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These small keyboards are usually ortholinear which also helps reducing hand movement.

I switched to a OLKB Preonic over a year ago and haven't looked back.

After you get used to the smaller factor and non staggered keys format you realize how ridiculously and unnecessarily huge and clunky traditional keyboards are, even laptop keyboards.

It's like traveling with a 65 liters bag for years before you learn you can just carry a 40L and travel with less crap and much lighter.

It took me a couple of months to come up with the layout that worked for me (and even today I still optimizing it), but once I figured it out the typing experience became just such much better.

The QMK configuration tool makes the process of configuring the layout painless and super quick, so you just need the patience to try and iterate.

I heard Section 8 is also plagged by corruption (directly by a friend with acquittances in the program in the DC metro area). From what I understood and remember, many people working in the program are watching after their careers in goverment. There are various bands for compensation and benefits that are tied to performance metrics. One of the metrics for managers running Section 8 is level of occupancy, so what ends up happening is once you bring people into the program and fill all of your spots you leave them there even after their situation has improved and they are technically no longer qualified for housing benefits, this way you can report full occupancy year after year which helps your performance. Obviously those in need of housing are left out.

I guess he lived in a different time when people were kinder, particularly in Pittsburgh. It's hard to greet your neighbors when they rutinely park on sidewalks, take their trash out several days before pick up and don't take care of their lawn. Recently leaving the city for a farm in the country with the next neighbor several hundred feet away seems idyllic.

I spent some time in Japan a decade ago and made some good Japanese friends. But I got to know a bit about their life work imbalance and it makes the US look like Europe. Combined with the hassle of traveling in a world of rude tourists, influencers, scammers and crappy airlines I completely understand why Japanese would be reluctant to leave their country.

Seems to me TSMC is just trying to avoid a unionized labor force, which they were aware of before taking the deal. Having worked in various industries all over the US in large and complex manufacturing processes, there are many challenges in operating a unionized business. Lack of work ethics is definitely not one of challenges though.

Rubberducking is a good skill to have beyond LLMs.

Congratulations. Wife and I are on our fourth round of IVF with only two embryos so far. Our odds don't look too promising and will probably end up going the donor's eggs path. The process of having a live, healthy birth when biology refuses to cooperate is emotionally and financially draining for millions of couples. If technology like in vitro gametogenesis becomes available in the near future it will be a real miracle of science. Nothing to be worried or scared about.

Nah, I think I just dislike humans behaving like pigs. There must be some strong correlation between buying large buttery bags of popcorn and manners on the table. I would also be annoyed if I was sitting next to people like that in a restaurant talking and chewing with their mouth full, eating with their hands or dropping utensils on the plate, but the proximity in the theater and the length of the movie makes it so much worse (those XL bags and large sodas can last two hours). I rarely go to the theaters in the US anymore for that reason, people in general are just gross, perhaps in other countries is different.

I rather have phones in a movie than popcorn. Having people next to you stuffing their faces with smelly greasy popcorn is the most disgusting and annoying behavior in a theater. The smell, the sound of the bag, the chewing and the licking of the greasy fingers, nothing is better at ruining a movie than that.

It's likely we will be able to grow full working organs, tissues and limbs in a lab before we can reanimate frozen bodies. So wouldn't be more efficient to cryopreserve only the brain?

People don't necessarily choose their life circumstances. A drug addict is a disabled person, their brains soaked in chemicals inhibiting from any logical reasoning. Sometimes they may experience monetary lapses of consciousness where they can feel both physical and emotional pain. Many of them have parents, siblings and children, and may have decided to stay away from their love ones because of shame. So obviously this social experiment was absurd, you are facilitating the trade of drugs within a vulnerable community. Everyone would agree that a 10 year old kid should not have legal access to alcohol, so why we think a mentally disabled addict should be able to buy drugs? Sobering up is a monumental challenge when you are on hard drugs, you need at minimum a doctor and weekly therapies designed for your particular type of addiction and health/psychological condition, and a strong support system of relatives and friends around you almost 24/7. So expecting that an addict all by themselves voluntarily wants to "get out" and seek or receive help is as ridiculous as the idea of a legal market for hard drugs. Addicts need to be forced into rehab where they can receive the right treatment and eventually be reunited with their families and slowly get back on their feet. This should not be hard to do for a country like the US but no one wants to have the hard talk, so we brush the problem under the rug and call for legalization of drugs and affordable housing

A lot of improvement could be make by just enforcing the laws. Many cities across the US allow sidewalk parking for example. My neighbor has a Tesla Y and his charging station is literally on the sidewalk, he can afford the car but not a house with a garage.

This happened at Uber ATC multiple times as well

I keep reading how bad and competitive the "job market" is today, but I haven't been able to find actual data on it.

