All US companies should boycott the UK in solidarity. See how fast the regulators walk back the bill.
Readit Newsandiareso commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox
I actually thought it was pretty hilarious. It's supposed to be ridiculous. (Am a parent and also own Macs).
[EDIT]: Archived Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFUmPbODbI
> How times have changed.
They really haven't.
'Web apps' are terrible, both from an end-user and developer perspective. They are a bloated, overcomplicated mess.
What!? Yikes that’s an overstatement. I prefer to use web apps over downloading an app to do a single action and then deleting.
There are lots of good web apps. The problem is that companies more often than not prioritize native (let’s be real, react native) apps over web. And not mobile web, desktop web. So you have a second thought of a second thought when designing and building a mobile friendly web app.
I build most of my clients’ apps as web apps. I target their main platform of choice first and branch out from there. But if I start with desktop, I pre-plan for mobile as well.
You can have high performing web apps if you continually optimize for state and rendering performance.
Do these rules only apply to the United States?
Yes
Is this not what the credit card system (with chargebacks and liability shift) is supposed to counter more generally? Lots of these arguments could equally be applied to a shopping mall but we don't require all stores within a mall to use the same merchant services provider.
This is probably the best analogy, however I think what might be different is there is somewhat high of a bar for the merchant/vendor to be operating a legal and legitimate business. On the internet and in the App Store, it’s kind of a Wild West.
Edit: Maybe not globalizing App Store apps would resolve this? Or at least if you want to operate an app in a country, you need to incorporate in that country too? I think that might make it harder for overseas companies to get away with fraud.
andiareso commented on Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control figure.ai/news/helix... · Posted by u/Philpax
Seriously, what's with all of these perceived "high-end" tech companies not doing static content worth a damn.
Stop hosting your videos as MP4s on your web-server. Either publish to a CDN or use a platform like YouTube. Your bandwidth cannot handle serving high resolution MP4s.
/rant
andiareso commented on My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation cosive.com/blog/my-washin... · Posted by u/tashicorp
> So £64 for the lot - about US$ 80. If you're in tech, the value of the time you spend driving to the store will probably be higher than all the tools you'll buy while you're there.
Unless you are billing by the hour (ie in consulting), you are driving to the store during the time you would be parking your butt in the couch and viewing, reading or thinking about something that does not generate cash. At least that is what it is for me. If you literally lose money by driving to the store, your argument holds.
> And if you're thinking "Oh at those prices the tools will be low quality" I can assure you, they'll be good enough for this job.
Maybe they are, maybe they are not. I tinker with cars and motorcycles. Every single piece of my tools is Snap-On or something really comparable. If I use a cheap Chinese brand and round off a nut, that is really going to hurt. It will hurt more than what it hurt to buy a socket set for close to $200.
Also, if you are approaching something the first time, low quality tools will get you bad experience that will resist, maybe prevent you from trying it again. I might be one of those weird ones, but for me, Buy once, cry once.
I agree that some high quality tools are required to not escalate your problem, but I like the incremental purchase methodology for most tools.
Buying cheap (good enough) allows you to figure out what tools you actually need to upgrade on. I had a lot of pain in my high school days fixing a beater car which required me to purchase some higher end socket sets. You learn from some of those stripped bolts which tools to upgrade, but you don't want a whole garage full of high quality tools you don't really use.
If you have a stable hobby, buy quality first, and maybe build up inventory when you can so you don't have to make frequent trips.
If you don't and you just want to do some odd things spanning multiple trades, buy cheap and upgrade if you rely on them frequently.
You can find a nice list of privacy-respecting analytics tools on European Alternatives [0], including mine, Pirsch [1].
I've been in this space for ~3 1/2 years, so if you have any questions, please let me know :)
[0] https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...
Is Pirsch a fork of Plausible? It looks nearly identical.
Here's the website for the analysis: https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county%2C-nv
That is better to scrutinize than the press release.
They also release a YouTube video and it looks heavily AI generated. The conversation sounds like Google’s podcast AI.
The statistics, graphs, and conclusions don’t make any sense.