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Yup - I heard about this from a friend of mine. The offer seemed pretty good: lump sum 4 - 9 months base salary depending on tenure, extra for COBRA for 12 weeks, benefits through end of the year, etc.

Same story for me - but we are on Ting (MVNO of Verizon). They have great customer service, have always been really competitively priced (our two-phone family is usually right around $55/mo), and the cell service has been great.

I think the same advice works for Chromebooks. Sure, you're still being "tracked" - but let's be honest, that's happening on the web for most users one way or another. In most cases, seniors need a consistent, reliable browser - and nothing else.

That's not to say a $250 Chromebook is the solution, but a $500 one (equal to the value of the laptop in the story) would be exceptional compared to any Windows experience with the same hardware.

I also miss the days of good ole server-side rendered applications. I'm not sure the author's history or work experience, but, if I built something like this, I'd likely find it extremely cathartic compared to most tech stacks nowadays. :-)

You should get a gastric-emptying study done. I had similar symptoms and was diagnosed with gastroparesis. Unfortunately, it's one of those "not much we can do" situations, but knowing what the underlying issue was allowed me to find a diet that got me back to a semi-normal life.

This post [Svelte: A component library for building interactive node-based flow diagrams (svelvet.io)] is named incorrectly. Svelte is a "framework" - whereas this is Svelvet.

This looks awesome though! Thank you for sharing!

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This is a classic example of "The best acquisitions start as partnerships." I'm not privy to any internal details of either, but reading the writing on the wall from Deliverr's website and posts around the web, Shopify was a huge integration for them (likely a majority of their business). I am willing to get they've worked together at a C-Suite level to make sure that's a good relationship for a while now, and that has a tendency to produce excellent terms for acquisition (for both parties)!

I was actually really impressed with this individual! For someone who has less than a year of experience, they're showing quite a bit of initiative, drive, and curiosity - which really are what make or break engineers as they develop. Taking the time to do a blog post (effectively a post-mortem) and share it is even better!

And yes - I've literally done this exact same error (with TB of video data!). Spending the following week remediating all of that data loss was a great lesson in patience and attention to detail. :-)

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... for the first time, ever!

I think the article met my expectations - though I have a pretty good understanding of how the grid is built thanks to my father in law (who worked for a natural gas plant for a while).

In either case, onwards and upwards! I'm excited to see the renewable sector continue to grow. :-)

Can you tell me more about what you mean by "airbnb jerks have subjected me to" ?

Honestly, my family and I use airbnb pretty frequently, and I would like to think that we're considerate guests... but, maybe there's something we're missing? What makes the guests next-door to you bad ones (or great ones) ?

I like this definition.

> Simply put, critical race theory states that U.S. social institutions (e.g., the criminal justice system, education system, labor market, housing market, and healthcare system) are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules, and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-sta...

Put another way, it's allowing the possibility that systems themselves can be racist.

However, I think you will find that the definition is heavily swayed by your political bent (especially if you are a politician).

Ha! Realized my copy/paste of my own didn't work.

https://github.com/funnylookinhat/vaultexec

I wanted to brush up on Golang, and this was a quick/useful project for our internal infrastructure.

Short projects are an excellent way to learn a new tool or framework. Want to learn Next.js? Looking for an excuse to try that new Golang game engine? Pick an obscenely small goal and you'll likely have more fun exploring the docs and learning the tool than getting stuck in the weeds of the myriad requirements not helping you learn that new tool.

I have thoughts but not a lot of time - so forgive the terseness. I love the idea of this, but I'd take it further and even have a category in upwork for getting services spun up and maintained.

But that's really the problem - maintenance. Right? Once something goes wrong _for whatever reason_ the user is then (for the immediate needs) just as stuck as with a cloud provider who disabled their access.

Thankfully there is a better course of action - e.g. find someone to fix it for you. Maybe on upwork as well?

But where are you hosting this? Is it AWS? Did _they_ suspend your account? I guess my point is that unless you host on hardware in your house (or another accessible place) you're at the risk of losing access to your data for any myriad of reasons. And even then, there have been warrants where devices were collected and went into a years-long battle as evidence.

I'm with you! The pictures I always see - which are admittedly beautifully designed - are always giving the books more effort than the human. I'm waiting for some up-and-coming designer to make some similar statement and become famous for "re-centering home design around the people who live there." All the while the rest of us will just stare in awe.

