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I’m not speaking from the startup world, but the sheer amount of small businesses that don’t do any level of revenue forecasting, financial modeling, or even formal budgeting and still make a comfortable sum (~$10m assets over the course of 10 years) based on instinct is pretty staggering. Personally it seems more stressful but that’s the leeway experience gets you.

I had to stop playing for a while because the music really got stuck in my head. What a fantastic game though, it really is so fun. The "Woooow" at some upgrades always make me chuckle. I'll definitely come back to it soon.


haha the "wooow" was very last second, and meant to kind of be ... "snide" ... watching streamers play it and saw "wooow" along with him every time absolutely delights me to no end.


I think there’s a bunch of these in Miami which is fun to see because they have chimneys that will never get used


Maybe they can double as snorkels.


One thing the Apple Watch is missing is being able to call a Lyft or Uber. Not something I do super often but it really would let me leave the phone at home more often.

Also would have liked to see a little hole in the corner to thread a loop to.


Maybe an iOS shortcut could do it? Could even add inputs for address or current location…

Looks like Maps lets you “request ride”, so possibly even the native maps method could work here.


From what I can tell, the "Request Ride" intent for Uber is broken (throws error on any request) and has been like this for at least 2 years.

The Ride Request API [1] seems closed off to developers now, too.

[1] https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/introduction


Shortcuts was massively downgraded within one or two Apple-first releases (the original app was amazing, let me do local automations on the watch that included texting and API calls)


Uber has a phone number that you can call to hail a ride. https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/you-can-now-hail-an-uber-b...


Uber used to have a watch app that allowed you to do this. I assume they canned it due to lack of usage.


The one time I used the Uber Apple Watch app it requested a car but no destination. I assumed they’d just ask me where I’m going but the driver was adamant that I had to provide one, which was impossible because the reason I was using the watch app is that I’d left my phone at home.


For someone who lives in a very small apartment, my WFH setup takes an annoyingly large part of my living space. If I can build a comfortable work environment in VR/AR, I can get rid of my work desk entirely and keep a strong separation between work and my personal life (take headset off and put it + keyboard + mouse away in the closet => done with work). I get to even take it with me so I could work at any desk (in a hotel room, at my parents', etc.)

Even now, I'd love a solution to easily put up and teardown a monitor on my dinner table so I can get rid of my desk.


This would be perfect, but in English, the description on the left refers to graph points in Meters while the visuals' data points are in feet.


Not only that, but they're different measurements: 242.8 feet is 74.005 metres, not 73m.


Heads up, the greenhouse api is returning 0 jobs so none are listed


What’s something you’d recommend to a friend as a beach read?


The Book of Wonder is a series of weird short stories, some of them gloomy and pessimistic but many with a thread of dark humor. "Chu-bu and Sheemish" is one of my all-time favorite short stories - it's creative and hilarious. [1]

I also liked A Voyage to Arcturus, which has become a modern cult classic. It's probably my favorite book I've read for SE, though it might be a little heavy for a "beach read." [2]

P. G. Wodehouse is always a good bet for lighter reading. [3]

The Martian books are also light swashbuckling sci-fi. [4]

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is considered to be one of the best murder mysteries ever written. [5]

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/the-book-of-w...

[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/david-lindsay/a-voyage-to-...

[3] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-g-wodehouse

[4] https://standardebooks.org/collections/martian

[5] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-murder...


Thanks a lot for doing this! I just downloaded a PG Wodehouse book on the iPad and I am thoroughly impressed by the quality of the book! I read PG's books when I was young. I used to borrow them from a local library so I don't own any of them.


The first book I downloaded from standard ebooks was a PG Wodehouse book. I’d never read him and figured I’d give both him and the service a try. Neither disappointed.


Along with Wodehouse, I would also suggest E F Benson.


I’ll second Alex’s recommendations of P. G. Wodehouse (especially Jeeves Stories) and Agatha Christie.

A personal favorite of mine is Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/around-the-wor...


I read this article and a week later came across one of his works (with the signature lemon peel!) at the Met. Would not have been able to recognize him without it. I love how the NYT experiments with different mediums, like their weekly friday news quiz, their stellar cooking app, the crosswords, and now these little art explorations


Why not move hobby projects and droplets to the $4 tier when it launches? It’s cheaper and likely enough to do what you want


Because it is most definitely not enough for what I want.


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