midnitewarrior

"escape" sounds like Windows is a prison, it is not.

Anything can be made better for 3x the price.

They didn't invent the smart phone, they made it accessible.

They didn't invent the tablet, they made it popular.

They didn't invent the laptop, they made it a status symbol.

They didn't invent mobile apps, they made them ubiquitous.

They don't invent much, but they improve it through industry-leading design (usually) and market it and willingly lock you into it.

Big swing? VR and AR have been around for a very long time. Apple is good at making things that already exist nicer. They aren't big risks at all, they are generally safe bets. Take something that's out there, put 3 years of design into it and act like you invented it.

Apple's miscalculation here was overestimating the market's price tolerance for a category whose prosumers have already explored for 1/3 Apple's price point.

If this had been 5 years ago at half the price, they'd own the category.

> people who are escaping Microsoft Windows

Could the author get more overly dramatic?

Who paid you to say this???

idk what the previous commenter means by it, but to me, a forest is more than a collection of trees that are planted in a grid, ready for clearcutting in a decade or so. A forest is an entire ecosystem that takes decades to build without the disruption of human intervention. Some of these "managed forests" are little more than tree farms, lacking the wildlife and diversity that comes with natural forests. Monoculture tree farming does not create a diverse ecosystem and the benefits that come from that.

This looks like a good document, but the author made it political by referencing "Hilary" Clinton and her emails and linking to some Trump stuff. I can't take tech stuff seriously that's dropping in political crap. Go away!

Can this read OpenAPI (Swagger) specs and generate calls based on the service description?

I visited Barcelona 15 years ago, they cleaned the streets every morning.

I don't think they are a lending company. They do not charge interest, their model lets you pay over time, and you pay a fixed fee to extend the payments. It's all fee based, no interest, so i think there's some regulations they get to sidestep.

This author is completely out of touch. Species are hopelessly in decline; climate change is causing havoc for many already. The last thing this planet needs is more consumers.

He's very hopeful about the future of a growing population and how it can create more geniuses that can save us. He points to more people finding us more Einsteins, but he neglects to acknowledge we are just as likely to find more Hitlers, antisocials, narcissists, terrorists, serial killers and school shooters as well.

Nearly everything in our modern world is made worse with more people. Our human habitat is being depleted, our healthy food sources are becoming scarce, and we scorch the land and the air to provide modern necessities to all. We go to war over resources, and our ever-growing need for energy results in a Chernobyl or Fukushima or Exxon Valdez or Gulf War far too often.

This looks like a winner to me.

I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but it addresses some gaps in validation for JSON, YAML and other configuration files and I appreciate their approach to the problem. I look forward to using it the next time I have a system with JSON that's unwieldy.

This is terrible. This is going to set the romantic bar too high for women, they will never be satisfied with an actual man after an emotional experience with these bots that always listen to them.

These surrogate relationships with non-living things are a threat to society and will ultimately make people miserable.

> I am taking zero VC, and that will allow me to make money on as few as three clients.

A VC would give you legitimacy to help you get the customers you need. What large customers are going to back you with their business unless they know there's some deep pockets behind you? There are few things more valuable than a business's source code, it encapsulates all of their business processes and is how all of the business's data is accessed.

Why would a company want to entrust you with this? How are you protecting against data loss, and the legal liability that comes with this responsibility (insurance, legal)?

We should put it in childrens party balloons and let it all fly up into the atmosphere. That is definitely the best use of it.

That has also been my experience. I left ChatGPT for phind.com. I tried perplexity, but I found phind to be superior.

It was available there first. It was a value-add for using Edge over Chrome, and it was somewhat effective for about 3 months like that. I started using Edge to have free access to that and I enjoyed it at the time.

That event caused me to take another look at Edge, and I now prefer it to Chrome and use it as my daily driver at work. I am split between Edge and Brave at home.

Honestly, Microsoft has done a good job with a browser (finally). It only took them 25 years.

There were about 3 months that I thought Bing Chat was an incredible feature that was added for free. Since then, it has been eclipsed by other free generative search like phind.com which are more functional and free.

I think the Bing Chat answers have gotten too concise to be useful for anything technical. It's good for quick retrieval of simple things, but I have abandoned it and ChatGPT for phind.com, at least for now.

Ask me in 3 months, I may have another system I favor. This space is evolving rapidly.

Those markets are the current low-hanging fruit. That is the proving ground for gaining the experience necessary to refine the technology to move up market into more lucrative industries.

You founded CueCat?

I still have my cuecat! :C

I think those had analog FM receivers. HD radio is digital FM, you need a special tuner for it.

That may create a parasitic battery drain if I radio is constantly seeking connection to a cell tower and not finding it. Subaru experienced a similar problem with their StarLink service after the 3G network shut down, car batteries started draining while trying to talk to towers that no longer existed.

All these worlds are yours except Europa. Use them together. Use them in peace.

Cheap money is over.

If you don't need money, like a bootstrap, the odds are in your favor.

If you are a startup that hasn't quite made a name for itself yet and the coffers are getting low and it's time for another round of funding, you're going to have a rough time.

From what I can tell, DT is only on Mac, and not open source. If the company goes under, good luck.

The NAR is in desperate need of a disruption. I hope Redfin accomplishes this. The MLS is a monopoly and tying it to NAR membership is wandering into antitrust territory.

A lot of energy goes into drying that salt and preparing it for sale.

> Dumping it back into the ocean can be disruptive to the local ecosystem.

I question this as being a problem. The ocean is saturated with the salts that are exposed on the sea floor. When there is too much salt in a solution, the excess will precipitate as solids. As the ocean is already exposed to more salt than it can put into solution, I don't think this would cause a serious issue.