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I'd say your sense is not wrong: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money

I'm weird enough to have a keyboard shortcut to type it on my phone)

I'm not the only one‽

My best mentors in the tech field (software QA, sysadmin) have almost all been women.

My strategy of dumping various notes in a semicoherently-named directory tree and then grepping through them makes me feel like a caveman, but it works for me. I feel that tools like this are overcomplicating things.

A few years back I discovered that the Ethiopian run minimart up the street sells unroasted coffee beans, $6/lb.

I bought a pound and followed the proprietor’s advice, roasting small quantities in a cast iron pan on medium high and agitating/stirring until it looked right.

This was too labor intensive to be sustainable (40m for about 100g), but the end result was breathtaking. Immediately bought a roaster from Sweet Maria’s and haven’t looked back.

I’m in the Pacific Northwest and we are spoiled for choice with artisanal roasters and coffee shops alike, but mine still tastes better since I roasted it yesterday.

You won’t be writing a 3D FPS game engine in Python

While Eve Online isn’t an FPS, it is an MMORPG written in stackless Python, and seems to be doing OK.

These AI tools are also not good at answering PagerDuty to fix a production problem that is a result of the code they imagined.

Uh… no?

I replicate my community where I find it. Some of it is at a brunch spot I go to regularly. Some of it is a bar that I frequent. Some of it is in annual activities with my neighbors.

I don’t need to believe in a made up Sky Daddy to be a good person, I have plenty of examples in my communities.

PHP: an attack surface with a side effect of hosting blogs.

The McDonalds in Rome near Termini had an amazing desert bar!

I have! BIND 9.11.x, as pairs of caching recursive resolvers advertised over BGP. We have a pair in every data center (12 dcs at last count) Each with one of two IPs (anycasting). Every time I get hit up for a “problem” with this it turns out the problem is with an authoritative AD server. I really love it as it’s been in place for almost four years and it has never been the source of any problems.

They also stream on their PBS app, and if you donate to your local affiliate you can unlock access to most (all?) of their content.

https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/

Apparently those businesses have positions that could be charitably called “Elon handlers,” to keep him from doing to them what he has done to Twitter.

Tell me when meta can do legs.

#tooSoon

Please post links, I’ve never truly understood the systemd/init conflict, unlike the emacs/vim conflict.

I’d like to learn more!

Damn, do I enjoy ediscovery.

I’m presuming Domain Specific Language, as the context refers to a “target domain.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language

I know a life of typing has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame autocarrot.

‘Sailor’ seems to have confused it, no results, just infinite(?) progress spinner.

http://etymonline.com, maybe?

The meetings will continue until morale improves.

I have so many irritants in the experience of using windows professionally, that I’m not going to waste time discussing it.

I will leave you with one observation though.

For any given text box in Windows, I have found that CTRL-A may or may not Select All.

I can’t speak to the actual act of Java development, but I can speak to Java applications from a sysadmin perspective (15 yr Sr. QA Engineer to a 3 yr Linux admin (don’t ask)) — I’ve got no real beef with Java from the development side, but maintaining some of those stacks in production is pure pain.

The issue is a drone, or debris from a drone, getting sucked into the engine intake. This debris can effectively turn the engine into a large amount of shrapnel, crippling the aircraft and its mission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage

Living here in Portland, though, my fear is that it won’t be developers taking a flyer to build these homes, it will be the investor class bankrolling the developers to build permanent rental properties.

Hoping I’m wrong, but the last few decades’ antics with investors tells me I’m not.

They have!

Problem is that our zoning is about detached single family homes.

When we bought our current home (2015) it was zoned R2.5 (residential, min. 2500sqft lot). We are now zoned as R2.

All that means is shrinking the required lot size for a single family home.

This bill changes a lot of that.

Also, Oregon (esp. Multnomah county) is kinda different.

I’m not certain that this will create any affordable housing in any of the metro areas (Portland, Eugene, Bend).

I suspect that this will end up opening the doors for the investor class to fund massive amounts of development in anything resembling an urban core, turning the resulting housing into permanent rentals, tranching those rentals into the next investment instrument to be sold &c.

I’m from Portland, and I wish that this would increase the availability of affordable housing, but I feel that this is a lot of feel good, and it’s just going to make my home town that much worse.

Here’s to hoping I’m wrong.