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re: "mental imagery" (imagine yourself after the work has happened) - In my experience imagining myself after the work has happened is a net negative. Once I perform the act of imagining the task/project complete, I receive the dopamine reward of completing the project, and no longer have an interest in actually doing the work. I derive the most satisfaction in conquering a very complicated problem, and if I get it all figured out in my head, then I've got what I need out of it and doing all the actual implementation doesn't bring any new satisfaction to me, so I tend to then move on to the next complicated problem I can work through in my head. When I have a team of developers working for me, the project moves forward under their efforts and something really cool comes to fruition, but when I'm solo, the project stops once I've figured out the solution.

BTW - people are quick to preface with IANAL (109,000 google results), but I think it is equally important for people to start saying IANAP (I am not a psychiatrist, 633 google results). Offering armchair psychiatric advice seems like the risks are greater than armchair legal advice, because people's lives are on the line. See what /u/tamsaraas said in this thread, it is valuable. Time to normalize IANAP.

IANAP - but being exposed to all the discussion on HN about procrastination has helped me realize that I might suffer from executive dysfunction and have ADHD. But I'm seeking therapy to get a proper diagnosis and treatment for it. I appreciate people sharing their experiences, that is valuable, both for what they deal with and what works for them, but people should probably not try to fix themselves without professional help or tell other people what will fix them.

I see programming as coding, testing, and documenting. I'm not looking for an AI to do it for me.

But I would be interested in me picking 2 of those 3 for me to do, and the AI can do the third for me. So if I love coding and test writing but don't like documentation, then the AI can do the third leg for me.

I think that the quality of results from the AI would be much better than what Copilot is capable of. Even if I focussed on test writing and documentation, I think that the AI should be able to write decent code based on those two inputs.

My first job out of school was at a dot-com in Vegas in the year 2000 initially as the network administrator. Susan was the Director of Marketing. My first interaction with her was typical assisting someone with some issue or another, but I noticed her book shelf was full of very technical books, and it turned out she was a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert and I was just a simple MCP (I was new to Windows NT, my background was in Netware). I was about 22 and she was about 40, and it was very intimidating at the time, especially after I learned she was Susan Thunder.

While the company was downsizing (dot-com bust) the CTO told me to batten down the hatches while Susan was being laid off. I told him that I'm fairly confident she knows more about NT than I do and that I didn't think I could do enough to secure things, so we more or less shut things down for the night.

I sort of remember the whole company being scared of her in general. I don't know why though, she was always very nice to me and seemed pleasant in general. It was an overreaction to shut down the network that night, Susan never attempted revenge. In hindsight, she was probably an adult that understood that companies fail and it wasn't personal.

Interesting. In this example where the parent comment discusses using a proxy from AWS to Linode/Hetzner to Cloudflare, then I'd go with someone in the Bandwidth Alliance, which would include Linode and Vultr.

If you're going to have an intermediary proxy that you run, for AWS perhaps use Lightsail. It is price competitive, and includes more bandwidth than Linode/DigitalOcean/Vultr for the price.

I'm okay with the $72/user/year price, I think that is fair for what is included. But I have 147 users on my family domain account, and it would be a nightmare for me to individually bill all of them to share the expense.

I can't see this being less than a 60 hour project for me to deal with in total, so the main thing I'm upset about is what I perceive to be a short amount of time to deal with.

So far my best bet looks like signing up as a Fastmail reseller so that users can be directly billed by Fastmail. My preference would be to stay with Google because of all the issues I think I might run into by migrating off of it (mostly related to using it for authentication for other services, which is a practice I no longer do, but did for some time).

If Google would allow each user to pay separately for what they need, then that would be an easy decision for me, because I want to stay, but I don't want to pitch 146 other Wikman's to pay me to pay Google.

Does anyone know of an email provider that will handle billing the users directly?

Shared pain as the rest, have been hosting email for people with the same last name since 1998, and migrated to G Suite for Your Domain in 2006, and they graciously increased the max users for the free account, and I have 147 users (almost all are active). From 1998-2006 I ran the email server, and it was a pain to deal with issues and complaints (mostly poor spam filtering). I can't go back to that, and I can't afford $10,584 a year to offer free email.

I've researched some other paid options, but my biggest issue is that I just can't deal with invoicing and collecting money from 140+ people. What I really need is an email host that will direct bill all the users. I don't mind paying for email as a service, I just need someone else to deal with all the money stuff from the other users.

