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Is this the same beeline from 10 years ago? I sort of remember installing it back in middle school and really loving it and helping my ability to read walls of text. I never knew it got popular within the ADHD community or that it was still around.

Another reader helper I liked was the one that flashed words in place but that seemed more like a speed read hack rather than actually comprehending what you read, never used it seriously like BeeLine

I don't have a ton of experience in Bazel, but from what I have experienced with Bazel I think it would be more accurate to say that you configure the dependency graph yourself in Bazel. Then Bazel can determine what to build from scratch and what to take from cache

As far as I know, movie theaters do not compress video. Its seems like they have a digital surrogate for movie reals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package

The is a reason that Santa only comes when the kids are quite and in bed in my house, and it also explains why my dad was always tired in the morning growing up

a max balance is a cool idea, i gotta try that out!

and i also have the mental block that if i have less than 1k in my checking i should be wary. and also tons of credit card alerts for large transactions going in and out

there's a ton of information missing here, but my simple way is to not really stop living paycheck to paycheck, but instead hide the money from myself before i can spend it. To me this means high contributions to retirement accounts, auto transfers in to brokerage account, and auto transfers into a separate "large spending" account. That way I'm free to spend guilt free anything left in my checking account.

The automation is really the key for me, move the money before I can spend it. But NYC is also an expensive place to live, and I could easily see 110k not being enough to live there. but maybe someone else has more relevant experience

I really like that analogy

ive heard a few stories of people getting high value (>$1k) shipped and nobody wanting it returned,. I dont get why there is not an exception policy for high value items. Im assuming these kind of "dont ship it back" policies are due to them not wanting to have to support a return infastructure. but if there is a steady supply of high value item returns/mis-shipments I would think it would be worth it. I think i remember reading that its US law that if something is delivered to you, its yours. maybe they dont wanna mess with that?

I guess I would would love to know why they dont want it back

It seems to be a HashiCorp Configuration Language, HashiCorp being the creators/sponsors of terraform (I don't know much about terraform or hashicorp)

That small forum feel was what I appreciated. I thought they all disappeared by now, so it surprised me that the this post was added recently.

What kind of forum is this? Super cool perspective

The lack of official spec is really holding back markdown, I always find it grating when someone mentions that their site renders "Github Flavored Markdown". It should just be markdown. It would be great if Github didnt have this vendor lock in on markdown

Are these the same drivers that wear Amazon vests, drive Amazon cars and can only deliver for Amazon? Seems like Amazon is doing some legal loophole with "3rd party" companies to get around actually employing these drivers and giving them the full time benefits they are entitled to by law

I'm so tired of this dumb gig economy that isn't long term sustainable.

the new slim SDK style csproj and the dotnet command replacement (maybe wrapper) for msbuild are great addition to come with .NET Core a while back. I think MSBuild and nuget are great compared to my experiences with linux rpm libwhatever or npm. I have worked on some moderately sized code bases (10s not 100s of projects in a solutions) and compile times stayed fairly reasonable.

I think the big downside is that the industry still thinks of .NET as stuck in .NET 2.0 or something, from my casual browsing that .NET is a skill not C#. Regardless, I'm getting kind of excited for .NET 6 on official release, and doing the migration of all our apps off framework to the latest and getting some getting the new lang version.

I think mankyd knew that. I'm thinking the exploit would be installing a bad app that enforces redirects for mybank.com, youbank.com, usabank.com, ukbank.com, allbanks.com to their malicious app. Then the app just knows how to pretend to be the login screen for all these apps and bam you get a whole ton of passwords. The key thing would be for the app not to show the url of their malicious site.

I have always sat on the fence on this issue. If someone wants to work outside of the 9-5, it seems only right to reward them for their extra time commitment. But when their extra work makes me seem like a slacker then that becomes an issue. So I guess my opinion is that as long as they are seen as doing extra and anyone doing 9-5 is doing the expected, all is well. Maybe it comes down to having a good manager?

