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I've never really thought about this but, could it be because they don't want people to "try this at home"? Either because of safety issues, or my actual hypothesis, because they want to keep their possible pool of candidates as big as possible?
Wait, I don't understand. I thought oatmeal was gluten free, but because of where it's grown and processed, there's a lot of cross contamination with wheat. I buy gluten free oats because of this.
It's very minor but, with the Snipping Tool, the screenshot automatically ends up in the clipboard after dragging the box. As far as I know with macos I have to open the preview and copy it from there. There may be an option in macos to get the same behavior but I don't know about it.
About hitting the print screen button by accident. I have the same issue and like you I can sometimes get out of it by hitting ESC. I think this sometimes fails because the snipping app isn't in focus (even though it's covering the entire screen).
The trick I found to get out of it is to hit ALT+TAB. It ironically puts another app into focus and when that happens, the snipping tool exits. Snipping tool is pretty great though. I wish macOS had the same.
Well, you could say that the proposed alternative is: Consider not working there.
This means, work somewhere else, or even _do_ something else.
Great comment! I was inspired by this article https://every.to/superorganizers/how-to-build-a-learning-mac... about Simon Eskildsen, which led me to his blog https://sirupsen.com/, which then led me to create https://juliusrobert.site for myself. It's not a traditional blog per se but it checks some boxes and I have the same quote as you do here as a reason to do this https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/#writing-abo...
Tipping has been forced into Sweden for around 10-15? years now. I do not like it one bit. No one pays by cash, so they baked the tipping into the payment terminals. They usually come with 4-5 pre-made options with percentages, and _sometimes_ a "no gratuity" option, which will input your original total. IIRC it's always possible to skip it by pressing the (usually) green button to "continue". It'll always input your total and you can skip the entire thing and just blip your card.
Some customers started to input their PIN code (which you sometimes have to do) instead of their total when this was a new thing. It made for some hilarious totals.
One of the most egregious examples I can remember was a restaurant where you order digitally, and when done, you go and get your food/drinks yourself from the serving window. And they asked for tips... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sigh... I do sometimes tip though, never for lunch, but sometimes for dinner.
It's thanks to this site that I learned that Kobo uses a really bad renderer for epubs unless converted to their own ebook format (Kepub). It make a huge difference in appearance and performance on a Kobo device.
https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kobo-f...
It can make a huge difference in performance and batterylife, as well as how well images are rendered. I learned this by chance through this (great) site https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kobo-f...
This was after a year or two of suffering through bad performance and a janky experience. Except for the purchased books of course. Somehow I never thought it was possible to fix.
This is a bit off topic but I noticed that you've included a moderation log at the bottom. I don't think I've seen that before. I really like it!
Hmm, didn't we do this for cloning? I remember hearing about this on Lex Fridman when he interviewed Max Tegmark.
If I recall correctly, the entire world is in agreement that cloning is illegal, and even that some people in China (could be just one) even went to prison for it.
I'd like to add my perspective here. I drove 50 miles to and from work every day for 5 years, around Stockholm, Sweden. 80 % highway traffic.
The only driving aid I use (rely on) on is ACC (Automatic Cruise Control), to keep my speed and distance (maximum) to the car in front of me. I almost always stay in the rightmost lane doing the speed limit.
Without a doubt Tesla drivers consistently stood out as the most "strange". Drivers of all brands can be stressed and drive too fast, but Tesla drivers were janky, couldn't stay in their lanes, and very often didn't keep a safe distance to the car in front of them.
Worst part, they didn't seem aware of their surroundings. They would merge in the most insane situations/positions or dangerously try to pass other drivers.
I don't know if they relied on their hardware to guide them, this autopilot thing, or whatever else they have, but it puckered me up good.
Dylan Beattie talked about this exact thing at NDC this year. https://youtu.be/By4Gb1RKZpU?t=1428. Timestamp included. The entire talk is very good though.
Nice catch! I didn't even realize that myself. I get more or less the same result as you now.
