Every day before logging off from work, I write down my todos for the following work day on a blank piece of paper. I close my laptop, tuck the paper in a folder and put both in closet away from sight.
Has worked really well getting things done and disconnecting from work.
IMO social media needs competition but I don't think it will be disrupted by blockchain or decentralization. It will be disrupted by a continued pursuit of competition by doing things like supporting net neutrality. That keeps the playing field level and prevents current big players from becoming further entrenched. Big tech's monopolies are encouraged by lower-level-monopolies owned by Comcast and the other internet media conglomerates. To solve the problems higher in the tree we should get at the roots.
It is somewhat disruptive to banks. You can invest stable coins and get interest for example which is higher than bank interest. And the operator doesn't need to spend a fortune applying for banking licenses for each country they operate in.
Absolutely not. The reason bank interest is lower is because the FDIC ensures that you get your money if the bank stops existing. If the company backing your stablecoin stops existing, what are you left with? Nothing, of course
This not disruptive. This is just normal investing with all the risks attached
According to Nexo "Disrupting the financial system, one bit at a time." they have 3 million users on their saving platform. (https://nexo.io/about-us). I haven't used them and am not recommending them but there seems to be something going on there.
You say this on a thread that confirms Tether to be an unmitigated fraud. How and why are we supposed to trust in USDC, USDP and all the other permutations of USD to not be frauds themselves. It is easy to give a 10% return when all your really doing is offering unbacked IOUs
But yes, there should be more emphasis on what drives business value (hence on picking a stack that allows providing that value as efficiently as possible), and with the minefield that's modern web development, starting from scratch doesn't seem sensible. The post doesn't go too deep into what they're building though, so maybe I'm missing something.
Android software and hardware UX is typically subpar, with very little attention to detail, and things just feel out-of-touch and made by engineers and marketing bots. My hypothesis is all these things contribute to a lack of "coolness" (for lack of better word), which has a tremendous impact on the market.
> Android software and hardware UX is typically subpar, with very little attention to detail, and things just feel out-of-touch and made by engineers and marketing bots. My hypothesis all these things contribute to a lack of "coolness" (for lack of better word), which has a tremendous impact on the market.
It goes the other way around as well. If you are used to Android you will be very disappointed by the lack of customization available on iOS. I know I can't stand to use an iphone because of that.
As a decade long Android user that switched to iPhone when the 13 came out, I was expecting that but I've actually been pleasantly surprised. The new shortcuts app in iOS offers a surprising amount of customizability and scripting. True, you can't replace the entire launcher like with Android, but I've found it to be much less of a difference than I thought.
I thought I'd be disappointed after moving to iOS but it turned out I didn't need as many customizations as I'd thought. The defaults are mostly pretty good.
Apple has slowly been improving that over the years. You’re right, it’s not to Android levels, but it’s not what it was five years ago when it was totally locked down.
I hate to break it to you but it probably has nothing to do with that. We’re talking about a demographic that wants to fit in more than any sycophant humble bragger on LinkedIn. The most likely reason is certain crowds in school have iPhones.
Maybe the broke ass kids have that shoddy cheap Android. That’s like wearing Payless or knock-off sneakers. No, not me, everyone’s got Jordans mom, and the new iPhone dad. It’s almost like you don’t care about me and want me to be seen as a loser in school. Gosh.
And how did this existing network of iPhone users come to be if it was just about fitting in? This is obviously flawed logic.
Why even talk about other markets unless you can control for all of the other variables? The other markets are completely different, there is no market like the US market just like there is no market like the market seen in China or India...or maybe if you think as you do, you should ask the question why teenagers in the US market are more likely to try to "fit in" than other teenagers in other markets...
I mean it's probably a combination of two: iPhones are generally considered better (and I concur with this sentiment) which leads to initial adoption and then everyone else has to have one too.
I mean he'll I'm an adult supposedly and am as susceptible to trends/fashions/being cool as anyone else.
Also when the poor kids has cheap androids then kids will associate those with low status. It isn't like kids ask for items from their parents based on very rational reasons, they want the items that the popular kids in school has and avoid the items the poor kids in school has.
