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Manufacturers are very good at these calculations.

One interesting example is that for the initial IFE systems that were deployed, the heat generated by the displays was significant enough that the largest cost to the installation was the required upgrade to the cabin air conditioning systems.

1.9% fee per order booked.

I still can't figure out how Plaid got away with doing the same thing, but every other startup (rightly) gets raked over the coals.

I think there is something about the boomer generation. This "I'm done" approach to grand parenting seems very widespread. A lot of friends have had the same realization that you describe.

I've resolved to be the opposite kind of grandparent. I really don't have a lot more I want to do later in life than spend time with the grandchildren I will hopefully have. I like my time alone and plan to travel extensively, but picking kids up from school, spending weekends with them 1-on-1, getting lost and doing interesting things are the magic of a childhood.

As a working parent we are burdened with so much other stuff it's hard to truly enjoy the simplicity of being around a child. I plan to shrug off all my other responsibilities and just enjoy it for what it is.

I remember how Fireworks *felt* to use. Just seeing that name written again gave me warm fuzzy feelings. Fireworks came about at a time when web design was almost entirely something you did in HTML. The workflow to go from bitmap to web was really bad, so most of us just did things natively.

Fireworks was the first tool that allowed you to draw, but maintain the constraints (and portability) of HTML and CSS as it came in to prominence.

The closest thing I have had to that feeling again was when a friend of mine did some design for me and shared it in Figma. What I thought were bitmaps were vectors!! I had so much fun bringing that in to my site (which I ended up doing in Webflow, because apparently I haven't kept up with the times enough to hand code reasonably quickly).

I've used the latest and greatest Adobe products, they definitively do not have this feeling. There is really no delight to be found. I know they are incredibly powerful and near and dear to many people, but for the young and restless they are boring.

Does anyone else have the feeling that Plaid is some house of cards that is all going to come crashing down sooner or later?

I find it interesting that you have a completely different URL/Brand for a same/similar product with different positioning. https://teracrawler.io/

How has that experiment been working out?

I think that they don't show store inventory purposely. They still want you going in to the store and doing your Full Big Shop™

The Costco Grocery component of their website is actually pretty impressive. Quick shipping times and decent prices.

Ordering non-grocery from the website still has a long lead time before the item actually ships.

There is, every so often, that person who shows up with RRoO to a small board meeting. Nonprofits, scaling cos, etc. There always ends up being someone. It can be kinda fun to try to mess with them when they miss something.

Retrospectively, this is very similar to how most SaaS behaved when per user per month billing was first introduced. There were almost never any actual limits on the number of users you could add to the software, but you purchased a license for a certain number. Occasionally your account would be audited and you would be billed of the overage. It was always a significant penalty. The same was true for CPU based licenses for things like IIS, SQL Service, Oracle, etc.

Yes! Everything I learned when I was young told me a) you have to be *very serious* about working out if you are going to do it and b) it's mostly about looking good.

Both of those turned out to be huge fallacies. I'm 40 now and not very serious about working out, but I do it reliably (on an irregular schedule) and I don't target specific muscles etc to try to make myself look a certain way. The result is that I am just plain healthier and feel great. That has many second order effects.

That is less about inflation and more about pricing power. An Egg McMuffin is a low-grade foodstuff in one community (probably higher income), but a "treat" or extravagant breakfast in another (probably low income). The Egg McMuffin has far more pricing power in Detroit than it does on Rodeo Drive.

This happens with things like Medium Ground Beef as well. But T-bone steaks can be quite cheap in lower income areas, and massively overpriced in more expensive parts of town.

If I was an exec at either company and hiring was all of a sudden a bit less competitive and/or I had better access to top tier employees at other companies who were now more amenable to being recruited... I would certainly hit the "freeze" button for a few hiring cycles to recalibrate around this new reality. I would not need to look at my business plan or P&L to do that.

In Canada it is Mastercard only. Used to be Amex.

I think the fact that this is so obviously satirical and well executed, but I had to closely read the white paper and fight against the "these crypto things have so much momentum, clearly people understand things I don't" bias that has developed in my brain around these ridiculous projects probably tells us something about what has passed for real in the last 3 years.

I've gone from being unengaged bystander on crypto to feeling pretty strongly that almost everything crypto is going to zero.

I think if it survives, the crypto community is in for a reckoning much like 2000. Bitcoin will be the Yahoo (a brand that survives, but does not create new value, and stagnates) and all the alt-coins are the Pets.com etc of the era. Poof, gone, vanished.

I've found myself looking for a pen in the office before and came away completely disappointed when everyone didn't think it was as funny as I did.

I grew up in rural Canada. I dumpster dove for a broken black and white television and spent over a month back and forth to the Radio Shack until I finally managed to fix it. The antenna was now a coat hangar, but I could tune it just fine.

My reward was... 1 channel of CBC (Canadian Broadcasting). With that 9 year old me could stay up late and watch The Munsters and Kids In The Hall.

I know every episode by heart. I can't do impressions of anyone, but I can do impressions of each character in the show. It's deeply ingrained in my brain. A lot of very young Canadians watched that show sans supervision and it opened out minds to a lot of ideas that otherwise were not accessible.

I highly recommend you check with your local/regional library to see what streaming services they will give you access to for free. My local library in Canada offers a couple of services that have a really interesting catalogue of films from all over the world as well as some recent classics.

This is not the latest and greatest, but much of the content is far more interesting.

The children's content on them is extremely good. If programming for kids is keeping you on Netflix, some of these (Kanopy, Hoopla) could easily eliminate your need for a paid subscription.

