Scubabear68

As TFA says, Disney+ had a few great titles then just fizzled out. Yeah, it’s nice for little kids, but not nice enough for this kind of cost.

Apparently Marcus has been a failure too. I had no idea.

Is it really all consumer facing activity, or just the Apple portion?

That said it does have an alerting capability…but even then Amazon shows products for $15 that have wireless alerting.

So yeah, $72 per unit indeed looks to be a waste of money.

Use of software like Board docks makes finding info 10x harder as well, what a steaming pile of crap that is.

The net result is schools that hire hoards of consultants to try to meet professional standards, but fail anyway, while spending vast sums of tax payer dollars. Covid funds earmarked towards bridging the learning gap from closed schools during the pandemic are spent on fancy laptops, new athletic facilities, sound systems for auditoriums. Absenteeism is skyrocketing, and teachers are not only not encouraged to enforce discipline, they're actively told to let out of control students slide. Social promotion is on the rise, and standardized test scores are tanking.

We finally gave up in my local district and ended up paying a fortune to send both our kids to private schools. After an initial many-months-long struggle to catch up with their new private school classmates (because of the public school deficits), they are both doing much better. Money well spent, but I still send taxes to an ineffective district that spends money like water, and where educational value is dead last in their priorities.

They even introduced a course in Graphic Novels at the high school this year, while 75% of kids fail standardized science testing, and 60% fail in math.

I like how MacOS Numbers does it, the Categories feature is much easier to use, however it has limitations that are very annoying if you reach them.

For anything complex these days, it is often easiest to export the spreadsheet to CSV and run SQL queries on it with CSVQ.

I also echo some other top comments here - payments and banking is very highly regulated, and for good reason. The base concept seems extremely ripe for fraud.

Was a developer for many years, but I transitioned to more strategic roles after I took a bit of a personal detour in 2026. I got involved in a major environmental movement and ended up in a grassroots leadership role. That lead me to doing meetings and presentations with a number of local, State and National politicians and their staffs, along with senior folks at certain state agencies, like NJ DEP. That helped me to think more strategically, to be flexible and be able to think on my feet, and how to talk to some very senior people on complex topics.

That experience translated into the ability to speak to large crowds on technical matters, to converse candidly with C suite folks (technical and not) about their products, and still be able to chat with front line developers, QA folks, support and the like, and how to craft visuals and presentations to convey complex technology decisions to different kinds of stakeholders. I am a mix of developer, solution architect, Enterprise Architect, product strategist, and marketing/sales rolled into one.

And the aspect of choice matters a great deal. The ability to say “no” to an engagement is very empowering.

This is not always the case. For example, I work in a midsized consulting firm at a fairly senior level. While I have a line manager, he’s only there to give me corporate news and policy. He not only doesn’t tell me what to do, he often doesn’t know what I’m doing.

What happens is there are a pool of account executives who I have grown to know over the years. We talk regularly, and if there is something I could work on (pre-sales or a project), we talk and figure if I’m a good fit and have bandwidth. Unless I have almost no work I can be choosy about what to work on. Yes, clients and the account guys can mold my deliverables, but I have a lot of sway in that as well.

This also lets me figure out my own hours, within constraints if engagements of course. Since I have kids in school, this gives me great flexibility to schedule work around family, instead of vice-versus.

So while what the author describes as regular jobs may be common, it is not the only model.

Google maps is still better at searching for retail stores, Apple Maps is better at everything else, 10x so for driving.

Use almost anything else to manage job scheduling….

We also had to buy $110 (roughly) of “Marriage Stamps”.

“You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License”.

That is pretty clear. If you distribute software that contains a GPL component, the whole lot is considered GPL. Whether the GPL is 20 lines or a million is irrelevant.

This is why the GPL and similar licenses are called viral. They infect other people’s code and try to impose license terms on it.

This is also why licenses like LGPL were created, to try to be a little more reasonable. But that seems to have failed almost completely.

To me that is just wrong.

I am fast and good at searching, but I ain’t that good. I’m going to give Kagi a try for this reason, plus ability to prefer or ban specific sites.

I have been a VI user my whole life as a result (I worked for Manx in the late 80's, and their flavor of VI was my first real taste of text editing).

Because of those chats, he learned that I was a knowledge sponge and loved trying new things, and as a result he challenged me. I got to implement some really cool middle ware that became the bedrock of the middle office trading systems.

That said, I have had bad managers where the 1:1 is a forced chore. My experience isn’t that 1:1 are bad, but that they will quickly reveal the character of the manager. I do agree that if my manager is not great, it is often best if we interact little and I can go my own way. And yes, I am lucky to have had jobs like that where I can own my path.

If you are a basically decent human and can support yourself and a child, give a look at adoption rather than having this regret for your lifetime.

People very often forget a resume is a form of work product. If after reading it you get a bad sense about the person, or still have no idea what they are good at, then it’s a bad CV.

With of course the caveat that a CV is a marketing tool.