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I'm curious what you mean. I have been accessing Macs remotely over SSH and VNC for like 20 years and it's always been easy and as performant as the network would allow.

There are plenty of studies backed by plenty of data to support exactly these assertions.

You say that as if those things have always required money. People had all of those things for hundreds of thousands of years before money was invented.

You need to question whether you really need to have the conversation in those terms. A conversation about religion/theology is not like a conversation about physics or math. If you insist on applying scientific rigor to matters of faith, you are and will remain fully confused.

I bet if you observe your own mind for long enough, you'll find some part of your life which requires you to have faith too. Use that to understand your friends and family better. The next time you find yourself in a conversation with them about religion, ask them about their faith (not their religion). You will gain a deeper and more nuanced understanding of how they navigate the world.

If you can have that conversation, go ahead and ask them about their religious beliefs, withholding judgement unless/until they say something morally objectionable. You can think of their religion like any other mythology, and you get to play sociologist for a while. There's a fascinating variety of responses people give to even fundamental questions - e.g. "what is god?".

This open approach is not only much easier for everyone, it's also more useful in the long term. My neighbor has an interesting mashup of beliefs that includes a decent chunk of Christianity. She sometimes has bad anxiety, and unfortunately she can't afford treatment for it. I've helped her out of panic attacks using two methods: 1 - I've given her a clonazepam tablet and 2 - I've quoted scripture to her (e.g. "behold the lilies of the field"). Both methods work, and the latter tends to work faster.

It's different if the person is using their religion as a cover for engaging in or supporting something morally evil. That's a trickier conversation and often one not really worth having, depending on your relationship and how comfortable/willing you are to attempt to correct them.

Yeah, give them PTSD - that should help.

I doubt they're serious but some wackos thought Oumuamua was an alien probe due to its unusual shape, and since this new interstellar object is arriving shortly after Oumuamua has left it must be the mothership.

I feel like it's more of a meme than a serious thing for most people.

Under $100... by what measure? I'm going to Japan soon and was planning on shipping a bunch of clothes, books, etc to myself. I'm not going to sell any of it, I just want to send a bunch of stuff back without having to deal with checking another bag. So as far as I'm concerned, there's no dollar value. I'm buying stuff in Yen for my own personal use...

But I suppose I'll just check a bag or use a different carrier...

Wouldn't it be cool if there was an app that would interrupt what the user was doing

It seems like this sort of idea is extremely common, considering how many websites love preventing me from viewing their content by slapping multiple modals asking me to sign up for a newsletter and/or to get my permission to be tracked using cookies.

It also shows up in native apps, in the form of some prompt asking the user if they are enjoying the app. NO! I do not enjoy being funneled into an App Store review or any similar bullshit. If I like using the app, I'll use it. If I don't, I won't. Stop asking me!

I build websites for a living and I'm constantly battling requests to infect our sites with these god-awful modals. It's like sitting down at a restaurant, being handed a menu, only to have the menu taken away seconds later and being asked if you'll return in the future. Not only is it rude, it's the wrong time to ask the question. Let me read the damn article or whatever, and when I'm done, if there's a newsletter form, MAYBE I'll sign up. Let me eat my meal, and if I enjoy it I'll think about returning.

Yes you do

package1>=0.4.0 means 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.100, 0.4.100.1 and so on

package1>=0.4 includes the above plus 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.6.0, 0.100.0 and so on

Then make your dependency package1>=0.4

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/depend...

You can `brew install uv`

Same for PBS and its member stations.

The only truly worrying part of the EO for me is the "The heads of all agencies shall identify and terminate, to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, any direct or indirect funding of NPR and PBS."

Some of the most interesting work we've done has been almost completely funded by the Department of Education.

The station I work for has many sources of revenue but I suspect this will harm some smaller stations.

But without Beefheart's Little Richard genes

It just illustrates how people in the NE think about natural disasters. Basically any big natural event is weather-related.

When the 2011 Virginia quake happened, I was somewhere in the Boston area sitting in my parked car, and at first I thought it was a strong wind rocking my car side-to-side. It took a few seconds for me to realize the shaking wasn't a "weather thing"

The modeling could be done in pure Pydantic.

