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So after those sessions became routine, I increased to 15 minutes, then 3x per week, then changed from time-based to distance-based, etc. etc. Every time I pushed the boundary and saw myself not doing it anymore, I went back.
Most people would still describe me as sedentary, but I'm already much better than what I was earlier.
In fact, my whole house has this problem: lots of rooms don't have light at the ceiling so I have to keep using these floor lamps that never seem to solve the problem for real, but if I want to add lamps at the ceilings I'll have to break drywalls and repaint everything, so I'm on an never-ending quest to improve lighting at my home.
And yes, I do have Signal installed, and there are only 2 people who talk to me through it (one being my partner).
Phone carriers got too greedy charging for every single SMS message and phone call, WhatsApp took over when smartphones became popular.
For example, I "delegate" tax preparation to an accountant, but the amount of time I spend giving them the information they need and answering their questions is probably 70% of the amount of time I would spent filling the tax myself. If my situation wasn't so complicated, I would deal with it myself (I hire them for the risk mitigation regarding my incompetence, not for saving time).
To me, Xbox is that video-game you get when you ask for a Playstation and your parents don't understand video-games. Their versioning scheme even helps make sure the parents fail to purchase the latest generation.
C is still highly used for low-level system software development: OS stuff like drivers, libraries, compilers, databases, software that runs in specialized small hardware, etc. C++ is for those slightly-higher abstractions that still require a lot of performance, like video-games and some of the former. Some stuff is getting very slowly replaced by Rust, but it will still take a long time for Rust to corrode the C/C++ market share in the lowest level stuff.
(I mean, I don't do it only because of these reasons, I'm a true believer of Open Source, I believe it is the more superior development model for a more civilized age, but it's kinda hard to argue against a paycheck)
The foreign corporation will always be exclusively interested in doing things to me that generate revenue for them.
Man, I love and use Debian, but the thing I hate the most about it are these ancient email-based bug-reporting systems and package trackers, like the ones linked in your message. This shit is ancient, and horrible. Some time ago I reported a Debian bug using a HOWTO (what other distro requires a HOWTO in order to report a bug?) and absolutely lost track of it after my report was submitted: I could just never find my report again. I just gave up reporting Debian bugs. These ancient systems are definitely barring me from making contributions to the Debian project.
The Herculean efforts made by the Asahi community are absolutely incredible and something I thought would not be achievable without support from Apple. I am grateful for their work and their example should definitely be a case to be studied. Not only their work benefited people using their hardware, some of their advancements (e.g., their work in Rust) benefit the ecosystem as a whole.
That said, I wouldn't buy hardware whose manufacturer does not officially support Linux. Unsupported hardware is absolutely not worth the trouble for me. I'll keep using the hardware manufactured by the company that has been responsible for ~10% of the Linux Kernel development over the last 15 years. I don't have to worry about my system not working due to bugs or regressions. Heck, I never even have graphics driver issues.
Also, I've been kinda expecting these Asahi people to eventually be picked by the Big Tech companies and thus stop their work on Asahi in order to prioritize the agendas of the people putting bread on their tables.
Good luck to all the people involved!
Stupid example: the person claims they know CSS, and you bring up the subject of aligning a div for the first time.
In the place I work for, when engineers are going to conduct technical interviews, the only preparation material they are given is the candidate's resume. So we try to ask questions based on their experience in the places they claimed to have worked for. It's not super hard to realize the job description in the resume is embellished once you start asking questions, but yes this is not fool-proof. Still, the best candidates will often have very interesting discussions about challenges they had in their previous jobs and be able to properly articulate what they did and why and how. If you're gonna lie, you better back it up very well.
Also, sometimes you see a red square around a piece, but it's not clear to me why. Is it present only when it is unprotected and an enemy piece is looking at it? That is kinda already too late, perhaps every unprotected piece could have the square around it.
And please give proper indication of what was the last move. I know most games will do this by coloring squares and you can't do this here, but having a way would be great, even if it was listing the move with chess notation below the board.
Also the pieces are a little weird to distinguish. I found myself trying to move Black's bishop twice.
Also, those colors are horrible to see. And it's really hard to see which piece the AI is moving each turn.
The vast vast vast majority of Kernel development (and, I would guess, low-level open source software development) is paid for by companies.
Here's an example. Scroll down to "Most active 6.13 employers". Unknown+None is not even 15%: https://lwn.net/Articles/1004998/
Something like that?
If you don't give the stuff to your kids, they get socially excluded.
The best we can do is to teach them how to use stuff in moderation. Show them how excessive usage can go bad: there are plenty of examples around, all the time.