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Consider the lilies of the goddamn field.

- O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Those stupid effing TurboTax ads are the only time I’ve ever been motivated to actually write feedback to apple about a feature. So aggravating and user-hostile.

The first few times the App Store opened to TurboTax while scrolling past, I assumed it was my fault and I was somehow misclicking. Then I slowed down and confirmed, no, this is the intended behavior. It’s meant to pop up and disturb your reading.

What slimy behavior. And the fact that it’s TurboTax of all companies they’re doing it for is just salt on the wound.

I use µ for microns or micrometers µm. Option + m.

Also if you need ad-hoc bullets, just reach for option + 8.

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The difficulty in accessing symbols like these is one of my (I'm sure correctable) hang-ups when using Linux — Arch, btw.

Assuming we take the statement "more free market equals more efficient outcome" as always and absolutely true, it raises the question: Are the healthcare-related needs of a society aligned with the most efficient outcome that a free market can deliver? I don't think they necessarily are.

Are there any alternatives to Github that offer similar bang for the buck? Particularly for very small teams or solo devs that need private repos? The author here specifically mentions Codeberg, which seems like it's just for FOSS projects.

Silenced by whom?

A.k.a. Propecia.

Dead Kaczynski

Under $100: Not really a purchase, but a habit that involved several purchases. Making L. Reuteri "Yogurt" using half & half, biogaia tablets, mason jars, and a sous vide. Helped with gut issues.

Under $1000: An Ooni pizza oven. It's a relatively low-stakes investment and you can produce some pretty phenomenal pizzas after you get over your first few "catastrophe calzones". Just a nice weekend dad hobby.

I think that's why Fish's tagline is "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s".

Yeah. I wish subtle design cues didn't turn folks off from useful software. That said, when I was test driving terminals a few months ago, I saw WezTerm and just skipped it because the main image shows the opacity-enabled terminal with a Cyberpunk image in the background, and that just seemed…amateurish? Dunno.

This article is convincing me to give it a second look.

Taking retro to its logical conclusion.

There are a few blog title/conference talk title cliches that I would love to toss in a volcano and never hear again:

X, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Y

X for fun and profit

A tale of two X

X considered harmful

Our team already uses cap.ly. How does this compare to that, or, say haberdash.er? Congrats on the launch.

Something similar happened to me. An artist I liked effusively praised Django Reinhardt in their CD liner notes. For a sheltered suburbanite, the words "Django Reinhardt" were more or less gobbledygook, so I had to figure out exactly who or what it meant and why it prompted one of my favorite guitarists to pen an ode of praise. All this sent me on a months-long quest to track down albums and information in a pre-search-engine flyover state about an obscure gypsy guitarist.

It wasn't till I was a year or so into knowing about Django Reinhardt that I learned he did it all with just two fingers on his left hand. It blew my mind.

I wonder if we've gained or lost something culturally by having the detailed discography and life story of every artist in our pockets.

Legal counsel isn't allowed in small claims courts. It's just a question of whether it's worth your time.

edit: Ha! Here is a guide on how to sue Ticketmaster: https://fairshake.com/ticketmaster/how-to-sue/

Some of those tempos at the bottom seem way off. Hotel California is 147 bpm?

I started a few months ago. Reddit's /r/homelab has lots of great resources, and you can get some good deals through /r/homelabsales, though the best deals usually go quickly.

Like with learning a programming language, having a specific goal helps a lot.

Reading other people's posts about their hardware, how they use it, and what problems they solved with their homelab can be a source of inspiration that sets you on the right path.

Like others on this thread have said, while it's tempting to immediately dive into racks, patch cables and network diagrams, you can achieve A LOT with something simple like a small NAS or a NUC. Even a spare laptop that you can repurpose might be more than sufficient.

Unless you're trying to simulate managing enterprise hardware (and I mean physically managing it), the greatest value lies in learning the software side of thing, IMHO.