I'm sure there are similar paradigms in most industries (esp. design oriented ones) - I'd be really interested in a book or blog that explored those and talked about why it works out that way.

I'm always pleasantly surprised to show up at the end of the day, click through my posts, and see thoughtful replies. I rarely have the time to back-and-forth in a thread - push notifications would probably just discourage me from ever posting. But... seeing some replies or upvotes for something I wrote the previous day - that's always a nice "Hey - thanks for sharing" that I don't feel compelled to reply to as the day has already passed.

I've been diagnosed with gastroparesis [1], and reading this gave me the exact same reaction! Almost all of my day is consumed with "what did I eat most recently? when should I eat next? How much? What am I short on for today? Protein? Carbs?" It's mentally exhausting. I'm thankful though that I only have to be concerned with "how much I can eat in a day" and there is no upper threshold. Lately I've been thinking about T1D and similar issues that have a high focus on managing food intake, and I completely empathize with you and everyone else who has to do this.

If anyone reading this struggles with gastroparesis I'd love to chat about diet choices that have worked for me. Contact info in my profile.

1) https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gastroparesis....

This is great! Thank you for sharing.

But... is anyone else growing tired of the sales-pitch we're all using? And do any of us find it valuable for ourselves when we read them? We've trained ourselves (collectively, as an industry) to expect a specific type of one-page: hero image, call-out-message with CTA, then abstract illustrations combined with text about how great something is. I don't know what I want in it's place (let's be honest, I'm clearly no marketing expert!), but what we've landed on has an incredibly bad signal:noise ratio.

I'm hoping to reclaim my ICQ number!

This is exactly why I have the old-school style with a wire connecting them that sits on the back of your neck. I had my toddler rip an earbud out just once for me to realize that was a design feature I had to have. As an added bonus, I find they're way easier to throw on and off (just loop them around your neck and tuck them in your shirt) in between tasks.

Something like this: https://en-us.sennheiser.com/headphones-bluetooth-momentum-f...

I will up-vote every single one of these "_______ by example" sites that are made. I'd also love to see a "Buy a Coffee" or quick 5-10 USD donation button on each one - and if you want a commissioning for one throw a patreon or kickstarter up and I'll share it around.

I found the gobyexample site to be invaluable when I first encountered the language, and now I send people there BEFORE I send them to the official go docs (which is saying something - because the official docs are great!).

Here's hoping we can get well-structured documentation that scaffolds like these to replace most medium posts in the top results of most Google searches! :-)

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Interesting! What were the features or differences that changed your mind after switching?

My toddler is currently dragging the original version of this toy back and forth across our house. I think I'll stick with that one.

I'm in the market for a new splitting axe - thanks for the recommendation!

I think calling this spyware is a pretty far stretch. We're talking about SAAS platforms that want to record events based on user behavior for a myriad of purposes; these are platforms that you are choosing to use, not tracking pixels dropped all across the web.

There are dozens of valid uses for this beyond ad-tech. Where we use Segment it barely even touches with marketing. Most of the value for Segment is piping user lifecycle events around to every platform and service you use to help enrich customer experience. Sure, call it sales or marketing or ad-tech, but that's really just an umbrella for trying to maximize revenue-per-customer - and isn't that the point of a SAAS platform?

I think we should be cautious about throwing the terms "spyware" and "malware" around right now; there are lots of very valid cases that should be labeled as such, but if we over-use the word it just makes it harder for us to delineate between powerful tools being used for good/valid purposes or deceptive ones.

I kept trying lightweight DEs like this over and over again (XFCE, LXDE, MATE, etc.) - I wanted them to work because I'd rather not give the desktop any more CPU resources than necessary. Time and time again there were a handful of things that I realized I'd taken for granted with the more heavy desktops (Gnome, KDE, etc.) that brought me back.

In the end I realized what I wanted was something that got out of my way and let me drive with a keyboard (and yes, was full of all the features I'd expect without needing to tweak and script). I've landed with PopOS using their tiling WM system, and I haven't looked back.

That's not too many requests, but running any form of a home network would still benefit moderately from a local DNS server. You could even install something like dnsmasq on the most heavy-using boxes to cache lookups locally.

Granted, I'm saying this as yet another home-network admin who hasn't quite... ahem... gotten around to installing a DNS server. ^_^; I'm mostly sharing this here in case someone else has a similar problem and wants a solution.