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I'll see myself out.
I remember when I was 6 or 7 teaching myself Applesoft BASIC and writing programs with funny (to me) little print statements all through them - when computing was just exploding with possibility.
I wouldn't have had a clue what a Fibonacci sequence was though ;)
After nearly two decades of complaining loudly about deteriorating quality of Google search results and Ad injection, Google puts in AI summaries and provides 1-shot answers to >50% of queries, annihilating the advertising business in the process and TFA is complaining about that?
This is a win! I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts...
I guarantee that the minute enough people wake up and cut their advertising spend with Google, then they'll change tack again.
I wouldn't want to be hanging my career on "SEO marketing" right now..
In understand it's also the French word for Videoconferencing, but even still...
I am now starting to wonder how much of it has to do with network access to Sharepoint and telemetry data that most likely didn't exist in the Office 97 dial-up era.
Features-wise - I doubt there is a single feature I use (deliberately) today in Excel or Word that wasn't available in Office 97.
I'd happily suffer Clippy over Co-Pilot.
Did you interact (like you know, two-way communication) with these people at any time in the last month? In the last year? In the last decade?
_Disabling_ your account, and deleting the app won't stop you from being able to log back in one day in the future if you want to look someone up, but in the mean time, you'll be living a blissful life without an ad-fuelled torment nexus simulating meaningful relationships.
Back in 2006 (god I feel old) there was an excellent mini-series on the SyFy channel called The Lost Room[0], which this seems to be drawing some inspiration from.
Pick 3 imaginary games for sale priced at $1, $10 and $100. Any one of those games could be a million download a month success, and any one of them could be a complete dud.
What flat rate would you suggest to:
* Pay the developer for their work (ongoing per sale)
* Review each game and ensure it meets store guidelines (once per update)
* Host said game regardless of how popular it is (ongoing)
* Process transactions for the game (ongoing)
The alternative would be pricing based on revenue tiers (similar to what Unreal Engine does now), which aren't known in advance and don't take global variance into account (USD$200 in Eastern Europe might be a month's salary).
Percentage is just simpler. It also means that they'd be taking a loss on every free app or in the case of Free-to-Download In-App purchase apps - until users start transacting.
Putting Cloudflare in front of a site doesn't mean that site's backend suddenly never goes down. Availability will now be worse - you'll have Cloudflare outages* affecting all the sites they proxy for, along with individual site back-end failures which will of course still happen.
* which are still pretty rare
Time to recreate the classic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pTgJaJYHIAs
I tried a set of Phonaks for about a fortnight, but I found them tinny-sounding (which I'm told you get used to), and their automatic mode switching (for when you walk into noisy rooms) was incredibly frustrating.
A month later, Apple dropped the Airpods Pro hearing-aid mode software update and I have never looked back. The feedback from my family has been overwhelmingly positive, which more than offsets any qualms I had about them being so visible when you wear them.
My (obviously subjective) view is that the sound quality of the AUD$400 set of Airpod Pro 2s completely smokes the AUD$5,000+ set of Phonaks, and that's before you account for all the UX niceties you get from Apple when you play in their ecosystem (virtually seamless transition between phone, computer and TV (with AppleTV box)).
The fact that you can run an on-demand hearing test on your phone for free, giving you the ability to track any decline yourself without having to front up to an audiologist is just the icing on the cake.
> This resonates deeply with me. That's why I built one myself [0]
I was hoping to see a home-made bike at that link.. Came away disappointed
I have also upgraded to a 20kW inverter (I have ~10kW of panels on the roof) so I can import or export twice as fast and I will be switching to a provider that offers wholesale pricing. Getting a guaranteed 3 hours of free power a day for charging (even in winter) is just going to be the icing on the cake.
Based on back of the envelope calculations, the battery should be paid off in about 5-6 years during which time I will have paid zero for electricity (outside of a $25/month access charge).
"The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson
I'm astonished at how productive I can be while waiting around outside a job site for late deliveries/people or even my kids music lessons for an hour or two, or when sometimes I can sit at my desk and get nothing done in the same time. Maybe it's the constraints of the time/space? I (only half) jokingly wonder if some times I'd be more productive sitting in the van in my own driveway rather than in my home office.
My "truck desk" is the rear parcel shelf/cargo blind out of a Hyundai Accent and the moulded counters fit my laptop and mouse pad perfectly. It also tucks nicely into the void behind the back seats when not in use.
I recently acquired a Vision Pro and am still coming to terms with how incredible it can be sitting in the back of my van parked literally anywhere in the country and having a full ultra-wide desktop experience that packs away into something the size of a lunchbox.
This is the cyberpunk future I dreamed of as a kid.
The programming boxes (Ubiquiti's and others) get the Rx/Tx power from the DDM (Digital Diagnostics Module) built into most SFPs - it exposes the power levels from the receiver and transmitter inside the SFP and dumps it onto an SPI bus in a standardised way which is read by the box.
> Just insert any brand’s SFP or QSFP module, select Copy, and insert any UI module to write the profile.
It's pretty common for SFP rewrite boxes to only allow writing to that particular brand's SFP modules. It's partly a sales tactic, but also often vendor "genuine" optics will ship with a write-protected EEPROM (requiring a passcode) that stops them from being written to.
If you're after something a little more "open", Reveltronics[1] make a barebones version along with software for brute-forcing EEPROM keys.
Or do you mean dark pools/private exchanges that may run 24x7?
While it's nice to have exposure to PLC programming at an Arduino price point, the IDE, and PLC firmware was VERY rough around the edges. It took lots of resets and fiddling to even get the units connected over their USB serial, and you'd come back the next day and you'd have to repeat the process. Lots of "hold your tongue the right way while pressing this button". The IDE was also very buggy (though it may have improved in the last 12 months), but once you got things going, it did the job.
I'm finding the blank youtube page incredibly soothing already!
I work in the networking space, and regularly tweak the IP settings to do my job.
Over the last 25 years, I have been utterly confounded as the number of clicks it takes to get from the Desktop to changing an IP address or DNS setting seemed to jump from 2 or 3 to something like 5 or 6 with all these intermediate settings pages that don't appear to serve any real purpose.
Just show me my damn adapters and let me configure them!
Win 11 seems to be moving back in the right direction, but I switched my daily driver long ago and won't be coming back.
Saves money on password management.
Currently sitting in a control room at a greenfield manufacturing facility trying to describe why even VLANning the control network would be a good idea to some controls engineers who want a plant-wide subnet for all PLCs that will be remotely supported by 6 different vendors. The struggle is real