I could do that, but I smoked cigarettes for 7 years and then vaped for 9 years. So I don't know if I could jump back into nicotine but hold off on the smoking/vaping aspect of it.
Funny tangent, I quit vaping on 2 Jan 2020 after the worst flu I have ever had (after a flight abroad.. early COVID?) and while I was finally successful after a decade of quitting, it killed all my motivation and energy.
Then I got diagnosed with ADHD, got stimulant meds which restored the energy and then some, and it was clear I had been self medicating all my life with nicotine and I was completely lost without. If one day I lose access to stimulant meds, you better believe I'm back on the patch and/or the vape.
But in general dude, do not joke about nicotine. You are 3 years clean, it's incredibly hard to quit. If you done it once, it doesn't mean you'll do it twice. Maybe avoiding Parkinson's by vaping is a terrible excuse. You've never known addiction if you believe this time you'll be able to control it.
Not that I know of, but I use Descript for content creation and it offers something like what you're describing. they have automatic speaker labels built in to their transcription service.
what i like to do is work with agencies for a limited trial period. i give them a couple of easy, medium, and hard tasks, and see how they fare. based on their performance, i hire them or move on to someone else.
This helps me test the hypothesis that this is the right group for the job.
That said, I don't know if that would have helped OP. It seemed like timing (End of year is always a slowdown due to holidays, and Feb-April are when other clients start ramping back up) was not on their side, but breaking things down into more bitesized work could have helped. Most of the work I saw was mockup/design work, which is more creative/subjective than your typical "Make button do X" kind of task.
Glad to see another company tackling this. I started a company (https://www.getairmed.com/) to help address this exact problem back in 2019.
I am a firm believer sleep apnea is under diagnosed and widespread. While I agree with the sentiment that CPAP isn't the panacea here, my CPAP machine changed my life for the better. Whether its a mouth appliance, CPAP, or a didgeridoo (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360393/), I look forward to a world where more people can live better lives through healthy sleep.
I am on a m1 macbook air and I've been using Docker + Docker Desktop without much issue, and my use-case is a little simpler than yours (only running single containers at a time).
I'm genuinely curious to learn more about what these tools (Colima, podman) help enable. If I'm missing out on a performance boost, I'd definitely check them out.
And in those larger companies, just paying for the "coffee a month" may not be an option, since they insist all licenses are company owned and it's less effort to change my docker VM wrapper than get shit past my company's purchasing department in a reasonable amount of time.
It doesn’t help that the compulsory “Business” edition is burdened with the anti-feature of Docker Registry but that SSO is still “on the roadmap.”
There’s no way we would have gotten the product through IT Security Management on time, much less through purchasing. Docker appears to have fallen down a bit on their market research - they forgot that their real customer for the Business subscriptions weren’t the developers at large companies, but their software purchasing processes.
Exactly, I think this is really going to backfire for the bean counters that took over Docker. It should either be free or $100k+ agreements for extremely large companies. They're way underestimating the inertia and pain with trying to nickle-and-dime small and medium business users.
It was the motivator for me. But having gone through the effort to evaluate alternatives, I’m happy where I ended up (lima).
It’s free and open source, and easier to install and configure via scripts than Docker Desktop. The goal for our team is to make getting new developers set up as simple as possible (ideally just a single command), but prior to now the instructions to install and configure Docker Desktop were always an asterisk in the prerequisites section.
I switched because of licensing changes and because I find the docker desktop UI to be laggy, frequently updating with no discernible benefit to me, and superfluous -- I would rather interact with my containers via the CLI, but had to use the desktop app to start the daemon.
Crunchyroll keeps getting mentioned here, as a success story. Certainly, they focus nearly exclusively on Japanese content.
But they in no way market to Japanese, or Asians in general. I think that is the key.
You should be marketing "black content for everybody", not "content for black people". Sure, the segment that responds will be heavily slanted to certain demographics, but at least you aren't putting up artificial barriers, and you'll stir up a lot less upfront negative reactions.
Unless controversy is part of the marketing strategy, which is risky, but sometimes works.
My understanding is that they may not need to cater to white people, but they also don't need to exclude them either. Black hair often has a texture that requires specialized hair products and the people who make them can make a ton of money. It isn't excluding white people to cater to black people.
I'm not saying they're excluding them. Black hair products are a great analogy actually. Virtually no white people buy them, and virtually no white people will sub to a platform like this. There will likely be slightly more white subscribers to Black Oak than there are white users of black hair care products, but my point is the number will be very small. That's OK. Its not marketed to them.
Black hair products can be a thriving business, just as this potentially can be as well.
> Saying it is For <group> implies it is not for other groups.
Umm, no? Like I tried to convey in my original comment, "for <group>" means a focus on that group, as opposed to just general content. Nothing I've ever come across that was marketed as "for <>" has ever been intended to exclude me as a non-member, nor have I ever interpreted it that way.
I suspect you have a bias to hear it as exclusionary more than is typical.
Anecdotally, I watch BET fairly regularly, if not often. I'm aware that it's business model is generally content by black creators, for black consumers, but again, I don't remember any hints anywhere of implications of "if you're not black, you can go". If anything, wider viewing would be more informative and promote sharing across groups.
It is a big market actually. Kendi has made a lot of money off of the amount of whites that enjoy and pay to be told they are bad ppl with white privilege.
No, but the exclusive intent has been made clear with the title "Netflix for black people".
Feels like some kind of "Outrage marketing" strategy, I mean, look how this thread has blown up over the last hour. I'm sure the OP is smart and knew what they were doing when wording this post.
I've struggled for years to articulate my ideas and express things clearly, 'specially when it comes to challenging technical problems. One day, I randomly bought a tiny 12" x 5" whiteboard while I was at the dollar store, with the intention of using it to keep a physical todo list.
I eventually reached for it while in the heat of a challenging debugging session with some colleagues, and was surprised with how much it helped me solve the problem at hand. It quickly stopped being a todo-list after this incident. Turned out my inability to articulate things effectively was not because I was stupid, but because I am a predominantly visual thinker.
The fact people are working on tools like this excites the hell out of me!
Paper in my experience can get messy real quick. Example - When drawing a diagram of some process it is common for me to want to tweak and reconfigure things to arrive at a solution. With paper, it requires you either erase, scratch out, or re draw the diagram with your desired changes on another page.
What I love about marker boards is the ability to freely draft and modify on the fly without worry. When I want to commit ideas to "storage", paper works best :)
I agree 100%! Though I prefer to store things digitally. I feel so liberated no longer having so many scratch pieces of paper around that may contain an important note or solution to a problem. I remember working through a calculus book and having about half a foot's worth of paper (notes, attempts at solving problems, rewritten solutions to problems, etc) that eventually fell victim to entropy and was absolutely useless for anything but that I kept around out of fear of forgetting all of it. At least now it's all in one box. Maybe I'll burn it this winter as kindling - or would that be too derivative? :^)
These days, anything short term -> whiteboard, anything refined and meaningful enough for reusing later -> PC.
