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Thanks for reading. And yeah it's a small thing, I'll probably change it now that that blog is hardly ever updated. It's better for SEO if things aren't dated, generally.

I wrote this back in 2013, and I think much of it is still relevant. 11 years later I'm still WFH, and there's a fat chance you could ever get me into an office again.

https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/08/experiences-and-real...

Of course you can create your own holiday. We know this because all holidays are made up.

^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Medical professionals, mostly nurses, are spread extremely thin. They are so busy and/or jaded that they often neglect to show any compassion or empathy until they see somebody else doing it. Having a family member nearby also keeps them accountable.

I have seen it personally too many times.

Until wearing Airpods during conversation is normalized, this will be a problem. Why?

I tried conversing with somebody recently, and they were completely ignoring me. Then I saw the Airpods. Of course. They have music or something else going on.

For now, Airpods = "I am listening to something other than you right now." So yes, if somebody were wearing Airpods as a hearing device, I'd probably not talk to them because of that expectation.

I thought I had hearing loss. I don't. I have Audio Processing Disorder. When I found out about APD and read its symptom list, I cried. It's me, all over. Between that and ADHD I now understand how my brain processes (or doesn't process) sound properly and why even a well intentioned (but clueless) audiologist told me I had "selective hearing".

I forgot he was in Sneakers! Fantastic movie.

"I told you to speak your mind Jack, but Jesus!"

I also am one who thinks of The Hunt For Red October. You already listed the best quote in the movie from him, but the above also makes me giggle every time.

Last year I built a Hadley telescope, which is a 3d printed structure with some inexpensive optics from China.

https://www.printables.com/model/224383-astronomical-telesco...

One of the things that surprised me, being new to telescopes (and certainly never having built one) was that it was deemed better to leave dust on the optics than to potentially damage them by trying to clean them. The dust just doesn't affect image quality.

I had no ide athat would scale up to gunshots however! Very impressive.

Yep Reno's changed a lot. Thankfully, the desert hasn't. I just bought a place E of Reno out in the desert and I'm actually surrounded by desert on all sides for at least a few hundred feet. It's epic!

Thanks for the chat :)

I've lived just over half my life in and around Reno, and currently live less than an hour away. Reno isn't the town it used to be. In some ways it's better (Downtown/Midtown is pretty good these days) and in some ways it's much worse- sprawl and traffic being my chief complaints. But heading there for Sushi is always worth it. Good times and some great memories made and remembered.

I've eaten at several of the places mentioned in this article and one of them is actually my go-to sushi restaurant. It's an interesting history of a very unique industry that as far as I know only exists in this area.

How many of us here wanted to be Scotty or Geordi over any other role. This was the real life version of those very characters, and the article's subject was a man who was one of only 57 Flight Engineers to ever work on the Concorde.

The comradery with the pilot and copilot struck me- they all knew the importance of each other's role. They left their ego's at the door, or at least that's the tale that's being told here, and I like it.

I wanted badly to be a pilot as a youngster, but after reading this, and looking at what I do now, I wonder if I should've been wanting to be a Flight Engineer!

It's a 43SQ700S. And yes. If it were ever so slightly curved it would be more amazing. But it's a great display.

Excellent "screen saver" type of display. Also good for showing where the dirtiest part of my monitor is. Which is a big area. It's a 43" 4K LG :D

Honestly? Look at Netdata for comparison. Everything from nginx hostname requests (we run web hosting servers) to cpu/ram/disk data but also network data and more. If you can do better than that somehow, by all means do it and make it better.

But there's more to it than just collecting data in a dashboard. Having a reliable agent and being able to monitor the agent itself (fore example, not just saying "server down!" if the agent is offline, but detecting the server remotely for verification) would be nice.

3 and 1/2 years ago I lost my mate prematurely. A long protracted illness with much pain and suffering. I'm sorry for you and your wife are going through and have gone through. It is very hard.

There were a lot of things that helped me through. If your wife would ever like to talk to someone who's been through it, even though I'm a guy, she is always welcome to reach out to me.

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Brilliant.

That is really cool. I haven't built a rig like you, but I have it on my bucket list to build a fully dressed rock crawler out of a Mitsubishi Montero 2dr (also sold as a Dodge Raider in the states). It'll be leaf sprung to start, but using your method of going 4 link would be preferable to the "build and pray" method that most people seem to take.

I'm not a developer. I can write some bash scripts but otherwise I struggle. So, I use ChatGPT as my own private developer (version 4o with a subscription).

The most recent is a Chrome extension that plays a "server down" tone any time the word "critical" appears on our system monitoring web page (Netdata). It plays that tone when the number of "critical" words goes up, and plays a "server up" tone when the number goes down. It's dead simple and works to give me audio alerts so that when I'm hyper-focused on something, I can get pulled out of it by the "server down" tone. It's gone over well with my coworkers as well.

I don't know if the dingo was born to be wild, but I know the steppen wolf is.

It probably could be but not easily. My server is IPv4 only at the moment and so I am using a Cloudflare worker to get the IP's, and I need some kind of logic to present those to the browser through my site... I'm not much of a developer you see. I'd be open to suggestions for doing both.

I can do a "raw" version for IPv4 but not IPv6.

Exactly, and thank you for the feedback!

I made this because so many sites that you need to send people to, when you need their IP, are ad-laden messes. So this site is literally just your IP address, nothing more.

You are correct. I should have said that Framework didn't build the board. They made its creation in that form factor possible.

Thank you. And, Well said.

I only got a chance to scan the article, but it tracks.

I lost my wife 3.5 years ago. She was in her late 40's. We knew she was going to die, and it was an awful process. We thought we were prepared. But there's no preparing. When it happens, everything inside just shatters. Even 3.5 years later, I find myself just bawling at times, and I consider myself ahead of the grief 'curve' if there is such a thing.

I've come to the conclusion that I'll never be over my wife. Even if I remarry, there will always be that part of me that's hanging on.

You don't really heal. You just find a new balance without that person in your life. You go through the motions until a sense of normal returns. But there will always be part of you that is shattered, never to be whole again. Thankfully, it's not fatal to the sufferer.

Framework didn't do anything. They're just announcing what somebody else did, which was to make a motherboard that has a RISC-V processor in it, which fit a Framework laptop.

   *3: Multi-thread: A given function of the program is individually configured 
   (thread); two or more threads can be executed simultaneously.
   *4: Multitasking: A method that enables a computer to simultaneously execute 
   two or more programs by switching the CPU to each of the programs at certain intervals.

It's funny, the definitions we take for granted now.