Not being Jewish or knowing a whole lot about Judaism, is too much of it going to go over my head?
I'm pretty lousy at noticing/interpreting symbolism in fiction, in case that would either help or hurt my enjoyment here (e.g. "blowing right past symbolism that I wouldn't understand anyway" might be better than "noticing it but being stumped for lack of religious background").
Also not Jewish, and easily my favorite read of the 2010's, both in thought-provocation and pure enjoyment. Not since Douglas Adams have I been tickled pink by every word.
As someone who skews atheist but is fascinated by religion, the Kabbalistic mysticism was not only fascinating in its own right, but also a superb lens to examine theological questions without triggering the reflexive aversions many of us non-believers have developed w/r/t Christianity.
Is it a just plain high price (e.g. if this was $50/month that would be expensive for me, here in the US) or is it high comparable to other things (e.g. "other messaging apps would be closer to $3/month")?
I think generally paying for a messaging app subscription more than you pay for your phone subscription (ARPU) is going to be hard to sell to a wide audience.
I tend to agree with this. I understand the convenience it offers, but as long as the services it connects to are "free", I'm not going to pay more than one or two dollars / euros for it. This is not being stingy, simply a subjective evaluation of the worth of such a service.
It's comparably high-other messaging apps are _free_. Don't get me wrong, this is awesome-I've been doing it myself manually by hosting bridges myself for a while, and it seems like a very nice solution for non-tech-savy users.
But $10/month is steep, given that in practice you're paying that much just for the convenience of having your (pre existing chats) in the same app.
What I don't get is that hosting your own bridges requires the same $10/month subscription. If there was a $2/month fee for "power users" instead, letting you host your own... I would most likely get a subscription for the convenience of using their better integrated software.
> What I don't get is that hosting your own bridges requires the same $10/month subscription. If there was a $2/month fee for "power users" instead, letting you host your own... I would most likely get a subscription for the convenience of using their better integrated software.
Those features may require extra engineering and support effort, not less.
(Even if these changes actually reduced the cost of service delivery, it's usually a small part of the price. In consumer SaaS, you're not paying for the cost of goods sold, you're paying for everything else - particularly software engineering, support, and marketing AKA customer acquisition. A reasonable analogy is a restaurant, where 20-30% of the meal price goes to food costs. In consumer SaaS, the "food cost" is often 10%-20% of the "meal price.")
Unpopular opinion on HN, but asking for a peer-reviewed source during a casual forum discussion is kind of a lazy way to dismiss something. When you're chatting with your buddies over cocktails and they say something you disagree with, do you suddenly demand a peer-reviewed source and offer to drive them to the library so they can find the academic papers that back up their views?
> the hardware is designed in such as a way that is designed to be never powered off
What kind of equipment is like this? Or is it common for factory equipment or something? And what would be the consequence of a total power outage (including generators failing, I guess)?
This isn't something I've heard of before, it's interesting.
After power-down, the system reboots, and the process needs to restart. All in-progress activity is lost. There's no suspend; There's no hibernate. There's no "modern standby."
There's "The system was powered off, soooo... we're going to let the glass furnace cool down, and in a few hours when it's sufficiently cool and everything else in the plant is ready, we're going to start up the process again."
Needless to say, this isn't the sort of behavior that'll pass the HLKs.
An anxious wreck. Working from home, staying isolated because I'm taking care of someone with no immune system. The isolation is killing me. In the last few weeks I've stopped being able to fall asleep half the nights.
Instead of cramming ecoded json into the data channels, like you'd with websockets, you can build binary buffers with all the data that has to be communicated between server and client. For example movement commands like up/down/left/right alongside some flags like isJumping can be packed into a singe uInt8
actually binary websockets won't do in this case since the underlying protocol is still TCP with automatic retransmission mechanism which kills performance for very fast-paced games. You have to use WebRTC in that case
The last big update replaced my user profile with the temp one, that it apparently makes normally during the process, but also is supposed to swap it back before the update process finishes. Took me a couple days of googling and chanting to figure out how the hell to fix it, and it still left marks, like the start menu has "computer (1)" and "Control Panel (1)", because the temp-profile-owned ones are still out there occupying the "computer" and "Control Panel" names.
I see that problem at work every few weeks. It’s simple enough to fix if you know how, if you have the easy path.[1]
There are some corruptions I’ve seen on failed Windows Updates where the user profile was entirely gone and had to be recovered from hard disk with data recovery software. It’s fairly rare. For what I do, I don’t usually have the justification to find out why this happens when it does.
The system is hardware and software. Some software problems have an underlying hardware problem causing them. Relatedly, drive failure is very common in the field, especially on laptops. SSD failure is also a thing, but nearly an order of magnitude less frequent in my own workload. Neither here nor there, just trying to say there’s a lot of ways a computer can break. In my opinion it’s great they work as well as they do considering what I’ve seen them put through.
I'm pretty lousy at noticing/interpreting symbolism in fiction, in case that would either help or hurt my enjoyment here (e.g. "blowing right past symbolism that I wouldn't understand anyway" might be better than "noticing it but being stumped for lack of religious background").