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Yeah, that's a good one. "Dumb and fun" is a good description.

Craig Alanson also wrote a fantasy trilogy a while back that proved much better than I was expecting. It started off as what appeared to be an uninteresting juvenile fantasy book, but quickly got better and darker. I very much enjoyed reading those.

The headline is confusing. This is not about a company that's becoming older. It's about a building a biotech company that treats the symptoms and causes of aging.

This app has been great. I've used it a lot to identify the birds that inhabit my back yard.

I tried using it in New Zealand last year, and it wasn't as effective as in the US: I think it hasn't been trained as well on the native New Zealand birds, many of which aren't found anywhere else.

Amusingly, it identified turkeys when we were in New Zealand, which I was irritated with because there clearly weren't any turkeys in New Zealand. It turned out I was wrong when we came across a flock of them in the Waikato area running around in a sheep field. A local told me that they were brought there around a hundred years ago and are mostly left alone because nobody eats turkey in New Zealand.

Agreed. As a citizen, most interactions with border control are unpleasant. The only positive experience I've ever had was at a quiet border crossing in Maine where I met what was probably the country's only friendly CBP agent.

I had a Brother Multi-Function color scanner/printer that lasted almost 15 years. In the end, the scanner started to malfunction, doing blurry scans, but the printer portion still worked great. Toward the end, it started complaining about low black toner, and I looked up when I last bought black toner: it had been 7 years earlier.

I ended up buying a new Brother scanner/printer that can do full-duplex scanning and printing. The thing is amazing, and I'll likely have it for another 15 years. It's solid and reliable, and the toner lasts a really long time.

We discovered that many towns in Iceland have municipal pool/sport complexes, and those were great to visit. They were quite affordable for single visits, the pools were great (with various pool temperatures to choose from), and many of them had extras like pool toys and waterslides, which were a hit with the kids.

This is very nice. I didn't know Pluto's orbit was more inclined than many of the others.

It also gives me strong "The Expanse" vibes. Probably because there are so many orbital bodies shown that were mentioned in those books. I also learned that Pallas is an actual asteroid.

About a month ago started reading the first book of the Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red) after seeing it recommended multiple times. I have to admit that it didn't sound all that interesting, but I'm glad I gave it a try.

It's really good, and I've since read the next two books. They are all more of a novella length, so I've been finishing them much faster than the average novel.

I wanted to call that one out if anyone is looking for a good read.

Also, Mistborn has been memorable since I first read it about 8 years ago. That's a very good story. I'm considering reading it again, which I rarely do with books I've read within the past decade.

As a Californian living in the central valley, where we never get snow, I had never heard of snow tires until I lived in Germany, where seemingly everyone had them in winter. Nobody around here has them or even sells them.

When we go up into the mountains in winter, either the roads are cleared and we can drive on them with normal tires, or it's snowing heavily and we put snow chains on the tires and drive slowly. I've only had to use snow chains a couple times in my life because I generally only go into the mountains when it's not currently snowing, which is most of the time.

Climate change has made the climate drier here, the mountains get a lot less snow than they used to. It also helps that real winter with snow storms only lasts about 3 months.

I also discovered Storyteller among the Netflix games and loved it: truly a gem. However, just like you said, when I finished it, I didn't have any reason to come back to it.

"Into the Breach", on the other hand, kept me coming back for a long time. It's definitely an iOS game though: completely unsuitable for most devices that use Netflix.

That was one thing that the article didn't explain that I was curious about. What does days mean in this context and how does the court determine the number of them? Why days combined with a variable fee vs just a variable fee?

Location: California, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Oregon or Washington

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, C#, AWS, React, Elixir, CI/CD pipelines

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHSqqfCSttQSd6zWs1CKdFsO...

Email: kevin.peter@gmail.com

I'm an experienced software engineer (15+ years) with leadership experience looking for a senior+ software engineer position. I'm comfortable with scalable distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing and deployment, backend services, full stack web development, SQL and NoSQL databases, and AWS cloud infrastructure.

I specialize in full stack web development and backend services on AWS, and I welcome the opportunity to learn new things. I can easily adapt to your tech stack. I also love writing technical documentation.

As a software engineer, I enjoy challenging technical work, collaboration, mentoring, and figuring out what can bring the most value to my organization.

