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You can get a compressor/limiter for pretty cheap, but only if you have wires somewhere between the DAC and your speakers.

A government committing to emissions reduction is like your deadbeat sibling committing to pay you back next Tuesday.

Actually it might require the gitlens extension. It's very well integrated and I've been using it for so long I don't know where one ends and the other begins. Regardless, if you open the diff view, the right hand side is editable and you can make selections like any other view.

Open the diff, select the lines, right click, "stage selected lines".

The battery is too heavy if it's fully charged.

Also the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. Sabotage of gunpowder stocks, exploding cannons (and cannon operators), and brewing red phosphorus from urine (and subsequently getting run out of town by an angry mob because of the stench).

Still not good enough, unfortunately. Anything below 18-ish point type is too difficult to read.

Decades of cold war propaganda have confused the issue in the US. When you say socialism, they think you are talking about USSR-style authoritarian communism. It's asurd and exasperating, but it won't go away until the boomer generati on loses political influence. It's also highly partisan, and in today's atmosphere of cultural warfare, that makes it a non-starter. Half the country won’t wear a mask because Donald Trump wanted to deny the pandemic during his reelection campaign. What hope is there for something as radical as changing the entire foundation of society?

Yes, in the same way that you can set up a video content channel on a site other than YouTube. It's not the hosting, it's the massive amount of traffic and exposure that can't be replicated by another service.

Are you talking about vim? I thought this article was about programming languages.

In this context, sexier is used interchangeably with cool. It’s a common phrasing.

Flailing about seemingly randomly is a good description of how I learn complex software. Blender, Ableton, etc. After a few days I'll reach for the structured educational resources.

Cutting steak with a fork is a pretty good metaphor for working with a spreadsheet heavy enterprise team.

The true killer application is being able to take a dump without pausing your game.

That's great to hear. I am always interested in learning new languages that are vastly different to mainstream languages to see if there are any hidden gems that I can incorporate into my day job.

This is my first encounter with K, and it looks absolutely bonkers. The amount of logic you can express in a few characters is mind boggling. However, it makes my brain hurt. Is this a paradigm that becomes intuitive once you learn it, or is it like Ruby in the sense that it’s so flexible that every developer uses their own custom DSL and onboarding is like solving an infinite series of brain teasers?

What industry do you work in? Is it a common stack there?

Incidents of voter fraud, and side effects from vaccines, etc are quantifiable, therefore not subject to opinion. Interpretation yes, but interpretation must be supported by evidence.

It depends, running less than 90 fps is borderline and anything under 60 is a vomit comet. Most people have some issues with motion sickness at first but after a few days your brain adapts to it (so called “VR legs”). I regularly play games with lots of fast locomotion for 4+ hours at a time and have no nausea at all. Subnautica with an xbox controller in particular would send most people to the toilet after 60 seconds, which is a shame because it’s the most profound VR experience I’ve had.

But how do you stop?

I know it sounds snarky, but at some point of vimrc complexity it’s worth considering just switching to vscode with the vim extension. It can use neovim as a back end and you get mountains of features out of the box. I created vim-idiomatic key mappings to all the vscode features and extensions I commonly use. It’s not vim, it uses a shit ton of memory, and you can’t run it in the terminal, but I love it. For context, I was formerly a vim snob for 10 years. I’m also mainly a typescript guy so YMMV.

You can find a bunch of these if you search for jam stack resources.

It's not as if you're obligated to buy their products, therefore need to find a less expensive workaround. If you don't like the people producing them and think they're overpriced, play dwarf fortress or watch TV. There are some obviously valid reasons for pirating, but I don't understand this sense of entitlement.

Do you have any recommendations? :) I've been trying to find a big town or small city with lots of natural beauty and nice weather. I grew up in Seattle and refuse to live anywhere with more than 90 days of cloudy weather per year. One heuristic I've come up with is small towns that are sustained by natural tourism. They tend to be much more laid back, and people are happier and more social because of it. Whitefish, MO is one example, but unfortunately it's too cold for me. :)

I always thought of TDD as a way to exercise your code while writing it, not a set in stone spec of your product. I consider unit tests disposable and basically noise; they're only useful when you're writing code. They are by nature a test of your implementation, not your specification. I usually throw away a lot of them after I'm done writing, and if I refactor I just delete the ones that are failing because I'm writing new ones as I go. There are places at boundaries where more stable unit tests can go, but even there a change to the interface is going to break all the tests anyway.

The better way to test your specification and behavior, IMO, is to use comprehensive E2E tests. The traditional test pyramid is upside down. If you have an E2E test for every user story in your spec, you can develop with confidence that your new code will not disrupt your users' activity. Unit tests are cattle, E2E tests are pets.

You should take a look at satisfactory[0] if you haven't already. It's not (quite) as deep as factorio, but the game world is absolutely beautiful and immersive, and it's still in early access so new content is constantly arriving.I personally had to ban it because I played it for 300 hours in less than three weeks. I literally could not get myself to stop playing (until I did). :)

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/526870/Satisfactory/

Do you think this has something to do with traditional Spanish culture? Ex-Spanish colonies are also notoriously led from the top down, and I read an interesting theory that the reason the Aztecs were so easily assimilated vs indigenous North Americans is their rigidly hierarchical organization allowed the Spanish to essentially hot swap themselves into power.

I’ve always called them glamour or prestige jobs. If people think it’s cool there will always be someone willing to do it for free.

There are more options than American late stage capitalism and developing world unskilled labor.

I encourage everyone to take an extended trip to a country with a different culture if they can afford it by any means. The greatest effect it has on you is making it obvious which aspects of your personality and values are just picked up from your surroundings. Every time I moved to a different region it stripped away a little bit of the parts of me that weren't really me, and left me feeling much more confident in my goals and desires, and generally more comfortable with who I am. You really can't put a price on this.