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Agreed. Pair it with glasses (like the Orion) as a connected monitor and you could hack away at a side project anywhere and everywhere.

I actually tend to do a lot of coding in bed and would love this kind of setup. Or while on an airplane where space is a premium (I hate having my laptop on that stupid tray table).

Pair the glasses with bone conductive headphones and you could be immersed in your world without the silliness of the Apple Vision. And you wouldn’t have to turn anything off during takeoffs or landings…

I’m doing something like this in my current home setup, but the thing I miss most about multi-monitor is screen sharing on Zoom.

I used to be able to just share one entire monitor and could drag windows I wanted to make visible to that display. Now I tend to share single applications, and have to unshare and reshare to change the view.

First world problems and all, but it would be nice if Zoon let you partition off a part of a display (instead of all or nothing). Would love to draw a bounding box of “share everything in this box.”

I don’t think this annoyance is enough to make me go back, but there are times when I’ve considered it.

Potentially you take both at once: use something like DynamoDB as the storage layer that also supports TTL natively.

I’ve always been intrigued by YC, but the commitment to relocate is hard to justify. I have three kids (with the oldest finishing up her junior year next month). So I’m not in a place where being in SF for the summer works very well for the family.

I remember during COVID that there was a remote option, but I don’t believe that’s available now. So for someone more established (erm, no longer 20) that lives in the middle of the country, I’m not sure it’s a great fit.

But man am I interested… I can never quite tell myself “no” and move on either… I’d love to be wrong. Because I’ve got a great one cooking right now!…

This is actually a space I’m exploring. Would love to chat about your use case if you’re interested. Shoot me an email at chris. Domain name revenuehq.com.

I frequently say that 16 y/o Chris would be very disappointed in 40 y/o Chris. But 16 y/o Chris was an idiot.

As you touched on, the fun twist is when you abstract the learning so it’s not just “I was wrong about X” but “I should be much more accepting of contrarian views.”

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We use our minivan for a lot of these things, but I’d love to buy bulk mulch / topsoil instead of the bags. But loose mulch doesn’t play well with the van.

I’ve always considered myself a GM//Chevy guy, but I’m strongly considering this truck.

And I love that it doubles as a Powerwall...

Eliminates the need for a generator (I work from home so if the power is out I can just take the ICE for errands and have the truck power the house — you don’t have to be a truck person to find that pretty nifty!)

Not really since you don’t lose access to prior versions. It’s more like buying the old Photoshop CDs but then getting three years of updates with that purchase.

If one’s taxes only went to pay for this small subset of items, I think your argument would be stronger. A 40% marginal tax rate is not earmarked for these essential services, as evidenced by our decaying infrastructure despite the US government bringing in $3.5 trillion in tax receipts in 2019.

The political left has been pretty clear that the aim isn’t solely a focus on essential (and shared) resources, but on increasing the social safety net (either through UBI, single payer, or other mechanisms).

Separate conversation if those are good policies or not, but the argument isn’t that the rich don’t want to pay for police. That’s an incredible straw man.

Today a single mom with full time job can still run a (not too big) house.

Until COVID hits and children have to be taught virtually from home.

There are no easy and cheap answers here, but a series of trade offs. I think the original question is “where is the conversation of the trade off?” I don’t think it’s settled that the ideal social structure involves a dual income family. And I think very few people envy the workload required of single mothers, regardless of technical advances that make cleaning a home easier.

Caregiving goes well beyond making sure the kids have clean underwear.

I disagree. Perhaps AWS should be more selective in what they choose to launch, but once a service is launched you should have a very compelling reason to deprecate it. This creates a positive feedback loop that AWS is safe —- in the sense that if you build on top of their services you know that they will continue to be around.

It makes the AWS dashboard a bit more cluttered, but if you use one of AWS’ half-baked services you know it will be around for as long as you want. Maybe you outgrow it; that’s fine. You can opt to move off, but AWS won’t force your hand.

There’s a ton of value in that stability. Your MySQL server running on EC2 still works today if you haven’t migrated to RDS. And if you migrate to RDS, you can be confident that it will be around until well after you’ve moved to your next job.

Ironically, this is related to Golang’s strong 1.X backwards compatibility guarantee. Knowing that what works today will work tomorrow has tremendous value. You don’t have to wake up and migrate everything from vendor to modules. You can build on ECS today and have confidence ECS will be around tomorrow.

Eh, even corporate GSuite changes from time-to-time. Google products and services are less stable than AWS. I’m not talking about uptime, necessarily, but for all of AWS half-baked ills you know that half-baked service is going to be around forever.

I don’t think it’s a tired argument: Google is much more likely to cut bait than Amazon.

Definitely in undergrad. And also now that I have kids and kids have friends. Invite one other family over and we’re pretty close...

