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I wonder how much more power you can provide it to lift a human for a say half an hour.

I've always wanted to build a jetpack like that from xDubai [0]. This is definitely easier to build for an amateur compared to the one professionally built in the video.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc

yes, and cutting trees down and transporting wood around is so great for the environment...

I do plan on building a house (buying some land, finding a contractor and getting it built).

Houses in Ontario are getting crazy expensive (as an example - a friend of mine was able to get land + house for ~800k when the going rate of a prebuilt house in the neighborhood was around a mil).

Also, if I am spending so much and plan to put down some roots - I like to have a house based on my designs rather than a cookie cutter bs that most contractors have.

EDIT: I also plan on using concrete (and rebar).

What about search and cache?

it's still Python 2.7 only :(

If Mopeds or bicyclists or the like want to be on the road - that's fine. Get a Bike license and Insurance.

A few weeks ago, a bicyclist clipped my bumper at a red light. I made sure it was safe, pulled over, put on my hazards, and got out. In that time, he had the audacity to claim that

1. I was at fault (I was not - I've got front & rear dashcam footage provided to the police & insurance as replacing the bumper is easily $2k for me).

2. When I told him about the dashcam, he then claimed we could split it 50/50 (while also claiming it's not more than $300 worth of damage if I took it to a shop that he said he'd "hook me up with" - which it's not. It's a brand new car and I'll take it to a dealership thank you very much.)

3. Claimed he was broke and could not afford to pay me $2k and since I worked downtown, I could "afford to eat the cost and not feel the difference" - like that mattered.

4. When I did call the cops, he decided to just take his bike and ride off.

That's true of Apple - how about SNAP or SHOP? or a ton of other smaller software companies that most have not even heard of apart from the ones in the know?

What's not to get?

The owner gets more control - both on the company, it's long term vision, it's investors and the future of the company.

It's a win for all.

What advantage does being public get you?

It gets you $ at a massive cost - both regulatory and quarterly.

I'm not sure what to think about this - the next few releases would be the deciding factor.

One of the main reasons I use Lubuntu is the fact that it got out of my way (install Lubuntu, remove the handful of stuff that came pre-installed, install i3 and get to work).

With my above setup, I would idle with just 250 MB of RAM usage and almost no CPU usage. I loved that - as we have more and more electron apps (Slack, Teams, Atom, GitKraken etc.).

I hope that bit of focus is not lost as not everyone has the affordability or the ability and access to buy a 32 GB i9 Macbook Pro and develop on. (My personal machine is a Thinkpad T420 with 8 GB RAM and a 250 GB SSD).

I am a bit disappointed they didn't add some of the features of the OnlyKey - such as passcodes (and having the ability to self destruct the contents).

Those would be awesome to have if someone decides to steal your keys (yes I am aware you need your key + password -> but if someone goes through the effort to steal your keys - I'm sure a hammer can get the password out of you).

You are supposed to have 2 keys - that way you can loose one and still have a backup.

One big issue I have (and I'm trying various solutions around it) is code upgrade.

Let's say we are doing something one way - step 0, and we realize "hey, guess what' there's a better way" - let's call it step 1). Now going forward all new code is step 1, and touches to old code is step 0. Later you realize - there's an even better way - let's call this step 2. Now going forward you have step 2, step 1 and step 0. This process continues - but people who worked on this leave - leading to technical debt. This carries on for a few iterations and now you are on step 50 (49, 48, ...).

I have no idea how to deal with this problem.

I personally feel more micro-services would be better - but I also don't want to jump the gun since we were not too big a company at that point (and being profitable with our runaway took all priority)

As someone who moved from Linux and is moving between VS Code and Sublime - how is Textmate better?

yes, me too.

The russian letter n and the twitter interface together make it a bad combination.

what about linux users?

