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supply and demand is one special case which comprises a fraction of the total pressure on wages and prices and success or failure at any moment.

Mostly about case and formatting consistency. Fantastic list, these sorts of things don’t exist often enough.

The structure of the article is great - “here’s the whole thing, followed by a line-by-line breakdown”.

The enormous blobs of mobile meta will always be a bit gross.

Some amazing sounding experiences

Don’t know if they have a real product yet, but exciting to see meat alternatives other than beef!

Cutting sync support for Chromium was what finally sent me to other browsers. Now alternating between Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi.

Good advice - be genuinely curious about things rather than an NVC parrot

Interesting stuff. I have no real background in this but still found the article and experiment outline very readable.

Random find, fantastic write up. Kind of a year in review, kind of a work/life/other reflection. Summary of the clusterfuck of a year, reasons for leaving the US, thoughts on finding where to move to. Some parts on work and projects.

Manages to be personal without feeling like oversharing.

Some good tips for better writing. HN thread on it also had some interesting points on tone and editorialising of writing.

Outlines reasoning behind Capsize. Still haven’t looked much into this but some sensible ideas in there.

Article raises a lot of the things I don’t like about tourism: locals being priced out, areas being ruined and overrun by visitors, and useful stores being replaced by junkshops selling shitty trinkets.

Subtitle explains it - America’s biggest vulnerability in cyberwarfare is hubris. Shoting “this is 'murica” doesn’t protect your data.

Cool glitchy animated drawings in the article.

Hadn’t tried this opening before and quite enjoyed playing it. Made for an interesting game

I love this for many reasons. Mostly for some people continuing with approaches that aren’t just brute force deep neural nets. Goes into better detail than the original headline, which implied it could just automatically detect cancer cells (it was years of work going from pastry detector to other uses). Hard things are hard.

Excellent tips, and good pictures explaining what they mean (this is often overlooked in descriptions of actions). Sit forward, sit up. Leg angle closer to 120 that 90 is a good one

This is a joke, but some parts are too real

you forgot to mention the time it takes hunting for your ‘obscure teenage years’ CDs on eBay, setting up search alerts for each CD to appear for ~$1 with cheap shipping, waiting three weeks for them to arrive from Lithuania, alcohol-rubbing the dozen sale stickers off the jewel case, cleaning the CDs with lint-free holy water, ripping the audio losslessly at superfast 52x, physically scanning with a scanner and optimizing the album artwork, categorizing, metadata’ing, updating and maintaining your Frankenstein music database, updating the online database for prospective fake internet points, and relisting each CD at $2

yay science

This is beautiful. Also little bit of history in the replies - this is apparently a public kitchen shared by multiple people, who would then eat in their own rooms.

Wonderful web app to generate much nicer looking shadows than I can come up with

Random discovery from some article, verified on Wikipedia. A few decades in the timber business, then in the late 90’s started buying fashion companies. Now owns Gucci, YSL, Balenciaga, Brioni, Girard-Perregaux. Businesses are crazy.

The relaxing sound of events and errors rolling in to your server.

I too have a lot of issues with this. What if your file moves? What if the file is fake? What if URLs change? What if servers shut down? Startups shut down or disappear all the time. And even if they don’t people don’t tend to do backwards compatibility anymore. This is a whole new and expensive consequence to link rot.

Short version:

The NFT token you bought either points to a URL on the internet, or an IPFS hash. In most circumstances it references an IPFS gateway on the internet run by the startup you bought the NFT from.

Oh, and that URL is not the media. That URL is a JSON metadata file

What a champion. I was quite worried my laptop was dying.

I still have no idea what is going on with all this.

What’s interesting is that Beeple, the creator of the artwork, is actually a business partner of Metakovan’s. He owns 2% of all the B20 tokens. I’m sure there is no conflict of interest here

NFTs as a recruitment tactic for some non-nerd advocates of crypto. The “what is digital ownership” section is legit - being digital and “on the blockchain” doesn’t make things magically last forever. Many parts of it could disappear.

4. A few artists really are making life-changing money from this!
5. You probably won’t be one of them.

This aspect isn’t particularly different from Spotify and similar.

Linked from John Cochrane conversation with Tyler.

I respect their dedication to a joke idea

Not sure tihs is actually everything I needed to know and I still have many questions. Good historical overview of the rise of them though.

I wish this was longer. I had left the tab open and unread for ages thinking it was a big commitment but it’s a few minutes only. The question of “how do we prevent accidental activation?” is an interesting one.

Ambitious thing to estimate - I don’t even try to predict a week ahead!

Some things to get excited about:

• mRNA tech
• geothermal power
• in-orbit manufacturing of things that cannot exist on Earth(!)

On how movies of the last decade or two fetishise the body but tend to lack nudity or sex scenes.

HN thread has some interesting theories, I am partial to the censorship for easier marketing in China one.

Fantastic interview on her background and reasons she had wanted to tell the story

Not sure I agree with all the conclusions, but the summary history of reddit and some possibilities is interesting.

Disabling motd news
Disabling the news part (the pingback to canonical) is simple. Edit the following file:

vim /etc/default/motd-news
Change ENABLED=1 to ENABLED=0.

Stop spammy kubernetes messages when logging in to server

I don’t have strong opinion on it one way or the other. But I think we can all agree that exploitative game mechanics do suck.

Twitter thread that apparently motivated the removal.

Mobile games that aren’t full of ads, slot-machine mechanics, or micropayments

oh wow I saved this link years ago and only just realised you can click to interact with the animation!!