I am introverted and I have had to go out of my way to do what I suggested. So, replace party with workplace, or grocery store, or laundromat. The setting doesn't matter. Health issues can't be changed and that's a tragedy but still the person will interact with health care workers and social workers. Use them for socializing. Is not having communication skills really a valid excuse? I assume we have all learned some sort of skill to support our adult selves financially so learn to communicate. I will admit that the point about someone writing you off as ugly, weird, annoying, not interesting is tough as I have felt that. I had to learn to be sincerely interested in the whole person and not the superficial. If the person has a defensive wall up that doesn't let me get to know them then I won't press it.
To say that alcohol distills down to being able to socialize doesn’t fit. Socializing is not hard. Are you at a party? Approach people you don’t know the way you want to be approached. Wear a sincere smile, give some distance, give your name, ask them who they know at the party, respond with who you know. Most likely you will know the same people so chat about that. Say where you live then ask them where they live. Listen to their response. Ask them what they like about where they live. Ask what you should see if you visit their neighborhood. Ask what they think of the music. Listen to their response. Thank them for sharing their opinion. Be self deprecating. Let them talk and you add the odd comment. Alcohol is not required for that. All that’s required is to be sincerely interested in people.
I live in Canada and ordered a Toyota Sienna hybrid Oct-2022 and its estimated delivery date is spring 2025. If battery advancements are coming quick then by the time it arrives the Sienna’s batteries will be low-tech bricks.
"Open source generates a lot of energy...there's no x86 forum. There's nothing like that kind of energy going into Arm these days. RiscV is going everywhere because it's open source." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o70yKYWgtVI&t=843s
A touch screen adds weight and a glossy display. I purposely purchased the Lenovo T14S Gen 3 AMD without a touch screen as I prefer a matte screen, and the device is lighter.
Do it the easy way with Oracle cloud’s free tier and get Arm Ampere A1 CPUs, 24GB RAM, and 10TB egress with the hard part being creating an account which requires a credit card.
I've lost my mind. I literally just implemented a dictionary web API the other week and have completely forgotten how I did it. Just forget what I wrote.
Okay that's not exactly what I had in mind. My suggestion was to implement the same hash both server and client side so that the query string is small and manageable. Don't worry about the state not being fully legible because you will implement the hash decode on the client too. The code will be there for you to peruse.
I have to admit that I like Erik Voorhees' opinion stated here, https://open.spotify.com/episode/5a0pw6MQCOOGxjSrYTPrGj, which is don't use an opaque centralized exchange but use DeFi which is transparent as it's all code that's readily available.
Wait. The title uses the word free, but you write that it requires payment. Looking at the website I can't find a way to pay for it other than a donation.
I believe the comment was referring to running Pi-Hole on something other than a RaspberryPi since they are known for SD file system corruption. It has happened to my Pi-Hole and music server running on separate R-Pis. https://hackaday.com/2022/03/09/raspberry-pi-and-the-story-o... Use a throwaway PC that you have kicking around, or run it virtualized...
As much as I hate the high price where I live (Canada) I assume that Internet and wireless phone service is expensive because the country is so large that the build out cost is expensive. The USA is running 3/4 in the list of largest countries by land area and Canada is 2nd[1]. Maybe I'm naive in my thinking but I have family in a teeny tiny European country and they all have 1Gb fibre optic service for cheap-cheap.
This is how I got through it - I read it in 1990 while riding the bus to and from a summer job. I had nothing else to do to kill the time. I don't remember it being a terribly boring story. So, to get through it - get off the Internet, and all devices since they're just time wasters much like Anna Karenina.
My neighbour bought a 2017 Cadillac Escalade V8 supercharged during the pandemic that gets 7.1L/100km (33MPG) on the highway due to displacement on demand and they live in the country so it has worked out well for them as they need the 4x4 and the space of the vehicle. I was annoyed since that's better consumption than my 4 cylinder econo-box.
The bank rate to the dealership to carry its floorplan is much higher than the posted rates. Yes, being able to carry inventory during the pandemic is advantageous but otherwise dealerships work hard to not having a vehicle older than 180 days as they become undesirable to consumers.
I work in retail automotive in Ontario, Canada. It sucks to read that you paid over MSRP. The province of Ontario has a governing body called OMVIC that doesn't allow sales of new vehicles for > MSRP/sticker price. That said, not all OMVIC registered dealerships abide by that policy, but I do know the one I work for adheres to it. All told, dealerships are making the same amount of gross now as they did prior to the pandemic, if not more thanks to full margin sales despite lack of volume.