DaveSchmindel

^^^ This. I would urge anyone who got tangentially excited about this whole thread to:

1. head to eBay and search for used iPod Classics

2. give Rockbox some love

But you are a bird?

> Cell sizes are not fixed, however, even within a single species. Cells often swell as they increase their production of proteins and metabolites in preparation for division. This is in line with biology’s only rule: namely, there are exceptions to every rule!

> Case in point: a giant bacterium called Thiomargarita magnifica can extend about one centimeter in length, so large that it can be seen by the naked eye. It does so by breaking the surface area-to-volume rule, filling between 65–80 percent of its internal volume with an empty vacuole. In other words, it pushes most of its molecules to the cell periphery, thus shortening diffusion distances.

There is also a captioned image of bubble algae in the post.

It’s hard for me to know where my pessimism stops and my realism begins with these kinds of experiences lately. The latest iTerm2 update had me subconsciously questioning my own philosophy around whether I ever would want or need an AI agent [that someone else] built in my default terminal application.

Is it cool? Yeah. Did I ask for it? Ehhh…

> ...Timeline is the only time I've seen a full accounting of my location in the cloud.

Yes, that _you've_ seen. I think the person you're replying to is referring to use cases of your location data that you don't see.

> Even though we have an option to set a billing limit, some people don't use it and sometimes get a surprise bill.

From the PR this links to.

Now do 3d chess!

Happy birthday!

I may be wrong, but I think user 22c may be trying to point out that we put an amount, W, of CO2 into the air by making the collective decision to fly so many planes in the first place.

> ...government digital services and apps need to become less bureaucratic and formal.

> Beijing asserted that it wants a "user-centered approach," meaning users don't need multiple logins, and can instead use a one-stop platform. Government apps should use a government cloud and central authentication services hosted there.

So, not just de-uglifying the UI, but also the UX and login capabilities of multiple applications. I wonder what powered the authoring of the central auth services in Beijing.

I can, from the other side of life.

I was raised in middle-class suburbia, in the North East U.S. My family wasn't wealthy, but wasn't hurting either. I did well in school, but didn't have to try very hard to maintain grades in Advanced Placement classes. Outside of school, I worked easy lawn-care gigs with my neighbor and we made decent cash with 20-30 hours of work per week.

It afforded me a life of coasting, leisure, and throwing away my downtime.

I am nearing 30 years old and just realizing that I'd consider my behavior to be bad habits I need to kick. I want to work harder, and I have to teach myself what that means.

Why is this comment getting so much heat for being confirmation bias? If anything, we should all rally around trying to guess the name in question. Did you name your kid Butter? Bananas? Campbell's CHUNKY Savory Pot Roast?

I can vouch that this is true in some cases.

I worked for a multinational bank headquartered in the U.S., whose corporate team came up with a sexy program to snatch up recent Computer Science graduates. The program offered them a "fair" market rate for an entry-level jobs in industry, and let the graduates try two to three different teams and/or departments in their first year. At the end, if the company still liked them, the candidate got to pick their permanent team for a full-time position. This position, however, did not see a bump in pay, and by that time the program effectively filtered out candidates that weren't performing at an accelerated level.

The results were great for the business: young programmers that were often more proficient in COBOL than their new peers were costing them $60k-$70k a year. The senior, or "tenured," peers were in the $200k-$400k range in some cases.