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I broke the shopping cart by adding two pixel 4a devices + care plans, 1 with a trade-in. Now going to store.google.com/cart returns 500 errors (Error code: TIMM) and support is non-existent. Store chat and phone support look like they don't exist. Off to a great start!

Ace your midterms and then build + (most importantly) ship side projects in whatever languages you want. Python and Ruby are both great choices, so go with whatever the jobs in your area use. I'm biased towards Ruby, personally, but the language you choose is less important than the projects you ship and can demo.

My favorite part is where the Hey app can't even copy Fastmail and put the same note in the app description because the rules randomly became stricter to maximize profits. ("Note: You must be either a paid subscriber or have verified your trial Fastmail account to use this app. You must be online to access your mail.")

It'll happen eventually... just attach wheels and some AI like this company: https://www.starship.xyz/

Yes and many do

Could you link to the organization? I'm extremely thankful for what https://www.deathwithdignity.org did in Oregon.

Nice, thank you for the TLS/ACL hint!

I'm learning terraform/consul/nomad/vault as I build this thing, so I think the learning curve for me is extra painful compared to some of y'all.

The docs seem really good if everything is cloud-hosted and really nonexistent if you're running it all on your own metal.

I'm thinking I'll build out my test stack with vagrant. I can use Dropbox or Keybase or something similar to store and sync my terraform state if I need to. Any other hints or helpful readings?

The folks that created Rails are looking to compete on email soon...

https://hey.com/

There's also more encrypted providers like https://protonmail.com/.

Any additional build details from you or Legogris?

Haven't considered using glusterfs but the rest of those pieces, absolutely.

Only piece I could find similar to the topic is https://www.mockingbirdconsulting.co.uk/blog/2019-01-05-hash....

+1 for regolith and the quality Slack community around it! Ken is awesome!

Nah, it's pretty bad.

Speaking of efficiency, Southwest in two airports now has managed to get a 17-minute late-check and an 18-minute late-check on the same plane that I also somehow miraculously got on (and was the last person if I remember correctly). Pure magic.

Counter-counterpoint, Toyota consolidated several offices in CA/KY/NY to one HQ to Plano, TX and brought about 2800 out of 4000 employees. It was a big disrupter to local housing prices, with massive swaths of land experiencing the maximum-by-law 10%-yearly property tax increases.

(Source: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2018/07/...)

I don't know if there's any easy generalizations to suss out. Probably every case will be very specific to the work being done, the environment it's done in, and the people it's done by.

The optimal solution doesn't work because it's not actually optimal outside of a laboratory environment, hence no airline does it.

If you have a legitimate reason to get off so fast that you can't wait, convince a flight attendant. They're great at helping you.

Otherwise, I suggest maybe buying your own plane.

^ This. The most chaotic part of the whole process is finding your number in the line-up to scan your boarding pass. They also set your expectations on seat-finding as you board, so if the plane is half empty or full up, you'll be able to make a good seat choice.

While the other airlines are announcing the 15th class of partner airlines rewards members being able to board and everybody's standing around watching, Southwest is loading planes.

Scrolling through a few, the title of this one caught my eye:

University of Notice of Data Breach to Consumers

https://ago.vermont.gov/blog/2019/10/02/university-of-notice...

My understanding is that control of your own body is through your mental model of your body, not directly asking individual muscles to contract. (This is why people get phantom limb issues after amputation.)

In that context, I think it makes sense to include body in the list of things not under your control (you can only control the actions you ask your body to do, not what your body actually does or the per-muscle detail of how it does it).

Not certain, but I think most of the time, rent will be under the amount/volume threshold for KYC requirements.

I have to respectfully disagree on the "well-functioning" adjective attached to their linux container system. Comparing Windows 10 WSL Ubuntu (default), Termux on a Pixel phone, and Debian (default) on a Pixel Slate... the slate is the worst. It renders text worse than the pixel phone and has about as much runtime capability as Termux on Android. Windows 10 WSL2 is going to be even better.

Every OS can be treated like cattle now. Games are in the cloud (Steam), package managers exist for every OS (homebrew, linuxbrew, chocolate) and installed-software manifests can be backed up to GitHub. It took Google years to add basic backup to its Linux system, and if you've customized the text settings for the console then ChromeOS is still not like cattle and you will have more setup to do.

(Termux is a phenomenal project. So glad it exists.)

Yes

This is why, when possible, it's best to push the cost and timing of commuting onto the person or company requiring the commute. Some professions classify commuting time as working time, but not all (nor is there a legal requirement for it).

