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They did not manually pilot the docking. They demonstrated manual piloting outside the 200m keepout sphere. This was a planned test but they wound up counting manual testing the problematic thrusters as that test.

The previous Starliner flight that actually docked with the ISS had two thrusters out as well so this was not totally unexpected.

We've spent a lot of the past 6 months cleaning out my inlaw's home. Her mom was a bit of a hoarder, mostly food. But half the garage and one bedroom were full of stuff from her father who passed away 15 years ago and her grandparents who have been gone for 40 and 25 years. Now we have almost an entire bedroom's space worth of that stuff in our home :(

I'm personally trying to get mine down to a single carload other than furniture or boardgames. Boardgames can be a single carload on their own.

Mixed, in my opinion. They've got some good stuff in Terminal and the Windows Subsystem for Linux plus Visual Studio Code if that's your thing. 90% of the time it can feel about like being on a native Linux or macOS. I think the Linux filesystem performance still lags though. They can have issues rendering fonts on high DPI displays at non-integer scales.

But they really shoot themselves in the foot with crap like constantly pushing the Edge browser, Bing, Copilot, etc. and forcing ads on the user.

It's annoying that the article (and many others) don't mention that the Snapdragon X Elite has 12 CPU cores (I believe all high-performance cores) vs. the M3's 8 CPU cores (4 performance, 4 efficiency). So it's not surprising that the Snapdragon wins at multi-core benchmarks. It is surprising if the Surface can really get that claimed battery life with those cores and a fan. It's only slightly heavier than the MacBook Air (2.96 vs 2.7 lbs) so there probably isn't much more battery in there.

These are going to be impressive machines and we'll all hopefully benefit from some more heated competition.

Returned many items through my UPS Store without needed to put it in a box or apply a label. Just walk in with the item, they scan the QR code and give me a receipt. Usually done in 30 seconds or less.

Meanwhile returns through Whole Foods are a shit show. They can't give me a receipt for the return. "Just wait here and make sure you get an email confirming the return." Amazon claimed they never got one of my returns despite me having that email receipt. Had to fight it three damn times before they stopped pulling back my refund.

Unfortunately they force me to use Whole Foods (or maybe some other worse options) for any return with a lithium battery in it.

Yeah it's Gurman, but it's sourced from a 2023 article that's just speculation and one patent. Apple files a lot of patents for things that never make it to market.

Says a post on Medium sigh.

Go find their Patreon or own site/store.

* for the first 10 years

Shrug maybe. In general I think you can get a decent front end webdev cheaper than a comparable iOS dev. Even as an iOS dev, I think most iOS apps should be mobile web first or instead. I've seen a few that are nearly abandoned for webapps.

I've pretty much made Debian my default, server or desktop.

Wow, was pyramid.com originally theirs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Technology

I always called it "being Tata'ed". I know multiple people that have had to train their direct replacement at TCS. The trick is, the companies subcontract whole functions to Tata who are then free to hire H1Bs that then aren't "direct replacements" for the former employee.

Source WSJ article: https://archive.is/TX53x

> And some 40 year old Director under him who has been waiting for a promotion to VP forever

As far as I know, that would be Ann Thai, product director for App Store and Apple Arcade.

I don't lug all of this day-to-day but keep it in a bag for hackathons, preso days, "can you fix my blah", etc.

HDMI to mini + micro HDMI, HDMI to/from DVI, Display Port to HDMI (would like to find a HDMI to DP), HDMI to HDMI coupler. Cheap HDMI to USB capture lets your laptop act as a monitor for a Pi or whatever. Composite/RCA to HDMI for old console games.

Of course "dongle town" of USB-C to almost everything like ethernet, DP, HDMI, VGA, USB-A, etc. (I also have Lightning and Mac/Thunderbolt 2 versions of some of those that I take to events as loaners.)

A little USB power meter (USB-C, USB-A and I think micro USB but never tried that) is damn handy.

I keep a little headphone case full of USB flash drives (mostly Sandisk Cruzer Fits) with different distros / installers / etc. including a couple installed Linux environments. I miss the really flat Verbatim ones.

Lighting and USB-C to 1/8" headphone (and a good old pair of wired earbuds with mic).

USB to 9-pin serial and even to 25-pin printer port.

I keep a couple Anker cables that are USB-A to combo USB-C/microUSB/Lightning with a USB-C to USB-A adapter. Slow but they always work.

