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This feels like an example of a company trying to do the "right thing" and deciding there must be a way to monetize that, regarding what everyone (even the web) is telling them.
Imagine the balance of revenue from non-returning users (think fitness) vs very heavy users, and finding a way to keep both parties happy. And the implications it has (those "paused" users still count towards "onboarded" users).
Major props Kagi team, or who-ever pushed this idea!
I didn't even realise mIRC worked on 3.11, wow! It was my first introduction to programming in a way.
It makes me wonder if adding something akin to the script editor you had in mIRC to for instance a game such as minecraft would serve as a good way to introduce people to programming, similar to how mIRC might have..
If you're a bit stable yourself (& used to skateboard yourself), try long-boarding (4 year old in front of you with plenty of protection, there's enough space on a standard longboard to fit an adult & child).
Or biking them in a bicycle trailer to the store/school.
Surfing is one I'm looking forward to myself, I've never done it either myself!
I'm not sure how new the trend is, but it's called gitmoji (https://gitmoji.dev/) and there's also tooling to make committing/searching for the "correct" emoji easier :D Whatever makes your job more fun, right? Oh and it saves on characters!
My wife (mainly, my role has been system user/devops) wrote a custom angular UI on top of grocy for managing our household stock (basically any product we buy at grocery stores), there are two bluetooth barcode scanners and screens which allow you to quickly checkout a product when consumed. Since she started gardening she's also "abusing" the db with custom fields to track when she's planted vegetables, harvested them, etc...
Also over 70% of the lights / 50% of other devices in our house are smart (zigbee/wifi/ble) and are connected to home assistant (I very much recommend tradfri+xiaomi zigbee+home assistant). By now I'm sure we've spend over 200h on our "smart home/life", we love data :)
That's an interesting point you're making. I wonder what the policy is regarding the questions people ask an LLM and the developers behind the service reading through the questions (with unsuccessful responses from the LLM?)
It says on all posts on that blog: Please do not post this article to Hacker News.
Which I think should be respected :) even though it's awesome content!
With all the recent articles about sand running out (from rivers), microplastics, global warming, bugs dying... it sounds like we're screwing the earth big time. While I'm not the person who cares enough to completely change my life style, I'm getting worried. I wonder whether this is just me, I hope not, but then again it also feels like the industry in general still doesn't care enough.
I'm still in my 20's, but I do need at least 5-6h of sleep to perform well the next day. Powernaps like i0nutzb suggests work for me too, but I wonder, are you anywhere near productive on any day between 8am en 11am? If not, wouldn't your employer understand you arriving later, if that means you're able to work more productively the rest of the day?
I love that they are bringing something like Cortana to the desktop. Ever since I saw Her [1] I wanted something like that, something that takes away the need to look at my smartphone when I receive an email to know what's it about or who it's from. A smartwatch seems to be going in the right direction for that kind of things, but still, it's not the same as being reminded about the weather when you are on the point leaving the door instead of having to look up the weather yourself.
If your ears hurt or are annoyed, stop.
I'd say it's more from the pushing on the sides of my head, not so much from the volume of the music. But you are right, and I have been thinking about stopping listening to music trough headphones when working, and use speakers.
If you're sitting with headphones on for six hours, maybe you should get up a few times.
I have to say that my current working desk and rhythm is pretty much perfect as far as I know. My eyes never get tired, the screens are a good distance away from me, and I don't have to look down. I have a decent computer chair, and I take breaks about every hour, to go outside or get a new cup of coffee (but I do that with my headphones/earbuds in).
Heck, no employee can offer a better working situation if you ask me, I'm all for the working remote - office not required-idea! :P
I don't often go to clubs or places in general with loud music, but I play music trough earbuds/headphones to shut out distracting noises around me. And I guess to get "in the zone". I'm going to look up if there would be earplugs that could help me with that.
And 6 hours is seldom, it's the max, but average I do go above the suggested 1 hour.
That would have been too good to be true, haven't even thought about that!
