Once I was tucking to pick up speed and I must have accidentally held the side button down in my pocket. I didn't notice anything had happened until I got a call back asking if I was okay. (I did hear the countdown alarm that plays, but misattributed it to a snowmobile or other equipment at the ski resort.)
The second time I was also skiing and did actually fall. I was unhurt but I guess going fast enough to trigger the call. Unfortunately I couldn't get myself situated enough (gloves, zippered pocket, super steep hill) to cancel before the call went through.
The dispatchers were great in both cases. Asked me a few questions to make sure nobody in the area needed help and nothing else happened.
This is a big part of it. I advised a founder who has gone through 9 startup accelerator programs worldwide (I told him to stop after the first one but he didn’t listen).
Each one gives him some new way to ‘level up’ in the game that is startups, without having to launch a real product or business. It’s all about grooming the startup to look good to VCs.
I joked with him that his real business should be consulting with startups that go through accelerators since he’s a veritable expert at it now.
Maybe, but globalization is how China got industrialized so fast in the first place. Help your enemy get rich, and then watch as they push you off your place. Not a smart strategy either.
Another cool website that I came across a few days ago is https://vdo.ninja/ (create reusable invite option) which also uses the HTML camera APIs to connect your mobile phone to OBS. Both the audio and video quality I get from my phone is at par or sometimes even superior to my laptop's webcam. This video tutorial(1) explains the setup really well.
Kudos to whoever made this free site and also the modern browser tech for making this possible.
I suppose it’s defensive behavior. If they admit their mistake now then they could potentially be liable for the damages caused by their mistake years ago. Now any lawsuit would need to determine if there was an error and harm instead of just quantifying the harm.
I’d like to contribute to a crowdsource fund to prosecute cases like this.
When I was a kid the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund [0] was set up to pay for lawyers to defend comic book stores that were being targeted by over eager police departments and civil suits.
Maybe something like the Google is an Asshole Legal Defense Fund could collect donations. The article mentions $7000 as the cost to prosecute this persons case. Crowdsourcing can help with that.
This seems like a good time for a refresher on government protections because there seems to be a lot of confusion about this.
FDIC [1] is a government insurance scheme on depositors' funds (up to a limit) with any FDIC-inssured bank of financial institution in case of insolvency.
SIPC [2] is the equivalent for brokerages and protects your cash holdings and securities.
Coinbase recently gave a warning [3] that crypto assets could be lost in the event of an insolvency. They also said they don't consider that remotely likely. But the point of that disclosure is that crypto is NOT an SIPC-protected asset.
The crypto mantra of "not your keys, not your coins" [4] is showing itself to be true.
I don't know what the outcome will be of anyone who has any assets in Celsius. It sounds like getting them out now may well be impossible but I haven't read this thoroughly so who knows? Maybe it's too late for Celsius account holders.
But I'd strongly advise anyone who holds crypto with any custodian to move it to your own wallet for your own protection.
Does google even understand how much they've screwed up chat? (text, voice, or video?)
Every time this comes up I can't help but shake my head and wonder how they dropped the ball so bad, so many times. I understand the whole "release a new product to climb the ladder"-problem but are the top-level execs really so blind that they continue to make the same mistakes (or allow it happen) over and over again?
Google Wallet/Pay/"whatever it's called this week" has the same issues. It's just astounding to me.
600 work hours give or take the 20,000 that got him the expertise required to sit down and write it in the first place. Do you end up with your own game engine, or a clone of Casey's game engine? That depends on what you already knew going into the series.
Not dismissing the value of the series here, just saying the average would-be game developer likely does not have the same skillset as Casey and, unless creating game engines is the goal, would be better served by Unreal or Unity.
I have to say ngrok was one of the services I've used in life that truly made me go "ohh holy shit." This was several years ago, but it was such a pain point sharing local dev things with other folks, and this made it absolutely so trivial. It felt a bit like when I used prettier for the first time in my code -- instantly I knew I couldn't live without having it in my life. I hope him/they are making good money from the project!
As someone who just stepped back into pop culture after being in prison for years (so might as well been on the moon) my first shock was just how horrible it all is now. There is no news worth watching. Cable news is just a pile of filth excremented by a Labrador Retriever that solely eats baby diapers. I thought I will watch Bloomberg since if real money is involved it can't be too manipulative. Nope, wrong. The internet is just a fireheap. Let's check Reddit. Oh god close the browser window immediately. WTF? Slashdot? Um, what is this, someone wearing a Slashdot skin suit? How about the sites by supposedly rational academics on each side of the political persuasion to get some balance. WTF? Just hate and anger and toxicity on a crazy level otherizing any opinion not their own. People are once thought great intellectual insides making incredibly uncharitable frankly hate filled comments and self isolating in echo chambers. Google Discovery app... "here's some blog posts summarizing relationship posts made on Reddit". Huh? Why would anyone want to read this let alone have it further aggregated for them? Seriously, modern American discourse has less humanity, compassion, depth, and recognition of nuance THAN PRISON. Or maybe prison just made me less patient of bull crap and able to immediate horrible people by their mannerisms. Seriously this site is the only place I have found still sane and enlightening.
>It is my honest opinion that DRM is a malignant tumor growing upon various forms of media, and that people that either implement or enforce implementation are morally repugnant and do no good to society. With that in mind, I was sad to learn in May 2021 that the original extension would soon be rendered obsolete.
I really can't agree more. I don't use, and never have, services that require DRM. I buy my games from gog.com and itch.io and the like, get media from free-to-air television and state broadcasters, and buy music either from the artist or from good and reputable music labels like hyperion.co.uk. I buy books in a dead-tree form, or as DRM-free PDFs. I will simply not buy, use, or support DRM and I occasionally tell firms that I am not giving them business because of their inane corporate decisions.
This might seem like a hard rant, but all of these binary blobs can be broken with varying degree of difficulty -- as this person's work shows -- because DRM is fundamentally pointless. It's such a waste of human endeavor! Think how many CPU cycles are burnt doing this! Estimate what the total cost of HDCP + Widevine + DRM etc is on the planet! It is pointless, insulting, and frustrating!
Once I was tucking to pick up speed and I must have accidentally held the side button down in my pocket. I didn't notice anything had happened until I got a call back asking if I was okay. (I did hear the countdown alarm that plays, but misattributed it to a snowmobile or other equipment at the ski resort.)
The second time I was also skiing and did actually fall. I was unhurt but I guess going fast enough to trigger the call. Unfortunately I couldn't get myself situated enough (gloves, zippered pocket, super steep hill) to cancel before the call went through.
The dispatchers were great in both cases. Asked me a few questions to make sure nobody in the area needed help and nothing else happened.