Of course the battery is a consumable part and you can't expect that to continue functioning well indefinitely.

Perhaps I’m jaded but my feeling is that using plain terms would reveal the emptiness of the space. A non technical person can see that a $200 “transaction fee” is a rip off.

I just signed up for a monthly donation. I complain about the ad supported internet all the time, but had never donated to LiChess. This thread is a good reminder of how far dollars to support projects like this can go.

People who are worried about omicron and can afford $15 per test already have a supply.

People who aren’t worried about omicron will throw them away.

If the consumer doesn't like that they can get a lower cost variable rate mortgage just as easily.

Anything consequential enough to make an impact is a trade off, with winners and losers. If all the employees listened and there was a universal collapse of DRM, I really highly doubt people who make content would be better off. Maybe some of these devs feel good about helping make sure people who make movies get paid. Maybe they feel like they are part of the moviemaking process (which they are!).

It’s not as though it’s difficult for people who want to make their content free to do so. Why should someone who wishes to make content under a DRM model not be free to do so? It’s entertainment, you are not forced to consume it.

There’s some politics to it, ie one org is losing a lot of people to another, so we aren’t supposed to actively recruit, but if they ask and are going to leave otherwise /shrug

Those staffing shortages are in turn caused by strict quarantines for people who are asymptomatic but test positive.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-s...

I think I looked past it when it came out because I was a kid, and the world building was interesting to me.

Specifically, staffing levels are impacted by the policy of people who have tested positive but are not sick.

>>> "The crisis from the Omicron peak is not generated by serious COVID illness in regions with highly vaxxed populations," Noble wrote in an email to SFGATE. "The crisis we are suffering in the Bay Area is largely driven by disruptive COVID policies that encourage asymptomatic testing and subsequent quarantines.

Via professor of emergency medicine at UCSF https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-s...

To take an example I’ve inherited several Ruby on Rails apps from novices at big cos. The language takes the perspective that everything should be easy, so apps get rickety fast without diligent programmers. Which is a good goal but not something you will always have control over.

> One student tested positive IN THE AUDITORIUM, and a few students started screaming and ran away from him.

I suggest fixing the ludicrously miscalibrated risk assessment of omicron as a better route. How many of these legions of absent teachers even have symptoms?