Yep. Most apartments will hire a firm to do it and distribute the costs to the owners / tenants, and actual *house* owners typically do it themselves. Not sure how small businesses handle it, especially when they're not open 🤔

I think part of the problem is that sidewalks are the responsibility of the building owner, and it's not exactly rigorously enforced.

Prompt: "Is OpenAI profitable? And if not, what would it have to do to become profitable?"

I did stay in a hotel room in London the other week which had a surprisingly nice feature—a single EU socket 🤯 Given that I keep forgetting which bits I have a UK adaptor for and which I don't, that was quite nice.

How much do you do before going to the editors? Are they approving a text script, or have you sketched the full comic, or even fully drawn and coloured it before they approve it?

Open-source? I don't think so. But you *can* run a server, sure: www.minecraft.net/en-us/downlo... (there are third-party servers, but I'm not a Minecraft person so can't speak to them).

You'll want Bedrock if anyone is on mobile, basically. You'd only want Java if everyone involved is on a PC.

AFAIK, Java is the original and is, indeed, Java. However, that doesn't really work for mobile devices/etc, so they rewrote in C++ and called it "Bedrock Edition". They are *not* directly compatible, although there are mods that get most of the way.

Hmmm. Or maybe not… That looks like it only supports HTTP for external access, and the clients would still need to be “Cloudflare Aware” for any other protocol.

I haven't used it myself (I've gone the other direction, have a static IP and OPNsense firewall), but it *looks like* it's intended more for site-to-site VPNs, so each client would need it configured.

That said, I think Cloudflare do offer a solution: developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-o...

Another alternative is dedicated Minecraft hosting, rather than renting a VPS and administering it all yourself. This *can* get expensive, but it's way less headache. See shockbyte.com/games/minecr... as an example (I've used them for another game).

In theory, it'll get pretty close, but you'll still have to configure port-forwarding and so on as well, and if you have a dynamic IP…

Note that even with a docker container, you'll need to configure a bunch of Minecraft-specific stuff. See hub.docker.com/r/itzg/minec... for example.

Tricky question. Minecraft can be a resource hog, and it depends if they're playing Java or Bedrock edition, and how many players. You're probably looking at 3-4 GiB of RAM, minimum, plus CPU. And that's not accounting for mods/etc.

Took me a couple of reads to get what you meant there, because I also fly home to the other side the world, and then fly back home to this side of the world 😅

Looking at their financial statements, "cost of revenue" is *already* ~75% of their total revenue. Assuming that's even remotely reasonable (i.e., not including clearly unrelated costs), they *cannot* increase payouts. The blame, most likely, lies with the record studios charging obscene royalties.

The economics of Spotify are *awful*, though - a rough estimate puts total minutes listened to this year at ~1.1 trillion. Assume average 3 minutes/track, 366B streams. Even if Spotify paid out *all* its revenue, that's $0.29/stream. But they have to pay royalties, salaries, etc.