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It's the shape of the grains of sand that's bad for concrete, not the chemical composition. It gets less angular and more round when it moves in the desert and it doesn't bound well with cement. Sand that is good for concrete is rare and making it is expensive. The "bad" sand that is common everywhere is still perfect to make glass.
A compromise for when you want a high quality webcam without spending money or dealing with the downsides of using an "real" camera is to use your phone. A 3 year old iphone/samsung will have a built in camera that is better than any webcam you could find under 150$. When you are pairing it with a PC, you can use the back camera instead of the front facing one.
They either work through OBS or a dedicated app that you have to start on your pc. I paid for an app (droidcam, 15$ for the "premium" HD version and free for SD+watermark irrc) because I was in a hurry but I know there are good free alternative if you have some time to spend trying them.
Twitter is not "trying to solve this problem", they are embracing it and benefiting from it. They are strongly incentivised to keep the bots because it gives them a massive boost in their number of active users and the valuation of their company.
I don't think this would ever change unless they go private with someone that has no intention of selling it. I have no idea how successful Elon would be at removing them, but at least he intend to try to do it.
A DeFi loan is paying a premium and _decreasing_ the amount of liquid assets available to you.
No, because from their point of view the crypto they put as collateral is NOT liquid. the entire point is do not sell them but somehow get cash from it.
The whole point of a loan is that you're willing to pay extra over time in order to have access to more funds at the present
No, that's not the point of these loans at all. They are the equivalent of remortgaging your home to get cash. If need money for renovation and you have a lot of equity in your house you can borrow against it. They are doing the same thing with crypto. They don't want to sell their crypto because they want to speculate on it and they need money so they use it as collateral.
I personably think it's a very stupid idea to invest in something like crypto on credit. Lending your crypto to these morons looks like a pretty good idea if you can trust that the smart contracts doesn't have bugs. You get a stable and guaranteed >5% without all the risks of the stock market.
Media started glossing over Nazi imagery on the very pictures of soldiers they spread, not even mentioning it.
I think they genuinely didn't know what it was. Even on r/ukraine, they were promoting those picture at the beginning. It doesn't look like any of the more common nazi symbols and and it doesn't have any text on it that you can google.
It was quite interesting to see journalists using those pictures in their articles talking about how there was no nazi problem in Ukraine.
Not really. There's a certain political party who seems to want to redefine private companies as public commons, all because they don't like their hate speech being censored.
no, it's because it actually became the new public commons. That's where most gets their news, meet people, organise events, find jobs, etc. Politicians and organisations are now using it as their main mean of communication.
How do you think the 2020 election would have gone if twitter + facebook + reddit decided after 2016 that most anti-trump posts should be removed from the platforms for misinformation and instead they promoted anti-Biden content? I think they could easily have made him won by a landslide
1st amendment means regarding government censorship
that's just a loophole from people who have no argument so they go with the [legal in the US = Moral]. Just because the modern "public space" is now private, it doesn't make it any less bad when the group in charge arbitrairely ban groups of people based on politics, opinion, etc.
whether you like it or not (I hate it personally), the vast majority of the news and opinions that people consume today comes directly or indirectly (eg. linking an NYT article on facebook) from a handful of social media companies. It's getting even worse now that organisations and politicians are using social media platforms as their official channel of communications
I think we have a similar problem with email accounts. Getting your gmail account banned can really fuck your life and sooner or later something will have to be donne to protect people (eg. force them to a have a proper appel system or to hand over all your data +forward your emails for a while after they kick you out).
That would plummet the stock
From the point of view of the investors, there is no risk. If offer is accepted, they get their bags of cash and walk away with hopefully more than what they paid for those share. Musk could shut down the business to the ground on day 1 and they still get to keep their cash (I wish he would).
isn't it one of those "No one ever got fired for buying XXXXXX" type of situation?
Maybe i'm wrong, but the impression I had of Jira is that just like using sharepoint for file storage, the C-level people want it because they were told that's what big enterprise are using. And if it doesn't fit the need of the company and everyone hates it, they just blame the employees or lack of training.
Being a leader at the top of the food chain in a company this big means that you get to take credit for a significant portion of the success of company and your paycheck has an extra zero or two more than most people working for you. It's only fair that they have to take the blame for the horrible mistakes that their teams make.
A modern airship could make the transatlantic trip in about 24-36 hours, so it doesn't really matter for casual vacation travel
How many vacation days do you guys get per year?!? Only retired people would find it acceptable to turn an entire day wasted on travel to Europe into a 3 days waste (times two if you plan on coming back).
Unlike cruise ship, they can't fill the airship with fun activities. That travel will be just as boring as a car or train ride.
Most of the building code is written with the blood of victims who died in a horrific accident.
If you want to know why doors in public places have to open toward the outside in modern countries and why "panic bars" are often mandatory, the answer is large piles of dead children (literally). Depending on who you ask and the country they live in, they will refer to a different disaster, but the common element in all of them is 70 - 600 people stuck in hallways unable to escape due to bad exit designs (eg. people piling up against doors that open towards the inside).
sometimes you can.
A good exemple is Windows 8.1.
Depending on who you ask, it's either the best OS Microsoft has ever made or one of the worse. If you know how to install a different Start Menu, you can get >95% of the benefits of W10/W11 with no downside other than game compatibility. If you are stuck with the menu provided by Microsoft, it's almost literally unusable. It's so bad that and hated by literally everyone that IMHO it deserved a "fire managers/leaders who approved it" type of response.
at least 20 years, probably more.
Excel allows you to force a specific type during file import or directly on the worksheet with literally two clicks once the region is selected. You can also create templates if you want all your new documents to use a specific type.
The scientists are not adapting to the software, they are adapting to the incompetence of people in their research groups who refuse to learn how to use their main work tool and/or don't want to do the extra 2 clicks it takes to select "text".
you should be able to tell it whether a certain column is a date or not,
Not only is this possible, but the tool to do it is located in best location (large menu, center of the screen on the first ribbon tab). It take literally 2 clicks to do it once your cells or columns are selected. The only problem with this tool is that you have to use before copying your data and it can be frustrating if you forget to do it. If you want to import a file instead of copy-pasting the data, it's only like 1 or 2 extra clicks to set the data type for a column during the import.
And btw, the CSV format was intentionally designed to NOT have type information imbedded in the file itself. The application that is reading the CSV file must know the datatype for each column. For a versatile tool like excel, they is no perfect way to implement it and there will always be a fraction of users of have to override the choices made by by the software. For advanced users who use it everyday, you learn very quickly if the type of data you are normally working with will require you to force it or if excel will understand it correctly.
It looks to me like almost all of the anti-Excel comments on HN (including yours) are made by people who never or extremely rarely uses it and don't know what it can or can't do. It's typical that most if not all of the "missing features" listed by people on NH have been part of excel for at least a decades.
they've possibly already lost nearly a third of their previous "top 1%".
I suspect a lot of them won't be leaving for real when they start shopping around for alternatives. The numbers I see looks in line with what you would normally pay for cloud services.
Video quality is significantly higher on Vimeo
it stopped being "significantly" better a long time ago. The bitrate used to be much higher than YouTube but now they are similar. People only keep repeating this because it was true in the earlier days of HD video hosting.
Bombing civilians in the middle east didn't stop in 2009.