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Doing heavy barbell squats and deadlifts worked wonders for me. Three sets of five (with appropriate warmup of course).

Eliminated my back pain and led to a bunch of other non obvious life improvements.

You can subscribe to newsletters with any RSS reader nowadays, but it’s a multi step process requiring the use of an external (free) tool.

1. Create a feed on https://kill-the-newsletter.com/. This will also give you a custom email address to send your newsletter to.

2. Subscribe to the newsletter with the custom email address and add the feed you created to your reader.

This setup works very well for me with NetNewsWire though there is friction in the multiple steps. No affiliation with either, just a satisfied user.

You can always register the domain for 10 years, and then just keep renewing it every year so you always maintain 9 to 10 years of future paid registration.

Like you, this hasn’t been a problem for me.

GitHub Pages are still free but commercial websites are forbidden.

What is the use case for music generation models?

New types of electronic instruments.

We’ve been able to use analog circuits, digital logic, and then computers to generate sounds for decades… aka synthesizers.

I would love to see synthesizers which use music generation models under the hood to create new sounds. And / or new interfaces to create different types of instruments.

There’s a lot to explore here, in the same way there was (is) lots of exploration of electronic music starting I suppose with the Theremin in the 1930s.

Surprised nobody has mentioned the PARA method. After years of ad-hoc organizing setups I started using it for both home and work (separately).

Best thing is it’s simple and gets out of the way, so I focus on what I’m trying to do and not on the metawork of maintaining some complex hierarchy. I looked at more complicated schemes like Johnny Decimal and they were not for me.

I organize my filesystem, notes app, and todo app in the same way. It works really well for me and has stopped the nagging desire to periodically optimize the system. It just gets out of the way so I can focus more.

I’m actually pretty neutral on Tiago Forte overall, not a big fan for various reasons. But his PARA system has been super useful for me. https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/

Watch out for the lead and heavy metals and cacao https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/a-third-o...

I just can not fathom the level of greed I saw hiding behind people’s eyes at Google as they try to build empires.

That’s very well written. Poetic even.

I’m in Silicon Valley to learn about and work with computers.

The industry used to be more like that. Never entirely, of course - Microsoft made a bunch of people millionaires in the 80s and 90s, turned some heads. A few others did too.

Even in the early 2000s almost none of the MBA types were going to the Bay Area after graduating.

But things changed. It basically had to. There were too many companies making too much money - and making their employees too wealthy - for people to ignore it. Zero interest rates added fuel to the fire and everyone who could jumped on it. Late stage capitalism, everyone gotta get theirs. And here we are.

I have realized I spend a lot of time trying to keep managing projects rather than doing the project itself.

Do you use JIRA for life, or Linear, or Obsidian, or pen and paper? Yearly goals, monthly+weekly breakdowns?

The tool doesn’t matter. Just pick a simple one and be done with it. The reminders app built into your phone works great. You sure as hell don’t need JIRA to manage your life.

You are procrastinating doing the work. Sit down, make a list of everything you have to do. Then pick one thing and do it. Then, choose the next thing to do and do that. Rinse and repeat.

Any ideas of what I could do to try to solve my issue?

What specific problems are you having?

I don’t know. I’ve been using this setup for 7+ years, daily backups, and never had this problem.

I have about 80 GB or so of data being backed up. The daily backups upload only new files plus files that are changed. The largest monthly AWS bill I ever got was $6. The next month it went back to the usual ~$2 range.

Local vs cloud backups each have their own tradeoffs. I use both.

For cloud backup I use Arq backing up daily to AWS (no affiliation with Arq other than being a happy customer). You get client side encryption and the daily backup directly mitigates your concern, if there’s an AWS account issue you will know immediately and can fix it. For my storage amount and use it only costs about $2 a month.

Lots and lots of discussion on that same topic, with many alternatives not only listed but discussed, here: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=415838

Things has a nice watch app and it works well with Siri too. Granted the watch app isn’t as flexible as Reminders, but that may not matter for a given persons usage.

Love this idea. I might try this out with leaving my phone in my bag instead of at home, to start with, might be enough friction.

Cloudflare is cash flow positive and profitable on a non-GAAP basis, while being unprofitable on a GAAP basis. https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2024/cloudflare-an...

