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It made me very happy, for some reason, that people are systematically and thoroughly studying a subject as obscure as this (fluid dynamics of peeing in insects). I now question if research is happening on every single ridiculous notion that crosses my mind. I bet a bunch of people are actually interested enough in that computation that a field of study exists for it, that I know nothing of, and couldn't find out about if I tried. What all of actual fuck are people looking into?!

I think it is important to remember that you are catching a person on their journey of acquiring and internalizing information. The reservoir of available information is almost limitless - so no one is going to come close to knowing it all. No point in testing for that. We all navigate the world on different trajectories through this network of information - so your milestones may not be the same as theirs. No point in confirming that theirs are the same as yours.

What you want to look for is their ability to process information, ability to internalize it, and their ability to bring it to bear in solving the problems they will be confronted with. You may have to do this with markers that don't necessarily match your own.

The richness of the network of information they have acquired so far is a marker. The nuances of the insights into that information they have acquired is a marker. The organization of this information into readily usable tools is a marker. These are what you should be looking for, rather than some preconceived ideas of what the markers need to be.

Having just done this myself I would HIGHLY recommend transferring email using a IMAP based tool. Any POP based tool will not retain any of the folder organization you may have in your Gmail mailbox.

Gmail implements folders via labels, and the only way that I know of how to pass these through to the new mailbox (whether it be Gmail or not) is by using IMAP.

I used:

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/#install

This one is free if you don't need support. There are others.

The email hosting service I settled for is:

https://mxroute.com

Use them only for forwarding, so their cheapest package is OK for me.

I am trying iRedMail to self host an email server. What do you use?

I've setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC. The PTR record is not possible for me to setup. How did you get around that? Did you get a static IP address?

What else do you think is necessary to make this better?

We sort of had to collectively admit we were wrong on the premise that you will be happiest if you work on something you personally want to work on the most

What do they say about this? What is it that they found that invalidated this "premise"? I can't seem to find anything in the article.

If you have a constant-on internet connection, then right on your own machine (WIndows or Linux). Use a dynamic DNS (DDNS) service (with a low TTL) so people can always find you by name even if your IP address changes. After that, learn a bit of PHP or Python and use one of many web application frameworks (Flask or Bottle or Django).

Price $0.

Around $12 annually to buy a domain name if you like (if you are not happy with one that the DDNS service will give you).

When you start getting traffic, you may want to consider AWS, starting at the free tier and going up.

Dotsies (2012) 8 years ago

Is this person completely insane? Or am I just not getting something? In which universe is this font remotely useful?