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In the name of $DEITY: WHY? I would pick without thinking the car without the child tablet attached to it, too. We will be forced to switch to this kind of stupid cars by regulation, or planned obsolescence, not by choice.

Thanks! I am looking for a serious gmail alternative. I thought about protonmail, but I don't really like it :-(

I guess I did the usual thing: - Cancel Twitter. I was moving to bluesky, so not a big deal. X removed from my webpage.

And some more other stuf: . - Meta: I am not a heavy user, but I just use less Instagram. Not posting. Cannot uninstall Whatsapp for social pressure.

- Amazon: bye bye Prime. I find it a Scam anyway and I try to buy outside AMZ as much as possible. It is easy to find stuff outside AMZ, btw.

- Cloud: I don't use AWS personally. Professionally I won't endorse it.

   - Google: canceled my GCP account. Everything is in Digital ocean and Hetzner. Sill have Gmail and android :-( I won't Rene Google Cloud certification.

I am looking for alternatives to AWS and GCP. Not a fan of Azure, but who knows. For me Hetzner and DO still work. I see Oracle cloud with better eyes right now, but I don't like their billing process.

We're using small language models to detect prompt injection. Not too cool, but at least we can publish some AI-related stuff on the internet without a huge bill.

I was curious about MPQ format and found this tool: https://github.com/eagleflo/mpyq

Maybe you can use it to decompress some files and assess how much disk space you can save using deduplication at filesystem level.

If it's worth the effort (1 mean, going from 1TiB to 100-200 Gib) I would consider coding the reassembly part. It can be done by a "script" fist, then can be "promoted" to a FUSE filesystem if needed.

Some teachers in Ibiza fly daily from Majorca because rental is too expensive. Of course it works because flights between the isles are subsidized by the goverment, but stuff like this happens.

Link: (in spanish) https://www.periodicodeibiza.es/pitiusas/ibiza/2024/03/06/21...

Salaries in Spain, are around the same, too.

Under $100:

* Moving Dolly / transporte roller - Just four wheels attached to a wood board for moving stuff from/to the cellar. Best money ever spent.

* Lamy Safari fountain pen - I got tired of plastic pens and wanted to try fountain pens with a converter. Turns out an inkpot lasts more than 1 year. Probably 2.

* Pentel pocket brushpen. Addictive to use. Made me draw again.

That's funny, I taught a bit if Basic to my son coding rock, paper, scissor, too.

Thanks for pointing out in the paper that lot of Spain and Italy is untagged !!

It's interesting to see the first high-speed train line in spain (Madrid-Seville) doesn't appear. I'll see if I can fix that.

In Spain they're called Autodefinidos: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodefinido

Telcos fell in love with OpenStack some years ago and went all in. Biggest problem with OpenStack was you needed a lot of hardware to learn how to use it and the talent pool was quite small.

A 500Eur/quarter budget for books or any cultural stuff (museums, etc) for me or my family. My son was already an avid reader before that; but the moment you have to quickly spend your budget with 20+ books from amazon is priceless.

Former company had an unlimited PTO policy. It was a mess. Apart for the hidden threshold other people mention, I had several direct reports in different countries. Each country had a legal vacation policy... and out 'unlimited' PTO didn't took that into account.

When I joined the company one developer had no vacation for more than eight months. She was Russian and was relocated to a country where she had no relationship... si she just worked. That was a huge liability until she took one week off to interview and left then company one month later.

Probably the key is to assume worst case scenario will always apply. After all space is an hostile enviroment you cannot control, and you need to have the device working for at least the whole mission lifetime.

That would be the (proven) result in a in a dictatorship. If they cannot find him, there is always a scapegoat.

The only Mac selling point for me is that, if you are a startup, and your code is inside a Mac registered with iCloud, AND you have full disk encryption, nobody will get anything from it without authorization.

I haven't touched Perl in more than 20 years... ... but I (routinely) miss something like:

   $variable = something() if sanity_check()

And

   do_something() unless $dont_do_that

My kids will love it. I am supporting the author right now :-)

Last winter in Barcelona my boss paid all team meals. He told us our team getaway dinner would cost the same than a 2-people dinner in Boston... and he didn't care if he couldn't expense it.

To copy one directory into another:

tar fc . | ( cd destination ; tar fx -)

You can use almost the same recipe to copy between host using ssh:

tar fc . | ssh user@host 'cd destination ; tar fx - )'

Ancient ruins? we have an Egiptian Temple near the Royal Palace https://maps.app.goo.gl/xUrFWZwBkuDCTE5W7

Plain old google ads. My first $ came in a check and it was more expensive to cash it in my country than just frame it. Morale: you actually "earn" something the moment cash is in your pocket. Everything else is plain accounting.

You can get the contents using Apache Tika (use the Python library, it is easier)

Attachments will be trickier, but also doable with Tika.

My company uses MacBooks and I hate it. Second time Mac hardware stopped working the week after warranty ended.

I believe Macs are great if you have sensitive data inside or proprietary source code inside; if your company locks them nobody can get the files that are inside.

Sincerely, your ONLY option is to figure out how to make your life easier.

Building is hard. Building something incorporated in a different country could be harder.

You can always incorporate where you can easily raise your money and that newXo can own your current company.

But unless you have a product ready to ship, customers, and a need to.raime money right now... just try to make your like easier.

Rituals that are there because some manual says so... Dailies that turn into micromanagement... Anything that has no meaning.

IMHO the biggest blocker for Rust inside OpenBSD is that the project already has killed C developers and moving (some stuff) to Rust will need time and effort that could be put into other problems.

If they had to stabilize some parts, probably the answer would be different.

A newspaper advertisement. Yep I'm that old.

"The little book of exoplanets" - Really well written - explains a lot of the tricks used to discover exoplanets and how it changed a lot of pre-stablished thoughts in planetary formation theory.