Still can't handle the question:
I have three doors in front of me. behind one is a great prize. Behind the other two are bad prizes. I know which door contains the prize, and I choose that door. Before I open it the game show host eliminates one of the doors that contain the bad prize. He then asks if I'd like to switch to the other remaining door instead of the one I chose. Should I switch doors?`
Big answer:
This scenario is a classic probability puzzle known as the Monty Hall problem, named after the original host of the game show *Let's Make a Deal*. Here's how it works and what you should do:
1. **Initial Choice**: You choose one of the three doors. At this stage, the probability that you have selected the door with the great prize is \( \frac{1}{3} \), and the probability that the great prize is behind one of the other two doors is \( \frac{2}{3} \).
2. **Host's Action**: The host, who knows what is behind each door, then opens one of the remaining two doors to reveal a bad prize. This step is crucial because the host always reveals a bad prize and always chooses one of the doors you did not pick.
3. **Decision Point**: You now have the option to stick with your original choice or switch to the other unopened door. Here’s why you might consider switching:
- If your original choice (let's say you chose door 1) was correct (which has a probability of \( \frac{1}{3} \)), then the other two doors (2 and 3) both have bad prizes, and switching would cause you to lose.
- However, if your original choice was incorrect (which has a probability of \( \frac{2}{3} \)), meaning the prize is behind one of the other two doors, the host's action of opening another door (say he opens door 3, revealing a bad prize) leaves the door with the prize (door 2) still closed. Switching in this case would lead you to win.
4. **Probability of Winning**:
- If you do not switch, you win if your original choice was the door with the prize (probability \( \frac{1}{3} \)).
- If you do switch, you win if your original choice was not the door with the prize (probability \( \frac{2}{3} \)).
Therefore, **you should switch doors**. Switching doors doubles your chances of winning the great prize, from \( \frac{1}{3} \) (if you stick with your original choice) to \( \frac{2}{3} \) (if you switch). The switch works in your favor because it capitalizes on the probability shift caused by the host's action of revealing a bad prize behind one of the doors you did not initially pick.Same for me! It was like a brick of programming in the face. If I recall correctly, I owe my gratitude to someone called "DarkAlex" on the "PSP-Hacks" website/forum for getting me interested.
My reason for starting with that scene was to play my "backed up" games but I remember screaming with joy when I got a C++ program onto the PSP which displayed some colours and bars. I could change them with the buttons and joystick.
I would have preferred prompt crafting.
This is surreal! Are we watching Silicon Valley season 7? Laurie Breem is this your doing? Are going through every CEO you can find in an attempt to get Sam Altman to realize he was the right person all along?
Interesting! I bought metal straws a while back for use at home, and I used to clean them in the dishwasher. After a while I realized that my stomach acted up almost every time I used them (regular aspartame sweetened sodas). It stopped when I started washing them by hand. My theory: There was detergent or rinse aid left inside. About as unscientific as you can get but I'm "certain"...
Every time I bring up Factorio at work (mostly for the FFF's) it comes with the disclaimer: "Do _NOT_ start playing, you'll have no free time left".
Coming from a life time of Visual Studio, when changing to Rider, the first thing I did was to change the font to that of VS. I can't quite explain it but reading the code in the Rider default font (which I believe is JetBrains Mono) made me feel nauseous/queasy.
I don't understand. Is this supposed to be cheaper or more reliable than old fashioned keys and/or regular RFID-tags?
If so, cheaper for whom?
Sorry this happened to you.
Next time, if you want to reset the latest commit to an unstaged state:
git reset HEAD~
git reflog
I don't blame you for not knowing this. I learned by trial and error and most importantly, good colleagues who showed me the way.
edit: Typo/grammar
I think I understand your frustration, and I agree to a certain extent. But first, consider this:
Could it be that your problem isn't with Agile itself but with Scrum (i.e. how you apply Agile)?
In my experience, it goes something like this;
– "We need a better way to work"
– "Oh, let's go with Agile, everyone is doing that"
– "But that's just a set of principles and guidelines though isn't it?"
