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Is it really that hard to switch from Apple to/from Google or to/from Windows/Linux?

I mean, I really emjoy my current Apple ecosystem, and I do have all the devices, and I like how everything works currently. But, a switch is mainly a matter of movies my files and exporting/importing photos, contacts, and email. It might take a few years to cycle out ALL the devices, but I don't feel like there is a ton of friction in switching my data over.

It is more that everything is working so well together that I don't want to switch right now.

I do stay away from Apple home automation though, for this very reason. I want something open and local that I control since that WOULD be a huge pain to try and swap away from.

Searching through a bunch of listings online with fixed prices and then having it delivered once you chose is not like any car dealership I have been through. Forget just the haggling on price, you have to spend 2 hours in with "finance" declining all sorts of things including their own loan options--and sometimes (not all) this finance person attempts "hard sells". Last time I was back in this room it felt like a timeshare presentation and sales pitch that just didn't let up.

No thanks. I'll take fixed pricing and a car drop-off any day over that. I'll even pay more for it--well, slightly more.

At this point I can't tell anymore which comments are coming from GPT-3 and which ones are human. Sorry if I am wrong, and if this is offensive, but this one feels a GPT-3 response--and I find it fascinating that I can't tell the difference anymore.

One thing I have been pondering about ChatGPT and what it can replace, is that all of the training data came from human sources. So of course it might know C++ or javascript answers. So in terms of replacing Google, Twitter, or stack overflow it seems to do a great job on existing ideas. But what about the next upcoming language, or new language features.

Without a healthy online discourse and public exchanging of ideas, how will AI learn about new events, and languages.

If we start to rely on an AI to help us instead of online discussion boards, but that AI needs those discussion boards to learn, something will have to give a bit.

I pay $175 a month and that includes book keeping and tax prep for the business.

They specialize in consultants and helped structure the LLC taxed as an S-corp to save a ton of money on payroll taxes.

They prepared a statement for justification on the portion of funds I take as salary.

They balance my bank accounts as part of the book keeping.

When applying for loans having several years of CPA stamped financials makes applications a breeze.

They have stopped me from doing a few borderline things which may have been technically legal, saved me a minuscule amount of money, but would have almost guaranteed an audit in their opinion.

When I had some very complex ideas for some things I wanted to do, the CPA scheduled an hour call to discuss and give me details on how to make it work.

I used to do my own taxes. And still do for my personal taxes. But I find having a firm keep my books totally worth it.

Searching for book keepers that specialize in independent contractors should bring them and some competitors up.

My only wish is that UUIDs were sortable and still contained their timestamp. When bug hunting, sometimes things become a little more obvious when there is an exact start and end to ids with issues.

I tried branching away from IT because I thought I was bored of it, and thought I would be happier not sitting at a desk.

I almost immediately started thinking about tech projects I wanted to do. I realized I had all this tech experience and everywhere I looked I found things that tech could improve.

For me, in my case, it turns out I was just tired of technology for technology's sake. And instead I needed a different cause, and different ways to apply it and solve things.

Fast forward to now, and I love my tech job, but now my passion and excitement is not for the tech itself, but instead it is in the way the problems it is being applied to are approached and solved with the tech.

I don't know if I would have re-found this passion without the couple years off outside of tech, so maybe it was a required part of my journey to get to this point.

Weird time to be alive when we are afraid to get within 10 feet of a kid a yell "HEY KID, GET OUT OF THE ROAD!". And yet, totally understand.

YouTube is helping me build my house step by step.

For framing, the first thing everyone recommends is “Framing Walls with Larry Haun” (1992). You even get the VHS tracking blips now and then from the video capture.

To be fair it’s also good advice to then supplement Larry Haun’s videos with modern framing techniques but his videos are the first one should watch.

Might just be a single example but it’s the first counterpoint that popped in my head.

https://youtu.be/IQmt27qN6AI

Or just rent a Pullman car. I have not actually reserved one, but I always find myself searching around for charter companies when I see these types of articles.

These guys claim $2500 a day for a charter. Not sure if it is legit or if there are other fees. (I assume you then also pay all the Amtrak fees). But I do have this on my back burner to try sometime. Since they offer some 4 bedroom coaches. Would be fun to get a group together to split the cost.

https://www.pullmans.com

I have all the documents and photos shared in iCloud already that I want shared. I am fine with everything else being irretrievable.

Anything I am proud of has been shared in a shared iCloud Drive. Any important documents (life insurance), etc has been shared in an iCloud Drive. Any photos I want shared are already in shared albums. Financial accounts already have a beneficiary.

My guess is it is very unlikely he hit where the plane did. More likely the rough sea and high swells created the turbulence needed.

One thing that is almost impossible to do on your own is to get a merchant account that you will be using to process payments on behalf of others. So if that is your business model, you are almost certainly in for the fight of your life with banks and merchant providers, along with some stupidly high reserve funds.

