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The more you use something the more it makes sense to spend on it, assuming your extra spending is getting you something. If you used them significantly for two years, it sounds like you got a lot of value out of them.

I think if/when we get to the point where people with browser based workloads can just sit down at a desk and have the monitors and keyboard automatically connect to their phone, more hardware intensive software will quickly move to the cloud.

You’ll be doing game development and CAD stuff with your phone acting as a thin client.

I'm not that commenter but ctrl is my least favourite regularly used key to hit. It's not comfortable to reach with either my pinky or thumb. Command is basically where my thumb rests naturally, it's in prime position.

This is definitely something you can do as a newbie. I'm a newbie working on my first project (well technically second but i decided the first i started was a little complex for a first) that is basically exactly what you're trying to do. A simple webpage that does calculations based on mathematical inputs and shows the outputs.

https://jbcoventry.github.io/standard-drinks-calculator/

You can see the code here:

https://github.com/jbcoventry/standard-drinks-calculator

My suggestion would be to install VSCode, it's a very popular code editor so there's lots of information on the internet about doing things with it. Then install the extension Live Server for it. This lets you have your code up on one screen or on half of your screen, a browser showing your webpage on the other, and as you make changes to your code the browser will automatically show them. I find that instant feedback really helpful.

As a test to make sure you've got it working and to quickly get some results up on the screen, feel free to copy my code and make some changes. Open three tabs in vscode, copy my html, js, and css files in to one each of them, save them all in to the same folder as index.html, script.js, and styles.css; then when you run Live Server a tab should open up in your browser that looks the same as when you open my first link except with this one you can change it.

For example go to line 16 in index.html and change "Standard Drink Calculator" to something else. When you save it you should see the heading on your page in the browser change. Then you can go in to VSCode settings and turn autosave on, and you wont even have to press save any more.

Then I can recommend three resources.

freecodecamp.org for basic structured guides that take you from having nothing to something.

javascript.info is a great online textbook.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web you can think of as basically your coding dictionary. If you search for a term in here you will get a page on exactly what it does.

Initially I think you will find searching javascript.info more useful than the mozilla docs because it fills you in with more general context. For example if you were reading my code and were all "huh, what's this addEventListener thing do" and searched for it in them, the top results you would get are these:

https://javascript.info/introduction-browser-events

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget...

I like that javascript.info starts with what events are, what you would do with them, and then moves in to why you would want addEventListener and how to use it.

Self learning JavaScript and this site has been a huge help.

I’ve actually set up Alfred such that when I type “j [search terms]” in to its search bar that it opens a new tab with that search in JavaScript.info because I was doing “site:JavaScript.info” in google so frequently.

You could try using cryptomator to encrypt and then keep using drive or any other cloud service.

Do you find text files to otherwise be difficult to search?

Do you need to log in to youtube with every google login?

Youtube premium family plan covers 6 accounts iirc. So if you could make that work you'd be looking at the cost of one and a half premium accounts.

Yes, the entire app is in the front end. It's not talking to a server to get new words of the day or checking answers. When you click the link and the game loads, it just loaded everything you needed to play it now, tomorrow, or some day in 2025.

What do you mean by "free credit", "3k wagered" and "limited to pennies on the dollar"?

Did they stop you from betting completely? Introduce a really low dollar limit per bet? Gub your accounts?

If you like shiraz but aren't big on the full bodied style try some from Pokolbin. I don't know if it just didn't follow the trend or if environmental factors come in to play but it's generally lighter.

It’s my primary browser because of battery life, tab bar and url bar being the same bar, and it’s reader mode. I’ve tried a lot of chrome extensions and don’t like any of them near as much as safari’s built in one.

When not all banks supported Apple Pay here in Australia I would occasionally have people quite interested in paying with their phone after seeing me do it or hearing me talk about not carrying a wallet. I'd direct them to the two neobanks I use and told them they could be paying with their phone in two minutes. All lost interest.

So I can't speak to the putting earnings in to or being financially stable because I'm a broke student self learning software development while bleeding savings. I have however been looking for casual work "getting my hands dirty" as you put it. Something physical and outdoors to unplug while I earn some money, and there's either basically none or its not listed on regular job boards.

This has been at a time where Omicron is ripping through my country[0] to the point where there's apparently such massive staff shortages that businesses are having to temporarily close because either they or key suppliers don't have enough staff to run. Possibly the greatest employee shortage in decades and I cant find anyone who needs manual labour.

I believe the shortage is there. At least as much as it's possible for such a thing to exist and not just mean that wages are too low. But my nerdy ass can't find the dirty hands stuff. Coming from a background in sales I know I could start lining up sales job interviews today if I wanted to go back in to that because I have people I can reach out to. Coming from software sales specifically and also just having good friends who are experienced software developers I'm confident I will be able to line up interviews once I and they feel I'm ready. But for getting my hands dirty? I don't know anyone. I'm sure there are people nearby who are wishing they had someone to lug fence posts or throw bags of potatoes, but they're not posting on job boards. They're mentioning it to people they know, which doesn't include me.

