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Very coincidental with this post as I just started looking into creating a home server for the first time and decided that mini PCs were sufficient for my use case (originally was going with Small Form Factor).

Just bought a Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro from this website for <300AUD. I heard they were pretty decent for used PCs. The price difference isn't too far off from the USD equivalent here.

I also have mine on Pentosan which did have a noticeable difference for him so that's great. You could possibly talk to your vet about this, it's significantly cheaper than Beransa (110AUD/month) and for my dog it's biannual with a booster shot in between

I actually (anecdotally) heard a similar issue with Pentosan that it stops working after 12-24 months due to the immune system so you have to "time it" at an appropriate time in a dog's life. To be blunt, by appropriate I mean you'd want to start using it 12-24 before the dog is expected to pass and not at the first sign of osteoarthritis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentosan_polysulfate#Dogs

That's great that it works for him

On the bright side, I also have mine on Pentosan which did have a noticeable difference for him so that's great

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentosan_polysulfate#Dogs

Interesting - this looks like Beransa[1] (Librela) which is a monthly injection for canines that have osteoarthritis. My dog did not have any noticeable changes to pain after using this for 2 months so I've decided to take him off of it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedinvetmab

I'd also like to highlight another bad practice by Ticketmaster.

When you purchase a ticket from them and resell it on their marketplace, once someone purchases it, they(Ticketmaster) hold your funds and only give you the money ~7-14 business days after the event is over. They say this is to verify the validity of the ticket.

On the buyer side, you purchase the ticket from the marketplace and it gets added to your account immediately. (I think) You get the barcode some time ~1 week before the actual event begins.

The confusion for me? Ticketmaster owned the ticket and all logic relating to the validity of it. The logic to validate this shouldn't be complex at all. They OWN the ticket. They KNOW it's legitimate because it never left their database. Yet they double dip and hold both buyer and seller funds. Events can be close to a year in the future but the seller won't see that until after that event ends.

>When your mind is holding items in working memory, that means that it has less space to focus and execute effectively on the main task at hand.

>Just writing things down gives some resolution of that task/thought so that we can fully show up for our main thing.

Anecdotal but there was a time in my life not too long ago where I found myself stressed out because I had so many life admin tasks to do but would also have to remember not only the task, but what I had to do, when I could do it, how far along it was. I was unable to sleep properly and day to day tasks were being affected.

It sounds so bloody simple in hindsight, but simply writing them into a kanban style app removed a lot of this stress. Every time I remembered I had to do something new I would just add it to the board. I also have issues with starting these tasks so while it's never going to be finished, at least the tasks are there and not in my brain

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I vaguely recall they did this in Australia and solar panel installers just increased the price by the government rebate anyway so it didn't actually make it cheaper.

I listened to a Hidden Brain podcast recently which told me to try and think of the amount of time we have left with any experience like meeting our parents, visiting X place etc. and it's supposed to make you appreciate the situation more and not to sweat the small stuff.

What you've wrote about time with our parents is sad but in a beautiful way.

Hey just wanted to say that I really appreciate this comment and it's an opinion I haven't seen shared before even though in hindsight it's obvious.

I personally have chosen not to have kids - one reason is doomer level but the other is time and independence. I have a dog that is a relatively (to kids) minor responsibility but in my day to day life feels like the biggest responsibility, I compare that to having a kid which I would say is a lot more and I wouldn't want to take on as I've already experienced a dog and that is as far as I'd go. But while you haven't changed my mind, you have negated a lot of my feelings towards a previously thought "lifelong responsibility"

Last time I looked into this trying to get PiHole working on my TV, I found an article that said some TVs give you the option to override the DNS but on the code side it just completely ignored the manual DNS change.

I would if it was built well. There may be a bunch of companies offering something similar but without being in the industry I have to come to places like this to get real world anecdotes on whether it's reliable or not. That inherit distrust makes it hard to buy something like this - to differentiate between marketing and quality.

