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Closest thing to UBI you can get these days.

#4 is quite a bright idea. Couple of months of inflated tech salary can go a long way if you are good at frugal living.

Clearing brush. It's considered an agricultural tool IIRC.

I map it to Capslock along with Ctrl using xcape. Tap for ESC, hold for Ctrl.

Have you tried Japanese keyboards? They tend to have smaller spacebars and extra modifiers.

Sometimes I see Ebay sellers selling random bricks by the pound.

Third grade at the pediatrician, jokingly looked at the vision chart, noted that I can't see much and the rest is history.

skytorrents.in. Arguably life changing.

>build an EMP-surviving car

No need to do that, just get an old enough car/truck that can be started with a crank.

Fedora - because of habit, RPM distros feel like home to me as I started out with one.

Arch Linux - installed it as a rite of passage, works okay on my laptop, can't be arsed to install something else.

Yes, a good approach is to look up tax and insurance rates and then look for cars with rates you can stomach. There are lots of hilariously cheap big engine cars in my area because of the additional cost. On the tax side, there may also be beneficial loopholes, like tax credit for vans and strangely enough SUVs for businesses. Basically the car itself is the last thing to consider. Saves you the heartbreak of discovering that your dream car comes with tender loving by the taxman.

Can you explain the benefits of a timing chain instead of a belt? Stumbled upon a Suzuki Liana while looking for cheap used cars and there was a large emphasis on the chain in the ad. Possibly related, a car rental business near my home has a Liana-only fleet.

Not sure if getting more, but nonfiction reading is quite strenuous for me, as I try to retain as much information as I can. On the other hand, I read fiction for the experience, so even if I forgot everything I read after turning the page, it would be no problem.

Nothing right now, but have two unfinished books in my backlog. First is Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima and the other is Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.

The usual place, aka libgen.

Probably the only fair method.

Video games, no doubt about it now. Tried to give them up to "be productive", backfired hard. Led to interesting times both in a good and a bad way. Who knew suppressing yourself and your desires leads to nothing good. Ended up scaling back on expectations and rediscovering the joy of wandering free on- and offline. Indulging my weird little cravings. Not trying too hard. Ended up with what I was putting all that effort for anyway (a job above the API). Not sure if it was worth it, but liked the journey anyway.

I'm split on getting a Dime or one of the SOG batons (q1 and q2 are available near me) for a small edc multitool. The batons have less features, but there's something irresistibly cool about them.

https://www.sogknives.com/baton

The whole idea of 'LARPing your way into good jobs' is really on point. The article pretty much expressed my own thoughts after experiencing this kind of serendipitous event.

Sounds like a farmer's walk to me.

Definitely. If something's not working in a Red Hat based distro, it's usually stopped by SElinux.

Where did you find trouble in working through it? I think the design recipe was insufficiently explained, which was fixed in Kiczales' course, but I found it too slow paced and without challenging exercises. The tight integration with the Racket manual is the book's greatest strength IMHO. That and the Bob Ross-like style.

Wish I had friends like yours, mine only get me interviews.

Interview for the last job I held (back office agent at a call center):

Foreign language test with grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension and mock customer service email sections followed by a most ordinary interview in English (some chatting to break the ice and salary discussion at the end) Very efficient process. Other similar businesses interviewed the same only with just the mock email instead of a comprehensive language test.

Last interview so far (tech support at a small VoIP software company):

Take what is colloquially referred to as the "retard test" (company is proudly unPC) which included general trivia like "First person in space" (some applicant apparently answered with Louis Armstrong), a middle school level math word problem and some brainteasers (thank you, Professor Layton) followed by some very intense technical grilling scaled to my self reported knowledge level (I admitted domestic level networking knowledge and got quizzed on the most common settings of a consumer router). That was followed by even more intense culture fit questions to find out if I can thrive in the company's peculiar environment (got referred so I knew in advance what it's like to work there, but still I found it a bit too prying) Unlike the call centers, the tech company interviewers were very distrustful and pretty much expected to not find a word of truth on my resume.

4chan

1. rutracker

2. /mu/ archive (sometimes obscure stuff can be found in sharethreads)

3. everywhere else (TPB, DC, Soulseek...)

4. Spotify for when I'm not at my machine

Depends on the nature of the work. In my data entry job, high BPM genres like schranz and hardstyle were a lifesaver - kept me working at a good pace and not falling asleep on the keyboard, but are very distracting for thoughtful work like programming. Got recommended some great ambient recently and it works best for that kind of work.