This is relevant because generally step one to starting a business is working in that kind of business. Maybe not when that just involves coding up a software product yourself on your weekends but definitely so when buying physical assets and new skill sets is involved. You spend time as a barista before you drop bank on buying a cafe. Or at least you should. I can't imagine farming is any different. In fact it's probably far more important. You can burn yourself if you don't know what you're doing as a barista. You can kill yourself in a hundred different ways if you don't know what you're doing as a farmer. Or just ruin your land or tractor, or kill your livestock or find out you've had them walking around in pain this entire time for X reason you didn't know to check for.

I'm not sure there is a fix to this because it's the same root cause as much bigger employment issues than software developers not getting a chance to take a break doing some physical work. Hiring decent people is hard and relying on referrals from mutually known third parties is the best tool there is for making it easier. Labour is the greatest expense for any tech company (except Netflix?). Any efficiency gain they can get there is far more important than shaving the equivalent percent off their compute needs. And the best they've got is still asking employees for referrals, paying employees for referrals, and weighting referrals heavily in the interview process. I don't blame the guy who needs someone to throw sacks on/off a truck a few times a week for not bothering to post on indeed and instead just letting it be known amongst friends and family that he could use a hand until someone offers up a nephew. I'm certain it gets better results and saves him a lot of headache. I know it did for me the times I've been in a position to hire people.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/...

Chuck “Taiwan delta lab” in to google news and you’ll find a hundred articles on it. I don’t know which in particular you would find reputable.

I looked at a fair amount of sync and backup tools for macOS a little while ago including this one and couldn’t find any that copied to an external drive on connection. Only on a schedule.

Does anyone know if this is a technical limitation? It seemed like such a core thing to me but it just kept coming up missing.

For years every years flagship phone camera comparison reviews have varied largely by reviewer preference over whose post processing they prefer, which they often even note. Favourites varying from brand to brand year to year. For photos.

I have never seen anyone suggest that another phone camera touches the iPhone in terms of video quality. In fact in these days of casual user content creation, this wave you say apple missed, video remains a minor element of camera write ups and I can’t help but think it’s because “if you care about shooting video with your phone at all and have the money, get an iPhone” is all that can be said on the matter.

Phone camera tech isn’t stagnant. It’s one of the(just the?) most important factors people value in their phones. Apple is making an intentional choice to prioritise video quality. I hardly think that’s them missing user generated content. They’re just cashing in at the device purchase level rather than diving in to the algorithm driven ad feed engagement game.

What phone are the cool kids using these days?

I use Airflow to stream 1080 to a chromecast from my MacBook . Works flawlessly with a simple UI.

My understanding is that it supports 4k and a range of streaming devices but I can’t say if it handles it flawlessly because I don’t have hardware to try it.

>streaming 4K MKVs over the network

Isn't that covered by your airplay requirement?

I went first initial, middle initial, first three letters of last name. If that doesn’t work for you I’d just try different combinations of your names letters until you get something available.

Macbook trackpads blow all others out of the water. At least they did up until two years ago when I was in the market last.

If you keep verbal communication in mind when picking a domain it’s fine. Get a five character one and it’s five syllables instead of gmails two.

Doing the thing where you try to sign up to services using servicename@yourdomain.com confuses people though. I stopped doing that after having to explain to people I receive emails to any address sent to my domain a few times.

I could see using uncommon top level domains being a problem as well.

At least on lichess which is where The articles mmr is coming from, 1500 is roughly average among everyone playing not people who play competitively.

I sit around 1450-1500. Myself and others I play against regularly throw pieces away for free. Not fall in to traps or anything like that, or even when rushing on low time, I mean just straight up plonk a Queen down in the path of a bishop during the early/mid game for no reason at all. And then sometimes our opponent doesn’t even realise we did it! It’s certainly not competitive tier play.

Thanks a lot. Now I've got to read Catch 22 again for the nth whatever time.

Highly recommend this book to any and all people reading this btw. It's a ride you go on as much as a story you read.

Is it the plastic in landfills causing the greenhouse gases?

Cheaper is often because something was easier to make. Less materials and less energy.

That's certainly the case on a one plastic bottle to one glass bottle ratio, but I wonder just how energy efficient is making that bottle over the glass one? Twice? Ten times? A hundred? Then how many times will a glass bottle get reused on average? What sort of resources are used in the process of bringing them back and cleaning them?

This might be my bias as an Australian, tons of space but already having our natural wonder smashed by climate change, but I'm very uninterested in 'pro environment' moves that results in trading higher emissions for less land fill.

Although potentially an argument could be made that because ocean waste is less contained and more harmful than landfill, a 5-10% hike on plastic bottle drinks in low water polluting countries and using it to subsidise glass bottle drinks in high water polluting countries would be worthwhile.

I just think they're part of the non-fiction fantasy genre of entertainment alongside cooking, travel, and house buying + renovating shows.

They're ostensibly informational, but 99% of people consuming them aren't genuinely looking to cook the thing, travel to the place, or buy and renovate a house.

Look forward to trying it out, thanks!

If you find yourself in a position of not wanting a specific website mixed in with your browser tabs again but not caring enough to make another native app, check out nativefier. Quickly makes an electron wrapper for any website.

https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier

There's a write up here[0] that in part attempts to compare QALY's lost to strong lockdown vs light lockdown. References this game in fact.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...