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Comment · 5 months ago
Mine was using VScode with copilot. Previously I had used tab completion and thought it was pretty neat. This time I began with the comment for a function I wanted to write. And the entire function just appeared below the comment. Written probably better than I would have. I remember saying, “uh-oh” out loud.
Comment · 2 years ago
1Password has shared vaults, 1Password for Business has the concept of groups.
Comment · 2 years ago
Elon goes off on government subsidies, just not his.
Comment · 3 years ago
Oh, look who has a fancy cable modem! Back in my day, we had to do it with 14.4 kbaud modems (really) after walking to school, uphill both ways in the snow (not really).
Comment · 3 years ago
Further, apparently it's going to start up whenever I log in. Why?
Comment · 3 years ago
Looks cool. I downloaded it, moved it to the applications directory and opened it. It's asking for Administrator access to install the command line. Why?
Comment · 3 years ago
Went and checked my 1Password. Apparently, I have nearly 1,800! My oldest remaining password was created in 2010, so I've been using it for a while.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have the same thing. However, my office is in my garage and it's quite cold in the winter. I have my smart plug set to start it up at 4:00 AM to warm it up for me.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've bought a Kinesis Advantage about every three years since 2003 (I think). Still the best keyboard out there despite being USB-A and the lack of bluetooth. I really want to like the Kinesis 360, but the lack of a function key row keeps me from buying one.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is a market I wish I understood better.

If I understand this correctly, the target market is airlines that need to sell flights online and that don't have (or don't want) the staff to do it in house. According to Wikipedia, there are about 5,000 airlines currently. Large airlines seem unlikely to want to outsource this, but I'm guessing there aren't too many airlines that size (only about 300 use Sabre).

I wouldn't have thought there would be a market big enough for a startup like this, but I appear to be wrong. I'm guessing their biggest challenge will be customer acquisition. But as I said, this is a market I wish I understood better.

Comment · 3 years ago
I'm assuming that the cost of building and launching these balloons is lower that launching fighter aircraft to shoot them down with missiles. I wonder if we're about to see thousands.
Comment · 3 years ago
You can find devices like this online by googling "670 nm led"
Comment · 3 years ago
AWS is the 800 pound gorilla in the cloud space. Are any of the other cloud providers better with customer honesty?
Comment · 4 years ago
Doors. Get doors on the racks and screen print them with the company logo. It looks sharp, doesn't cost much, and hides a multitude of sins.

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