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If you ever want a kid to listen to you, try airplaying to the Apple TV from your phone, turn on selfie camera and deliver the message

Agree on jamulus. I re-joined my highschool band during the pandemic, despite us all living in different cities. Jamulus jams were an important part of us getting back together, along with zoom calls and passing recordings back and forth. Best thing that happened for me out of the pandemic.

It's great for running tests in parallel.

Or for working with data in memory.

There's a whole world of software outside of saas crud

> launching a database instance is far easier than managing disk based storage yourself

Look, it comes down to what you, the developer are comfortable with. If you know and are comfortable with running something like postgres in the cloud, then go for it.

Some of us prefer to not. Similarly, not all of us nuke the entire filesystem on every deploy :)

You can run sqlite in memory if you pass `:memory:` as the connection string.

Yes!! Just to be explicit here - the dev behind the original Hammerhead makes a whole suite of iOS music apps now. Still going strong, crazy value for the money. Bram Bos is great.

Yesterday I signed my daughter up for her own minecraft account. It was maybe the worst computing experience I've ever had thanks to the Microsoft accounts. Made her a microsoft account with accurate 'kid' age, could not buy anything. Made myself a parent account, added her as a kid, still couldn't buy anything.. went to her account, added credit card, couldn't buy anything. 2 hours later of following tutorials around giving her enough "xbox / windows 10" permissions and eventually just disabling "request before making purchases" I was able to buy minecraft for her. Repeat the process (tutorials, guides to the microsoft preferences maze, jumping between accounts) to figure out how to let her join a local multiplayer game.

Anyways, it was quite the insight into the level dysfunction that can ship when a company is that big, and I'm sure somewhere a manager is defending every step of that process and that it's my fault for not understanding it. Wild.

Yes!! With music I used to debate whether I should do A or B, and spend a long time debating whether I wanted an album of genre A or genre B.. and then not write anything. Now I write both, one (or both!) will sound how I wanted, and then move on

Code is 8 years old! I should have known when coffeescript was mentioned

Not sure about pypi but any non-trivial node app has exponentially more package dependencies compared to a similar sized ruby or go app, due to a combination of the "micropackage" fad and the language is a bit of a fragmented mess with a not great standard library. You end up with a lot of polyfills, normalization, and helper functions that are wrapped as their own library.

That's my experience, anyways, having previously worked on a large rails application, as well as large golang applications, and now spending most of my time in a typescript project.

Only part of Money is 7/4, it switches to 4/4.. so you'd need time signature automation as well :)

In defence of the project, it doesn't look like the Github authors posted it to HN.

Just to play the devil's advocate for a moment here, I've seen many developers join and instead of learning what is around and why it's there, just see everything that existed before they joined as a Bad Decision that Needs To Change To Fit My Expectations. In complex situations sometimes the best solution looks nothing like a textbook Best Practice.

That being said, what you're describing sounds like a shit show. I've seen many talented developers stay way too long at bad places, telling themselves they can make things better.

Vintage Fisher Price toys are an absolute marvel of engineering. We have a few of the "little people" sets - my favorite is still the garage with an elevator that still works, including raising and lowering "stop" gates and a floor that raises on an incline only when the elevator reaches the top and the gate opens. My second favorite is the "sesame street play house" featuring a pathway where the little people can "walk". As you turn a crank the pathway moves slowly forward, and then jerks suddenly back. The result is your toy slowly steps forward, and then the track jerks back too fast for the toy to follow, so the toy "walks" and then goes down the slide. It's just a complete joy to operate.

I'm trying to say the market would judge Ford, primarily, by its quarterly environmental impact instead of its quarterly finances. Stock goes up when they've sequestered carbon, stock goes down when they're burning carbon.

And the preface was attempting to say that judging a company by it's quarterly finances is already arbitrary, and flawed, and a relatively new concept. I can't find the link but I think it was suggested and socially adopted only in the last 40 years as the True Metric to evaluate companies.

(This is all a rough idea in my head, with no sources to back up claims, but putting it out there nonetheless)

Over the course of history, how we evaluate companies and value them has changed. The concept of valuing companies based on quarterly earnings growth, is a relatively new concept and is not a necessary attribute of capitalism. So let's change how we evaluate companies.

What if we evaluated companies based on their environmental benefit or impact again? Tax break their environmental impact, tax break their environmental benefit?

I want to see "Ford company announces third quarter results, sequestering 100b tons more than expected".

This is a really solid band name generator

I think it's important to have inspired ideas if you're going to follow a project through to completion.

I've met my personal goals with side projects with the following criteria: - I really really want something - It doesn't exist

I've got 2 iOS apps that I built with the above formula - one is free and gets about 100 downloads a week, the other is paid and makes about $80/week. It helps that I'm working in a niche I know well, and where people spend money.

Don't try to make something generic. Even if nobody else ends up using it at least you've made something interesting.

If you don't, you could consider posting some of your art to reddit.com/r/generative or to instagram. It's a really popular concept right now, although a bit plagued with people jumping on the NFT train trying to make money with generative "drops".

Woah! Are the drums also TX81Z? That sounds great!

I think they have a decently lengthen demo period for all their plugins. I remember playing with many of them in the past for a period

Cory Doctorow writes a fictional version of this topic well in one of the short stories in the book Radicalized.

Thanks, I hate it.

When I get those I like to look up the bitcoin address on block explorer. Last time I checked one, two people had paid it out. No clue how many messages the spammer had sent, but there was at least a bit of payoff

Please stop spamming the point that EVs also have brakes. The point was that all cars have the potential to spontaneously catch fire. Nobody has tried to make the point that ICEs are vulnerable where EVs are not, and your attempt to reframe the discussion as such is disingenuous.

That's not really the argument, though. The argument is that all types of cars catch fire. It is not that ICE cars catch fire more.

In my ~20 years of driving I've seen many ICE vehicles catch fire. The first time I remember driving home late one night, had to pull off the road and wait for firefighters to douse an SUV that had caught fire behind the dash and eventually engulfed the whole car. The owner had pulled their golf clubs out of the trunk and was watching it burn.

Anecdotal news articles are not that useful, is there any reports on rates compared between ICE and electric cars?

<3 SDF, glad to hear it's still running. Was one of my first shell accounts, like 20 years ago.

Consider reading Walkaway by Cory Doctorow if you haven't. Excellent book - I haven't read the one you're talking about but from what you mention I think it deals in similar themes

What happened? Mass exodus of people from NY due to covid / work from home?

Serious question, I haven't seen any articles about this so just guessing