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2 maanden geledendiscuss

I buy vinyl because I like the tangibleness if the medium. Seeing the tracks on the record, the liner notes, lyric sheets, photos, etc. It's great when the artist really embraces the format and goes all out. My player is a low end unit with built in speakers, but my youngest can listen to his records easily. We go to a local record store once a month and walk out with random records, some new some used.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

As someone with colon cancer, I'd rather the complications than what I'm going through. 8" of colon removed, 6 weeks of recovery then 7 months of chemo treatments. If I could go back in time and get my colonoscopy at 35 instead of 46 and get only do a night in the hospital, I would in a heartbeat. Colon resection and chemo suuuuuuuuuuuuck.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Had my first colonoscopy at 46. Found cancer, stage 2b. Resection and chemo. I was completely asymptomatic. I put a post on FB and I now know about a dozen people who that prompted to get their colonoscopy done. Get it done, the prep isn't bad, get the pills if you can, otherwise make sure you get a Zofran along with the prep. If found early, it's easy to treat. Get It Done.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

So, they cut down the trees and do what? How is this supposed help anything?

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Meeting and talk to people is a learned behavior. It took me a while in my 20s to get comfortable talking to new people. I'm determined to not let my kids struggle with the isolation that can come with social anxiety. My wife and I are working with my 14 year son to develop those skills. Between a couple books and his therapist (everyone should have one!) he's working through it, and has gone from being one of the shy-est kids to having the confidence to go up to a person and startup a conversation. He has a couple openers he uses to get a conversation going. It's finally clicked how much a small compliment can break the ice with boys and girls. He likes the feeling he gets when he gives someone a compliment and they brighten up.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

Don't get me started on torso lengths! I'm 5'11 but wear a 30" inseam pants. My torso is long, so most shirts are too short for me. I'm not overweight, I'm 160 lbs, so finding a shirt that actually fits me is very difficult. If it's long enough, its too wide. If its the right width, it's too short.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

There should be an adult category. Lets get some genuine citizen science going. Let the kids see that science doesn't need to be confined to corporate or university labs.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

At least Word has an outline mode, GDocs is the worst. A text editor with markdown support is better than GDocs.

6 maanden geledendiscuss

Yup, you're probably right. Author confirmed it was done by CBS news crew.

6 maanden geledendiscuss

Yeah, this doesn't look like AI generated. It was probably filmed on super 8 film stock. The clothing, hair cuts, manufacturing process all scream early 80s.

I could see a cheap restoration introduction artifacts as a more likely reason for the look.

6 maanden geledendiscuss

Same. Small units if work, iterate in it till it's right, commit it, push it, then do the next increment of work. It's how I've always worked like that, except now, I sometimes let someone else figure the exact API calls (I'm still learning react, but Claude helps get the basics in place for me). If the AI just keeps screwing up, I'll grab the wheel and do it myself. It sometimes helps me get things going, but it hasn't been a huge increase in productivity, but I'm not paying the bill so whatever.

6 maanden geledendiscuss

Aluminum oxide has high resistance and if you mix aluminum wiring with copper outlets, etc the impedance mismatched is what causes fires. You need to either have special copper pigtails installed or use fixtures that are rated for aluminum wiring.

For commercial installs, it shouldn't be a problem as long as it's planned for.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

Many employees are doing text work and, until recently, operating systems and apps did a really bad job of working with Hi DPI displays. Your best bet was to target around 115 DPI on a monitor for decent text rendering without having to deal with font scaling. 19" 1080p is perfect for that. You just gave them multiple monitors if you wanted more real estate.

11 maanden geledendiscuss

I think social norms in child rearing have changed drastically, though I think, at least in my neighborhood, they are swinging back.

Growing up in the 80s, I remember having a lot of free time and autonomy. I had soccer or baseballaybe twice a week and guitar lessons once a week, but the other days, I was doing what I wanted, I was expected to get my homework done, but once that was done,I was free to roam the neighborhood or my backyard.

This parenting mindset changed, by the late 80s early 90s and kids started getting more and more scheduled activities and less free time.

Even personally, 6 years ago my wife was very apprehensive about letting our oldest who was then 8, walk to his friend's house who was a 1/4 mile away in the neighborhood. Our youngest, who is 7, walks or bikes to his friend's house the same distance away. And we have other neighborhood kids that also go between people houses. That is the childhood I remember.

I don't think HW I got in elementary school necessarily helped me learn more, but the act of being given work with expectation that I would complete it on my own was a growth activity for me, and that is something that is starting to come back in elementary school, homework for the sake of learning how to do homework.

12 maanden geledendiscuss

We have a 3 way intersection with lights outside my kid's elementary school. 30 min before and after the school day begins and ends, there is no right on red. There is a sign that says "no right on red during x times". There is a red arrow for the right hand turn. The crossing guard stops cars EVERY DAY that try to turn. The cops come out and ticket once a week during the school year and it persists. So yeah, I can see 500,000 violations a year. A majority of drivers really don't look, so yeah, f'em.

vorig jaardiscuss

They are going to innovate servers on electric roller skates to deliver the food right to your car.

vorig jaardiscuss

Is it really good form in TypeScript to make all functions async, even when functions don't use await? like this, https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/blob/fe...

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Salesforce core is Java. A smattering of other languages in the mix. I left Salesforce a year ago, their main developer productivity drains had nothing to do with the code base. It's their build process where it takes a minimum of a day to get code committed, even with their git on top of perforce hack which is seriously impressive, but still a process smell, that coupled with massive overhead from when dealing with inter team dependencies and various "edicts" getting passed down from on high that blow up any planning.

In short, you could have agents that code at 2x but it would have only a small impact on deliverabkes since non-coding processes have a higher impact on velocity.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

There have been VR headsets since before there were PDAs. The first VR Headsets were made in the 80s by VPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPL_Research). This no where near being a new idea, this is a forty year old idea that gets a resurgence every 5 to 10 years then everyone remembers why it never caught on the last item. It is a niche consumer peripheral, but it has a lot of applications in professions such as Architecture, Engineering, Medicine, Aerospace, and Training. But those industries can probably only support one or two small manufacturers.

2 jaar geledendiscuss

That was my first thought. Create an import or manufacturing entity. That entity then sells the product to the retail entity for a markup. It's the retail entity that has the relationship with Amazon and can then show the invoice from the import/manufacturing entity.