I remember way back I was trying to make a cheap wifi-powered box with a display that could play short video's and stuff. The base idea came from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywr0A2aC_Jk, and I'd use a very cheap 3g-wifi router running openwrt as base. But in the end the firmware changed and made it impossible.
But nowadays with an arduino mini pro, i2c, cheap small displays or audio modules you can get a long way! It does however require you to purchase a lot of stuff like resistors, opamps, breadboards.. etc. And in theory, with the ESP8266-module you could make any device internet-connected.
This was an interesting read, but what to me personally is more interesting is how to prevent hearing loss over the years.
I might be wrong on this, but I recall a hearing specialist advising me not to use earbuds at all, or at least limit the use to max 1 hour at a time. A dynamic headphones, such as the good old Superlux HD 681 would be "better" in the long term. (Not trying to advertise for that headphone, it's just one of the few that is cheap, good, and I can rewire myself and even add a plug so I can easily buy new aux cables).
However I cannot wear my headphone longer than 6 hours without it getting annoying. And running with a big headphone is a big no, but than again, I'm nowhere near to running longer than 30 minutes in a row.
Anyone who has his own thoughts on this topic?
It's not the box, but a small plastic enclosure with some very cheap electronics (I believe they even used a led as a light sensor) and the battery lasts very very long. I wouldn't know on the impact of that on the ecology though. When it comes to recycling I remember from long long ago that PCB's have a pretty large ecological footprint, but than again, it's not part of the packaging, so it can be easily taken out and used for other purposes!
What made the difference for me was a Vim version with a project/file drawler, like the one by alloy: https://github.com/alloy/macvim
After a while I got fluent enough with vim to switch to NERDTree.
Btw, such a shame vimR (http://vimr.org/) wasn't around back when I started using vim, it looks awesome to learn vim-motions but still be able sometimes to use insert-mode and mouse if you have to get something done quickly.
I wonder if it would be able to make it work with mosh (http://mosh.mit.edu/), which would be awesome!
I don't know how it's over on the iOS devices, but with my Macbook/android setup I use mysms for texts, WiFi keyboard for long passwords and couple.me for texting with my girlfriend. Back when msn live still was a thing I used Adium but I can't bear to have skype open all the time since it's impossible to make the window smaller, at least now I can use Fluidapp and use couple.me as a sort-of native app and resize it to my liking. And my girlfriend likes couple.me since it has all these neat little things such as thumbkiss, stickers, easy photo sharing... etc.
A long time i've been thinking about getting an external keyboard for my phone since I don't really like a touchscreen when it comes to typing. But this keyboard over a mechanical keyboard isn't really an upgrade if you ask me. Better get a good coding keyboard! And if you really are thinking about self-improvement when it comes to coding and working behind your pc, I'd always suggest Steve Losh his article: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/
MySMS: http://www.mysms.com/
WiFikeyboard: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.volosyukiv...
Couple.me: https://couple.me/
Awesome slides, even having very little experience with EmberJS and React it explained very well what Reach does and is, and why I would want to use it, better than most tutorials out there (at least the ones I have come across).
I can't remember the exact article, but if I recall correctly there was a blog post by Derek Sivers [1] how at CDBaby he entered similar albums manually by listening to them all (I presume back when they didn't have so much albums). The blog post was about other large companies asked him for the algorithm he was using while he was just entering them manually. I believe he also wrote that if he'd have to scale that process up he would hire more staff to do it, instead of automating it.
But I'm not trying to make a point or anything here, I do believe that in time AI will keep improving to the point more and more can be automated. For those who like thinking about technology is improving and things like that, there are very interesting books written on the topic, like "The Singularity is near" [2].
Offer end-to-end encryption could be solved using a javascript library which encrypts/decrypts the secret in the browser, and passing the key behind a #, kind of the way mega.co.nz does it. Than you can always verify that what you typed actually never get's submitted to the host unencrypted.
Thanks! Didn't knew about this, or just read over it. I'm mostly using ansible for learning how to use it, don't have huge clusters yet to manage. Most of the hosts I have come from LEB (LowEndBox) offerings so therefor no way to deploy my own base image.
