funkaster

that is the definition of "no legal alternative"

I agree with you, but I'm also a die hard fan of Pixies. First time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit my first impression was "wow... that sounds like Nirvana trying to sound like Pixies", which later on Kurt Kobain also said[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit#Writin...

I think the part that's missing (besides the knowledge and understanding of the operation in the airspace) is enough (automatic) assistance that its manipulation can be done by someone with the sake skills that any GA pilot could have.

like most GA planes. Eventually you'll replace _almost_ everything in them :)

more than books and materials, I've found hard to find actual software that could be a good first step. I really miss BASIC and Hyper Card. The problem is that while you could still get your kids to code BASIC and play in actual hyper card, they don't represent the "state of the art". At the time, BASIC and HyperCard could get you really close to what was being offered over the counter as paid software.

Today, the barrier is so much higher, so while you could still get them to play in python (not ideal and really complex compared to BASIC) and maybe scratch, there's a really visible gap of what they can achieve without significant effort and steep learning curve.

I'm a bit more convinced that maybe going the route of scripted minecraft or roblox or even Horizon if you are into VR is probably the best way to get kids into programming.

depending on where you live and how much experience you have, it shouldn't be too hard to get a ~$200k (base comp) fully remote. $250k base comp sounds harder though. I'm a hiring manager at a FAANG and we're hiring a bunch of positions right now, remote is really taking off.

it seems you want something that's less CS (math) and more algorithms. I would highly recommend the classing TAOCP (https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html). If anything, your IQ bumps by 10 points just by putting the book in your shelf.

It's a really fun book, tons of exercises and never gets old.

this is the case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J353KH8/ - had to modify it a bit to fit the rockpro at the bottom, use an ethernet extension to connect the cable from the back and a hacky switch to turn it on. But it works now and it's pretty stable.

how are you measuring it?

I bought a rockpro64 and a NAS case with space for 4 drives, I added a 4xSATA PCIe card. Right now it's a 4x4TB ZFS setup that has been running as my own home storage for over a year continuously. Very happy with it.

I haven't found anything other than anecdotal accounts but I would love to see a study/more detailed article about Mother Dirt products[0] - I found them super interesting because of the different approach.

[0]: https://motherdirt.com/

exactly. Just use charles proxy (or mitmproxy) and ask it to drop packets/throttle the connection. No need to wait for starlink.

sounds like a fun project, but it shows empty on mobile (iOS) and desktop (Firefox). Also, having a search before a browser is a bit weird. I don't know what to search for, maybe if I could look at a few projects before I could have some ideas.

maybe you can start with the classic exercise of writing your own shell. That’s a great way to learn most of the fundamentals of systems programming (and usually the go-to exercise for that class on CS courses)

I have a local nas running zfs and owncloud. I backup my photos to owncloud and while not the same ui/ux, it’s pretty good to share with things with the family.

more info: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/05/11/apple-airtag-jai...

> From what I've heard, SM and V8 are both fairly painful to embed

Not sure what's the state now, but years (9?) ago I created the scripting layer for a very popular 2D open source game engine at the time. Had to do it twice: once with JavaScriptCore and the second time with Spidermonkey. Turns out that Spidermonkey was really not that hard to embed and I also ended up creating some nifty auto-generated bindings from the C++ code (using llvm) to Spidermonkey. The runtime to keep track of spidermonkey <> C++ objects was very lean. Overall I had a really good experience and if I had to today, I would probably start looking at Spidermonkey again.

so... is this PM+UXaaS? at least the initial part of a project, what you mention here as initial product design and creating user stories is what I would expect a PM to deliver (with the help of UX designer)

I have a rockpro64 with a 4xsata pcie card.

Interesting! recently I started self-hosting my personal repos using gogs (https://gogs.io/) it’s really lightweight, and I can evn run it in an arm64 box (the same one I use for my NAS).

If you’re looking for a more complete yet still lightweight alternative, give gogs a look.

how did you get such a nice render?

JRuby still seems like one of the best rubies around (I use it in all my side projects, and have advocated in the past its use at work).

I haven't closely followed the typing advances in ruby: I like what I see in RBS, but I'm not sure how to consolidate (mentally) Sorbet with that. Is the expectation that at some point they will converge? or keep on living as two completely different typing systems?

When looking at all HTTP headers, after so many years of probably doing the same, I realized that Referrer was misspelled. This wikipedia entry has some details on why, mostly attributable to the fact that ispell (?) did not recognize either word at the time.

Anyway, it's a fun fact of computer history :)

Relevant RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-10.13

Edit: added source RFC.

200k land (1 acre in Tahoe area), roughly below 2MM construction. 10% might be lowballing, prob it will end close to 15%.

We're just going now through the process of building a new house. Land is around 10% of the overall budget (and this is a really sought after area in CA).

We did a lot of research and we were initially thinking of prefab for our home, but we finally decided to go for full custom design. In the end, prefab can really make some costs more predictable, at the cost of some flexibility in the design. Cost-wise, it was almost the same (for our case) but construction would've been faster and more probably more controlled in terms of budget.

yup. Highly recommend it. It's really a good resource to learn the basics and more.

I'm Chilean. Chile doesn't have the best system by far, but the SII (IRS equivalent) has made a push to modernize for several years now. Filing taxes for 90% of the people is as easy as going to the website, check that everything is pre-filled correctly (and add anything that needs to be done manually, if for instance you didn't do electronic invoices). Submit. Takes about 10 min.

I've been living in the US for about 10 years now, I really wish we had a simpler system. Today, I just pay a tax consultant because I don't want this to be an extra thing in my head.

As long as your scripts have a valid shebang in text executables (pointing to a “classic” shell), you should be fine

+1 on notmuch. I use it at work and it works great, super easy to configure actions for all the automated emails I get daily and filter the ones that really matter.

I was really intrigued by the first screenshot, I thought "wow, looks promising". The next screenshots for the settings threw that promise out the window. That does not minimal at all.

I would like to see a minimalist email client with a nice simple UI but maybe text-based config? A crossover between TextMate and pine.

Edit: thanks to the comment below, I had to read the post twice to get that it was not a new app and just a reconfig of Mail.app duh...