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it's the LG DualUp

ooh that's a good idea. I have wanted something wireless to make it more convenient to do supine computing, so that could be just the ticket.

and cheers to another lefty mouse user!

This is great advice! It took me 2 years and many doctors before I wound up at a physical therapist who figured out my nerve issue in 10 minutes. It was wild how they could move my shoulder and reproduce it. Now I’m working on strengthening stuff to make it better—and keeping the setup for a defense in depth against other issues

The bearings are sooooo satisfying. I would also love to have a wireless one.

I’m a sucker for aesthetics, and that is my most aesthetic spot for photo shoots

The LG DualUp is such a gem!

You may be interested in one of my current projects, I’ll post details when it’s done, but I stripped down a Crossland CC1 and am rebuilding it in an enclosure I can travel with.

I think we’d get along.

The OP is a woman who uses she/her pronouns.

It’s a “yes and” approach. I’ve been pursuing physical therapy and medical treatment the whole time as well.

That’s a great idea. I’ll have to do that for the next version.

Just a heads up, the author is a woman and uses she/her pronouns.

Various nerve stuff in my arms, limiting my use of keyboards. With an ergonomic keyboard I can get through most days, but I’m having more flare ups lately so I’m doing more voice coding.

I use Talon. It simply doesn’t support Wayland, and I believe its maintainer who says that there are issues with Wayland which make support infeasible. Using it on X makes my nerve pain much less.

I’m in one of the “other smaller groups not included here”: people who rely on accessibility tooling that isn’t supported by Wayland. My options are:

- keep using X and stay healthy

- switch to Wayland and get strong nerve pain again

- switch to Windows or Mac

If Wayland were my only option, I would have to leave Linux for my health. So the technical merits of Wayland truly don’t matter.

Accessibility is an oft forgotten requirement and it’s something that can affect all of us at one time or another. We ought not ignore it.

I had a similar thing happen. I distributed some malware I wrote on the shared drive and had some people run it (it was extremely basic, just locked people out of the computer with no recovery by taking advantage of how locked down they were; but people lost a lot of work). My programming teacher, who was already dealing with me being a distraction in class, went to bat for me so I didn’t get strongly punished but made me clean it off the drive continuously; other students kept putting it back, so I had to monitor for it.

Unfortunately, I think just about any name will have a collision at this point.

https://ntietz.com

All roughly related to software engineering, weekly cadence. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes technical, sometimes just random observations. Mostly it's about whatever is on my mind re: software at the moment or what I'm playing around with at the time.

I don't read the comments on discussion forums usually, but emails I will always read and respond to emails and I'm always grateful for the feedback.

Hmm interesting, if anyone can help me track down why I would greatly appreciate it!

This was a consideration in naming the language

Thanks for letting me know! I couldn’t find anything about Bitlocker as antivirus but assuming you’re talking about BitDefender (which also has flagged it). I’ve submitted a false positive report.

I have successfully ordered and received parts from McMaster-Carr as an individual.

I'm not sure if this is a super variable experience or if it has changed over time (I first ordered from them in 2020).

My understanding is that it's often used as an incentive to get folks to sign NDAs or other agreements on the way out the door. Especially important to them when someone was forced out in less than ideal circumstances, so they'll buy your silence.

https://ntietz.com/

Mostly just has my (tech-focused) blog, although there are aspirational placeholders for the important things in life, like coffee and homemade pizza.

It has been hard to make time to write personal blog posts since my second kid was born, but I have a couple of drafts in progress that I aim to work up soon, at least when I take time off work.

Please do share! I would be interested in seeing it and doing something similar (and use podman for the same reason).

We did consider sharding PostgreSQL and opted for something that would be fully managed for us to minimize our management overhead. Managing sharded databases can be complicated business and that wasn't something we wanted to take on if we could avoid it.

I dug back through our design docs from when we designed this, and we largely chose not to use Cloud Spanner due to unknowns. We were more confident we could predict the read and write performance in BigTable (especially due to the constraints you get when you drop relational features).

I mean, it depends on criticality. If something is critical, pushing further along the formal methods spectrum makes sense (see also: why AWS has done a lot with TLA+). Sure, we probably won’t verify all of Instagram, but super critical portions of the platform underlying it are likely worth it and would save money in the long run by reducing outages, bugs, etc.

There’s a spectrum of formal methods and with the push toward static types in Python coming directly out of industry I would argue that industry is definitely deeming it important in some degree; the question is to what degree. Right now a lot of the time it’s only worth it for the most critical systems (S3, for example, but not my side project webapp) but if tooling improved, it would be worth it for more cases.

Yes! The blockchain community is doing a lot of cool stuff here and it’s definitely an area where it’s worth it even with less than ideal tools.

When all the software companies went full remote, they just took a break from hiring juniors (!).

This isn’t true at all. Where I work, we hired more junior engineers than ever before during the pandemic. We were hybrid colocated/remote (mostly colocated, plus me!) in the before times. We had certainly hired juniors before, but we hired a lot more and we’re able to source them from all across the country. It’s been fantastic, and onboarding and training junior engineers remote isn’t the impossible task people make it out to be.

This is often a requirement of grocery stores where they intend to sell it, who don’t want to have stock that isn’t salable after two weeks (it can take the big groceries longer than that to just distribute it to their stores).

What's Verizon's "policy-wall"?