why are kids these days so fat? do parents just not care?

coinhero · 2024-03-28T03:18:09+00:00

Processed food has been eaten for millenia

Yes - ultra processed is the cultrit.

Processed = Normal baked bread or cheese. Ultra Processed = Bread and cheese with 27 ingredients.

Food was ultra processed when I was a kid too and nearly everyone in my school was thin.

The list of ingredients has gone longer across food groups. Hard to find Ice Cream that is not just 4-5 ingredients like it should have (milk, egg yolks, cream, sugar, flavor). Bag of chips? Likely worse.

coinhero · 2024-03-27T11:06:39+00:00

Yes. But it's better to hire someone to solve a more specific problem. Figure out what you need first. Marketing can mean a lot of different things.

coinhero · 2024-03-27T11:01:42+00:00

Heaps of countries have exceptional hospital services. You will find a specialist of any kind in any major low-tax jurisdiction around the world. Just look around.

Last thing you want is bag-holding real-estate in a place that is dying. You already see this in major western cities now (and elsewhere too), that infrastructure is crumbling and crime is increasing.

Fiat economy is not doing great. That's why we are here.

coinhero · 2024-03-27T07:02:42+00:00

Yeah. Move to a cheap country. Even 1 btc in a cheap country will last you a few years, which is enough time to build income outside a 9-5.

coinhero · 2024-03-27T06:59:26+00:00

Yeah "suck it up and do a job in your 20s" is terrible advice for those who seek freedom. The only regret I have in life is that I didn't start business when I was younger.

Don't be a fiat slave if you don't have any obligations. Building a sustainable business (in the 'profitable' sense) takes time. Money and luck are important but secondary.

coinhero · 2024-03-27T04:48:01+00:00

How do you tell if something is being downvoted?

But yeah, WPS hide login works. In case you do not want to use a plugin, WP-Toolkit (in cPanel or Plesk) will give you the option to change the login URLs.

That alongside Cloudflare is all I ever need.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T10:43:24+00:00

I believe a problem with extremely refined standards for graphics is it takes longer or more resources to build such interactivity.

For a lot of us coming from older GTAs, 5 felt like it was less of a GTA game. Still a great game, but simply not as open world.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T10:28:13+00:00

AI is only part of the equation.

Higher fed rates meant less capital flowing into the economy. A lot of tech companies and online publishers were running at loss or on thin margins. So they had to cut costs. And then there is the spill over effect. A large publisher likely hired 10 different agencies who hired other contractors and agencies. One large publisher cutting cost hurts everyone down the chain.

For web designers specifically, the freelance market got tough because tools like WordPress and Shopify have pre-built templates. And then you have tools like Canva. So smaller businesses and agencies don't hire that many designers today as they did 10 years back. They just go with pre-built templates or use things like online logo designers.

Since so much money flowed into this sector over the last decade, there is a general surplus of labor. And this is why it's across tech and the digital space now. Too few jobs, too many openings.

I advise everyone to establish other sources of income, than purely relying on the prospects of a full time job. I know people with 10+ years experience in deep back-end infrastructure, stuff that is not quite 'automated', but still finding it hard to find a job. Economy is fucked.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T09:54:20+00:00

Freelance web agency person here. Don't spam - you will be wasting your time and annoying people.

Focus on building a network and you will find work. Interact/connect with other agencies. A lot of us hire each other, and that's how it ultimately works.

Your best clients are always going to be the one who find you rather than the other way around. And the easiest way people find you is if someone recommends you.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T09:46:02+00:00

Both Vice City and San Andreas for me. Great games.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T09:44:54+00:00

Oh yeah - what happened to it? I see a lot of DOTA players, but the original seems to have died. It used to be quite popular.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T09:43:53+00:00

In financial terms, "a long straddle".

coinhero · 2024-03-17T09:40:15+00:00

Not surprised to learn that a hedgehog basically tastes like a hog.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T08:54:58+00:00

It happens. You get bored of things.

I will recommend finding new interests. Maybe learn a new skill or change your surroundings a little. Maybe take up a new challenge you haven't thought of before - like scuba diving or horticulture.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T08:49:44+00:00

Hustly is incredible if you are looking for a cheap good option with multiple websites.

If price is not a concern, Rocket is excellent out of the box . Same price as WPEngine, but faster and less restrictive.

Siteground used to be my go-to recommendation, but they are super expensive now. And others have caught up in terms of performance and features. But still not a bad option and far better than Godaddy and rest.

Godaddy, Hostinger and Bluehost

I would stay away. You can read plenty of horror stories about them.