For others assistance in research if you will be paying the bill for the full domain, here are some options I looked at: Google Workplace - $72/year/user - advantage being no impact on users Microsoft 365 - $60/year/user - less expensive, probably equal in quality to Google Fastmail - $50/year/user - cheaper still, great reputation Rackspace - $36/year/user - cheaper still, not best reputation Namecheap - $11/year/user - most likely a get what you pay for situation

Honestly I think email is worth $72/year, and I would go that route if Google would bill each user directly.

I've had the opportunity to work on two short productions for ESPN in the last two years. My role is writing the code for the screen overlays and real time scoring system.

I have very little knowledge in cameras but did have to review all the production guidelines.

Netflix doesn't mention image sensor size (CCD) but ESPN requires 2/3" or more. I'm guessing every camera they list as approved would meet that spec even though they don't specify it.

At the time I was surprised to learn that ESPN wants you to deliver all content in 720p. Wikipedia says that their Digital Center is equipped for 2160p, but they still broadcast in 720p. The archivist in me would want to receive the material greater than 720p even knowing it is to be broadcast in 720p, but I can understand the additional complexity that such a small thing can add, especially when dealing with hundreds of production companies.

I speculate that Netflix wants you to turn in higher quality video because they are factoring in that over time encoding and streaming algorithms and increased bandwidth will allow them to push higher quality feeds to end users, and they want the highest possible raw capture so they can improve the stream as technology improves, whereas ABC is content with airing footage in the future that looks as it did when it aired originally.

Is this a test to see if I clicked on this post?

I once ordered a large number of Compaq computers all identical for a credit union in Houston and found an esoteric combination of a specific hard drive firmware with a specific network card firmware that caused the machine to do very strange things when using an expensive piece of software (Hummingbird) to add a protocol to allow Windows 3.1 to be able to communicate with an IBM AS/400 to replace dumb terminals with terminal emulation on Windows. My memory may not be correct about everything I just said, but close enough. The point is that not every identical machine came with an identical hard drive or network card, but all considered comparable enough for Compaq to ship them to fulfill the order.

I was incredibly impressed at the speed that Compaq escalated the issue from a first line support person to having a couple engineers drive out to the credit union to see it with their own eyes to determine a fix (I had no pull or special access, and we're only talking 150 computers). It was convenient that this happened in Houston so the engineers were in close proximity.

This article makes me skeptical that HP would handle it the same way today that Compaq did at the time based on HPE's response to STH. I hate the buying process with both Dell and HP, but they are the brands I buy from when it is a server or workstation, because I love the build quality for both brands on their enterprise servers and high end workstations. I've never owned a consumer device from either brand, but I would not have the same expectations on a consumer device from them.

Tip for anyone else planning on doing a conversion, milesvp mentioned in a thread a few months ago that other parts of the bike may likely need to be upgraded as well (brakes, suspension, ect): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28270121

I'm on Google Fiber, with the provided Google Wifi router, using a Google Pixelbook running Chrome OS, and cannot access google.com via IPv6 (or any other site for that matter).

s/ already exists: Mighty [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957215] which is $30-50 a month for remote session to Chrome running on a very powerful Ubuntu system.

Looks like RemoteHQ launched something called Remote Browser as well, which is a SaaS browser, but more for collaborative purposes with more than one person using the same browser at the same time.

I've done no work to diagnose where the failure is, but I have Google Fiber, with the supplied Google Wifi device, am on my Google Pixelbook running Google's Chrome OS, and I cannot access Google via IPv6. I don't think I could have a more streamlined setup where Google has full control from end to end to make IPv6 a reality. I can find blog posts by Google talking about the importance of IPv6 adoption, and yet I can't access ipv6.google.com.

more specifically the executable part contains the logic to decompress the remainder of the file, while still allowing a decompression program to be able to open and decompress the file (ignoring the executable portion of that file).

>deferred revenue to Tesla, and is reported as a liability on the balance sheet

if it is a liability on their books, then i would agree with OP that it is an interest free loan.

This is an awful amount of weight to be moved. But one thing it has going is that all of the weight is on a vessel that is designed to float. We have canal locks that can lift ships this size.

So my crazy idea is to build a reverse cofferdam around the ship with Larssen steel pilings and pump water into it until the ship floats and straighten the ship and remove the pilings.

