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They've always been a quiet company but are plugging away at New Glenn (reusable HLV) and orbital reef plans.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/06/blue-update/

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/blue-origin/ and https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=78.0

Good to get some validation that I seem to be mostly doing it right:

  - I meet every two weeks which seems to be working for us.
  - We rarely discuss sprint related work (team/process stuff does come up) mostly around vacations or other HR related stuff (reviews, etc), feedback from me (usually a 'good job' (since they are doing a good job!)
  - We replaced all of our team meetings with a daily syncup https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/standup-meetings-are-dead/

We do seem to be missing some depth in grooming/planning, so I might try some smaller team/epic related meetings

Lastly I packed all of my 1-1s (including mine with my manager, we meet weekly) into Monday and Tuesday mornings, it's very busy those two days, but I feel I've freed up a lot of time in the rest of the week.

TIL just how reasonably (relatively speaking) priced it is to get completely custom keycaps.

I am using/planning to use/move to Elastic Search (from Solr). It took me < than one day to add indexing (marshalling Go structs to json) using the official package for it. I have NOT added any code for search yet and have not tried running it it anywhere except my local machine, but others in the company are already using Elastic Search so I am not too worried.

as I understand it, this is what nostr does. The relays are pretty dumb and make no promises on long term storage (I imagine it would be a few weeks-months).

Thanks, I had forgotten they had published specs. Note with Thunderbolt and a eGPU chassis, you can get the adaptor interace today. I was considering this to repurpose an older machines GPU for my 12thgen 13", but decided instead to turn the older machine into a Steambox instead.

Thanks, I remember seeing that, but wasn't sure of the form factor (eg I am not sure you'll be able to plugin any old gpu).

the 16" will have a slot for discrete cards (I don't think it will be a PCIe slot but could be wrong).

Thanks for this, it was instructive. Note, there's https://nickel-lang.org/ too.

I recently ripped out HCL support from my side project in favour of json. I am planning to write some support code in Nickel (types, schema, functions) to help with the verboseness of json.

Excalidraw is nice, not a grid of course, but mostly text on an infinite canvas and has alignment tools to make it neat.

The other thing that popped into my head is maybe a Kanban tool (that would be a grid). You could do a quick paper prototype that easily with some postit notes on the wall to see if it works :).

I saw the title and went to look up a bunch of paper notepads :-)... (and can share if anyone is interested)

I tend to use Obsidian these days along with the excalidraw plugin (if you just want to try excalidraw without installing Obsidian: https://excalidraw.com/)

I am quite happy with my 12th gen 13" Framework running NixOS. Everything I need seems to work out of the box (sleep/resume (not using hibernate though), Touchpad, camera, mic, etc) and seems quite stable.

The 13th Gen (w/i7 only?) has a bigger batter so battery life should be better (a chief concern for some - though I am almost always plugged in). The new version also has an option for a matte screen. There's also an option (coming) for an AMD based system (eg better iGPU).

Almost everything is repairable/replaceable... and in a year or three, when I want to upgrade to a newer/faster system, I know I'll be able too (the upcoming AMD MB is tempting but my machine is less than a year old and I can't justify the cost)

A lot pricier of course but there's https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor too for the same kind of uses this is for.

I'll have to check this out later. Some of my older paperbacks are falling apart. I've done some coptic stitch binding in the past (journals and Alice in wonderland) and enjoyed the process very much. I would need to re-find some imposition software for Linux though to pick it back up.

Yes, decent iGPU. But no on an external GPU in the back since this is for the 13" which has no modular bay for internal GPU (They mean a USB4 -> PCIe dock for the external GPU).

There IS a 16" coming that will let you plugin a dedicated GPU.

I will probably order this (or it's next version) one for my machine in 18 - 30 months since mine is only ~6 months old.

edit: and apologies if I mis-understood or am being pedantic

Digital Deadmans switch?

For us (also remote only in Canada, though there are offices in other countries), we just use Fedex, IT generates a shipping label, we package up the machine, print the label from IT and drop it off with Fedex (most Staples I would think), easy peasy.

I think you can get the mailers from the Fedex location (but for my recent laptop upgrade, I just re-used the one the new machine came in).

Nice find! Did you click on the Saber? It changes to the different ones from the movies, there's even a katana.

Update: Latest gem still has the elevated error rates from the service we're connecting to but NOT the resource leak.

I haven't done it yet, but I am planning to use UTM. Dumb question, did you run an ARM64 image or a x86 on utm?

Yeah, I was/am planning to do that. But... the project giving us trouble is still on 0.9.11 and another project that is on latest doesn't seem to be having the same issue, so some more testing is needed. At the moment, we're going to rebuild using the older base image and then we'll upgrade the gem and test this sprint.

It's curb that we're using.

I'll have to check when I get into work.

It also looks like the Ruby GEM has a resource leak with it :) (or it doesn't terminate the connection? The server is timing out saying the full body has not been read).

Curl 8 got pulled into a base image update to Alpine Linux.

It's a jelly! Casual/adhoc coworking at someone home... http://workatjelly.com/

I read the PopSci article on this way back when and always wondered what became if it, thanks!

What license is it released under?

And https://nickel-lang.org/ too.

fwiw, I am running NixOS and it seems to work quite nicely.