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Would gladly buy a physical copy of this book for $20-$30. Why on earth is it so expensive? ($92 on Amazon)

"At long last, I get Meg’s friend on the line. She asks not to be named in this story, but assures me that Meg is fine and that she’s human, and as such has good days and bad days."

There's the latest on Meg. Everything else in the article is just a retrospective. (Rehashed old news)

I really loved their series Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia. In-depth, raw drug making and taking by a serious (though odd) expert.

A shame they geofenced the shit out of it, forcing me to pirate it.

Care to share the brand/model of those cameras? Thanks!

If you ask me, it's when you start talking with the people in the area you're staying in. It's very freeing to have a fresh start in a new place.

Why?

The privacy argument has helped move some of my friends over to Signal, but yeah, we'll be putting up with multiple messaging apps for some time longer.

I have a pet theory that everything Apple produces is deliberately made slightly unusual for the purpose of (a) vendor lock-in and (b) enhancing the feeling in their cult that they are above non-Apple users because Apple products do things in "smarter" ways.

Those blinded fools have no idea what abuse they are putting up with, they rationalize every inconvenience and will happily evangelize the Word of Apple.

(Disclaimer: In principle, I love all people regardless of their use of OS/product/whatever ^_^)

Don't worry so much about it. Really. Stop worrying. Allow it to just be and surround you as a fact of life.

If you're forced to work in the terminal, vim's great. But to get it to do something approximating an IDE, is it worth the time to tweak configs/plugins and memorize hotkeys, rather than just using a _real_ IDE?

Besides that, I just find the whole method of navigating (skipping words, skipping an X amount of lines) counterintuitive. It's nothing I can get used to, I will always miss the precision of just taking the mouse and getting the cursor exactly where I want it in one sweep and click.

Running it in Chromium works fine for me, also for meetings.

> Company had to pay the partner for support. I’ve skimmed over the code and it was processing hardcoded index positions. I repeat the person who did that had no concept of a loop.

This is not a SAP-specific problem. I've seen highly paid programmers with veteran-like CVs deliver absolute crap in the PHP world. If there's a shortage of good programmers, you'll get this kind of thing. Moreso if it's in a un-sexy field of work like SAP.

Thank you, that's just what I was looking for!

Not seeing the anti-trans/gay angle here at all. He's doing the kid a favour, teaching him that jokes shouldn't be repeated if he wants to be a good entertainer.

That's funny, I don't experience it like that at all. Hacking and exploring is fun, and I did a lot of it when I was younger, but if I'm trying to get things done - which is what I'm doing 95% of the time, be it for work or for a personal project - I rather like to stick to those principles. And the fun comes out of delivering the product, completing the machine.

Maybe it's the result of too many years of freelancing.

That's got to have cost a heck of a lot of time though, no? I've tried beancount myself - had to conclude it was not worth spending that many billable hours tinkering with the ledger.

Honestly I never understood the appeal.

A social network that forces you to wedge your content in images and short videos, while on Facebook you could share YouTube videos, music, interesting links, write-ups, you name it. How can anyone in their right mind prefer something as limiting as Instagram? Even its instant messenger is limited compared to Facebook's.

Pointless article. TL;DR: Madoff confessed, SBF didn't. Investigation takes time.

They've probably fired so many people that they wouldn't even know _how_ to run A/B tests even if they wanted to.

Fully agree. I unfortunately never had the balls to fight back, but every time I think back about it, I wish I'd just fucking punched someone. Even now, 20 years after the fact.

Netflix is the worst at this. Nearly every time I use it, the UI will piss me right off.

They probably employ large teams of both good and bad UX designers, constantly deploying and A/B testing UI changes. If the A/B test says the change wins, it stays.

Sites like Booking.com do this to the umpteenth degree.

Help me out here, what does that bit of JS have to do with Spring Boot?

Yes, the crypto world is a hornet's nest, but the non-crypto world is ruled by bankers with an ever-increasing thirst for control over our lives. (Read up about the Fed's new CBDC plans)

As far as I'm aware, Monero and cash are the only practical ways to pay anonymously.

So, who are worse? The congressmen who (perhaps in this case naively) tried to avoid overregulating crypto, or the remaining congressmen who continue to condone an economy completely manipulable by private bankers by way of the Federal Reserve?

At least from where I'm looking, working mostly with Europeans, Skype is still pretty popular. Sometimes replaced by Google Meet for meetings with transient acquaintances.

Skype's not as buttery smooth as Telegram, but it sure is a more polished, stable-feeling piece of software than Zoom.

JetBrains IDEs for coding projects, Geany for notes, plain Vim for quick scripts

Seconded. Sounds like Hamachi is exactly what OP needs.

This is interesting. Can you elaborate a bit: - What do you expect to happen with EUR? - Why do you think USD or CHF are safer to hold than say, gold?

Surprised nobody here mentions the absolutely draconian anti-COVID measures of the former Australian government. I hope this change of leadership bodes well for the civil liberties of the Aussies.