I agree with all of your points. We're definitely on the same page for all of them, and that gives me some hope for the future of our country.
My 7 year old son has an auto-immune disease, and requires ~$600/month in prescriptions just to keep him alive. Thankfully we do have some personal coverage, but there are limits that can be inconvenient. The entire idea that we have to pay for life sustaining therapy for a child is absolutely ludicrous to me.
It is not curable, and will be with him his whole life. National average cost for people with his condition cost is over 1/2 million in their lifetime just spent on prescriptions for life sustaining therapy.
I live in Canada and I most certainly would not call it outright socialist.
While really basic health care is provided to the entire population, things like medication, dental, eyes, ears are not covered unless it's a medical emergency.
We have Welfare programs for the very poor, some help for families with young children (called Canada Child Benefit), but we still have problems with poverty just like the US despite our "high" taxes (though if your household income is less than $35,000 you don't pay taxes).
Personally I welcome the idea of UBI, but that's my opinion, and certainly is not the opinion of the majority of Canadians (otherwise we'd have it by now).
I also live in one of the most natural resource rich provinces, but we're also in massive debt because our provincial government is a bunch of idiots. I have no idea how they won the most recent election.
I consider it fatigue when I go to bed at 4am because I struggle to comprehend what I'm reading on my screen anymore.
I'm talking about when I wake up one morning and it feels like I just spend 3 days binge drinking. Migrane, dehydrated, just feel like total crap. The thought of sitting at my desk to do any work makes me feel queezy.
When this happens, I take a 4 day break from everything. The first two days I generally just sleep and stay inside, relax on the couch, then the next two spend out doing stuff with my family.
Again, everyone is different. We all have different limits, and different remedies.:-)
I guess I worded it poorly. What I meant is I take a four day weekend away from out to avoid actual burn out.
What I consider "burn out" is when I can no longer focus on the task, so I walk away for a few days to let my brain have a break.
Everybody is different, though. Some people can keep going week after week of working insane hours.
I'm still rather young and this routine of blitz for a couple weeks and a good solid 4 days away seems to be working for me now. I do not expect it to continue working forever, though.
Working long hours on something you built for yourself, because you're passionate about it, is quite different from simply logging hours to try to "move up" in the corporate world.
I've been self employed basically out of high school. I work as much, or as little, as I feel I can handle that day/week.
I regularily go on blitzes where I stay up until 3-4am for days at a time while working on something exciting, but it definitely leads to burn out. That's when I take a 4 day weekend away from work if I can.
I'm pretty sure it scans in the background as messages are received. The information is indexed and tied to your Google ID.
As you browse websites that display google ads while signed in to your Google account, you will receive targetted advertising based on all congruent data indexed, including your email if you use Gmail.
As well, if you have an Android device with Google Play, the targetted advertising will play a role in ads displayed in apps.
I'm of the mind that these browser vendors should ship two editions of the browsers: - one for developers with all of the bells and whistles. - a trimmed down 'end user' edition with all of the developer tools removed.
I know firefox has a version specific to developers, but the regular builds still include most of the developer tools.
Or better yet, ship the developer tools as an addon/plugin for those who want it.
Not here in SK, maybe in other places, but mostly around here people guesstimate the time it takes over a distance.
Since SK is basically a cluster of small towns, everyone travels on the highway on a regular basis. Where I'm from, Saskatoon is 2 hours away, not 230km.
It's easy because most people drive 120kmph on the highway. So the math works out to distance in km divided by two. But since we travel these distances on the regular, it's just common knowledge.
Some common examples: - Regina, SK to Calgary, AB is 6.5 hours with a fuel/piss break. It's about 760km. 760/2 = 380 min = 6.33 hours. - Regina, SK to Winnipeg, MB is 5 hours with fuel/piss break. It's about 575km. 575 / 2 = 287 min = 4.8 hours. - Weyburn, SK to Regina, SK is 1 hour.. 116km / 2 = 58 minutes.
