For anyone interested in stringing their own rackets/racquets you can pick up cheap machines that do a really good job, and you can customise however you like.
Yes. Passive income can initially take work to build the income source. Most people consider rent to be passive income, yet people don't just magically own houses, they more often than not work to buy them.
That cut of the rent ends up being around all of the cash flow for a newly bought property, and in many markets ends up being more than the initial cash flow. It’s a second job with irregular on-call.
Well, then you've leveraged too highly. Estate agents here take a fairly small percentage of the rent to manage all of this, so it takes a fairly small deposit before your rental income less management fees can't cover the remaining mortgage.
I know this is an overused trope but I have had enough of every social media platform becoming increasingly hostile and annoying. It's like they have hit the cap of how many people on the planet are actually interested in signing up for twitter and now have to tighten the screws on every aspect to try to force the last bits of possible growth.
Dumb question I know, but why can't we just have platforms that are satisfied with what they are and not expect constant growth at any cost.
Yep, platforms are getting silly. On Reddit the other day I got the usual popup about accepting cookies, but once clicked, instead of just setting the cookie it showed a popup saying that I need to switch to the new theme to accept cookies. As in, I'm forced to use their new theme just to click a button and then switch back to using the old theme (like any sane person).
I wonder if the sluggish UX that comes with a heavy JS SPA cuts into their sales.
I spend more time on HN now, though I was a heavy Reddit user, because Reddit users on the new UI being able to comment with images cramp my well-thought-out arguments.
Because if you do, your competitors won't, and will poach your customers with hard sell techniques until they reach a network effect required to make you irrelevant.
In the long run, there can be only one, the little diversity we have is the effect of national network effects established in the first years of growth that proved hard to overcome, especially Twitter in US. Without US, Twitter will be steamrolled and you will only have exotic alternatives like vkontakte and weibo.
That’s a good point. If I had to guess, I think over time there is a natural limit to the amount of user saturation. People are mostly aware of the platforms and their features and have probably made up their minds as to whether they want to join. Parts of the existing user base are probably getting sick of the engagement and lessening their usage.
I mentioned this elsewhere, and I don't mean to copy-paste, but take a look at some public nitter instances if this is a problem you regularly run into: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Nitter has donation links on both Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/nitter) and Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/zedeus). Unfortunately, there isn't a way to donate to public instances that I'm aware of, but the software itself is worth supporting.
I'd given up even clicking twitter links anymore because I'd get stuck in a "you have to enable js/you have to login" dead end... this is brilliant - I'd never heard of it before. Thanks for pointing it out!
It's certainly got more information but that combined with the "exact" values makes it a bit overwhelming/hard to understand, especially if you're trying to get a feel for it the first time and the half and the double have the same number of digits on screen. It's almost made more for investigation of something you ran across or need to hardcode than gaining intuition.
But most importantly I think best feature of the one in the submission is something it doesn't even mention in the description - it has a "click and drag to write bits" feature that I think is much easier to use/follow than the 2 dragging section on that one.
The 2-dragging section is much more efficient if you want to roughly pick arbitrary floats, and gives a better spatial map of the range of possible floats.
The individual bit flips also can be useful. It really depends what you want to use it for.
They do have the same number of decimal digits displayed. You can see it by clicking between "float" and "double": the decimal representation stays the same.
It makes it look like they have the same precision (well also, going from 64 to 32 bits zeros out a whole lot, which contributes to that impression). In fact, both decimal representations are usually truncated, and don't accurately represent the binary floating point number. It's a neat and useful tool regardless, and I'm being a bit pedantic.
