In my case I don't care for the green/blue bubble divide, EXCEPT that I have a limited SMS plan and every time someone messages me it potentially costs me $0.10. That is not that significant until someone sends a series of short messages that could have been bundled into one, and I can't help but think "this person just cost me the price of a coffee".
It's not even Apple's fault, but rather AT&T's confusing and expensive billing options. I could also upgrade to an unlimited messaging plan, but 90% of the billing cycles I'd be overpaying.
I've used it for a few things and once you go beyond the basic examples, it's the wild west. But if you manage to make it work, some things like pricing tables where a section is sticky to the top until the next one pushes it upward, it's really neat.
I'm an almost-exclusive cyclist, and don't own an e-bike, but e-bikes are an absolutely great product. They lower the entry barrier to people who are not that fit, need to carry kids/stuff, or just don't feel like turning every trip into a workout. Plus the more cyclists on the road, the safer it is for everyone else.
YMMV but kids have their hangups and it's often not possible to negotiate rationally. They also regress (this past year has been terrible, with no school for extended periods, staying at grandma's every couple of weeks so parents can get work done...), and you're back to square one.
Ours are 2 and 5, and I haven't slept in on a Saturday morning since 2015.
Who knows, they've been trying to get into the fab business since I left there about 10 years ago. This opportunity could be what finally kickstarts that idea into reality.
From the Taiwan point of view, allowing any competition is opening the door to trouble in the long run. Political winds come and go, but building semiconductor capacity can't be done overnight, so the longer they can keep their edge, the longer they'll be relatively safe from their neighbor to the north.
I had your same intuition and went on to find out more. They also produced https://epicbootstrap.com which is probably a nice way to get some SEO juice. Good for them.
I'm partial to Granada because I grew up there, but it's an awesome place. About 20% of the population is college students, so that tells you about the city life. It's close to the tallest mountain range in Southern Europe, 45m from the beach, food is great and cheap, and it's small enough that you can walk just about anywhere you want, or take transit.
I want to learn how this ends. Did Alejandro reply? Did the buxus survive? My money is in a fungal infestation, and if so, perhaps some copper would help?
The problem, in my experience (grew up spending significant time in a 3 story country house made of stone with only one fireplace for heating), is that it gets warm close to the fire and whatever is touching the chimney, but the rest of the house gets colder because of the cold air drawn in by the fire. So very likely a net gain, but depending on where you sleep, it could get interesting at night.
$400/month is not a trivial sum of money for a mom-and-pop shop. Plus if this becomes the norm, there will be other predatory sites jumping at the bite.
I know someone who worked for McKinsey for a few years, and some of the projects he described were straight up slimy. The one I recall right now was helping a big payday lender (read: large scale loan shark) figure out how to get their money back from people who were behind on their payments. The problem was that they can only attempt to withdraw so many times from someone's bank before they're banned, so the agreed solution was to estimate the best time of the month when the client had received their paycheck, but before they had used it to pay rent and other expenses.
This person is no longer working there, and I'm not surprised.
Reads like snake oil to me. I'd love to learn how this devices reshapes your eye lens when not worn. There are methods out there that people swear by, but I haven't seen a drop of evidence. I'd jump at the opportunity if it worked.
The use case I had in mind when I thought about escrow services not long ago is website trading. I assume the big players have something in place for the domain name part, but there's much more to it when you're transferring an entire service (accounts, documentation, etc). If you're going to pay $5k for a website, spending a $100 fee to make sure everything goes smoothly is probably reasonable.
This. I keep telling my wife how much I hate recipe websites. There has to be a better way! And yet, you're probably right that this is the reason. It's insane how much they have favored this anti-pattern.
Docker support was the main reason to upgrade in my case. IIRC, WSL was missing some key functionality that made Docker unusable for my purposes. Of course I don't remember the details; all I know is I had no real choice.
Same reason why I set up my blog with Hugo + CloudFront. That, and to learn something new. It's neat to run your build-and-push command, and see everything deployed in a moment. Blazing fast, and you only pay for the DNS.
Honestly I'm surprised no other city in the bay area has taken the baton and aimed to overtake SF in terms of relevance by becoming the densest, most thriving city in the region. Oakland is at least trying to cope with demand in some neighborhoods. I'm rooting for that.
I don't get the downvotes. This is a perfectly logical position. Looking back, the fall of the Berlin wall may seem predictable, but who would have forecast it in 1988?
Both Europe and China are of comparable size to the US, and they enjoy high speed train since decades ago. It won't replace a NYC-LA trip anytime now, but the coastal corridors and various regional hubs (Texas triangle, lake Michigan, etc) are perfectly sized.
Personally, I care because it diverts attention and thrust from developing proven alternatives to air travel, such as HSR. When something that big hinges on a narrow swing in public opinion, and someone starts dangling a pie in the sky idea, the result can be abandonment of the main idea, at the service of an unlikely moonshot by a big ego.
Zendesk has a horrible UI for that reason. You open the dropdown menu to choose the operation to be applied, try click "pending" and inadvertently end up pressing "solved" when the UI changes just in time. Infuriating. I've been trained to patiently wait until the flickering ends, which is such a shame in 2020.
This is wonderful news. I can't wait for California to do something it. Instead of subsidizing wealthy suburban dwellers with discounts on their expensive new cars which still generate harmful pollution [1], we could subsidize multiple times as many e-bikes for lower income folks who could have a bigger impact on our roads and air quality.
"""In the mid 90s I had bad hand pain, so bad that most of the day I could only type with one finger. The FSF hired typists for me part of the day, and part of the day I tolerated the pain. After a few years I found out that this was due to the hard keys of my keyboard. I switched to a keyboard with lighter key pressure and the problem mostly went away.
My problem was not carpal tunnel syndrome: I avoid that by keeping my wrists pretty straight as I type. There are several kinds of hand injuries that can be caused by repetitive stress; don't assume you have the one you heard of."""