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Does each user do their own auth and the ingest runs for each user using stored user creds, perhaps deduplicating the data in the index, but storing permissions metadata for query time filtering?
Or is there a single "team" level integration credential that indexes everything in the workspace and separately builds a permissions model based on the ACLs from the source system API?
The big box store in our town doesn't rent tools or vehicles. You have to drive 45-60 minutes to get to a store that does. This means the 4 hour rental prices (which for something like a wood chipper or chain saw might be sufficient for a lot of jobs) become nearly non-viable or highly stressful rushing through unfamiliar power equipment that really shouldn't be rushed.
A full day tool rental is often 1/3 to 1/2 of the price of a new mass market version of the tool. A week rental is almost always more. The tools are rarely in great shape. You are almost always way better off going to an estate sale or local marketplace and buying a used tool. If there is a job you end up doing 2-3 times or need for more than a week its even cost effective to just buy new ones. You save so much on labor doing things yourself that even with new tools you basically always come out ahead.
The best case is that you have a community run tool library that lets you check stuff out cheaply for a week and can have a relationship with the folks that run it. Similarly, getting to know the neighbors and being able to swap/borrow stuff. For vehicles this is a little more dicey because of liability & insurance issues.
We've definitely struggled with the vehicle for long and sheet goods. We really don't need a pickup truck and it would honestly be a hazard on skinny mountain roads... but we do need to move lumber, sheet goods, appliance sized things just enough that it's a pain without one. We settled on a midsized SUV with passable towing power (as an aside, EV power and control makes towing a breeze as long as your round trip fits in one charge). Renting a trailer is still annoying, but at least can be done close by. For larger orders delivery can sometimes be cost effective (vs renting a vehicle or buying and maintaining a truck) especially because places often subsidize delivery to win business.
A variant that I've found helpful for teasing out this case: 1. Ask the test subject to visualize an Apple 2. Ask them for a few very specific details about the apple they are currently visualizing (what color is it? does it have a leaf or a bite out of it?, etc)
In many cases aphantastics will not object to the activity in step 1, but they won't be doing the same thing as the folks who are actually visualizing. They'll just do what they do when people talk about "visualizing".
When you get to step 2 someone who is actually visualizing can immediately answer the questions and don't think they are strange, they are just reporting what they are visualizing in front of them.
An aphantastic in step 2 is often confused. They aren't actually visualizing any specific apple so there isn't a reference to answer the questions. You'll get a response like.. well what kind of Apple is it? How should I know if it has a bite out of it? You first have to either provide more context or reword the question to something like: What is a color an Apple could be? or What color is your favorite Apple?
Additionally, like a sibling comment notes, a home hobbyist has full control over at least half, often more, of their addresses and can easily choose addresses for their network that are as short or shorter and easier to remember and organize vs a v4 network where you have no letters to work with much more strict subnet size rules, etc.
IPv6 is a dream for home hobbyists! The complaining from them about “unmemorable” addresses just makes no sense.
Every passenger (or mail or manufactured good) has a unique destination in your system that you need to get it to. They are roughly balanced based on demand (two stations in large cities will generate a lot of traffic between them, but a small town will only generate a small amount of traffic to and from a large city). It makes the transport routing game way more interesting and more like the routing of passengers in more traditional Sim City type games.
Later on if you want to organize more or “unsubscribe” from an address you can go into your mail control panel and add clean server side filtering rules.
As for which service? It is difficult to find traditional mail providers that will let you do this. I’ve gotten a variety of excuses when I ask prospective providers: they want to monetize based on number of email addresses, are “afraid” of all the spam they imagine they will get, or it’s just too niche a feature to build into their web gui. I use a shared hosting provider (I don’t really use the web hosting itself, just the email).
We’ve gotten less spam than I expected and from fewer sources.
The big ones are dropbox (likely breach related), justworks, [email addresses listed in Whois records - note: Whois privacy features are absolutely worth it], and emails associated with open source projects and businesses that get listed in repos/project/business websites.
I have blacklisted 1 video game discussion forum whose owners sold it and all its data and 4-5 misc retailers (mostly in fashion/clothing) for either outright spam or having non-functional un-subscription features.
We continue to use this email strategy for a variety of reasons, not only spam management. I don’t think I would set such a system up if my only goal was spam reduction as breaches and publicly posted addresses account for the vast majority of the spam and those will get you either way. There is merit to having your main personal address be separate from the ones you publically post for business/open source purposes.
As an aside: the experience has led me to an anti-spam idea that I wonder if anyone has tried on a larger scale. I have multiple different addresses that were clearly involved in a breach or I post on public websites where they get scraped. However, I know that both addresses are unrelated to each other so I end up getting listed on some spam lists multiple times. In these cases, any message where you get separate copies to multiple different addresses is spam 100% of the time.
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We are a small (4-6 people) in-house software and support team that operates the entire stack (from the hardware up) and has long term personal relationships with our users. You'll get to make things that people you know use to make it easier to do their jobs. Because the team is small there is a variety of tasks (security, automated testing & deployment, performance tuning) so you won't be sitting in front of a ticket queue answering the same question all day.
Our stack is presently Ember.js / Ruby on Rails / Postgres / Ansible / Ubuntu and this position would have a significant role in making future choices in technology direction.
This is a full time position with excellent work/life balance (~37.5 hours, Central time zone, 6+ weeks of PTO/holidays). A nearly private office in Chicago is available (not cubicles/open plan) and hybrid or fully remote (USA) options are available.
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What is it that feels good? Is it nostalgia? Is it literally just visible fire feels dangerous and powerful?
I definitely agree that cooking on a resistive electric coil is awful and will grudgingly use gas over that.
We've settled for a unit that has physical, clickable, tactile buttons to control the temperature and a numeric readout that clearly states the current temp and all controls on the side, away from spills. I'd love to find an induction stove with a plan old knob for each hob though.
The small cheap portable induction units have a number of tradeoffs that are not inherent to induction itself, but are more related to.. being inexpensive and portable.
Like the parent here though, we do all of our cooking on a cheap, portable, induction hot plate sitting on top of our gas stove because it is just that much better. I also cannot wait to get a full size version, but this is unfortunately hard when you rent apartments.
I don't like the complete lockout either. I like being able to run my apps on my device. But it is most definitely true that the ability to sideload apps results, in practice, in some developers opting out of providing App Store protected apps in favor of asking you to sideload.