It's like people have this gut feeling that due to the recent layoffs at FAANG, no calls for interviews and the number of (likely mediocre) applications showing up in a job post in LinkedIn indicates the job market is extremely competitive. But is it? The entire job market?

There's no doubt some companies and markets are beaten up but other are actually doing great and growing.

So rather than invest time on blogging and creating repos why not focus on researching, identifying and learning about the industries that are actually hiring and acquiring new skills so that you can target them?

Du wünschst shakin' das bootie, ja?

Spent many years on Subversion and Mercurial before moving to Git.

I agree that it may be complex if you don't take the time to understand the fundamentals.

I made the mistake to jump right at it on a very large project thinking my experience with other non distributed systems would be enough.

So I had to take a step back and dedicate some time to read documentation including visual examples of the most common situations I encounter.

Merging and resolving conflicts are those of two situations where I struggled the most particularly when working with sub branches in large projects (5+ developers) with a very fast pace of development.

Once you understand the fundamentals (you can confidently draw on paper the current and future state of the tree after your changes) Git is not difficult IMO and 99% of the time you can work with a dozen of commands if you have discipline to use standards and do frequent housekeeping.

If you let changes and branches go for two long without committing, merging and deleting them, never tag and release, write poor commit messages and don't reference issue numbers, lack naming conventions, submit dirty PRs and let PRs sit for days and weeks before approval, etc, then the problem isn't Git.

Lost my brother to a carcinoma, a disease that most likely will be successfully treated, cured and even prevented in my lifetime. I feel for your brother but also for you.

Wine is too much for us to handle. I know because I drank 5 bottles last night and it was damaging to my health.

Google Flights has in my opinion the best interface to initiate the search. But it won't show you necessarily the best price if you are flying international airlines. So I always end up in the airline's website locally connected via VPN. Sometimes the difference is absurd, tickets selling for $300 in the international version of the website go for $60 if you access the regional version or from other countries except the US.

"I still think it's good to get together at least once or twice a year"

I'm curious why you think that and why such an arbitrary number? why not three or five times, or zero?

Not sure about the details of this particular grant, but with federal grants usually you don't get a million dollar check to develop your idea. The money is divided in phases each requiring a set of milestones to be completed, reviewed and approved for you to have access to more resources. The total grant may be a million, but you may first get 100K and 6 months to show a working version then the next phase if approved gives you 200K more and so on.

Biologically a healthy woman can have kids well into her 50s and even 60s yet her eggs reserve starts to deplete the moment they are born, accelerating exponentially as they approach 40.

From an evolutionary point of view this could have made sense 200 years ago when the lifespan of a human was 45 years.

Our bodies are not perfect and we have been able to understand and to certain degree fix many issues with it such as infectious and cardiovascular diseases and some types of cancers.

For example we never saw polio as a quality control system for our species.

Our understanding of infertility and methods to treat it have remained unchanged for decades.

We basically pump an awful amount of drugs into a woman's body hoping to harvest a few good eggs via surgery.

It is a brutal and painful process, physically, emotionally and financially that most times has very poor odds of succeeding.

If we can do the same with a few drops of blood, removing the drugs, the cost and the randomness of the current procedures while increasing the odds 10x, this would be an amazing feat of science in a positive way.

Having been through multiple rounds of IVF and knowing many couples and their stories during such long, expensive, physically and emotionally exhausting process, I believe this technology would be extremely positive for humanity.

How broke someone has to be to sell 15% of anything for 100 bucks? Just the domain name was probably worth 10 times that.

If your "partner" sides with a union to take over the company that's an all out war.

You can also shoot yourself in the foot a lot less by having a solid understanding of fundamentals before jumping into coding right away.

Unfortunately learning the fundamentals requires a lot of reading and practicing and most literature and content out there isn't great.

The OP would have known why holding a reference to an item in a list sometimes is not a good idea by knowing the fundamentals of memory allocation, which can be found on many books and articles totally unrelated to Rust.

One of my favorite books for learning fundamentals is Effective Java, even when I wrote very little code in Java during my career I found some of the concepts and ideas in that book to be language agnostic.

A very serious and/or disabling health condition could deplete your savings in a few months even if you are considered middle class and have health/disability insurance. There's no guarantees there. Also, becoming homeless is extremely unlikely as long as you are healthy and able to work. Even a $15/hr job can put a roof over your head and buy you food.

Same principle for mountain biking. If you focus on the tree on the left and try to avoid it you end up clipping the tree on the right. You should be "aware" of the obstacles but you look ahead and focus on following the easiest line.

I don't see in the paper they adjusted by family size. They mention socioeconomic status but that isn't the same thing. Would it be possible people living in urban areas close to parks have less kids or no children at all? Usually real state closer to parks within the city permiter are much more expensive, the same money buys you less square footage.

I have done my own study with 7 siblings in my family half with children and I can assure you having kids adds at least 3 years of biological age per kid.

Twitter do have billions in ads revenue including this year.