Object storage has made proper archival backups for my company a little more manageable and more affordable.
Each server creates incremental backups of the necessary data every 8 hours (os config files, selective filesystem data, database dumps, etc).
From there the backup files are replicated into our backup cluster. The backup cluster then encrypts and replicates it all into both OVH's object storage and Backblaze's B2 object storage. The cluster only keeps the most recent 7 days on hand.
In object storage, we keep 6 weeks or so. Total cost for ~28TB is only about $300/mo between the two copies.
When I go to the US, I use my SIM from Roam Mobility. They utilize the T-Mobile network which had never given me any trouble. Got 4G LTE everywhere i went on my last trip. Going again this August.
I just ordered a BLU R1-HD (2GB RAM, 16GB Storage) for my younger brother. Reviews looked good and only $150 CAD. Runs Android 6.0
To be fair, AMD's FX series is not "true" cores, but "logical" cores, or "threads".
Their new line of Ryzen 8-core chips are true 8-core chips, with 16 logical cores (threads).
I just ordered an AMD Ryzen 1800X for a custom build for a friend. The CPU was $629 (Canadian Dollars). The entire build with Windows License was $3,350 (Canadian Dollars).
I'm glad there is some actual competition happing in this space. The market was stagnant for a number of years. I'm still using my AMD FX-8320 I purchased in 2012. It does everything I need for now.
With that said, my next build will most likely also be AMD, because multithreaded performance is more important to me.
A sucker is a branch that grows out of an existing 'joint', where a branch has already grown.
The sucker will literally 'suck' the life out of the existing limb, yielding less fruit over all. Pruning it will stop this from happening and increase yield.
I have a 1500sqft vegetable garden in my yard. I have 20 indeterminate tomato plants growing. With proper pruning we'll probably yield about 60-80lb of tomatoes per plant throughout the growing season (1200-1600lb total).
You have no idea what langauge your customer speaks, or if they speak many languages including the language your software supports.
If your software is English, and someone from Czech wants to buy your software, you are not required to translate it into Czech. As long as it's clear what langauge your software supports, and the customer understands this, and still wants to buy it there is no reason to translate it into the customers locale.
What makes you think you're required to support more than one language?
Now, if you go ahead and offer said translations available for sale, offering differing price points for different locales most definitely should be illegal. If you cant set your price at a point that encompasses all of the labour involved in creating it, then you simply misunderstand business, where the rule is always "Charge everyone more".
If you're paying for the electricity, and the lights, I'd demand LED since the longer term will cost less.
I replaced all of my lighting with LED in my home. I'm renting.
In my basement I replaced three 4ft florescent light fixtures (with 2 tubes each) in my basement with LED tubes by rewiring the light enclosure (ie. cutting out the ballast, and wiring directly to the tombstones, yes with landlords consent). Went from 6 fluorescent tubes to 3 LED tubes and I'm getting even better light output. The electricity usage went from ~200W (32W x 6, plus whatever the ballast wasted) to ~54W (18W x 3).
My favourite part? Instant on lights! I guess the electricity savings are pretty cool, too.
I exclusively use Philips branded 8.5W (60W equiv), 5000K, 800 lumen bulbs inside my house. Outside I have 4 floodlights (two in the back yard, two in my car port, all on motion sensors).
I'm down to 20 bulbs for my whole house. There's at least 9 empty sockets now since I get much better light output from these bulbs.
LED lighting has also paved the way for Solar powered lights. My front door has a solar powered LED light (Mpow brand from Amazon), and a couple of solar/led garden lights in my front yard for the driveway/walkway. I'm looking for some more for my back yard/garden now.
Unfortunately in the winter these solar lights don't perform well (batteries cold + much less sun). At least the 4 months or so of summer weather we get around here saves some money.:-)
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I agree with all of your points. We're definitely on the same page for all of them, and that gives me some hope for the future of our country.
