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There is a bit of a difference between needing Cloudflare and selling your show to Spotify, though. The Overton Window is a lot wider for Cloudflare.

People don’t get friendlier up the food chain. It’s highly likely the line manager is reacting to pressure coming from above themselves.

The latter, and about as worthwhile.

Wi-Fi wouldn’t seem to help though… the machine would need to have the relevant sensors locally.

The claim isn't that the phone is competitive on a feature or spec level to new phones, but that those happy with the old feature set can continue to use them.

Of course the battery is a consumable part and you can't expect that to continue functioning well indefinitely.

He's got elite financial engineers at his disposal, it's highly doubtful his fortune has declined in lockstep with the AMZN share price.

The Jeopardy thing was pretty brilliant in a sense - wrangling an episode of free advertising from one of the most popular game shows. A memorable episode at that!

Side note, the term “gas fee” is a nice example of how crypto projects pick needlessly obtuse vocabulary. It’s a transaction fee. There’s no “gas” involved. Why call it that?

Perhaps I’m jaded but my feeling is that using plain terms would reveal the emptiness of the space. A non technical person can see that a $200 “transaction fee” is a rip off.

The point of the advice is to come up with a reasonable division of responsibilities that work for your partnership, rather than accepting the default agreement handed to you by the state without even understanding what it is.

It's truly amazing that a product with the reach of Lichess can be run so cheaply. Comments here criticizing the hosting costs extremely myopic - dev time isn't free, and doing a rewrite to chase down hosting savings isn't necessarily a good call.

I just signed up for a monthly donation. I complain about the ad supported internet all the time, but had never donated to LiChess. This thread is a good reminder of how far dollars to support projects like this can go.

I share your disappointment but am happy to see the top upvoted reply calling it out.

That dramatically increase the logistics problem, it’s not as though the government has a reliable address for where each person would want a test shipped.

People who are worried about omicron and can afford $15 per test already have a supply.

People who aren’t worried about omicron will throw them away.

It's a trade, the consumer exchanges certainty about costs for a higher fixed rate than they'd get otherwise.

If the consumer doesn't like that they can get a lower cost variable rate mortgage just as easily.

It’s tiresome to see the DRM argument portrayed over and over again as a moral slam dunk.

Anything consequential enough to make an impact is a trade off, with winners and losers. If all the employees listened and there was a universal collapse of DRM, I really highly doubt people who make content would be better off. Maybe some of these devs feel good about helping make sure people who make movies get paid. Maybe they feel like they are part of the moviemaking process (which they are!).

It’s not as though it’s difficult for people who want to make their content free to do so. Why should someone who wishes to make content under a DRM model not be free to do so? It’s entertainment, you are not forced to consume it.

I’m on my 3rd team at a bigco at the moment. Putting a lot of emphasis on enabling team transfers is the thing that has kept me there.

There’s some politics to it, ie one org is losing a lot of people to another, so we aren’t supposed to actively recruit, but if they ask and are going to leave otherwise /shrug

The hospital strain is caused by staffing shortages, not an overwhelming number of patients.

Those staffing shortages are in turn caused by strict quarantines for people who are asymptomatic but test positive.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-s...

I rewatched the original recently and that dialogue is not exactly a strong point either. Really devoid of subtly or even the barest hint of humor. A pretty unbelievable amount of exposition, telling rather than showing.

I think I looked past it when it came out because I was a kid, and the world building was interesting to me.

> staffing levels are impacted because the adults who have it.

Specifically, staffing levels are impacted by the policy of people who have tested positive but are not sick.

>>> "The crisis from the Omicron peak is not generated by serious COVID illness in regions with highly vaxxed populations," Noble wrote in an email to SFGATE. "The crisis we are suffering in the Bay Area is largely driven by disruptive COVID policies that encourage asymptomatic testing and subsequent quarantines.

Via professor of emergency medicine at UCSF https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-s...

This kind of discussion is more relevant to inheriting projects than constructing them from scratch.

To take an example I’ve inherited several Ruby on Rails apps from novices at big cos. The language takes the perspective that everything should be easy, so apps get rickety fast without diligent programmers. Which is a good goal but not something you will always have control over.

I did. Here's the line that stuck out to me:

> One student tested positive IN THE AUDITORIUM, and a few students started screaming and ran away from him.

I suggest fixing the ludicrously miscalibrated risk assessment of omicron as a better route. How many of these legions of absent teachers even have symptoms?

> I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable.

Because "remote learning" is a joke.

I volunteered a bit in a virtual high school classroom. The teacher running it is making a frankly heroic effort to keep her students in the school system at all.

But no one was engaged, cameras were off, students regularly don't show up at all or drop off in the middle of class.

These are comparatively adults compared to younger grades.

I would add a 3rd flawed notion: that COVID is COVID, all variants are to be avoided at all costs.

At this point we've got well established indications of omicron being an unserious infection (sparing the lungs entirely, being no more than a bad cold for the vast majority of those who contract it). Not 1000% confirmed, of course ongoing study is warranted, but it would be shocking if omicron turns out to be a serious driver of illness and death.

But policy makers and media commentators are allergic to optimism on what this implies long term, so we are stuck in a state of alarm.

>>> On Mastodon, 1 million active users but only 2 thousand (0.2%) instances On Tor, 2.5 millions users but only 6 thousand (0.24%) relay servers

The problem with this counterexample is that these are fringe platforms. Thriving in their own right, resilient, but a rounding error in chat and web traffic, respectively.

In other words, those who run their own servers are the fringe of a fringe.

The content creator comparison doesn’t make sense, with centralized hosting one content creator can supply an infinite amount of consumers. Not so with hosting.

>>> It’s surprising how many more resources you have than you might think, especially when you have a good purpose and you bother to actually call them in.

Ie call up a friend who’s working like a sucker. Or has some extra trust fund bucks.

I disagree that no one is leaving, however the more pertinent question is about who is not joining.

They are getting their lunch eaten amongst young people by TikTok.

"I'm in an abusive relationship, what should I do?"

This type of question defies easy answers on a forum. Anyone with an ounce of self respect and marketability would find a new job in this situation.

The real pertinent part of the question is in the "other obligations" that are keeping the poster from leaving. What are they? Are they really preventing the poster from switching jobs? Is the poster underestimating the difficulty in finding something else?

To take an example - one of the most popular songs of my childhood glamorized smoking weed (literally had the lyrics “smoke weed everyday”!).

Stripping away all the justified opposition to prohibition, it’s really not good for most people to smoke weed everyday. Pointing out any potential harms became deeply uncool. It’s not difficult to imagine people probably smoke weed regularly as a result.

Slight tangent re: fitness. Over Christmas my dad and some similarly aged people (70’s) were reminiscing about their childhood, and pointed to the lack of Doritos as memorable. Junk food was neither the product of decades of addictiveness-enhancing R&D not cheap.

A poor person today by contrast has junk food as the cheapest option.

If a theory has been labeled as raving mad racism, only those that are comfortable with the cost of that being labelled thus will speak up.

I don’t see where the media deserves a pass.

Yeah. I was out on the article after the heaven or hellsite line.

To build a reasonable case, defenders of social media must at least acknowledge the toil and difficulty of making your feed anything but a rage inducing time sink, as well as the fact that the sites themselves are not your allies in doing so.