Do you really think you're the first person to think of this?
If you actually need a certain medication, and you absolutely must take it by putting it in your lunch, then I suppose you can feel free to explain that in a courtroom, but you should be reminded that perjury is a vey bad legal strategy and judges don't like to play games.
DIY (instead of the cloud) is the answer. If you're pushing terabytes+ from day 1 on a shoestring, you're going to want your own CDN. If you can manage a queueing system and the occasional wait, run your own (or rented physical) hardware for transcoding at as high a utilisation as you can.
Build vs buy pushes you to "build" early on when your margins are slim and your volume is huge.
Yes, you are being too paranoid. Once booted into Openwrt the router will only be running Openwrt code. I guess there's the tiny possibility of a backdoored bootloader but that would have to be a pretty sophisticated backdoor!
When I looked at buying an EV last year, BYD was a serious option. In the end I decided on a second hand Nissan Leaf. In New Zealand, we're right hand drive and have no local auto makers. We import lots of second hand cars from Japan as a result. Like most New Zealanders, I've never owned a new car. Cheap Chinese EVs are somewhat cost competitive with second hand Japanese EVs which is crazy. Still not going to buy one. I'm happy that geopolitical tensions aren't going to stop spare parts being available.
I have similar sentiment in the UK but the leaf has the wrong fast-charge port! Everything is CCS apart from the nissan leaf and a few other older things. Give it another year or two and finding a chademo fast charger is going to be fairly challenging compared to CCS (where 100+ KW ones are becoming more and more prevalent now)
what's more likely, people stop traveling by plane, or these seats will remain filled? I'm all for making changes, but let's make them realistic ones with actual chances of getting implemented. the world is a big place, and air travel is not going to be replaced by steamships. we've been there, done that, and tired of the slowness. progress, not regression. improve the engines for air travel. don't expect air travel to stop
I've been using NestJS this year and (mostly) found it great for the use cases I've had.
I'd rather describe the HTTP to method call mapping of my controller with decorators than a bunch of "add endpoint" calls. I like that the HTTP to code binding is located right beside the code itself.
I like that I can separate my app up into modules and couple them as loosely or tightly as I need.
You can architecture astronaut with NestJS, but you don't have to! I wrote a queue module (to interface with a legacy queue system), using decorators to specify the consumer. Docs on doing this are essentially nonexistent. The NestJS based library I cribbed from spread the "find the object & method to call" logic across multiple classes. I distilled it down to a screenful.
As with all tools, you get some choice in how you use it. Want to go wild with dependency injecting a zillion classes with one method each? If you really want to, I guess you can. Want to be sensible, for your definition of sensible? You can do that too.
AirBnB used to be a cheap stay. Now it's often not. Many hosts charge the equivalent of an extra night as a "service fee," pushing up the total price for the stay and making it harder to compare places on price.
We're booking a trip at the moment and finding in many locations we're better off booking a hotel - they're often cheaper, closer to public transport, we can leave bags at reception etc.
Airbnb was cheap when it they were renting excess space. Empty nesters. People whose roommate moved out. People on extended vacations. People who lost their job and needed some extra cash and could live without an extra bedroom.
These people were not trying to pay a mortgage and professional housekeepers and turn a profit. They were just trying to recover some sunk costs.
If you look at hotels vs. apartments or houses, the maintanence and cleaning costs of residential housing are very high because you don’t have the economies of scale you need. The hotel cleaners push their cart down the hall 20 feet while the airbnb cleaners drive all over town, and that’s just one of the many ways hotels are more efficient.
My mom runs her house as an Airbnb now. She puts a ton of work into the turnovers. So it's a similar amount of work whether guests stay for 2 nights or 7 nights. So yeah, it can be expensive and maybe it pushes people to do longer stays, but that actually makes sense for whole rentals.
But when you're searching for something, you just don't want the price to double once you get to the checkout page.
I wish they also had more options for just a place to crash for a night, like in a spare bedroom.
Hotels are certainly nicer for many cases. But Airbnb is worth it in some cases still.
> I wish they also had more options for just a place to crash for a night, like in a spare bedroom.
couchsurfing was a great option once upon a time. the customary 'fee' of paying the host for their takeout or dinner and drinks for the night was really worth it.
i guess this informal custom has gone the way of hitch-hiking?
You could learn Esperanto. They have a service where you can couch surf basically anywhere if you can speak with your host in Esperanto. Some countries like Japan have a lot of coverage.
It still can be a great option in some places. I'm traveling in India, where unlike other parts of Asia, the budget hotels are not great.
Being able to book an Airbnb where people have reviewed the cleanliness and see pictures of the actual room is invaluable. For $30 a night (after fees) I have many nice apartments and small houses with kitchens and living areas to choose from. Higher end hotels with similar standards are either not available or closer to $100.
I'm very happy with my Glove80. I started with a prototype 3D printed model last year: the creators are friends of mine, and I wrote the LED status display code for them. I also dropped the prototype down a flight of concrete stairs (sorry! It still works though).