I use Amplifi Aliens. They are expensive but have been rock solid for me. I do way more videoconferencing than gaming and it’s been a great experience.

Mesh with wired backhaul is a great sweet spot if you can manage it. When we renovated our house I had Ethernet run just from the router location to the spots where the WiFi meshes would be. Bandwidth, latency, and coverage are all excellent, with minimal wiring.

What’s the failure mode you’re guarding against by having the UPSs on separate circuits and breakers?

Is the idea to protect against a breaker failing, a wiring issue, or something similar?

Like the employer offers coverage that extends to a non-employee spouse, like family health insurance?

Yes. I believe it’s typically offered for just you, you+spouse, or you+family - like health insurance. Lots of info on Google.

Side note: My wife is a stay-at-home mom and I've long wished for a disability insurance product that would cover the economic value that she provides, i.e. cover the cost of daycare / after-school care if she couldn't care for the kids. As far as I can tell, there's no such product for people who aren't wage earners.

AD&D (accidental death and disability) is the closest you’ll come. It’s most commonly offered by workplaces I believe, and is not expensive. On the flip side the situations it pays out are pretty narrow.

The only other alternative I know of is life insurance but of course that covers death, not disability.

I really don't know why stereo components do not communicate digitally via ethernet cables.

If you’re building a new pro audio setup today, be it studio or even live sound, that’s likely how you’re doing it.

Even 20 years ago we had digital audio routers that worked pretty decently (not great, but well enough). This was a recording studio of course, not a home audio setting.

The reason we don’t have this in consumer audio is almost certainly cost. Now you need to add a ADC, Ethernet, and a small chip to run it all. Meanwhile nobody wants to run cables anymore and WiFi is everywhere. But of course putting WiFi in everything drives cost too.

Looks like the Xbox 360 will get more than 18 years of online store support. That's a really long time considering it launched in 2005.

I would take 18 total years online support for the Switch. It's been out for 6 so far, so even if I "only" got 12 years out of my unit (I just bought one recently) that would be pretty good...

...but not excellent. I bought a Wii in 2008 and after a long time in storage I pulled it out again a few years ago. Since then it's been used at least once every two weeks and mostly weekly. It's 15 years old and everything including the game CDs have held up surprisingly well.

Will I want to use my Switch and the digital games I purchased, in 15 years? Can't rule it out based on past history.

Wikipedia says >132 million Switch units have shipped, and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom just launched 6 months ago. Adding it all up, shutting down the Switch backend services in even 4 or 5 years seems insane at best.

I made a top-level comment before I saw yours wondering how they’ll handle Switch online services.

And I think you’re right. If they have any sense, and it generally seems like Nintendo does, they’ll keep the Switch eshop running indefinitely. Hopefully they do the same with the other backend services supporting the Switch, but that is more questionable. They really should though.

I wonder long will the backend infra supporting the Switch will last. Especially now that they’re selling download-only versions of the games.

Online services for earlier consoles like the Wii were more basic, and IIRC in some cases were developed and maintained by third parties, not Nintendo themselves? I understand wanting to get rid of that overhead especially if it wasn’t driving incremental revenue.

But now the Switch is more intimately tied to online services for buying games and add ons. The most customer-friendly approach would be to keep backend services running indefinitely. Basically consider your backend to be a platform like Windows or macOS and maintain and evolve it indefinitely, keeping older consoles alive as long as possible (and continuing the ongoing revenue stream from older consoles, even as it shrinks over time, to at least cover cost.)

It seems like they have to do something like this to support downloadable games, at least with the online shop. I wonder how they’ll handle it.

I read a rumor that the successor to the Switch is expected in 2024 or 2025. And we picked up a Switch a couple months ago and I chose to buy all games as digital download version. And I remember the backend for the Wii being shut down. So this has been on my mind recently.

Bandcamp is good, it’s profitable and sustainable and it basically works.

What's the source for the profitability claim?

Why do you still use lastpass?

So then buyers aren’t getting houses at the same monthly payment at a much lower purchase price than otherwise.

He listened to people… 35 years later!

35 years!

In the meantime we were treated to a huge pile of pseudo intellectual babble he used to defend his position.