GTD, BASB, bullet journals, org-mode, todoist…

What do we do? There are infinite methods, tools, apps, and only so many hours in a day. Do you just keep trying tools/methodologies till one clicks with you?

His code was a lot better when he was pairing with Matt Sharp.

They're both worth getting. I haven't finished either game, so I can't talk about end-game value for either, but it certainly feels to me like Turing Complete is an educational game with puzzle components, while Shenzhen I/O is a straight puzzle game.

Both are a lot of fun, and very well-made.

Shenzhen I/O (like most Zachtronics games) has some nice worldbuilding touches like the printable datasheets for the made-up electrical components, and a barely-there programming language manual.

My local library system has had this for years. I’ve always wondered why it’s not more ubiquitous. You put your stack of books on the counter, and the titles appear on a confirmation screen almost instantaneously. Scan your library card and away you go.

The point of the article is that there is no such thing as self driving cars. Cruise cars operate with regular, routine human intervention — albeit remote. You don’t need to cut them any slack.

MFA for my Synology failed recently because (I suspect) I let the drive go unused for a while and it lost sync with the time server. So all one time passwords my password manager generated were "wrong". Off in time by some unknown amount. No way to fix it, since I would need MFA to log in and fix it anyway.

I had to reset the administrative UI and lose my user settings/admin preferences, but it did hang on to the data on the drives, luckily.

I'm not sure your example disproves OP. Your artisanal butcher can pass on any costs of compliance to you, and people like you who live in wealth-dense NYC and are willing to pay extra for pasture-raised meats. That is not true for much of the population that expects to pay $5 for a Costco rotisserie chicken.

I've built my own business VoIP system — a few times over. I've used Asterisk and FreePBX (the free-ish GUI built on Asterisk), but settled on Asterisk for stability. At one point FreePBX pushed out an update that took down my system for a couple of days and baffled me until I read the FreePBX forums and saw similar complaints from other users.

If you want a week-ish long project, go for the full mid-2000s, boingboing and slashdot experience: buy the dead tree version of the O'Reilly Asterisk book, which has been kept up to date and is still an wonderful resource. Follow it until you have the Enterprise-grade phone system of your dreams.

I even hired Allison "The Voice of Asterisk" [0] to do our phone tree voice prompts. Her prices were very reasonable for a small batch of prompts, and it’s surreal hearing the same lady that does the IVR for your bank and cable company do your own voice prompts.

I use Twilio for my SIP trunking, and it has nice fallback features in case the Asterisk system needs to go down for maintenance or the like. Costs about $20/month for a dozen or so users and fairly frequent calls/SMS.

[0] https://www.theivrvoice.com/

Bread and Javascript bundlers.

Thanks for a great piece of software that I use every day in production and just works.

At first I was scared of how stupid simple it is. It feels like web servers are supposed to have giant config files with a hundred mysterious knobs to twiddle. Now I always default to Caddy, and have yet to find an instance where it didn't fit my needs. Congrats.

I hate to be that guy, but if you don't mind being a Linux sysadmin you might consider running your own Asterisk server. I do that for my SMB with about a dozen physical sets, and use Twilio for SIP trunking.

I followed the first 10 chapters or so of the O'Reilly Asterisk book making a few changes here and there to suit my preferences (different Linux flavor, different DB). I run a $10/month Digital Ocean droplet that hosts the Asterisk server. If you can deal with config files, you can have a rock-solid PBX with Enterprise-grade features for the cost of the server + Twilio's SIP trunking features. It ends up costing about $25 every 1.5 months or so. I barely ever think about it, except when I need to tweak a greeting for holiday hours or something.

Audible and Amazon are the same thing.

I'm acutely aware of this having worked there. They're the same thing to you, but not to most authors. Seeing their [audio]book come up in an Amazon search is distinctly different, even if it all leads you to the same place.

iTunes: Can't everyone get his/her audiobook on iTunes?

No. At least not when I worked there. Audible was the only way to get into the audiobooks section of iTunes. That may have changed.