This project might be helpful in fetching the actual content from a database in an efficient way.

A lot of software also puts in some kind of input delay/rate limiting for no apparent reason.

Video game console system UIs and some game menus seem to be really bad about this for some reason.

They're not equivalent.

:w will touch the file (update mtime) whether you've made changes or not

:x will only update mtime if the file contents are actually changed

vimtutor is free because vim is free

There are tons of books and other resources for learning vim that are not free. I'm not sure why you would find that surprising.

Weapons still break

That is a feature, not a flaw. They improved the feature in TOTK with Fuse. Now you're forced to try out hundreds of different weapons. You could play for ages and not use the same weapon twice.

Compare to something like Elden Ring, where I felt like the game was almost discouraging me from trying out different weapons. You have to sink so much into a build that just kicking the tires on a different kind of weapon is almost impossible. It's almost guaranteed to feel underpowered.

I'd like to use FF but I've never been able to figure out how to replicate something Safari does that's ingrained in my fingers at this point.

In Safari, I can use command+1-9 to open bookmarks. So command+1 is my PRs, command+2 is the JIRA board for the current sprint, etc.

Where I work, if I don't use a certain percentage of my earned PTO by Dec 31, it just goes away. They don't cut me a check for it.

I think I'd get paid for unused PTO if I quit or was fired, but I couldn't accumulate more than something like 5 weeks worth.

I'd love to work for a company that had both unlimited and required PTO. If you don't take enough days off for say six months, they force you to take a week or two off.

I work for an educational multimedia nonprofit. My job involves creating and maintaining educational websites.

The organization is not 100% 'not evil' by any means. There are a lot of issues, e.g. we take donations from unquestionably evil sources and prominently mention them (and/or run ads for them). But the mission is to educate, and I know for a fact that my work helps teachers and students every day, so all things considered I feel good about working here.

Many people who work here have taken salary/benefits cuts to do so. I'd say most of us are less motivated by money than we are by contributing to society. I was ludicrously underpaid for years, and only recently I got a raise that falls within the lower boundaries of what is average for my position and skills. I get recruiter emails almost daily offering tens of thousands of dollars more than I make now, but I'm not interested in contributing to spyware or optimizing landfill-junk production or any of the other evils that the vast majority of for-profit companies are rewarded for doing.

If I think about what it would take for me to work for a company like Facebook, it ends up being "enough to donate whatever it would take to negate the harm they do" - i.e. everything they have, and complete control over the direction of the company. I would turn down millions of dollars if taking it meant working for Facebook.

A rare example where Betteridge's law does not apply.

The answer is 100% yes, and we should ban other forms of advertising as well. Ban as many as possible.

Some photos here, although this is from 2017

https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/04/27/apples-self-drivi...

any experiences that you’ve personally had with text marketing that you wish had been different

I wish I'd never received one single marketing text or notification ever in my entire life. I wish I could purge the entire world of such things.

I use the "Sauce Code Pro" variant which includes a bunch of glyphs: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

Add let g:do_filetype_lua = 1 to your init.vim file

Seems odd to not mention how to do this in init.lua

For something like a command line tool, you can package a dedicated python runtime with external dependencies preinstalled and treat it as a virtualenv. Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it works. iTerm2 does this for its Python scripting API.

Another option is to just include the required libraries in your package and have the executable add the paths via sys.addsitedir. Pipenv installed via Homebrew does this.

Money. Disabling a Mac for 24 hours after 10 minutes of use means you have to buy much more hardware than you'd have to if a single Mac could be utilized by many people for short periods of time. Some users would use a single Mac for days/weeks/months but others will want to boot, run a build, and be done. The actual work might take 5 minutes or 3 hours but you pay for a day no matter what.

Days where you're doing the same short-lived task many times won't be as expensive per build, but if you just want to do a nightly build, you're paying for months or years and utilizing a fraction of the compute time you're buying.

Hackers (1995)

Not joking, it's a silly and campy movie but it captures the enthusiasm I had as a kid for making computers do things.

Not about coding, but about achieving something through persistence and hard work: Fitzcarraldo (1982)