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I've sold photos on and off for 20 years (on a direct basis, companies contact me via my portfolio), and I've generally gone for a rough "$5 per employee that the company has" rate. A 10 person startup wants one of my photos? I'm happy to give it to them for $50. 200 person company with a marketing employee calling me? $1000 sounds about right. Microsoft wants exclusive use of a photo? $700k will do just nicely thanks ;)

You can't always accurately assess this of course, so it's mostly done by gut feel after learning a bit about the company, but it's done me well so far and I've never had a company turn down my price, nor have I ever felt like I've been taken advantage of.

You’re accessing an internet service for the weather, therefore they get your IP, then there’s services out there that map IPs to locations. You can test this by using a VPN and visiting a weather site with GPS/etc turned off. It will show you the weather for the location of your VPN node.

As a disabled person, I couldn’t even begin to describe how much of a tangible improvement HA has had in my life. Being able to turn all the lights off from my bed before I go to sleep, or have the heater in the kids room turn on automatically if temps drop, etc etc, has quite literally saved me immeasurable amounts of physical pain.

Thank you so much.

Aldi has very very questionable quality though. I've had multiple DOAs, and multiple of their things die within months.

They're good with warranty returns, but usually can't give you a replacement product due to how they do batch/bulk sales and don't keep recurring stock, so you generally end up with a refund and have to start shopping around again for an equivalent product.

That’s completely and utterly mesmerising. So cool.

I understand why some people are upset about it (Eg due to accounts of deceased people), but I was really REALLY hoping to snap my first name which was registered by a European person 10 years ago, has 0 followers, and has never posted.

I definitely feel like they could compromise and at least delete those blatantly unused ones.

Yeah I was just thinking the other day, apps like those would work so much better if they let you aim them at the ceiling. Your ceiling edges/corners are usually a lot more visible than your floor.

Do you mean like Magicplan? [0] There’s a few others but that’s one I’ve used and it works fine.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/au/app/magicplan-2d-3d-floor-plans/id...

It was easy to get all sorts of fun domains back in the day. All so you could have lolz in your irc /whois.

Closest thing would probably be the IRL streamers on Twitch. There's been a few who got pretty big just streaming their lives day to day.

That’s about right for the price. They’re not cheap. There’s copies that do the same job, but like in any hobby, people look down on the “fakes” despite them being functionally the same thing.

I moved to Android a couple of years ago as I was so frustrated with all the issues I was having (after being an iPhone user since the first iPhone) only to realise Android is the same mess of bugs and issues. It made me come to the conclusion that tech in general has just lost its path now, and the constant push for higher specs and more features has led to devices that suck at their basic use cases (but look at those pixel-level photo comparison!1one!).

I ended up switching back to an iPhone 8 this year, as it’s the last iPhone I found to actually “just work”.

Is there a collection of her write-ups somewhere?

$50/mth for a PERSONAL site on their cloud hosting... $300/mth if you have 2 people developing a site together, and "Ask us for a quote" if you want to host it on your own server.

Something tells me this isn't going to be the next standard in web apps.

Apparently in tests the new Sony’s are slightly better NC than the Bose, but I tested them in a store and preferred the audio quality of my Bose QCs and couldn’t personally tell a difference in NC.

I couldn’t live without my Bose QCs and they go everywhere with me. You don’t realise how much noise there is in day to day life until you’ve worn some good NC headphones around for a while then forgotten to take them with you one day.

Dr Munnings is a strong advocate for a mix of hydrogen and electric vehicles.

He explains that hydrogen may be better suited to long distance, back-to-base transport such as buses and long-haul trucks, while electric vehicles are a good solution for the light passenger vehicle market.

I feel like this is the most realistic solution in general, especially here in Australia. It's just not economically realistic to cover the country in electric chargers.

I think hydrogen trucks/busses/etc with refilling at their depots and truck stops, and electric for private use (with chargers at petrol stations once they get faster), is the ideal dream here.

I also think the "ICE cars will be sunsetted by 2040" is absolute bollocks. There's a huge amount of people who could never dream of buying a new car, or even a recent (last 10yrs) used one, and it will take a long long time before used EVs gain enough volume, and become cheap enough, to cover the lower income demographics. There's still plenty of people around here driving in cars from the 70s/80s/90s that they picked up for $5k and that was still hard for them to buy.

Are we going to suddenly say "too bad, you're too poor to afford the future we want"?

I've recently switched to using VSCode with these[0] two[1] extensions for all my markdown notes (I completely live off extensive note-taking and have gone through every single possible Markdown editor), and I couldn't be happier.

For the few devices where I don't have it installed, I use Mark Text[2] which is free, open source, cross platform, and lets me edit the same notes (stored locally, and synced to my NAS and OneDrive).