My 7 year old son has an auto-immune disease, and requires ~$600/month in prescriptions just to keep him alive. Thankfully we do have some personal coverage, but there are limits that can be inconvenient. The entire idea that we have to pay for life sustaining therapy for a child is absolutely ludicrous to me.
It is not curable, and will be with him his whole life. National average cost for people with his condition cost is over 1/2 million in their lifetime just spent on prescriptions for life sustaining therapy.
Indeed. I did not vote for our current Government.
My family and I are planning to move across the country if things don't improve here.
I live in Canada and I most certainly would not call it outright socialist.
While really basic health care is provided to the entire population, things like medication, dental, eyes, ears are not covered unless it's a medical emergency.
We have Welfare programs for the very poor, some help for families with young children (called Canada Child Benefit), but we still have problems with poverty just like the US despite our "high" taxes (though if your household income is less than $35,000 you don't pay taxes).
Personally I welcome the idea of UBI, but that's my opinion, and certainly is not the opinion of the majority of Canadians (otherwise we'd have it by now).
I also live in one of the most natural resource rich provinces, but we're also in massive debt because our provincial government is a bunch of idiots. I have no idea how they won the most recent election.
Good to know. I must be doing something right then.
I guess I'm just not up on the terminology.
I consider it fatigue when I go to bed at 4am because I struggle to comprehend what I'm reading on my screen anymore.
I'm talking about when I wake up one morning and it feels like I just spend 3 days binge drinking. Migrane, dehydrated, just feel like total crap. The thought of sitting at my desk to do any work makes me feel queezy.
When this happens, I take a 4 day break from everything. The first two days I generally just sleep and stay inside, relax on the couch, then the next two spend out doing stuff with my family.
Again, everyone is different. We all have different limits, and different remedies. :-)
I guess I worded it poorly. What I meant is I take a four day weekend away from out to avoid actual burn out.
What I consider "burn out" is when I can no longer focus on the task, so I walk away for a few days to let my brain have a break.
Everybody is different, though. Some people can keep going week after week of working insane hours.
I'm still rather young and this routine of blitz for a couple weeks and a good solid 4 days away seems to be working for me now. I do not expect it to continue working forever, though.
Basically this.
Working long hours on something you built for yourself, because you're passionate about it, is quite different from simply logging hours to try to "move up" in the corporate world.
I've been self employed basically out of high school. I work as much, or as little, as I feel I can handle that day/week.
I regularily go on blitzes where I stay up until 3-4am for days at a time while working on something exciting, but it definitely leads to burn out. That's when I take a 4 day weekend away from work if I can.
Super Saver Econo $49.95* New York to Los Angeles
* add a seat with luxurious safety belt for only $449.95
Also, it will be much easier to drag people off flights when its overbooked, without all of those pesky seats and saftey belts in the way.
It's deeper than that, I believe.
I'm pretty sure it scans in the background as messages are received. The information is indexed and tied to your Google ID.
As you browse websites that display google ads while signed in to your Google account, you will receive targetted advertising based on all congruent data indexed, including your email if you use Gmail.
As well, if you have an Android device with Google Play, the targetted advertising will play a role in ads displayed in apps.
I use wkhtmltopdf.
It comes with two versions. One for pdf generation, and one for image generation. I use both quite extensively in a few projects.
The official packages from wkhtmltopdf to not require an X server. If you build from source, you'll need to apply a patch (provided in the sources).
I'm of the mind that these browser vendors should ship two editions of the browsers:
- one for developers with all of the bells and whistles.
- a trimmed down 'end user' edition with all of the developer tools removed.
I know firefox has a version specific to developers, but the regular builds still include most of the developer tools.
Or better yet, ship the developer tools as an addon/plugin for those who want it.
Not here in SK, maybe in other places, but mostly around here people guesstimate the time it takes over a distance.
Since SK is basically a cluster of small towns, everyone travels on the highway on a regular basis. Where I'm from, Saskatoon is 2 hours away, not 230km.