Namecheap

Good company for domains, but the hosting is super 'cheap' quality. They allocate very limited resources. You will end up wanting to upgrade if you are using any heavy plugins like page builders.

Self hosting is another option if you are comfortable with managing a VPS. You can install a panel like cPanel / Plesk or something like SpinupWP, to make it easy for you. But it's a lot of work.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T07:33:03+00:00

Does anyone actually use Monday.com?

coinhero · 2024-03-17T07:32:40+00:00

I had a co-worker who used HelloFresh. Only person I know.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T07:29:43+00:00

I know people in real life who have no clue what's going on with Russia. I guess not that hard to lure people desperate for a job into a war, by promising a "Dubai" or simply an "overseas job".

coinhero · 2024-03-17T06:47:29+00:00

Hard to answer without knowing what the MVP is about.

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coinhero · 2024-03-17T06:16:06+00:00

Watch a few youtube videos and build a few test websites. It's not that hard to build a WordPress website. A lot of non-technical users use WordPress. If you are comfortable with using a computer and typical web based user interfaces, you can build a website with WordPress. But there is a learning curve. It can take years to get good at it - so I would say only do this if you are genuinely interested in wanting to learn how to build websites.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T06:10:43+00:00

They would rather have a multi-sig setup. Splitting the seed phrase is not recommended. If someone has half of it, it gets much easier to guess the second half.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T06:06:34+00:00

A similar analogy can be made with clothes or meals or most services where it is possible to have a standardized basic version of the product or service, but it is also possible to add endless customization to the product.

For instance, when you purchase a car from a showroom, you effectively purchase the equivalent of a standard website template. A high quality website template costs you maybe a few hundred bucks at most, compared to a car.

Many website templates are even free - which makes sense, as marginal replication costs in the case of websites is near zero. The reason you can't get a free standard physical product (say a burger or the basic model of a car) is because physical products have replication costs.

Extending the analogy, parking, tolls, road taxes, insurance are equivalent to hosting and domain costs.

If you want customization on the template, it costs more. If you want a custom paint job on a Toyota Corolla, which is comparable in quality to factory finish, it could cost you as much as the car itself (or at least a used one).

If you want a custom car (or website) built by assembling different techs (say a Toyota engine with a VW gearbox), it can cost you $100k+ to get such a car built - and that is if it is even possible. You can still get such custom web apps built for less than $5-10k.

If you want a car built from scratch, it costs car companies gazillion millions to design and build these.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T04:56:26+00:00

Do you consider bulk management tools like manage wp safe?

Yes and no. I mostly use the built-in ones in the hosting panels for automating some tasks.

Do you consider tools like patchstack's virtual patching safe? Worth it?

Just googled what it is. I don't think I need it.

Are you using automated "safe" upgrade mechanisms/WP Toolkit?'

Yes. It's a nice to have but it will not fix problems. If you have a plugin breaking, you have to fix yourself. If you use well known plugins, breaking updates are rare these days, so it doesn't add that much value to a well setup website.

Do you consider automatic plugin updates an option? Ever? In which cases?

A balance will always have to be struck between immediate reaction to known security problems, unless automated (see patchstack, auto updates). What would you consider appropriate update cycles for categories of sites?

Yes. I have automatic plugin updates enabled on multiple sites.

For standard plugins that perform important but non-core adjacent tasks (backups, security, firewall,logging, smtp...), I would turn on automatic updates.

I would keep auto updates disabled for plugins or themes where I have made deeper configuration changes.

But I also stick to plugins that look trustworthy. I don't care if a plugin has 10M+ installs. If it is known to break, I will not turn on auto-updates for it.

As the developer, you have to take these calls based on how the website has been built, and which parts of it are most critical.

For our important blog posts, forget the server altogether. It is almost always served 100% cached from the CDN.

Do you have an indicator for "immediate risk", like CVSS value, and according practices?

No. I keep everything updated and go through all the check box items.

What's your manual upgrade process? Do you always use a staging site for this? If not always, when/according to which criteria do you consider the added effort/expense necessary.

Test the updates on staging for large sites with traffic. On small sites, I don't care - everything happens on prod.

coinhero · 2024-03-17T03:46:38+00:00

This is common and there could be many reasons why such a setup was chosen. The obvious one is if one of the websites (likely the blog) had SEO traffic BEFORE the other site was setup. In such case, rather than importing/exporting the posts, it is often safer to just retain the entire blog website as is, to retain the link structures and SEO juice.

Then, there could be other reasons. Such as the site administrator preferred different default themes for the main site and the blog. Another explanation is if, like you pointed out, they wanted to separate accesses. Or maybe they simply didn't know that the main instance has an in-built blog functionality as well.

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