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Exactly.

It's hard enough to save money as it is.

News websites blow my mind with this - if I forked over $5 to every news outlet I occasionally like to read, I'd be spending at least $500 maybe more per year JUST to get access to some random person's biased recant of what's happening in the world. If there were a news source that did the opposite of this, and basically provided a bullet list of objective, non-biased events boiled down to exactly what I need to know, that might be something I'd pay for. Hell, it would save you time over filtering the opinionated BS out.

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Ha ha, the machine has its quirks.

It stings having to pay an extra $15k / yr, but for our kids learning and mental health I'd happily pay double.

Austinite here w/family in Dallas. Dallas is unusual compared to Austin/Houston in that nearly anyone coming from a wealthy family living in Dallas proper goes to private schools. I'm not from Dallas but have friends who attended Hockaday, Ursuline, Jesuit, and BL. I always thought it was really odd how many of them went to private school versus my Houston-area friends, who nearly all attended public schools in the suburbs, or one of the better inner-city public schools like Memorial or Lamar. Don't know as much about Austin but from what I hear the public schools here are pretty great too.

I haven't read the document but what's wrong with the term "human"? Is there some other intelligent life-form on this planet contributing to technology and software today that I'm unaware of?

Picking on the word human just seems nit-picky, like someone's not woke enough to use a more inclusive term.

I also have an APC Back-UPS. Mine are the Back-UPS 650 model, I have two of them. Both emit an annoying LOUD high-frequency capacitor whirring noise that is audible to my ears even when the loud AC intake fan is blowing in the same room. I'm actually shocked any company would ship a product in this condition, unless all their customers have hearing problems. It's a power strip... it's supposed to be silent. Not like a computer.

If my batteries die, I'll just replace them with non-battery backup strips. Not worth the trouble for me living in a city where power goes out maybe once per year on average for 10 minutes, and I don't have servers that need to stay online anymore.

Zero problems here either. I paid much less than $370 in the USA. Much better headphones than my Sony wh-1000xm3 or powerbeats.

So at least two of us.

The points you make are fine but I think the experience becomes more painful linearly with the number of servers you manage, since you're N times more likely to see something happen that takes down a server. It just happens more frequently. At some point that becomes often enough that you don't want to deal with it anymore.

Wow, that is an interesting fact... thanks. I've never heard this before, and I don't think it's common knowledge among non-Mormons like myself. Interesting stuff...

Probably not but for certain use-cases Intel is just way easier and less trouble (building a Hackintosh with Thunderbolt 3 connections for a UA audio interface, for one). And yeah, not everyone has such special needs but some of us do even though we may have one or multiple "real" Macs at home.

Just wait until January when Elon replaces Trump in the Oval Office.

In this case, many of the features appear to be improvements upon features originally introduced in Garageband iOS, so the features are trickling backwards consumer -> pro.

Haha. I probably share your viewpoint about 90% of the time (I do not have kids), but people do not like to hear harsh statements like this.

Python is great, but I think the answer to "develop a web app as quickly as possible" is just going to be whatever the developer has been using and is comfortable with.

A .NET developer might be able to throw up a webapp quicker with .NET tooling instead of picking up Python & Django (or PHP & Laravel), for example.

Installing something is easy, learning how to write Elixir/Phoenix/maybe Erlang is the hard part.

Don't ever let "installation" prevent you from trying something, on Mac it's literally "brew install elixir" followed by a command to install phoenix framework.

Its the guy that always reaches for the menu bar instead of learning keyboard shortcuts

I think judging someone based on their computer habits like being a command-line guy versus a GUI guy might be a risky thing. I'm a command-line guy through and through, but my newest boss comes from a different background and is very GUI-focused, and I think it would be easy to assume he's mediocre based on his choice of tools and such, but the results are more what matters.

That said, he seems like a pretty stubborn guy and I've definitely seen some warning signs on being resistant to change.

Nice, I ordered a pack for myself. Better than adding Tp to Instacart and hoping it magically shows up.

Hmm I do have ADHD but your first statement "learn the technique, not to finish" definitely could apply to me both in technical (software engineering and coding) areas of my life as well as artistic (music, recording, mixing, etc.).

Kurzarbeit is described on Google as "Short-time working or short time is a situation or system in which civilian employees agree to or are forced to accept a reduction in working time and pay.".

That's different than a layoff. I'd happily accept a reduction in pay and work hours over a 100% pay cut and temporary layoff, if that's what it took to keep my company alive during a temporary economic downturn.

Interesting username, that's for sure!

Don't you mean >N days? If a maintenance schedule requires maintenance every 60 days but the plane needs to be rebooted every 50 days, that would be cause for concern.

It is pretty pointless though!

Perhaps installation and config are not as streamlined as one of the many available k8s setup tools, but the tools themselves are much easier to understand and less broad than the k8s system.

Used nomad/consul/fabio at a previous job for running containers, it was very easy to adopt. Way less new concepts as well.

It's worth mentioning I later chose GCP managed kubernetes for a small cluster to run at my startup. I had to learn a few new things, but I'm not familiar of any "nomad as a service" offerings, so I went with k8s on Google cloud.

Hmm, most of my work laptops never get used unplugged and I've never had issues.

It might be fun to implement some sort of service that checks battery life once per day and turns off a smart plug (which the Macbook power adapter is plugged into) and lets the Macbook drain once per day before turning it back on, though.

I agree with you :) but let's not tell the employers who gladly buy the top-of-the-line models for their programmers ;) I am quite happy with my new 2020 MBP.

I broke my 2016 15" Macbook Pro display while attempting to replace the Macbook logo bezel (I know, stupid of me...).

Anyone have suggestions on what the best option is going forward? Looks like ~$700 to pay Apple to fix, less to DIY but that's a risk in itself, Apple trade-in would give me $310 with damage or $890 without damage (so basically the difference is price to repair).

The cheapest option is of course to not repair at all and just continue using the laptop with an external monitor.

Definitely want to stick with Apple. I only use this computer for DAW / home music studio.

Anyone been in a similar situation and what did you do?

We also use 1Password at my employer of ~30. I have had 1Password Personal account and used the 1Password app since 2010. It's amazing now, especially if you're on iOS with FaceID.

I used Okta at a previous employer; it was good too.

Name some examples of price increases that were unfair?

Price increases due to inflation are a necessity.

I can't see a world where I would buy a software once and use it forever, so paying for upgrades is necessary at some point.

Perhaps this is an effect of learning to program in the 2010s, but paying for a programming language (Java, PHP) sounds crazy to me.

Do people actually do this?

I don't know much about jobs outside of tech, but I know most of them at the entry level to a few years of experience in accounting, finance, real estate, etc. do not pay much over $60k (if that) and pretty much all of those jobs are going to use things like Salesforce or other expensive SAAS tools and software.