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F--- the company. People come first.


Most of what you wrote sounds fair and almost compassionate to me but hard disagree on "the fact it's cancer is actually largely irrelevant".

That person has just received some of the worst news of their lives, for no fault of their own. This is very relevant for approaching them with patience, kindness and care.

OP will need to reconcile their ambition and past expectations with being a decent human being and, possibly, a friend.


> That person has just received some of the worst news of their lives,

Cancer is bad, but without more details is imposible to know how bad it is. I've seen case in my family when they got a cancer, it was operated and got a minimal post treatment and lived happy ever after a few decades and counting, and other cases where it was too late and died like one year after the diagnosis. I had similar experiences with coworkers.

For example, in some prostate cancers the recomendation is to "do nothing", or to be more precice to wait and check them frecuently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_surveillance_of_prostat... But in other cancers waiting is stupid and shoud be removed asap and get chemo and more.


I don't mean it's something to ignore entirely. I mean it's a separate to the question about about the business. The OP needs an answer to "How can this startup move on without one co-founder?" rather than "How can this startup move on without one co-founder, because they have cancer?"


Disappointing that the maintainers need to make a living (or, godforbid, even a profit) and that users can't get everything for free? Nope.


"get" "for free"? Where do users expect to "get" something for free? In fact, users are offering something "for free".


A company went to the free weekly picnic and offered to chop-down the tree that provided the shade everyone was eating under "for free" so they could build themselves a picnic table, because they didn't feel like paying for a chair or settling for the free blanket.


A contributor offered the feature for free, the maintainers don't want it to be free. It's expected because is a business.

It's disappointing because it's a problem with no clear winners. It's difficult to solve it for all.

I was not trying to be contentious, just observing that open core is difficult to do it right for all parts involved.

Things will align themselves, probably a fork, users moving to alternatives, or something else.


Cool project, lovely website at https://lubelogger.com/.

In the hope that the maintainers of https://lubelogger.com/ read this: On the homepage under "Showcase" the left and right chevron buttons for seeing more images are shown black on a dark background and are hard to spot.


This is asking for permission to access my personal data on more than 190 sites. I don't think so, buddy.


It's specifically asking to access all the Google sites with a different tld, a far better approach than asking to access every website with a single permission


How did the OP get from the article linked to the title of this post?


Section 5.5: "Table 3 contrasts our measured human solving times and accuracy against those of automated bots reported in the literature."

Although it's not clear to me that the humans all really were humans.


I'm also wondering this. I don't think it has anything to do with AI solves.


You paid them nothing and are infuriated. Interesting.


Many people care about Signal, and it is okay to dislike their decision. OP didn't demand from Signal to support SMS, but they expressed their emotions about the change.

Signal is an awesome project but some of their decisions annoy many users. E.g. Signal does not allow to automatically save all pictures in the gallery. It's a privacy feature, but it's inconvenient since it forces me remember to download each image seperately.


Are they doing anything about YouTube Shorts?


Is anyone actually watching YouTube Shorts?

I mean, not accidentaly clicking one thinking it's a regular video, but deliberately watching them?


I installed an extension blocking them. It's VVS[1] on steroids and annoying.

[1] https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verticaal_Video_Syndroom


Funny how panoramic/horizontal arms race between film producers and TV producers calmed overnight. I was prepared to ask a snarky question about vertical movies going mainstream but apparently there has been already a relevant festival since 2014.


It's one thing for a video to just be in portrait, but another for a video to be in portrait letterboxed to widescreen..


What do you think about watching portrait video letterboxed to widescreen on smartphone held vertically?


Yes. Obviously.


My YT shorts algorithm has turned into softcore porn and its truly disgusting


One thing about the algorithms is if you don't train them, they sure do reveal a lot about you to yourself


Wait. Please elaborate on how you do that


I would assume they just dump a few handfuls of ice in the disposal and turn it on with water running over it. When the beaters break the ice it will form sharp edges for a short period of time that remove any material buildup inside the disposal.


It's less the sharpness than the solidity. An integral mass hitting clog or debris will scour those off regardless of how sharp the edges are. It's a bit like the principle noted in the meterological sector regarding hurricanes wind speeds: it's not that the wind blows, it's what the wind blows.

Ice is good for cleaning garbage disposals. Citrus peels (lemon especially) is good at improving their odour.


Thank you. That was super interesting. The etymology is quite funny.


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