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Man, that's pretty sweet! Do you ship to Europe?

I thought about leaving, even went to 3 days a week IT, and 2 days something else. I was making some serious headway, but in the end...

In IT, people are pretty chill. We share open source, we create new things all the time, we get to solve interesting problems. It's fun! The rest of the world is full of people with a... different outlook on how to interact with the world around them, to put it mildly.

Now I'm back on 4 days a week, and I absolutely love it! Two afternoons off per week. It's not too much of a strain on the budget, yet gives me a lot of free time. It's really the best.

Find a good team, stick with it. Do your job during office hours, and then do your other stuff on your side. We're lucky to have a stable, high paying and relatively ok for your (physical) health job.

If you're really set on leaving, I'd highly encourage you to switch to 3 days a week and start a side business in anything. You can sponsor it with your IT salary, and then figure out what you want to do when you're ready.

Yes please, more of that!

There's an alternative solution: update everything, but limit your dependencies.

Example: for my (personal) projects, I only use whatever is available in the debian repositories. If it's not in there, it's not on my dependency list.

Then enable unattended upgrades, and forget about all that mess.

Shorter range and shorter lifespan too :D

It was a nice monitor stand though, the pizzabox style.

You're right on the sudden change! I remember our 386 was sitting flat on the desk, and the (huuuge) 486 tower was upright below the desk.

Maybe something to do with the noise? Must have been quieter to hide the monster below a wood plank on a carpet to dampen the vibration, rather than on a resonating wood plank right in front of your face.

My favorite part about these old computers is that they didn't have an auto shutdown yet. You had to flip a big mechanical switch on the back, and that was very satisfying!

I have a so-called "intelligent speed limited" in my 2 year old car.

It's absolutely terrible.

On the highway it picks up the 50km/h panel intended for the bus lanes.

Close to where I live it hallucinates a 5km/h limit.

In random places it will miss limitations.

Right now it simply decreases engine power. On a highway that's already dangerous enough. Can't wait till they use the same visual/audio warnings as they do for the pre-collision assistant...

By the way, that's bullshit too. Triggering for no good reason and scary enough to take my eyes off the road. Love it.

glinet routers are amazing, but their file sharing lacks authentication sadly (well, mine does, at least). So anyone getting access to you network also gets access to your files.

It's mostly fine, until one of you devices gets compromised. Then it's not fine at all anymore.

Not the solution we deserve, but the solution we need :D

What's wrong with immigration?

This game was (and still is) flippin' fantastic! The single player mode was great, the two players mode was amazing, the music was banging.

If you never played it, I highly recommend you give it a try!

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. Can you rephrase?

I don't think the queue has ever been down in 6 years. It certainly never was a breaking point.

As for the database, yes, we could do blue/green I guess, but it's a big database and it's more cost effective to rely on the queue.

To be honest, I'm not even sure blue/green would be an option given our constraints.

We have a new project (~ 6 years now) where we implemented a queue with RabbitMQ to temporarily store business events before they are stored in a database for reporting later.

It's awesome!

It absorbs the peaks, smoothes them out, acts as a buffer for when the database is down for upgrades, and I think over all these years we only had one small issue with it.

10/10 would recommend.

I agree that it's an interesting question worth exploring.

However I'm wondering why we are still at that stage of the game. Animals seem like a "duh, of course" answer to me. They have a brain, a nervous system, they're so close to us that the answer should be obvious.

Now an amoeba yes, that's (to me, at least) an open discussion. LLMs and AGIs too, they're too new and unknown.

But animals? Come on, we had thousands of years to figure that out.

Sorry, why is this even a research? It's uh... pretty obvious they are conscious.

About 10 years ago I interviewed with Radionomy for the lead position on the Winamp revival.

By that time I was working on a competing product at another company, and was admittedly a little young for a tech lead position. They didn't hire me.

Years later, in another company, we replied to a call for offers for yet another Winamp project, from the same company. We were 4 mobile app engineers, all super enthousiastic about the prospect and would have been able to deliver.

We didn't get the contract for money reasons.

I still believe Radionomy should have hired me, the first time or the second time, Winamp would be alive and kicking. Dammit!

Oh hell yeah!

Interesting! Not sure a lot of pro sellers would allow that, but I can see an individual accepting the idea if it means quick cashout

Not saying you _have_ to lower the price, maybe I'm just a cheap bastard ;) You know what you need out of it.

EDIT: actually I just noticed it was cheaper through the "unlimited" option. Maybe a simpler/clearer pricing would do :)

Nice! Might need to buy a car soon, so that's handy!

A few comments:

- maybe add somes weights to the questions? For example it's more important that the rear view mirrors are properly attached than having no stain on the upholstery.

- some questions deserve more details. "After revving the vehicle in neutral...", am I supposed to rev it for long?

Other than that... Thanks! Looks pretty good :) Nitpick on the price: I would be ready to pay to remove ads, but not for the current price.

SQLite reads and writes are already very fast, in particular because it's running in process.

The minute you put it behind a socket, you lose that benefit. Also you would have to implement an efficient wire protocol.

I just don't see the added value here.

I'm happy that something at all got all the mindshare. Otherwise we'd still each be using something different.

Markdown is perfectly usable.

You pay for impressions.

Rubbish

I did 4k video editing on my 8GB MacBook air M1, and it's still faster than on my desktop with an AMD 3600X and an Nvidia 1650.

Granted, it did swap, but it was still faster.

While I agree that 8BG is not much, I completely disagree that it's ruining the experience.

Kate was my first code editor on Linux. Learned PHP and python on it.

I still have nostalgia with the pink syntax coloring it has (had?) for python!

Thanks a lot to all the contributors, sure had an impact on my life!

That's not a reason to make it faster...

Is anyone actually using this on production servers? A web user/password login with sudo powers sounds... risky.

Yet managing the server through a web interface sounds nice.

Any feedback here?

Disagree. I will proudly write that my work is AI free.

That magnific.ai thingy is taking a lot of liberty on the images, and denaturing it.

Their example with the cake is the most obvious. To me, the original image shows a delicious cake, and the modified one shows a cake that I would rather not eat...