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Recently bought a house with a beautiful backyard on a pond. I put a couple bird feeders up because I noticed a cardinal male and female occasionally hanging out on the lawn. Now my yard looks like a bird sanctuary! I love it.

My next step for a new age take on an old man hobby is to get some cameras hooked up to an NVR that can do object detection and point them right at the bird feeders so I can get a stream of recent visitors.

They make for nice little quiet home linux servers if you need more power than an RPi. A mac mini would be a good choice, too, but then you're stuck on macOS.

Demand isn’t as reduced as you might think - mortgage rates are trending a couple points under fed rates (I’m not exactly sure how but as someone who just purchased a house I can tell you that’s what I’m seeing). The house we bought we bid on it’s first day on the market - it had 4 other offers and ours only won because we went well over the asking price.

This is just a Midwest city suburb too, so it’s not a market like SF or anything like that.

Personal boycotts don't have to have a large impact or meaning outside of however you feel about them. They're just for you: you can decide to allow your principles affect your economic activity or you can default into the powerless assumption that it's not worth the effort.

I think it's a worthwhile exercise to ask yourself before you make a purchase somewhere that you feel OK with the ethical implications of your purchase - and I say this as someone who does compromise on my ethical positions constantly for convenience. It still matters.

The way I see it, if Deno only ever existed to push node to do better that in itself is a universal win for everyone.

I have the exact same problem/frustration and yet my wife consistently cooks the entire meal near or at the estimated cook time. Clearly I'm not as efficient as I think I am!

Google doesn’t really “lie” though, it gives you the source and allows you to make a decision about its authenticity instead of masking it.

I don't think so, I assume it's some more dated ML approach -- my point is moreso that it's not obvious that it's a good solution for this problem yet.

> Significantly economically impactful in some cases- obvious examples of call centers and first-line customer support.

Is it that obvious?

Yesterday I had a trivial but uncommon issue with my pharmacy. I reached out to them online - their chatbot was the only channel available. I tried, over the course of 20 minutes and 3 restarted sessions, to communicate an issue that a human would have been able to respond to in 30 seconds. Eventually I just gave up and got the prescription filled elsewhere.

No doubt this pharmacy saved money by cutting support staff. I just think it's easy to see these solutions and cost savings without bothering to look at how much of a frustrating experience it can be for a customer.

Exact same here. Coding a script for my miner to automatically hit the high value ore spots and detect if any PK was in the area (and recall to safety) was one of my first major programming achievements!

I recall making a similar comment to Raph Koster in a hacker news thread a few years ago. He didn't seem all that pleased about it, lol.

There are some truly prolific posters here -- some that are reknown in their industry/academic fields and some that are simply great engineers / great writers -- I definitely notice a few certain usernames when they post and have often thought I would love to see any time they posted. It's truly a treat when they show up in a comment thread and offer insider knowledge that you can't learn anywhere elsewhere. In my opinion, it's probably the one thing that makes HN a cut above any other social media experience on the internet.

As much as I'd love a feature to follow a person like that, I suspect many of these people are the types that probably would be less likely to participate if they knew people were following them and I want to respect that and their privacy. Instead I've tried to remember to always favorite comments that stand out to me which I periodically revisit because they are like little nuggets of wisdom that I can continuously relearn from.

Agreed, but I can’t help but think that this is just a poor man’s typings for languages that don’t directly provide them.

I found this indie game that I LOVED the artwork of a while ago: https://adamstrange.itch.io/viva-mortis

Seeing Knight Lore, it very clearly must have been the inspiration for Viva Mortis. How cool. Thanks for sharing.

er... whats #frozen?

I can tell you as someone in that age bracket I have never had more opportunities and a higher paying salary at any other point in my life than right now, without a doubt. Even in the current economic climate I had 3 interviews this week and I'm barely even looking.

I have definitely learned a lot too but it’s rarely from the knee-jerk first responses on tech posts.

> but I would not expect another boom cycle to materialize before global geopolitical stars align towards some sort of consensus of how tech is to be deployed and controlled

That's a really interesting statement. What do you think that could look like?

Are the alternatives still plentiful? I'm not sure that's true even now, and I doubt even moreso that will be true in the coming months.

Why do the support costs go to zero? I would think iPads would bring their own set of problems/hazards that laptops may not have.

You don't lose that much utility of git bisect unless your PR's are typically large.

One thing squash and merge does is make reverting trivial.

Microservices are usually a solution to an org. level scaling problem before a technical scaling problem*. It's easier to coordinate development resources around small codebases than it is larger ones. It's a human problem, not a technical one.

* Not always true of course

According to the Google Inactive Account support page, they aren't actually assuming the account, they're just getting access to the data. So, presumably, they'd just download the data and that would be it.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

(That's not to say there aren't other concerning reasons why that data may not be accessible.)

My gmail account has a deadman’s switch to grant full access to my next of kin.

If I had a gigabytes of photos of my grandparents or great grandparents I would spend hours pouring over them looking at what their life was like before I knew them. That would be such a neat keepsake.

If your `Foo` object has 60 potential character definitions... that sounds (smells) like it would be a code smell of something wrong upstream. Perhaps it's time to refactor the function.

Ignoring the 60 different character definitions isn't going to make the problem that you have 60 possible variants go away just because you didn't type it.

v-if and v-else are not native html attributes either. Control flow via HTML tags has always felt like a code smell and been a major turn off to me.

The killer feature that Facebook marketplace has is the fact that you can do some basic verification of the person you are selling or buying an item from.

It's usually a soupy mix of salesforce API integration work and wading through tons and tons of programmery-looking user interfaces.

It's not hard, but it requires an incredible amount of overhead to first understand various different salesforce specific concepts and then understand the various different broken workflows your company has adopted using those concepts.

The distinction between app and site is one that is done by the business for the business. Customers don't ask for web apps instead of web sites. You can absolutely serve a real estate investment dashboard as a webpage that serves customer needs, depending on what those needs are.

Maybe customers truly are served better by an app experience based on their needs, but all the times I've been involved in that discussion the impetus for moving to an SPA has more to do with internal business needs such cleaner division of code, improved click/ad tracking, third party javascript integrations, and often much more hand-wavey ones that never seem to play out as expected like the myth that SPA's are inherently faster than page loads.

Even in that model, it's the developer deciding what is an app and what is a site.

There's no inherent need for a real estate investment dashboard to act like an app instead of a plain old website. It might serve many of the developers needs, and maybe some of the customers, too - but such a feature could just as easily be served as a plain old webpage as it could a heavy front loaded application.

Depends on the airport. Cab services in some cities are very poor.