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I'd been looking at the GPD Pocket 2. Thanks for this review.

I think I had heard of Flattr before but wasn't really aware of it. From your comment, has their usage waned?

I'd love an easy, trustworthy system to donate on articles I found particularly useful/entertaining/whatever. They wouldn't have to be behind a paywall. With the scale of the internet, maybe a pay as you will model is possible.

Your story here is why I hope to see more co-op based businesses come into being. I'm nearly the opposite of a communist, but it takes a fool to think labor shouldn't own a good amount of what they do. Particularly when your work requires pouring your soul into it.

No, it's not a semantic issue, but to someone who doesn't see it that way, sure it's a big if. Technology is developed in response to the pain points a given people might feel and represent their beliefs just as clearly as a drum beat.

Search and reference is a particular pain point of visual programming tools, as highlighted in other comments here.

RIoT - local group advocating for smart cities

I see projects weekly with RIOT for the name. I suppose it's just too tempting for IoT projects

I had this reaction to a number of graduate computing courses, the feeling that given five minutes on the problem (parallelism comes to mind) anyone would have thought of that approach!

In retrospect, it's clear how much that mentality undervalues what was being taught in the course. Yeah, the initial approach might be obvious, but so are plenty more initial approaches. What made it through to the course and was put down in the textbook are the few initial approaches that actually worked.

/Textbooks should have a long list of attempted approaches that seemed great and weren't, but no one publishes failures.

I'm not familiar with all of the services listed. Perhaps one of those provides SMS messaging? (the main benefit of AWS SNS in my eyes).

I don't follow your reasoning. Whatever the delivery costs may be, they don't determine the service cost. That's determined by value to the customer (though delivery costs sets the minimal viable service cost).

Their adherence to a subscription modivates the view of getting users on the platform for as long as possible, regardless of what they're watching. A pay per view model would twist motivations another way.

I definitely see your point, but if you view science and technology as aspects of culture, then your statement is false.

No, I'm not talking about bandwidth. iTunes isn't generally selling one-time access, but perpetual ownership (kinda) of a single episode. This accounts for the outlandish $2 per episode sort of thing.

A non-subscription model for a Netflix service would be closer to fractions of a penny per view.

Netflix would prefer you do this, too. In subscription models, you are almost guaranteed to be paying more than you're using. Only when a service is first starting and trying to attract subscribers is it likely you are paying less than you use.

A full environment that could get you to a blinking LED off of an FPGA would be the complete dump, but I don't see the value in downplaying publishing a bulk of code that all others have hidden behind lock and key.

What is meant by people look to other languages more often because you can do something in C++?

/My rephrasing, but I can't parse Carmack's point

Hahaha well that's all you had to say! You're more informed than your first comment led me to believe. Thanks for writing this out. If you wish to avoid my disparaging remarks in the future, lead with this and not vacuous negativity on someone else's thoughts.

Your comment is based on no data at all and just a handful of assumptions that are most certainly far from true.

You would think a tenant would be eager to get something fixed. I had a tenant with a broken water heater who waited 3 weeks to tell me. In the winter! /shrug I try not to judge

On 2) NO! I'm not busting down my own door to get into my property. And if I have to, I'm evicting you.

On your greater point, there are a million ways to skin a Roman senator. There are alternatives that don't require a smartlock and if an otherwise great tenant (or applicant) really pressed the issue, perhaps I'd go with another one. In the absence of that, I'll go with what's easiest and sensibly secure (which, by the by, a smartlock is).

You are greatly overestimating the amount of energy and time the average tenant will put into fixing anything in the property. I wish I could count on them to help in coordinating.

You understand the point of the parent's example and are only arguing semantics.

Then you just don't understand the viewpoint of a landlord. If I have to coordinate service to fix the waterheater or something but I live 3 towns over, it's a lot easier to give a technician a temporary password to the property in a set time window.

/To do this requires a good relationship with your tenants and technicians

Most leases will explicitly require the landlord have unfettered access to the property. Usually, the only caveat being that the tenant will be given some amount of notice. My leases say 24 hours.

/If I ever came to one of my properties and my key didn't work, you better bet you'd be evicted.

I don't think I agree. If a model is known to be largely false but in certain situations it provides good enough results and is easy to work with, that model will continue to get used until a better one replaces it. It's the classic problem undergrads have with Physics I vs. Physics II where the second declares all of Physics I false. Really, it's that Physics II is more accurate under more conditions, but that doesn't make what's learned in Physics I useless.

Your cherry picking idea is fine, but your reasoning for it is bs. If someone wrote the code (or read it enough to grok it), asking them some questions on the internals will sift out who just copied some free repos.

All of science is right for the wrong reasons. Our models are wrong. Just by decreasing degrees. Science will never be "true" in the strictest sense. Looking at it otherwise is a flawed viewpoint that is perpetuating post-modernism.

I'm not a qi gong practitioner (had to look it up...), but I relate to the sensations your describing. Using the devices too much leaves a type of buzzing in my head. I've always described it as bunch of voices, all the different ideas I tried to absorb or started thinking about while using a device.

I once reached to Dancing Rabbit as an 18 year old! I was so interested in their concepts and wanted to join, but then I went elsewhere with my life.

Right up until you're not.