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I might be horribly out of touch, but... is $25 for a 12oz bag of not-totally-horrible coffee beans really a normal price?
but as an anecdote, I get a lot of coffee from the Fellow Drops subscription service, and those bags average around $25 - often for less than 12oz.
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what did you expect when they said "startup" and not "shop"
No joke, but "startup" can often be code for, "extremely high-quality items that are subsidized by VC money". The quality doesn't last, but if you get in early, you can often buy stuff that's way nicer than it should be for the price.
Early AirBnB, Lyft, Uber, Lime, Bird, Netflix, online-retail were very high quality for low cost and then inverted.
A lot of people don't know that before Amazon started, there was a company out of Portland, OR called Bookstacks selling books via a telnet interface. In the early days, Bezos was quite worried about their potential to get "there" first (wherever "there" was going to be). It was a fairly cool interface, at least for 1994. [ EDIT: worried to the point that we actually implemented a telnet version of the store in paral…
A lot of people don't know that before Amazon started, there was a company out of Portland, OR called Bookstacks selling books via a telnet interface. In the early days, Bezos was quite worried about their potential to get "there" first (wherever "there" was going to be). It was a fairly cool interface, at least for 1994. [ EDIT: worried to the point that we actually implemented a telnet version of the store in paral…
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To cost them a lot of money for all those pizzas. And to cost the pizza shop money if they can’t collect payment for the pizzas. And to cause general grief and misery, as trolls are wont to do :(
But, you could also not pay the money AND have the pizzas.
AFAIK the ol’ unlimited free pizza by killing the thread trick no longer works. It sure was nice while it lasted, especially on platforms that easily let you kill a thread id, even kids could do it.
Remember how on BeOS there was a GUI for it? Great for unfreezing a crashed app that had state you wanted to try to recover or free leaked pizza.
Now worker threads spawned for delivery hold a lock preventing new pizza being placed in the oven for that address, which is not released until the add payment callback is successful. Destroy the only thread holding the lock, and pizza orders just queue up forever. :(
I long for an alternate dimension where terminal-based internet like Minitel dominated . Something like hypercard implemented with 80x24 ncurses UI
Command line dominates in quick flexibility. But is awful when it comes to discoverability. Most people can't even find the turn off ads button in windows 11. And people hate that. So what hope do they have at a terminal.
Word perfect had good mouse support, as did Editor.
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Still, it identifies you so it can be used to track you over visits to many different stores-over-ssh, just like third party cookies.
if you are aware of other stores-over-ssh, I’d genuinely love to hear about them because this one is so fun. Or even not-stores that are reachable via ssh. Any MUDs still going?