This feels like an example of a company trying to do the "right thing" and deciding there must be a way to monetize that, regarding what everyone (even the web) is telling them.
Imagine the balance of revenue from non-returning users (think fitness) vs very heavy users, and finding a way to keep both parties happy. And the implications it has (those "paused" users still count towards "onboarded" users).
Major props Kagi team, or who-ever pushed this idea!
I didn't even realise mIRC worked on 3.11, wow! It was my first introduction to programming in a way.
It makes me wonder if adding something akin to the script editor you had in mIRC to for instance a game such as minecraft would serve as a good way to introduce people to programming, similar to how mIRC might have..
If you're a bit stable yourself (& used to skateboard yourself), try long-boarding (4 year old in front of you with plenty of protection, there's enough space on a standard longboard to fit an adult & child).
Or biking them in a bicycle trailer to the store/school.
Surfing is one I'm looking forward to myself, I've never done it either myself!
I'm not sure how new the trend is, but it's called gitmoji (https://gitmoji.dev/) and there's also tooling to make committing/searching for the "correct" emoji easier :D Whatever makes your job more fun, right? Oh and it saves on characters!
My wife (mainly, my role has been system user/devops) wrote a custom angular UI on top of grocy for managing our household stock (basically any product we buy at grocery stores), there are two bluetooth barcode scanners and screens which allow you to quickly checkout a product when consumed. Since she started gardening she's also "abusing" the db with custom fields to track when she's planted vegetables, harvested them, etc...
Also over 70% of the lights / 50% of other devices in our house are smart (zigbee/wifi/ble) and are connected to home assistant (I very much recommend tradfri+xiaomi zigbee+home assistant). By now I'm sure we've spend over 200h on our "smart home/life", we love data :)
That's an interesting point you're making. I wonder what the policy is regarding the questions people ask an LLM and the developers behind the service reading through the questions (with unsuccessful responses from the LLM?)
this post was also posted but the author on lobste.rs, where I've previously noticed a slightly anti-HN atmosphere. So I'm guessing the author feels the same way. (that's just a wild guess, I'm most likely wrong...)
With all the recent articles about sand running out (from rivers), microplastics, global warming, bugs dying... it sounds like we're screwing the earth big time. While I'm not the person who cares enough to completely change my life style, I'm getting worried.
I wonder whether this is just me, I hope not, but then again it also feels like the industry in general still doesn't care enough.
You don't have to completely change your lifestyle to make beneficial improvements to your life and community. We often make the mistake of thinking that a strong signal will have more impact than frequent and consistent weak signals.
If you make small and totally doable changes here and there, they will accumulate and have an impact, especially if more people in the community begin adding their own weak signals. No one weak signal on its own will have the ability to change the dire course we find ourselves on but it needs to start with taking some personal responsibility.
A few, small and easy changes I've made that help: I signed up for my electric utility's green option (they offset 100% of my usage by buying from a windfarm here in Texas), we went from a two-car family to a one-car family, we switched to a hybrid, I moved to remote work instead of commuting, and I use the bus system as often as I can.
Those changes all happened over the course of the last three years and many other lifestyle changes. The biggest change I've made was focusing on financial independence which helped me move from profligate consumption to saving the majority of my income.
If you feel worried, the best thing you can do is make small, meaningful changes because it will help you feel empowered which wards off despair.
The situation certainly feels pretty dire but I think we can solve it, it just requires the accumulation of weak signals.
Perhaps you don't want to completely change your lifestyle, but certainly there are ways in which you can take action. If you feel that industry should care more, then you can use your voice to advocate for change.
The climate crisis and other ecological emergencies are real, and many people have been feeling their effects for some time. Think about what you can do to make a difference now, before you feel the effects of these crises in your own everyday life.
I'm still in my 20's, but I do need at least 5-6h of sleep to perform well the next day. Powernaps like i0nutzb suggests work for me too, but I wonder, are you anywhere near productive on any day between 8am en 11am? If not, wouldn't your employer understand you arriving later, if that means you're able to work more productively the rest of the day?
I love that they are bringing something like Cortana to the desktop. Ever since I saw Her [1] I wanted something like that, something that takes away the need to look at my smartphone when I receive an email to know what's it about or who it's from. A smartwatch seems to be going in the right direction for that kind of things, but still, it's not the same as being reminded about the weather when you are on the point leaving the door instead of having to look up the weather yourself.
Imagine the balance of revenue from non-returning users (think fitness) vs very heavy users, and finding a way to keep both parties happy. And the implications it has (those "paused" users still count towards "onboarded" users).
Major props Kagi team, or who-ever pushed this idea!