Yes, I really wanted to buy something like that, the first time I heard about it.
But then, looking through stores, seeing these second-hand mini-sneses being at least 35 pounds, sometimes up to 100, even though I could definitely afford one while I was working full time in UK, just kinda left a really bitter taste in mouth.
Really? Are they really milking everything out of us? I had for a while forgot what name emulator on my phone I wanted to play some pokemon, worked fine. Why would they want to price their devices so high? Just because people can afford it?
I guess it's a cultural thing + buyer's remorse or how you call it, since that's what you've been exposed to for the most of your life.
I grew up in the other part of the world, the only popular games being Quake 1/2/3, Half Life, Star Craft +BW, Diablo 1/2+LoD, Red Alert, CS and later Lineage 2. I have no recollection of Nintendo at all. It was non existent in this part of the world (except the "Dendy", the bootleg hardware clone of NES for us, we all played mario and mortal kombat for a while, but then it died just as quick as it appeared).
Looking at Nintendo games now, I could see why they might be popular with younger kids, buy I'll never buy into the fact that an adult might like them, that just seems like some advertising ...
Today I can't even imagine not gaming on a computer, both AAA, indie games and big name games are shit though.
I can confirm that the above is an accurate description, seeing how I could almost instantly tell the part of the world in question.
FWIW I do think that countries where gaming consoles weren't as common and/or arrived later - i.e. much of Eastern Europe - have a more PC-centric gaming culture in general.
Imagine you're 38 years old, you go like a normal person to a normal persons job interview.
Now your new employer obviously doesn't have access to your DNA, but he has an active subscription to "NaturalCheck(tm)whatever" which does have access to most people's DNAs.
Sorry, we can't hire you, your NaturalCheck came back as red.
You call NaturalCheck, after getting tossed through 2-3 support staff you finally learn your dna has some markers for some kind of cancer. Welcome to a new world.
P.S. If you think this is unrealistic: Credit check? Credit score? I see people have no problem with this stuff...
Technically illegal and enforcably illegal are not the same. People with pregnancies or disabilities get fired all the time; as long as they're not putting "we're firing you for getting prengant" in writing somewhere, chances are they get away with it.
That criminals can commit crimes does not change the fact that this personal data will be easily found. I am still unconvinced that it is the most "sensitive" personal data.
There are many thing that are illegal on paper, but are done every day in practice, especially with anti-discrimination laws. You need to be very blatant about your discrimination.
We all know that illegal discrimination happens. I was replying to the notion that this is a "new world". We have been living in that world for quite a while now. (That law was passed in 2008.)
Potential future employers will easily get a copy of my DNA if they want one. I am not arguing that discrimination is wrong. I am arguing that DNA is not the most "sensitive" personal data.
> Potential future employers will easily get a copy of my DNA if they want one.
They should be forbidden from doing so. Not forbidden from using it for discrimination; forbidden from obtaining or posessing or sequencing an employee's DNA without their express consent, even via a third party.
> I am arguing that DNA is not the most "sensitive" personal data.
"The most" is debatable, and to some extent a matter of opinion. "One of the most" is hard to argue. It's highly personal information.
>> Potential future employers will easily get a copy of my DNA if they want one.
>They should be forbidden from doing so. Not forbidden from using it for discrimination; forbidden from obtaining or posessing or sequencing an employee's DNA without their express consent, even via a third party.
I am imagining that sequencing will be so cheap and ubiquitous that it will be like Facebook glasses (or whatever they are called now). Restaurants will sequence food to ensure provenance and quality. Environments will be sampling the air looking for viruses. Toilets will sequence whatever goes into them to find pathogens, both at the service of their owners and their users. I am not saying this is good. I am saying it is inevitable. Not tomorrow, but it's coming. Given that, I consider the personal data I have choice over to be more sensitive.
I don't think it's a stretch, he put it much better words than I could have done.
P.S. For cooking I've been using exclusively wikipedia for the last 3-5 years. It's actually amazing the kind of content you can find. Next time try searching "cooking method wiki" :)
As an example, once I bought a fresh jar of olives, but I forgot I already had like 1/3 leftover jar in the fridge. So I started wondering what I could make, so given olives are associated with Italy, I thought, there could be some kind of pasta with olives.
So, one wiki article of two paragraphs gives me enough suggestions how to make 2x2x2 dishes (apparently, I just counted the variations).