I feel like this borders on the kind of insensitive comment that people get when they live paycheck to paycheck. Why don't you just save your money for a month? Why don't you just buy nicer shoes so you don't have to replace them every other month?

I feel like the trade off isn't that complex. Walking to work is a luxury of having a well paying job in the city.

Maybe I am asking for too much but I want physical knobs for: Volume Control, HVAC Fan Speed, HVAC Temp.

A tangential question: Does anyone know why there is an AC button on older cars? I can turn the temp all the way down but that just does outside air temp. If i want real AC I need to hit a button to turn it on. In my ideal car turning the knob to the lowest temp would get me cold air no matter what.

I could see 10 developers costing that much

I have a coworker that always preaches testing on bad hardware. Sometimes it catches multi threaded issues, like if you arent locking correctly and use a resource before its generated. Other than that it helps ensure that you are squeezing more performance out of the software rather than relying on fast hardware. I think this sentiment comes after dealing with a ton of chromium apps that can be resource hogs. Presumably they are developed on machines with tons of resources then forced onto my dev machine and still use tons of resource that I need to write my own stuff. Personally I dont care too much, if the software has performance critical requirements, it should be thoroughly tested in some pipeline not my machine.

I already see too many people using LinkedIn as a second FaceBook. The few times I look at my feed I see people posting political opinions and other touchy subjects on their "wall" (not sure what the official name is on linked in). I always thought these professional social networks were more for keeping an up to date resume accessible and tweeting or re-tweeeting interesting work topics.

Thank you! I'll have to try this. weird that it uses a less chili powder than I usually use in my meat chili (roughly 3 tbs for 2lbs of meat and a can of beans). Maybe I'm just used to a ton more spice. I could have been amping it up after going away from red meat

I took Professor Wellerstein's class it was super interesting. For my final project I researched some of the peaceful nuke ideas, and this Israeli canal was discussed in that class.

The US had an entire program dedicated to a bunch of different applications of nuclear bombs that were not blowing up cities called Project Plowshare[1]. Some of the proposed ideas were the above second canal, another was a type of "fracking" to release natural gas, yet another was a way to create a new protected port (for military purposes)

there was also a similar program in the USSR called Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy [2]. They had similar ideas, but the big achievement was closing two oil wells that could not be conventionally capped. so they detonated nuclear bombs adjacent to the well which physically blocked the well.

I would highly recommend checking out Wellerstein's blog [3]. tons of cool write ups about different aspects of nuclear technology and their history. Another fun thing he made, the Nuke Map [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_Nat... [3]: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/ [4]: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

we, small enterprise software company, have opened the office under that model. What is happening is that some people have refused to return, myself included, some are doing the official 2 days a week, and others are going back full time. The office actually opened up last year, right after the first NYC fizzled out. There have been a few week long shutdowns of the entire office as some are found to have COVID-19.

My general thoughts are that there are a few people that got strong armed into returning, but most that are back in the office are happy to be there.

I made the same mistake. I thought this was a corporate outreach thing

i dont mean to be condescending, but how could they implement privacy without centralizing? like the bitcoin card provide must hold all your assets for you for you to gain privacy, no?

dont most enterprise languages have built in docs that do a basic type check? I'm thinking of something like JavaDocs and MS Docs for C#, that at the very least have built in typing for explicit references to objects. But i do see the breakdown quickly happening when you informally reference concepts. I have been trying to push for getting as much documentation inside the actual code as possible and auto-generating a doc site using Doxygen or something similar. Mostly i want this because the documentation is closely related to the code. But we got stuck because other teams in the company want to use Confluence or some other wiki

Off-topic: who is in charge of choosing colors for graphs? Being red-green colorblind, choosing blue and purple is makes it impossible for me to read the charts. I know its stylish, but every time i make a graph i choose very high contrast colors. Another point: is it just being color blind or do other people struggle in charts/maps that have shades of a color? like different shades of blue represent different rates of covid deaths across a map. just curious if anyone else struggles with this

This whole time I thought they were working on a new album. Very sad to see the end of this legendary duo.