foolinaround

Is Musk's Starlink capable of filling the gap for this large population?

Are there good suggestions for a personal finance class at the high school level that one can take online?

classic case of supply and demand

A request to add Tamil, a widely spoken and one of the earliest classical languages! Thanks!!

this tool is really nice...

Suggestions: Can I get some transliteration when I hover over it, rather than translation? Maybe a Alt+ ?

In general, people leave or stay for their managers, not their companies.

In retrospect, in one of the earlier companies, I could see the company not doing well, but had a great boss and stayed, and then got hit by downsizing.

Bathing is no longer considered a luxury, and so will never be given up.

are there places today that don't do some variation of scrum today? Waterfall is pretty much non-existent.

thinkpad t440p with ZorinOS

Kudos to the Magnet man!!

if that magnet cart design could be open-sourced, then it might be updated or made cheaper by others, and used in other places too!

maybe books should be read in pairs

Great idea! Now we need a seperate thread or spreadsheet of books by eminent authors that present contradictory viewpoints!

What benefits can one perceive in the first 7 days, to make a decision on whether it is worth it or not?

if we had to eat this elephant one bite at a time, one option to consider is completely seperating sports from colleges?

What would be the impact? What are the drivers that could enable youth to participate in sports run/administered by a 3rd party as well as attend college?

Instead of a GirlfriendGPT, a personal assistant GPT - which is hosted in a private location, and receives feeds of all your personal data ( emails, calendar, fitbit) and adhoc ( I can send a note to it saying I drank 6 beers last night).

It also then remembers all the past conversations, and i guess by then forms a decent idea of your tastes, etc.

This would be an amazing tool!

Does this in any way enhance protection of a citizen from government or other powerful actors?

this "not knowing the neighbors" is a flimsy excuse at best. This is mostly true of any densely populated city around the world, where people move in for jobs.

In the past few years, crime in some US cities are committed by certain groups of the population - who are partly encouraged by the local powers.

https://archive.ph/VYxH4

Everybody wins

Doesn't someone have to lose? I am guessing the tax-payers lose somehow, though I don't understand how..

https://archive.ph/M7VAc

ChatGPT has this annoying habit of crashing or having extended downtime.

If this UI can capture my query in the case of such a crash and keep retrying till I get the answer, and then notify me (browser, email, etc) - that would be great.

Nobody but the most OCD germophobe is going to have lower productivity because they are sitting in a desk that someone else was in a day before.

maybe, at the end of the day, the cleaning crew does a deep clean of the surfaces etc..

maybe a secondary system that could raise alarms since in this case, the weight calculated must have been outside of the standard deviance of the weights recorded over time?

at that point you're just wasting money on me and your oversized office.

Some industries and companies have so much margins that they are willing to spend that much more...

It may be only those industries which have really tight margins and/or large numbers of employees that benefit from having them remote or in different geos.

IMHO, LeBron's struggle was one of an poor kid growing up.

I would even say that being black was an advantage, and gave him great genetics that he took to the next level with discipline.

Asian has a different meaning in US Tech circles.

I found that out, when I arrived in this country, and was informed that Indians are their own groups, and Asians referred to Chinese and Koreans (and others).

The 'Asian' tag is a clear racist way, determined by the way one looks.

this satire of a laid-off techie being interviewed is going viral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nivva7G1XFw

Discrimination as alleged by conservatives but pooh-poohed as others as merely delusional is now clearly proved.

How can tech self-regulate itself, or should there be external agencies who would watch the growing power of tech companies? and who would watch them?

Decentralization never seems to take off, so we seem to be left with these existing players like twitter, meta, google ...who are de-facto monopolies....

Companies still desperately need developers to make their business goals reality. This is not changing anytime soon. There has been no advancement that makes developers less relevant.

The 'low code' / 'no code' phenomenon is rising fast where the business folks are being asked to build out a good part of programs based on their knowledge of business systems.

Theoretically, if this all pans out, The developer is now forced to learn the business or is managed out of this particular job.

maybe a new wikipedia, where not any tom, dick or harry gets to write/edit articles, but one who is acknowledged as a subject matter expert?

To start with, in each topic, there is a broad expert, and then he creates additional topics, and names experts in this, and so on....

I loved the way the roadmap was presented... excellent design skills

https://zellij.dev/roadmap/