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I remember applying for a position a few years back. After I saw a bunch of questions related to high school I noped out due to weird vibes. Sounds like it was a good call

I’d never considered using a reference manager for bookmarks but looking at the feature set, it’s kinda perfect

I envy those with a solid plan to get out. I feel age is going to start to count against me and my passion for programming is dead. But I can’t deny the compensation in this career is great, which makes me not want to move on, for now

You triggered a memory from when I bought Avatar on blu-ray.

PC at the time had a blu-ray drive. Booted up Windows. Opened up one of the few dedicated software options I was forced to buy for blu-ray support. Disc doesn’t work properly?? Check software’s support forum and the software hadn’t been updated with the most recent DRM.

I felt burned at that point. Pirate copies already existed but I couldn’t play my legally acquired copy. So yeah, +1 on fuck DRM.

Perl was one of the first languages I learned and also the first language I used commercially. I have a huge soft spot for it as a language. Still love Perl regular expressions like no other. I loved the camel book and its various footnotes with both humour and deeper knowledge on a topic.

Poorly thus far. I’ve got stats from when I applied for jobs two years ago and it’s a very different picture. Previously: 19 applications and 4 solid offers.

Same number of applications this year. I’ve been ghosted, told my skills and experience don’t match salary expectations or level of seniority, and at times not made it past the initial application due to some short tenures on my CV.

I haven’t used any one specific strategy. I’ve been networking, reworking my CV to better present my experience, and building a small personal website to talk about some projects.

It’s a more competitive market for sure.

Thank you! That’s very helpful to know. First time I’ve even heard of things like this but when using low quality networks I can see how this would be great!

Can you share more details on the setup of the error correcting tunnel? That sounds very interesting!

This is really great advice and I appreciate it. You're right about having something to start writing in immediately. It's funny getting tied up in the process when I haven't really even discovered if I have much love or knack for writing yet!

All the replies to my comment have been super helpful but the mindset to write immediately is important. I'm grateful for the suggestions and one of the other replies also sound positive for bearblog - it could work out well and I'm going to check it out :-)

This is nice advice. I ended up with choice paralysis even deciding how to set up and publish blog posts. Static site generators with deployment pipelines? Something more traditional like Wordpress? Other?

More than 1000. More than I'd like. I can't help but wonder how many websites my personal information is on at this point between random shopping, forums, and all the rest.

and I haven't seen Apple discontinuing support for 6 years old computers.

You mean the way macOS Ventura is only for their hardware released in the last six years? [1]

Apple’s absolutely do discontinue support for older hardware all the time when they release new macOS and iOS versions.

You can keep running the older operating system but it will stop receiving updates. It doesn’t seem hugely different to having to stay on Windows 10 instead of Windows 11.

1. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213264

I had a lifetime license with a forum software company that switched to a subscription model. I questioned the fairness, but they claimed the new product was built on an entirely new foundation different, the forum utilises that foundation, and that's why the lifetime license no longer applies. Since then, I've been skeptical of lifetime licenses. Business model pivots often leave early adopters with a negative impression due to poor handling of the switch

I love seeing alternatives but one thing I really appreciate about ngrok is the web UI. The log of incoming requests, headers and payloads, is very helpful during development. Do any of these alternatives offer something similar? Or is there an additional tool that can be leveraged?

Given the bug was reported 13 years ago and still isn’t resolved, that leads me to wonder what workaround they presumably did use

I think it’s more that Edge follows Chromium’s version numbers

I think it supports both. There’s options for off grid that includes Bluetooth and multipeer connectivity, and options for multicast dns and relay servers. As for the why: it supports Android and iOS so if you don’t have an Android device, Briar is basically out.

The “Lite” version is an experimental release that supports Manifest V3. Unfortunately, that has various limitations

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754274

Given the title for the 1 cent option is 100-999 Terabytes, it’s presumably 100+ terabytes as the minimum. Took me a minute though!

I’m also curious about the use case. For debugging things locally, it is ideal for my needs.

Ah that’s fair. I used it for a few small projects and personal domains, nothing commercial. Gmail felt way ahead at the time and having it free for my own domains was great.

I find myself in a similar boat. Have you decided on an alternative? I'm not likely to start paying for Google Workplace but am happy to pay for another service. Thankfully my needs are pretty simple, I only ever used GSuite for my own domains and they only have one user account each.

It does sound as if anyone has G Suite Legacy Free accounts will need to start paying. There is a help article which outlines this in more detail: https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217?hl=en-GB

Can I keep my G Suite legacy free edition subscription?

No. All G Suite legacy free edition subscriptions must upgrade to a Google Workspace subscription. We recommend you upgrade to a Google Workspace edition that meets your needs. If you choose not to upgrade by May 1, 2022, we will automatically upgrade your organization to a recommended subscription.

I’m open to ideas! My poor imagination often seems to stumble across domains already taken :)

I feel like I hear more and more of these horror stories. I’ve been looking to migrate my custom domain away from Google for a while and was also looking at Fastmail. I use an @gmail.com for everyday things because it’s widely recognised and easy to communicate to people over the phone or even face to face in a shop for a digital receipt.

The data privacy laws makes people think harder about the collection and usage of data. That’s definitely a good thing. What I don’t want to see is big corporations subvert that

I find Ventoy really good! Saves juggling many USB drives and it worked fine with the ISOs I tested including Windows 10, Macrium Reflect’s recovery disc, and Ubuntu. I was pretty close to buying a hardware solution (iodd) but for simple needs, Ventoy seems solid.

I wonder if PayPal’s consumer protection is also part of the appeal?

I had to use the dispute resolution once. The merchant become unresponsive to all other means. PayPal ruled in my favour and provided a refund.

I’m not sure a credit card chargeback would have been as simple.

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