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Music is sooooo hard to make a living at. I burned through my savings and am getting back into engineering. I love music, but it won’t feed 4 kids, even if the music is stellar. Cheers to you!

I love to hear stories of people creating something useful or beautiful (or both) and finding success. OP’s initial goals were very reasonable and achievable, and the product looks great.

It motivates me to keep trying at side hustles like this. Well done!

You make a good point. I personally found fax zero to be a PITA, but I think that this itch I’ve scratched might not really scale.

I had never even heard of HackerRank before applying at a few places. I was supposed to write a binary search tree algorithm without using anything except the language docs. I rarely write anything new without a quick search, it wastes valuable time reinventing the wheel.

You typically have a high surface area medium (pea gravel) in the sump or in another tank that provides a bacteria filter for the waste breakdown.

I haven’t done the math but I have read that growing duckweed to feed tilapia is a very economical alternative to commercial fish food.

>you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink Duct tape and a hose, done.

I worked at Three Mike Island inspecting a steam generator during a refueling outage. A robot arm operated by a person ran a sensor down each pipe to inspect its integrity. After completion a random set of pipes were chosen for verification. If even one pipe in the verification set differed from its original scan, the entire steam generator had to be reinspected.

We had a huge incentive to get it right. Counting ballots should be just as verifiable and accurate.

A lot of questions like these catch flack because once you have some good experience programming, you forget what it was like to be lost in the beginning.

Asking a question like "How do I learn to program?" Is a lot like asking "How do I use a hammer?" The answer, it depends on what you're building. I'm self-taught, mostly in Python, but in other languages as well. The trick is to find something to fix. Find something to build. When you're building something it changes your mindset and you start learning instead of memorizing.

Head over to https://www.oppslist.com/ and find a "problem" that you find interesting. Then hit codecademy and stack overflow to help you get enough syntax down to start writing something.

For python, the https://reddit.com/r/learnpython community is extremely helpful and has few trolls :)

Your laptop need not be fast for programming. You could do it on a chromebook and have much success. Especially in the beginning.

The human mind is such a fascinating, yet incredibly strange place.

Anecdotally, I worked for a CEO twice who had successful exits (8 figures), was raised poor.

When DOM access comes, all my js will hit the round file.

Sorry for dropping carrier, got call wasted.

I have two mutations of USH2A, causing blindness. It’s a big gene. This kind of tech can’t come soon enough.

Python was my entry into the programming world, and I've been an evangelist ever since... Or I was until I ran into distribution and parallelism. Since then, Nim has been my go-to language of choice. It is all that Python was, plus unbelievable speed, compiling to shippable binaries, and some other cool language features that admittedly, are still beyond my scope of abilities. Still quite lacking in libraries compared to Python, but after a few attempts (perhaps halfhearted), I never felt "Go" was a suitable replacement.

Highways are paid for w/taxes. Rail gets no subsidy. Sad really.

I have a severe case of this. So few personal projects even get started because I get caught up in scalability and what not.

and reuse of them!

Global variables... I'm ashamed.

I love it when manufacturers choose to use common and inexpensive connectors/components, rather than choosing to make their own proprietary one. Using the iec 320 c13/14, usb micro, and other "standard" connectors is laudable.

7kw? Amazing! How large is the array? (sq ft) How much did that set him back?

I'm a big fan of Uptime Robot, been with them for years now. Not as many bells and whistles as other sites, but dang cheap and the main dev Umut (dunno if there is more than one) is a very nice guy and has answered every one of my pesky questions.

Is the goal of Lambda/OpenFaaS to basically be cgi/bin in a box? (Container) Would sandboxed cgi/fcgi be faster at forking than spinning up a container?

I thought RSS had died a rather unfortunate and inconvenient death... am I wrong and it's still been kicking all this time?

Thanks!

Thank you for sleuthing it out :)

Well... I hired a producer, wrote 10 songs, hired a director, filmed 3 music videos and worked harder than I had at any software startup in my life (platform/devops) trying to make it work. Serious long shot, but it's been a ton of fun!

Edit: my last video won "Music Video of the Year" at the Oxford International Film Festival. So here's hoping!

I don't know if there truly is an actual consensus in the scientific community, but it is true that an aggregate warming of the earth as a whole will cause some hot spots to become cooler, and some cool spots to warm, some deserts to recover, and some wet regions to loose their rainfall. "Change" is a good word.

I can't wait till they bring back one of those! Amazing on so many levels.

A while ago my wife and I decided to slowly, where we could, get away from any processed foods. We've done pretty well, but there are days where the kids want chicken nuggets...

After moving away from processed food, I cut my food intake by 2/3, but still ate real butter, real ice cream, and whole milk. I've lost 60 lbs, or about 30% of my original body weight. It's amazing, the American diet. I hope science prevails soon and the "rules" change quickly.