DazWilkin

This looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

I agree and I would pay for this service!

IIUC the cloud solution provides cloud-based storage|copies of the quicken file and accessibility through a less-functional web-based tool and Simplifi isn't compatible.

So, thanks again for the suggestion but these solutions won't work for me.

I was unaware that there is a cloud version and will investigate, thanks!

I strongly prefer my Linux machine but use Windows mostly so that I can run Quicken. I feel doubly trapped: can't get off Quicken and thus can't get off Windows.

I'm only very slightly less reluctant to get an Apple machine (though the M* chips tempt me) and there will probably be incompatibilities between the versions of Quicken.

I think I should probably rip off the band-aid and migrate to:

+ spreadsheets (more control/future proof) + gnucash or similar (and risk that going unmaintained) + Wine + something I've not considered

I live in a community in the Pacific Northwest that was built in 2018 and (almost) every home (22/23) has (Carrier) heat pumps; for some unknown reason, the other has heated floors.

Many of us are proponents of heat pumps thanks to reduced costs and emissions *but* we've not had a generally good experience possibly (!) as a result of bad installation and definitely due to limited numbers of indoor heads (if I close my main bedroom door, the rest of my upper floor has no heating/cooling).

There's always someone in the community frustrated that their house is too cold/hot, that the condensation drains are blocked and water is running down an interior wall, that an indoor head or the condenser is having problems, or that there's unexplained coolant leak.

People moving into the community are inheriting issues with at least 2 homes having to augment/replace the system. To save breaking into the walls, this often necessitates putting the power, coolant and drainage lines on the outside of the house and then boxing the result.

We're saving money on monthly bills (probably; we don't have a comp) but many of us have spent quite some $$$ on maintenance and replacement equipment.

If there are no consequences to bad behavior, bad people will behave badly.

None of these people will ever suffer any consequences for this.

Same behavior when I run the container locally.

Issues with `get.kubefor.ge/latest`:

Manifest does not match provided manifest digest sha256:a4d6b4a9513289be1c1349afff46f7c87a5ac8513cbd8b66de350f26442d14bf

Works with:

ghcr.io/kubenote/kubeforge:latest

get.kubefor.ge@sha256:a4d6b4a9513289be1c1349afff46f7c87a5ac8513cbd8b66de350f26442d14bf

Well done!

Having user-challenges with kubefor.ge.

Clicked "Deployment" and then tried "Create metadata node" but it errors:

Missing config in qA_PQ-QAe8tznselScKge Node qA_PQ-QAe8tznselScKge has no values configured.

And:

Overlapping Nodes Node "deployment" overlaps with "undefined".

Not only are my AI chats more personal than my Google searches but with these false friends reporting this information back to Google's (and others') advertising engines, suggests to me that this will become a more accurate, more difficult to avoid and thus bigger business for Google.

Congratulations!

Having tried several times myself, I know first hand how difficult it is to make money from our things.

Well done you!

Podman uses Dockerfiles too.

Dockerfiles is the language for specifying a set of instructions for building container images.

It also happened 3 days ago!

This really resonates with me.

Your insight is helpful almost as much as knowing that other people like me are out there too.

I think (!?) I've finally let go of a project that I've been working on for a couple of years.

A key tenet of the project (which I frequently forgot) was that it was a way for me to learn|refine technical skills and to keep me entertained|occupied.

The project certainly achieved those objectives for me and I'm a better person for doing it.

Good luck to you and I hope you continue to succeed!

Insurers buy insurance (reinsurance) in an attempt to offload excess risk.

In your follow-up example, they could reinsure much of the $200B so that they're only liable for a small(er) part of the losses.

The calculation is thus whether they can pay the premiums on the excess (and accept reinsurers' contractual terms) and still make money.

Thank you!

My maternal grandmother lived with kidney disease and my mother and (maternal) aunt both had kidney disease too and have both had kidney transplants (ironically each from their partner).

A good friend had a kidney transplant too from her twin sister which means that she has negligible anti-rejection medications.

My mother's transplant was more than 10 years ago. She's had issues including, as a consequence of being immuno-supressed, cancer from Epstein-Barr virus (she recovered) but she's otherwise enjoying her 80s with her several grands and a great.

My father (her donor) continues to thrive and has had no obvious negative consequences to his life-saving gift.

They still bicker!!

My sister, cousins and I have our creatinine and potassium levels monitored.

I had an elevated potassium test recently and it's depressing to be reminded how fragile life is. In my case, a follow up test appears to indicate that the prior test was exceptional (and I think can be explained).

We have 2 kidneys but only one heart, liver etc. and so, while there's an evolutionary benefit, experience suggests that people do just fine with one kidney.

To every brave and selfless person who's donated an organ, you have my utmost respect and gratitude.

Fun fact: kidney transplant recipients generally have 3 kidneys: the OGs and the donated kidney

When I worked at Microsoft, I started blocking every Friday afternoon for "20% time" (even though it was only ~10% of my working week). My (really good) manager was supportive and my argument was that, to be most effective in my role, I needed to spend dedicated time learning.

My single piece of advice is that, if you're going to do this, be committed to it. I had a block on my calendar. I had an office (in those days) and closed my office door. I didn't respond to emails and I declined meeting requests. Consistency was key and, once everyone knew that it was my learning time, it was respected (in part because I respected it). One afternoon, my boss knocked walked in, looked at me, realized what time it was, turned around and walked back out.

After Microsoft, I worked at Google where "20% time" (had been a thing but no longer really was in the 2010s) and, once again, Friday afternoons were blocked on my calendar and I used them diligently for learning. My Google managers were consistently supportive and respected my commitment to the time.

One advantage to Friday afternoons is that they're generally very slack time. People are either leaving early or working little, emails are fewer and, in a global organization, (for US West Coast), much of the rest of the World has already entered the weekend.