Anyway, turns out I really like the simplicity of this, so I keep making this now every time I feel fancy! Add some red/white wine, and it's a restaurant grade dish. (notice you don't have to add any x sticks of butter or any kosher whatever, delicious :)
I don't understand, you were looking for olive-based recipes and were happy to find a description of spaghetti with oil and garlic, with no recipe in sight?
I believe the GP was looking for specific cooking advice, while the wikipedia article you link to as expected, simply describes a dish in relatively vague terms. It happens that aglio e olio is such a simple dish that you don't really need more than that simple description, but if you were looking to bake a cake or cook a boeuf bourgignon, I don't think turning to wikipedia for help would be wise.
As a matter of fact, never heard of "boeuf bourgignon", so I had to check it's wiki page.
1. Fry meat + <<whatever else usually grows in Europe, or in/around France>> (givin' it's a french dish).
2. Once done, smash some whatever red wine on top and get it into a shape that looks like food.
3. Add gradually whatever spices and herbs are known to grow in Europe at the 'correct' time during 1 and 2. (apparently nowadays it's popular to smash 3 peppers cumin coriander and some brown sugar all into one big pile and cook it, with a whole stick of butter, regardless of dish! wtf?)
0. Pan-fry separately either some onions, mushrooms or potatoes (I hate boiled potatoes, and carrots), with, again, whatever spices and herbs can grow in France. (personal preference, don't like mixing way too many stuffs together, they'll usually lose all taste)
FIN. Put both dishes together when serving per plate or table. Add another load of ground peppers and the same herbs on top while the food is still hot, for aroma.
Wikipedia still looks like a great resource for scouting recipes for me.
Except for cakes. Cakes are magic. haven't managed to get them to work properly for some reason, regardless of recipes. My best guess store cakes use some kind of cheap industrial grade oil/margarine which is not readily sold so I never managed to replicate them..
They have https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Table_of_Contents as a separate project. Wikipedia articles should be structured as reference descriptions as opposed to how-tos, for the sake of readability and maintainability.
Back in the 60's, my mom bought a can of barbeque sauce which had on the back a recipe for "Barbie Cups". (Recipes for what you can make with a product were commonplace then.) It became a family favorite. My mom passed a long time ago, but it's still a family favorite. I've never seen them anyplace else.
I'd rather encourage people to post useful things on their own sites. Maybe, hopefully, one day, both google and other search engines might start penalizing content farms and have personal blogs and websites surface again.
> Reddit is almost the only useful site left to find actual things written by humans.
The one, most important thing (the way I see it), is never actually mentioned. I'm gonna call it: "organic advertising". I will never, consciously, take any advice I see on reddit/hn.
Last time It was obvious for me, I was browsing/procrastinating throgh r/all, and somebody, a "real human" with an actual "real" account (I checked his history) posted a drawing made by his kid. Second-most upvoted comment is blatant Crayola advert (checked that guys history, every 10-15th comment he was praising $random_top_us_brand). Rest of the thread, at least another dozen Crayola mentions, by real people, who religiously believe in Crayola...
Take a lot of top threads, there's always a swarm of seemingly "real" accounts religiously promoting most American top brands. Funnily enough, usually 1 brand per thread. Somehow fans of X never see the Y threads, and vice-versa...
I refuse to believe actual people will go out of their way to defend/promote/etc their $favorite_brand. Only on reddit/hn.
I remember a comment linked in bestof where someone who works in advertising explained how he would build up a bunch of Reddit accounts, each with a different profile so when an opportunity to tell a fabricated story came up, he could place a product plug in an AskReddit thread or similar.
He wouldn't even directly name the product. As an example, if he were selling a particular brand of boots, he would mention how great his boots performed but not mention the brand. Naturally someone will ask for the brand as a recommendation and voilà he plugs the product in the most natural fashion. It doesn't seem like an ad because he was just directly answering another user's question. But the entire build-up to that moment was manufactured to sell the product.
I'm starting to accept that maybe our current social media sites and aggregators are inherently vulnerable to manipulation. IRL social structures without broadcasting capabilities has fewer of these problems, since the reward is less.
Maybe there's some way to have the best of both worlds, but I don't know how.
Broadcasting capabilities is fine, but not when broadcasting is the only choice we get. Narrowcasting to a select audience is just as important, and this is what smaller sites (even including HN itself) can excel at.