Those adapters that adapt USB-C cables to fit USB-A ports can be hazardous if you end up creating a USB-A to USB-A cable.

I blame one for killing my RAVPower USB-C brick but otherwise it's worked for me.

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Nice. I was just thinking of building something like this last week lol

Yeah we use Meetup for probably 3-5 events a week at our makerspace. Their gradual decline has had us ready to stand up our own minimal replacement but Meetup.com is so good for discovery, SEO, etc.

Their API changes have been a big pain in the ass for us. Just let us pay for access to the older API and we'll gladly do it. Then they turned off RSS feeds and nobody can get any answer out of them about whether it was intentional.

I need to give Warp an honest try but it's still iTerm2 by default for me, with occasional launches of cool-retro-term or kitty, plus the VSCode terminal.

"By the end of 1984, Tandy was the largest UNIX systems vendor of their day"

My high school had I think the TRS-80 Model 16B with I thought 8-12 terminals attached. It was primarily used for a COBOL class, replacing a Burroughs mini and punch cards.

On the federal sentencing guidelines, the base offense level for that is 6 (0-6 months), which is way lower than the fraud's level would end up given the dollar amount.

I called someone I knew from college and asked if they were hiring. I think I interviewed the next day and started a week later. Turned out I had gone to college with the rest of the team too but only vaguely knew one of them and another's husband.

Second job, the same guy had moved on and let me know they were hiring. I'd already had lunch with him and his boss a couple of times so the interview was a formality.

My space used to get a lot more of the crypto hustles etc. but we've kind of squashed them somehow. Still plenty of startups looking for free help from our members.

We had to spell out "you can't live here" in our membership agreement / orientation. Just too many issues there. We've had a few vanlifers and some van builders but as long as they're not primarily living in the building or our parking lot we're good. We also got rid of the couch.

Top is maybe my old Dell 27" 4K Ultrasharp. Still nice and bright but lacks USB-C/Thunderbolt. Plenty of pixels for me and a good height range.

I tried lots of USB-C docks/dongles and finally gave in and got a decent lower-end Thunderbolt dock from Anker. No more juggling multiple cables to get 4K60. Single cable solution to dock my MacBook Pro and run pretty much anything.

It isn't currently in my office, but a cheap recumbent stationary bike has been a good help to knock out some cardio when I have a break.

Well top is really the M1 Pro MacBook Pro. Fast, silent and 95% of the time I don't even think about battery life. A big improvement over my 2019 i9 MBP.

Related, also maybe my 12.9" iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard cover. It's a 2018 with a dying battery but it makes a great book reader, video viewer, spare monitor, etc. With the keyboard case it's decent for writing or remote terminal work. It's become my "couch laptop" and what I throw in the car in case I get stuck waiting for something or someone.

I've got a cheap standing desk but meh - mostly sit at it but being able to change height even for sitting is nice. Cheap-ish Tempur-Pedic office chair works pretty well for me. Creative Pebble Pro speakers were a big improvement over my previous ones with analog input and a subwoofer I kept kicking. Anker C200 webcam and Audio-Technica ATR2100x-USB microphone were cheap upgrades for calls. A clamp-on cupholder that keeps my drink stable and away from possible spills onto my MacBook is a win. A few external SSDs for Time Machine etc.

Great when it works, but I had so many disconnects from my iPad that I gave in and bought a portable 14" 2K monitor instead :(

I bought a waterproof USB-C rechargeable headlamp after having to deal with a clogged gutter in a very heavy rainstorm. My non-sealed headlamps were useless and holding a sealed flashlight while up on a ladder sucked.

It's handy even when not on your head since you can angle it almost anywhere.

My gen 1's had so many issues with the earbuds having crackling and squealing when set to anything but no processing mode. Swapped them through support I think five times before the program expired.

Bought the gen 2 USB-C ones as soon as they got discounted and love them. The noise cancellation is noticeably improved. I'm mostly fine with the stock tips but do have some of the Comply foam tips which give a little tighter seal.

I got a case with a snap closure after having to crawl under the car multiple times to retrieve an earbud. I hate the bulk of it but beats the alternative. I used to keep an odd-sized wide rubber band around the case instead but lost it somewhere.

I'm a simple man. Node/Express with probably MariaDB and React. Maybe give Tailwind a spin. Same with next.js if I had the time.

Would prefer go on the backend but language switching when doing frontend at the same time is a bit of a pain.