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Article has very good wording!

>> As a German person

> It's not about anybody's nationality.

I don't think 'suction' wanted to imply it'd be about nationality, but rather about culture. Germans are known to be very orderly and doing business with Germans often becomes very (!) contractual. And they will happily slap you the contract around your ears, should you miss/neglect the one or other point, that has been written down.

Source: I am from Germany and knew people, who did business with Germans, and that's exactly what they said.

That's exactly what does not leave my mind! It would have been a question of honour for them to stomach it and deliver close to the original estimate.

Everything else leaves me with a sore feeling, that it, while eventually not a scam, at least a careless, profiteering way to handle this, on the back of the customer. I hate this agency :-)

Why not have a sister company/branch for the small clients? One they grow, you'd be able to transfer them to the big block?

Oh, ok :-) Cool!

Why? If I want a DAW, that has extremely fair licensing conditions, a huge, passionate community, fast and steady, continious development, is highly compatible with the music recording environment and available on all three major platforms, I simply go for "Reaper".

Thanks, I'll check!

On a sidenote: Can anyone recommend decent quality LED strips on Aliexpress or Ebay (I'm not in the US)? Points of interest would be:

* reproducable (when buyin two 10m strips of the same product, LED colors should match)

* lean (I read some reviews (Amazon), where the buyer experienced one or two LEDs in the strip having a different color temperature)

* etc.

I mainly want to equip the bottom edge of the kitchen cupboards with these, so I have better lighting, when cooking on the cutting board below them. I don't need animation, just good light, ideally in different color temperatures and hues (dimmable). Thanks.

> “It’s the thing that wakes me up in the middle of the night: ‘Oh my gosh, what happens if we run out of computers?’” he said. “Well, it is what it is. It’s just going to run until it doesn’t run anymore.”

Couldn't he just virtualize? There is USB-Floppy devices, these days, to get even the last bit of compatibility right.

So, what's the use case for this?

Hey! I got the Z3 Compact as well. Besides the medicore camera, it was a great device! Too bad mine died with some crappy Google app update (constant reboot loop). Happened on my Shield Tablet as well...

A spare battery could fix this. Of course, only if designed this way.

Bluetooth is the new line-in/out.

I am more concerned about the lack of a microSD card slot.

Why is the headphone jack so important? These days there are very good wireless earbuds. Except as FM antenna or to plug into legacy devices...

I got the feeling, that niche markets could be lucrative if the middle man (retail) is left out. The internet is a very powerful tool in this regard. It brings together customers from all over the world.

I had the same problem (Kindle 4). So I switched to an E-Ink notebook/reader (Onyx NoteAir) and I never looked back. Admittedly, it's a 10" screen,so that may be a problem for some. PDF is not only consumable now but I can annotate everything.

Having finished your PhD may have also helped... ;-)

> It seems that every day we are getting closer and closer to a 'tricorder'.

Only, if we go full Cyborg / Trans-Human ;-)

THIS! Oh, so much this! I never get it why they do this... I don't know how many times I clicked the logo expecting to get to the product's homepage, but, instead, I get to the blog's index. It escapes my mind, why nobody seems to think about this.

And from here we go on to https://xkcd.com/327/

On mobile (Android) I use 'Markor' (it's on F-Droid), which is a notetaking application for Markdown, that understands folder hierarchies as notebooks and thus is compatible with Obsidian on the desktop. I use Syncthing to sync.

Why not use YAML "front matter" instead of abusing XML comments, which may (I didn't spend much thought on it) break it for people, who also want to encode the Markdown into XML/HTML?

Are they community-programmable? SDK, etc ?

Better 16 billion... 18 billion... 22 billion... 34 billion... etc. We all know, how that goes, especially the city of Berlin, which built a cool new airport...

I think supporting XML would be something, a lot of people would appreciate. That XML is difficult to diff comes up again and again... However, one would need to decide, whether one wants to compare by syntax or by meaning. Latter one may be preferrable, but would require the XML to be canonicalized on both sides, first.

I could access the article fully from Germany.

> Frameworks are mostly necessary on the backend.

Often not even there!

If you use something like BaseX[1] or eXist-db[2], both XML database and XQuery[3] implementations (they also have ways to act as SQL clients), you get REST-, user-, and database-management as native part of the programming language (XQuery).

For REST it must implement the RESTXQ[4] module standard, which both the named products do. Since XQuery understands XML natively, you get full templating, database queries, REST routing and much more.

[1] https://basex.org

[2] https://exist-db.org

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=restxq

I'd also recommend "Print Edit WE" and "Save Page WE" [2] for Chrome type browsers, both by one author. First one allows for editing of the page before printing/saving (as a single page HTML or MHTML), second one allows for single-page save.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/print-edit-we/olnb... [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-page-we/dhhpe...

> After the Windows team successfully sabotaged Longhorn efforts

Why did they do that?