It was python from the start ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892 ), but maybe the 2to3 migration, or just a general rewrite you're thinking of?

There was a "major" change in the agent roughly a decade ago. Dropbox went from being a simple folder sync tool to a much more bloated agent that never synced cleanly. I don't know if they just moved away from some modules that were written in C or something, but I gave up on it soon after.

The "viral" point was a good one, and which they solved quite cleverly: as a student I got 10 GB for free, but additional 10 GB for each recruited person. Everyone at campus was on a recruiting spree for a while, to bulk up free storage.

Of course, that doesn't make them money. But millions of users that then had all their files there and kept using it when no longer students (so paying), and recommended it to their places of work etc.

At least if bought from Amazon. It will happily accept writing 512 GB to it, but it's not stored anywhere.

Yep that burned me once. Lesson learned.

Google will often convert it to a gdrive thing instead. So you're not sending the file, just a link to the file uploaded somewhere. I'm not sure what heuristic it uses, but sometimes when mailing photos like half of them are included in the mail and half automagically uploaded to gdrive instead.

Anything over 25mb goes out via gdrive if memory serves. That’s at least how it used to be.

email providers have limits for size. Modern files are huge.

Yeah but it's the silent conversion that irks me. My email is no longer self contained or archivable. When I find it again in the future, the files might be gone.

That sounds like some kind of weird google interface issue. Maybe try using IMAP or POP or whatever standard they still deign to support.

I remember during covid, cyclists were the ones in my town in a poll answering they missed their commute. It's such a nice way of thinking things through and then clearing your mind, then arriving home not thinking more about work.

> You don't have to be taught to breathe.

You sure? Haven't read the book / heard of the author. But after I started freediving and training holding my breath (also called static / dynamic apnea lol) and working a lot on related stuff, I realized I was mostly breathing shallow and with my chest, and not deep with my abdomen.

Now I notice it in others. I don't know if it matters in the end. But I breathe a couple of times a minute and then I hear people next to me quickly breathing in and out constantly like a rabbit. Seems stressful?

There's also the fact that using digital devices negatively affects our breathing a lot: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1247296780/screen-apnea-why-s...

Considering how much we use them now it could change the default state significantly, and maybe we do have to consciously relearn the best way to breath.

Yeah, so weird how biking has become an identity politics thingy. (Not sure if it translates well into English).

I enjoy how it's fast and easy to commute, and I keep healthy. Works even in hilly and snowy Norway. I love how fun it is to use my road bike to go fast and get a good workout. I love my gravel into the woods and the serenity.

This weekend I'm bikepacking 6 hours into the woods,sleeping a night in a hammock, and bike back. Can't wait!

Am I using it differently than everyone else? I don't want an upper bound, I want a specific version. So always ==, never >=, and upgrading a dependency is an explicit action. I don't want to suddenly have a never version.

That’s how the ‘sync’ flow works (recreating venv, through the lockfile), here discussing specifically updates.

Yeah, people loose their business because a kid is logged in on their iPad, gets their google account suspended, and google knows it's the same household as the parent, and everything gets shut down

Can't find this now but google did at least once disable company's accounts after dev got their account suspended.

And as we know from the recent Gemini ban wave, you can get suspended just because.

Everyone needs a defensible root of trust, this goes all the way down to the registrar you use for your domain.

Are you honestly saying that a kid should not use their parent's email address as a recovery option? Seems like that would be the natural way to do it.

Point is that if one account gets suspended, all your accounts might. Your kids', the family account, your separate one that you use for gcp billing etc

It’s almost impossible not to any more. This is victim blaming at this point.

Haven't really used much other stabilization in post after modern gopros have gotten so good. Especially with the 360 variants (MAX and now MAX 2), it's buttery smooth (and infinite FOV means no cropping). Sometimes too smooth, I want to show how rough the cycling trail really was!

With very good daylight, Hypersmooth of Gopro is ok, but as soon as the conditions are a little bit less than ideal, watching the videos that we get out of the Gopro makes nauseous very fast.