I think there's no issue with permitting writers to use AI tools to participate in NaNoWriMo.

I've participated a three (or four?) times in the annual NaNoWriMo and completed twice.

When I first participated, I attended a group to help understand how to approach the project. In the group there were several aspiring writers. The group continued after the year's project began and many of the people who most wanted to be writers were already struggling to meet the daily writing quota (so that they'd reach the goal after 30 days).

I think any tools that people use that help them complete NaNoWriMo are fine. People must live with their own decisions and, if the tools write the majority of their submission, that's their decision.

Other people using AI tools doesn't impact my ability to complete the year's NaNoWriMo. It doesn't affect me in any way.

The group leader told us about a tool that she used that would begin erasing characters if she stopped typing for longer than about 5 seconds during her daily write. That's a tool I wouldn't ever use :-)

I was intrigued by this and looked through the README for examples of Afrim being used and learn more about the problem it's solving and how but didn't find these.

Correction the following refers to the created key:

  ${PWD}/${ACCOUNT}.json

  gcloud iam service-accounts create ${ACCOUNT} --project=${PROJECT}
  gcloud iam service-accounts keys create ${PWD}/${ACCOUNT}.json \
  --iam-account=${EMAIL} \
  --project=${PROJECT}

Good point! I'll revise.

You can use Application Default Credentials (ADC) with Sheets:

https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/application-def...

You can:

  PROJECT="..."
  ACCOUNT="..."

  # Add this value to your Sheet(s)
  EMAIL="${ACCOUNT}@${PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com"

  export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=${PWD}/${ACCOUNT}.json

  ctx := context.Background()

  scopes := []string{
    "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.readonly",
  }

  opts := option.WithScopes(scopes...)
  srv, err := sheets.NewService(ctx, opts)

One omission from your post is that you will need to enable the Sheets service|API either using gcloud:

  gcloud enable sheets.googleapis.com --project=${PROJECT}

I began note-taking at school when I would make extensive hand-written notes (using colored pens) to study for examinations.

I continued this practice at college and credit my success at school and college in large part to the confidence I created in the "memory" that my written notes gave me.

I continue to feel that I have a very poor memory and so note-taking has become a lifelong skill|tool.

Hand-written notes are best for me to actually remember (without recourse to my notes) but I almost entirely swype|type notes today because of the benefits of accessing them anytime (any device), searching etc.

I try to keep my note-taking DRY and prefer to update|correct older notes rather than recreate content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself

Here's my current practice:

1. I write technical blogs partly to share but equally to document for my own purposes; I have a blog called "snippets" (co-opted from a Google practice) where I document tips-and-tricks from coding (e.g. how to set up Protocol Buffers proto_paths when using Visual Studio code)

2. I keep arbitrary notes in Google Keep. My shopping list was migrated to Keep too and, I write trip packing lists and the humans' names at the dog park (keyed by their dog's name, of course) there too.

3. Google used to have (!?) an excellent practice that everyone in a meeting recorded meeting notes in real-time in Google Docs. I would comment-ping people with to do items.

4. Until recently, I used Google Docs for record my programming notes. Every day, I would add a new H3 header for the date with "Actions", "To Do", "Miscellany" sections. I have 3 years of one project's development recorded this way and it served me well. However, as the document grew in size, it became unwieldy and I was forced to split it into two documents (before|after) which made it less useful. I've begun (though it's also imperfect) using Markdown and a Hugo static site to record the same content. Now, each day is a dated Markdown file. This scales better. I prefer using Markdown. It's just as accessible but it's not as good for searching.

5. I contribute to Stack overflow and I've a GitHub repo for every answer I've ever worked on. When I write code or explore a technology, just as everywhere else, I document the solution (as a README) and commit it to the repo. This is mostly for my benefit because it allows me to quickly find technologies that I've worked on.

My coding velocity is slowed by my sometimes obsessive desire to make notes but, note-taking has paid me so many dividends over the years. For example, I rarely feel anxiety that I know I've used an obscure tool, programming language or some such but am unable to find a record of this; reading my extensive notes gives me a thorough play-by-play of what to do.

I worked on PC support at an investment bank in London in the early 90's and developed a Notes app to replace our paper-based tickets.

It took me very little time to develop and really revolutionized our team's ability to manage the incoming flow of tickets for our nearly 1000 users.

We soon gave access to the system to delegated principals in each of the departments who were then able to coordinate their department's tickets in real-time too. They loved it.

"separate server pools solely dedicated to handling the scraping Google and Microsoft do from Reddit every day"

I assume Google and Microsoft are HTML "scraping", not using the API and not paying. While it's in Reddit's self-interest to be indexed by the search engines, the article mentions these companies also use Reddit's corpus to feed their AIs, is this not monetizable?

It is reasonable for Reddit to want to monetize its content particularly when it loses ad revenue to 3rd-party apps but, could its approach not lead developers to follow Google's and Microsoft's lead and try to recreate (some of their API experience) by scraping Reddit?

I'm a long-term, several domains user of Google Domains and disappointed to learn of this sale.

Several others have suggested porkbun and I'm interested to see that it provides an API (https://porkbun.com/api/json/v3/documentation).

Do folks have experience with this API?

I have a hacky a solution to update Google Domains Dynamic DNS record but would value a more functional API to update DNS records. Had I known about this before today, I may have migrated my domains to porkbun for this reason alone.

I really enjoy(ed) Neal Asher's "Transformation" series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Intelligence) and the Polity universe.

I enjoy sci-fi series, interesting spacecraft, compelling aliens and am a sucker for machine-based intelligence.

This series combines all these and re-engaged in sci-fi. I went on to read most of Asher's other books including "Agent Cormac" and "Spatterjay" series.