Good error messages are hard. You want to tell the user what to do, but if you knew that the error could be thrown, you probably should have been gracefully handling the problem. You don't know what information is…
We still default to Objective-C in our SDK. We still support iOS 11, and I don't think we've been bothered enough by Objective-C to check which versions of Swift can be used on the versions of iOS that we support (I…
Twitch should have offered a merchandising business via Amazon. It feels like Twitch should have understood how their streamers make money, and ensure that all of that monetization happens via Amazon in some way shape…
Video is expensive, and streamers don’t like ads. Amazon has for years been saying that they think that Twitch is under monetized. In their minds, 20% of watch time could be ads, just like regular TV. Streamers don’t…
Mechanical ventilation refers to just using fans. The comment you’re replying to is suggesting that heat recovery ventilators (HRV) be used to transfer heat from the warm exhausted to the incoming outside air via a heat…
That distance is London to Stockholm by road, which is going to be unfathomably far for most Europeans. Maybe that could be a road trip across the full length of Norway or Sweden, but generally that’s a…
> While you are not wrong, those requirements are the same for all houses. Not every house needs triple-pane windows and R25 insulation in the walls, sitting on a 8-ft deep basement, with a steep roof pitch for snow to…
I love my DF64. I found it on sale, and informed my wife that it'd be her Christmas and birthday present to me: totally worth it. Even with a $100 DeLonghi EC155, the difference from the grinder is incredible.
Sweden abolished inheritance taxes because the cost of enforcing the tax was greater than the taxes raised, and was passed by a left-wing coalition. At the time, it was considered a success of social democracy to not…
> Ironically, this tells me some... awkward things about how the author relates to their kitchen. It also says a lot about how the author relates to restaurants, where a faster dishwasher is a selling point. Faster is…
> and no build server Personal experience is that a build server normalizes deviance. "But it works on the build server" we used to say, as, with time, it become harder and harder to build locally. "Just fix your…
I have two heat pump window air conditioners installed in my apartment, with cooling, heating and resistance electrical heating: https://www.frigidaire.com/Home-Comfort/Air-Conditioning/Win.... The problem is that the…
For all their faults, Games Workshop is really a miniatures company that has a ruleset, rather than games company that sells plastic models. I recall seeing a statistic that the majority of their customers don’t…
It’s reasonable to have tickets that are “is this API interesting to us?” or “how do clients use this new system?” It’s not a “problem”, and there aren’t definite goals. The task is open-ended, and it’s ultimately up to…
> 1. I can articulate precisely what problem I am trying to solve. > 6. I have a Plan B in case my solution to my current problem doesn’t work. > 9. I can clearly articulate unknowns and risks associated with my current…
Drafty houses are not healthy houses: timber needs to be able to dry out to stay rot-and mold-free, but draftiness is associated with weakened immune systems and therefore poorer health. The draftiness rule only holds…
> As a cross-platform compatibility layer We use docker in this way for work, and it’s merely okay. We use docker to bundle the environment (which changes rarely) separate from the code and build system (which changes…
Mind expanding a little on your complaints about Helm? I’ve only used Helm as a templating solution (and even then only to differentiate between local, staging and production), so I’m curious what problems I have to…
> The thing is, just like a car can travel on any road a computing device can execute any software. Apple deliberately breaks this functionality. But in this analogy, the hardware is the road, not the car. The road is…
The better analogy here is that if a German band plays a concert in the UK, they still need to pay UK taxes on their ticket sales. Even if the band is incorporated in Germany, the portion of the tour that occurred in…
> Microsoft and Playstation also allow for cross-platform play Sony explicitly didn't allow for cross-play until 2 years ago [https://kotaku.com/sony-is-finally-allowing-cross-play-on-th...], even though it was…
For carpentry, 12-inches-to-a-foot isn't actually that useful, since wood is never the nominal size. For lumber, nominal sizes are measured assuming that sawing and planing remove no wood, but sawing and planing will…
> Has anyone actually done that, or are you speculating? There are videos on YouTube of people using Xbox game streaming, but it requires setting up a VPN at home which presumably few people do. Edit: with the Stadia…
Remember, for years, Xbox One has allowed for local streaming from Xbox One consoles to Windows 10 PCs via the Xbox app over LAN, which gives Microsoft's Project xCloud the benefits of: * significant experience with the…
> It's not the patent system that's causing this, it's a very complex network of regulatory and institutional capture including Medicare, PBMs, insurance companies, insurance regulation, and drug regulation. All other…