I like Apple TV. The one thing that consistently frustrates me is pressing the mic button at the wrong "screen" will take you out of your current app and bring you to the Apple TV+ search container. Yes, it's not hard to navigate back to where you were but it's quite simple to accidentally press the mic button at the wrong screen.

Yep I suffer from this too. From my perspective it's trying to "prove" that I at least did some work on my part to figure it out and if someone were to ask me a question I would hope they do the same. I don't want to come off as the person who didn't spend a small amount of time researching myself before using up other people's time.

But it's a double edged sword. I am not the most articulate person so sometimes the information ends up becoming more confusing for the reader which doesn't help either.

I've tried searching this and couldn't find anything related to microservices - what is the factoring problem or system that grugbrain is referring to?

Is it something to do with calculating the cost of splitting off a monolith into a microservice vs. some other method?

You just brought a random memory from uni where a small group of people wanted to get others interested in cybersecurity and did a weekly session on teaching others.. First meeting had a huge turnout and I expected future meetings to consist of learning through teaching us concepts with some practical tasks, except it became a session of just a few people talking to each other using security terminology that no one understood because it was meant to be introductory.

Yep and also doing a ctrl+b you can search your bookmarks from the sidebar too

I wish their scratch cards were available in Australia. Sounds easier than shipping money halfway across the word. I would just pay by card, threat level is not high enough to worry about that but their scratch card is a great idea. Must not be a popular enough option though, even a google search doesn't give you much information on them.

Isn't the business reason that they would rather acquire an existing mail app that is similar to what they had in mind rather than building a brand new one themselves?

Thanks for this. I'm not sure if it was unclear but I wanted to clarify that this entire day is dedicated for the entire dev team as a group and not individually which is why I wanted to do something more interactive as a group rather then have a multiple people present a topic.

The reason I say this is that my post reads like everyone gets the day off to individually learn and some of your suggestions reflect that.

1) I've never heard of these terms however the PSP sounds like something worth looking into, it helps people improve themselves on an individual level.

2) This sounds like more of an individual thing and I'll look into this in my own time

3) This looks like a good group task to introduce but it would mean having to think of relevant problems which may lean more to the "work" side of things, not sure how I could make this more engaging

4) This feels like something that needs to come from the business but unsure if this applies here, I'll need to read the link you posted to get a better understanding of how/if it fits into the purpose of this day

I'll look into 1 and 3 but at the end of the day I don't know if I'd be confident enough to read up on this and understand it to the point I'm able to lead the entire team on how to approach it. But you've introduced me to a lot of new things I've never heard of before and I'm keen to delve further so thanks

Similar to what the other commenter did, is this the same as SIYLI and this program https://www.mindfulnesscenter.tw/files/shares/2-Day_Program_...?

I would say that while I really like these sorts of exercises for us devs because it's underrated, I would expect these thing to be run by at least a Psychologist who has training understanding the background of why these things are good for us rather than a dev like myself who would just be reading from a book to explaining it to others without verifying it myself.

I didn't follow up with them on that. But the discussion was initially sparked because we were watching the news and the story was about how hard the farmers are doing due to the drought and were looking for government assistance.

I actually have a very specific story on this one from a friend.

In Australia, there's this stereotype of the "hard working Aussie battler farmer" and that we should all support our farmers. My friend's family business was one of these growing a type of nut. It was common for neighbouring farmers to make a good living selling their produce and using it for their own purposes and expect the government to bail them out with something like a tax break.

My friend's business wanted to prepare for water shortages and spent a huge amount of money setting up a dam or storage system of sorts. Lo and behold, a drought came some time after and they were prepared. A lot of other businesses did not prepare for this and instead spent it on other things. My friend mentioned to me that he has no sympathy for those types of people.

Disclaimer: This is a generic statement, I did not pry into the story and there could be a multitude of reasons why one didn't/couldn't prepare for such a thing