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Not harder than moving apartments?!?!

What does this cover - garbage collection, what else?

That's the fun part, it doesn't even cover garbage!

Jokes aside, property tax in the US typically go towards safety net funding for your community. So a lot to schools, public safety, roads/infrastructure, etc. There are definitely some places where garbage is covered in that, but a lot of places garbage collection is privatized in the US.

Sometimes hearing about how much it costs to cut down trees makes me want to quit my job. I think a lot of that is probably for liability insurance though? Both for worker injury risk and for risk of property damage. It will cost a lot to fix a house that has a tree fall through it. But also since those are market rates, it's still a very good idea to ensure they have legit insurance. You are usually SOL if they don't.

After asking it to schedule something, it prompted me to allow or block notifications, so sounds like this is just chatGPT scheduling push notifications? We'll see!

I am noting that this is a fairly dated article (Feb 15, 2023), but supabase does MFA to sign into their platform.

My team got really far using something called GlitchTip. It's compatible with the Sentry SDKs, but really cheap, so it felt like there were minimal consequences to switch if we ever had the need to. We only switched to Sentry cause our company was acquired and they already had a Sentry subscription going.

Former HackerRank Employee here, while I agree it seems like a very quick response, I just want to point out they have nowhere near 1000 employees. When I was there it was probably a quarter of that.

As a YC backed company, it seemed like almost everything on HackerNews was known about within the company when I was there.

I have a framework laptop (https://frame.work/) and really like it! I run Ubuntu right now, and do run into issues with fractional scaling, but I haven't seen any laptop properly address that on linux.

One downside is the battery isn't amazing. I usually get ~3-4 hours when doing development work and ~6-7 with light use.

How do you deal with people who don't adhere to the process? It's all fine and good to require people to write tests, but often I catch bugs in their test code too.

I was unfamiliar with the term JBOD, thanks for the laugh!

Unfortunately as a remote employee I find it harder to accomplish. I used to commute by bike 2-3 times a week, 11 miles each way, but now it has to be an intentional effort to leave the home which seems to be harder for me.

Recently picked up a GoPro and been a really quick and easy way to express creativity! I find myself thinking "I wonder if I could do a time lapse here" or "this would be fun to see in slow-mo".

I've by no means been a perfectionist about editing, and I think that contributes a lot to having fun with it. It kind of reminds me of how I first felt learning how to program, making one-off things that I could write terrible code in and throw away, which seems harder for me to do as of late.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but how will photos taken on my phone, and uploaded to Google Photos, be synced to Google Drive now? Backup and Sync seems to only deal with files on a Mac/Windows (yikes) client syncing to Drive/Photos, not the other way around?

Since photos and videos will no longer sync across both products, items copied in Original Quality will count towards your storage quota in both Drive and Photos.

This is absolutely ridiculous, I feel that they should have just continued the idea that photos is a view layer on top of storage. Now I guess I'll just have to give them more money for more storage now that all my photos will double count towards my quota if I choose to use both services.

Honestly I'm hoping someday soon we will get more specific research into associations with gene markers and diets. We already have fitness programs oriented towards genetics, and starting to get diets oriented that way too. I think we need a lot more research before I believe those programs, but if it takes off like Ancestry/23andMe I think the next couple decades could see a lot of genetic based nutrition plans.

What do you consider expensive? I am able to follow the keto diet on around $200 a month, and that's with splurging on things here and there. I've never really understood why people say it is so much more expensive.

Part of giving to charity in addition to taxes is that I don't think the government (USA) is really handling my money properly when it comes to social programs. Private giving in the USA allows us to choose how our money is spent more specifically and usually lets you make a bigger impact in an area you care about. You should look up private giving in the USA, it's an astounding figure that is given every year voluntarily, there are tax deductions if you itemize, but at the end of the day I would save more money taking the standard deduction and not giving, so it's still a sacrifice monetarily for a lot of people here.

I contribute in my free time to an organization called Love Justice (Previously known as Tiny Hands International). They're focusing on sex trafficking prevention globally, and we're currently struggling to keep the tech up with the organization as they are scaling. We initially started off deving just for the country of Nepal, but the organization is now expanding to over a dozen countries and we are working primarily on adapting the web app to support that.

They have some really cool stuff in the road map that we just don't have enough volunteers to keep up. Trying to use facial recognition to identify traffickers and discover repeat offenders, trying to map out trafficking networks as they travel through various countries, etc. But full disclosure, the cool stuff isn't really in active development right now as we're addressing other issues.

You can check out our repos here: https://github.com/Tiny-Hands - Currently we're using Django for the web server and AngularJS for the client. Hit me up if you'd want to get involved or learn more! (my email is my username with gmail)

I actually prefer to use Docker, especially on projects with multiple people. The amount of times people shipped code without adding dependencies, or on-boarding new people who wouldn't read the docs to install system dependencies was astounding. Now it's as easy as install Docker, and running `docker-compose up` and since our CI and servers use the same images it's virtually guaranteed to work. I've also noticed a huge productivity leap being able to use sql serves as containers rather than installing them on the system! so much easier to manage!

I think the reasoning goes because you are used to using carbs as your energy source most of the time, your body doesn't know what to do at first when it doesn't have any available. The body adapts surprisingly well to different energy sources, so if you drop all carbs, your body will burn fat for energy and create ketones.

It kinda sounds crazy, and I used to think it was, but I'm currently low carb to lose weight (lost 28 pounds in 3 months with it so far!). It just takes a couple weeks of training while on the diet to get your body to catch on and be back to your usual performance.

There are actually a surprising number of world records set by athletes on low carb diets who destroyed previous records that claim their diet is the main reason they were able to accomplish their goals