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My understanding is the company wasn't paying for her time, it was paying for a job to be done by an ostensibly part-time contractor. I'm not sure how the deadline changing increases the amount of work that was to be done.

She was very explicit about working on it part-time. If she doesn't know how much of his time it will take, how would the company? Isn't it her job to ask for the appropriate amount of money, and reject an offer which isn't enough?

This post makes a long case for why air travel isn't _so_ bad, but totally fails to establish why it's 'good and we should want more of it'.

In any case, in a world with free and non-greenhouse-emitting energy it won't be particularly hard to decarbonize air travel. You can manufacture hydrocarbons from CO2 in the air and energy if you have enough of it.

This reads like a case of 'all about me'-ism. It sounds like this person negotiated their salary, and then decided the company didn't value them _because_ the company agreed to raise it when asked. If your goal is to have people throw money at you which you don't ask for, you are going to have a tough time working. A company that's willing to double your salary when you point out the offer is low sounds pretty great to me.

It then sounds like some other timelines were shifted, but rather than engaging with the company to learn what was going on, they silently invented more 'disrespect'.

Building a product is hard. It's also expensive. Many many companies go out of business trying. The company being somewhat reasonable with money, and moving other deadlines around to accomplish their goals, is not evil in and of itself. It sounds like OP needs to learn how to engage constructively, communicate their concerns and questions, and empathize with the people they're working with a bit.

Reminds me of [1], from back in the web-day.

[1] - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/snow-pro-by-eager

Having used it pre-release, the JIT compiler is really incredible. It makes Tailwind a sea-change when compared to Bootstrap and the other, similar, CSS toolkits.

Update: I'm also getting Internal Errors trying to log into the Amazon.com site now as well.

I'm now getting failures searching for products on Amazon.com itself. This is somewhat surprising, as the narrative always was that Amazon didn't do a great job of dogfooding their own cloud platform.

It's much colder than that, single-digit millikelvin. They use He-3/4 dilution refrigerators [1]. Getting things cold and electromagnetically-quiet enough that the quantum state doesn't collapse is a big challenge in the field.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator

I'm much more excited about manufacturing gasoline using renewable energy and captured carbon. That would provide the energy density planes need while being legitimately carbon neutral.

I have no idea how it's still online, but I have a more robust implementation borrowed from the Postgres wiki: https://eager.io/blog/audit-postgres/

I now use it with every project and it has saved me many times.

The absolute best review of what dopamine really does (mediate attention) and how that relates to the brain's function is this [1] writeup from Astral Star Codex on Predictive Coding. Predictive Coding is a theory of the mind which does a better job of explaining Serotonin and Dopamine's function than the more primitive ways railed against in this post.

[1] - https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...

Native tus support would be pretty amazing.

Correct, my point is I don't believe the quantity of carbon capture which can be deployed will get anywhere close to the amount of carbon being released without a different fundamental economic model.

My dream is to use carbon capture as 1/3 of a full plan to fix climate change. Once you have the carbon, rather than pumping it into the ground, I would love to use off-shore nuclear reactors to convert it into gasoline. It might sound a little strange to turn it into something which is just going to get burned, but I firmly believe carbon neutral gasoline and natural gas which was cheaper than drilled would drop carbon emissions much faster than anyone can afford to sequestrate it.

If you listen to the stream there's a moment when they ask each astronaut for a mock-serious 'status update'. At least one forgets to even respond. It feels like cosplay, like a tourist experience where you are pretending to be an astronaut despite having no responsibilities and little training. I would struggle to not feel embarrassment at pretending to be something I am not, and at the knowledge they are stroking my ego purely for my ego's benefit on the back of the very well earned reputation of real astronauts.

It reminds me of what might happen on a tourist experience in Bali, where they have you hold a big spear and take a photo for Instagram as if you were a tribal hunter. I would take the Blue Origin flight if it was free, but I would wish they would treat me honestly: as a random schlub who knows how to sit in a seat and smile.

> “We literally do not have enough cooks to operate and after months of continuous hiring, training, begging, pleading and getting creative, we have a tiny, loyal, incredible team of individuals at their breaking point and in desperate need of help,” the owners wrote.

