WrathOfJay

How about listening to a message in portrait, accidentally moving your phone to landscape, and then having the playback stop and lose position in the audio stream. Or how about losing voice recordings constantly? Seriously? I'm baffled at their priority list. Whoever is directing these efforts is asleep at the wheel. The frustration factor using this app in iOS is so goddamn high.

I live in Florida. Recently a major insurance company, Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Co., has gone insolvent and liquidated. I'm pretty sure the reason is all the free roof replacements that they were handing out to people with hail or wind damage. One neighbor gets their roof replaced, tells another neighbor how to play the system, roofers get paid big by claiming the roofs are worse off than they are, getting full replacements for minor problems. Next thing you know, insurance companies are pulling out of Florida. People with rooves over 15 years old (even if they're rated for 30 year) have next to no options, and the one or two they have are now 50% more expensive. I got nailed by that. No free roof for me, and now I have to pay more. Great system.

I was thinking the same thing

Maybe they were confusing it with DCOM (distributed COM) which was often talked about around that time.

Would have liked to see these numbers adjusted for cost of living. Making $145,000 in silicon valley is not anywhere comparable to making $145,000 in Podunk Florida, and thus I'm not sure what value to derive from this data, with respect to my own earnings.

And many of us switched to Signal due to bad-faith money-grubbing behavior of a certain other company. There was an illusion of free, safe, "by the people for the people" and by implication, commercial interest and profit wasn't the driving force.

Why am I seeing payment integration while I still lose my place in an audio playback when I switch from landscape to portrait? Or the fact that I still can't tell whether I've listened to a message yet or not? Still losing messages in the middle of recording.

Honestly, having a hard time with my switch from WhatsApp to Signal, and certainly don't need any cryptocurrency integration.

IIRC, that was the exact argument for disabling image loading when it was first introduced.

The responsible thing for services like gmail and o365 to do would be to eat the resource costs and just open ALL external content within a privacy sandbox, thereby polluting the data. Then you can re-enable displaying of images for everyone and the experience for designers and end users gets better.

Isn't it amazing how we're suddenly being educated on this special case in American history. Trump and his goons want to use this as precedent to pull, essentially a coup. Precedent that goes right back to a time when racist slave masters were "losing value"... imagine that. How utterly depressing.

You're describing a mild trip. More can take you into other worlds where your brain can make you believe you're in tune with the universe, or black out and scare yourself because you can't remember how or why you got where you are, and everything in between. But definitely more intense than you describe.

None of that sounds like microdosing to me.

Thank you for putting this together. Independent data sources are vital, since we know this administration does everything they can to hide reality.

And how about performance impact? The mitigation's that have been done in software recently came with an ugly performance cost (just not as ugly as the vulnerability). Is there any speculation about what this is going to cost?

I remember when Schwab went down just as Facebook went public. Couldn't cancel my order, ended up with the stock at a much higher price and the stock had dropped by a lot by the time I had access again. I can't help but be suspicious of events like this.

Isn't this pretty much accounted for by doctors at this point?

Isn't it well know that there's a good chance that an elderly patient will die during or soon after significant surgery? For instance, there's a good chance that soon former President Jimmy Carter will once again have a fall that will result in him being hospitalized, and shortly after surgery, he'll pass.

I stopped reading when the article turned toward a history of the guy Aronson. I said to myself "Oh hell no, I'm not wasting my time reading about this guy I don't care about", I looked at the scroll bar and nope'd out of the whole article. Nothing to do with the delivery medium.

That is a heroically long article of which all I don't really have time to read, unfortunately. But it seems to me that these companies have an ethical responsibility to ensure that this important art is not lost forever, even if they technically own it and could ensure it never sees the light of day. What a loss.

With something this important, I'd expect something more substantial than the equivalent of "I stayed on this diet for a year and it worked! I shrunk by 1/3rd!"

How about something a little bit more than "it worked" and "business tripled". An analysis of contributing factors, maybe. There's so much bullshit in the media with people claiming things that are half-truths, or outright lies. It'd be nice for something like this to have some actual justification to support it. Warts and all.

I think it's great that this company did this, but this article is a puff piece. There's no real data here. He just states that the `business tripled`. What does that actually mean? Did it triple in revenue? How did increasing the entry-level pay result in that? And how did your non-entry level employees handle the lowest wrung earning far closer to their own pay? How many executives decided that the freeze wasn't in their own best interest and left? You can't just sacrifice and redistribute and expect it to be all roses. The details matter, especially if you're trying to convince resistant minds that it's a good thing.

Color me surprised... surely not another crypto heist.

This is going to keep happening, over and over again. Put your money in this stuff at your own peril.

I am legitimately intrigued by this analysis. I've always wondered why I found certain rap so much better than others. I stopped liking the kind of rap that was becoming popular around the time of Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tupac, etc. Looking at this data, it pretty obvious to me that the stuff on the right I tend to like a lot more than the stuff on the left. Sure enough, I just listened to Aesop Rock for the first time and it is exactly the kind of rap I enjoy.

I was wondering the same thing. Casual is missing, I didn't catch that Del was in the list, not surprised he's up there. Aceyalone was another one I wonder about.

Please elaborate on why SendGrid was a significant mistake for you. We are looking at moving to them from Mandrill, since their stability has been terrible for us.

You are not kidding. We have had numerous issues with them lately. Their servers go down. API endpoints that are supposed to return json return cloudflare gateway error HTML instead... We are investigating moving to SendGrid right now. We REALLY need to find a reliable email service. It has been a shit-show and our clients are frustrated.

What if there is evidence that they, in fact, did this? Everyone should be very concerned about this, whether the outcome played in favor of or damaged your particular party's side. This would be an attack on our democracy from a foreign government. How Trump handles this news is going to be very telling on where his loyalties are (beyond just himself).

Given that solar auction minimum bids have dropped 470% in the last 4 years (in Mexico, https://earther.com/mexico-just-auctioned-off-the-cheapest-s...), isn't it crazy to accept a 25 year flat rate contract?

I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven't paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening.

Onto the content...

I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by?

Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large scale?

Hey, it's great that you're trying to find a place for yourself in the world. Unfortunately, you seem to have a malfunctioning moral compass, and you give off a sociopath space-cadet vibe. Making money exploiting in video games and tricking weak-minded people into buying worthless shit is not a path to anything good. Stop trying to bullshit your way through life and if you're lucky you might just be OK.