rthomas6

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by rthomas6 4y ago
OP's point exactly. Christmas is a set of rituals.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I understand your point, the features are useful and they do save lives. It's just... where do you draw the line? You can't practically prioritize life infinitely above every other concern. If you did, the solution would be to
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by rthomas6 4y ago
What about the people who can't afford a car because of these features?
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Cars from the 2000s had all of this and were much cheaper than cars now.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Yes. But they stopped making it like that. The new Leaf base models are $28k minimum, have lane assist, auto braking, high beam assist, smartphone integration, 8" multi touch display, voice recognition, and more. I paid around $12k in
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I suppose I'm not the target market for this. To me this is just added complexity that increases cost and likelihood of something breaking. I'm still waiting for someone to make a "battery on wheels", an electric car wit
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I think this happens with a lot of languages. The Rust implementations just get more eyeballs and press. Presumably because of the inherent memory safety + speed of (non unsafe) Rust.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
You might want to check out Pixel phones. I'm still rocking a Pixel 2 and it still works great.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Just don't use Chrome if it's user hostile. Use something else that's not.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I work for a company that was acquired by Leidos relatively recently. Hello fellow coworker.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
>Things that are non-commercial can easily slip into commercial by some definition, and then you’d suddenly be in breach of contract, no one wants to take that risk. That's part of why it works. If you start making money, you have t
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Technically, that is not the same thing. That's monetization through SaaS, which is one of the strategies mentioned (Hosted, plug and play solution as a SaaS).
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I see. My mistake then. I edited the OP comment to include an actual open source version what I am attempting to describe.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
If the non-commercial use license includes a copy of the source, why isn't that open source?
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by rthomas6 4y ago
It's related, but the Open Core model described in the article mentions extra paid features surrounding an open core anyone can use. What I am describing is the same set of features priced differently for different use cases.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
There is one important monetization strategy that is overlooked by this article: dual licensing. License the source explicitly for non commercial use only, then offer a commercial use licensed product (plus support, usually) for a fee. If t
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Signal?
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by rthomas6 4y ago
That would drive me crazy. I would've left this picture in the breakroom. https://ashtonmedia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Busy-c...
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by rthomas6 4y ago
This is almost useless without performance per watt measurements.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Technically every laptop will crash if you play a sound loud enough
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by rthomas6 4y ago
No, because the inventory value is denominated in widgets, not USD. What's important is that each transaction balances to zero. It doesn't have to balance across transactions.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
A high unimproved land value tax, like 80%+, solves the problem because it prevents land cost increases due to speculation. The profit from owning land becomes whatever use you put the land to, instead of profiting just from owning it. I co
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by rthomas6 4y ago
If you are comfortable with a text editor, I recommend https://plaintextaccounting.org . I use Beancount with the Fava gui. It's great.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
My non-expert understanding for number 1 is that you would record the widget account in denominations of widgets, and separately, record the widget cost for that transaction. That's what you do in beancount anyway, which is what I use
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I use this, except I use Beancount. It's written in Python and is easier to write your own little extensions. There's also a GUI called Fava that goes along with it and is really good.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
People are making this too complicated. I transfer money from savings to checking. That is a double entry. Money comes out of savings and goes into checking. Savings->Checking I need to use the food money envelope to buy clothing. Double
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Welp, looks like I'm switching back from Manjaro for my next Linux install.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
I went with silk floss. I figured if I'm going to try to avoid endocrine disruptors I might as well avoid plastic too. It works just as well for me. It's coated in candelilla wax.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Even worse: Dental floss. Oral-B Glide is made with it.
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by rthomas6 4y ago
Related: the engineer's uniform of blue oxford button down shirt, khakis, and Clark Desert Boots.

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