There are lots of modern alarm clocks that pair via Bluetooth to your phone and auto-set the time from the phone’s time. No internet connection or NTP server needed.
The law only matters if there’s someone willing to enforce it. We learned from Trump’s first term that no-one is willing to enforce the emoluments clause.
I think the hallmark of a good designer is knowing which things can be compromised and which things absolutely should never be. Different designers will have different opinions on what those things are.
I’d recommend self-hosting because most SaaS providers charge or limit by usage and it can add up fast.
I use both SigNoz and Sentry with OpenTelemetry. Why both? SigNoz has great dashboards and trace and metrics monitoring, but its alerting system isn’t great. Sentry is great at alerting me to new issues and it also has other features like JS session replays that are nice. They just added metrics monitoring which I haven’t checked out yet.
However Sentry is difficult to set up when self-hosting (it has loads of microservices) and it wasn’t originally designed for Otel so there are rough edges around its Otel compatibility.
I believe the US government will try to limit or restrict access to powerful self-hosted models in future for the reason that they can’t control how they are used. There will be a two-tiered system where government and the military will have access to unrestricted powerful models (perhaps the wealthy too) and everyone else gets a cut-down, restricted version.
Same with humanoid robots, but the risk there is higher because they operate in the physical world and could potentially be jailbroken.
I’ve recently gone back to writing by hand, at least for text that is of a reasonable length. The workflow that works for me is a third-party app on my iPad that converts my handwriting to digital text that I can then paste somewhere.
I’m sure, as the author says, it’s not as good as the real deal of writing with an actual pen, but I need it to be digital text eventually and don’t want to waste a lot of paper. I have found that I’m more creative and enjoy writing more.
> It's frustratingly difficult to even get through the first lesson in which you are supposed to focus on your breath and minimize the wandering of your mind.
There’s the problem: trying to control your thoughts. Thoughts will come and you shouldn’t beat yourself up when they do. Be patient, keep practicing, and you’ll get better at focusing.
Alternatively consider something like box breathing. I use the iBreathe app and find that works better for me than meditation.
There’s no escaping that whatever money Apple makes from this will be a rounding error compared to iPhone / iOS revenue. I honestly think the apps would be better served to be sold to a smaller company where such revenue was a bigger piece of their pie and they were therefore incentivized to care about them.
It can be difficult to separate the benefits of rewriting in Rust with the benefits of rewriting in general. But you can get the most benefit by structuring your code in a way that forces its correctness to be validated at compile-time, where possible. You can limit a lot of bugs and programmer mistakes this way, as well as better reason about the code.
But ultimately you can use any language you want and you don’t need to do anything just because other people are doing it. Do what makes sense for your project.
Shipping physical products can open you up to more fraud, because once it’s in the mail, it’s in the mail. The customer can say it never arrived or claim their card was fraudulently used in order to keep using the product for free. Whereas with a SaaS you just disable their access.
I remember using these on movie sets as crash cams - a cheap camera that could be mounted on something fast-moving so you could get cool action shots without risking the $100k primary camera. But the main selling point for this use-case is that they were cheap, and that’s a fight the Chinese companies will always win.
This is embarrassing for Amazon, but I’d take laughably wrong over subtly wrong any day. If the bug made bills 20% higher I probably wouldn’t have queried it.