who's phrasing and why do they need a job?
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The best desktop experience I remember was a 20MHz 386DX [0]. It took 2 minutes to boot and had a noisy fan. The ThinkPad/Gnome experience is pretty close to this. Not because of a 2 minute startup time, it wakes up instantly, and starts from cold within seconds. Not because of the noisy fan, it is silent and runs at 45° in an ambient temperature of 25°.
Because of the focus. Starting an old desktop meant wanting to do something. And Gnome, 3 even more than 2, means a single focused screen. I can split screen if needed, or plug in another monitor, or add a KDE/Windows style window bar, but this removes the focus.
A world of always on devices, often in our pockets or hands even when doing other stuff, and a common expectation - internalised as an expectation - to always be online fed by a hunger, famine, for new news and dripped by notifications. I do have some notifications, I have a flashing light and horn in my office inspired by a documentary on Ling's Cars [1]. A flash is a new user and a horn's for if I lose a heartbeat from one of my websites for more than 5 minutes.
You do you. Often slowing down and focusing is a good recipe.
[0] The worst, in retrospect, was a time when numbers of screens on desks was a tools of bravado and validation, an investment banking job with no less than 7 screens.
[1] Ling's cars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling's_Cars IIRC they get an alert on a new sale by flashing a light for all of the office to be cheered by.
I'm sure it used to be better. I don't need a weather widget telling me what the weather's like outside in a file store and sync app.
Besides, present perfect seems appropriate. It's commonly used to discuss events in the past relating to 'now'.
Past perfect wouldn't make sense, as past of what past? And past simple, focusing on a finished, closed event, when this even doesn't seem 'over' - at least from the perspective of some.
Have they thought this out?
Does anyone at the FCA read HN? (I think some do.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_by_wandering_arou...
In high frequency trading, the equivalent's called providing liquidity.
When lacking connectivity, I have a 200GB Synology NAS in my Tesla powered by the battery, something really not possible a few years ago and with significantly higher capacity than traditional clouds.
To combat this, make small changes. Do everything differently every day. Sleep in a different position. Wet shave one day, dry the other, start in a different location. Do your morning exercise or commute in different orders and routes, etc, and if crashing out with the TV in the evening do so purposefully rather than habitually. And eat lots of fibre.
VC funding led by Cohaagen however is in a race to find and incapacitate the terraforming reactor in order to keep people in perpetuity paying for apps to escape their current lives.
These positives create a feedback loop.
What I found was wholesale protein prices hit a floor and don't get really cheap, including amino acid combinations. Which makes sense really, farmed cockroaches make chicken feed after all. I was looking at dry prices/100kg, which excludes anything 'premium' be that fresh or much up the food chain. But the price floor wasn't as low as I expected.
The only thing that's keeping it there is atrocious search discovery of communities that exist in its long tail of interests - Reddit's the only place to go. Everyone has a long tail interest, OpenID's too hard(!), Facebook owns the offline 'you' with the core like a core of Mastodon - dedicated to their identity on that network.
The AI's a flash in the pan. Reddit can't saturate interests any further and the focus is no longer making the long tail feel welcome.
St. Charles will still exist for the vertical, and for the chosen horizontal. An acquisition like this is for the horizontal and once internalised sufficiently to sell to clients, the selling the product not any individual training course which are pretty fungible. Online corporate in-house training's been lagging consumer bells-and-whistles for a decade, it'll be a flashier-better product than current competition.
They consistently missed someone that doesn't get more than 10GB traffic a month now maxing out a 5Gbps line (60TB/day stated in TFA) for several days in a row.
And consistently missed someone with a tiny bill's now racking up 10s of thousands of dollars per day. Even if they do run a mainframe and batch process at the end of each day, that still went a few days. If extending lines of credit of tens of thousands of dollars is legal, that's very generous.
What further consistency is available at Netlify?
The author seems to target liberal roles/personas. Musk 'humour'.