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Yup! In this whimsical style, the people shown can have skin, hair, etc. shades in every possible color of the rainbow.

THANK YOU for helping me put a name to this. I started seeing it around the 2018 time frame EVERYWHERE. Gusto, Google, etc - you name it, it seemed like every mid-large tech company adopted it overnight. I felt like a crazy person trying to get people to notice!

Not from the UK, but I poke around on the portal from time to time. It's a true breath of fresh air. I love how you can deep dive into a specific topic of interest without really leaving your place. Example: https://www.gov.uk/browse

The way the menu behaves is both predictable AND useful for browsing around. My local government site is constantly whisking you off to separate sites, each with its own design language and unclear path back to my place of origin.

The team responsible for all this does it right.

My card number and expiration get skimmed at, I assume, gas pumps and such. I call my issuer, tell them the card has been compromised, we review charges and throw out the fraudulent one(s) and they cancel that card number. The underlaying account remains in place, they overnight be a new card (with a new number and exp) rendering the old one useless.

It used to be a huge pain, because after that I would have to update all my stored payments and autopays.

It was exceptionally bad a year or two ago when I developed this method. My card got compromised at least once a year - I'm guessing via skimming at gas pumps, etc.

My spouse (hearing) spent some time immersed in the Deaf community and the learnings she got from just scratching the surface was really eye opening. All of what you said is true - there's no use for many of english adjectives because body language tells it equally as effectively.

The Deaf community was way more nuanced and interesting than I expected. ASL is a really cool language and it's fun and relatively easy to learn.

I've taken this one step further and I now use a full-on burner credit card. It has no autopay or reoccurring payments associated with it so I could light it on fire and not be too upset about it.

I' have all my autopayments set up on a specific card that never leaves a drawer in my house.

End result is that when the burner card gets compromised, as it does several times a year at gas pumps and such, I toss it out, get a new one and it's not all that painful. The autopayment card has yet to be compromised.

I wish it were easier to get temporary card numbers without giving someone else access to my purchase data.

Is this adjusted using standard GAAP accounting practices, or the sort of creative accounting that has been commonplace in the past?

This was an output of a free (now defunct) service that used to accept transcripts and pump out these videos with TTS audio. It led to some hilarious results, usually within niche communities. Around ~2010 these things were everywhere.

Having just experienced a pair of these, it was incredible. I don't have extensive hearing loss beyond what being a teenager listening to music too loud will do for you, but the way these headphones relayed "normal" sounds while rejecting "loud" sounds was one of those - "why aren't these more popular?" moments. It felt truly superhero-esque.

People have literally run out of things to spend money on. What a time to be alive.

At the risk of sounding like a dimwit, because this is the edge of my mental abilities here - is the concept, then, that data _itself_ becomes a regulated asset? Such that no company, should they not desired to participate on your REIT-like scheme, would be able to collect "data" without it being akin to holding a regulated asset?

If only we could have reframed our approach to these situations.

Provided what was sent/defaced/etc wasn't hate speech or punching down on someone else, we should have really used these events as flags for identifying kids who could hone their computer skills into something "productive".

>We are aware of connectivity issues (…) In order to resolve this faster, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) will need to flush their DNS record for slack.com. Please reach out to your networking team to provide them with this information.

Yeah, sure, lemme just pick up the phone and call my ISP and let 'em know to flush their DNS record. I'm sure the T1 rep will absolutely know how to handle that.

Me, every ten seconds:

“… ah, right, Slack is down, no worries…”

“… while I wait, I’ll send so-and-so a message”

“… ah, right, Slack is down, no worries…”

“… while I wait, I’ll send so-and-so a message”

Surely you're not making this statement in good faith because the same virus that gave you Chicken Pox can lay dormant in your body until it reactivates and causes Shingles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

Curious - what changed their minds?

I actually quite like Jira and Confluence. They are the pure distillation of garbage in, garbage out, though.

I think the last couple of years have sown & grown the seeds of concern around some of these buzzy "valuations" for businesses that are years into their execution stage, burning more cash then they make, and still appear to have no path towards addressing that scenario.

The preferred business model still appears to be: 1.)Grow large enough that you can buy your competition and establish a monopoly or 2.)Become large enough that your competition acquires you.

I haven't seen many recent successful pivots from those two stages into a sustainable, long term business.

> The curve is flattened, the goal posts have been moved out of the stadium.

How are you quantifying that? The original intent of flattening the curve was to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system and here we are... overwhelming the healthcare system(s) again. A quick check of capacity of ICU beds in the SE USA shows that on average, hospitals are running 92% capacity(1). Obviously you want right-sized ICU capacity, but I doubt 92% is a comfortable margin.

(1)https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-...

Marketplace is far more active in my area. It's not better, IMHO (the search is all but unusable) but there's more stuff to be had and items showing up in one place (often FB Marketplace) aren't always on the other (CL, offerup, etc.)

I lived in Albania for three years - it's not at the level of the other countries on this list. It's firmly a developing country - water, electricity and other infrastructure are not great in the capital and degrade precipitously in the countryside and second-tier cities.

It's a great place if you're adventurous - if you're looking for stability, it isn't the place for you. Upsides are that Albanians love Americans (as opposed to the Serbs, who often harbor a grudge) and generally speak at least some english. Prices for things like coffee, etc. are low.

Albanians also have not been very good stewards of their environments, either - litter is a constant, nobody gives an "F" about rules and regulations, practically all the endemic animals have disappeared, and waterways, including beaches, are quite polluted. Cities are a hodgepodge of chaotic construction and barely-functioning infrastructure.

I lived roughly here: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3170299,19.8070025,3a,60y,24...

If that kind of scene excites you, perhaps Albania is for you.

Agreed - I've used virtually all the variants starting back with Powerbooks. I think the 2015 MBP Retina was the most durable, reliable machine I've personally used.

My only complaint is non-upgradable RAM - if it had upgradable RAM, I'd keep using mine well into the future.

This doesn't make any sense to my terminal. I think your domain is supposed to be 50km, but my terminal thinks its ku.cou.

It's infuriating, because with the proper messaging, this is a bipartisan issue. Righ, left and everyone between have had identities stolen. Stolen identities cost businesses money - I'd wager millions, maybe billions collectively every year. There's literally no reason why a more secure form of identify verification needs to be a partisan issue.

Which is exactly why it will be :(

Yes! I started with cast iron pans and used them with middling results. I switched over to carbon steel and I'm in love. They're everything I wanted my cast irons to be.

Oh, man, the good old days of Trillian. Yeah, you could be signed into multiple AIM accounts, MSN, ICQ, maybe others later on. It was a total game changer.

Shotspotter concerns me - the city I live in has paid millions for a system and recently expanded it. I am not aware of _any_ data that has been published from the system, even fuzzed data. That doesn't pass the sniff test for me.

They're giving it up because the other car manufacturers are galvanizing around another standard. What Tesla's got a big market share now, once GM, Buick, Ford, etc. all start pumping out plug-in electric vehicles, Tesla runs the risk of having the odd-person-out charging standard.

The decline of welcome "Check out this link" messages is at least partly because everyone is getting the same links from the same sources at any given moment.

If you found it on a surface-level subreddit, a major Instagram account, a major news site, or a big podcast chances are decent that the content in question has already been seen by a fair number of people, and to them, seeing it again has no additional value.

I see this play out hundreds of times in real life where the conversations start with "Did you see...? and "I was listening to a podcast about..."