There is a similar scheme going rampant in youtube comment sections, where a comment starts off with a couple of relevant sentences, then goes on shilling something, and there is a fake discussion going on under the comment, and everything has a lot of thumbs ups.
This is especially prevalent under videos discussing financial topics.
> I refuse to believe actual people will go out of their way to defend/promote/etc their $favorite_brand. Only on reddit/hn.
You might, but people have been getting in stupid arguments defending largely irrelevant preferences for as long as human history has been recorded. Now, various brand-PR agents certainly do fan these flames, but there are really people who think your cheap beer preferences says important things about you and will happily spend shockingly large amounts of time telling how that is wrong. A lot of people.
If their in-group likes brand A, and the out-group likes product B or C, staggeringly wasteful displays of such preference basically define fashion.
It's true. Those originated as bootleg sales at county fair booths in the 90s, along with the concrete geese. The writer of Calvin and Hobbes was actually quite against them and merchandising in general, having seen the saturation of Garfield merchandise in the 80s.
> I refuse to believe actual people will go out of their way to defend/promote/etc their $favorite_brand. Only on reddit/hn.
I will. It takes such an amount of effort these days to find a product that's both: a) privacy respecting, b) of sufficiently high technical quality, c) decently priced, and d) meeting all or most of my use cases, that when I find one, I will promote it to people similar to me until I'm blue in the face. Because it might save them literal years of searching, depending on the product.
Finding a product worth recommending is an exception. Some people will promote them just based on that, without expecting any compensation.
That's pretty counter to my experience, particularly on HN. I don't see a lot of brand evangelism on either site, really, but, maybe that's because I tend to stay away from subreddits on r/all. I'd think the amount you'd expect to see happening "organically" is small enough that it could be overlooked.
I started making something similar back in the time when I was trying to learn some php (self-hosted LAMP setup). Stopped mostly because I wasn't able to find a proper English dictionary for NLP.
Second reason was the inconvenience of opening my local webpage and clicking "new entry", then selecting from my tag suggestions or adding a few more new tags.. every time I wanted to add a new note.
Creating a new text document, copy-pasting into it, then closing it and clicking yes to save, then drag and dropping it onto my "notes" folder on my Desktop, somehow seems easier... No titles, no tags, but I could always rest assured that, when I'll need it, It would be there, somewhere in that "notes" folder, even years later.
Jokes aside, I didn't actually realize people are into these "knowledge management" systems.
I was wondering if one were to open source a self-hosted app like this, what license you could chose such that individual people would be able to install/modify/use/etc a copy for personal use, even commercial, even if employed, even work computers. Yet disallow a company from modifying/customizig/deploying it for multiple employees, have the company pay a formal fee? Are there any examples of such licenses in the wild?
I don't think that's the case. AWS regularly runs AGPL-licensed systems as service in direct competition with the developers. AGPL, for the most part, patches some holes in the GPL license.
I could be wrong, but there seems to be a good amount of content regarding projects releasing AGPL to prevent commercial competitors from using the source code against the creator.
What strikes me, this was done in early 2021, yet the propaganda machine is still going strong with that whole persistent cough and fever thing... It's like there are entire establishments trying to guard information from normal people for some reason.
Case in point: I have just moved out of the UK last week, and to my surprise, Google is slowly starting to return better and better search results. I (suspected) I had two flareups of herpeses after both my pfizer vaccines when I was there, so I searched then on Google, zero, whole result pages filled with nhs links and other websites with copy-pasted content from nhs and the likes (90% telling me to go see a doctor...). I was going crazy, joking with friends that the vaccine might not be what they're telling us it is, given the wide range of 'undocumented' side effects I got from it.
Now that I'm searching from Moldova, actual first result was a paper documenting two doctors with herpes zoster after vaccination. Apparently it does happen, from both the vaccine and the infection. Guess I'm not crazy.
I've often gotten a cold sore after a virus, I always just assumed it was probably that immunity is a bit wonky after an infection. In fact I think "cold sore" is so called exactly because a cold can set it off. I'd be extremely surprised if Covid was any different, if for no other reason than many colds are also coronaviruses.
Also to add a data point, 7 of the first 10 results for "herpes covid" from a UK IP are papers about it, including the first 5. The NHS page comes in at result 7, one is (allegedly) a science news website, and number 10 is a general news website.
Googling exactly "herpes covid" from my IP, gives 10/10 papers on the first page. On second page, I got 4 more papers, a paper disproving it, one reuters article about misuse of antivirals, and 4 articles about new drugs. This is fun.