I enjoy experimenting with different languages and technologies. My current project is learning Go, but I previously played around a lot with Elixir. I wrote approximately 80 posts regarding the various aspects of Elixir, which you can see on my blog at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com

I'm looking for a place with a high degree of collaboration where I can work with kind and supportive colleagues to build something that makes people happy.

You can find my LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-peter-2314b38b/

If that sounds promising, reach out to me. I'd love to talk with you!

It would be awesome to have a map view where I could visualize the itinerary and the times and distances between each place.

It's a lot easier to plan an itinerary (especially one when driving over many days) when I can see where and when I'll be with the distances and travel times. Creating overly ambitious itineraries where there's not enough time at each place can be a problem.

Location: California, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Oregon or Washington

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, Java, Node.js, C#, AWS, React, Elixir, CI/CD pipelines

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHSqqfCSttQSd6zWs1CKdFsO...

Email: kevin.peter@gmail.com

I'm an experienced software engineer (15+ years) with leadership experience looking for a senior+ software engineer position. I'm comfortable with scalable distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing and deployment, backend services, full stack web development, SQL and NoSQL databases, and AWS cloud infrastructure.

I specialize in full stack web development backend services on AWS, and I welcome the opportunity to learn new things. I can easily adapt to your tech stack. I also love writing technical documentation.

As a software engineer, I enjoy challenging technical work, collaboration, mentoring, and figuring out what can bring the most value to my organization.

I enjoy experimenting with different languages and technologies. My current project is learning Go, but I previously played around a lot with Elixir. I wrote approximately 80 posts regarding the various aspects of Elixir, which you can see on my blog at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com

I'm looking for a place with a high degree of collaboration where I can work with kind and supportive colleagues to build something that makes people happy.

You can find my LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-peter-2314b38b/

If that sounds promising, reach out to me. I'd love to talk with you!

Location: California, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Oregon or Washington if I'm really excited about the opportunity

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, C#, AWS, React, Elixir, CI/CD pipelines

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHSqqfCSttQSd6zWs1CKdFsO...

Email: kevin.peter@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-peter-2314b38b/

I'm an experienced software engineer (15+ years) with leadership experience looking for a senior+ software engineer or engineering manager position. I'm comfortable with scalable distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment, backend services, full stack web development, SQL and NoSQL databases, and AWS cloud infrastructure.

I specialize in backend services on AWS and full stack web development, but I welcome the opportunity to learn new things. I can easily adapt to your tech stack. I also love writing technical documentation.

As a software engineer, I enjoy challenging technical work, collaboration, mentoring, and figuring out what can bring the most value to my organization.

As a manager, I turn ambiguity into clarity. I enjoy working on technical tasks along with my team, yet staying off the critical path so I can prioritize supporting my team. I serve my team, not the other way around.

I enjoy experimenting with different languages and technologies. My current project is learning Go, but I previously played around a lot with Elixir. I wrote approximately 80 posts regarding the various aspects of Elixir, which you can see on my blog at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com

I'm looking for a place with a high degree of collaboration where I can work with kind and supportive colleagues to build something that makes people happy.

If that sounds promising, reach out to me. I'd love to talk with you!

I remember back in the late 1990s, I heard a lot of people pining for the earlier days before the "eternal September" when the Internet wasn't full of clueless people ruining everything for everyone else and turning the Internet into a place of low quality.

It's hard for me to take grumbles like this seriously when I've heard the same thing so many times before. Back in the "good old days", there were plenty of loud people complaining how bad it was compared to times before.

I personally think that although it is a lot more commercialized, the Internet is way better now.

I was in Newfoundland in July and I noticed a few interesting things:

- The houses tended to be colorful

- Almost all the buildings I saw looked like they were just painted, I did see a couple buildings with peeling paint, but I think they were abandoned

- I personally saw around 10 different people in the middle of painting their houses just driving along in remote rural areas, all in the span of about a week. Where I live (in California), I only see this about once every 5 years.

- Paint stores are widespread, even in small rural towns where there are hardly any businesses at all

I don't know why the people of Newfoundland love painting their buildings so much, but it really makes the place look nice.

