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They use it, but do they love it or do they feel like they need it to do their best work and stay ahead?

I hate cars but I still drive to the office 1x / week because I have to.

You can absolutely do a chargeback months later. This is fraud, and credit card companies are usually very willing to address that! Typically they'll put the onus on Photobucket to demonstrate that you received the service you paid for, and they won't be able to do that in your case.

I've suffered this several times over my now 25-year career, and the best answer I've found is therapy. Find a good[*] therapist and work with them, preferably every week, until you feel better.

[*] I like this definition of "a good therapist", from a book I read many years ago:

Here’s what you should look for in a good therapist.

Some good signs are:

* Someone you know says this therapist has helped them with a similar problem in concrete ways.

* The therapist offers a plan that focuses on helping you reach the goals you’ve set, and it’s clear to you how what the therapist does will help you reach your goals.

* This therapist uses a variety of methods depending on your problem and who you are.

* You have an ongoing sense that this therapist is more often than not helping you feel better in your life and helping your life work better.

Some bad signs are:

* There’s no change in your life or how you feel or what you do after four sessions, or things actually get worse.

* The therapist seems uninterested in the concrete realities of your current life.

* The therapist is focused exclusively on ways you’ve been damaged, instead of on your needs or strengths.

* The therapist seems to have one all-purpose theory or “answer” that explains everything.

I hope this helps! Burnout is real, you're not alone, and I'm glad you're taking some steps towards recovery!

This dude named a Python data analysis library after a retrocomputing (Commodore era) tape drive. He _definitely_ should stop trying to name things.

Spatial reasoning.

(But we're working on it.)

Are they really open weights? Ministral 3B is "Mistral Commercial License".

Even the anthropomorphism argument doesn't hold up under close scrutiny. When I was in high school I was asked to memorize several poems, including a few that are under copyright today. If I regurgitate one of these poems and present it as my own, this clearly infringes copyright, even if I no longer recall where the poem came from or who wrote it.

How is what OpenAI is doing with NYT stories any different, other than the architecture and substrate of the neural network?

Pulley is mentioned a few times in the thread; seems legit but again I'm curious if anyone here has used any of these alternatives.

Does anyone have experience with a competitor that they like? Ledgy?

Time to request my data by email! I got ChatGPT to write me this, and submitted it using https://www.ksv.at/en/company/contact

Subject: Request for Personal Data Access Under GDPR Article 15

Dear KSV1870 Data Protection Officer,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to formally request access to all personal data that KSV1870 holds about me, in accordance with my rights under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Please note that I am an EU citizen residing in Ireland and have recently encountered difficulties in accessing your web services due to the requirement of an Austrian mobile phone number, which I do not possess. This limitation has prompted me to directly reach out via email to exercise my rights under the GDPR.

To assist you in locating my data, I am providing the following personal details:

    Full Name: [Your Full Name]
    Date of Birth: [Your Date of Birth]
    Address: [Your Address in Ireland]
    Email Address: [Your Email Address]
    Any other relevant identifying information: [Any Other Relevant Information]

I would appreciate if you could acknowledge the receipt of this request and provide an estimated timeline for a response. According to GDPR guidelines, you are required to respond within one month of receiving this request.

If you require any further information from my end to facilitate this request, please do not hesitate to contact me at [Your Contact Information].

Thank you for your attention to this matter. I look forward to your prompt response.

Sincerely,

[Your Full Name] [Your Contact Information]

As well as the hurdles pointed out in the article, their Article 15 process (starting here: https://digitalerantrag.ksv.at/Dip/?request=auskunft-nach-ar... ) requires an Austrian mobile phone number. Personally I'd like to exercise my rights under Article 15 (since I am an EU citizen) but I don't have an Austrian phone number.

I deleted about 400 MB of files using the "Storage" page in the left sidebar of my Google Drive ( https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota ) and now I can edit my Sheet again. My "storage" page in settings (https://drive.google.com/settings/storage) still shows 18.86 GB of 28 GB used.

Honestly, I regret ever signing up for the product that is now "legacy G Suite". It's been a rough experience over the years and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to migrate from this product to a regular Google account. (I looked into this back when they were threatening to discontinue the product.)

Yes, this is happening to me too. Last time I successfully edited a Google Sheet was this morning around 8 AM, and now (6 PM) it's broken. My "storage" page shows 18.86 GB of 28 GB used, and I have no idea what's going on.

Sorry I don't have a solution here, but at least we're not alone.

Just don't call it a war dog! Boston Dynamics might get upset.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56182268

We've been shipping a Docker-based app to customers for years, and every now and then one of them runs a security scanner on our images. I have yet to see a scan that isn't a disaster of false positives (for the reasons outlined in the article and more!)

