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If they can get that working I’d be ecstatic!
Exactly this. I have 2 under six, and outside the odd night were my wife bathes both kids, from 6am to 9pm I’m either working or hanging out with my kids. Maybe 2-3 times a month I’ll get 4 hours to myself to go watch a baseball/hockey game.
At the end of the day though, I look back and I’m grateful. I tell myself “where did my hobbies go” but deep down I know I probably would have spent that time watching a 3 hour super smash brothers documentary or re-reading LOTR or something stupid like that.
Kids have made me more focused. Their unconditional needs force me to weed out the time wasting, unimportant things in my life. I honestly sometimes wonder how it ever felt like I was busy before.
IMO the hard-headed refusal to make a touch keyboard even optionally available also contributed to their demise.
It’s kinda funny that, on a CSS focused site, the position of the “latest” article label on the homepage is set above that of the site logo and navigation bar.
It’s nice to know even CSS experts make mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
1: https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of...
A little like Superhuman in that it's a an email client that uses Gmail as its backend and it has a plethora of keyboard shortcuts.
Pretty blown away by how quickly the setup completed.
A common refrain is that Carnegie Hall only cost $1M ($29,581,868.13 when adjusted for inflation) to build, so why do we still credit its founder with their name? Shouldn't we rename it in honor of someone who's contributed more to the Hall?
What this doesn't take into account is what it would cost to _build_ a new Carnegie Hall today. Labor is far more expensive (highest $/hr ever in 2019 if I'm not mistaken [1]) today and so are building materials [2].
So it's true he'd see compounding returns from investing, but to do what they did back then would cost significantly more today. IE, their dollars took them further back then.
Also, worth noting Rockefeller donated 6% of his salary to charity every pay check every single year of his life, not just when he could "afford" it [3]. So if you take into account the _missed_ compound returns of those charitable contributions, you can start to get a sense for just otherworldly their charitable efforts were.
Not trying to say these guys were angels. And yet, as rich as they were, I think too often that overshadows the gargantuan contributions to charity they made.
[1](https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/02/are-wages-increasing...) [2](https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-price-in...) [3](https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-o...)
The real bummer is for newcomers. It's going to make getting started much more of a headache since they first need to learn how to setup a local environment.
Thing is I've seen co-workers with these, and buy call accounts they love them, but I've never really been blown away by them.
The 144hz refresh rate is nice, but wasted on someone who just writes code all day.
Great that there's a free model, but would love to see a `hobbyist` tier as well. 50 QPS won't cut for a lot of folks.
edit: forgot a word
edit: fwiw the author has web archive links at the bottom of all their posts. Since the page isn't loading, I couldn't see it.
Also looks like it changes the browser history on every interaction, ie any drag and drop, which seems, to me, to indicate some behind the scenes UUID tracking.
90% of of the time, if my first search didn't produce a useful result on DDG, I end up !stackoverflow or !stackexchange.
The other ~10% of the time I do use !g, it's almost always if I'm looking for something very specific, e.g. that one article on markov-chains from HN years ago.
Frankly I don't understand how someone can go back to googling after using the DDG interface for so long. There are so may ads on Google now it takes forever to get to the relevant results.
Do you really feel like banking and medical records are being kept secure? If so I envy your confidence.
Compare that to the way our messages are being encrypted these days (iMessage comes to mind) and i think we’d find the regulation to be lacking.
The incentive provided by regulations (I.e. jail time or fines) doesn’t compare to incentives derived from competition, or (heaven forbid) profit.
It’s, for better or for worse, human nature.
ATMs are secure because banks would lose money if they weren’t. Not because of regulation.
Regulation leads to a bare minimum of safety, not a best-in-class security.
One thing banana-republics all have in common is nationalized voting commissions. Doesn’t turn out as well as the author here suggests.
They built up the 'Voldemort' file but then barely referred back to it.
Would have preferred they wait to publish when the had the report in hand or could at least quote directly from it.
edit: apparently there's an affiliate link. Didn't see it on first read. Still a good keyboard imo though...
I'ver never wanted anything so badly! Link to Alibaba?
Content discovery for the everyday internet user consists of either Facebook, Google, or Twitter. And none of them are opaque about their SERPS / timelines.