From what I’ve seen of airbnbs where I grew up a contributing factor isn’t just quantity of the airbnbs but also the particular houses they choose.
A lot of them are what I think most people would call “starter houses”, relatively cheap pragmatic homes in decent areas. I would assume it has to do with people maybe upgrading houses and doing short term rentals on their first house and probably just that if you’re looking to invest in real estate they’re of course cheaper and a good fit for airbnb style short term rentals. I don’t know though I’d also assume it’s such a pain in the ass to manage that most people would rather sell and get money towards a new house.
Have you tried Severance? Took me a bit to get around to it but probably the best sci-fi show to come out since Devs and by far the best show on Apple TV. Ted Lasso is too wholesome for me.
Apple TV has some other sci-fi with not great writing like “Hello, Tomorrow” but that are still fun for the visuals and what not.
Wow interesting. I have a feeling the controller thing is super dependent on what you’ve had more exposure to. I recently started gaming for the first time since I was younger and got the Xbox elite controller and love it but I can’t stand playstation controllers. The feedback feels wrong, buttons, everything. Granted like I said I haven’t used them much.
To be honest I think the problem for Reddit may be that no one really needs a direct alternative. For me it’s good at one thing which is reviews and in depth educational content on some of the more niche subs. For community though, people can use discord, for content consumption, people seem to be using tik tok, for political flame wars you have Twitter.
I don’t see a bright future for Reddit. A lot of the broad appeal back when I used it more was that it surfaced the best stuff from all over the internet so I didn’t have to sift through all the boring stuff but funny enough now the only time my little sister and her hip friends see Reddit posts is when the best ones have been turned into a tik tok. I doubt this is going to kill Reddit but honestly I think it’s been fighting a losing battle for a while now. I have a feeling its indirect competitors will keep getting better at providing the value reddit does over time in their own way and leave reddit with very little left to offer.
Yeah I think if you’re coming from the startup or less so tech in general you may not realize how ubiquitous Microsoft is at work. A massive amount of companies are Microsoft from the ground up. Not to mention there are some entire industries where to run the necessary software you have to use windows at the very least.
I see some folks in this thread underestimating casinos and exactly how far the odds are tilted against the players.
I grew up in Vegas and have a lot of family and friends who work in the casino industry. A particular family member is an executive at one of them and told me that he has control over the odds on machines (within the legal limit) down to a particular machine being used by somebody. Apparently this means if they need a particular high roller to stick around for awhile and spend some money they can go ahead and grease the odds on the machine they’re using to give them some winnings to spend. Then they can just make it back the next day or whatever by cranking it back and making the odds worse. Honestly at first I thought he might be exaggerating but some time later I had a friend who worked corporate finance at one of the big casinos independently tell me the exact some thing.
These casinos though are really no joke. It’s one thing to skew the odds, and most people understand that, but being able to skew them in real time feels a lot more rigged. I assume some machines don’t operate this way because for many years the smaller casinos had machines that you could break even or win a bit consistently in poker, and some casinos even advertise odds. Still though its pretty shocking if my understanding is correct.
The players club cards are also part of the upside. Up until recently many of the locals casinos still had the poker games where if you played correctly you could break even or make a little profit. My friends dad supplemented his social security by playing those all day, you don’t make much money but he had so many points he could eat and entertain himself for free basically.
I would say there’s a difference between cognitive load and visual clutter. One of the problems I have with the visual studio UI is that it tries to be everyone’s everything…all at once. I much prefer the searchable command bar in VSCode because everything I need is just a hot key and a couple key strokes away but when I’m just using the editor I don’t have to sacrifice space or deal with sifting through icons to get to the only ones I need 90% of the time. That being said presumably the features are still there just hidden under a menu item or something.
Ultimately it comes down to personal preference but I’ve basically gotten to the point where when I’m actually writing code I use VSCode and when I need access to more advanced tooling, or have to deal with some of our legacy build systems, I pop into visual studio proper. I think I’m just a bit more use to some of that dev tooling being outside of the editor but I would really love some bigger investments in the .NET dev tooling in VSCode and the .NET CLI so I can have an editor that’s just an editor most of the time and still be able to take advantage of the great debugger and everything else VS provides.
I’m dealing with the opposite experience right now. I work at a big tech company and lately we’ve been working closely with a data science team. I’m desperate for some guidance on what sort of data pipeline and practices we can set up for them and have a hard time getting back anything but “can you export some rows as a csv”. Which is actually easier said than done considering data compliance policies and what not. Maybe there’s a good reason but it gets a bit frustrating and I can’t imagine it’s not slowing them down as well.
