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Teams is so annoying even on windows.

Why when someone react on a chat message, opening the chat channel is not enough to dismiss the notification counter? No! I need to click on "Activity" tab. Here I see a list of my activities. The reaction is still here! Someone put an emoji on my text. I exult. Teams can now dismiss the notification counter...

I always joked about creating a Peanuts Startup with an app and a fleet of guys on scooter delivering at your door bags of peanuts at any hour you need, at the click of a button.

Do you think I could do it into Y Combinator?

Not really relevant, for me at least, because the price isn't really the real issue. I would be glad to pay $20 or even $25, that's not my point, but my main point was the trust and reliance. And maybe because I've worked some year as a freelancer a long time ago I have a natural aversion for Uber. But no way I'm not using them or any other competing app next time I'm in a foreign country.

My personnal experience. I come back from a trip in romania - bucharest. At first I didn't take Uber but tried for the regular Taxi from the airport. All of them requesting ~40USD. At the end I go with one who put the meter and indeed arrived to 200 Lei (~40 USD). I payed in euro because I didn't have enough local currency, hopefully I had some and the driver accept.

Taking some information it's way too much, but would I have argue with how the meter was operating anyway?

Now, I need to comeback to the airport at 4am.

So instead, I reserve a airport transfer from the airline itself, pay in advance something like 30 USD this time.

And... no one show up at 4am. Mobile phone of the transfer is not answering... I never heard of them *

So I install Uber, hopefully it's working, enter my visa (from my country, no need for local currency at all), after 10 minutes, someone very nice take me and I just paid like 15 USD to get to the airport, at 5 in the morning, with the invoice by mail.

How do you compete with that? Taxi business need to reflect. And every country is the same strangely, it's as universal than taxes: you can't escape!

* Edit: In fact I know what happened, and there is nothing to do, because I looked at the invoice and on the third page of the voucher PDF there, it's said that I needed to call 24h before to confirm the transfer... They don't call, you have to call. Even after the first confirmation I already did for confirming the pickup address some days before, I wasn't feeling paranoid enough. So you can't say nothing because I didn't read the last page, but it's a dumb heavy process, do people changes their mind and decide to live forever in the country frequently?

I think it's a purely economic stance. Going full throttle on the woke train will assure you enough customer to not fail totally. Even if you are producing a shitty content artistically speaking, you prefer being sure to stay afloat financially, using political correctness and ideology validation as a security belt. In particular in the subscription world. I'm pretty sure there a lot of subscribers not even interested in the new content but keep they subscription alive like there where subsidizing a political party or lobby.

I mean, making a woman truly happy will be more challenging than inverting binary trees anyway.

These cuneiform tablets are written in which dialect and which alphabet?

ouch... I starr-ed Vite like, 1 hour ago... but somehow I feel you are right...

It went from fantastic painting at age 15 to what (common people like me would call by lake of knowledge) absolute garbage at the end.

I like how they carefully avoid France :)

Post from 2018, interesting to understand the post-covid trends, like remote or hybrid work.

This post looks so old, since 20 years it's the same every times

Sure, they will know it's starting to be serious, when they will see defaced wordpress all over pop-and-mom russian businesses

Since I was in university 15 years ago I promised myself to learn Vim commands seriously.

Well I see that finally I did my programmer life learning only switching insert mode / edit mode, maybe 5 commands like A x etc...,and :q or :wq!

26 is certainly the most famous kaballistic number. As the gematria of the word "God" in hebrew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria

I precisely like garmin watches because if you don't setup their bluetooth, you are not tracked by anyone, it's not required to connect to servers etc... It's enough for me because I only need to check BPM.

After all the shitty things facebook did in the whole world, inducing depression, suicidal behaviors for the most fragile etc... this person resigns because the CEO refused to censor the elected POTUS. I have a hard time to figure what's going on in his head, and how he thinks it's helping democraty.

It's disturbing how things are turned upside down. The GAFA already are behaving like they are above the state. You can love or hate Trump, is is elected, not Facebook or Twitter. As the head of the state he represents what we call in french 'monopoly of legitimate violence'. I found dangerous how the GAFA companies think about themselves not concerned by that anymore.