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I don't think anybody was suggesting to remove benches and replace them with stairs.

The existence of stairs is not an attack on disabled people this time.

Right, but at least with the expensive machine, one is making a conscious decision to spend a certain, known amount.

It doesn't seem to. My current place is all in on AWS and we have about 6 "DevOps" people dedicated to dealing with it all.

Last place we did pretty similar stuff with 3 data centers, all self hosted, self managed, mostly OSS stuff with about 6 sysadmins and way less hassle.

Batteries usually degrade. That's why people ask this question. We have all been carrying around phones with batteries that start to perform badly enough after a couple years that we end up buying a brand new phone.

Not everybody wants to buy a new phone every couple years, and not everybody agrees what a standard car lifetime is.

It's only 67% more. Practically the same price!

I have also never met a flat earther, or seen any discourse online that seems like such.

I am not convinced that they exist in nearly the kinds of numbers that folks like to suggest.

I recently managed to get my hands on a non-smart TV and bought a roku stand alone device for it. Mostly because the interface is simple and has been the same for years.

I prefer the moving fast and breaking things to stay away from our limited TV time.

I guess clear market winner depends on what one defines as market.

Anecdotally though, I have been working with medium sized startups in NYC that are heavily API driven for the last several years, and I haven't seen graphQL in production once. Not at my companies, nor in any external API we have interfaced with.

I will even go a step farther and day that I cannot recall a single time that another of the several dozens of devs or managers I have worked with has even mentioned the idea of using it.

I can only assume the market OP is referring to is a very specific one. I could make a guess or two, but wouldn't want to ruin the reader's enjoyment from doing the same.

I read mine also. The lender seemed way more surprised than I would have expected.

Then the title person later was like, "Almost all of this is standardized stuff. It's not really like you can negotiate it at this point."

Whatever, lady, I want to know what I'm signing, I want to see that this version matches the version I already signed last night (it didn't), and for half a million bucks, you can hang out for ten minutes while I do it.

Yeah but they break those laws for their own gain, not for you.

I was interviewing recently, and I asked everybody explicitly about remote. Any places that have wishy-washy answers or seemed enthusiastic to get software devs back into the office, I didn't continue with.

I have no way to know if I influenced anybody's thoughts or actions, but I communicated to everybody involved that I'm only interested in remote work, and told them that others I have spoken to feel the same.

That's not strictly true, I do know some folks that are looking forward to getting back to the office, but I tried to do my part anyway.

I think in a couple years we will be back to a pretty high percentage of positions being onsite. Right now there is a small window of time to really drive home the idea that there is a sizable group of folks who will refuse to commute to an office, and hopefully at least influence the number of future remote opportunities a little bit more in our favor.

I use a single git repo for all my personal project docs.

This is it. I actually took a small pay cut this year to work for a company that is guaranteed remote friendly.

The peace of mind knowing that these guys already had remote engineers before the pandemic and a good workflow, and having a job that is officially and permanently remote is absolutely worth a few thousand bucks to me.

I was dreading going back to the office, even if only a day or two a week.

Counting the commute I would have otherwise been going back to with my previous company that was super excited to get asses back in seats, I'm probably actually getting paid more per hour of my time dedicated to work activities.

And just like the TV's, it will never be allowed to happen.

I don't understand why churches would say that, when they were the cornerstone of culture until a few tens of years ago.

Some things that count as churches may have sprung up to make such offers, but I am assuming most churches have been standing since before Covid, before Facebook, before Trump and Obama and Bush.

If say 40% of people are attending these gatherings, it's a tough sell that they are so far from mainstream as to be countercultural.

People have been visiting churches in search of unity, security, and joy for thousands of years.

I've seen some hard to understand opinions on the web over the years, but church as counterculture really takes the cake.

In my area, Target is far less crowded and has very short waits at checkout because they actually have people staffing the registers.

Walmart will have one cashier at the special register line where they sell cigarettes, during the dinnertime rush when there are 30 people up front wanting to check out.

Then there will be somebody telling you that if you don't need cigarettes, go wait in the massive line at self checkout.

I don't mind paying a couple percent more for goods if they are paying cashiers with that cash so I can go home sooner.

If those same couple bucks are what is keeping the store and parking lot less crowded... I'll take it. Walmart is a hellhole over here.

We do the same here in the states. Some folks pay for private schools so their kids don't have to be exposed to perceived riff raff, while others choose to live in more expensive neighborhoods where the only benefit is often that there is less riff raff in the public schools.

Not exactly eastern European, but the company I recently left has a group of devs in Dublin like this.

Interestingly, I interviewed with a company last week that has almost the entirety of their dev teams in Dublin.

Neither place has any obvious business reason to have development happening there, so I can only assume they are paying meaningfully less comp.

I ended up using diigo.com for a while, but I remember finding the android client pretty annoying to use and I kind of faded off it.

Just logged in for the first time in like 5 years and all my stuff is still saved on there and I see they have an API. Might revisit.

To the point though, it was pretty close to delicious with tagging and I remember liking some other features it had, though the details elude me now.

I have met enough devs that don't necessarily love to make everything Dockerized microservices on Kubernetes, just that if we don't learn this stuff we risk becoming unemployable.

Telegram sent out a message yesterday saying that they have gained 25 million users in the last 72 hours alone, pushing their total user count to 500 million.

I suspect Signal took a somewhat smaller number of users from FB than this.

You can spin up a VPS on digital ocean for $5/month

It's amazing... amazing to me the confused looks I get from people when they start telling me their venmo credentials or whatever and I just hand them a 20 dollar bill for my share of lunch.

It's exhausting explaining to people that I am fine with them having an extra dollar and two cents over what I owe if the alternative is giving my fucking banking password to some california cowboy company that doesn't have to follow banking regulations.

I didn't know they could embed javascript. That's horrifying.

I'm not so sure about that. a lot of neighborhoods are absolutely ecstatic that everybody is pumping doorbell camera data into the cloud.

I see people practically begging one another on facebook to upload video about the mildest of complaints.

Oh that stinks. I hope things get better and you are able to ride again soon!

Getting a motorcycle and riding around without a GPS in my face or earbuds has been amazing for getting away from screens and tech.

I highly recommend it.

An unexpected side effect is a new small group of friends who don't give a shit about tech, but share an interest in sampling food from faraway restaurants and getting there using as few highways as possible.

Dropshipping as described in the linked article is bullshit. People are not likely to have long term success selling to Americans online if the customers have to wait some undetermined amount of weeks for the goods to come across the ocean.

However, there are plenty of legit dropshippers that sell items already on this side of the ocean. You are probably familiar with Wayfair, but may not know that they were almost 100% drop ship at one time.

A couple years ago, most products sold on their site were still drop shipped, though they were beginning to get some warehouses to hold inventory.

I have done ecom for dropshippers that sold things like furniture, lighting, bean bags, jewelry, and security systems, where the companies were run from one or two room offices and the products shipped from other companies' warehouses in the USA or Canada.

It's very doable once you get the relationships in place. That's not trivial, since these manufacturers and distributors do not make it known that they are willing to drop ship, and they will only do it if you can convince them that you have a legit business already running, but if you get a legit business running and start talking to sales reps, you can absolutely move $500K+ USD worth of product per month without ever looking at it.