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Comment · 1 year ago
As the other user said, it doesn't scale. I'll give you my personal experience. I have been living in the greater Toronto area for 23 years, having moved here when I was 9. I live in one of the "cities" surrounding Toronto. This city was initially just a suburb of Toronto, that people moved to because houses were bigger and cheaper. Now it is a "city" of more than 700,000 people, in part because everyone moved here from Toronto, and in part due to high immigration in recent years. I put city in quotes because it's not really built like a city, it's still developed like a suburb with a large dependence on cars and poor public transport. All the good jobs are still in Toronto, so people still commute to Toronto for work. Before COVID and wfh, it used to take me 1.5 hours to commute to Toronto (one way), and I still had to drive to the train station. Forget driving to Toronto, it would take you just as long, if not longer, and parking costs are ridiculous. As this city grew, everyone wanted to move here for the same reason as you, bigger and cheaper houses. Now the houses are still bigger, but definitely not cheaper, and it takes forever to get anywhere. There are also less things to do because everything depends on cars.

I am writing this comment from a Italo Treno train, having been in Paris, Switzerland, Milan and Venice over the past week and half, so I have now seen the other side of this conversation.

The only freedom that cars bring is when travelling out of the city to remote places. Switzerland's inter-city rail service is so good I would never want to drive between cities if I lived there.

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think analogy is comparable either though. With a bread copying machine, the baker of the original piece is not involved in creating the new piece of bread (other than the recipe), so it is more acceptable (though maybe not completely, if you consider that the recipe is also being copied) that the baker is not compensated for the new piece of bread produced by the copying machine.

With digital media, the creator is expecting people to pay to view the content. By making a copy and viewing it for free, imo, you are stealing the content.

Comment · 1 year ago
Of course it's theft. The owner of that content didn't intend to give it to you for free, they expected to get paid for their work.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, do you hire Canadians by any chance?
Comment · 1 year ago
I guess I missed where they mentioned their images are AI generated. I assumed they were being pulled from some database.
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Comment · 1 year ago
The form to get the free e-book doesn't seem to work.
Comment · 2 years ago
The features listed on the site already tell you what it has that regular shell history + fzf doesn't have. You can decide if that makes it better.
Comment · 2 years ago
I really enjoy these updates! Thanks for putting out the numbers.
Comment · 2 years ago
On mobile, it works really well because all u have to do is tap to change the direction. They should just remove the arrow keys on web, as you said.
Comment · 3 years ago
If it's marketing content then it's not doing a very good job. I have known about the 12factor app principles for a long time, and only found out today that it has ties to Heroku.
Comment · 3 years ago
I use Wayland and haven't noticed any problems with mouse input in tmux while using the Kitty terminal.
Comment · 3 years ago
I emailed a startup from a "Who's Hiring?" post 2 years ago to see if they would hire Canadians, since the job post was interesting to me. It was fairly early stage, and I ended up accepting their offer. They made a great effort to accommodate hiring outside the USA. Still with them 2 years later, and it's been a great experience so far.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe SRE related spam?
Comment · 3 years ago
I always find the lack of a tongue scraper in people's dental routine interesting. Growing up in India, I was taught how to use one at the same time I was taught how to brush my own teeth.

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