Unless Apple decides they won’t let you. This only works for “Reader” apps. For reference, see Basecamp’s Hey! offering.

Thinking on this, I don’t remember cases for the original Blackberry or Palm devices. I never cased a flip phone. Or one of my candy bar phones.

Apple gets really excited to say “thinnest iPhone ever” — but then we (or at least I) slap an Otterbox on it because I want the thing to last.

At the end of the day, it’s just for marketing purposes. No one wants to buy a Jitterbug phone. People want to buy sleek and sexy. And then they surround it in rubber bumpers.

It’s really pretty stupid all the way around. I don’t think Apple would sell as many phones if they shipped with a built-in bumper. Even to people like me who require that their pocket computers be protected...

Even worse, I once had a terrible experience with a product. Arrived beat to hell and very clearly just a cheap product. I left a review (maybe my third review ever?) and it was removed.

You can pay for good reviews, but legitimate complaints might be removed.

I love Amazon, but refuse to buy supplements from them at this point. Fraud via co-mingling is real, and I’d rather burn down my house from a crappy wire than ingest powder from an unvetted source.

I went back to the old brick and mortar for my protein powder (though I’d also be willing to buy online from non-marketplace sources that take ownership of the supply chain).

Again, I love Amazon. But if they refuse to take responsibility for whatever arrives at my house no way is it going into my mouth...

Which they then “sold” to an end user. (Scare quotes because my I don’t believe for a second my iPhone belongs to me; but Apple is kind enough to rent it to me...)

“‘I will x if you will also x’ makes you reactionary and gives agency to someone else to act on your behalf.”

This is true to an extent, but I find it unpersuasive. Because it’s basically my main negotiating and parenting technique. I don’t bluff well or frequently. I prefer to lay out the options ahead of time (because I’ve already thought them through) so I can let the other party make an informed decision.

“I will buy this widget for $X. Anything more than that and I will use your competitor / build it in-house.”

“If you clean your room, we’ll get ice cream. Otherwise, no video games today.”

“If you drop a nuclear bomb we will drop our nuclear bombs.”

The catch is that you have to mean it. Which is why I don’t see any real value in bluffing in long-term relationships. We’ve all seen those parents who tell their kids “If you don’t stop doing X right now then Y” and everyone knows (especially the kid) that there will be no follow through.

But predetermining your response doesn’t give away your agency. It’s simply stating in advance how you will respond to others agency in an effort to let them make an informed decision.

I’ve had more than one experience where you go to use a hand operated and it’s empty. Then you wonder who touched that thing before you and what did you pick up.

I despise the hand operated ones now. Same with mechanical faucets in a public bathroom. I don’t want to turn it off once my hands are clean...

Which is also why I lean towards libertarianism...

Ignoring any potential ethical questions, I wonder how that works for state tax purposes?

I went through the MBA program at the UofR. The Strong Museum was one of our favorite places. We ended up staying in Rochester for five years (I worked remotely for three years after the grad program).

I have very fond memories of Rochester. Absolutely beautiful part of the world.

I don’t use it as my primary editor/IDE, but it is convenient if I’m on my iPad. Setting up the environment and connecting it to your Git repo makes it very easy to debug in a pinch.

I wouldn’t be opposed to a cloud-based primary IDE (as long as it functioned offline), but I don’t think we’re there quite yet.

So it’s not my primary IDE, but it’s a solid backup.

I’m pretty steeped in the Amazon ecosystem. I’m a fan of the Alexa. I watch their content. I use AWS.

But I don’t trust it for anything that goes into my body any more. I’ll make a trip to a GNC to buy ON protein powder. I don’t trust Amazon to sell my something from the actual manufacturer.

That’s new for me. Just in the last couple of years. The risk profile of getting a bad knockoff is overwhelming now. And for ingestibles it’s just not worth it...

I found it very clever. This product does not replace your data lake, it flows into your data lake.

Also there is less concern with an auto “death panel” where cost of repair exceeds replacement value. I can’t imagine Aetna offering you $50k to just die already...

They clearly aren’t saying FB login is bad (or they’d just disallow it). They are saying “we want in on the game and we can force it on you.”

I happen to have an app out there which we maintain security updates but aren’t adding new features. It was built with a FB login option. So now we either never update or have to implement features we don’t care about.

This isn’t a protection, it applied retroactively as well. Anyone who ever gave FB login AS AN OPTION is now required to create Sign In with Apple.

I do not buy their company line at all. This is simply Apple flexing its power in the App Space to require developers to implement an ecosystem very few would do of their own volition.

You can argue it’s a good thing. I disagree. But it is hopefully clear that Apple being able to wield this kind of power is indicative of monopolistic power in that marketplace.