> As for other stuff, work on cars for few decades
That's the experience I'm drawing from when I point out that "virtually no other part degrades in performance the moment you use it" isn't based in reality. Everything is constantly wearing out. Anything rubbing on another thing, any fluid being pushed through a hole, anything that might be reacting with another thing, its all slowly getting more and more out of spec.
Are you really going to tell me a car with a couple hundred thousand miles on it running all original parts (assuming they didn't literally break apart yet) is likely to be anywhere near the same performance as when the car had 100 miles on it? Its not. The shocks aren't going to be absorbing anywhere near as much bounce, the cylinders likely don't have the same compression, those fuel injectors are likely tired, that coolant pump is worn down and barely able to pump coolant anymore, your timings are likely not optimal anymore due to slack in the timing chain or belt, your spark plugs aren't making as full or reliable of spark, etc.
And even then, a part of that break-in period of those parts is the part's performance actively changing over the life of the part with pieces of the part literally degrading, just pretty quickly and positively for performance as opposed to negatively. That positive slope of performance change is a pretty early hump though, otherwise as I mentioned you'd be taking me up for ensuring all your tires are near-bald (but not quite, they haven't actually failed yet!) all the time.
I rendered this map from the OSM source with some filters so some locations could be excluded. Anyway, I can manually add any locations. Please write to me via the contact form with a list of locations to add
I tried my hardest to read this with good intentions and I finished it. I thought the "20m read" label at the top would be misleading given how small my scrollbar was. But it did indeed take a while.
This website is (1) saying nothing of substance, and (2) impossible to read. While the actual content of the article isn't worth discussing, this is a great example of what bad writing looks like. There's not a single paragraph in sight.
Yea since the old FB the dial of human/friends posts vs human attention harvesting posts & ads has been slowly changing so that users wouldn't notice it immediately.
Equally, customers are not entitled to make set the terms, or pricing decisions for businesses. They can always move their custom elsewhere if they disagree with ToS or pricing.
1. Power on laptop (it is powered off every day at 5 PM).
2. Log into VPN.
3. Log into Okta.
4. Log into AWS accounts, one per container (about 7 or 8).
5. Log into Docker Desktop.
6. Log into AWS CLI to get daily credentials.
The whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes. A former colleague referred to this as my "mise en place", or my daily arranging of my working environment. Like the article suggests, I find this offers me a "centering" before I open my email, calendar and missed chat messages and get started for the day.
I would never use it on my MacBook or any machine but I understand why technical people would want to experiment with something dangerous like that. It’s novel, exciting, and might inspire some real practical products in the future (not just highly experimental alpha software).
Let me also register my disinterest in another platform that mimics TikTok.
Brainrot is brainrot regardless of whether it's "federated and open-source" or not. And BTW, 95% of the people on TikTok don't care about either of those two things.
n=1 but they help me hit flow states. almost like they provide 'context' before x, helping me to 'prepare' (or be ready?), filter out the noise, focus. similar in group setting - shared context.
i suppose could be 'placebo' but would it matter if the result is what i want, and i can't easily attain it other ways?
i do feel it is somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy - i am essentially practicing something so getting better at it. not enough reason though to 'practice' an alternative, at least for me personally.
Are you volunteering to provide the free technical support resources for these refurbished laptops?
That's really the attractiveness of Chromebooks. Students don't need more than a web browser for most things day to day. Heck, I don't need much more than a web browser day to day.
The quant fund use case is the most interesting angle here. WARN filings have the rare property of being legally mandated with specific timing (60-day advance notice), which makes the signal horizon predictable in a way that most alternative data is not.
The big caveat: compliance is uneven. Companies under 100 employees are exempt, and there is a documented pattern of employers paying WARN Act penalties retroactively rather than filing -- especially in fast-moving situations where 60 days advance notice is operationally inconvenient. So the signal has systematic gaps at exactly the moments of highest market interest.
Have you looked at coverage rates vs. announced layoffs (e.g., correlation with Challenger Gray reports or JOLTS)? That gap number is basically the signal noise floor for any quant strategy built on this data.
I guess you are assuming that all human attention spans are highly correlated, and all want to consume the same Marvel movies, so that only the people who work on Marvel movies are employed.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm actually working on adding more models to the platform soon. The multi-shot video feature in Seedance 2.0 will let you create entire video sequences with consistent characters and settings across multiple scenes. Would be great to hear what specific use cases you're interested in.
If it's on topic, you can post the articles here. But don't post too much. Most of the times it's better to add a few minutes later a comment explaining you are the author and will reply questions.
Yes, but we have a perfectly serviceable term for local software already: "local software".
To me, "local-first software" means something slightly different. The term was coined by this essay[1], which says:
> Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices
> This means that while local-first apps keep their data in local storage on each device, it is also necessary for that data to be synchronized across all of the devices on which a user does their work.
But this is clearly not what's going on here. This project is just local software, like we've had forever.
If a fancy new "local first" buzzword makes local-only software seem more sexy, then I suppose I don't want to get too mad about it. I really like local software. But the autist in me likes it when technical terms have a well defined meaning.
The code is open source though, you can read it. The cli examples point you towards the relevant bits of the actual database code to read.
For my own sake, I'm not sure what is so surprising here. "Turn up a hot second replica and fail over to it intentionally behind a global load balancer." Is pretty well trodden ground.
Now apply this argument to Saudi Arabia and ask yourself why Iran is on the receiving end of this propaganda and not the former. America gives zero fucks about the oppressed minorities of this world, in fact, it is to blame for a lot of this oppression. War and starvation never improved any society.
> I don't know the exact numbers but around 2017 there were almost as many contractors at Google as FTEs working in the same offices on the same projects, but getting half or third of the FTE salaries.
Contractors get overtime. That’s why. It’s the same thing at most big companies when you compare contract and FTE for any position - one has higher salary and the other has overtime. It’s common for the contractor to actually have a higher annual (cash) comp.
That's the experience I'm drawing from when I point out that "virtually no other part degrades in performance the moment you use it" isn't based in reality. Everything is constantly wearing out. Anything rubbing on another thing, any fluid being pushed through a hole, anything that might be reacting with another thing, its all slowly getting more and more out of spec.
Are you really going to tell me a car with a couple hundred thousand miles on it running all original parts (assuming they didn't literally break apart yet) is likely to be anywhere near the same performance as when the car had 100 miles on it? Its not. The shocks aren't going to be absorbing anywhere near as much bounce, the cylinders likely don't have the same compression, those fuel injectors are likely tired, that coolant pump is worn down and barely able to pump coolant anymore, your timings are likely not optimal anymore due to slack in the timing chain or belt, your spark plugs aren't making as full or reliable of spark, etc.
And even then, a part of that break-in period of those parts is the part's performance actively changing over the life of the part with pieces of the part literally degrading, just pretty quickly and positively for performance as opposed to negatively. That positive slope of performance change is a pretty early hump though, otherwise as I mentioned you'd be taking me up for ensuring all your tires are near-bald (but not quite, they haven't actually failed yet!) all the time.