Yes. Kindle is around 65% the ebook reader market in the US. Nook is about 25%. Apple and Kobo make up the rest. Kobo is more popular in Canada and in other international territories.
But, you just have to approach it from different angles. Don't attempt to compete with Goodreads, but rather build something better that works in a new way around people's desires around books.
Goodreads is just a review database, easy to innovate around that barrier.
Fair enough, but that is just ebooks. Isn't goodreads also useful for dead tree readers? Although I guess the bibliophiles on goodreads are more likely to have an ebook reader.
My conclusion is that there isn't much value in evaluating 1000s of perspectives, they're the same exact arguments you'd find in any blog or technical documentation comparing the two.
I actually found this very helpful. There’s so much cruft and bullshit and promotion among web frameworks and tech, it’s difficult to get a sense of what is the right decision if you’re new to web dev.
I mean they have a ton of different stamps (and you can find older ones, too) - but you have to dig to find them, they rarely appear in your local post office: https://store.usps.com/store/results/stamps/
Not really a fair comparison since those USPS examples are all "extra postage" stamps that you only use if you have oversized letters or are trying to use up old stamps. The equivalent Royal Mail stamps are even less imaginative - just different hues of the same drawing of the Queen[1].
this isn't a measuring contest to see which drug is worse, this is just acknowledging that people can have severe addiction issues with cannabis. Just because you don't die from withdrawals doesn't mean it can't lead to serious quality of life issues and poor mental health.
dabbing all day and vaping oil is in no way comparable to caffeine, cannabis is way more addictive, side effects last longer than 3-4 days as well. People are extremely irritable having lost their main crutch for a month or longer. The fog doesn't lift for about a month. This article is talking about people actually addicted, not like they smoke once a day in the evenings or something.
> dabbing all day and vaping oil is in no way comparable to caffeine
That's comparing the extremes of cannabis administration. I do not utilized any of those methods of administration, so perhaps you are right on how badly it affects one. Then again, I imagine if people were snorting caffeine pills consistently, the withdrawals would be worse than a cup of green tea a day.
Oddly enough, I have never really noticed the irritability as a side-effect. I usually trend towards heightened levels of anxiety. The fog you speak of tends to dissipate for me after a few days to a week.
Most of the plugins are garbage, I just want chatgpt to have up to date knowledge and working natively with more media types. I don't think I've used a single plugin I thought had good results but I love gpt4 for work
> So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at least one of them was fast.
lol nobody would do this to solve this problem because it doesn't even remotely solve it or give the appearance of solving it, if anything it's guaranteed to make things go slower
Google did this a long time ago. It’s more nuanced than you think. Two requests would be issued and the first acknowledged one cause the second to be cancelled. There was a public paper on this from Dean iirc and the method is a decade old.
I think the fundamental difference is that Google was using request hedging within their own network, sending the same request to two different internal servers in case one was slow, while Twitter appears to be sending the same request to the same server over the public Internet.
With things like computer graphics you're competing with a very different pool of applicants than you likely were before. People with PhD's and Masters in related fields. I have found success with positioning myself as someone who works on the edges of multiple domains. So if you were a web developer before it would be at an intersection of web development and computer graphics which could be web gl or operationalizing graphics applications for web or cloud integration. This won't work very well at larger companies that have a lot of clear boundaries between positions, but it will work at startups where boundaries are less clearly defined and people wear multiple hats. In summary, try startups and position yourself at the intersection of multiple domains to get your foot in the door.
