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It’s the right idea but it also puts the burden of enforcement on teachers that are already over extended, especially in schools where behavioral challenges are more prevalent. Great in a scenario where students are compliant, and a nightmare in environments where they’re not.

I don’t have a solution to that problem, but I also think it’s important to acknowledge it’s not all sunshine and roses.

I’m saying this as a person with close friends in Oregon school systems, based on the experiences they’ve shared with me.

You are mistaken, the source is available and the editor is free to download.

I’d never heard of this! What a great tool.

I think leasing is more common.

You might need to meet more women

I’ve been using caddy, very easy to set up reverse proxies, and it generates a local root CA you can install on your machines at home so you get SSL for free. Nothing you couldn’t also rig with nginx, I just enjoyed the simplicity

I’ve got pihole running so that’s my home dns server, I have custom domains with a home-only TLD (I think “.internal” is cleared for use now?). So something like https://plex.homecloud.internal can load up plex, I can only assume jellyfin could do the same.

I’ve actually been using ZeroTier instead of tailscale for external access and I’ve been very happy with it, but I know lots of people love tailscale and I’m sure it’s great too

They’re definitely not totally different, it’s still programming. I’m competent in both and have occupied both roles in my career, but more importantly I’ve worked with people much better than me in both areas :) They were more similar than they were different.

I do agree with you that there are skills specific to each layer of the stack and they don’t all cross apply. You definitely don’t get to be good at backend and then magically be a strong frontend engineer! But I think a good backend engineer has a bright future as a good frontend engineer and vice versa, should they choose to pursue a different branch of our discipline.

This made me grin and I love that it did. Sometimes our profession can be a little short on whimsy and I think projects like this are actually really important! I’m looking forward to using this :)

Most of them are OSS so you could make a real impact if you spearheaded this! Some buy-in on some sort of standardized install process from the top projects could go a long way if you decide to pursue.

I’ve had enough success with using docker images (lots of projects provide them) that I don’t feel the pain acutely, but there certainly is some bespoke fiddling with every one. To me that’s part of the self-hosting experience, but I know plenty of people that don’t self host because of it, can’t blame them.

I do something similar and I use Hammerspoon (with kitty in my case). It’s a hell of a tool!

Advent of Code is fun, I like having fun! I have no shortage of challenges and things to be proud of, but when I’m old I don’t want to look back and realize I didn’t take the time to find little moments of joy along the way.

Everyone’s different, and it sounds like AoC isn’t for you, but remember not everyone is you :)

There are themes now and a UI to install them, I also didn’t like the washed out colors.

Same, best digital product I’ve spent money on in a long time. It’s an improvement over Google, and well worth the price.

I’ve been using Kagi full time and I like it a lot. It’s been worth the price.

I expected to like lenses and favoring/blocking specific domains. What I didn’t expect was how much their “Quick Answer” would change how I search.

I’ve been “AI hesitant”, in general the chance that an LLM will hallucinate makes these kinds of tools more trouble than they’re worth for me personally. In Kagi’s case, though, the individual facts it states in the quick answers have citations linking to the site it drew that information from.

Here’s what I’ve found:

- it’s been accurate most of the time, but not 100% (as expected)

- citations are pretty accurate most of the time

- every so often the citation links to a page that seemingly doesn’t back the claim in the quick answer

Unsurprisingly, I don’t trust the AI generated quick answer in isolation, what it does do is let me scan a few paragraphs, find the one that answers my question most specifically, and visit the sites it links to as citations for that piece of the answer. This saves me the time of clicking through the top $N results and scanning each page to find the one that seems to answer my query most directly. It’s like a layer on top of the page rank.

I remember using Google the first time and being impressed how the top answers were so much more relevant than Yahoo, it was a huge time saver. Now I find myself wondering if the “quick answer” citations will prove to be a similar jump in accelerating my ability to find the right web page.

It also makes me wonder if their own page rank algorithm could incorporate the quick answer output as an input to a site’s rank? That would be an interesting experiment!

