.

On what timescale? I.e. trees take time to grow and accumulate carbon. As I understand it, the climate clock is ticking - there's a threshold beyond which some runaway effects kick in.

I'd guess maneuverability. A multi rotor can stop or radically change direction in a much shorter distance than fixed wing. Also hovering.

> Boxes like the Digitakt look like a lot of fun, but then I watch a youTube video of it and it's like 80% knob-scrolling through menus on a tiny LCD screen and that doesn't look like fun.

Totally with you there. Menu diving on a 20x2 char display is no fun at all.

> Any thoughts on how to dip my toes in the water with hardware to see if that's a better fit?

It wouldn't get you a full setup, but a keystep + a behringer neutron wouldn't break the bank, and looks like a lot of fun. (I don't have a neutron. Maybe on my list once I sell a couple pieces of equipment that I don't use.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfD8RmALHwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJTl_ntNTgo

Yeah it can. The keys are small, but it has velocity and aftertouch - it's nice and expressive. Build quality is good.

I got into programming as a kid through a desire to make music (my first program was a "song" written in pascal, playing a series beep tones at different frequencies and durations.) I got into trackers (fast, impulse, buzz) in my teens, and then synths.

These days I have a strong preference towards "hardware"* only music making -- I spend most of my waking life staring at a screen, so I find it satisfying to step away and be hands on when creating music. The brains of my studio is a Synthstrom Deluge, which is an amazingly intuitive little gizmo - it has a built in synth and drum machine, a looper, a sampler, and a MIDI sequencer allowing you to drive all other synths in the studio. I also have an Arturia Keystep, which has a great live MIDI sequencer. Another fun gadget is the Roland RC 505, which gives you 5 independent and dubbable loops - I drive one of the two fx sends from my mixer through it, letting me build loops live from any of the other synths. Aside from those I've collected a handful of synths, both FM and analog.

(* quotes because pretty much all available synths, analog included, run on software. Most come with USB ports allowing you to connect and change settings, update firmware, etc.)

One of these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SZiI2KhWfU

There are so many compliance reviewers who get stuck on our "high entropy" approach to passwords when doing security reviews for a sale. "But what about special characters? Mix of upper & lower? etc." I'm very grateful to NIST for https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html and Sophos for their summary here https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-passwo... (both of which make fine references when requested). As a side point, I'm now entirely unsurprised by the near-weekly big-corp breaches that get announced given the caliber of the compliance people we encounter.

Try smart launcher, and set up your own gestures. I haven't been a fan of gestures either historically, but smart launcher has converted me. Single finger up / down / left / right; double finger up / down / left / right; double tap on screen, and a couple of others.

Just look at what happened to SUV sales when gas prices went up in the 2000s. https://www.cbtnews.com/the-correlation-between-fuel-prices-...

> One cannot coercively distort the market with government power and expect that life will not, "uh, uh, find a way."

Uh, yes you can. Just look at the different car fleets in Europe (where gasoline taxes are high) vs the US (where gasoline taxes are low.) The first thing I notice when driving from the airport either in Europe when I'm visiting or the US when I'm back is the different composition of cars on the road - the US has lots of pickups and SUVs, where Europe has a lot of small coupes and sedans. That's driven by gas pricing, and mpg standards.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/03/climate/us-fu...

> Great intentions do not always lead to great outcomes (often the opposite).

"Do not always" is not the same as "cannot". It is true that incentives can have unexpected results, but as another poster replied, the answer to that is to iterate and improve rather than "not try in the first place". Markets do not lead to perfection without guidance.

It sounds like your team is mixed between on-site and remote. I've never seen that work well - you need to at minimum have a remote-first team or department for effective communication processes to be engrained. Otherwise, the co-located team ends up having a lot of watercooler conversations that exclude remote, and that throws off the balance.