One of the craziest recent examples was a scan using a tool called Twistlock. Many of our images are built from an upstream image that may have outdated apt dependencies, so one of the first things we do is upgrade them. Twistlock flagged _every instance_ of this because "Package binaries should not be altered" (in other words, between subsequent layers in an image). I am baffled how anyone at Twistlock decided that this was a useful thing for their product to detect, or why any Twistlock customer trusts it given issues like this.

Yes, wow! As a Canadian I really appreciate the ability to donate in my own currency.

The product I work on is geared towards big corporate IT environments, and I can confirm that this sort of thing is not unusual at all.

A recent support ticket went along the lines of:

Customer: An audit discovered that JDK version X was installed as part of your software. It has a vulnerability and we demand a way to upgrade to JDK X+1 that has the fix.

Our support team: We're already aware of that and the latest point release of our software bundles JDK X+2, which fixes that vulnerability and 2 others. Please upgrade.

Customer: Our compliance team requires JDK X+1. Please provide a way to install this version.

We eventually solved the problem by having them upgrade to the latest major release of our software, which doesn't use Java at all, but it boggles my mind that they wanted a _less_ secure JDK.

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I'm surprised nobody here has mentioned Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. I've been using this method on and off for years with great results. In fact I'm just finishing off eating a few slices from a loaf that just came out of the oven now!

The idea is that you pre-make dough in batches and refrigerate. Then on baking day (every 2-3 days for me) you shape a loaf and bake it. All the baking day tasks add up to less than 5 minutes spread over a couple of hours, and the prep is really quick too!

The basic recipe is the best starting point: https://artisanbreadinfive.com/2013/10/22/the-new-artisan-br...

This looks great but I don't see anything about pricing / business model, which worries me. Are they going to start charging for subscriptions once they're established? or inserting ads everywhere to make money? or do the intend to pursue freemium features with a solid "free forever" feature set?

I only really want to invest the time and energy into getting my friends using this service if it's the latter.

Smugmug haven't exactly been kind to the Flickr community - they walked back the "free forever" promises made by Marissa Meyer and deleted a lot of photos belonging to anyone who didn't subscribe to a pro plan after the acquisition. I'm not sure how they expect the community to have much goodwill towards them after that move.

I feel like this is the way of things with Slack: poorly implemented new features are introduced with no way to disable them, and a significant portion of their users end up needing to work around them. I'd love to have time to research replacements for my employer's use of Slack because they clearly care more about being "innovative" than meeting the needs of their existing userbase.

Other examples: * The UX around threads is still horrendous, and there's no way to turn it off. * There's no way to turn off "drafts", which still causes me to lose messages I'm working on.

A decentralized approach that doesn't depend on one corporate service remaining profitable (or one nonprofit remaining viable) would be great.

The Zot protocol https://zotlabs.org/page/zotlabs/home can do distributed event invitations but the leading implementation Hubzilla has horrendous UX and an unpalatable (PHP + JQuery) tech stack. I'd love to have time to reimplement it in a more developer and user friendly way - focusing on events only to start with could make this a reasonable task.

pip-compile (part of https://pypi.org/project/pip-tools/ ) provides a significantly better way to maintain a requirements.txt file: create a requirements.in that specifies only the things you care about, and pip-compile it into a requirements.txt with pinned versions. Then you can use pip-compile --upgrade to upgrade just some of the versions, unlike pipenv which wants you to upgrade everything, whether you're ready to or not.

For time-based server start/stop, we use https://www.parkmycloud.com/ .

I'm looking forward to checking out Hakuna Cloud - looks like the two services are pretty complimentary.

Related: if you're looking for a service that starts/stops instances on a schedule (we find this really good for QA and development instances), check out https://www.parkmycloud.com/ . You can also set an instance to "always parked" and unpark it for a certain number of hours or until a certain date/time.

(No affiliation, just a satisfied customer.)

It seems likely that we're stuck with them unfortunately. They're trendy, less expensive, and the people making the decisions (as well as the people designing the spaces as the article points out) generally don't feel the consequences as severely as developers do.

If it were easier to measure the productivity lost due to open offices they would probably be less popular, but without that I don't have much hope.

So instead of running

  curl 'https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=36.7201600&lng=-4.4203400&date=today'

  curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{ "query": "{ hello, sun(lat: 36.7201600, long: -4.4203400, date: \"today\") { sunrise, sunset } }" }' <script-url>

blend.io seem to be on the right track towards giving people a reason to upload their music.

I'll probably end up doing the same. For now we're just duplicating things in two places.