lberk

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Fair point. There’s an absolute asymmetry between ease of placing an order and difficulty to cancel it. ISTR Nassim Taleb making a similar point on twitter, alleging he made a deposit for a car, on his phone, whilst in his pocket. Definitely worth keeping in mind.

Comment · 13 days ago

Gotcha, essentially, unique in that the supply has remained zero, and no fulfilled orders/deliveries thus far, despite a nine year duration between initial announcement and the current date. I guess if that bothers you, cancel your order and get a refund? MKBHD has reportedly done so and gotten a full refund[0].

> Usually, if you had been unable to deliver a product in that time, it's probably about time to cancel it.

Why? Seems like demand (in this case) is sufficient enough to still launch the product. If a business has the demand for the product and sufficient capital to continue investing in an area they deem to have a viable product, isn't that their prerogative?

[0] - https://podscripts.co/podcasts/waveform-the-mkbhd-podcast/wh...

Comment · 13 days ago

Unique in what way?

The Trabant often had wait lists of ten or more years[1][2].

The Soviet Lada often had wait times of five to ten years[3].

Even the Morgan Plus 8 had wait lists of (reportedly) a decade long as recently as 1990[4].

[1] - https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbp016 [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant [3] - https://theses.gla.ac.uk/71079/1/10390647.pdf [4] - https://www.morganville.org/history/the-waiting-list

Comment · 1 year ago

How did you like the book (compared to the movie)?

Comment · 6 years ago

Has it really vested at that point then?

Or is it just a longer vesting period?

Comment · 6 years ago

Free as in speech[0] and beer too!

[0] - https://github.com/lichess-org

Comment · 6 years ago

I'm not sure it was actually Apple's original intention. Rumour has it the decision was made on stage[0]

[0] - https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standa...

Comment · 6 years ago

I don't have any distinct cpu/memory/battery profiling datasets to provide anything but a personal anecdote. I dropped Chrome due to general laptop responsiveness in favour of a combo of Firefox with AdNausem and Privacy Badger. Which, has worked fine for my use (not noticed any adverse battery effects but I've also not been actively monitoring), though I don't use nearly the number of google services you've listed. Your results may differ, I've heard mixed reviews (again, anecdotally, so take with a grain of salt) of google services in firefox and safari.

Comment · 6 years ago

Which browser? I've had zero problems with 4GB laptops when avoiding Chrome

Comment · 6 years ago

I enjoyed Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0465060730

Comment · 6 years ago

Could I ask how you dump the highlights to an external service?

Comment · 7 years ago

Is that true?

systemd is part of freedesktop.org (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/) > freedesktop.org is a completely volunteer organisation with no corporate backing or funding stream. We are a member project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., for the purposes of holding assets.

meanwhile gnome has it's own foundation at https://www.gnome.org/foundation/ > The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that furthers the goals of the GNOME Project, helping it to create a free software computing platform for the general public that is designed to be elegant, efficient, and easy to use.

Comment · 7 years ago

Would something like pihole not work in this case?

Comment · 7 years ago

I'd agree with this suggestion, especially if you're willing to put in a bit of legwork to start and learn some of the basics of org-mode.

To me though, one of the killer features of org-mode (compared to some of the other, SaaS product offerings) is that under the hood it's /just/ a plain-text file. You know (unlike the SaaS stuff) it'll be around for 30+ years. To me, it's incredibly valuable when building my own personal information repo/db to know it'll be around as long as I am. Not contingent on a company to remain around or profitable to keep access to my data.

Comment · 7 years ago

You might want to check out strimzi[1]. They've got a couple quickstarts for minikube or okd to help get folks up and running.

[1] - https://strimzi.io/