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what the most romantic ideal you have of America that you think would be worth sharing?
A shining city on a hill. Both as an ideal to aspire to, and a warning that the world's eyes are on you, and if you fail, you will fail out loud
To each their own, just stay away from Tenderloin and Market and 6th street. I'm sure if you set out some time to explore, you will find whatever fits you best. When I was moving, I sourced a bunch of opinions from my coworkers, non of them were of much help to me. I've charted my own way in the end, made my own mistakes
Ever since I've been very young I wanted to live in the global West. At first England, then USA became more lucrative place. I've spent 10 years trying to move to USA. Sacrificed a lot for it. Lots of self doubt, whether I can make it? Is it a right decision? What about my friends and family? I knew about some of the problems before I moved, but obviously not all of them.
I moved to San Francisco about 5 years ago. I can tell you, it was all WORTH IT! I'm still amazed by the city and the life around me. 5 years later it still impresses me. I feel like I'm living in a movie, and I'm a main character in a movie! I became a better version of myself. I can't imagine being myself if I'd stay back in my country.
p.s. those are my feelings. Obviously life around me is not ideal. There is no such place as ideal, but it works for me despite many-many-many problems that I have in my life right now.
neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet
Good luck supporting it
1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
2 can be as bad as 1
It's the loneliest number since the number 1
I still use Authy tbh
Let me use my UniFi
I don't mind UI, but I think it's a bad approach. Instead of hiding all those complexities of the server behind UI, I would like to see each part of the application teach me how to achieve the same result in CLI. That would be useful for people to teach themselves, because UI comes and goes but basic linux commands - will stay
JIRA replaced Project Management job a long time ago. If you select for proactive, driven, autonomous engineers, you don't really need to oversee them or tell them what to work on. Now Tech Lead or Product Manager is a whole different job
I took a python library for generating posters from maps and wrapped it up as a web UI:
I mean AI did all the work for me with some minimal guidance. All and all it took about 3 hours to do with PaaS hosting
I self host Stirling-PDF for complicated tasks, and use native MacOs app Preview for easy tasks
yup, something to fix in the future. I suspect it couldn't find city coordinates
Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time
https://penk.in/ - one day I will add a proper blog in there and testing bed for tech, but for now it is as it is. The background image is the one I took in Iceland, really proud of it
RIP.
Also RIP my dreams about apple doing networking hardware like AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, XServe etc. It was a great time in 2000s
When running your own backup server, you're forgetting about scenario(however less-likely) when Google Photos will loose your photos, or if your google account gets banned with no ability to call anyone in Google to dispute that. In this case you can safely rely on your own backup to have those files at hand.
I was skeptical about this scenario until one day Gmail lost 1 year worth of my emails. It's just gone. All other emails are there, but not this particular year. And there is no person who you can call to talk about that.
have you tried CasaOs or Zima board? It's their premise your own micro cloud
https://filebin.net/jptm6h7q2agr8qoe
Let's see if HN admins will allow it. File will be deleted in 6 days
There was a post about 2 years ago on HN so that people would post links to their blogs. Somebody saved that post and extracted all the links in to the CSV file with their name and karma, and put it on a website(it's not there now). I've downloaded that CSV file and slowly went through all 1626 blog links over the last 2 years. I finished just about a week ago. It was quite a journey! Some links I would glance at the homepage and immidiately close, and some I stayed for days - reading all interesting articles from the Archive link. It was a blast!
I started to frown upon people calling themselves developers. This is the term I used a long time ago and now I use Software Engineer.
Isn't it called consultant/consultancy?
thats not the point I was answering.
The point is that it's 2 sides of the coin under regulation vs over regulation. And no system is ideal on both sides of Atlantic
I guess we have different understanding of L24/N24. There is no need for a task to take 1 day, it can span days easily. I had tasks which spanned a week or two just because they were deep technical work. But I was able to explain what I did and what progress did I make to the room of engineers. Nobody has been asking me about deadlines or when would it be done, it's not that type of meeting. But it's a nice check-in point to see if I(or the team) move in the right direction and if I don't report meaningful progress for multiple days maybe I need help or extra eyes on my work. I would post draft PR with the code so other people can evaluate and correct my approach. This saves you from working days in the wrong direction.
At the same time European laws got whole internet littered with "Accept cookies" banners
For many years I worked for US based company from European timezone. 9-10 hours difference. It's been okay. I started work around 2-3pm and left around 10pm. It was pretty tough because I couldn't sleep for 3-4 hours after my work day ends that meant 1-2am.
On the bright side I could sleep as much as I wanted in the morning and do chores in first half of the day.
What helped me with motivation is Daily Standup with my team where you have to report about your L24 progress and what you're going to be N24. This added enough stress to increase my motivation to do stuff. I couldn't show up with nothing or lie my way out of it. Also US comp was pretty big motivator. Geo arbitrage etc.
Would immich work for this? You can run it locally in docker container
Have you tried visiting different countries and try to date there? Depending on the country it can make a huge difference
No, unless you're set your eyes on woking at Booking.com
way to go comparing building web pages and mobile apps that push ADs on people with concentration camp guards. When I compared tech with engineering or even science.