The point is to use the explosive power of your legs to optimally throw & catch a very heavy thing over your head. It’s not designed specifically to work any particular muscle but test your overall capability. That said it’s much, much harder on core & shoulder stability in particular than either deadlifts or back squat. Or front squat for that matter.
It would've worked if Amazon hadn't turned their store into a cesspit of fakes, random 3rd parties sellers and arbitrary pricing. At this point if I pressed one of those buttons I'd have zero confidence in what might turn up. If Costco or the like had those buttons that would add it to a regular delivery I'd plaster the house with them.
Ironically it’s because increasingly it’s 100 words generated by an LLM from a 10 word prompt. We’ve effectively found a way to keep entire datacenters humming to do nothing more than obfuscate signal in very expensive noise and the lossily try and extract it again.
There's usually layers of approval for offers inside organisations, it's improbable anyone you're talking to is going to be able to make a decision independent of people outside your communication loop and they're all going to be talking to each other.
I could count the number of startups I’m aware of building on Java on one hand, after a wood chipper accident. For perf it’s rust, for web it’s Go or node/deno/bun for single front/back language.
The problem with this business model is it creates a tension between the OSS version and the paid versions - you want the OSS version to be good, but not such a good solution that nobody feels the need to pay for your SaaS/consulting/etc. That tension seems to inevitably lead to obvious features missing or functionality/knowledge that's needed to operate at any scale coistered away as closed source so the sponsoring entity can make some money.
If the product is more infrastructural you also now have an established pattern (Elastic, Hashicorp etc) of switching to look-but-don't-touch licences to avoid being obliterated as a one-click service for the major cloud providers.
Which isn't to say the article is wrong, I just wish they wouldn't pretend commerically backed OSS is some kind of kumbaya win-win for everyone instead of being effectively a trust growth hack for startups before the need to generate revenue inevitably leads them to turning the screws one way or another on the beloved community that helped them grow.
One weird quirk I've discovered is 2-pin Swiss plugs appear to have smaller diamater pins than EU ones, which means some EU-compatiable plugs will not fit in CH sockets. Apple's BRA adaptors work in CH sockets, KOR ones do not.
Wording and structure of this article is a bizarre mess, I’m guessing it’s the result of some kind of LLM expansion/template application from some bullet points?
While IT depts might be keen to put the genie back in the bottle they may find their ‘clients’ are less keen on waiting months to years for their needs to be met. AWS sold as an insurgent into many organisations precisely because it meant you could stand up a service in minutes, not quarters.
I can think of plenty of companies that are or have tried this. However I can’t think of many that have done so with notable future success. It mostly seems to be a defensive/reactive move by players having their work more effectively monetised by others than a pre-planned strategy. Boil-the-frog SaaS price increases on the other hand seems to be the default strategy. I am curious to see how well this will work as everyone gets squeezed.
The UK has a long intellectual tradition which creates a steady stream of creative and capable engineers. Capital however is predominately held via inherited wealth and its controllers want rentier incomes with low risk. As a consequence there is low appetite for risky new ventures and those that want to undertake them mostly migrate elsewhere. What's left is a stock market dominated by octogenarian+ dianosaurs, a decaying rump of manufacturing, a finance sector that mostly makes its bread laundering the capital of the world's corrupt and corruptors and a tiny creative industry that clings on despite suffering through waves of either government neglect, or worse yet, government interest.
I have absolutely no idea what this self-involved waffly collection of buzzwords is trying to say and I'm upset I won't get back the time I wasted trying to read it.
The evidence of anything other than simple CICO is marginal in both quality and impact. Sure, all sorts of things might make you feel hungrier or make you want to eat more or less but whether you actually gain weight or not is a product of how much food you put in your mouth and how much you move. But this is not a popular fact when everyone wants an excuse for failures of attention, discipline and willpower. Only real exception here are medications that affect water retention, but that is entirely separate to fat gain/loss.
Vercel raised $300m+ at the top of the market and paid over the odds to hire a ton of JS ecosystem luminaries. Those investors are going want to see a return, not just an eyewatering wage bill. Anyone building on top of their ecosystem is going to get fleeced, they have no other route to possibly justifing their valuation or ever providing a passable return on that capital. Everyone else should be preparing their plan b for what happens if they impode and Next.js, Turborepo etc development fractures or grinds to a halt.
And yet so often UX Writing is distained as an unecessary job that can be handled by designers or PMs instead of recognising the verbs and nouns of your product are its fundamental architecture to users. And that's before you get to voice & tone.
Part of this is a second order effect of supression of public sector wages. For a lot of highly paid specialities it's become impossible to recruit to retain real talent in the public sector when they're going to be paid a multiple in the private sector. The net result is the real wages are masked through consultancy arrangements at even higher total cost to avoid having to admit effectively paying public servents more than they're 'allowed to' and everybody loses except for the middle men raking off a profit.
Which is why you likely won't be a senior VP. Sales are demanding the fringe feature to meet a RFP requirement & the flakiness in the main software isn't meaningfully impacting renewals. These things are not (always) accidents.
Betting on the difference between is done by buying and selling them. I'm no defender of cryptocurrencies but speculation and trading have been a major feature modern forex markets since their inception.
Yes, but what on earth is so compelling about a quasi pokémon clone that anyone is paying the price of 5-6 AAA games to play it as a game for fun? And who is buying all the SLPs ‘players’ farming this for $?
What continues to confuse me about this game is what is the source of money into the ecosystem? If the vast majority of players are doing this for the income, who is the buyer? Are there a small number of 'whale' players who are effectively paying small armies of (by all accounts) filipinos to 'farm' the game for them? Is there some kind of money laundering angle here?
So, it says they're not selling data. It also has no pricing page. There's no way I'd consider handing over that kind of data and access without a clear understanding of their business model.
Beyond the privacy concerns I wouldn't want my front door to disable itself because my Google Account was suspended because YouTube's content-identification algorithm picked up a snippet of a song in the background of a video upload. Only to find due to automated support computer-says-no the only way to get it re-enabled was to hope my complaint about it goes viral on Twitter or makes the front page of HN.