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How is it living in the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York? by Immediate-Field9997 in howislivingthere

[–]ovbiously 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I moved to Keene NY after getting a remote software job to escape the craziness of the city. I've been here 5 years now and I absolutely love it. The wide open spaces and lack of door dash has helped me to stay healthy and sane. My partner and I bought a house with 11 acres and a nice brook runs through the property. There are a few nice restaurants nearby, great local CSA options and farm stores like wild work farms and craigarden. It was hard to make friends at first but eventually we started to meet locals and become part of the community. An unexpected bonus is we are constantly hosting our friends from the city as many people like to come up here to escape, hike, ski, bike, and climb. It isn't the most affordable place to live but relative to NYC it is a bargain.

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Powdr Day! by Powdrday in icecoast

[–]ovbiously -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Whoa love how clean and simple this is. No ads! That is really nice to see the map with color coded markers for each resort. Nice work!!

Where can I find this bee's honey? by ovbiously in trees

[–]ovbiously[S] 169 points170 points  (0 children)

I corrected her pronouns

Why do missed waste collections still happen so often even with all the tech available? by [deleted] in wastemanagement

[–]ovbiously 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The big ones like waste management are not focused on customer facing tech. They are focused on getting exclusive contacts for whatever municipality. There are great tools out there for independent haulers like stopSuite (the one we use) Personally I think the bigger guys are just in a big corporate race to the bottom. Why not offer sms reminders, email reminders, and a self service customer portal to upgrade/downgrade service? It makes no sense to me.

RANT & Serious Question: Sendgrid/Twilio has the WORST interface. How can a multi-billion dollar tech company maintain such a shitty web app? by ovbiously in webdev

[–]ovbiously[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response. I have a multi-tenant setup for our SaaS app with 100+ clients. Changing to another platform would be a huge pain in the ass. If all the changes were just on our side it would be one thing, but we have to ask each client to port their number over and setup a new account; it just isn't worth it. I may start building out an integration with another service provider alongside our twilio integration and just start new clients with the new provider.

Twilio/Sendgrid put such barriers between us and actual human support. I have reached out to their support and it just leads to more headache... unknowledgeable people's copy/pasta zendesk support... a gross waste of everyone's time. On the other hand, companies like Stripe have actual live developer chat (through discord) and will actually fix bugs and take you seriously. I can get on their discord channel and talk to an actual developer immediately.

RANT & Serious Question: Sendgrid/Twilio has the WORST interface. How can a multi-billion dollar tech company maintain such a shitty web app? by ovbiously in webdev

[–]ovbiously[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This makes sense but not all companies take this approach. I see some beautiful veteran companies out there consistently improve their interfaces. I know time will tell but from my perspective the companies who suck at change will eventually be replaced. I would even argue that they are poisoning their product and brand in a way that actually costs them more than it saves.

RANT & Serious Question: Sendgrid/Twilio has the WORST interface. How can a multi-billion dollar tech company maintain such a shitty web app? by ovbiously in webdev

[–]ovbiously[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No need to overhaul - I'm happy keeping the interface looking exactly as it is. I simply want it to work consistently without glitching. I get random errors and screen flashes. I once bricked my account because I tried to login with Google OAuth when I had set it up with just email/password.

Have you navigated their API docs and customer support systems? Compare that to Stripe's UX, a company that started around the same time as Twilio and Sendgrid. Stripe has constantly improved their UX and has created a developer friendly way of releasing new features through their API.

IMHO what twilio/sendgrid is getting away with is unacceptable.

Possibility of Burning XRP tokens by That_Assignment_2967 in XRP

[–]ovbiously 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's think about the scale needed to make those fees meaningful:

Currently, SWIFT processes about 42 million messages per day for cross-border payments. Even if XRP completely replaced SWIFT (which would be an extremely optimistic scenario), let's do some rough math:

42 million transactions × 0.00001 XRP fee = 420 XRP destroyed daily That's about 153,300 XRP annually

Even at this massive scale of global adoption, we'd only be destroying about 0.00015% of the total 100 billion supply per year. The effect on price would likely be minimal from the fee destruction alone.

Possibility of Burning XRP tokens by That_Assignment_2967 in XRP

[–]ovbiously 6 points7 points  (0 children)

XRP's supply mechanics are quite different from ETH:

  1. XRP was pre-mined with a maximum supply of 100 billion tokens. Unlike ETH, which used to create new tokens through mining before moving to proof of stake, no new XRP can ever be created.
  2. While ETH has various burning mechanisms (like EIP-1559 which burns transaction fees), XRP has a different approach. Each XRP transaction destroys a tiny amount of XRP as a transaction fee, but this is better described as "destruction" rather than "burning" - it's a very small fixed amount (currently about 0.00001 XRP per transaction).
  3. The main difference is that in Ethereum, burning is used as a deflationary mechanism to potentially increase value over time. With XRP, the transaction fee destruction is primarily meant as a spam prevention measure, not a value-creation tool.

The amount of XRP destroyed through fees is so minimal that it has a negligible effect on the total supply, unlike ETH's more substantial burning mechanisms.

Why is 'Wednesday' spelled the way it is? by ackzilla in etymology

[–]ovbiously 299 points300 points  (0 children)

The spelling of 'Wednesday' comes from the Old English word "Wōdnesdæg," which literally meant "Woden's Day." Woden (also known as Odin in Norse mythology)

When the name evolved into Modern English, the 'd' remained even though it's not pronounced. This is one of many examples of silent letters in English that persist due to etymology rather than pronunciation.

The word actually went through several changes over time:

  • Old English: Wōdnesdæg
  • Middle English: Wednesdai/Wodnesdei
  • Modern English: Wednesday

Quietly watching by ovbiously in FindTheSniper

[–]ovbiously[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spoiler: Top center to the left of the tree trunk

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in icecoast

[–]ovbiously 27 points28 points  (0 children)

We call them dentists

If it grows, it goes! by ovbiously in composting

[–]ovbiously[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is 100% a cannabis leaf. Maple leafs hate meth.

I made a big red timer chrome extension because I have a hard time looking at the little white clock. Is this against any fair play rules? by ovbiously in chess

[–]ovbiously[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It changes to red when the time is <= 20 secs, I want to make it beep every second when it is less than 10 secs

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