– "So we need something on top of it then. To keep track of what we're doing and what we've done? And how fast we've done it. How fast we can deliver things. We have to measure the throughput of the features we ship. Oh and we need status tags so that we know which state every feature is in at any given time. And the features are too big of course, we need to split them into smaller \"tasks\", and they need to contain exactly the information required to complete the work without talking to anyone else. I mean I'm a manager and simply must know what people are working on and how they're solving it and, if they're not doing it fast enough. Right?"
– "Sounds good, how do we keep track of the way we keep track of things?"
– "Hmmmm....."
– "Oh wait! Meetings and ceremonies!!"
If you cannot succeed in a situation where you have motivated people, in an environment where learning by failure is encouraged and management that trust their workers I don't think you can blame Agile. But you could perhaps blame the framework that you execute Agile with because they have a way of demotivating even the best of us.
In a perfect world (where you're all in the same room all the time) the Agile manifesto and the development principles it comes with, a whiteboard and post-its will be all you need. Your problem is what you've replaced the whiteboard and post-its with.
I could of course be wrong here but this is, in my experience what breaks the camels back. Mostly...
Nice page! Very well made and great explanations. However; I'm a big fan of aliases in git, but I don't think this is the way to go personally. Knowing the difference between rebase and merge is vital, and I think it's worth the time investment to learn git properly.
It took me 1 month of painstakingly learning the git CLI and I'm happy I spent the time. Before that I was using a GUI and was essentially afraid of git.
I'm no longer afraid. Instead I'm actively exploring ways to do things faster and/or smarter every day.
This happened when I switched jobs recently and came into contact with a fantastic developer and patient teacher. Doing it myself would have taken a bit longer and I wouldn't be able to see how much it would be worth it.
I'm enjoying a rebase workflow everyday. And I especially like the -i flag for interactive rebasing;
git rebase -i
git add -p
I'd like to weigh in here as well.
My father uses a Windows 10 laptop, and a Samsung Android phone.
The biggest pain point is that Windows sometimes decides to do an update, and upon restart, shows a splash screen with a wizard which wants you to make decisions and read/understand a few things. He has no idea what going on or if something will break, or if he actually did something wrong. I solve this via WhatsApp video calls "quickly", and then have to explain to him for 5-10 minutes how it's not his fault.
When it comes to the phone, all he essentially uses it for is YouTube and WhatsApp. When I visited a while back an OTA update had showed up and I promptly started to install it. While it downloaded i found ELEVEN registry cleaner derivatives installed on his phone. He couldn't have gotten this from anywhere other than YouTube.
Again I have to hear this; "I'm so sorry son, you know we have no idea what's going on, please forgive us for causing you so much trouble."
I know they feel guilty for not knowing how to handle this stuff themselves and wish they didn't have to "bother" me so much. In my eyes everyday tech took a gigantic leap from having a TV with a remote to requiring people to be super users in tremendously more complex software/hardware.
They don't even stand a chance...
One of the best (well made, great design, functional) Android apps I'm using currently is a weather app. It's made by the Norwegian Public Service Agency, NRK.
The app is simply called Yr and they have a website where you can find the apps (bottom)[0]
Hey! Fun game! I very much enjoyed the technical details in your post. Nice work!
Problem: I can't share results with Firefox on my Android. It works with Chrome. After pressing the share button, I get the share menu but when I choose for example WhatsApp, it fails with a toast msg: "Can't send empty message". Choosing "Copy to Clipboard" works but it copies null. Any thoughts? :)
Funny thing is; This isn't the first time this has happened with these Wordle style games where you share your results in a msg.
For me it was all of the above, but equally important, the sound design was superb. Not just music but game sounds as well.
Refunds on Pre-Purchased Titles
When you pre-purchase a title on Steam (and have paid for the title in advance), you can request a refund at any time prior to release of that title. The standard 14-day/two-hour refund period also applies, starting on the game’s release date.[1]
I'm not going to debate you on the importance of being careful with preorders, especially outside of Steam, but this is the case as it stands right now.
I do however remember reading something like your scenario a long while ago, perhaps even so far back as to the beginning of Steam Refunds.