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My musical tastes have changed a lot, I've found new bands and artists pretty much every year of my life. I listen to music from my teenage years now & then, but more often than not I'm listening to completely new music.

So Amazon-owned Twitch makes huge job cuts, they cut jobs in Prime video, introduce ads for prime video users, all within the last few weeks? Is something wrong with Amazon's financials that they're taking more drastic measures?

This is definitely the easier way to understand it. Imagine a point in the centre of the circle that is traveling. Draw the line that point takes, and then calculate using the new circle.

They're pretty essential for any situation where you can't just stop down the exposure in the camera. If you want a long exposure shot of some crashing waves on a bright day for instance, you might not be able to just increase the shutter speed or narrow the aperture without ruining the intended photo.

How do you write the time? Do you put seconds or minutes before hours? Why not?

No, because the seconds are rarely important.

How do you write the year? Do you put decade before century?

No, because that's not how numbers work.

How do you write numbers? Do you put the ones place before the tens?

Same answer.

Toddmorey asked why units don’t go from small to large and I explained that it is inconsistent with how we write numbers.

Dates aren't numbers. There is a lot more context and meaning around dates that we need to consider when we verbalise and write them. But, for the purposes of e.g. data storage then absolutely - we can consider them no different from numbers. You have to understand that isn't the case with conversational English, though.

Yeah, and that's great for storing things in databases. Not for everyday communication. We talk in terms of most relevant to least relevant - the day (or time) is typically most relevant, with the year being least.

In everyday use, the year is the least important part. It makes perfect sense in many cases. It's in order of most relevant information to least.

YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS has its place as well, but not here.

3 million people used them between last year and this year. About 4.5% of the population. That's a lot of people.

The problem is the commute, not the office. Mostly.

Yep. I have been told numerous times to start a bakery, or a photography business, or to open a restaurant, or start a music tuition business.

But none of the hobbies that sparked those comments would stay enjoyable if I did that.

So I'm a full-time programmer, and have tons more fun with those hobbies now than I ever would if I turned them into a career.

Turning something you do for fun into something you do to survive has always been a great way to sap the enjoyment out of it.

I've been told numerous times over the years to turn my photography into a business. Or my baking. Or my cooking. Or to start music tuition. I can't think of anything I'd hate more.

Has there ever been an example of an industry standard tool losing out to FOSS alternatives? Ever? There are reasons for that.

Every tech interview I have had has, at some point, included interviewing with the person I'd be working under

I think the next bottleneck is likely to be software longevity.

My girlfriend recently dropped (and broke) her iPhone X. She then bought a used Galaxy S9. The S9 is a few months older than the iPhone X.

Despite that, the app for our home alarm is not supported on her S9, because for some unknown reason it requires Android 11+, and the S9 only supports up to Android 10.

Mullvad was the darling of the Vpn world

Very much still are.

20 dollars a month for Reddit, oh man that's a good one

If I could walk 30 minutes to work I'd be overjoyed. I'd consider it if my walk took an hour, which is how long my commute often is.

The garden I crafted myself at home is better than any arboretum. For me. It's also nice and private.

Is that so bad? The other way of looking at it is that employers would be more likely to allow WFH, since they don't have to pay for your commute costs anymore

I don't want to go to an office, but I still am very social & go out all the time. This is the case for most people I know. In fact, if I didn't have to commute for 2 hours a day I'd have more time for social activities.

I'd also love to have some extra time to be able to go to the gym, but right now I'm getting home, cooking, eating, and suddenly it's past 9pm and I'm having to think about getting stuff ready for work the next day.

if I could walk 5 min to my office, would I still want to work from home?

I have my own kitchen, my own bathroom, I can do housework things like putting the laundry in while I'm on a break, I can be in for deliveries, etc.

I'd be most happy with a fully remote job, that has an option to go in to the office whenever I like. Some face time is valuable, but absolutely not 5 days of face time a week.

If you don't think all sides use propaganda, you've clearly fallen for the propaganda of whatever side you think doesn't use it.

My team have found it very useful in day-to-day work, actually.

People working from their personal PCs is what fucked lastpass in their last hack.

It was a good time for the internet, back then. I do miss those days. I've tried to visit 4chan a few times in the last decade, but the community is... different now.

Is it based on Midjourney?

No.

Maybe that means taxing fossil fuels more and increasing that over time

This is infeasible, there are already millions who are struggling to get by with existing energy bills, and without enough cash to upgrade to more eco-friendly systems. These people are stuck on fossil fuels, increasing taxes for it across the board is just going to cause more pain, suffering, and homelessness.

A better idea would be progressive taxation built into income tax. The higher-earners also tend to be bigger polluters, so it makes sense in that regard as well.

Recheck the link you provided, look for refined olive oil. It's just the virgin olive oils that have the lower smoke points.

Also seriouseats puts it at 465°F https://www.seriouseats.com/cooking-fats-101-whats-a-smoke-p...

Light/refined olive oil has a smoke point of up to 470°F. You can sear meat anywhere between 400°F and 500°F.

There is absolutely no reason you can't sear meat with olive oil. You just have to use the light/refined stuff, and not the virgin/extra virgin (which have smoke points closer to 410°F.

Worth noting that canola oil, in the best case scenario, has a smoke point of 450°F.

The Joy of Cooking.