ABIA is the abbreviation/acronym of the proper name of Austin's airport, Austin–Bergstrom International Airport, but the IATA code actually is AUS. When I search for a flight, I use AUS as the search term, when I search for the airport on Google Maps I use ABIA, and when I send an informal email and abbreviate Austin is write ATX.

The previous Austin airport (Mueller, closed 1999, now a planned community) also had an IATA code of AUS. They did a single day cutover from the old to new airport, so they were never both in commercial use at the same time (Bergstrom was an Air Force base for similar years as Mueller).

they did, if you click on the link in the post you replied to, you'll see it is a link to their post from today about the outage.

the main difference is that you can't have pages 4 and 5 side by side with the proposed method, since they are back to back on the same sheet.

edit: thih9 linked to the hn post on byorgey original blog post in 2016 and the highest comment by audeyisaacs suggests the same thing you did and got a reply from byorgey who liked the idea and added it to their blog, and outlined the pro's and con's of your suggestion.

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/how-to-print-things/

welp, I did not know that you could get the raw version. Thanks for the tip! It sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25312677

it is interesting that the archive.org version of this press release has a semi-colon after AT&T;

i can't remember if in 1995 we would write the code to be AT&T or if that came a bit later.

perhaps the scraper thought it was an HTML entity starting with the & followed by the T and it added the semi-colon.

or maybe it originally was posted in 1995 without the semi-colon and before it got indexed in 2002 by archive.org someone ran a regex style replacement on old static html files at netscape to "fix" html entities.

it just doesn't seem likely that a static html file from 1995 would have had AT&T; in it, it seems more likely that it was transformed either by the scraper or some internal script run after it was originally posted.

i found an old email version of the press release on Lunds University website that does not have the semi-colon. http://www2.ldc.lu.se/temadag95/javascript.txt

and what looks like an archive of the 1995 version of the java website hosted at University of Oviedo: http://www6.uniovi.es/java-http/pr951204-03.html

i do think it is fair if it is a free service for there to be some limit for how long the data is stored. my question is, do they also delete any related metadata that they use to improve their targeted advertising in reference to me?

sadly my google takeout never completes. i try about once a year to see if whatever the issue is has resolved itself for maybe the last 6-8 years. i can get some services to takeout if i go one by one, but not the data i really care about.

if this is in the USA, it is most likely an "unclaimed property" law of their state. it isn't so much a name and shame, the company likely followed the state's policy and sent a notice to determine if the property should move to the state. but you can always file a claim for that and have the property returned. most states have a free website to search if you have any unclaimed property that the state is holding on your behalf, and then you get to fill out paperwork. i just searched for myself and I have about $80 from State Farm from 2001 and about $30 from Google from 2014. i know the state farm was a premium refund after i moved out of state and i guess they were not able to find me (although i was still with state farm in the other state, but i'm guessing in 2001 that wasn't easy for them to cross reference and possibly state farm is legally a different company in each state). no idea what the source of the Google money was, and also baffling why they couldn't find me as i've been an active customer since way before then, but also likely a scenario where one division doesn't talk to another and they still have to comply with the law.

Does Apple have a "Release to Manufacturing" phase in their release schedule before the product is GA? A time for all their software and hardware partners to fully vet their product against the gold master.

I'm about to buy the first license for Windows in the past decade specifically because I believe that OBS runs better on Windows and want to switch my next broadcast to be OBS on Windows instead of OBS on Linux. To be clear, OBS has run amazing on Linux, but there appears to be more mature high quality 3rd party plugins for Windows. The fact that OBS works so well on Windows and Linux is amazing to me, and a ton of respect for the team to make that happen. But with empirical evidence that both you and I are paying Microsoft for an improved OBS experience is a good enough reason that Microsoft should also financially sponsor OBS.

It sounds similar to "selective sync" offered by Resilio Sync, which works on Win/Mac/Linux. I don't know how it is implemented though.

NPR has done a couple series on how dollar stores (Dollar General/Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, just search "NPR dollar general" to see the content) can setup shop directly next door to a traditional grocery store and erode the traditional grocery store out of business. Reason being - dollar stores sell only the high margin items for low prices, whereas the grocery store has the expectation that they will provide all the staples people need, even the super low-margin items like lettuce. Once a grocery store loses the competition on the high margin items, they can no longer subsidize selling the low margin items and go out of business. A real (and growing) problem in many communities.