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How much do you spend?

Was going to post something of the same type as you =)

Also made a wooden tool to check bicycle wheel dish that is used when lacing my own wheels by hand.

I don't have photos of mine right now, but it is inspired on this template:

https://www.wheelpro.co.uk/support/dishing-tool.php

You can play a bunch of games from this era on PC using this amazing archive/emulator bundle:

https://bluemaxima.org/kahvibreak/

Juvenile observation of the day: It's funny that this sits in the HN front page just above an article titled "Holes in the WiFi" :p

Follow me on a naive exercise here: Zoom out from books only let's look at some media that are competing for people's attention in 2021.

(not exhaustive:)

- Video-games (including mobile)

- Social Media (fb, tiktok instagram etc)

- Video streaming services (youtube, netflix, etc)

- Music (single purchase and streaming)

- TV (yup still going)

- News (TV, and online mostly)

- books (print and ebooks)

Let's state that most of these industries have seen the amount of content published increase exponentially in the last 15 years.

Assuming that premise to be true is it really that much of a surprise that the average income of each content author is decreasing?

The only way that would be surprising is if the number of available attention hours was increasing at an even faster rate (which i guess would not be impossible if you could measure the masses of digital consumers who entered the "attention market" in that same time period).

My guess is that the scales tip a lot to the supply side though. We simply have too much stuff being produced now and not enough people to consume it.

Then there is the fact that in the open publishing models we have now the market does get flooded with a lot of below par quality stuff.

The way we deal with it now is typically by some sort of popularity based algorithm that aggregates attention on a few winners and produce a huge long tail of "looser" content.

I don't know if i have the right "picture" here but it is certainly my gut feeling that there is too much stuff out there for it to retain the same value.

Is that snow in the background? Probably a temperature thing? (lack of enough testing in low temperatures?) Can be that the glass is fine but that the frame surrounding the glass is contracting too much or twisting in the "wrong" direction when cooled. Causing the glass to shatter.

Don't worry I'm still on Windows 7 and it is also a crashy mess for me.

I'm such a sucker, I actually googled it before I got the joke lol

Don't worry I read "Spotify" too :P It was only your comment that made me realize it was Shopify.

Maybe this should become a case study in startup naming? (probably already is! too lazy to look it up right now)

Portugal saw a bit of Amiga penetration (at least anecdotally judging from my social group). But yes no where near the Spectrum.

I think most of the comments so far are focusing on the lack of durability of some items in the catalog, but are failing to see that overall there is in fact a lot of 2nd hand buying and selling going on with items generally in good condition.

Over the last 15years I have bought (and sold on) a lot of 2nd hand IKEA furniture. (In fact looking at my house now, I can only see 2 or 3 items that were bought new and the rest are 2nd hand and in excellent condition. There is a very very active market.

My daughter's toddler size bed was bought 2nd hand and moved on to the next parent still in remarkably good condition after she wouldn't fit in the bed anymore.

I think this is more of a classic "kill the 2nd hand marked" move.

"pipe" means blowjob in french. Maybe the filter dictionary is multilingual?

Yes, most things are free in practice. Just so happens that something critical for day to day general health and well-being (dental health) is not.

It's not by accident that Portugal has oral health on par with the poorest Eastern European countries.

>"...healthcare is universally free in Portugal..."

In principle only.

In practice: how much have you spent on dentist bills in the past year?

I guess the gist of it is more that with digital assets you don't really need to wait at the right place. You keep laying "traps" in several places as you "wait". Then just keep on the lookout and when one of the "traps" is triggered go and attack it again taking in mind the current context.

When I click [Go] button in link [1] it hangs for 3 seconds and then deletes all the blocks and replaces them with just a block with the string "test" inside.

But the guy is a UI/UX consultant!

Woah, have you tried the night mode on op blog? I have never seen anything like that before.

So, this is for new vehicles only. What will stop people just hanging on to their existing ICE cars for longer years?

>“We’re going after the most complicated systems that have ever been built, and checked all the boxes with this digital technology. In fact, [we’ve] not just checked the boxes, [we’ve] demonstrated something that’s truly magical.”

Words above are from Will Roper - Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Even the Air Force is copying "Apple" speak these days....

Author seems to be surprised in finding out there is no such thing as a free lunch.

That is an exaggeration. Don't forget that most "3rd world" countries also have their own pornographically wealthy elites blocking out the top 1%. The differences are in the distribution of the middle/bottom tiers. A remote job gets you at most into what should be a confortable middle class position.

Like you said, get your own domain. But crucially get a good unique pseudonym before you start. Don't get your own name, unless it is really unique. Your pseudonym should meet 2 criteria:

1) There shouldn't already be any obvious search engine results associated with it

2) It should be unique and easy enough for the common person to recall (aim at least to be recalled when you see the name on a list of multiple names but ultimately to be recalled from fuzzy memory directly or by means of searching for a key word)

Specifically a "cookie cutter" home for the same geography.

There is a lot of invaluable and invisible knowledge baked into decades or centuries of building tradition of each specific region.

I'm about to embark on a home building project myself. My wife keeps wanting a wood built house. In a country where there are hardly any... ...I just won't do it. no way.

In Portugal there is an interesting law regarding this: The instructor/examiner is always liable for an accident during driving lessons/exams, except if the accident resulted from an action where the learner disobeyed a direct order by the instructor. In that case the learner takes responsibility.

That the behavior you describe is learned and stimulated by treats seems to be highly indicative it is a conditioned reflex and not a cognitive ability.

Would genuinely love for someone to point out a reputable scientific paper that goes into this and actually draws some conclusive evidence.

In those studies I don't see any evidence and clear conclusions that the either the chimps or bees could count.

I see a lot of meandering about methodologies in the chimp paper and if you see the Concusions paragraph you can see how weak it is:

>"CONCLUSIONS: Studies of numerical competence in the chimpanzee continue to provide new insights into the range and capacity for quantitatively based information processing in this species. In general, the rebirth of studies of animal counting currently suggests that this area remains a rich and fruitful source of contributions to our understanding of animal cognition and behavior. And for a truly comparative perspective, it will be important for researchers to challenge their creativity, by continuing to devise new methods for tapping capacities toward counting in a variety of species, including nonhuman primates, rats, birds, and additional new species for whom no data currently exists"

The bee paper is more interesting but it also doesn't reach the conclusion that bees can count. At least it offers a context for the framework used and the conclusions reached.

What they did is simulate a neural network that has the bees visual data as input and prove that a simple "inexpensive" computation can in theory scan quantity of perceived objects.

Well isn't that just the same as proving that a neural network algorithm can simulate an computer accumulator register?

> "Within this framework we have shown that counting and numerical ordering are computationally inexpensive, provided the animal employs an active, sequential scanning of pattern elements."

Well, I was inclined to agree, but: when we say "count" and "number" we usually mean something very precise and accurate. Such as: "how many oranges are there on the table?". As opposed to when we we ask stuff like: "how many oranges do you think there are on that orange tree?" "You have lived by that tree your entire life, do you feel like it is carrying more oranges than in past years?"

My point is that these 2 activities are clearly different, and that non-humans clearly engage in the last one but I'm not so sure I have ever seen clear evidence they engage in the first one.

Bridge (the cards game) has seen a lot of research over the past decades without the bots ever becoming "world class good".

Of course you could argue that it is a difficult game for humans to understand as well =) So it might not fit exactly what you prompted for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bridge

How do you know the dog is counting the treats Vs "hmm that feels like less good stuff than I'm used to getting".