My company had a similar experience. They were a smaller Bay Area company only hiring locally, then went remote and expanded their candidate search. They were able to get a much better selection of candidates after they started hiring remotely.

Any kind of return to office is now impossible. Their (now much smaller office) can only hold about 5% of the employees, and the vast majority of employees are now scattered throughout the United States. Not even the founders or any of the executives live near the office anymore; they're all scattered geographically as well.

I was hired as part of the wave of remote hiring, and it seems to me based on the stories I hear from those that worked there in the pre-remote times that the switch to remote hiring really worked out well for them.

I like your website: it's simple and mostly easy to find things. I also like the concept.

I was looking for an API reference to see what I could do with your API, but didn't find one. It seems that information about API calls is scattered among more "how-to" oriented documentation. That's just fine, but it would also be nice to have some documentation oriented around endpoints and details of the API.

Having worked with several low-code/no-code systems in the past, I've had similar experiences. They work really well if you stay within their area of strength, but once you go outside of what it was designed for, it becomes an ugly, unmaintainable mess.

In every project I worked on, the users of the system always wanted it to do things that go beyond what the low-code system was designed for. That always required what was essentially coding, but using some clunky UI for advanced code-like functionality.

In the end, you have a system that would have been much more maintainable if you had just gone with a standard "with-code" solution.

They always sell these things with the idea that non-coders can do most of the work on the system, but that's only true for a very basic system. In my experience, it's coders that end up doing 90% (or more) of the work and it ends up being inferior to a coding-based solution.

It would be the "dark ages" in Europe, but not in China. It was also during a time of scholarship and observation in the Islamic world. If it was observed, I would have expected it to be mentioned by Islamic astronomers. Perhaps it was.

I concur with the other opinions. After having used Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google meet in the workplace, I've found Google Meet to easily be the best option.

It feels like I'm taking a big step back when I have to use Teams or Zoom.

Sometimes, it can be a case where someone is still alive, but hasn't yet communicated with the person that reported them missing for whatever reason. After two weeks, however, I imagine that most of the missing will never reappear.

I had never heard of a honey locust tree. Those things look like they have really nasty thorns.

I briefly tried out tabNine, which was OK, but had a lot of suggestions that weren't quite right, so I stopped using it. Since then I haven't bothered to use anything else. I've read about the various tools, but I'm just not that interested in using them either.

I wouldn't worry about it. AI tools are trendy right now and are being hyped far beyond their actual usefulness. I've seen this before with other things. Eventually, things will calm down and AI tools will become stable and just another standard tool that will provide incremental improvements.

That will be the time to try them out and see if they are useful.

Typing code is not where the value of a software developer comes from: it's the thinking, the planning, the accumulated experience, and the communication with other people where the most value emerges. You will not hurt your programming career.

Way back when IDEs were the hot tool, some developers kept using the command line and vim. That choice did not hurt their careers: I've worked with such developers and they do just fine. IDEs make a lot of things easier, but they don't make the difference between success and failure.

My son loved Cars, so we ended up getting him Cars 2. When he (probably about 4 at the time) saw cars being tortured in Cars 2, he got so upset that he started screaming and punching the TV screen. We turned it off immediately because it was just too intense for him (found out later that he had autism). He didn't end up watching Cars 2 until he was about 10.

He still often watches the first and third movie, but rarely the second.

Some of the sparking waters I've seen have surprisingly high sodium levels. My wife, who is on a low-sodium diet, has to avoid the ones with a lot of sodium.

I have no idea why so much sodium is present.

Toyota did wait far too long before taking electric vehicles seriously. I'm amazed they stuck with their hydrogen fuel vision for this long.

The sad thing was that Ho Chi Minh had previously lived in the United States and initially was friendly toward the US until they started meddling in Vietnam.

If the US could had gotten past the whole "communism = enemy" thing, they probably could have had quite good relations with a communist Vietnam.

My physics teacher in high school was a former SR-71 pilot and loved to tell brief stories of what is was like to fly over the Soviet Union in an SR-71.

Most of his stories very short and usually ended in "I can't tell you any more than that because it's classified". I could tell that there was so much he wanted to tell, but couldn't.

I saw his name mentioned in an article about an SR-71 that had to make an emergency landing in Norway, so I bet he'd have some really interesting things to say if it weren't mostly classified.