This is the wild power of branding with good marketing. Gillette figured out how to hack an entire generation’s brain into believing they need to spend $40 bucks for a small pack of razor blades that will be dull within weeks.
Amazing. Let the sheep be sheep and keep your eyes open to more cases of this.
GTA 6 is just going to be client app to a universe of micro transactions. They should probably just give it away free.
So much this here in Bangkok as well, and in addition nobody has any clue which side to walk on.
You are constantly approaching head-on with a pedestrian who doesn’t know where to walk and weaving around wandering groups that wall 3-4 people wide.
I used mailspring for about 6 months because I love the idea and it looks beautiful. But when you check the forums you see people are complaining about major bugs that seemed to remain unfixed for eternity, developer never comments.
Harvard has something like 52 billion dollars in endowment. It could afford to pay for all students tuition from just the return on the endowment.
I know we’re in a meme community but this did get me thinking… Not only is the Earth spinning but it’s also in an orbit around the Sun which is also orbiting around the center of the Milky Way which is moving through space relative to other galaxies and so on.
Do we have enough information to calculate a position in space in the future for Earth without a fixed reference other than current point?
Smart move by the new owner, anything else would have looked out of touch
Had one for a while. It’s ok but the places you can safely ride are more limited than you think. E-scooters are a far superior invention for mobility.
My TikTok feed is full of content that I find interesting and educational, from creators who work hard to make something valuable.
For them, banning TikTok means the work they put in to curating an audience will be partially lost, they’ll retain only the followers who find them on another app. If they are monetizing, they’ll potentially have to start over. That may discourage some who are just getting started from developing their craft.
If china, bytedance, meta, or any other platform is collecting user data in such a way as to be a national threat they definitely need to cut it out and this should be regulated. For example, it should be impossible to identify the location of military generals based on where their wives access TikTok from, or who’s having an affair with who based on proximity to each other, or to develop a vast dataset of individually identifiable profiles of every user that could be used to selectively damage their character.
Aside from these problems, which are potentially solvable, I think the individual creator/maker economy is an awesome way to give more power to the people.
I think there are two answers to this. First, there is a long standing tradition in the US that the new guy doesn’t put the old guy in jail.
Look at so many other countries and so much of world history to see how that style of governing is problematic to the transfer of power from one regime to the next and why it causes its own set of problems.
The second, and arguably the most important, is that the American people as a whole can elect whoever the fuck they want to be president, no matter what any mid level beurocrat, judge, lawmaker or even current president or other official says about the issue, even if said person is in jail at the time.
The law and its punishments should still apply to all, including the president and former presidents, however.
I’ve never really spent much time with uv, I’ll give it a try. It seems like it takes a few steps out of the process and some guesswork too.
Python developer here. Venv is good, venv is life. Every single project I create starts with
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install {everything I need}
pip3 freeze > requirements.txt
Now write code!
Don’t forget to update your requirements.txt using pip3 freeze again anytime you add a new library with pip.
If you installed a lot of packages before starting to develop with virtual environments, some libraries will be in your OS python install and won’t be reflected in pip freeze and won’t get into your venv. This is the root of all evil. First of all, don’t do that. Second, you can force libraries to install into your venv despite them also being in your system by installing like so:
pip3 install --ignore-installed mypackage
If you don’t change between Linux and windows most libraries will just work between systems, but if you have problems on another system, just recreate the whole venv structure
rm -rf venv (…make a new venv, activate it) pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Once you get the hang of this you can make Python behave without a lot of hassle.
This is a case where a strength can also be a weakness.
He seems to lack competence in many ways, but some of the guys around him are a whole lot more conniving and potentially effective.
It’s also not likely Trump feels any urge to hire a somewhat moderate(ish) cabinet of professionalls like he did last time. I assume he learned his lesson given that they all eventually turned on him.
So let’s see. I think he’s spent the past 4 years surrounding himself with some bad hombres, to borrow a saying, and now he’s ready to act with fewer guardrails.
The problem with telegram is the recent revelations that there is little to no backend privacy. So I’m not totally sure who your userbase might be?
Open source afficionados who also don’t mind random cops trolling through their contacts and messages? Seems like a rather small overlap.
Or maybe I’ve misunderstood the recent media attention that telegram has gotten or your proposal.
It’s important to realize that in most democracies this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of the system. The founders of these systems wanted to ensure that major decisions were deliberated, not rushed into, and that there wasn’t a lot of room for an executive power to make snap choices that would determine the future of the nation.
What is the state of I2P vs Tor these days?
The HOA is the owners. The owners vote in some board members who do the work on behalf of the majority of owners.
Sometimes the HOA hires some 3rd party management company to handle stuff, but in our case we felt it was wasted money because we would care more about the results. In the end I can see why a lot of owner boards do that as the day-to-day of running the place is obnoxious.
The public spaces were on our property, so our responsibility.
Chuck Testa!!!
I was the president of my HOA. Somewhat not intentionally.
It was my first home, a condo, and I bought it at launch right after it was built. After about 6 months of living there, a neighbor approached me and said the whole rest of the board had flaked out, and would I like to be president of the HOA?
I said sure, it seems interesting and I definitely want the value of my ownership to be protected.
So me, him, and another guy formed a new board.
Oh man, the messes we started to uncover. The super low dues didn’t even cover the trash removal, hallway electric lighting bill, elevator maintenance contract… Much less any landscaping. No wonder the place was looking rough.
And of course there was no budget to put money away for long term needs like reroofing or whatever.
So we worked hard on a plan to propose to the owners to increase the dues about 70% so that we’d have a well landscaped place and hopefully no surprise expenses ever because of an ample rainy day fund.
Less than 10% of the owners even showed up to the HOA meeting, so we didn’t meet quorum.
We tried again, and finally got quorum after knocking on doors and asking for people to please come and vote.
This was just one issue. I’d get regular calls like hey, somebody dumped an old mattress by the dumpster. Can you call the removal company (the regular trash service wouldn’t take that kind of thing). Or calls like “there’s some sick trees in the front yard, when are you finally going to get an arborist out here?” And so and so’s room is leaving trash in the hallway, can you please go talk to them?
I resigned within a year. Screw those guys and I’ll never co-own without getting to choose my partners again.
Thank you for the well reasoned insightful post