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In Florida, we have an actual 404 on I75 exit

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_I75nb_Exit_4...

The 2nd amendment is very much alive and kicking. Those of us that would like to defend ourselves will fight for 2A.

To your point, children cannot own weapons. Most states are a minimum 18 years old for if not 21.

Full automatic weapons have been banned from civilian production for decades now. Semi automatic weapons are not weapons of war; are not the death machines non-gun owners think they are.

I was very anti gun until we (the wife and I) had a need to defend ourselves. We were literally put in a self defense position. We're both all in now and actively train ourselves and educate ourselves. More so, friends that are anti gun are no longer anti gun once they go to the range with me and are educated on what a semi automatic weapon actually is.

TL;DR - anyone anti gun is simple uneducated in the matter.

As a Floridian and someone in IT - I'm curious how this will be implemented

I can't remember the last time I signed up for a new social network; do they ask age? Is it an ask to Apple / Google to add stronger parental approval? Verify drivers license #?

We heard about this days ago on local news and I've been struggling to figure out short of are you 16 years or older how this is gonna get done and how do you fine someone if it's breached.

Same - started using phpBB in 2000? 2001? Started my career in web development.

I can - easy enough to get a cable there.

+1 for Philips Hue. Almost all lights in the house and landscaping are colored bulbs / strips. Not related to the floaters, but the upper kitchen cabinets have light strips as well as under the bathroom vanity - both tied to their own philips motion sensors. Just make good night lights when you enter a room.

no one specific that I follow - i just searched google and youtube for "acrylic painting tutorial"

scrolled through until i found something i could do or was interesting.

I didn't start to truly enjoy it until i stopped watching tutorials, took what I learned and made what I wanted to make honestly. But it took the tutorials to gain some skill to do what I wanted to do.

For me it's been art. I started shortly after covid began. I started simple, cheap paint brushes, cheap paints, cheap canvases. Watched youtube videos (there are tons of tutorials) and tried. I post all of mine to instagram. It's fun to look back at how it began and how it's going. I got bored with it for a bit, then got back into it earlier this year. I changed my format. Still acrylic paints, but now I get 2ft x 2ft sheets of drywall from lowes precut, use drywall plaster or tile mortar (both have different effects) and brush the acrylic on or airbrush it on.

It's to the point where I have to either start rotating out pieces or attend an art show and try to sell some. Just running out of wall space in the house. To attend an art show means I think my work is good enough that someone might pay for it and same as with programming, theres some imposter syndrome happening here.

We'll see...

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Because I promised I would and I want to see it through to the end. I had an offer on the table. Same work, same level, little better pay. Current job convinced me to stay. They made a huge effort in giving me what I asked for, some up front, some goal based. They WANTED me to stay, which was a first in my career. It's a shit show for sure, but we're working on fixing it. I want to see that through. They committed to me; I'll commit to them.

No resolutions. I have 5 3D Printers now; want to design and build my own printer next. Start a small business printing parts / accessories.

I moved from Buffalo, NY to just outside of Tampa, FL lol...

Being far from family hurts a bit; covid didn't help either.

I've been here for about 3 years now and can't imagine ever moving back. The snow / crappy weather, the slow progress on building up downtown / the waterfront, the super high taxes, no beaches, no sun, etc...

(edit - lived in Buffalo since I was born + 38 years)

It's December 29th. I'm in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops. Saturday we'll be going to Clearwater Beach and setting off fireworks for NYE.

Completely different way / quality of living. Show birds don't know how to drive and beaches this time of year are packed with tourists but I'll take that any day over the dark and gloomy almost year round weather. We're right in the middle; 1.5 hours to Orlando, 3 hours to FT Lauderdale, 4 hours to Miami, 7 hours to Key West. Still have yet to explore 1/4 of this state.

I love it here.

I've always been curious how someone gets into this line of work. Is it all via college / post education and your directly recruited by these companies? Obviously, this is a very hard (impossible?) thing to teach yourself. I can't imagine more than a few universities offer this type of education? Where would you start / what path would you go down to be a chip designer / work for an Intel / AMD ???

Get a 3D printer? So far as I can tell, printer prices haven’t changed; filament prices haven’t gone up.

Can’t print toilet paper or paper towels but random I need a hook to hang something, or a fitting for a pipe that’s not under load, tons of stuff on thingiverse.

I was like this for a bit, kinda loosing touch / interest in the latest fancy whatever. I used to get excited about new tvs, phones, whatever I could make an impulse purchase on and satisfy a need for a moment.

Still watch WWDC and other Apple keynotes but meh... I am excited about the new M chips. Had an M1 Macbook Pro until I quit that job and had to turn it in lol. It was hands down amazing / best Apple laptop experience I've had in a long time. Holding out for the next chip revision until I get a new personal one.

What excites me now - I've gotten pretty heavily into 3d printing. Have 2 printers working side by side now (thinking about a 3rd) Started out as just something to print random crap for around the house - under cabinet coffee mug holder, wall hooks, pen holder, etc... Now, I've gotten into (back into) RC cars and robotics - finishing up a motorized Wall-E Replica and an F1 RC car (based on OpenRC). I plan to design my own RC car soon. Have designed some of my own parts and am thinking about getting into production / trying to sell some stuff on Etsy or whatever.

Will it evolve into a career change of some sort? Not sure. But the path I'm going down is similar to how I got into web development; casual at first, then got an entry level job and been doing it for 20 years now. After 20 years, web development is blah. Constantly chasing the next best JS framework; trying to 1up the next candidate looking for the same job to stay relevant. Just getting exhausting.