Stripe makes this super easy, but it is a house of cards based on stories like this one. So I agree, you still need to get your own merchant account, and not rely on stripe as you get larger, but depending on your business model it might be taking more of your time generating due diligence documents than an acquisition.

Last time I checked overall private flying was about 8 times more dangerous than a car, and right on par with a motorcycle.

~~However, something like 35% of the accidents are running out of fuel, and of the remaining accidents, 35% of those were in poor weather.~~

So if it is a clear day and you remember to put fuel in the airplane it gets you ahead of a motorcycle and not as safe as a car.

It really depends on if you look at just fatal accidents or all accidents.

Edit:

Looking at 2019 it appears 38 of 109 fatal accidents were weather and fuel related.

So if you fill up with gas and fly on a nice day you are definitely still worse than a car and maybe twice as safe as a motorcycle? (statistically speaking of course)

https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...

That’s a good perspective from Chris. Did not expect to see this mentioned though with the current mutiny happening by their players.

Also having issues with API Gateway in us-west-2.

I live in a rural area.

And I'm sure not all big truck owners tailgate. But when I am being tailgated, it is almost always by a big truck.

So it is I think many people shape their view of these vehicles. It could be a tiny percentage of the owners or large trucks, but we remember these interactions of bright lights, a cloud of coal, loud horns, and someone tailgating an inch behind us.

I don't have a problem with any of the terms personally, because I feel I have a good understanding of what it is actually capable of.

What I think is more important is understanding what the general population of buyers of these cars think it means. Whether they are wrong or right, what they think it means effects how they drive with autopilot on, and whether they are looking ahead or on their phone.

The only real way to know this would be to measure it, and I doubt that is knowledge that Tesla wants to know.

As a side note, the Boeing pilot will spend a great deal of time looking at charts or their company laptop once they are at cruise with their auto-pilot on.

That stops the payment from happening. But it does not stop your contractual obligation to pay.

So it really depends on the business and how much information they have about you, and if they are dirty enough to send you to collections for it.

A gym is likely going to send you to collections. An online SaaS is more likely to just cut you off and cancel the account.

If this is the case, I would recommend a stronger word than "affiliate". My data is always being sold to marketing affiliates.

If the goal is getting a license I usually recommend 3 times a week.

But there is something to be said about folks that go up just once a month with their instructor and enjoy the lessons. As long as the monthly experience is the goal and not a license anytime soon.

I don’t need more conferences. But I do appreciate smaller conferences.

Ad-hoc BOFs (Birds of a feather) usually give me some good ideas.

If it’s on a specific open source project I can usually code with the core maintainers and squash bugs with immediate feedback on my MR.

Smaller settings mean better Q&A with a keynote or a discussion at breakfast the next morning.

When I contrast these small conferences with the mega conferences. I find it hard to justify just exactly what I get out of the big ones. You can usually watch the sessions on YouTube after the fact.

Smaller conferences probably in the end equates to “more conferences” being held though. So I don’t mind all the conference notices for conferences I won’t attend.

Suggestion, specify number of unique possibilities for each example in the readme. That way I know if I could use it in something.

It has always cost me about 3 times more to get a policy that does not exclude small airplanes.

I can get a nice cheap policy as a pilot with the small airplane exclusion though, but since piloting the small aircraft is one of the more dangerous things I do, seems like not a good idea to exclude it.

The last time I researched this, absorption fridges when run on electric resistance heating use on the order of 300% more energy.

But of course in the case of an RV where you are on a car battery but have a large propane tank, they make sense in terms of energy storage.

With the more cost effective Lithium batteries the higher end RV coaches have all eliminated the absorption fridges and gone with compressors and bigger batteries.

In that same process now.

I can recommend ChiefArchitect. So far it has been great. It is within reach for a technical person to figure out, especially with all the training videos available online for free.

It is also powerful enough to do a lot of the details as well, which we are doing ourselves and then sending back to the architect for review.

My proud father would not even consider life alert even though he has fallen several times already with nobody home.

Loves the Apple Watch I bought him as a gift though.

Couple interesting things about the Jetbrains licenses.

- The yearly cost is purely for updates. Meaning you could just pay one time, get updates for a year and then continue using whatever version you have. - For small teams they offer a 50% discount (less than 10 people, in business less than 5 years) - If this is perhaps an open source project you can get it for free.

I got sucked into the Jetbrains family because of just how good their PhpStorm is. Especially in regards to refactoring and debugging tools.

I only wish their Javascript tools were anywhere near as good as their Php tools.

Looks like an electron app. This is not going to be so nice to battery life compared to existing options.

There are many reasons to chose Mac or Windows. I would expect an article about why someone switched to be more nuanced than price.

I mean price is a valid reason too, but not very insightful.