My concern is this could probably be a major liability. Strapping all your employees to electric roller skates that make them move faster seems like it could be a recipe for disaster if someone takes a spill at high speed. Especially since a jury would take one look at those things and see something closer to x games equipment than like “enterprise mobility device”.
I don’t think so. The climate change stunts didn’t actually destroy anything as they only glued themselves/threw soup on the glass coverings. If they were really looking at it they’d see the different between that and this sort of irreversible damage.
Is this really such a bad thing? Following technical walk throughs are the sort of thing that get people interested in the kind of education that is more likely to protect them and even make them someone who “knows what they’re doing.” Most of the people I know who got interested in tech didn’t do so from some Apple approved stem app, it was from this sort of independent exploration to get something they want. These arguments start to feel like prohibition over education, and in a lot of ways just plain technocratic.
I own a Tesla and I don’t see being able to own another ev unless you’re willing to not go on road trips and always have a garage or other reliable location with a wall charger. I think that they’ll dominate as commuter cars in large cities where driving is infrequent but I couldn’t see using one of those as a primary car outside of that. I’m mostly familiar with Teslas infrastructure so maybe someone else can speak to non-Tesla charging infra. It’s possibly better than I think.
That’s my whole point though. That I don’t encounter those people and my only exposure to the cult is people who hate him/it talking about it. You’re even telling me it’s a much smaller group than implied by all the references to it. I don’t know what is so confusing about that?
I have no doubt that most people, let alone people who have accumulated that kind of wealth have done plenty to deserve some ire. It’s the focus on him that can make it seem irrational and like it’s more because he’s a loud mouth. There are a lot more businessmen doing substantively worse things for the world that don’t catch an ounce of hate. For me that looks a little superficial and does resemble something closer to hating a pop culture icon.
I don’t get the cult thing. I encounter way more people who hate musk, often times irrationally than I do big time supporters. I’ve seen plenty of positive takes on him but not people fawning over him. Maybe it’s because I don’t use Twitter and that’s where they’re found but at least the platforms I’m on are dominated by people calling him a muskrat and stuff. Is this anyone else’s experience?
This doesn’t seem right. I would think that the SEC would be more interested in his Twitter account if he actually owned the company. If anything it leads to more scrutiny right?
I mean are you suggesting no more jokes, parodies, or satire lest a journalist take it seriously? That would practically require a complete self censor on all fiction. I could just easily tweet a blurb from a Sci-fi novel and risk someone, somewhere, misinterpreting it. Also a prank has the intent to mislead which the poster didn’t. Don’t mean to sound inflammatory but the humorless world that would be sounds a lot more miserable than living in the mess it seeks to remedy.
In principle I kind of see what you’re saying but I mean if the cops chose to talk to him I’m sure they’d have the context of “this is a Stanford professor calling the cops on a Berkeley professor about a tweet.” And like you said it is more about power and at least from my perspective elite university professor falls under that. I could definitely be overestimating that though. My point is given the situation the chances of something like that happening is probably quite a bit lower than with any interaction with the police regardless of race.
I don’t know much about how law firms operate but could it be that the big fancy firms wouldn’t want this case if they think it’s a losing one? If they possibly considered it a “free speech” type case that wouldn’t fly in most states like the other commenter mentioned could they be concerned about their reputation?
I would think that Microsoft and Amazon only seem quite a bit lower because of the lower cost of living in Seattle right? Also though taking a looks at levels.fyi salary information none of the FAANG companies are really included in the top paying list.
I think part of the difference here is that it’s easier to accept something like sports as a true passion where as grinding and studying to be able to answer arbitrary test questions isn’t. I think that’s why people look at a kid spending all day studying music, art, chess, and honestly even math, science or programming as kids being kids with passions. Yes they both involve work but cramming for tests to try and get into a good school probably seems much more like capital W work as opposed to the sort required for a true passion.
I don’t know it was definitely noticed when it happened and honestly I have a hard time believing it could be more hyped up than these last couple of days.
It must be. Wall Street bets grew to 8 million users after this whole GameStop thing, up from 1 million. They all probably hopped on to see what’s going on. Plus reddit is down more than any other website that popular that I know of.
Oh yeah absolutely I wouldn’t even be allowed to join. The commenter just mentioned it in the same breath as the daily stormer so I’m wondering whether they find it racist in the same way dailystormer is because it wouldn’t seem that way to me.