dundercoder

A spectrum analyzer or SDR dongle would tip you off really quickly if there’s active jamming, and the FCC doesn’t play games with those types of violations.

LOVE Donut!!! We're too busy to use it effectively though... do you think it could auto schedule 1:1 meetings with the people in the donut conversation?

That’s excellent, thank you.

That’s great because it would be in CS.

This is excellent advice and very encouraging!

Sure. Usually a device that clamps onto each phase of the main power feed and sends that info to a local/remote datastore for recall/analysis. Tells you as little as "I'm using X watts now" to sorting out usage using signatures into individual devices.

https://guide.openenergymonitor.org/technical/resources/

https://sense.com/

Can't wait to try a sat QSO this year. 73, KG7SYA

I use mine exclusively for the DVDs and BRays I've ripped from my collection. No more scratches!

I’ll have to try it. Braille is not intuitive and my guitar string calloused fingertips aren’t great at discerning the dots.

I'm building python 3.6.4 from source and stashing it in $HOME. No errors so far.

EDIT: Worked great!

    @cloudshell:~/python3/bin$ ./ipython3
    Python 3.6.4 (default, Jan 28 2018, 00:39:17)
    Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
    IPython 6.2.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
    In [1]: from __future__ import braces
      File "<ipython-input-1-6d5c5b2f0daf>", line 1
        from __future__ import braces
                                     ^
    SyntaxError: not a chance

Mitigating hippcracy I see.

This may not be what you want to hear.

Making mistakes properly is progress. Make the exact same mistake multiple times? You might need to write them down as you find them.

At one startup we had a motto: Measure once, cut twice. Being fix the bug, then write code to mitigate that risk in the future. Fix it twice.

Now in critical systems like traffic lights and the like, mistakes kill people, so you test the everloving crap out of everything, then another person does, and another.

If your code doesn’t kill people, ease up on yourself a bit.

Sitting will kill you. I managed to drop 60 lbs (205 to 145 at 5’8”) but without excercise, and I mean _real_ regular cardio and resistance training, I’m a thin but unfit person.

The open office craze and being on call all the time might have affected my sanity, seriously.

Any employer that demands more than 45 hours a week, unreasonable on call demands, and isn’t willing to let you take 1-2 breaks per hour isn’t worth pursuing.

I’ve recently interviewed for 10+ tech companies. I haven’t seen any real extraordinary commonality except security. (DevOps/SRE)

I hope so! I really do.

I’ve been toying with the idea of a postfix/dovecot/spamassasin/opendkim solution.

I don’t need one more thing to do, but the big G has me worried.

I used to drive past this all the time. It’s quite a sight, even from the road.

I still have some central vision, maybe 20 degrees field of view, so I can still see my laptop screen ok. I had to ditch my two 27” monitors because I’d get vertigo looking between them (usually hunting for the mouse pointer)

I crank up the text size so large my neighbors can read it, but not so big that it exceeds my visual field.

I use a screen reader to read docs. I’m super excited about the new AI powered narrators because listening to ANY of the older style readers for 30 seconds or more causes permanent rage conditions.

I tried Braille, but it’s like trying to be instantly productive using vim, in Chinese, while on the space shuttle during launch. I might return to it sometime because narrated code is horrible to listen to.

Pragmatism aside, surrendering my license was a significant step in the grieving process for me. I was warned by a vision counselor that losing sight would be like losing a loved one. So far that has been my experience.

If you’re referring to me being more of a target, my experience has been the opposite. I have found that I’m generally given a very wide berth when I have my white cane out. Often people hold doors for me too. I have a suspicion that most would-be criminals have a concept of karma and fear that robbing a blind person would bring lots of extra bad luck to their table.

That is a good point.

I have. I’d have to move out of state and into a fairly urban city to get decent transit. The schools here are fantastic and I love just about everything here, except the lack of transit.

We may get to that point, but for right now I work remotely (platform engineering) and just grin and bear the rest.

I’m 36, live in the suburbs, and in recent years have gone (legally) blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa. Voluntarily giving up my license was one of the hardest and most important decisions I’ve made. There is literally 0 public transportation here. Not even Uber or Lyft have come around.

America’s sprawl and dependence on cars is incredible. It wasn’t until I spent time in London, Oxford, and Paris that I could recognize how much everything here is built around the idea of owning a car.

So now my wife has to give rides to our four kids, AND me, and there’s literally nothing I can do about it except petition for better transit, and pray self-driving cars get here faster.

Being dependent on rides feels like being 15 again. It’s humiliating being picked up from a job interview in a parking lot with 200+ cars.

This can only end badly.

Which GUI framework is your personal fav? (C++ or otherwise)

The US’s record of reliable and efficient public transit is abysmal. Out west here you’re lucky to even catch a bus that takes an hour and fifteen minutes to get you where a 15 minute car ride would.

Leatherman Wingman. I bought it especially because it has a tool designed for opening that awful plastic clamshell packaging.

Python was my first foray into programming, and I still pay the bills with it. I still love it.

Trying to not let that bias influence my opinion, I too have been frustrated with some of its shortcomings. Distribution, concurrency, and GUIs have been excersizes more in patience and persistence than utility.

I’ve moved most of my efforts into Nim and haven’t been disappointed. I don’t know if it’s a suitable teaching language yet.

But JS as a general purpose language? For web, web, web.

Oh I need to add 10 domains to this list.

So they still can basically do the exact same things, just have to get supervisor approval. Sure. Nothing has changed.