Why does the youtube miniplayer suck so much?! X has the best one i've seen on any platform. You can actually pop the player out of the browser and move it anywhere you want and it has 0 chrome just a window with the video in it amazing!
Seems like Starlink has potential to completely disrupt undersea cables once the network is larger. Obviously it wont ever be the same latency or bandwidth as an undersea cable but it would be near impossible to tap and much cheaper.
You might need a drone with an antenna the same size as the ground station's. I haven't seen the ground stations, but that might be hard to put on a drone.
You're right that it won't be the same - it has the potential to be faster.
Speed of light in a vacuum is higher than what can be achieved in a fiber-optic. Combine that with a more direct path than what can be achieved with an undersea cable and things start to get interesting.
So calendly is worth billions? and cal.com has millions invested and 90% of hacker news readers could build both these products in a weekend or 2 why do these companies exist?
This has got to be one of the misused parable in HN's history.
The Dropbox comment was missing the utility of a turnkey solution. It was like "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.": techies missing the value of complicating things in order to produce a product that Just Works.
This comment isn't doing that, it's questioning the resources that it took places like Calendly as it exists. Calendly has a moat in the fact that it has a massive network effect... but it's natural to question what exactly about that moat qualifies a billion dollar valuation, and the answer is extremely little.
If Dropbox had been something you could build as it existed in a weekend it'd be one thing, but you couldn't. You could build something that had the same technical function, but none of the user experience. Calendly isn't that.
"but it's natural to question what exactly about that moat qualifies a billion dollar valuation, and the answer is extremely little."
I am no shill for Calendly but a happy user and as far as I know, they are doing 100M in ARR. It is a lot more than "I can code this app in a weekend". Whether this justifies a billion dollar valuation is a separate discussion but for sure it is not that easy to do what Calendly is doing.
I don't know if you're just being intentionally reductionist by doubling down on this "I can code this app in a weekend" angle when I just spent something like a hundred words explaining how that's not the point or what... but people are talking about the business here.
And it's the whole business: Not just 100M in ARR, but 100M in ARR with what burn rate and what exit that won't just be dumping a steaming pile on the public market as has flown in years past.
Maybe you're just missing the forest for the trees when these questions come up now too: We're not in 2019 anymore. It used to be that every startup with a faint pulse could justify any valuation by throwing up revenue numbers and see a successful exit at some point. Now money is tightening up and people are starting to question fundamentals again.
The comment you replied to is essentially saying: This is a sign of the times, 3B dollar valuation, ~100M ARR, likely an insane burn rate that that ARR doesn't even begin to touch
I don't know how that's even a controversial take unless your argument is "well we've seen even worse do fine" (because yeah, it did well fine in the past climate of free money)
I don't necessarily disagree with the "Is Billion dollar valuation justified" thing but I originally replied to GP who said "90% of hacker news readers could build both these products in a weekend or 2".
dropbox did something useful. It made it easy to share files across platforms and the web. This is a feature that should be part of your calendar software to allow people to create calendar entries in your calendar and see availability.
Not really, depending on how you define sharing. Dropbox added sharing as a feature much later. Their initial product was automatic cloud based backup and sync, across desktop devices. You can still tell by the UX and pricing model - sharing is slightly awkward and I believe rate limited.
I mean the source is there, so if you could code it up in a weekend, more power to ya! I always find it strange that people say this instead of just doing it and making millions being a solo dev.
Is it a big secret that m1 macs don’t work with external monitors?? The problem has been getting worse with each new forced update.
Using my monitor via HDMI and apples 100$ dongle it constantly turns off randomly and will not come back on without unplug and plug back in.
Everything else is great but after like 5 updates that claim to fix the issue but still having issues maybe apple should make some notification about the problem so people don’t buy this if they have serious work they need to get done.
My M1 works flawlessly with my usb c LG monitors except for HDR leading to washed out colours.
On the other hand, both my fullspec 2016 and 2019 MBP have days where the displays and usb and Bluetooth hubs freeze every few minutes and I’m watching a the screens go blank and the windows being retiled while I can’t type. The only thing that continues is audio over the 3.5mm port.
Sure: LG 27UL850-W. I can’t say whether it is exactly as sharp but to me it looks similarly sharp. Both scaled and on native resolution. The colours of the M1 screen are better however.
I’m using the exact same screen and it is what led me to write Lunar actually.
The screen is great, text is perfectly sharp in 4k on both M1 and Intel Macs. I don’t have the HDR function because I bought it 4-5 years ago but the colours look very good too, no washing out problem.
But the damn joystick man, I just couldn’t get past it and had to spend 4 years writing an app to work around it.
Are you sure that you have the UL and not the UK? The UL is HDR400 so actually not really hdr. The only thing is that macOS doesn’t seem to realise this and with all the toggling there are four states that occur:
MacOS and monitor no HDR: “correct” colours and brightness
MacOS HDR and monitor HDR: washed out colours / very low contrast
macOS HDR and monitor No HDR: very strange picture
macOS no hdr and monitor hdr: also washed out image
Check out the xioami notebook pro great specs and price with macbook like build quality. i hear you can even run hackintosh on it. I have the xiaomi notebook 12 running ubuntu and its great!
Whats the point of a safety driver who's eyes are not on the road? Pretty easy to monitor if the safety driver is paying attention or looking down every second like this safety driver was.
If you want to acquire users from google search its absolutely required that you have fresh and frequently updated content with links from other reputable sources to even be considered to be displayed on a search result.
If you don't care about acquiring users from search as you have other means then yes a blog may be a complete waste of time.
If your site already has some crawl-able content and your already receiving some traffic from google, rather than create a blog your time is probably better spent doing the following:
creating more content pages to help google understand your site
I found https://mosh.org/ quite useful to get a working ssh session thru the GFW. The GFW can introduce latency and packet loss to encrypted connections which mosh seems to handle nicely.