Good error messages are hard. You want to tell the user what to do, but if you knew that the error could be thrown, you probably should have been gracefully handling the problem. You don't know what information is…
We still default to Objective-C in our SDK. We still support iOS 11, and I don't think we've been bothered enough by Objective-C to check which versions of Swift can be used on the versions of iOS that we support (I…
Twitch should have offered a merchandising business via Amazon. It feels like Twitch should have understood how their streamers make money, and ensure that all of that monetization happens via Amazon in some way shape…
Video is expensive, and streamers don’t like ads. Amazon has for years been saying that they think that Twitch is under monetized. In their minds, 20% of watch time could be ads, just like regular TV. Streamers don’t…
Mechanical ventilation refers to just using fans. The comment you’re replying to is suggesting that heat recovery ventilators (HRV) be used to transfer heat from the warm exhausted to the incoming outside air via a heat…
That distance is London to Stockholm by road, which is going to be unfathomably far for most Europeans. Maybe that could be a road trip across the full length of Norway or Sweden, but generally that’s a…
> While you are not wrong, those requirements are the same for all houses. Not every house needs triple-pane windows and R25 insulation in the walls, sitting on a 8-ft deep basement, with a steep roof pitch for snow to…
I love my DF64. I found it on sale, and informed my wife that it'd be her Christmas and birthday present to me: totally worth it. Even with a $100 DeLonghi EC155, the difference from the grinder is incredible.
Sweden abolished inheritance taxes because the cost of enforcing the tax was greater than the taxes raised, and was passed by a left-wing coalition. At the time, it was considered a success of social democracy to not…
> Ironically, this tells me some... awkward things about how the author relates to their kitchen. It also says a lot about how the author relates to restaurants, where a faster dishwasher is a selling point. Faster is…
> and no build server Personal experience is that a build server normalizes deviance. "But it works on the build server" we used to say, as, with time, it become harder and harder to build locally. "Just fix your…
I have two heat pump window air conditioners installed in my apartment, with cooling, heating and resistance electrical heating: https://www.frigidaire.com/Home-Comfort/Air-Conditioning/Win.... The problem is that the…
For all their faults, Games Workshop is really a miniatures company that has a ruleset, rather than games company that sells plastic models. I recall seeing a statistic that the majority of their customers don’t…
It’s reasonable to have tickets that are “is this API interesting to us?” or “how do clients use this new system?” It’s not a “problem”, and there aren’t definite goals. The task is open-ended, and it’s ultimately up to…
> 1. I can articulate precisely what problem I am trying to solve. > 6. I have a Plan B in case my solution to my current problem doesn’t work. > 9. I can clearly articulate unknowns and risks associated with my current…
Drafty houses are not healthy houses: timber needs to be able to dry out to stay rot-and mold-free, but draftiness is associated with weakened immune systems and therefore poorer health. The draftiness rule only holds…
> As a cross-platform compatibility layer We use docker in this way for work, and it’s merely okay. We use docker to bundle the environment (which changes rarely) separate from the code and build system (which changes…
Mind expanding a little on your complaints about Helm? I’ve only used Helm as a templating solution (and even then only to differentiate between local, staging and production), so I’m curious what problems I have to…
> The thing is, just like a car can travel on any road a computing device can execute any software. Apple deliberately breaks this functionality. But in this analogy, the hardware is the road, not the car. The road is…
The better analogy here is that if a German band plays a concert in the UK, they still need to pay UK taxes on their ticket sales. Even if the band is incorporated in Germany, the portion of the tour that occurred in…
> Microsoft and Playstation also allow for cross-platform play Sony explicitly didn't allow for cross-play until 2 years ago [https://kotaku.com/sony-is-finally-allowing-cross-play-on-th...], even though it was…
For carpentry, 12-inches-to-a-foot isn't actually that useful, since wood is never the nominal size. For lumber, nominal sizes are measured assuming that sawing and planing remove no wood, but sawing and planing will…
> Has anyone actually done that, or are you speculating? There are videos on YouTube of people using Xbox game streaming, but it requires setting up a VPN at home which presumably few people do. Edit: with the Stadia…
Remember, for years, Xbox One has allowed for local streaming from Xbox One consoles to Windows 10 PCs via the Xbox app over LAN, which gives Microsoft's Project xCloud the benefits of: * significant experience with the…
> It's not the patent system that's causing this, it's a very complex network of regulatory and institutional capture including Medicare, PBMs, insurance companies, insurance regulation, and drug regulation. All other…