Like I get that people don't like Electron because of it's resource heavy nature but it's been a boon to us Linux users who have finally been getting a lot of cross platform apps and I truly appreciate that.

getting a Mac is generally not an option - it's too expensive just for a few GUI apps (and overall pushes the bar of development quiet a bit higher) and in all honesty, it's not great for the developer ecosystem to stick to one platform either (new Macbook with the touch-bar is a good reminder of that).

I am currently fortunate enough to own and work on OS X, but I do remember when I was in university with a Lenovo T420 running Ubuntu 12.04 having issues with quite a lot of tools when I was just getting started.

I'd consider it if they had an SDK.

While I agree that it's just android under the hood - a price of $300+ and not letting developers get in on the action is just too much for me.

I blame that on docker hub. It's the fault of Docker - the company. They have a security scanning software that they decided was an enterprise feature. This sort of issue is to be expected if you claim that security to be an enterprise feature.

not to be pedantic but why should containers be patched for security issues?

the entire point of containers (and orchestration systems) is the ability to push updates without downtime.

Just update with a newer container....am I missing something?

Also about container security - a strict process internally can easily help counter that (I believe Shopify had a nice talk about it at the Google Cloud Platform event in Toronto - everything from using trusted images, running only signed images and going through a security check for each layer).

EDIT: To add to it, please don't patch containers - the entire point of an "image" is that if I run it locally and on my datacenter - it should behave the same - live patching them just voids this concept.

I'm surprised no one mentions LXDE (Lubuntu).

It's really light on resources and works great! (been using it for around a year now on my personal devices).

oh thanks!

That's my bad.

I find the pricing weird (as mentioned on Reddit).

It's cheaper to run a 100 GB M5 than an M1.

I assume it's a typo?

I'd say the most important measure would be to fix the root cause.

If kids don't have access to fans, they'll find something else.

if you are dead, you don't have to deal with failure. For young kids who are easily impressionable - failure not being an option is forced into kids since kindergarten.

This is the very obvious result.

As an Indian who's been through this (and luckily got out) - for every one person who rebels, you'll have nine others who'll be lining up to take that person's place.

> - We use worker threads for data encoding and network I/O

Is this open sourced? I would like to understand how this works? (how do you capture network i/o?)

for work: nodejs + react (usually serverless, but if not, then with k8s/ecs)

for experimenting: golang + react (want to see what the fuss is all about)

for fun: elixir + pheonix (since I never got on the rails bandwagon)

You have 3rd party companies which provide such services [0].

I personally just built an automated git push + email that will get sent if I don't stop it every week. Simple, Clean & Free. And my email has been prepaid for ~2 - 3 yrs (and I pay every year so it gets pushed ahead every year).

[0]: https://www.codekeeper.co/ - I don't personally use it. I found it on google.

Anything public - it's open sourced.

Anything paid - it's in escrow

Anything private - it dies with me.

I've had similar issues in Ontario (packaged internet + tv being cheaper than just internet) - Is there a reason why this is so?

This is cool!

A few weeks ago I found out about Bloomberg BUnit 4[0] (I was looking at their keyboards and got distracted).

I think we need something similar for consumers (as in, I don't want to end up spending 24k for a terminal just for a BUnit).

Basically it's a device that has a light sensor, a fingerprint reader and a code generator - all used to authenticate the user to Bloomberg services.

The closest I've gotten is using something like Trezor[1] or Ledger S Nano[2] (no fingerprint reader/light sensor - but it's protected via a passcode).

It's just one more level of protection on top of a hardware key (username + password + hardware key (protected by a password))

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/b-unit/

[1] https://preorder.trezor.io/ (the model T)

[2] https://www.ledgerwallet.com/products/ledger-nano-s

I understand that...but when you are spending 1k does $5 really matter in that context?

I'm genuinely asking -

1. 999 - looks cheap

2. 998 - mmm..why not this?

3. 995 - nice number divisible by 5

4. 990 - well...why are we loosing $10 here?

5. 1000 - 4 digits might be considered expensive but 3 might not?

Trying to learn & understand selling to B2B.