I've been saying for years now (probably gonna get down voted for this) - everyone wants to buy American and to make more products in America - with the amount of chemicals involved in electronics manufacturing required, who the hell wants these things made here?

Most companies are not safe or environment cautious - how many tails of leaks or problems with chemical processing plants have there been? No one wants that stuff in our ground water...

Don't get me wrong; it's not acceptable anywhere / other parts of the world - just looking at the whole "let's make everything here!..." but why?

I asked years ago (and I'll ask again!)

I wonder what Las Vegas would look like if tech companies started buying / building hotels in Vegas

At one point MGM owned almost 1 third - half the strip (ish) - recently they've been selling off properties which is a shame, MGM properties are my preferred resorts.

Maybe Amazon can breath some life into Excalibur or Luxor but it sounds like those are not part of the deal

This contributes to a thought I had years ago. We used to smoke in the parking lot; a co-worker would feed the birds that came daily - contrary to fight club, feeding birds around a parking lot of cars does not cause the birds to poop on the cars lol

Anyway - I always wondered - how many birds are in the world? Then walk down the street, around town, where ever - how many dead birds do you see on the side of the road? 1 every once in a great while maybe?

Where do birds go to die? Or are they just eaten right away by their prey? Stray cats? Hawks?

I'm going to venture to guess anything and everything is possible

How many billions of light years big is our universe? A size so huge, we can't fathom that number or distance.

We observe or think we're observing black holes, dieing stars, super novas, etc...

We think dark matter exists and fills the voids of what we can't view

We observe viruses and try to kill them, atoms, etc...

We're on the edge (few years? decade max?) of producing picometer processors

So yes - wormhole travel is possible. Reversing the pull of gravity is possible. Traveling faster than the speed of light is possible. We are just not smart enough (yet) to do these things.

What's the saying? If life exists elsewhere other than earth, there are probably thousands and thousands of civilizations out there due to the size of the universe? Then yes, all these things are possible and something has probably already done it - we're just not there yet.

The new iMac colors are beautiful

WHY can't everything come in the same set of colors?!?

1 set of colors for iPhones Another for watches Another now for iMacs Another for iPads

I want to color coordinate everything. If all casings for the most part are the same aluminum the paint process must be the same?

I want my phone to match my watch to match my laptop - period.

Nice website but it looks like a collection of articles

Is there a list anywhere listing clothing manufactures with a good track record?

Everyone's got brands they like, but if 1 brand is better than another in the same category (say Express vs Gap) might sway my shopping choices...

As a self taught programmer, I struggled with this for years. I could do the work; understood it; but sometimes I would get terms mixed up. For example: Is it called a method or a function?

Conversely, I've known college taught programmers who struggle with basic CSS so... it's all relative IMO.

I would say Prost reminds me of Steve Jobs and Senna of Gates / Microsoft?

Prost - calculated and careful / never to show emotion.

Senna - shoot from the hip and fight like hell?

I'm just young enough to never see them race on tv (or in person) but loved the movie when it came out.

I guess I thought making a vaccine would be like producing a cake. 1 cup of flour, 1 tbs of salt, etc... mix for x seconds and bake for x time.

We're not building cars and need to re-tool an entire factory - they can't just swap out vats of ingredients, punch in new qtys for each piece and go?

I thought crocodiles or alligators (forget which one) were immortal and they tend to die only because they get so big and can't eat enough to maintain life eventually. But, they're not on this list?

-- What was the purpose of the crunch / rushing this out the door ?

-- What was to be gained from it? Holiday sales? Delivering a product not delayed again? Management bonuses? Did the developers get bonuses for delivering "on time"?

-- At what cost did the crunch / delivering the product cause the team of developers? Now they need to keep working; fix the bugs; get this back in the store(s) and try to make everyone happy?

We go through our share of crunches. Bugs always get through and we have to fix them of course, but nothing as bad as some of the stuff I've read about this.

Management never realizes burnout is a real thing. I feel for these developers. It's double sided. Keep delaying the game / product and people get pissed off it's delayed. Ship it, and now they're pissed off its buggy. So now, everyone (programmers) are burned out; management is probably fuming over being removed from the store(s) and everyone needs to smile and get back to it, probably as a worse crunch than before. What a shitty way to spend the holidays.

It's like getting made at a company building your house that your water pipes leak but you rushed them to get it done because of some arbitrary move in date. Take the time; do it right; do a good job. Cut corners and rush stuff and deal with the consequences.

Thanks! Have done my share of remodeling in the past. Not easy work but the goal will be to get to the point where we can hire a team of workers and just do the finances / design / management. Same as anything else, right? Takes time to get a base going / get a process down, but I'm up for a new challenge.

Agree 100%. Similar situation; been doing this for 20 years; in my 40s now. My exit will be into rental properties and flipping houses. Not ready quite yet; might have another couple years in me, but we're planning on it.

And now a days, bragging rights. People like speed - period. If 1 model out performs another model at a similar price tag and features / design - people will go with the faster one (usually). Same as any other personal preference - people shop with their eyes first, wallets second. If they like speed, that sells more cars.

I'm a big fan of pluralsight.com (no association). It's only $29 / month USD. I always go back to it when I want to brush up on something or learn something completely new. Not all videos / instructors are created equally of course, but their content has been the most consistent IMO.