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That phase was amazing, lots of crazy animal faces in iridescent paisley :)

It doesn't read deranged at all to me.

To sell something to the masses you fundamentally need a product to sell. Agreed.

And you fundamentally need a way to find the customers for that product that need it at the time.

And you fundamentally need a way to interact with those customers that can persuade them to use your product.

Lots of aspects are vitally important to the overall success.

I still remember the Klein bottle I ordered from you for my father. It's still on his bookshelf :) thank you!

I remember this being a thing in some Tony Robbins book!

Maybe you can help me out, I listened to him talk about this and I couldn't make head-nor-tail of what he was trying to say. It feels like he's so tied up in concepts and metaphors and similes and allegories it's impossible to tell specifically what he is asserting to be true. If you could explain to me like I was five I'd be grateful. Not looking for an argument.

> So, somewhere on that website, there’s a free version that can be downloaded onto a desktop and run without signing up for their service?

If you go to https://tailscale.com/pricing?plan=personal

The first plan on the left called 'Personal' is free.

It uses a central orchestrator which is what requires you to sign up. If you prefer to self host your orchestrator you can look into Headscale, an alternative that seeks to be compatible with the clients.

> So, basically you leave a computer running at home, and this thing lets you pretend to be running your internet stuff through it while you’re on the road?

That's one thing you can do with it, yes. You can also run custom DNS entries across it, ACLs, it is very flexible.

I don't think you need to pay $6 a month to try it out.

Install it on all the machines you want. When you are running it on the machine, it is networked to the other machines that are running it. Now make an 'exit node' on one of those machines by selecting it in the UI, and all your gear can access the internet via that exit node. Your phone can run it. Your apple tv can run it. You can have multiple exit nodes. So you can have a worldwide network and not once did you have to open ports in firewalls etc.

A little while ago Bloomberg published a list of his books. I created two lists on Goodreads containing these books, using Bloomberg as a source.

2007 -> 2017:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/237057.Epstein_s_Library...

2018 -> 2019:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/237060.Epstein_s_Library...

You can only add 100 books in a Goodreads list so I had to create two. In the lists I linked back to the original Bloomberg article.

Signed up, thanks!

You can use nextjs to statically generate a whole site, or incrementally regenerate it for slowly changing parts.

The tinniness is something your brain adjusts to and prices in, and if your hearing aid is properly set up, it is very likely that to start with it will sound tinny if your hearing is deficient with high frequencies. It is boosting those frequencies to make up for your lack in hearing. You probably need a good 2-6 months to adjust.

Mine were exactly like this to start with and over time the effect goes away such that you don't notice. I'd recommend if you do actually have hearing problems, sticking with it for quality of life improvements.

I get this when using my Bose QC bluetooth headphones near my keyboard. Sometimes it doesn't happen much, sometimes it happens every half hour. It doesn't happen when I don't use the BT headphones. I wonder if this issue is something to do with interference or radio power or faulty bluetooth stacks.

Unfortunately I couldn't read past the first two paragraphs as it was a member only story.

Cool new site! I got 'invalid invite' on the discord link from the front page, I only mention as I'd like to join it.

Thanks that is useful

Have enjoyed replacing makefiles with https://taskfile.dev/ which looks like it could be more powerful due to being able to detect changes etc. But glad Just has been good.

I'd be interested in anybody who has tried https://devenv.sh/ and https://www.jetify.com/devbox and chosen one over the other. Tried devbox which has been good, but not devenv.

Are you used to wearing aids? Like have you worn them for several years? I remember when I first wore hearing aids it sounded like really tinny bluetooth speakers hovering behind my head. It was distracting and a bit depressing to think this was what I was going to have to listen to.

Over a few months my brain priced it in, and now I don't get that at all. Putting them in just means I hear better. It is like my brain has noticed the new sounds and interprets them before I hear them. The audiologist I spoke to said this happens to everybody, however the longer you've had untreated hearing loss and the older you are, the longer it will take your brain to adapt.

The main issue I had with my Remarkable 1 was that I couldn't quickly scroll through pages of e-books. If I was looking for something specific in the pages, an ipad allows me to swipe across rapidly. Remarkable was this tedious repeated button press, waiting each time for the screen to refresh. Had to go back to ipad although I loved the device.

I had a remarkable 1 that I used primarily to read epub/pdf and my enduring memory was how slow it was to wsitch pages. Realise this is mostly a hardware limitation of the screen, but I found it frustrating. With some sadness I went to an iPad pro 12.9 which was very fast to switch pages, and I don't have that same sense of frustration.

Nice! Yes that final O was a bit idiosyncratic, I forget the reasoning for it. I listed my BBS in their directory.

My memory (a little misty) was that they started as ByteBuyer and then renamed to ComputorEdge. At least in 92 they were called ComputorEdge.

I did have a stash of them somewhere but haven’t seen them for a long time.

Nice to reminisce!

Shout out to ComputorEdge magazine :)

This seems to be the link to this story itself?

Sounds like IOS

By the sound of it, you'll still dislike it. It uses the bullet outlining, so definitely won't be good for longform journalism. Organising notes and research around that journalism yes, but not for the output.

Guess differences in approach make the world richer :)

Extremely exciting, in that there was a lot of demand for tech. However the hype was much like the hype around crypto or now AI. A lot of grifters and people who had no business being in the industry. However because the barrier to entry was a bit higher, there wasn't such widespread madness that is observable with the crypto and AI hypetrains. It was definitely a period where if you had an idea, there were a lot fewer people in that space, and both tech and business were less developed in the industry. So there was a lot more space to shine, but you'd have to do a lot more legwork.

I use the heuristic that if there are loads of billboards everywhere advertising stuff that should be incomprehensible to the layman, then things have got too frothy.

Big plug for logseq here. After trying Evernote, Apple Notes, Roam Research, Obsidian, and Logseq, I'm finally happy.

Obsidian has got strangely popular... but for me Logseq wins because of the block-based way of working (which Roam also has) is much more flexible. Instead of just making monolithic notes, you can measure data points, reproduce blocks, query data, etc. You are crafting from much more flexible clay.

I can interlink all around my knowledge base. I can, in my daily journey, add points under tags or headings, that I can then query in reverse. I can make pages from blocks on other pages. I can keep track of meeting types, specific meetings, individuals at them, topics, etc. It is flexible enough to be very powerful but also doesn't need me to make upfront decisions. I can just build things out day by day.

> Then why do that after M&A?

Presumably if you trust the organisation enough to pay for the whole thing, you would have a measure of trust in their ability to hire?

Would be interesting to see how it can use a larger screen. Definitely the phone is powerful enough for most tasks.

When I've been a hiring manager I have both used it and not used it.

It depends on what sources you have for your candidates; if you are doing your own outreach then it is invaluable and you'd be hobbled without it.

However doing your own outreach won't scale (i.e. if you need to hire a lot) and may not be a good match if you have other time-consuming aspects to your role.