I'm no fan of Facebook's privacy track record, but this seems like a pretty alarmist story. Accurate transcription is hard. You need hundreds or thousands of hours of training data to get to WERs that consumers will accept on a single accent in a single language. Then you need to do the same for major accent variations (Irish & Indian english, for example). Then you need to do the same again for other languages. You also need to account for big variations in microphone hardware, perhaps bandwidth (which might affect bitrate of the captured audio), and so on and so forth.

Facebook could theoretically have paid voice actors to produce the training data up front to eliminate concerns, and then never tweaked their models based on user data, but the results certainly wouldn't have been as good.

That all said, if they buried the opt-in, they deserve flak.

Carlos Rovelli has an excellent book called The Order of Time which helps a lot with grokking this. There is no universal clock. Time is relative.

All public EBS snapshots appear in the EC2 > Snapshots section in the AWS UI. Toggle the dropdown in the top right of the table to "Public" and you'll see them. Sort by size and you'll get some interesting looking ones at the top.

It reminds me a bit of old time cdroms.

Have you tried, for example, the ebay/UPS integration? It's a disaster. It's expected by their customer support that while the UPS site shows the ebay credentials that they won't work for at least an hour.

Have you interacted with UPS's technical support on anything? They're a disaster, and aside from the example I mentioned have in the past waved off other bugs as being expected.

Have you tried shipping in general using UPS's website? You need to understand a lot about their system to really use it (for a simple example, the difference between "UPS account" and "having a working login under which you've provided your EIN").

USPS won't attempt last mile delivery for me, requiring me to drive into town to pick up packages. The other two will deliver to my door.

Post office staff here are surly. UPS and Fedex drivers are bright and friendly.

Obviously it varies by location.

They seem to be dinosaurs. If the UPS website is any indication, they're deeply dysfunctional. Mind you, they're both worlds above USPS.

Yeah I have one of those too. They recently added sync (through your phone) to dropbox/evernote, which makes it even more useful. It's a great device - zero distraction digital notetaking.

According to one of their support agents, their sales numbers were low. Personally I think their marketing sucked - they seemed to be targeting kids rather than students/business users. Their styling reflected this identity crisis too.

They have a product coming later in the year which will "address some of the same needs", TBD though how thoroughly it'll be a fill-in for it. In the meantime I bought a protective folio case for mine and am babying it.

There's plenty of luck involved. He probably won some genetic lottery that contributed to his intelligence (genes = about 50% of intelligence). He (presumably, having only skimmed) also was lucky enough to have had a stable family life, managed to avoid major trauma as a child, and I can see from the rest of the thread also had a good education (environment = much of the rest of intelligence.)

Of course, he did apply himself and take initiative to get where he got. But, it's dangerous to work backwards from success stories and say "well, anybody could have really done what I did, ergo anybody who didn't is [....]"

That said, I wonder how many of the really driven entrepreneurs among us started from lower than middle rungs in society, and/or share the "immigrant mentality".

Unfortunately they're not safe either. Competitors in a niche will hire sock puppet accounts to negative review each other.

Awesome! Another vote for (a simple way) to do chips.

I've wanted to have poker games with my team (which is distributed) for a long time. This is 90% of the way there.

Update - I just found pokerchips.io. Check it out; it has a simple interface which does everything you'd need.

There's lots of good sequencers at that price point, or cheaper. E.g. check out NI's Maschine range.

MFA: Something you know, something you are, something you have.

For sure. They have a different and more easily scratchable surface though - that's fairly noticeable. I had no change in behavior between it and prior phones. Barely got any scratches from pocketing them over the years, got multiple deep scratches on this one in the first week and more since. Bad batch? Maybe? Still sucks for an $800 phone. (Which I got effectively for free via Fi, so shrug.)

The glass on the screen on my Pixel 3 is the worst I've had in recent phones (Nexus 5, Moto X4). The rest of the phone is...fine. It picks up scratches really easily, and cracked in a moderate fall onto a wood floor. Both prior phones took a lot more abuse. My wife has the same phone and the exact same experience.

Custom TLDs are specifically non regional, according to ICANN rules. (I looked into buying my state as a TLD and then reselling domains. No go.)

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