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instead of dealing with folding and glue and such you could 3d print a custom case that was really thin, but had a wider "frame" around it that held it in place in the letter. Could fit a bunch on a single print bed, especially if you used those shorter width envelopes and got creative with the "frame" shape so that they were interleaved on the print bed.

this is how CDNs make their money. They replicate popular content close to the users. They generally do that WITHOUT giving anyone hardware, but by renting hardware in smaller areas, and setting up their own data centers in popular areas.

source: I used to work at Akamai (it was a while ago). The myriad things they do with their edge servers is pretty amazing, but for simple CDN stuff, most of the time clients aren't shipping hardware to isps. That being said, if Netflix can convince an isp to pay its electricity and hardware maintenance costs for a popular isp's customers that's going to pay for itself very quickly. So, i can see why Netflix offers this. It's just not normal AFAIK.

You know there aren't ads if you actually pay for it right?

I agree the ads are obnoxious, but hosting YouTube is incredibly expensive, and online ads are incredibly cheap so... Even if they _weren't_ being greedy there would need to be A LOT of ads to compensate for the hosting & engineering costs.

Like... If you hate the ads THAT MUCH, but want to continue using the service, why not just pay for the service?

(side note: you also get streaming music (YouTube Music) when you pay for YouTube which is a nice bonus.)

thanks.

it should be noted that european developer salaries are SIGNIFICANTLY lower than US ones.

US dev salaries have been completely skewed by stupid levels of VC money. European ones not so much.

I agree, but in this particular case i have to ask... how many companies are actually USING Krita? My impression is that the vast majority of places that need software like that use Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, or Affinity Photo/Designer.

biggest pro: elixir is built on erlang. Erlang was made to have incredible multithread performance distributing messages on computers from decades ago.

All those scaling problems Mastodon admins complain about? 99% of wouldn't exist if they were using one of the Phoenix based fediverse apps instead of the Rails based one (mastodon). Sure, some of the larger instances would still have issues but most folks would get plenty of throughput on one average machine.

Erlang's a great language. Once you wrap your head around the fact that = is a "match" operator and not an assignment operator... ;)

My day job is as a back-end rails dev, but I was introduced to Phoenix by a couple of the most prominent folks in that community. It is my belief that Elixir and Phoenix are unquestionably a better choice than Rails for new work. The only reasons to use Rails instead are that ruby has a bigger ecosystem of libraries, and none of your staff knows Elixir. Alternately that you're a ruby dev who's just whipping out something quick and performance doesn't, and won't, matter.

are you asking if its a crime to read information they've publicly broadcast?

Because if that's a crime we're screwed because then it's illegal to read, or listen.

this is very cool, but...where does one get the data to visualize? Is there a standard for flamegraph data structures?

There appears to be zero documentation on what it needs as input.

on the one hand, yay. Tabs have made learning guitar stuff incredibly accessible, and dealing with the separate hands of the piano and separate clefs is a PITA. On the other hand... ugh. We've successfully churned out generations of musically illiterate musicians. We've also made it really hard to find the sheet music for a piece instead of the tabs, and the tabs are lacking in SO MUCH information.

Dear Geeks with interesting things to say on your blog:

Please, for sake of the people you want to hear your words. DO NOT USE A SANS SERIF MONOSPACED FONT FOR ANYTHING BUT CODE.

I get it. We stare at text (code) formatted in this kind of font all day long, and many of us find fonts that we truly enjoy. But, most of our monospace sans-serif fonts are designed to make sure individual characters aren't misread. We don't read prose the same way we read code. There is far more pattern recognition going on than actual parsing of individual letters, and monospaced fonts break that. We can debate the aesthetics of serifs but they actually do help provide context clues to the pattern recognition systems in our brain.

Convincing you all to start using serif fonts on prose is not a battle i'm likely to win, but maybe I can convince you to only use monospaced fonts for your terminal, and your code.

Please.

> because they're unwilling to address the fact that the corporation they work for and the ceaseless chase of "social media platforms" drives this behavior more than the imagined "Marl's" of the world ever did.

the fact that the corporations are doing that, and chasing the Marls is the foundational premise of the article. He's not blaming it on the Marls. He's blaming it on the companies chasing them.

... for a project done by a bunch of volunteers and young students likely having fun making little graphics without compensation, and with a name that involves a casual shortening of the key term ..... you expected "professionalism"

young students... and random volunteers... who aren't getting paid...

do you _really_ think that an expectation of "professionalism" is one that lines up well with the reality of the project?