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Hey congrats! People will complain about the package being to small or trivial, but just keep on creating. We all start somewhere, and hooks are a fun thing to experiment with.

It's true that most folks probably would do their own implementation of this and the GPL license would be a non-starter for most projects, but if it suits your needs and you've learned something in the process, more power to you. :)

Sure, but let's face it, I don't think HP's top priority here is actually trying hard to make it small... :|

In my family we use Instant Ink and actually love it. We're on the largest plan (300 pages/mo). We spend less on ink now than we used to, and it is a huge relief to not have to make a late-night run to the big box store because the school project is due the next day and the stupid magenta has run out. The ink is always there, waiting to be swapped out, then you recycle the used cartridges when they're done. It's incredibly convenient for us, is a cost-savings, and I am reasonably okay with the fact that they know how many pages I print and the types of documents.

HOWEVER, I was recently looking at the bandwidth stats from my network switch, and was pretty shocked to see the printer has sent out several hundred megabytes of data back to HP over the past month. I knew it had to communicate with the mothership so they could charge me for my usage, but that should be a packet that says something like "User XYZ just printed 7 pages," which would reasonably be 5kb per job. I have no idea why hundreds of megs of data need to go out, and so I'm planning of on doing some DPI investigation the to set what on the world it feels like it needs to be sending.

What does one use a mainframe for these days? I'm assuming projects that require massive parellelism, like research projects or engineering modeling and computation?

For those of us with only exposure to PCs and commodity servers, I'd be interested to know who has encountered one in their day to day, and how that experience differed from the norm.

I'm wondering how the particular address bar change helps alleviate this though. As I've seen it implemented, the only subdomain they'll "elide" is www, so if it is google-secure-payments.google.via.net it will still show as such in the address bar, not as via.net. So I don't understand their reasoning in how this will help from a security standpoint.

I use Brave as my daily driver, but this trickled down into Brave as well this morning. I was confused for a minute what I had done with a subdomain on one of my sites, and then got very frustrated when I realized the Chromium team had put this back in place. A few #omnibox... tweaks later and I have it back, but it is certainly annoying.

I don't know if there's a catch there, but there are several high-yield savings accounts that will get you above 2% interest rates. Usually it's just due to the fact that they are online-only, no branches to go into. A few off the top of my head: American Express Personal Savings, Ally, ING...

Sure, but it’s still an interesting observation. Seems like it would merit further investigation to see if there was a related causal mechanism.

Most interesting is that interference began before the earthquakes hit. Is that already a datapoint that is being used in earthquake predictions?

SimCopter was one of the most underappreciated Sims ever! Especially fun was loading up the cities you built in SimCity and flying around them in SimCopter. Oh man, good times.

The --mask is probably a CSS variable.

Having only ever seen one major outage event in person (at a financial institution that hadn't yet come up with an incident response plan; cue three days of madness), I would love to be a fly on the wall at Google or other well-established engineering orgs when something like this goes down.

I'd love to see the red binders come down off the shelf, people organize into incident response groups, and watch as a root cause is accurately determined and a fix out in place.

I know it's probably more chaos than art, but I think there would be a lot to learn by seeing it executed well.

Does the webRequest API deprecation also impact Chromium, and therefore Brave as well? Brave seems like it's willing to backfill in changes to Chromium, but I'm wondering how this impacts the browser overall.

I use Brave as my daily driver (with Shields Up and uBlock Origin), but I'm not sure what the actual impact will be when it comes.

So let's talk alternatives. EcoBee? Honeywell?

What's the suggested alternate device and route for those of us that like a little control, like having other services that can integrate, and don't want to be yanked around by shutdowns?

Same. Name resolution is failing but intermittently, changing from second to second whether it resolves or not.

Actually, this was tangentially addressed. It specifically mentions the fact that we are getting less bright light exposure today due to our increasingly indoor habits (versus historical contexts where humans typically worked outside more), as well as the decrease in physical activity due to the changing nature of work as well. Furthermore, it specifically highlighted the disconnect between physical labor and reward (it called it "effort-based rewards"), or in very crude terms, we run to run these days, instead of running to catch our meal.

There's certainly a good deal more to the topic you brought up as a whole, but those were a couple of interesting points from the article that I thought it addressed.

Branding.

Remember the iconic dancing shadow iPod commercials? The person was not the focus; not even the iPod was the focus. The white headphones, unique at the time, were the focus.

From the looks of the Twitter thread pointed out by @ 0xDEFC0DE, looks like the ransonmware was spread by Active Directory group policies, probably by organized crime, as opposed to a random drive-by download infiltrating an entire organization.

Nice, I was just looking at this very topic today.

Note that with `itertuples()` you can also access the values by column name as well, so in your example you can also do `namedTuple.Name` or `namedTuple.Skill`.

I’d highly recommend the Refactoring UI book: https://refactoringui.com/book/

I’ve gained a ton from the principles laid out in it, and it’s geared more towards the non-designer (think: engineer) which is perfect.

Nicely done. I recently made a progress dashboard for myself that tracked my billable hours (I consult) for the week/month in a Google Sheet, and have it pulling the data automatically from Harvest, my time tracker.

Then I have the sheet automatically emailed to myself as a PDF each morning so I can keep track of where I'm at for the week based on my budgetary needs. It visually breaks down how close I am to achieving my goals, and shows on a per-expense basis how much I've filled up the meter for the week (think "The average citizen spends the first 3 months of the year working to pay for their healthcare" type of thing).

It's been a great tool for keeping myself on target, and automatically seeing it every day has been key to its success for me.

Of the $550 million, I wonder how much of it is in materials cost and how much of it is in penalties paid to renegotiate delivery dates for the affected customers.

Great war story with enough specifics to be learnable, thanks for sharing! Reflects my experience as well.

Very neat Tyler, love the attention to the non-VC funding space.

Besides the no equity position of Earnest, could you do a quick compare/contrast with TinySeed, of similar ilk and recency?

Does anyone know if Google uses GA data (in particular bounce rates, time-on-site, etc.) as signals in rankings? I've always wondered if the additional data gathered once a user clicks through from the SERP to the site was eventually factored in to the site's ranking. (For example, a faster site receiving better rankings.)

Awesome, thank you.

Great recommendation, thanks for sharing! I've just recently been getting into woodworking and have been getting my zen on with Chris Salomone's videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1V-DYqsaj764uBis9-UDug) which are also very educational and a bit nerdy. I love the pure educational aspect I'm seeing here in Matthias' videos.

Ha this is great! But it missed the most obvious use case.

I asked, "Should I charge more?" To which patio11bot did not reply with "Yes," but instead gave me some lovely prose about happiness not being dominated by my career [0]. True, but not what @patio11 would have said...

[0] https://imgur.com/a/Uzl3VId

Wasn't Tesla also working on an option where you would drive up to a special dock, and it would extract the battery pack entirely from the bottom of your vehicle and swap in a new, fully-charged one? That seems like a more proper method for long trips and very cool (probably faster than filling up gas!) but I'm not sure if it's a reality yet.

Ah wow, I had always wondered what magic was behind this feature! Had no idea there was a spec about it, that makes tons of sense.