Thinking now, I might have been in some kind of Google-bubble at that time, since I started my search with symptoms at first, and later I started making connections. So I guess Google decided I need to see a doctor :)
I've been logged in into the same google account for at least 10 years.
Google knows exactly who I am, and what I am/want/etc. Yet the moment I landed in the UK, suddenly, I'm English, most of the times getting just *.co.uk results, as if the rest of the world doesn't exist anymore.
I'll be honest, it was helpful to know at what hour the Iceland and Aldi next to my house will open/close, and I didn't even had to tell it my address or turn my location on (this is amazing actually), and when it suggested where to find a dentist since I didn't know the city... But that's pretty much it.
I got a cheap HIFI (I think) Samsung system from 20+ years ago (paid $100 second-hand at that time), I use it as an amplifier through aux for the last 15 years (2x15W). Beside that, still have my tiny pc speakers, even older, from around the win98 era.
Neither seem to be asking for any firmware update, seem to be working fine so far. Haven't seen any other speakers in stores so far which could beat in quality the pair of Samsungs I got, they're basically monitors..
They now make soundbars, sonoses, bluetooth speakers... it amazes me that people put up with all of this, it's truly amazing people are convinced this is better than the old, wired, boring stuff.
If you buy what I could call a standard/proper home theater receiver, it is likely to last you a lifetime. But with Sonos you are buying cutting edge features that have not been tried and tested in the long term and are likely to change.
The idea with Sonos was that they wouldn't release new hardware each year, but that the hardware would improve through software updates. For example, I have had two Play 3 speakers and the Sub since 2016. These worked great, then Sonos released TruePlay which allowed your speakers to configure themselves based on the space you were in. Its important to note that these speakers have been around since 2011 and 2013, so not a short space of time when it comes to technology.
The amazing thing with Sonos, was that anyone in the house could open up the app and play music through WiFi AND have a home theatre setup that could play from the TV. The beauty of the app is that it operates on its own, it doesn't rely on your mobile phone once you have left the house.
Sonos basically reinvented my Samsung remote. (+ the 8 meter cable I made as a 14 year old kid so I can connect it to the TV which was on the other side of the living room, cause my parents asked me if I could connect both for a house party).
I think the Sonos home theatre which consists of two rear channels, a sub and a dolby atmos playbar would give your cheap two Samsung speakers a run for their money. The beauty of it all is that don't need to plug anything in apart from power and a HDMI cable.
It's important to note that the creators of Sonos speakers were ex-JBL engineers. Not just randoms who wanted to create a smart speaker.
1. - Not OP, but I believe the moment you put some music/radio on speakers for other people to listen, legally, you become a broadcaster. You can't just play anything you want, you need a license :) I recall my last workplace mentioning they're paying a few thousands a year to stream just one radio station, same 20-30 songs 24/7...
> You really think that owner operators repair their own trucks? That doesn't make any economic sense. This is not a hobby, they need to drive to make money not to play truck repairman.
Oh yes! I have seen this unfold once in front of my own eyes, a real spectacle. Driver working for a driver company servicing a distribution company, tries to start the truck, something wrong with brakes, truck is driveable though, gets off, calls boss (company policy). One hour late boss finally arrives, gets in, unhooks trailer, parks the truck three meters to the side, gives the driver a different truck to take. 1 hour more paperwork to process, the trailer finally leaves the distribution warehouse 2.5 hours late. The driver company is apparently paying both late fees and parking fees to logistics company while this ordeal unfolds..
~4AM (5 hours later) a truck fixing mini-buss from a 3rd party truck fixing company arrives with two technicians. They plug into the truck, their diagnostics software shows nothing wrong, they leave.
Next day a different truck fixing company shows up and finally tows the truck after dancing around it for almost two hours with diagnostics software.
Quite a few thousands of pounds burned in just two days of people following rules and policies...
This is apparently "normal", this makes much "economic sense".
But then, looking through stores, seeing these second-hand mini-sneses being at least 35 pounds, sometimes up to 100, even though I could definitely afford one while I was working full time in UK, just kinda left a really bitter taste in mouth.
Really? Are they really milking everything out of us? I had for a while forgot what name emulator on my phone I wanted to play some pokemon, worked fine. Why would they want to price their devices so high? Just because people can afford it?
I refuse to buy it, it's that simple.