Money should be no object, I just worry that this is the result of a generation coming of age in the tightest labor market in a half century and they're all in for an extremely rude awakening over the next couple years.
Even Chromium started with WebKit which itself was a fork. This doesn't mean you shouldn't be interested in browser dev but you also don't have to do a totally clean sheet implementation.
I have succumbed to the temptation to implement various aspects of this. I have also tweaked existing implementations for my day job. I even had the assignment to pitch an implementation to a client. So I am sure that some would question my sanity NOW. TFA suggests that I might not have been sane to start with.
I admire any team-of-one that takes on this endeavor and publishes their work.
I agree but it's more important that we share a common system and it's incredibly expensive to switch (not just monetarily). For better or worse, if there's gonna be one system it will be decimal. Take heart that decimal time didn't catch on.
100 hour days are exactly what I think of the metric system. It's good for science and engineering, so you're not constantly converting bases; but when it comes to daily, human-scaled activity, I want numbers that are small and easy to divide. 1 / 4 == 3 is a lot nicer than 1 / 4 == 25.
I didn't calculate how many hours are in a quarter of a day. I mentioned 100 hour days, and then mentioned how it's nicer when 1 Foo divided by 4 equals 3 Bars, instead of dealing with 1 Baz divided by 4 equaling 25 Qux.
> I mentioned 100 hour days, and then mentioned how it's nicer when 1 Foo divided by 4 equals 3 Bars, instead of dealing with 1 Baz divided by 4 equaling 25 Qux.
What's the connection between those two mentions?
Surely you're not saying mention 1 is unrelated to mention 2. And it really looks like an attempt to do the same calculation with both system.
It would be very weird if Foo and Bar were an analogy for feet and inches for example, and even weirder if they weren't an analogy for anything.
You could have easily fixed your comment to be actual math, but you didn't and instead you came up with this weird after the fact explanation for your obvious mistake.
My parents love watching those videos so I know what you're talking about. There's four factors I think.
One, the quality of the saffron makes a big difference in price. Longer deeper red strands are much more expensive than shorter and more yellow strands. I suspect they are not using the most expensive saffron in their teas.
Two, there's a lot of markup purchasing saffron from most retailers, especially here in the US. You can get that amount of saffron for far less than $10,000 if you know someone who has a connect.
Three, as you said the majority of saffron production is from Iran. Some friends I know are getting their saffron from the UAE but I'm pretty sure its being re-exported from Iran.
Four, those videos are ultimately productions. If you compare the earlier videos to the later videos on some of that channel you can tell they've upgraded their digs. They might just be exaggerating for the camera.
No kidding - last time I saw a video they were using better Shun knives than the ones I use in my kitchen. A big step from what they had in their first videos, and kinda neat to see the upgraded life their worldwide platform has given them
Part of me agrees that pop is ripe for that sort of upheavel but my arguments that it won't happen are:
1. Angst will probably always be the teenage condition but I don't think the distance between what's being recorded and what teens and young adults are feeling is as great as it was in the 90s.
2. Music listening is so much more fragmented now that even if some artist hooks into some underserved emotional need, it might just grab its group of followers and then sorta descend into its own little subculture, safely away from the mainstream. The third and fourth lines on any contemporary festival act list has a lot of acts that fall into this category.
3. Kurt Cobain was this unusual combination of wanting to be anti-authority, anti-establishment, alternative on one hand, but then very ambitious and seeking fame and record deals on the other. It's paradoxical but he was that and that combination of attributes is really good for changing the mainstream music scene but I don't think most people can live in that contradiction for that long and therefore people like that are rare.
In my view, we're in a sort of repeat of 00s R&B. Lot of substanceless tunes with honestly seriously vulgar lyrics but immensely catchy and fun. The main difference is this version is less danceable (but also more subject to dance routines on TikTok!). And I don't mean it in a pejorative way, not every good song need to be meaningful.
How can we say "consumers will pay a bit more and shareholders will see lower returns"? We just went through an episode of tight labor and it resulted in high inflation in the US and companies recorded blockbuster profits by pursuing a price over volume strategy.
Of course, it also coincided with a supply chain shock but we ought to be honest that we cannot guarantee a tight labor market will result in Americans being materially better off.
Where else would business squeeze the P&L in the face of increased cost of labor? Prices go up, profits go down, or some combination if the business is to continue as a going concern.
You really put into words something I've experienced but couldn't articulate. Every time I've used a headset I've gotten not fatigued but just a general feeling of malaise and had to put it down and take a break. I would imagine with repetition you get used to it but yeah its definitely a factor.
Although I think part of the bleh feeling is just having to subconsciously adapt to the imperfections of a headset. For example, you can't just glance at anything and expect to see it, you have to shift your head for some things. Or like the headset itself moving ever so slightly on the face and your eye moving out of the way of the center of the lens. It gets exhausting and you don't know you're doing it unless you're actively paying attention.
I will say most of the advertising shows people interacting with 2D interfaces in 3D space so maybe this is how they're getting around it combined with just better build quality, better thought out straps, etc.
Yea maybe you can get used to it. I have only used heat sets a few times.
One thing I noticed was that My brain had two visual maps competing against each other. Reality and the virtual world. I sometimes found myself feeling the sensations from the virtual world from time to time while I was not using the head sets. It went away with time, but it was interesting anyway.
Depends on who is the current owner of the unsold, rented out units. If it's the developer, the bids were probably far lower than expected but they expect the prices to rebound. In general, developers are really not in the business of rentals. They don't have the financing for it or the capacity for it and they needed to sell to free up financing for the next project. They're not set up to be holding on to assets like rental properties, and so if it's happening either suggests some sort of integration with a property manager or that something has gone wrong.
I don't think Meta will intentionally try to snuff out Mastodon but I don't think Threads breaking from Mastodon will have it just return to its pre Threads momentum.
Look it just makes sense to start out connecting Threads users to a pretty active user base which creates content for Threads users. Then as Threads grows, maintaining federation with Pubiverse will have a high marginal cost relative to the shrinking piece of pie users outside of Threads is. Compatibility will get worse and worse as the Threads devs allow their federation code to rot until eventually they make a clean break to focus their resources elsewhere.
Meanwhile if you happen to be a poster on the Mastodon side of the fence, you're going to have to get on Threads and start posting there to keep up with the audience you've gathered, it just makes sense. That network effect of posters needing to follow their audiences would hollow out a post-break Mastodon.
All this being said, I don't think Mastodon instances should resist a Threads federation. Focus on a superior user experience by really trying to empathize with the average user. Don't let yourself be relegated to power users or enthusiasts because, Threads federation or not, when push comes to shove people want to talk to people and they will go where people are.
> Look it just makes sense to start out connecting Threads users to a pretty active user base which creates content for Threads users.
Are there any decent analytics of mastodon's network? Threads has many more users than mastodon, and so many keep posting on there about having better engagement than on xitter. Mastodon interop being axed on the threads side would waste so much of their work, unless the mastodon networks themselves start to empty out.
If another protocol becomes dominant, threads might pivot, but I think the current devs I've spoken to are genuine in regards to thinking of threads as just another good part of the fediverse. Mosseri and Zuck have control in the end, but the 18 devs or so that make threads right now seem to have been pretty thrilled by the rollout.
