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heck this is a bummer. My initial mortgage deal wasn't great, with me paying mortgage insurance every month. Now I won't be able to re-finance.

Tired: Oh my gosh these rip-offs are so derivitave Wired: The board game Mastermind is back BB, 1973 lives again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)

Talk about a successful pivot

Depending on how positive you are about the future of the startup, it's worth retaining legal advice.

I show this to my kids constantly. I love how it plants the seeds of concepts like square numbers and divisibility in a show that is ostensibly about just addition and subtraction

The thing about funded startups is that their founders have a lot of access to capital. Whether that's through their educational or family connections, (almost) every startup you see starts with someone who can make a few phone calls, have a few meetings, and raise $200k.

Making interesting/important tech isn't usually the way that people get funding. It's more about finding a strong business need and working up a product to meet that need. Here again access matters: if you're not able to call on half a dozen CTO's to tell you about their challenges, you're gonna struggle to meet a need.

I didn't realize AppleScript was still a thing, but here it is: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...

Totally agree “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

This announcement is more like 'the office will now be available to you' rather than a requirement that anyone besides datacenter workers be in-office

This is specialized advice for Journalists, I'd be interested to see how well content moderation teams are implementing the same advice

wow nice solution, saw this on 538 and couldn't think of any clever solution.

> Permissions in GCP seem like a mess, I’m trying to use python to get credentials and there is a whole python library for authentication and getting credentials (google-auth).

I feel you, but I gotta agree with the other commenters that it's really just about time and experience. Anyone long-experienced on one public cloud will really struggle switching clouds. Your experience is low but your expectations are high. You're not just poking into a dashboard trying to spin up a single VM, you want to do all the stuff you're used to doing on AWS.

While IAM does feel easy once you know it, as someone who's run hackathons and bootcamps I can say it's not easy for everyone to just pick up. It's as complicated as it needs to be, but yeah it can be a steep learning curve.

Yeah for sure I was just struck by the simple brilliance of it. Of course even the ability to live at home and attend college is a privilege many folks don't have access to these days.

That is to say, I would imagine my heart rate speeding up or slowing down and either take shallow or a deeper breaths at different speeds. I remember that I figured it out once when the doctor commented on how high my heart rate was and I slowed it quickly enough that they actually mentioned it. After that I started doing it as a game, which I eventually got bored of as children do.

I do wonder how effective I actually was, as it isn't really something I have thought about for literal years.

It wouldn't have been much of a prank if I was so obvious about it, would it? I did it while the doctor was actively in the process of taking my heart rate by concentrating and taking either shallow or deep breaths as sneakily as I could manage. I was simply wondering about the connection to this type of meditation as meditation is often concentration and breathe based, there's nothing paranormal about it.

This is really interesting, I had never heard of this type of meditation until now and I have been using those techniques since I was a child waiting for the bus in the early morning with what I felt was success at the time.

I similarly remember willfully altering my heart beat at the doctor's office on several occasions as a practical joke. I wonder if the two situations are linked in a significant way?

I agree with what you are saying for sure. I have spent years working for myself in a variety of roles and while I was certainly happier than when I worked under a boss, the constant stress around lack of reliable income was stressful. Suddenly this last year or so all of the skills I had cultivated with my side hustles culminated in a way that I am both my own boss and making enough money my situation feels less dire. It was the combination of the two that really made a difference in my mental health

I really like this! Obviously you're not proving the direction of sampling bias, but given that this diagnosis requires an echocardiogram, it's very suggestive that only dogs on fancy grain-free diets are getting diagnosed.

When google ended Google Reader it killed blogs and other self-hosted websites. Google killed the web and in so doing it killed itself.

When enforcing CoC violations it's sometimes necessary to withhold details to prevent retaliation against the reporter (when the circumstances would make it obvious to all who was involved), and to defend the org from liability (kicking someone from your org after the fact doesn't prevent the victim from suing your org)

I'm definitely curious to see when/if they release information on what the bannable transgressions actually are.

I'm really excited to see the work arounds people may devise in order to trick the sensor.

I agree with you totally. It's really frustrating to me that we are often so impatient with people who struggle with computers. Both people from older generations and younger generations both suffer a lot of shame around asking for help with computers even though a lot of aspects of technology require a foundational knowledge that is often never taught in a formal manner.

It's really ridiculous to me because when Airbnb was first a thing I actually really liked using them. It felt like the prices were more reasonable and the hosts were generally a lot more welcoming. Recently this has really seemed to change. This may be in part because I live in a popular vacation area but the prices of an Airbnb on the coast for instance are super expensive and generally lacking in amenities. Recently I canceled an Airbnb in Seattle Washington because it was close to $250 a night and after I booked my stay I was emailed an extensive list of rules about the property. Generally I'm pretty cool with whatever the host wants, it is their house and I want to respectful. However one thing that really stuck out to me was that the host made a point of saying that if you stained any of the face washing towels that you would be charged $40 a washcloth which just felt ridiculous to me after the already high price per night.

You know you would think so, but for me it's actually been helpful many times for spelling a variety of words. I don't think I realized until checking out this thread that a lot of what I thought was spelling words how they sound was actually me memorizing the way they were spelled and somewhat skewing the pronunciation in my head in order to get the correct spelling.

This is really interesting. It reminds me of a conversation I had recently with a friend of mine who struggles a lot with spelling. His first language is English and even so sometimes it is hard to decipher what he means when he messages me. Recently he asked me how to spell something and I said, "You spell it exactly how it sounds," and he told me that doesn't help him and he didn't understand what that meant. So I spelled the word out loud and sounded it out as I went. At the end he told me that his brain doesn't work that way- that it's nearly impossible for him to hold the sounds in his head while he tries to spell. I was really quite awestruck by that distinct differences in our brains.

I wanted to chime in that the same is often true of mental health fields. Most upper level jobs in the mental health field necessitate earning a graduate degree.

That is certainly a chilling thought and definitely not an unlikely turn of events. Society seems to need some level of governance in order to function, but who can we trust to govern for the people and not turn to tyranny? Technology is such a beacon of light for advancement but also so dangerous in the wrong hands.

That does seem to be the over all problem with progress towards the environmental goals that are necessary for our long term survival as a species. Every time we uncover that a company is doing something that is actively shirking responsibility the blame gets shifted onto the individual consumer instead, via Merchants of Doubt.

Wow this is horrifying. It's time to abandon the ship and take your very valuable skills someplace they will be appreciated. In my experience with people like the CEO described here they are usually people whom are unable to engage in self reflection, but somehow delivering that rating to the CEO to see how miserable his rating is may be a much needed wake up call.