And thank you for the work you put into ansible sir!
One of the things that got me into ansible was simply doing
ansible all -i ./ansible_hosts -m command -a "cat /etc/issue"
As it might be useful for some I have next aliases set:
export ANSIBLE_PATH="$HOME/web/clusters-servers/mycluster"
alias a="ansible -i $ANSIBLE_PATH/hosts"
alias ap="ansible-playbook -i $ANSIBLE_PATH/hosts"
# for vagrant testing machines where I test playbooks before deploying
alias atest="ansible -i $ANSIBLE_PATH/vagrant/hosts --private-key=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -u vagrant -s"
alias aptest="ansible-playbook -i $ANSIBLE_PATH/vagrant/hosts --private-key=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -u vagrant -s"
It's fairly easy, feel free to email me if you have questions. Though I've noticed a modpack wich fancy things really adds to the experience (playing with my younger brother and sister) as in vanilla you're fairly limited when it comes to decoration and ways-to-go. Hosting a modpack trough technicpack [1] is basically loading the modpack and afterwards moving the folder to the server and running it over there.
I'd love to hear where you are hosting that server. I currently have a tekkify [1] private server running with some additional mods such as Forestry and currently the world folder is about 700MB. For a while I've used an openvz vps but the load was too high and I pulled it to our local network on an old machine I had laying around. (For those wondering, openvz is a no go for modpacks unless you have a very expensive plan.) The load went from 2 to 5 which is terrible. I've been thinking about getting a dedicated machine at kimsufi [2] as hosting locally in our home network isn't so great really with low upstream speeds. For a vanilla world however (no mods except bukkit) you could run it on a openvz host though. To even lower the load more you could tweak the view-distance or even add a bukkit-plugin which limits the amount of entities that spawn.
And I didn't even mention how some ISP's block ports below 1024 (thus ssh, ftp and web standard ports cannot be used to accept incoming connections even if you are connected to the WAN or did the port forwarding correctly).
That pretty much is (or was, not sure how most games currently handle networking) the main frustration of setting up a game server at home for your friends at their homes.
One solution back then was to use Hamachi to create a "virtual lan network". Btw for some use-cases you could even use "ssh -L <local port>:<remote computer>:<remote port> <user>@<remote ip>" with a server, and certainly nowadays you can get a vps at 12$/year (nothing fancy, but good enough for tunnelling ports).
The biggest advantage of docker I've seen so far is Dokku [1]. If I want to get a dev-instance up and running to show to coworkers (or the client) I just can do "git remote add dokku dokku@example.com && git push dokku master" and share the link with them. And with very little modifications the same can be deployed at Heroku (though I don't use heroku personally).
And if you follow the dokku instructions it's fairly easy to setup, while doing something similar without Dokku but nginx/apache+php/passenger would take a fair amount of time to setup and config to run like that.
Btw, if you are trying to give your home-network with a dynamic ip address a hostname to access it from the internet, it may be worth looking up if your ISP provider doesn't provide that already for you out of the box:
dig -x `curl -s http://icanhazip.com`
Here in Belgium Telenet does that, which means for my home network I could just setup a CNAME record to that hostname.
No, localtunnel or ngrok will tunnel a local port (such as for instance 127.0.0.1:80) to a public domain name (alias.ngrok.com). This only redirects an alias to your ip address (alias.zzzz.io -> wan-ip-address).
The big difference is when you are inside your local network behind the router, or at work behind a firewall simple accessing the wan-ip won't reach your machine, unless you do port-forwarding (which isn't always straightforward or even possible.)
Ngrok solves this problem by being in the middle, both your machine and a person visiting alias.ngrok.com are connecting to ngrok, ngrok just passes the data along.
What this service however is good for is to have a dns address that always points to your local machine or your home network if your ISP doesn't provide you with a static ip (thus your ip changes every so often).
Personally I use CloudFlare's API to achieve the same, using a small sh-script that I run in cron: