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The perfect use case for a massive incredibly complex browser runtime is...a tiny desktop app? What?

In the UK normal employees are automatically enrolled to invest in their pension (life savings for retirement) and this will be at least partly in the stock market. It is normal and sensible.

In fact I wouldn't be surprised if you could lose your financial advisor's license for suggesting everyone keep their life savings as cash - it's such bad financial advice.

If you keep your life savings as cash you are optimising for the 99th percentile of bad outcomes for the global economy, and losing out massively in every other likelihood.

>it could even be $0.00

It is unlikely that the value of the S&P500 will be zero in our lifetimes. If it is, your 50,000 US dollars won't be worth much.

This video is good, it shows how you are more likely to lose more money with cash than stocks over longer periods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeob9z27-gA

What? It's completely not beside the point. This was fraud - he stole peoples' money. That 60s couple could have played it "safe" and kept their life savings in a regular bank account, and the owner of their bank could still have attempted to steal their money. That would also be fraud, and they would have gone to jail. This crime is nothing to do with whether bitcoin is a risky investment.

What do you mean by "handled appropriately as savings"? Cash is riskier than stocks over the long term. Investing is the safe way to handle your life savings.

Windows definitely does break backwards-compatibility of printer drivers. My parents had to use a Windows XP VM to print on their Canon printer for a long time before giving in and buying a new printer.

I prefer the fountain. Canned or bottled coke is too carbonated, too acidic, and too sweet. It tastes corrosive, gives me hiccups, and hurts my teeth.

Cola from the fountain tastes more interesting, like the other flavours are more prominent over the raw acid and sugar flavours.

Anyway I prefer Pepsi :)

What? Doesn't Wayland work this way by design?

Having the QR in your photo roll doesn't break the 'not phishable' property.

But that is not the same because radio spectrum is a very limited resource and those old uses are preventing newer uses. So the very limited bands of RF can only gain new uses say once per generation, as old FM radio users die out? Is that really a good trade-off?

I also use Python professionally and still have by far the worst luck with getting anything Python on github to work out of any language.

Written in Go/Rust is definitely a feature for something like this.

>what if i spent that time on deliberate practice instead

Well yeah. What if I spent all the time I spent on various types of consumption on deliberate practice. I'd be some kind of wizard by now.

There's nothing specially bad about these kinds of video in that respect.

No, that's just the opposite extreme.

Does anyone know how to get Korean text to display consistently on macOS in the terminal?

If you create a file in Finder with a hangul name, by default ls in iTerm2 will display the name incorrectly, with the composite syllables expanded out into separate characters. There is an option in iTerm2 to 'normalise unicode' which corrects this issue if set to HFS or NFC (if I remember right). This mimics the behaviour of Terminal.app.

However, different interactive terminal apps seem to have different expectations of terminal behaviour for this form of unicode hangul. With the 'normalise' setting off, fzf will corrupt the display when showing hangul. But with it on, vim/neovim will corrupt the display when navigating lines with hangul text.

It seems there is no way to get consistent and user-friendly hangul handling in the terminal on macOS, but I'm not sure who's at fault (except Apple of course).

Every role has good or bad practitioners no?

eg, I have worked with many so called 'developers'. They shipped lots of code, but most of it was solving the wrong problem, didn't fit any business requirement, added unnecessary complexity, had to be replaced almost immediately, etc. etc.

So just don't have them, and don't let them think about it?

Most of the comparisons are encoded from source. The one that isn't is because re-encoding is a specific recommendation from the services that they are criticising. They are specifically showing that yes, that's a bad idea.

If you tried and couldn't see, it might be like others say that it's more visible on certain monitors and setups. But then, again - if you are designing codecs or choosing them, you probably want a monitor that makes it easy to see these things. I can see them on my old iPhone screen.

It reminds me of how sometimes you see a huge billboard hideously strong 10 foot wide JPEG compression artifacts. It was someone's job to make those, too.

The authors point is that if you are making this tech, you should have educated eyes.

And given all the confident comments in this thread claiming the author is full of shit and there's no difference, I think their frustration is justified? If you can't see the difference in the first images that's fine but you probably shouldn't be confidently claiming to know better than the author, let alone designing an image codec.

Pretty sure his channel is successful due in no small part to his voice. It couldn't not be, considering the whole thing is just voiceovers. You also often see people commenting as such on his videos.

I don't think it's any easier, it's just less unpleasant because you don't have to pretend to be working as actively while slacking off.

And if this is true it just proof of the merits of WFH. If everyone is 'slacking off' and productivity is basically unchanged, it just shows what a waste of everyone's lives working in the office was.

That too is benefitting rich people more than poor.

But every time you opened one it would also open a separate Chrome window that you had to keep open, which made them kind of useless.

How else would regulation work?

No, Resident Evil 4 from 2023.

Windows uses mdns natively now. That article is 10 years old.

Check Indeed, junior SWE jobs in London are listed starting at ~£25k/yr. Yes, £8 is expensive for a pint of lager.

Any more info on this? I can't find anything via Google or on the Monterey features page.

I have noticed that Youtube often re-encodes videos, replacing the data for a certain stream type/number with a new encode.

No, bonds held by the federal reserve are rolled over. The debt is paid back but it is immediately replaced with new debt of equivalent value, off of the open market. The process is described here: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/treasury-rollover-faq

>On the auction settlement date, the maturing Treasury securities are exchanged for the newly issued Treasury securities.

In net, the debt is only paid back when the central bank is actively reducing its treasury holdings, by rolling over less than the total amount of maturing debt. That is basically the reverse process of 'printing money', it takes the money back out of the wider economy.

>Why do you think people buy them?

Certainly 'people' buy them because they intend to get paid back, yes, but the central bank doesn't have the same motives. It increases and decreases the amount of treasuries it holds in order to control the money supply. That's the whole purpose of it holding treasuries.

edit: here's some bedtime reading https://theconversation.com/how-the-federal-reserve-literall...