For a lot of companies, there's really no need for long-term fixed colocation, but the economy allows for it since they don't have to account for most of the externalities and 3rd+ degree costs associated with new buildings in ecosystems, construction long-term impacts, or even something as simple for the carbon output of making concrete, all the while reaping the rewards of employees working extra for free in a tightly-controlled environment. And when they inevitably move, there's no legal requirement to pay employees for relocation either. Additional corporate costs anywhere in this ecosystem would probably result in dramatic changes and even more work-from-home opportunities.

Innovative remote-first companies are using the savings to only temporarily colocate their employees in interesting and rewarding ways for all (like all-hands meetups), plus reaping the benefits of naturally-increased written communications, creating a win-win situation for all from what I can tell.

Put another way... the logistics/efficiencies/costs of everything is very different for those involved when individuals have to transport groceries to home (via cars, public transit, assistants, etc) vs a company like Amazon that connects warehousing, grocers, and delivery. Big box stores full of employees without a shred of product knowledge make less sense if people are no longer commuting by personal transport for basic goods because it's cheaper and easier to tap into a delivery network for the same thing. The years when oil was super expensive, economists noted how much less people were shopping (before online shopping was ubiquitous).

It's already been uneconomical for a while now for most businesses to host the same bits their employees flip and/or related software in the same place as the employees (doesn't matter if you're writing software or ticking order-completed boxes after attaching printed shipping labels). The world is inherently more decentralized today than decades prior.

I did an image search on a few search engines to make sure "on off switch" still returned the same ⏽/⭘ switches I've seen forever. Pretty sure the back of your printer probably has one.

Where are these switches uncommon? Where are they flipped to the opposite meaning as you described? Where has the circle ever represented a connected circuit? Most circuit diagrams are squared off, so which one was circular? I'm so confused.

I mostly shared the Wired author's experience, but theming is what made me switch to DDG everywhere!

If you've themed your whole OS, terminal, text editor, etc to your favorite theme (solarized, nord, etc), then DDG is the search engine for you.

Solarized Dark Dark Go, for example... https://start.duckduckgo.com/?kae=%23073642&kj=%23073642++&k...

Would_you_like_to_know_more.gif?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier

(I found this mildly interesting!)

It's definitely public, but it might not have an easy-to-use online portal. I bet a FOIA request or similar offline method would get the whole set.

(Source: https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/for-voters/voter-registr...)

Political party affiliations are set during voter registration, which in some states can occur at the same time as getting a driver's license. (Setting a party affiliation gets you a ballot for that party's primaries.) So it'd all be in the same DMV form and the end result is a drivers license and registered voter. Party affiliation is generally public information (search for it).

On top of using Firefox as my default browser everywhere because I want to see it have more than the 5% user share mentioned at the end of the article, I've additionally replaced Chrome itself with Brave when I need Chromium rendering. I have no idea if BAT coins will be a thing, but the idea is neat (and relevant to your comment) and the care towards privacy plus the ability to turn all the BAT stuff off is satisfactory.

More broadly, though, I agree with your comment and think there are additional unlisted problems.

I pay for Ars Technica because they offer an amazing cross-format (HTML, RSS, PDF, etc) clean browsing experience for paying customers plus sent a branded Yubikey plus had clear online cancel buttons instead of hoops like other publishers. In my personal utopia, every news site would be served in this cross-format ad-free fashion.

I honestly wish they'd send a new branded Yubikey every year so I'd always have an important branded physical reminder of their existence as its the best and most useful tschotske I've received as a thank-you-for-subscribing gift (and probably likely so for others in the HN crowd).

Ars Technica is one of the few sites I regularly visit directly (just like I visit hckrnews.com to often and directly). Just like here on HN, I directly visit for the content curation and occasional comment (both of which is better than social media algorithms).

Which lead me to the consideration of a third problem...

3) Users try before the buy. You can only begin the process of receiving money after they've read enough content.

I'm surprised I haven't seen more cryptocurrency-based $1/week type subscriptions to unlock the content/features/etc for a week at a time (or perhaps forever, if a user sent enough cryptocurrency).

Your DNS (lots of threads/comments on HN, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317).

tl;dr: Don't use 1.1.1.1

I'd like a locally-hosted IFTTT+Appium type thing that'd use my local hardware/software/applications in place of myself... basically turning all interactions (viewing data, posting data, checking for updates/changes) into an API for accessibility software, home automation software, custom notifications, etc.

I'm surprised that FB after all these years hasn't offered something as simple as a paid upgrade for removing ads and maybe better photo storage or something.

Maybe that lack of long-term feature is endemic to the capitalist system/environment, because decade-long growth usually isn't allowed to sacrifice short-term growth. I couldn't imagine a private company like Valve Software making the same decisions.