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Am I reading this correctly? It sounds like the product is an LED matrix which requires third-party cloud servers to update the display? That doesn't sound right.

Also, the author uses 2x 32x32 panels @$97 each as a price peg, but you can get a raw 64x32 panel from Adafruit (a quite expensive supplier) for $50.

I'm not saying it's better, but that it is unavoidable given current market conditions.

We all want our data to be handled securely, and we should try to understand why that does not happen.

If you are a startup, you cannot create a popular app in a crowded marketplace by being scrupulous about best practices.

Match owns almost all of the dating-app market, and they have extremely deep pockets to buy/extinguish competition with.

Because of the consolidated nature of the market, and the winner-takes-all nature of the industry, I really believe that it is impossible for a new entry to gain popularity and focus on hard problems like security.

This is fundamentally a problem with capital allocation and incentives. There's not much that a small team can do about it.

In the days before the internet, you would write to local news and your legislative representatives instead of making noise on Twitter.

These days, local news doesn't really exist, and representatives will only listen to big campaign contributors. Social media has stepped in to fill that gap for the modern lower/middle class.

Sadly, dolphins are another common target for conscription. They are smart mammals. The ones in Sevastopol could be considered turncoats, having transitioned through Soviet->Ukrainian->Russian hands. They're basically swimming guard dogs.

There is a joke about intelligent apes like orangutans and chimpanzees: they could probably learn to speak, but they refuse to do so out of fear that people would try to employ them.

Sure, but you should always check basic mg/kg numbers before you take a drug. Diphenhydramine can be hallucinogenic in high doses.

They also sell 1-gram extra-strength Tylenol pills OTC, but that's a very high dose for an average person. And what do you know, acetaminophen is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the US.

This rings very true to me. Most cold call emails have almost no information.

Worse, it feels like recruiters are realizing that their shotgunned "[X]-backed [Y]tech startup" emails are not getting replies, so they are starting to write clickbait subject lines!

In the past few months, I've seen a reduction in emails with subjects like, "Interested in a [general industry] [company type] role?" with some details in the body.

They've been replaced with subject lines like "What's up?" or, "Quick question" with minimal details beyond an invitation to "connect sometime".

It feels like they didn't get what they wanted by asking nicely, so they've decided it's better to be manipulative and evasive rather than taking "no response" for an answer.

In most forms of online communication, this type of behavior is considered creepy and disrespectful of boundaries. In recruiter world, apparently it's all in a day's work.

How about putting a salary range and WFH expectations in the subject line? We get a LOT of these emails; give us more information, not less.

Satellite beacon.

You'll end up paying $N00 and $10-30/mo for a good one, but they are very useful for people who use words like "nomad".

You can Bluetooth them to your phone to do things like SMS, maps, weather updates, etc when there's no cell service. They also usually have "SOS" buttons, just in case.

IME it depends on the hiring funnel.

It does not matter if you are interviewing for an opening which has been set aside for you. (Niche skills, nepotism, former colleagues, etc.)

It does matter if you are going for a fungible position with many applicants. Not a lot, but people are biased to hire others who they think they'd enjoy spending time around.

That bias helps attractive people, as well as people who look and act like part of an org's "in-group" (if one exists). It's ugly and gross, but it seems pretty fundamental to human nature.

North Koreans have been "jailbreaking" their electronics for a long time.

There are some good books about how ordinary people lived up to around Kim Jong-Un's reign, such as "Nothing to Envy" and "Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader".

Devices such as TVs and radios were always set to only receive state broadcasts, and they are subject to regular inspections. But the safety measures were cheaply produced on a small scale, often a simple mechanical limit on a dial housed behind tamper-evident stickers.

The Tumen River has also been a traditionally porous border where black market media (and cosmetics, food, electronics, etc) could flow freely. As is usual in an authoritarian regime, well-connected people can ignore the rules, smart/wealthy people can work around them, and the occasional unlucky person can be made into an example.

>For the first and only time in my life I became political. Days and nights would pass with me monitoring the Senate on farcaster cable or lying tapped into the All Thing. Someone once estimated that the All Thing deals with about a hundred active pieces of Hegemony legislation per day, and during my months spent screwed into the sensorium I missed none of them. My voice and name became well known on the debate channels. No bill was too small, no issue too simple or too complex for my input. The simple act of voting every few minutes gave me a false sense of having accomplished something. I finally gave up the political obsession only after I realized that accessing the All Thing regularly meant either staying home or turning into a walking zombie. A person constantly busy accessing on his implants makes a pitiful sight in public and it didn’t take Helenda’s derision to make me realize that if I stayed home I would turn into an All Thing sponge like so many millions of other slugs around the Web. So I gave up politics.

- Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989