I truly don't understand why so many people are using centralised cloud sync notes, giving up file system access to your files and any reliability that you'll still have access to your notes in the future. People who are serious enough about note taking to require a markdown editor in the first place should be the same people who'd like to make sure their notes will still be available a few years from now. Not to mention the handiness of having your local filesystem when handling notes, eg being able to create a shortcut file in a project directory to link to relevant notes in your notes folder, and do that from multiple different project folders. Or being able to reorganise in bulk, rename in bulk, search/replace, all that stuff OSes have been working on for decades that <Insert Note App Startup> has listed in the TODO section of their readme.

[0] https://github.com/yzhang-gh/vscode-markdown [1] https://github.com/mushanshitiancai/vscode-paste-image [2] https://github.com/marktext/marktext

As an ex Eve Online player, who's also spent hundreds/thousands of hours in NMS, WoW, and now SWTOR, I absolutely love these "IRL" projects that archive/study virtual worlds, like the financial studies of the Eve economy, the huge write-ups of major WoW events, stuff like that.

To those that were involved in the games/events, they're a major part of their life (in a hobby/entertainment aspect), so having this sort of in-depth study is seriously cool to have as a record of it all.

Who says this isn’t? Maybe someone should hack the Gibson and find out?

Yup I've been using KeePass + OneDrive (and duplicated to my NAS) on all my devices, across all major OSes, for years now. Never had a single issue and love that it's open source with a selection of clients to choose from.

You can also keep your password database offline (airgapped network, USB key/drive, remote/offline devices), and having control of the client + database means you know you can still access those same passwords a decade from now.

When life imitates art. Wasn't this literally the plot to the Hackers movie? Complete with the 5 million dollar ransom to an oil company...

Yes it has been done, and works[0-3], it's just a matter of effort vs reward. Generally a simple heat sink and/or small fan setup works fine for nearly any usecase the Pi is designed for, and if you really do need to do heavier loads that require that level of effort to cool, then you probably shouldn't be using a Pi in the first place.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRrGCqG9Jc

[1] https://hackaday.com/2018/08/13/oil-immersed-raspberry-pi-ke...

[2] https://hackaday.com/2017/05/15/liquid-cooling-overclocked-r...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/bmeklj/pi_imm...

If it's just for fun, then I think water-cooling Pi's looks way more interesting to play with:

http://finniss.net/water-cooled-raspberry-pi/

https://modmymods.com/modmymods-raspberry-pi-mini-water-cool...

I'm a SW fan, have been my entire life. Not one of the fans that go super-deep into lore and nit-picking every aspect of every movie and debating it all (although I do respect that level of fan too, and think they create some interesting discussions/content), but I've watched every movie a few times, read a heap of the books, play all the games, collect the Lego, etc etc.

I think that Disney is doing to SW what they do to everything... they make it appeal to the maximum possible audience for the maximum possible profit. There's no deep desire to create amazing stories, there's no attempts at making something special, they're just the McDonalds of entertainment. The stuff they make is "good". You'll still pay for it, and enjoy it, but you'll always end up feeling like they could've done better. It's all just formulaic mass-produced share-holder stuff now, but it does the job.

Try Empyrion. I was a Space Engineers player who has switched entirely to Empyrion. It’s SE with way way more complexity. Food and starvation, recipes, mobs, biomes, and so much more. It’s a criminally underrated game.

Yeah I’ve consistently found amazon to be more expensive than other online stores and even brick & mortar sometimes, at least here in Australia. They USED to be cheaper for everything, but not for a while now.

Amazon is good for the occasional sales, stuff that’s hard to find locally, or stuff I need quickly. That’s about it.

I’ve heard more excitement about Disney+ from family/friends than any other tech launch I can remember. Short of maybe the original iPhone, and maybe the Nintendo Switch. Techies and non-techies alike are counting down the days until it launches.

I’m generally someone who speaks with my wallet, I pay for FastMail and use DDG rather than use Google, I go out of my way and spend more to not support shitty companies, and I personally think Disney is among the most evil companies out there (for their Copyright lobbying etc).. but I’m finding it very bloody hard to resist the idea of unlimited streaming Star Wars, Simpsons, and Disney classics for my kids.

Barring some major tech fuckups from Disney, I’m pretty sure this will be absolutely huge.

Isn’t Typora electron too? Or is their Linux version a native app?

Not sure why you're being downvoted. I'm a Typora user who had no idea VSCode had a markdown extension. I just played with it, and it's really good, and I'll probably switch to it now as I already have VSCode open most of the time.

Illegal in Australia too, and they absolutely will fine for you for it. Not only that, but they do "safety blitzes" where they stick cops near major pedestrian areas and just hand out tickets all day to people who cross on the pedestrian red, or cross more than 'x' metres from the crossing, whether there's cars coming or not.

Meanwhile red lights seem to be option for cars, and i've (very regularly) seen cars blow through proper red lights (not late-orange) right in front of cops who do absolutely nothing about it. Wife and kid had to quite literally dodge a car while they were crossing on their pedestrian green, right next to a cop, and when she got his attention he just shrugged and ignore her.

Stealing the swipe action like that is really scummy.

Otherwise it’s a pretty interesting article. Lots of amazing space projects going on lately.