So you're betting your rent money on future royalties which might never appear even if piracy were impossible?
That's how businesses are created.
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plater commented on Think U.S. Gas Prices at $5 a Gallon Are Bad? Try $10 globelynews.com/world/gas... · Posted by u/bearmarketbill
The median US household income is around 60k. The average consumer in the US cannot afford an EV as well as the cost to maintain one. Not to mention the very limited charging options available for travel.
Once EVs are produced in the same volumes as combustion cars today then the price for an EV will be the same, and probably lower as EV cars are much simpler and contain less components. Right now there is probably also some markup added just because the manufacturer can charge more for an EV (status, more demand than production capacity etc).
The charging time will likely also go down further which could allow for the batteries to become smaller for most use cases and thus the price come down even more.
And on top of that, if energy prices continue to stay high, the SUV/Truck era might slowly die away and smaller/lighter/aerodynamic cars with better mileage will become the norm. Less metal and smaller motor needed means cheaper car.
plater commented on Always Own Your Platform (2019) alwaysownyourplatform.com... · Posted by u/ddtaylor
> Cloudflare's not going to shut your web presence down because you're "competing" with them or just plain doing something they don't like.
While I agree with this distinction, I'm not entirely sure that this is wholly accurate.
The situations in which Cloudflare might have to intervene with legal content are probably pretty limited (e.g. content that would be legal, yet very controversial, or expose something about the company or something like that), but it's still possible.
As a thought experiment, consider a situation in which a person might be using a Russian CDN and would be hosting content about Ukrainian refugees (no intentions of getting political here, it's just a good example) - now I'm pretty sure that Russia might just make it illegal, but even without it being explicitly legal, a few strings could be pulled and the service to that site shut down. What about a Chinese CDN that expresses views that are different than the ruling government would approve of.
Maybe there should be an asterisk there - depending on the nature of your content, have both the services you use and the platform that you own be somewhere, where it won't cause problems.
But you can always change CDN provider in a few minutes, an hour or a day.
You cannot move from Twitter to SomeOtherUnknownPlatform.com or from the App Store to UnknownAppStore.com if those platforms decide they don't want you there. Well you can, but no one will ever see you again. You cannot even move to a well known platform in case your followers are not there (or don't use that OS). At least, it will take years to move them over.
plater commented on Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager firefly-iii.org/... · Posted by u/yessirwhatever
I mean, a windows installer (or RPM) that doesn't require a background process so that more people can access the value of the software. Even Flatpak or something if we are talking Linux specific.
Having Docker and other "enthusiast" methods of running software makes it less accessible. Having a web-stack as the goto method of writing software doesn't make sense if it limits the audience that would gain value from it.
I say this as someone who professionally maintains a web application that comes with a Windows installer, macOS traditional installation and a Linux RPM. All with desktop icons and it being pretty invisible to the user that it is a web application aside from the HTML-looking UI style.
The software is for personal finance, it isn't for a niche that makes the install/access method particuarly sane. If it were software for managing a cluster of X-thing or something ... maybe.
"a web application that comes with a Windows installer, macOS traditional installation and a Linux RPM".
I'm curious; how do you implement this (I assume you do not use Electron)?
Wouldn't a PWA (installed PWA) make the web app integrate the way you say with desktop icons, separate window, drag & drop etc?
plater commented on Researchers power an ARM processor for a year using algae uk.pcmag.com/processors/1... · Posted by u/elorant
least useful possible link for the material
abstract/purchasing link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/EE/D2EE0...
university press release: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-create-reliab...
not clear what the clock rate of the M0 was, or the actual power consumption. clocked low enough, you could run one of those off of happy thoughts.
Yes, you are right, knowing the clock rate and duty cycle would be interesting to know. And knowing what the MCU is actually doing. Powering an MCU from a lemon or potato is nothing new and has been done with more than 30 year old MCU's, implementing clock's etc.
More challenging is probably to power a complete system, i.e. everything around the MCU, like driving Ethernet or WiFi or BT as well as some analog sensors and the like. Embedded MCU's do not require much and if you can spread out the computing needs over time, no big deal.
Look at Casio watches and the like which you can run for 10 years and they provide quite some features. It's okay as long as it is features that stay within the MCU/Display realm. Now, the watches which provide BT, GPS, different sensors etc kind of suck in this regard.
Its 21M, 210M is over 10 years with substantial part of that not vesting until year 8. That said it's still pretty rich given its not tied to shareholder value or business performance.
It's 210M for one year. He just has to wait 10 years to get it fully paid out.
I partly agree, but I disagree at the point that there may be no correlation between the amount of non-native apps and the overall "happiness" of users.
Just because business see that it's cheaper does not make it the better option.
Also from a user perspective there are many benefits with a software that exists on many platforms. It's often better with a slightly less good/snappy app that runs on all platforms than a perfect app than runs only on one platform. It's a feature.
It could also be said that it's a feature that the app does not 100% follow the native UI as the experience will be the same irrespective of which OS you are on.
plater commented on Paris suspends electric bus fleet after two fires lemonde.fr/en/france/arti... · Posted by u/jjensen
Even better: trams and light rail. Smoother ride and no particulate from tyres.
Electric wire bus is better than tram as it does not require expensive tracks. It is also much easier to change the route. The tracks also create a lot of noise and vibration that gets into nearby buildings. Tracks are also dangerous for bicycles, and slippery for cars and trams.
There might be benefits with trams, but I do not know what.
plater commented on WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App weektodo.me/... · Posted by u/evo_9
Tangential ask HN: what is a good Linux desktop to do app that supports monthly recurring tasks (I have some accounting stuff that I need to remember to do every month). I’ll use for daily adhoc tasks too, but any app (or pencil and paper) can handle them.
Isn't that what calendars are for? Most of the time they are pre-installed on all OSes and they handle recurring schedules and notifications. On Linux I use Thunderbird for email with the Thunderbird Lightning Calendar [1]. I sync phone and desktop using CalDAV.