simply not true. i've tried several times to get ChatGPT to write working emacs lisp. it rarely can write anything long, even after i correct it five or six times. anything to push the price down and the profits up, i guess.
climate change is also affected by the amount of swamp we replace by concrete. here in the Louisiana wetlands, the amount of CO2 that the environment can "sink" is enormous, but the wetlands are shrinking every day for more refineries and pipelines and.... there's a balance we haven't found and don't want to find. rich people apparently don't really care about their grandchildren.
this. i had a small business through 2007 as a copywriter. subprime crisis killed the customers, but i was only incorporated locally, through my state. all it cost me was $25 to dissolve the corporation, a simple postcard. my only real admin job was keeping my quarterly taxes up to date, which wasn't difficult. don't go large to start.
i write about a product called MAAS, a bare-metal provisioning system. i have a houseful of NUCs of different vintages to provision, but sometimes i want to try odd configurations and/or create error conditions to build troubleshooting doc. LXD VMs are better for this than NUCS, because they are easier and faster to recover when things go south.
also, i use them to do large builds of code on OS versions other than the one i'm running on my laptop. and i use them to test packer-built custom versions of FreeBSD, RHEL, Alma, Rocky, etc., because i can control the interfaces and storage more easily when debugging my packer builds.
Read the HP Way. Engineers can run a company, and do a damn good job of it. You just need an engineer or two who wants to spend time applying engineering to the business end of things. They are out there, and they are really good at what they do. Hire a couple.
Mitnick's "Art of Deception" springs to mind. Sort of a combination cautionary tale, autobiography of what can go wrong, and workbook for techniques. And an indicator that the California DMV is still vulnerable, decades later.
yeah. coding is ubiquitous, and tests show it. dev is an art and a science, and tests can easily screen those out. but that's why dev is rare and valuable. and that's why dev will eventually find its place, without tests. meh.
A 0dB tone is a tuning tone. Most amplifiers are tuned to a particular frequency at 0dB, and with a good phone connection, you can even do this over the wire. It's problematic if there are too many hops between you and the source. For example, calling a 0dB tone in a small CO in central Montana didn't give me a usable reference when I was calling from Huntsville, AL, in the 1970's. There were about four hops in there.
If you dig into Evan Doorbell's stuff, he explains this nicely. It has to do with where the intercept was caught (the particular CO / switch level / device).
yeah, I love Evan's stuff, especially the recordings about George, the answering machine, and random answering machine outgoing messages from the 80's Atlanta area. fantastic!
i think this is one reason that, at Canonical, you can't really get an idea past the starting gate unless you have a decent engineering spec to go with it. how will you build it? how does it actually meet user's needs (even if you're inventing a need)? what are the detailed scenarios that explain how users will interact with the executed idea? is it suitable for FOSS/crowdsourcing PRs? And most importantly, can you write down how someone off the street would easily be able to tell that you've implemented a useful idea? Ideas don't go away -- we use Trello for those, and they go in our backlog -- but engineering-wise, NASA-countdown-to-launch-wise, HTH do you get that idea into something practical, useful, and presentable?
shame (feeling comparatively unworthy) is the root of anxiety, and it's the magic exilir of advertising and selling. it's also a gateway to depression. imnsho, that's how FB, etc., link to depression.
Facebook and Instagram are based in shame, the feeling that you are somehow unworthy or less worthy. this is where advertisers need you to be to successfully sell you their products. imnsho, shame is the root of a lot of anxiety, and a gateway to depression.
no offense, but i thought i would take to heart your tips about my abysmal format. falls under the category of "release early, release often." kinda like the borg, but without nanoprobes.
I'm afraid it's macros and elisp, but don't forget that you can write a good amount of useful elisp by recording macros and saving them in your .init file.
my entire MAAS development team at Canonical are emacs users. we also have those who use vi or even visual studio. it's all about what works for you, i guess.