I'm genuinely not being facetious: why don't they pay more? Isn't that the solution to a labor shortage in a free market?

The person writing this is confusing their personal opinion for objective UX fact. It is commonly accepted that only highly organized users use features like tags. The vast majority of people simply don't. Rather than jumping to the conclusion that this is hostile it's possible Chrome and Docs just have a wider user-base than this particular author.

I think the ideal solution would be if it wasn't essentially free to send an email (meaning there is no incentive to not spam). If it cost $0.01 to send an email it would have no impact on normal people and businesses, but it would dramatically reduce the amount of untargeted spam.

The obvious way of ensuring long-term performance is to slow down the buy/sell process. For example, the company could offer a discount on its stock for anyone who agrees to hold it for six months. This seems like a more practical solution than a whole bunch of policy nods which, as far as I can tell, can't actually prevent someone from day trading the stock based on short-term performance. Am I totally off base?

People increasingly value technology and safety. The market for simple cars is relatively small, and is partially satisfied by the red-hot vintage car market. Car design and manufacture has also become so expensive that it isn't productive to make a car which isn't going to be mass-market.

I would say the single biggest issue right now is the cost of an LTE modem and service. Cursory research shows a fully integrated modem is on the order of $44 at small quantities. Obviously cell phone manufactures get that number way down but they also manufacture at very high quantities.

It looks like service is on the order of $0.50 per month per device, plus $0.33 per MB. That's not prohibitive, but it would mean the device would likely have to have a subscription of at least $19 a month.

Not to my knowledge. If anyone is interested in building one get in touch, it would be a fun thing to build. Right now we let people to mail videos [1]. Think a greeting card, but which plays your home movies.

[1] - https://sendheirloom.com

I work on a company that is squarely targeted at the market of people who don't have Internet. Nearly 10% of Americans don't have Internet, the vast majority are older. During COVID, at least in my family, it was pretty stark. My grandmother didn't see a video of my nephews for essentially a year, as she was quarantined and doesn't know how to use a smartphone or tablet. She also doesn't have WiFi, so 'smart frames' and the like aren't an option (nor is this device unfortunately). It's a real market of real people.

I wish that in each generation we got to choose 100 people to keep alive just a bit longer. Feynman would be on my list.

Ultimately everything is a system. If the NCAA is incredibly militant about enforcing these rules, the schools will be incredibly paranoid about giving athletes any financial incentive. If the NCAA is more lax, schools will put less effort and attention to detail into enforcement. I’m not saying these policies are good or ethical, but this type of militant enforcement absolutely changes how careful schools are.

There's a good video on how PS/2 works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXbh9VUB3U

It's pretty straight-forward. There are also pre-made kits for digitizing typewriters if that interests you.

I recently moved an Eleventy static site to start generating AVIF images. It is absolutely incredible the savings. I have images which went from 260kB to 16!

I used an npm module called @11ty/eleventy-img which renders the image variants at build time and generates the appropriate HTML for the browser to select the correct variant.

All I have to do is this, and I get correctly sized variants in JPG, WebP, and AVIF:

    {% image "./src/static/images/grandma-holding-heirloom-video-book.png", "Woman holding Heirloom video book", "1152, 1896", "(min-width: 450px) 1896px, 1152px" %}

That’s the definition of biased sampling.

In 2014 I started a company, and chose Heroku as the easiest way to get my (Go) code running in the cloud. Last year I started a company, and to my surprise, Heroku was still the easiest way to get my (Go) code running in the cloud.

I fully expected to be on a more 'modern' platform, but virtually every other provider requires at a minimum a Docker config. Docker has its purposes, but I can literally push an arbitrary Go/Python/Ruby/Node/etc. repo to Heroku, and it will be hosted on the Internet successfully. It's still SO much faster. As a comparison, I did need to get one project running with Docker and it legitimately took 16+ hours of developer time to get source control authentication working as a part of the build process.

None of that delay is a huge issue when you have limitless engineering resources, but for someone starting from scratch Heroku remains (bizarrely) the fastest tool out there.