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Building MyLawnGuide (https://mylawnguide.com) as a way to help me organize and plan my yard maintenance for the season.
Enter your zip, type of grass you want, where you're starting and it gives you a rough plan to follow for seeding, feeding, and pre-emergent.
Location: Upstate, South Carolina.
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No, can travel a few times a year though.
Technologies: All things testing (Selenium/Playwright especially). Most experience in windows world (Azure/C#/etc).
Résumé/CV: Over 12 years of experience driving test automation, transforming QA teams, and leading quality initiatives across diverse industries. I’ve contributed to both fast-paced startups and established enterprises, spanning healthcare, finance, and gaming. Working with global organizations such as NASDAQ and Rockstar Games. I'm also a documentation fiend and USA Today Best Selling author.
Email: hn [at] j4.gg
Not looking to hire? Just curious about testing at your startup or org? I'm always down to talk.
Apple Private Relay is on by default for a lot of Apple products these days. This is why my account was banned.
We have this in the US. Open a business and you'll get spammed with a lot of providers offering stuff that is either free, un needed, or overpriced.
"You need this sign in your break room else you'll be fined $10,000! Just subscribe for $299/year and we'll mail you labor posters each year." These can be found for like $10 and don't change yearly.
"This form needs to be filed else you'll be fined! Pay us $499 and we'll take care of it!" Free to file online.
Even forming a business in my state is like 2 forms and $125 and can be done all online. But if you were to google how to, you'd find all these people to "Help out" and it'd end up costing you $1000-2000 for their "Help".
Gamepass is pretty generous. Gamers see MS buy a studio and add their catalog to gamepass. PC gamers appreciate that Xbox games are also usually on PC.
Nintendo sends a ton of C&D letters to smaller developers, and are pretty anti-emulation. Games never go on sale. Remakes are expensive ($60 for Super Mario RPG for example).
Sony just had the whole "You need a PSN account to play a PC game" thing. But also, you can't create a PSN account in some countries, so sorry you can't play the PC game you bought anymore. They ended up walking it back though. You also need to pay to play online, which is a thing on xbox as well. But I think that's usually drowned out by the "PC Gamers" who don't need to pay for something like that.
In 2024, the revenue in the Luxury Goods market in the United States amounts to US$75.6Bn (Watches, Eyewear, Jewlery, fashion, cosmetics/fragrance, leather goods)
Americans wagered a record $119.84 billion on sports betting in 2023
Slots and table games across the U.S. generated $43.79 billion
Do you know or recommend a service for this thats easy and fast to use?
I use a google account with a catch all domain. {Website/Store} @ short domain that goes to the same mailbox. I reply from name @ different domain, though.
The benefit is when I give it over the phone it's easy to say "StoreName"@ than spelling my name or using another longer email.
Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card?
Many times people who steal credit cards will try to make small purchases to validate cards. Since there is no human interaction someone who has stolen ~10 cards could try each one by buying a $1-2 coffee and seeing which ones work. The machine takes photos which could then be turned over if/when the card holder reports fraud.
I've worked places where it would be 1000x harder getting a spare laptop from the IT closet to run some processing than it would be to spend $50k-100k at Azure.
I worked at a place that kept their legacy servers running through eBay parts.
The only reason they started migrating was because it started getting too expensive and hard to find old parts.
This is a huge issue in self publishing. Sure, some people got lucky and can churn out a book a month and make decent money. But so many more sell books/courses on 'how to make money'.
Some will show you their revenue, "I'm a six figure author!" But frequently hide how much they spend on ads or editing. Or try to hide that they're making ~$50k on courses/affiliate sales and their net is... ~$50k. Writing is a net zero income for them and most of it is just used to sell courses/products.
Chances are he had a blog or something with content/pages and got approved. Then just re-used the codes/keys for the affiliate links on this new site. Once you start making money Amazon doesn't care.
Source: Me. I had a comparison tool for products with similar layout to this. They originally denied it citing 'lack of content'. Made a 2nd website with some blogs/reviews, it was approved. Re-used the code/api for the comparison tool and closed the other website. They haven't complained in 12 years.
Even with steam I can buy a game on steam and install it on steam. Then when I go run it, I need to first install another company's launcher. This includes signing up, confirming my email, etc.
Even single player games will require you launch, sign up, and auth with EA's servers before you can play said game.
They will disable charging if they detect liquids in the port as a way to reduce the chance of causing failures.
Gel bait has been huge for me. We're in an area that gets roaches pretty frequently. They still get in, but we'll find them dead and in much smaller numbers than when we used a spray. About 2-4/year now always dead vs ~10-15/year half of which were alive.
This is how it is in some motorsports series as well. I had a teacher who was a mechanic for a racing team. They'd leave something 'big' broken for tech so that the people would find it, have them fix it. He said they'd miss a bunch of smaller stuff, but would feel accomplished for finding the 'big' error.
Apple will be pushing for RCS/Carriers to adopt e2e, but it'll probably just flag green/notify users that messages are not encrypted.
In CA, there is a differing payscale for teachers w/ a Bachelors degree, a Masters degree/20 post bachelor units, and a PhD.
