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Yes there are all those arguments. But it's a lot more work for still a pitiful amount of money.

Then on top of that after COVID dealer gave me $5k tradein for an Ecoboost car with a leaking cylinder wall, check engine light, missing parts, etc. where KBB was less than that. I really don't get it.

Once upon a time I had a car, a daily driver. I kept it clean, vacuum/wash/polish with crazy waxes and the works. Stressed out about people riding with dirty shoes, drinks, etc., and when I asked myself why, the usual self-justification was "ah it's for the resale value." Hearing relatives get charged various fees at lease returns just fed that attitude, even though I owned the car outright. One day it was time to replace the car, so I brought it to the dealer as tradein. They scanned the VIN, looked in their computer, and just quoted me a price without ever looking at the car, either cosmetics or mechanicals. That was the day I decided that I own the cars, not the other way around, and this attitude slowly expanded to real estate too ;). So now there is a clover field in our front yard and I ripped out the irrigation too. When we eventually sell this home in 2060 the buyers can take it or leave it

> ~ $650k USD

So is this what it takes to get nice physical buttons these days?!?

The outside looks like one of the Mustangs from the 90s with the round brake lights. Meh

> I think we've seen this play out before with other tech companies where discounting early use ends up entrenching demand and allowing the company to build larger and more efficient infrastructure.

We've also seen failures who were convinced "they would make it up in volume." I guess the bet is that infra will get that much more efficient, but it's not clear how much slack there is.

I thought Gnutella was a bit more like Freenet than Napster, iirc only the bootstrap was centralized.

Lol. It's like Linus but crunchier

Tbh that is a pretty vague statement. Could be 0.01% more and it would still be technically correct. Could be doubling the number of non-helpful ads in the meantime

And let's not forget the OG Progress Quest! [1]

[1] https://progressquest.com/play/

A research professor typically graduates dozens of PhD students. Perhaps there was a post-war bootstrapping period where every one of those students got a tenured position somewhere, and in turn also trained dozens of PhD students; but it's pretty obvious it's not realistic to expect this to continue indefinitely. We're way past saturation right now. Certainly very few are going to get their own tenured positions, and as for the rest, it depends on the winds of funding availability in industry.

That's just it - move in just the right spot where reflections combine in the right way, and it might be enough to get a ping. So the tracking would still be there just less reliable, with an unknown level of degradation. In the end you still wouldn't have any guarantees.

You would be surprised how leaky RF can be and how hard to completely suppress. There is a reason things like anechoic chambers and test labs are very expensive.

Think on the bright side, at least you didn't spend 10000 BTC to buy pizza... speaking of which, Bitcoin Pizza Day coming up in just over a week!

https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-glossary/what-is-bitco...

Heh when I came to this country I was overjoyed to see that they had a "Big & Tall" store. Until I realized they actually meant the conjunction there...

Thpoilerth!

I was wondering how good their noise cancelation would be for night-time sleeping, how effective would you say it is?

> Me not wearing a seatbelt means I risk getting splattered. Not you, or anyone else.

Except who pays for your million-dollar reconstructive surgery and rehab? I don't suppose you will cover that out of pocket to avoid burdening your fellow insurance payers with your reckless behavior?

Yeah I grew up with it too. Also the smell of cigarettes and coffee typical of so many communist government offices brings back pleasant memories.

> understanding it from writing it

On the surface it sounds weird - why would this be?

Possibly because building a system is not a one-shot step, but a process of many iterations, each of which involves experiments in production, and gaining more learnings. So at the end of the process, you don't just have N lines of working code, but also N lessons learned along the way. So presumably with the AI process we miss out on half the value.

Now the going thesis is that this extra value is unnecessary if we take the plunge and don't look back. My gut says the answer is somewhere halfway, I guess we'll see.

Violin/other strings tuners tend to have this mode for orchestra uses with many people next to you also making sounds.

> have to understand everything, because if you don't do it in the "Rust way", it often won't compile

I confess I haven't dug into it much yet, but this reminds me of how Haskell was. By the time you got a program to compile your project was more or less done.

Now that you mention it, there were also several iterations of the original Glagolitic, the angular being my favorite :-)

Would you say Rust is more complicated than C++, or just harder to write? I think that complication a la C++ where there are too many features for the language's own good is a different problem than being a clean language but with higher order features that require a bit more, I don't know, focus?

It's been pretty great for ramping up into codebases too. "Give me a summary of project in current checkout in markdown form."

Some of this was a top-down overhaul of the writing system in the 19th century. Before that it was an awful mess and people just "vibe-wrote" the weird Slavic sounds using latin how they saw fit; try reading some old writings from that era. Or read some modern Polish or Czech text :-D

The unique quirk with South Slavic languages is the linguistic work e.g. associated with Vuk Karadžić [1] which resulted in a cleaned up purely phonetic alphabet. This was done across the region and ended up getting plumbed through both alphabets, so e.g. the Croatians/Slovenes write in latin but with a handful of special characters for the unique sounds like "š" or the double-letter characters "dž" "lj", which also map 1-1 to stuff on the Serbian Cyrillic side.

It's the kind of legacy cleanup you love to see :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87

> 2. No east-west dithering - PL knew right away to which economic and cultural sphere wanted to belong

I wonder how much the Catholic vs. Orthodox background affected things there

The one thing that brings me back there is their croissants. There are none other like it, and their product is a 12ct pack for a very reasonable price.

> I'm from a non-English-speaking country.

Same, our solution was to pirate Softice, then step through the startup to find the checks and replace them with nops or point at the desired location. Sierra games were not that amenable to this though because of the interpreter.

Systemically, the problem is that there needs to be a last person, and yet people leaving expect market value for their homes which normally happens by selling to the next person. The last person can currently only get the money if a disaster strikes and insurance pays out. To do it ahead of schedule, insurance would have to pay out sooner, which means there would have to be some kind of government intervention to make it happen.