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Agreed, it’s been so easy to onboard people onto Elixir we’ve just looked for raw talent knowing they’d be up on Elixir quickly.

As long as you have one experienced elixir engineer to guide the people learning I think it’s easy to move fast.

Great question, check out Erlang’s “Observer”, it’s incredibly powerful, one of my favorite parts of the BEAM :)

Graduated in ‘09, things were still chaotic post-crash, but I did find work in the end.

I joined a small local company, they had a codebase dating back to the 90s and they’d succeeded in becoming the dominant solution in a niche space. It was a far cry from the nifty places I read about on hacker news.

It wasn’t flashy, weird proprietary tooling, ancient version of .NET, little to no version control, no testing infrastructure, but man I learned so much. I was fresh out of school, everything was a learning experience!

I think it’s easy to forget that these stable, smaller, more “humble” options exist out there and they’re not necessarily slashing massive proportions of their staff.

I got curious too and I think so, if this is correct she used that name prior to her transition:

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00837/digital-minist...

This site is about finding specific exercises for specific muscles though, and I think it works really well for that, I’ve used it off and on for years.

There are plenty of reasons an individual may be looking for exercises to hit a specific muscle. I agree compound lifts are great for people interested in pursuing general fitness but there are plenty of people who can benefit from this.

I’ve used it because I needed to strengthen specific muscles after injuries or to protect from re-injury and wanted to explore options. I’ve also used it to mix up lifting routines by having multiple exercises I can rotate through that hit the same muscles. Clearly I’m a fan :)

Just like being in the gym, it’s important not to judge how others are working on their bodies^. You never know the story behind why someone is doing what they do.

^unless they’re putting themselves in honest to god danger of course!

I’ve also found myself drifting away from Buddhism but I’ve been really excited to discover Taoism and the Taoist roots of Zen, which I think are often overlooked. As I’ve explored Taoism more I’ve found it contains many of the things I found wonderful about Zen Buddhism and far fewer of things that didn’t work for me. If you’re curious I suggest exploring it!

Some resources I liked: Alan Watt’s book on Zen Buddhism talks a bit about Taoism in the beginning since it’s an important foundational aspect of zen.

The Tao Te Ching translation by red pine, which pairs each verse with a sampling of interpretations for various scholars. It’s been a fantastic way to learn, by far my favorite translation.

That’s cool, what kinds of things helped you learn this? I bet those things would be really valuable to a lot of people if you felt like sharing.

Is your iPhone on silent? I had to switch it on to hear the audio.

Do you have a sense of what specific anxiety you feel? Maybe not (and that’s ok) but to me that’s the more interesting question.

I could imagine fears about job security, maybe some sense of falling behind? A simple fear missing of missing out on all the fun in specific sub-fields?

We have such a large field in general, I don’t think anyone can know it all, but that can be something to celebrate too. Never a dull moment :)

As far as I’m aware the verdict is still out on the long term effects so I’m not sure “temporary” is accurate.

The fact that it seemed to be impacting women’s menstrual cycles in my city makes me concerned about long term issues related to exposure (fertility among them): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/us/period-tear-gas-study-...

Clearly this needs some study.

It’s certainly true that the people exposed to this gas are not currently dead, I’ll give you that.

In case it helps anyone who finds their way back here — I tried ngrok and telebit and both couldn't pass the smoke test.

I opened up a port on my router so things could go directly and sure enough everything went through.

Not sure what those tools are doing to muck things up along the way but heads up!

> it seems like most American retailers are just a local cache

The _other_ Amazon CDN

I've been in too many shell scripts lately ;)

Yeah, so we followed the link toast0 shared to get started:

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/erlang-and-elixir-dist...

It took some work to piece together but wasn't too complicated in the end. It's internal code that I can't quickly sanitize or I'd just dump it in a gist :/ Someone on the Elixir Forum might have a template or library handy though.

Still wildly useful debugging things locally too!