My initial reaction was that I have to use this just because of the buzzword density in the title. But after reading up, it looks like the author was pretty successful in moving the bloat from code to announcement title. I'll give this a try!
They should name their team DNS because that is what will be shown on scoreboards of all tournaments to which their players will have to travel with DB anyway.
Their reliability is so abysmal that I fly multi-hop flights from Berlin or to airports a few hundred miles off my destination if that allows me to not rely on them. Boats that go up and down the Amazon have not let me down the way DB reliably did.
This is regular reporting using end-consumer market rates to inflate numbers.
Just as you could not sell 127,271 bitcoins all at once at market value, you could not just sell cocaine worth $1.4 billion but still confiscated drugs, even in large quantities, are reported with end consumer market rates. Nowadays, if a report mentions that is talking about "street value", that is already a big plus in my book.
> I could be wrong, but I recall in many developing countries phones there are many teenagers who code on their phone because laptops (even tablets) are prohibitively costly.
Yes, I see that a lot here in the far south of Morocco.
> They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing that.
It may be $11 here in the US, but it might be harder to get and more costly in a developing nation. In which case, if it is easier to get that $2 adapter and an e-waste keyboard, that likely makes sense for them
You can get bluetooth keyboards on aliexpress for under £2.
If dealing with that type of budget then scavenging is probably the better route especially as online payments may also be out of reach.
In general, as a frugal person, buying "converter" type hardware is rarely a win because mass produced things are so much cheaper than more trivial but niche things.
However, converter type things are often unused clutter someone would happily give away. Just yesterday I came across some ps2 to usb converters. I can't imagine ever needing one again...but imagine the horror of not having one if you did! I probably didn't need to keep two though...
Pretty sure the people who have to choose between eating and a $2 adapter and not eating and a Bluetooth keyboard have a better understanding of the trade offs and what’s viable than you do. Not sure what real point you’re trying to make here
I did not "get it" from the post itself, but it linked to a post that mentioned "subed", subtitle editing for emacs with syncing with/control of video playback in mpv. I could see myself doing that and then would be happy if I could also trim the video while I am at it.
> One question - how does this prevent mosquitos from breeding in other bits of standing water that I can't locate?
It cannot and that is not its purpose. Practically you should be able to locate any other breeding grounds by mere observation and then you have to eliminate them one by one until the mosquitos are left with the ones you set up.
> it is (from my experience) way more dangerous than LSD.
That is not necessarily related to the compound but the method of consumption. Natural sources of psychedelic compounds have, naturally, variances in potency. With Morning Glory seeds you also ingest some other probably pharmacologically active compounds, again in amounts that vary from seed to seed.
There was an old joke. University math class. Professor writes a huge formula on the board. Says, "and from this, it is obvious that," and writes another very different large formula on the board. He stands for a second, says "hm...", and walks out of the lecture hall. He returns 30 minutes later, throws a stack of papers freshly-covered in writing unto the desk, mutters "yeah, that indeed was obvious", and continues the lecture.
My dad actually did a form of this, at the encouragement of a teacher.
He was working out the proof to a problem in college and got stuck half way through. He had the problem and the answer, so he worked it from both ends and got stuck in the middle. He had to present the process in class, so he went to the professor for help.
His professor (who had done it originally) couldn't remember how anymore, and told him when he got to that point, he should say "and from this, it's obvious that..." and just jump to the next step.
That's exactly what he did, and no one in class (half hour into the class) even noticed.
"It is obvious that..." usually means "with large amounts of algebra but very little actual thinking" when properly used in a math textbook or lecture. It has its utility.
> Did you really think that "marketing" is telling the truth? Are you a freshly debarked Thermian? (In case you missed it, this is a Galaxy Quest reference.)
Did you really think that an article humiliating your readers is going to change anything?
Yes, we the people, are stupid. No, we the people, are not keen on being called stupid. We might accept that from people we admire but not from someone we have to look up on the interwebz. Someone who has to point out that there is a page on him - in, for god's sake, the FRENCH wikipedia! And yes, I missed it, because Galaxy Quest is nice popcorn TV but nothing I would commit to long-term memory.
No matter how justified the cause, badly voiced anger just sounds like something between bad impulse control and idiocy.
I get the points the author is trying to make, I sympathize with them, but I would never send that text to anyone I try to convince.
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