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Their primary “donation” is Google. They’re focused on virtue signaling values instead of real work.

It’s a fantasy land. I was there for awhile.

I wouldn’t mind if those people blasting FM radio used headphones. I don’t believe it’s because they can’t afford them.

I love to nap after a brain draining moment. I’m revitalized and ready to go. One of the major WFH benefits.

I’m here to communicate not be pedantic. I’m sure you could understand what I meant.

The trick is to effectively study subjects you’re burnt out on or no longer have that magnetic attraction to.

Oh, flash cards. I’ve never used them but memory is a muscle and it must be exercised. There has to be something more fun, though.

There’s nothing wrong with “i’ll get back to you”, provided you do quickly and comprehensively.

What’s that?

Mostly build tools. I also have a custom script called ip way before Linux made theirs and caused some problems.

Default PATH minus ~/bin.

But then you start using some tool that expects $0 in the system path and breaks causing frustration and debugging.

Pick your poison

Wrappers or replacements? If it’s a wrapper do you remove local bin from path or hard code system path?

When I read the headline I thought this was going to be a terrible idea but I quite like it, especially the bit about using tab to list all your tooling.

Anecdotally I haven’t had many namespaces collisions recently. I’ve also let myself go a bit after going into management. My tech skills are 10 years too old.

Any tips from someone else on where they started to be hip again?

There’s no value. I didn’t ask them to do anything.

I’ve been online for a long time, am I an old curmudgeon who thinks “influencing” isn’t a meaningful profession? Not too long ago people made videos and shared it for fun, to give back to the world. Not to take in profit.

Many of these people have used and abused their audience, accepting sponsorships from unscrupulous companies like BetterHelp, and portray a way of life that isn’t realistic.

Social media is harmful, I suspect we will look back at it one day and realize it’s the source of a mental health epidemic.

find -print0 | xargs -0

what’s that output from and how can i understand it? i’m happy to rtfm - just want a pointer. thanks!

i’m not sure if i like contextual search. a profile of me is ripe for exploitation and sale

More importantly, how’s it block the inhalation of covid?

what’s good weather station hw to get? thinking ultrasonic wind instrument and some type of radar

I’m already paying sky high prices, don’t make me check out and bag my own stuff too

It’s a niche area of interest, I don’t enjoy it because of heavy moderation. My opinion is that it provides value by furthering knowledge of folks in engineering.

Heavy moderation is a technique that makes dang’s job easier by perpetuating rigorous standards and makes people police themselves. See Broken Window Theory.

Removing moderation is the greatest thing you can do. You might not like it, but it’s often the right thing to do as long as it’s legal.

They also use the United States Customs to seize repair part shipments to undermine independent repair operations. Louis Rossman has some excellent videos on this.

Medical devices and aircraft are the only legitimate exceptions - everything else should be repairable.

The search operators makes big difference in result quality, I also don’t like how Google now returns zero results for something obscure. In the past I could find something peripheral and eventually get to what I was looking for.

I proactively schedule 1:1s with junior staff and reach out. I weed out the ones with potential and ones who lack ambition.

I don’t go to bars very often anymore but I absolutely detest live music. I go with friends to talk. Not to have loud music prevent a conversation.

it’s likely the track was weaker than the fuse - and you have long blow/slow blow fuses

electricity is lazy it takes the easiest path

You can setup emergency bypass, silence unknown calls, etc. I have 98% of notifications disabled both on phone and desktop.