I now have a production model with the white clicky keyswitches. Ultra happy with it. I've been using Kinesis Advantage2s for a shade over two decades - the same model DanielDK used for a long time. The Glove80 is simply better. I prefer the clicky keyswitches. Ergonomics are great. It's really repairable - everything is held together with screws (spare parts for my Advantage2s are not available, and the function keys are not repairable). Open firmware so you can make it do wacky stuff if the need arises. Small and light enough for travel - I should get a proper case but it's survived a fair few trips stuffed into my backpack.
Yeah, adaptation to new keyboard layouts is hard. I used a layout that mimicked my old Advantage2 - so I'd paid the cost to learn columnar already. I found the default Glove80 layout was better, but switching meant a month of confusing Ctrl and Shift. All better now!
As a general question to anybody that used the Kinesis Advantage and switched to the Glove80: how's the thumb cluster?
The double-length keys for bk/delete/enter/space allows a lot of vertical travel freedom on the hand. Instead of flexing the fingers I can just move the whole hand down and hit the lower row _very_ comfortably while not having to worry about the thumb at all.
I've mocked a few pieces of paper to advantage with the shape of the glove80 cluster and I really can't decide if that's good or bad. While the inner thumb keys of the advantage are pretty far from the key wells, the most important modifiers are all closer compared to the glove80.
Trying it on the mockup, the glove80 cluster placement forces my hand on a higher position and requires the thumb to stretch more.
I've been looking at the advantage 360 and I don't like the complete removal of the Fn row, while at the same time I also hate the old Fn keys on the advantage. The glove80 layout is really nice, but I find the thumb cluster of the advantage to be pretty darn good.
I wrote about this in one of my articles. I use a Kinesis Advantage 360. It's like the Kinesis Advantage but split. I like it, but there are draw backs. Namely, the clusters are not mirrored across both keyboards.
Left Side
Backspace
Delete
Ctrl
Alt
Home
End
Right
Super Key
Ctrl
Page Up
Page Down
Enter
Space
The keys are easy to hit, but the biggest problem is the space bar. On a typical keyboard the space bar is accessible from either thumb. This makes it so that if you are using the mouse and are playing an FPS, then you can still jump. This is not possible on the Kinesis Advantage withought modifying the keys. I use the Smartset program, and have a profile specifically for games that fixes this, but it might be annoying to some
The second is that fact that there is not print screen key on the advantage. I take a lot of screenshots for work so this is annoying. I've set one of the 4 macro keys to be the key combination I need to make screenshots, but again this required some configuration.
With that being said I still like the keyboard. My hands feel great even after 12 hours of mixed browsing, coding, and writing. My posture is better, and I don't get pain in my vertebrae next to my shoulder blade. But there are definitely things I would change if I was making it from scratch. Maybe in the future I'll Diy a dactyl-manuform^1 which has the perfect switches and layout for me.
Due to the 3D nature, it is very hard to mock up with a few pieces of paper.
One thing to note is that the Glove80 thumb cluster plane is at a very different location and angle, compared to the the Kinesis Advantage thumb cluster plane. In fact the Glove80 thumb cluster plane is much lower and slant down gently (nowhere as much as DM) towards the opposite half. OTOH the KA thumb cluster sits significantly higher than the keywell.
Due to the thumb plane difference, "the glove80 cluster placement forces my hand on a higher position and requires the thumb to stretch more" is not the case in reality for me.
I would definitely reposition the thumb cluster on the KA to be slightly lower (no more than 1cm lower really), however I didn't find this to be a problem for me.
I rest my hands with the pinky/thumb at about 15' (that is, the hand is is not with the palm flat but at about 45" compared to the keyboard). If I extend pinky and thumb, they're naturally on the same plane.
If I could tent the halves though that 1cm of difference would be nice.
On the kinesis I can hit comfortably ctrl+alt + "=" (and pretty much any other key on either half) with thumb+pinky, on both halves. Holding shift is also entirely possible with pinky or ring, even in combination with ctrl/alt/ctrl+alt and while typing with the remaining 3 fingers.
Seems a stupid thing to do when written, and maybe it is, but hey .. emacs, and I'm doing it with ease actually. I normally chord the modifiers with one hand and type with the other, but if there's a weird combination I'll just do it with a single hand too.
I could definitely 3d-print an entire glove80 mock if I found a model.
For a long time I've been pondering about just 3d-printing a modified dacytl to fit my own preferences, but it's one of those things I wish to just pay for, have some QC without wasting time, and be done.
I find the bottom row easy to hit but find the top rows are awkwardly placed. I've got round this by using the top row as toggles for the momentary layers on the bottom row keys, so it's fine. I wouldn't want to press them as part of normal typing personally.
PCs of a sufficient vintage had so little logic on the HDD that you could swap out the MFM controller card in your PC for an RLL one and get 50% more storage. The modulation of the signal written to the disk was the job of the controller card, not the board on the HDD. Turn your 20MB HDD into a 30MB with a controller change and reformat? Mighty tempting.
* put a warning wrap on your sandwich - danger - this sandwich may have laxatives added
* if your sandwiches continue to go missing, label them AND add laxatives