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What happens if there's some other reason to brake, such as an unreported fallen tree on the line ahead?

Only in the plural form though, right? I'm in the UK, where the usage you describe is common too, but reading "this guy" like in the comment above, I would assume they're talking about a man.

Understandable, thanks for the links.

I think they're maybe alluding the fact that if you have a backup system which fails when you need to use it (e.g. your Time Machine backup turns out to be corrupted, which quite a few people in the comments seem to have experienced), you'd wish that you'd paid money to have a backup system which worked instead.

It looks great but I suppose the downside, like a lot of nice native Mac apps, is that it seems to be Mac-only. So if you also want to back up non-Mac systems (e.g. to make off-site backups of NAS or server data), you'll need to set up, maybe pay for, and grok 2+ backup systems.

Would you be able to share those scripts? Or if not, an obfuscated/abstracted version of them?

I use brew but even with brew and brew cask, I find there's plenty of GUI apps that require manual installation, which will also have their own config spread out in various places, plus whatever CLI or background stuff I've installed myself (mostly hidden files/directories in my home folder so probably easier), system settings, etc. I don't know how I'd reasonably automate a restore of all of that stuff without having a Time Machine-style backup (essentially a disk image).

Then why not just shut down their public API?

Ultimately they're making planes for the airlines to buy though. If the airlines say they'd rather fit in 300 people by making most of the rows cramped together than 250 people with more legroom, the aircraft manufacturers will make sure they account for that in their design.

I don't think that's true. Pretty sure the 707 and 727 were launched and in service before the 747 even started development. The 737 was certainly in development as well, and was in service before the 74.

So by the time the 747 was flying with airlines, they already had the 707, 727 and 737 flying.

Indeed. I find it fascinating that the widespread modern generations of the 737 still have largely (or maybe entirely?) the same fuselage design as the now-ancient 707.

Going to museums like that is honestly one of the main reasons I'd like to visit the US. Unfortunately though, even just the biggest ones seem to be way too spread out to attempt in one trip, coming from Europe.

I think a big part of it would broadly fall under "legal and privacy concerns", especially since Apple Silicon is proprietary hardware. They need to work out which details about the hardware they might want to keep secret, and make sure the public documentation only contains things they're happy to share to the public. They then need to make sure it's up to their standards for externally published documents, it probably has to go through a review process, be published under a certain license which needs to be written or selected, and so on and so on.

Some (not all) of these strike me as not applying to all of the West, but being very American.

There's zero chance they are living alone anywhere in London for £600, let alone zone 2.

Yeah, I worked with TomTom a while back and you are correct, it was an acronym that was commonly used internally, but at least the people I was working with knew that nobody outside the company had any idea what it meant.

This is weird, because I thought that Chrome (at least semi-recently, perhaps not in the earliest days) was infamous for hogging RAM.

I use Firefox and can't say that I've thought much about browser resource usage, which probably means it's not catastrophically bad, at the very least.

Why not try it out and see if it's better for you now?

It does, but I found it to drain a lot of battery on mobile (iOS). I'd say that for a simple setup you're likely to be accessing your services via their LAN IPs or their TailScale IPs, so if you have these bookmarked etc. on your phone then it means you either:

1) Have separate bookmarks for accessing services via the LAN or the VPN, and need to remember to turn on and off the VPN when you need to access things out of the house; or 2) Always access services via the TailScale IP, which means you need to be connected to the VPN on your phone even to access them from your LAN, which in turn either means toggling the VPN on and off even when at home or leaving it connected all the time and letting it drain 20% of your battery every day.

It's a great service but I didn't find it to make accessing self-hosted services from out of the home on a phone to be as nice as using them at home, or using a managed service.

Deepak Chopra is a prominent and controversial figure in "wellness" and "alternative medicine", promoting "quantum healing" and claiming that it can cure cancer and so on. It's widely accused of being psuedoscience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra

I think they are saying that even the non-pro M1 machines are significantly better than the previous pro models.

Yeah, that bit made no sense to me. I'm not familiar with the location but clearly it's rural and only accessible by car. They also were living in Vancouver which sounds quite far away, and presumably have friends/family there.

So how are they going to be entertaining people all the time (they specifically mention entertaining large groups being important to them)? Come over for an evening, except one of you can't drink and has to drive 2 hours back at the end of the night??

I definitely agree that the second issue is tricky to get right.

But for your first point, that wouldn't seem to make much sense given the time investment from the company as well. It takes time to review take home tests, much more time than it takes to review a resume or even for a recruiter to have a quick phone call with the candidate. So why would they send out a test to someone first?

I've usually seen something more like this, which I think generally works fairly well:

1. Initial resume screening 2. Quick phone call with the recruiter 3. Usually some kind of technical call/interview with developer(s), engineering manager or similar, at the very least some discussion of experience and background 4. Send out the test, review it, call the candidate back in to discuss if they want to 5. Probably some other stage at the end

It's not great in Python from my experience. Much worse than PyCharm, at least.

It's been a little while since I've worked with C++ professionally, but the project was cross platform so I'm not sure Windows and Visual Studio was ever a feasible option.

Most of us were using Xcode, but at some point I discovered CLion and it felt like a big step up. Having proper CMake integration instead of needing to regenerate Xcode projects really helped, plus I've often found Xcode to be quite unresponsive and never really liked the way it tries to be different with stuff like code navigation (recent versions seem to be better with how they handle tabs etc.)

But CLion is relatively recent. Quite possibly VS was the only IDE that did that stuff well for quite some time.

There are some things mentioned in "Supporting readings" from that site. I can't vouch for them, but perhaps they're of interest: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/materials/readings...

I think they are talking about using a clustered RDMBS as storage for k3s, rather than running multiple nodes as part of your Kubernetes cluster.

This is true, but I think there's plenty of evidence that Bobby doesn't live like he makes $100k. The private jet alone would be many times more than that.

I like having them for certain sites, but in Firefox at least, you can block sites from even requesting them if you really never want to use them.

I find the same thing is true of most media. Of course, give things a chance, but if you're consuming media for pleasure, have already dedicated hours to something in particular, and aren't enjoying it at all, then there's no shame in putting it down.

There are more books, films, programmes, and games out there than you can ever consume in one lifetime; there's no point forcing yourself to keep going with something you're not enjoying. Moving on to something else doesn't mean that it's bad, or even that you might not come back to it and see it differently in the future.

I agree. I think pretty much everything (I've seen it with piano, work, exercise) becomes so much easier when you're motivated.

For me, it's been more obvious with piano as it's my main skill-based hobby and, although I see similar with work, ultimately I need a job to get paid so even if I'm procrastinating over a boring task, at some point that kicks in to make me get on with it.

With piano, I'm only doing it for fun and there are so many pieces out there to learn, so if I realise I don't love a piece then I've now taken to stopping with it after a certain amount of time. At first I would get frustrated for starting but not finishing something, but the reality is that when I find the right piece, those moments you describe when walking past the keyboard and wanting to play happen frequently. With the wrong piece, they happen rarely if ever.

Good luck with the Gm prelude! It's one of my favourites which I have yet to attempt to play but hope to one day...

I've always thought it looks great, but it's incredibly expensive. $700 for a lifetime license... even if it was $300 it'd be easier to stomach.

What makes it worth it for you?