This appears to be another take on a previously discussed study
One discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549436
Readit NewsCongratulations to the Figma team! Well earned. It was such an exciting product when it hit the scene. It became the standard so fast, and it was easy to see why. When there were talks of them being bought for $20 billion I thought it was a great deal for Adobe - and that was before seeing these impressive financials.
I will admit I have waned enthusiasm a on Figma over the past couple of years. I find the UI churn confusing. The new features, i.e. dev mode and variables, feel out of place. I find the plugin ecosystem cumbersome. Doing simple things has become complex. I'm putting out real "who moved my cheese?" energy here I know. I suppose I'm wondering if others feel the same.
dcchuck commented on Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/edward
Congestion pricing is great. I routinely end up in Manhattan on Friday and Canal Street at 5pm is running smoothly (not packed end to end with idling cars as before), the city looks like a regular city instead of the packed cars honking and spewing tire dust and exhaust. Long gone are the people that would drive into LES on Friday night with their expensive cars and blare loud music and rev their engines. It’s a different environment and everyone is loving it that I’ve talked to.
Really? I must admit I have not noticed it. I've had nightmare trips trying to get into the city still during traditional heavy traffic times. Frankly I've thought more "the pandemic is finally over" than I did "congestion pricing is working" over the past few months.
I'll be curious what happens come winter time. Midtown becomes gridlock in the evenings. I do not expect that to change.
All that being said - probably my own biases skewing things. I will keep my eyes peeled!
I'm generally an AI skeptic, but it seems awfully early to make this call. Aside from the obvious frontline support, artist, junior coder etc, a whole bunch of white collar "pay me for advice on X" jobs (dietician, financial advice, tax agent, etc), where the advice follows set patterns only mildly tailored for the recipient, seem to be severely at risk.
Example: I recently used Gemini for some tax advice that would have cost hundreds of dollars to get from a licensed tax agent. And yes, the answer was supported by actual sources pointing to the tax office website, including a link to the office's well-hidden official calculator of precisely the thing I thought I would have to pay someone to figure out.
I actually paid for tax advice from one of those big companies (it was recommended - last time I will take that person's recommendations!). I was very disappointed in the service. It felt like the person I was speaking to on the phone would have been better of just echoing the request into AI. So I did just that as I waited on the line. I found the answer and the tax expert "confirmed" it.
> Why pretend to be smart and play it safe? True understanding is rare and hard-won, so why fake it until you are sure of it? Isn't it more advantageous to embrace your stupidity/ignorance and be underestimated?
Found this beautifully-phrased gem in the conclusion.
Be it in research or otherwise I'm sure so many can relate to this in their younger years.
I agree! Real "Fear is the mind killer vibes"
dcchuck commented on Three AM 911 call, 9 AM salesman a.wholelottanothing.org/w... · Posted by u/wawayanda
Thank you for sharing. I particularly enjoyed the call out where you highlight what you learned from the incident. Took the post from fear-brain to information-brain for me (don't mind my curiosity haha).
I had a much less intrusive incident but equally "alarming" ;). The apartment I live in has hard wired smoke/carbon monoxide alarms (with backup battery). One night, ~2am 1 of them starts beeping that the battery is dead. I confirm the breaker didn't flip or anything...finally decided to complete disassemble it and get some sleep. 4 of these in the apartment. Head hits the pillow and a second one goes off! Take all 4 down and live dangerously for an evening.
In the morning I do my research - turns out these things just start doing that after 10 years. "Get a new one!" it peeps incessantly.
Shame me please - as I bought replacements. I'll save this post for myself in 10 years so at least I can be the one to say "I told you so".
dcchuck commented on RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R github.com/rstudio/rstudi... · Posted by u/_benj
As someone who learned most of my initial coding abilities through R and RStudio in a data science context, and since moved on to more “standard” languages and IDEs, I’ve yet to find anything that comes close to the flexibility and integration of RStudio for hacking together data analytics.
VS Code/Python has made some major improvements in the past couple years but it’s still very clunky compared to the ease of running R code line by line without having to start up a debug instance. And now with copilot the most frustrating parts of R (such as remembering all the Tidyverse syntax) have been abstracted away.
Came here to share that same experience. RStudio truly made me feel "close" to the data.
dcchuck commented on Super Mario 64 on the Web probablykam.github.io/Mar... · Posted by u/nazgulsenpai
To be clear, this is not emulation: this is likely a WebGL compiliation of the decompiled port, hence widescreen: https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64
Thank you for the clarification
dcchuck commented on Super Mario 64 on the Web probablykam.github.io/Mar... · Posted by u/nazgulsenpai
Very impressive!
I agree!
I picked up [RetroPie](https://retropie.org.uk/) again during the pandemic. I'm sure many did the same haha.
That's when I learned [N64 emulation is difficult](https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Optimization-for-Nintendo-64/).
Well done.
On the day this was published (2025-02-07) it closed at $529.29. Yesterday it closed at $238.37.
Source - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IT/history/
Victory lap submission?