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Strange take ... I seem to remember websites having a lot of point before google.

I took the speakers into my local forest, cranked both to 11, slapped on some dark berghain techno

What a horrible thing to do, hopefully there was nobody else in range to have their time in the forest ruined.

Short comment to say I appreciate the thoughtful response here, and that implications of public vs private blockchains in real world contexts is something I've not given enough thought to - thanks for the homework :)

I don't hate blockchain - the technology - it's really interesting.

Something I dislike though is that so many conversations that enquire roughly 'why not use a more traditional technology' end up with rant about not trusting governments - that is 'cringe'.

Good attempt at a deflection, I won't casually solve the very thing that is a great example of blockchain being a solution looking for a problem.

But, given the 'real world' context I tried to stress, do you think blockchain is a good solution to the variations of that problem in real world contexts?

You've set yourself up for a question: Please give an example, with a deeper-lever perspective, of a real-world use-case for (non-crypto) blockchain that isn't better solved with non-blockchain technology.

Edit to answer this question:

What about this is intrinsically "dangerous nonsense"?

The article isn't about the tech itself, it's about the interfaces of the tech and the real world. The problems there are shameless shilling, deception & efficiency problems.

What air quality sensor are you using?

I really enjoyed the presentation, for the first dozen slides ... but wow did reading one short sentence at a time get tired after that.

[video - poor audio] maybe

edit: That comment was snide, my heart goes out to the OVH team, the message within the video was good, forthright & honest. I hope it will be well received by their customers - just a shame it's a bit difficult to listen to!

I suspect the multitude of little plastic catches, clips, switches, levers etc that everything contains now are the major source of appliances being junked.

That was a hypothetical problem, as per that link

Average speed camera zones are the only speed control device that works (for many via congestion rather than willful compliance I suspect), unfortunately it also encourages tailgating, aggressive and distracted driving (often in reduced width lanes) - I wish there was more of a focus on that.

They absolutely are, but I think that link demonstrates the difference I was poorly describing quite well actually, the front page was diverse then too - by design - but how many of those links are sharing things at someones expense in the r/trashy sense? Not to put the content of that link on some sort of pedistal, but how many of those links would make it to the frontpage today?

It's a differnet site today than then, but if it were current that type of content is still broadly more interesting to me than the present frontpage. Having a read of some of the comment threads too it's really quite different to today, Sure there were in-jokes but it was more than same tired memes getting voted to the top time after time.

The barrier to entry for brigading & group think is lower on reddit than discrete forums, I think that's part of the problem & I've no idea what the solution is. Different moderation methods have been tried all over (+5 insightful etc) but they have barely succeeded in isolation & I doubt they'd fare any better vs Reddits firehose.

Yes, i lurked for a while but signed up in 2007

Reddit before user-moderated subreddits was far more pleasant, not that they're exactly at fault but they widened the audience just like eternal september & signal:noise, or signal:bullshit, ratios never recovered. There are still 'good' subreddits but above a surprisingly tiny community size they degrade rapidly & irreversably. What shocks me the most is if you log out well over 1/2 the front page content is at schadenfreude, it's awful.

'No Intrusive interstitials' - I hope this factor carries increasing weight, many websites are pretty horrible experiences on first visit nowdays.

I'll have a read, thanks.

I've been trying to lower my HR when steady-state jogging also & variability came up a lot in my light reading on techniques for doing that also, but the articles did tend to feel a lot more at the quackery end of the scale

The ones I remember most were for stammering/stuttering. It was a mix of breathing from the bottom of your chest, strong posture with shoulders up & a little back, not forcing your ribs up, but feeling them move out horizontally.

The biggest part for becoming a confident public speaker was the psychological side (aside from all the usual stuff about slowing down mentally). Becoming conscious of breathing for just a few seconds before starting works wonders, as does carefully timing awkward to produce sounds/syllables on different parts of the breathing downstroke.

I've been doing this for 30yrs (i wrote 20 initially ... forgot i'm old :) now, slow breathing is the norm at the desk & before speaking to an audience/hosting meetings etc I still have to follow the same steps every time otherwise I start tripping over my tongue.

I spent 36hrs in hospital after an asthma attack last year (3 days in a super dusty environment), it was noticed then but not to the full extent - I think after normalising the asthma symptoms with a bunch of salbutomol nebulizers (iirc) I was ~55. I'll ask when I next go to the doctors :)

As a life long asthmatic who had a serious stutter as a child I've been practicing controlled breathing for as long as I can remember.

Recently I've taken an interest in fitness (again) and, via a garmin watch, I've learnt my resting heart-rate is ~42 most nights, some nights dipping to 39. I'm by no means exceptionally fit, but have to think the slow breathing techniques are the cause.

This is a shame, I had many years of fantastic experiences with them (running 100's of machines) up till about 2010 when I left a role & have been using AWS since.

Imagine doing that on a busy public highway for a wired.com article ...

'we did it in a safe way'

They had no control over the cars behind, anything could have happened.

Their attack could have been demonstrated on a parking lot or private road.

Their information did need urgently sharing, and while I understand the common need for a bit for drama, this was utterly unsafe & for the good of everyone I hope they've pulled their heads out of their asses since making that video!

It seemed to struggle after a video call for me. I tried to persevere & took to restarting the native app after every call for a bit, however on Linux you can't screen-share a single application (only an entire desktop).

Due to this, and as the notification system is designed by a sadist, I switched to using it in a browser, which unfortunately means you can only see one person at a time on calls for some reason.

It is now not uncommon for me to join calls twice at once from browser/app each, and juggle audio/speaker/camera settings for a bit to do demo's, then killing the native app.

I can at least get native notifications & not convert my PC to a space heater this way, but it's still pure bullshit.

I had a brief hope when I found some reference to native notifications in a config file, but that was a dead end.

I've dug out an old android phone to sit on my desk in a dock purely to serve as a 'Teams Notification Device' (patent pending) as the way they have implemented notifications is the most godawful dumpster fire i've seen in a long time.

I've lived in Awesome WM for years, this looks pretty good to me!

That's part of it, but doesn't give any useful data beyond 'archived' to make use of when considering your dependencies.

Github having an objective "This isn't being worked on anymore" flag with a few options as to why, and pointers for where to reach a community for support/discussion would be most useful, especially overlaid on the crazy huge dependency graph frontend projects tend to acquire.

I've been using Vim for a very long time now, recently adding CoC has slowed things a bit however I am quite fond of some of the features, so I might start enabling it only when I want those.

I'm not looking to encouragement to change (after 20 years in Vim that ship has likely sailed for good), I was just curious if the speed of Emacs lisp was a frequent bugbear.

As a non Emacs user, is the speed of Emacs Lisp a frustration in typical day to day usage?