You don't need critical mass, as long as one side is oppressive towards the other like this the percentages will shift until it becomes a critical mass.
Lets say one group had iphones and the other group had androids. The iphone group starts to talk badly about the android group due to issues like this, and slowly the other groups will switch to using iphones.
If iphones were that much better value then adults would be using them at similar rates, but they aren't.
Also the other effect is similar. The android ecosystem is affordable so poor people can get it. That creates the same problem as poor neighbourhoods, you don't pay to live in an expensive neighborhood due to the neighborhood itself, but to ensure that poor people can't afford tolive near you. Iphone creates the same effect, you can get an android for super cheap so it is worth a lot of money for kids to create a group where they can ensure that the poor kids can't easily take part of.
>If iphones were that much better value then adults would be using them at similar rates, but they aren't.
This assumes adults, including all the old people who grew up without computers and phones or even smartphones, would be using the devices in the same capacities as a teenager, which seems like a very poor assumption.
Really? Billions of lines of code is reviewed every year at Microsoft. Not hard for me to imagine that this was coerced to an int somewhere (perhaps even unintentionally) that was non-obvious during a code review.
We have mud dauber wasps around the house. I can't find a good reference for neuron count...the only one I see is for super tiny parasitic wasps which I can't imagine is accurate. Lets assume they are on the order of honey bees at 500k-1M neurons.
This past fall I saw one on the ceiling of my front porch. It had a rear leg pinched between the soffit and the edge of a can light. It was pretty obviously struggling, pulling away with its remaining legs and every now and then buzzing its wings. It was interesting but kind of a dumb 'more powah' response that could be the result of a biological integrator of some form.
I then saw one of the most remarkable things that I've personally witnessed in nature. Another wasp of the same type was randomly flying by, about 6" below the level of the ceiling and along a path that would have brought it no closer than a foot away from the stuck wasp. After flying past the stuck wasp, it took a hard right, circled around and landed near the stuck one. It then proceeded to walk up, grab the stuck ankle (?) of the other wasp and help it tug. They both worked on it for a few seconds, broke the first wasp free (not sure if the foot was still intact), then they both flew away in different directions.
I can build a mental model of a biological automaton lacing together finely tuned feedback loops that cause it to 'act' in a way that supports itself. Extending that to a point where it appears to identify, empathize, re-plan, solve a physical problem then resume prior plan starts to stretch my ability to imagine without some kind of subjective consciousness backing it all.
DNA labelling and analyses of confocal z-series reveal that the brain of Macrobiotus cf. harmsworthi contains ∼200 nuclei that are arranged in a bilaterally symmetric pattern (Figure 2D and Figure S1). Since some of these nuclei are likely to be from non-neuronal cell types, such as glia cells, the tardigrade brain might contain fewer than 200 neurons.
Mayer et al. "Selective neuronal staining in tardigrades and onychophorans provides insights into the evolution of segmental ganglia in panarthropods": https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-230
Also note that tartigrades apparently have a constant number of cells throughout their life, so instead of increasing the cell count, they just increase cell size. The cells can have increased complexity anyways. All it really means that the nervous system has about 200 nuclei. Also don't forget that even single celled organisms are capable of the classical behaviours like hunting for food, running away from predators, forming colonies (e.g. bacteria), etc.
I know next to nothing about a bug’s life, but interesting to consider distress signals being tuned into otherwise solitary creatures. For colony wasp/bee I could see why distress would bring help (bring more venom!) but solitary… maybe it was kin?
But what he explains means there's also some problem solving there. I mean, the coming one grabbed just the ankle that stuck. She didn't pull the other wasp from any other part of her body.
> The GFX ROM and the 68000 instructions ROM as burned separately. The problem Akiman describe is that the GFX ROM had been burned but he could still make changes to the instructions.
The sprite data was already burned to ROMs, but they could still change the code.
If I zoom in close on my hand, does it move like a sprite in a 2D video game? Always on a “grid”, with no way to be in between pixels?