I saw this headline and immediately thought they were making a genius move with the bad press Heroku is getting.

natch

Ubiquiti sells a nice piece of hardware that is a WAN reboot plug. Unfortunately there is zero configurability in terms of how it determines if WAN is working or not. I haven't been able to find another purpose made piece of kit.

I wrote a very similar series of articles in 2012. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2502243/the-next-evolu...

The timing feels a LOT better these days.

Identity is the single biggest miss I can think of for Github. Clearly there is some thinking going on about it with SSO, profile README, this, etc.

I think they are missing the point however. Linkedin for Developer is probably interesting on some level, but Github has much more interesting and useful information they could be using. What languages you prefer, where you like to run your workloads, if your code quality is decent, frameworks you are using, etc.

Wildbit has sold the family business work-for-other-reasons-than-monetary-renumeration trope for a couple of decades. They've had some great products like Beanstalk and Deploybot and some total follies like Converyor.

Employees had no ownership, products were often sold or put up for sale, and my understand is that compensation was middle of the road at best. It was 37Signals-lite.

They seem like good people, but if you sell your employees and customers on a moralized construction then you do have a moral obligation. The great irony is that there is no good way for something like this to end unless the owners are ready to hand off their business to new leadership on terms that set it up to remain independent. A power of the capital class is that it eats succession for lunch.

I wonder why there was no employee buyout. I suspect it wasn't the most attractive offer from the perspective of the current owners.

I had dinner with two psychiatrists who are working in this field both with adults as well as one of them who is doing work in paediatric psychiatry. They have both taken LSD, Psilocybin and ketamine as part of their work so they would be able to introduce it to patients properly.

One key component that seems to be missing from a lot of the excitement about these treatments is how important an ongoing therapy or other behavioural support component usually is. A lot of patients find some relief from a ketamine or other therapy but it can open up a host of issues they have not dealt with or it can resurface old behaviours.

One example was a patient who had a long history of abuse which was more or less hidden by their severe depression and suicidal tendencies. They had a series of ketamine treatments by an anesthesiologist and it cracked that past right open. The place they were taking the treatment was not equipped to support that and they did not have immediate access to psychiatric or even good psychological support and it did create a bit of a spiral.

I don't think any of that comes as a surprised to people in the field, but each patient and circumstance is different. The sooner we can bring these treatments in to mainstream health research, the more holistic the approach to patient health can be.

Lots of interesting stuff to learn. I am just bystander-fascinated by it and am not professing any expertise here.

I've used high intensity cardio to manage pretty much any mental health issues I've flirted with over the years. (for me, mostly issues with focus, anxiety).

I am almost 40 now and I do see it seems to be diminishing in terms of effectiveness. I've tried to vary the amount and intensity but that has had limited impact.

I find now I need to manage other factors: alcohol intake, my diet, socialization, sleep, news consumption are all big ones for me.

I think there is a reason people do simplify many aspects of their lives as they get older. The sharp tools of youth aren't quite the magic they used to be.

Apps like Headspace, or just meditation generally, is something I have tried and I can see the benefit. I try to "clear my head" twice a day. Usually that's a 20 minute nap, and I've been trying to find another option and meditation seems like a good one.

I think the biggest issue there would be financing. Most fertilizer terms are COD but you don't realize any cash in farming until you deliver the crop (and for some crops, payment terms aren't great).

I think there could be a situation where individual farmers just can't finance enough fertilizer. The whole business runs on cash flow and it's tough in normal times.

"Over the coming months, Spotify will work with Google’s product and engineering teams to build this new experience"

It's so absolutely bizarre to announce something at this stage. I wonder what is prompting it.

Just here to share that if you haven't tried Apple Music for its lossless and Dolby Atmos sound quality then you really, really, should.

Apple Music does not have a great UI but it is definitely worth the trade off.

Tidal sounds great, but they make you pay extra for lossless and have a smaller catalogue.

I love food. I never want to sit down to eat and have to worry, restrict, or wonder about what I am eating. I am also not exactly great at staying disciplined in the face of a complex plan. I'd much rather a strategy that is easy to understand and remember, and has a clear path to achieving my goal.

I ended up using the clock to manage my intake. I started by having a hard stop at 7pm. I could eat whatever I wanted until then, but then it had to stop. A side effect of this has been an incredible improvement in my sleep. Having slept well often means I am able to manage my cravings better, it seems.

I then started reducing the hours in the morning when I could eat. First I just eliminated breakfast, then I also eliminated the mid morning snack. This took some discipline at first but I did get it.

I eat an early (11:30 usually) and massive lunch. That gives me time to do some digesting and have a productive afternoon. A big lunch also means I don't really crave sugary or other indulgent stuff mid afternoon. Dinner, I eat whatever I want. ANYTHING. I just try to make sure I drink a lot of water.

Pick your vector of optimization. For me it was time. So easy and you can't argue with or wonder about the clock. It's right there in front of you. I lost 25lbs without thinking about it. I could lose more if I wasn't a bit of a pig at lunch and dinner :)

I once flew in to the Bay Area from Europe for several meetings, but the most important one was with a team at Google. We were trying to finalize a deal and they really needed to be on board.

I arrived, checked in and was shown to a meeting room. A few minutes after the meeting was supposed to start the receptionist came scurrying in and connected me to the meeting via that cube looking meeting machine they had in every office. Everyone appeared on the screen from various different offices, some at home, and one person in the same building as me.

I regretted that trip the entire flight home.