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Offtop rant: This blows my mind. We cared for 30% commission from Apple App Store, PlayStation Store, Steam for things that you buy once and forget for at least 2 years (even when publisher pull their licenses, which happen rarely), but paying 200$/month for 10x of "something" is okay and "basically steal"


I prefer ‘my usage subsidized by investor money’ but yes it’s a sea change


Ah you see, you just essentially moved unique constraint to a client. It is no different generating an ID on client side and making a request. It is not idempotency.

Idempotency-Key should not replay the response (it depends, actually). But also it should not error 409. You need to be content aware before adding Idemmpotency Key header handling.

What will happen when the request is received and handled but during writing response body TCP connection dropped unexpectedly. And after second or two a connection reestablished. How two sides agree that previous request accepted and everything good to go? That's what Idempotency-Key header does.


People already uploaded tons of images and data while playing Pokemon GO. Probably model is already has been built and being tested right now


Actually Bach's Well Tempered Clavier IS a book written in a single set of tuning system that actually lost/forgotten. We still have discussions about how it's constructed. For more information google "Well Tempered Clavier interpretation"

You can listen to variations here: https://youtu.be/kRui9apjWAY?t=622


Neither lost nor forgotten! It's the basis for the "Thidell Formula 1" temperament [0], which is what produces those squiggly frets on expensive guitars. It also works well for multiple keys (at the expense of others), making it a compromise for a range of music rather than a single song.

0: https://www.guyguitars.com/truetemperament/eng/tt_techdetail...


ICE = internal combustion engine


I think yes. Recently I was experimenting with NEAT and HyperNEAT solutions and found this site. At the bottom it explains how novelty yields far more optimal solutions. I would assume that reasonably high temperature may also result more interesting solutions from LLM

https://blog.lunatech.com/posts/2024-02-29-the-neat-algorith...


Okay, let's image that I've sent you 100 BTC. Now, can you tell me how exactly you would convert the "money" I've sent you into bread and milk?

Because, most of the time people say that just in the context of the blockchain. In that sense I can also say that you can control vast majority of money by just having knife and glove skins in Steam (for the game Counter Strike). You also can trade/send/receive. But the moment you decide that you want to convert to "food" all sorts of problems arise that are worse than what banks offer.

I'm telling you as a person who received salary in crypto while living under sanctioned country


There is no conversion of money into goods, only exchange of money for goods.

I'll give you some bread and milk for 100 BTC if you want. I'll even fly to your country to personally deliver them to your house.


Yes, you convert them into bread and milk the same way you convert little pieces of paper into bread and milk: You find someone who's willing to give you bread and milk in return for them.


Good luck finding someone who will accept btc for literal bread and milk


There are massive P2P economies already built in most third world nations that work on crypto. They prefer stablecoins but will happily accept BTC as well. It's a serious enough problem that they've started using code words to refer to crypto currencies ("goat" for USDT, "chicken" for ETH, etc.)

If a corrupt third world government is scared of a piece of tech, it is, imo, good tech


People are already using crypto in this way so you can stop fighting the hypothetical.


I'm pretty sure I could find someone who'd accept 1 BTC for bread and milk. After that, we're just haggling over price.


bitrefill.com


We already have definition “AI slop”:

> AI slop is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence, specifically when perceived to show a lack of effort, quality or deeper meaning, and an overwhelming volume of production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop


For over 1000$ you can have reflective LCD 1080p display.

https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/rE-Monitor


Every time I see messages and posts like this, I hope that big companies were being dissatisfied with the product factory scaling issue and device sell effectiveness.

I hope that small companies would launch device like this with 500-1000 devices being created and sold in a year just fulfill the niche and doesn't go bankrupt


I don’t think you could manufacture a small run like that without the price being extremely high.

Say you charge $1,000 per device. That means you need to build an entire company, pay staff, and prototype then manufacture a custom hardware device with customized software with less than a million dollars. Costs add up real fast.


Why does the cost need to be so high? Chinese markets have many small phone options like Soyes and Servo that cost less than $100. Unfortunately, these devices are potentially loaded with malware.

Can a similar device without malware not be made in small batches? At a selling price of $500 or less?


I actually had a brief email conversation with the folks running the project in the OP. Basically they said they can't get a reasonable-quality screen in that size. No one makes it. They would have to spin up a whole new manufacturing line for a quality, small screen and the cost on that is insane. The screens on the small phones you're talking about are very low quality.


I’m pretty sure a manufacturer can cobble something together from existing parts or even white label a phone for you.

The end result will be a $100 quality phone.


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