Similar fear mongering when calculators came about. No one got dumber, we just got faster at doing simple math. WOrking out complex math will always be interesting to those who really want to do it, and the rest likely wont contribute mu ch anyway - thier just consumers. Let the kids have thier wordy calculators, it actually may unblock critical paths of success needed for someone to really go deep.
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Until firefox fixes it's identity model it will never be useful for me, a systems engineer.
Yes, i'm aware of firefox profiles. it's implementation is hard to use and generally confusing. it requires going to secret pages, and quite frankly, i found it worked like hot garbage.
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Hello, I live in Japan, the thing they don't tell in the article is the Japan Post Digital Address can be tied to the MyNumber system.
It's an official ID card you're required to update by law every time you move, and they plan to link the address of both systems. Meaning every time you update you address on your ID it will automatically propagate everywhere.
In Japan the MyNumber system is live since a few years and a single card can already be used:
* As driving license
* As a unified heath insurance card
* As a unified way to retrieve prescribed medications, lab results, vaccinations..
* For doing the taxes and receive pension
* As a foreigner residence card (very soon)
* For digital signing of official papers (as a way to replace the Hanko stamp culture, it's working but not yet widely used)
The digital ministry is also expected to unveil an Apple Wallet integration in a few months to avoid having to carry the card.
So, like, a public ss# tied to an address.
https://mysukari.com - A Diabetes management platform
I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Feb (technically LADA as it's late onset). I'm the first in my family with it so I had zero info on it. I tried getting some CGMs to use but most don't work in Kenya as they are geo-locked, and even apps for measuring carbs like CalorieKing are not available in my region. I was really frustrated with the tech ecosystem, and started working on My Sukari as a platform of free tools for diabetics.
I mostly get time to work on it on the weekends, so it's not yet ready for public use, but I've fully fleshed out one of the main features: Sugar Dashboard - A dashboard that visualises your Glucose data and helps you easier analyse it.
To help with demos, I've shared my Sugar Dashboard here: https://mysukari.com/tools/sugar-dashboard/peter
I'm really passionate about this and getting as much free, practical tools in the hands of patients (it honestly shouldn't be this hard to manage a disease)
I used to work for Lark. They raised $140mm to solve this problem and the best they could do was a non-ai chatbot that whined at users for not eating enough vegetables. The Lark app has 100% user drop off in 60 days and yet is still the silicon darling in the diabetes space.
Your platform has more science & more solution than 100 engineers in 3 years could produce. Keep at it and know with confidence that there is great value in what you are building. I know it's not your primary goal, but this will be lucrative if you keep going. I wish you a lot of luck, this is very cool!
pile - a framework & cli for managing a large number of docker-compose files running on the same machine.
Inspired by a pile-of-poo SOA application where essentially every service was dependent other services such that the entire app stack needed to be run in order for any 1 service to work.
In addition to organizing the array of docker-compose files, which may live in different directories, i also add some helper functions to bring clarity to the usual docker cli output. Ugly "docker ps" output can be gathered by using pile ports, pile commands, & pile state - all of which output what you think they do, but in a way that is actually legible and useful when running 20+ containers locally.
It's only "intellectual theft" because we consider peoples thoughts their own property. On many levels, that doesn't really make sense to me.
Tons of historical documents have shown that inventions, mathematical proofs, and celestial observations were made by humans separated by continents and time. What that shows is that it is certainly possible for two persons to have the same exact or similar thought without ever having been influenced by the other.
The Return of common sense. Let's keep the trend going!
Author states its lower "Once tax incentives are factored in". As she is not my CPA, I must call BS.
Rayts. They bring rats. Lots of them. Ok if your in the countryside with big land and farms, horrible home infestation s if not.
O-Ran, the closed source that begins with O for open naturally, is really terrifying in terms of spying on users and sharing data.
My personal tinfoil hat says the corporations started the 5G cancer rumors themselves to distract the public from the real terror of 5G that is ORan data sharing.
The tl;dr is any participant in Oran can put software directly on the antena and access your data directly with no need for it to go through a 3rd party like your cell provider. The cell providers charge for access to the antenna. This sidestep any potentially conflict with selling your data - by choosing a 5g cell phone, you have already opted in to your data being accessed. Creepy.