It's this way in other states as well. I briefly looked into teaching and the pay range was $30-45k because I only had a bachelors. My 10+ years of experience meant nothing. If someone was teaching any other subject fresh from college with a PhD it'd be closer to 60k-70k.
Years of teaching didn't mean much either. It was basically cost of living pay raises unless I went back to school and got a masters/phd.
Question: before Apple invented airpods, how many lithium ion battery powered headphones were in landfills? Nearly zero, because folks used wired headphones.
Bluetooth headphones existed prior to 2016 when the AirPods were released. Wireless headsets for phones were also very disposable. Wireless buds were also poor quality and didn't last.
One issue is with how the census/fed defines vacancy.
A housing unit is vacant if no one is living in it at the time of the interview, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent. In addition, a vacant unit may be one which is entirely occupied by persons who have a usual residence elsewhere. New units not yet occupied are classified as vacant housing units if construction has reached a point where all exterior windows and doors are installed and final usable floors are in place.
If a builder is building a house and it has a roof/windows/doors/floors but no occupancy permit, utilities are not hooked up, and there are no appliances/furniture that is counted as 'vacant' even though you technically can't live there.
If I left an apartment today (12th) and my lease ends the 30th. Even if a lease is in place at the start of the next month that still counts as a vacancy.
If I have a 2nd home I share with family/friends/short term lease that is generally occupied, it's still "vacant".
As someone whose hired people/done PT work/contract work and FT work these are things people want:
Health Care and Money.
I know many smart people who'd do non-full time work if they had healthcare provided. But, unless you're a FTE you're not getting that.
Also, the pay differences is pretty low. Why would I work as a Dev at "Random Contract Company" that is offering $65-75/hr when I could just get a FT job that pays $140-150k/yr and includes PTO and other perks?
If part time/contract paid as much of a difference as travel nurses for instance, you'd see a lot more contractors.
I've found most ranges to be fair and useful as well. But, I've run into issues where they have no desire to honor the ranges. I've had discussions with HR/Recruiters and requested a salary near the top of their posted range. They've come back and said that the absolute max they can pay is 25% under what was posted as the max.
Their 140-200k posted salary capped out at 150k.
Why did you not use the "Buy For Others" option? It is directly under the "Buy now with 1-Click" option. It lets you enter any number of emails and they will send the books directly to them. Or they'll just give you redemption codes you can send out yourself.
This was tied to an action in the App Store. Not sure how you purchase apps without tying it to your Apple ID. It is also laid out in the ToS "We use information about your browsing, purchases, searches, and downloads. These records are stored with IP address, a random unique identifier (where that arises), and Apple ID"
No one (or even the author) has been able to replicate it or find the Apple ID in any other logs calls.
He bought the options back in summer of 2021. He decided to exercise them rather than let them expire worthless. His price was probably around 180/share.
In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365.
In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365.
He bought options in July 2021. Basically, he said he'd buy 20k shares stock for X price regardless of the price in the next year. If the stock goes up he can sell the options without having to buy said stock (for a profit). He can also give up what he paid for the options and choose not to buy the shares and they'd expire worthless.
As the stock was below what he bet it would be within a years time he decided to exercise his right to buy the 20k shares rather than lose his initial investment. He then sold, for a loss, but possibly a smaller one than if he just let them expire worthless.
For the past quarter-century, the American Medical Association and other industry groups have predicted a glut of doctors and worked to limit the number of new physicians. In 1994, the Journal of the American Medical Association predicted a surplus of 165,000 doctors by 2000.
Most residencies are paid for my Medicare funds. The 1997 Balanced Budget Act capped the number of residencies that Medicare funds, which led to fewer physicians. Who pushed for the cap?
Lawmakers received cover from the American Medical Association (AMA), the Association of American Medical Colleges, and other major stakeholders in American medicine who endorsed caps on funding for residents and other graduate medical education programs. In March 1997, months before the Balanced Budget Act was enacted, the AMA even suggested reducing the number of US residency positions by approximately 25% from 25,000 to fewer than 19,000. “The United States is on the verge of a serious oversupply of physicians,” said the AMA and other physicians’ groups in a joint statement
https://qz.com/1676207/the-us-is-on-the-verge-of-a-devastati...
And also in the past they have lobbied to shut down medical schools which led to shortages in the 60s. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMhpr033066
They have recently pushed for more physicians but those changes will take time.
Honestly it's worse than this sounds. According to a UNC study only 12% of adults are metabolically healthy.
Data revealed that only 12.2 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy, which means that only 27.3 million adults are meeting recommended targets for cardiovascular risk factors management, according to researchers.
https://www.unc.edu/posts/2018/11/28/only-12-percent-of-amer...
Even in Cherokee country, where the additional income is quite sizable, the payments are not enough to live on
The Alaska Permanent Fund has been giving $1,000 to $2,000 a year to its citizens for decades
Neither of these are amounts to not work on. Many people quit working after reaching a specific "UBI". Either through social security or retirement/investment accounts. This is also the goal for many folks such as FIRE.