It's easy because most people drive 120kmph on the highway. So the math works out to distance in km divided by two. But since we travel these distances on the regular, it's just common knowledge.
Some common examples:
- Regina, SK to Calgary, AB is 6.5 hours with a fuel/piss break. It's about 760km. 760/2 = 380 min = 6.33 hours.
- Regina, SK to Winnipeg, MB is 5 hours with fuel/piss break. It's about 575km. 575 / 2 = 287 min = 4.8 hours.
- Weyburn, SK to Regina, SK is 1 hour.. 116km / 2 = 58 minutes.
and so on and so forth.
Object storage has made proper archival backups for my company a little more manageable and more affordable.
Each server creates incremental backups of the necessary data every 8 hours (os config files, selective filesystem data, database dumps, etc).
From there the backup files are replicated into our backup cluster. The backup cluster then encrypts and replicates it all into both OVH's object storage and Backblaze's B2 object storage. The cluster only keeps the most recent 7 days on hand.
In object storage, we keep 6 weeks or so. Total cost for ~28TB is only about $300/mo between the two copies.
That's just Canada in a nutshell.
Here in the Canadian Prairies, we measure distance in time (hours & minutes).
I just ordered one of those for my younger brother.
How do you like it? Any quirks or issues I should be aware of? Really can't go wrong for the price.
Also Canadian here. Unlocked Moto X Play.
When I go to the US, I use my SIM from Roam Mobility. They utilize the T-Mobile network which had never given me any trouble. Got 4G LTE everywhere i went on my last trip. Going again this August.
I just ordered a BLU R1-HD (2GB RAM, 16GB Storage) for my younger brother. Reviews looked good and only $150 CAD. Runs Android 6.0
Until you realize in many ways those cable companies are subsidizing your internet connection with the income from TV subscribers.
If cable TV goes the way of the buggy whip, you'll see broadband prices increase.
It's already happening here in Canada.
To be fair, AMD's FX series is not "true" cores, but "logical" cores, or "threads".
Their new line of Ryzen 8-core chips are true 8-core chips, with 16 logical cores (threads).
I just ordered an AMD Ryzen 1800X for a custom build for a friend. The CPU was $629 (Canadian Dollars). The entire build with Windows License was $3,350 (Canadian Dollars).
I'm glad there is some actual competition happing in this space. The market was stagnant for a number of years. I'm still using my AMD FX-8320 I purchased in 2012. It does everything I need for now.
With that said, my next build will most likely also be AMD, because multithreaded performance is more important to me.
How is this any different than Chester Thr Molester molesting my SON in the MENs room?
Your argument is bullshit.
It's the suckers you want to prune.
A sucker is a branch that grows out of an existing 'joint', where a branch has already grown.
The sucker will literally 'suck' the life out of the existing limb, yielding less fruit over all. Pruning it will stop this from happening and increase yield.
I have a 1500sqft vegetable garden in my yard. I have 20 indeterminate tomato plants growing. With proper pruning we'll probably yield about 60-80lb of tomatoes per plant throughout the growing season (1200-1600lb total).
These ballasts were at least 20 years old, possibly even 30 years old.
The old lights took 7-12 seconds to even turn on, then another 5-10 seconds to hit full brightness.
These LEDs are super bright, instant on, and use much less power. What's the down side?
A sale does note equal requiring translation.
You have no idea what langauge your customer speaks, or if they speak many languages including the language your software supports.
If your software is English, and someone from Czech wants to buy your software, you are not required to translate it into Czech. As long as it's clear what langauge your software supports, and the customer understands this, and still wants to buy it there is no reason to translate it into the customers locale.
What makes you think you're required to support more than one language?
Now, if you go ahead and offer said translations available for sale, offering differing price points for different locales most definitely should be illegal. If you cant set your price at a point that encompasses all of the labour involved in creating it, then you simply misunderstand business, where the rule is always "Charge everyone more".
If you're paying for the electricity, and the lights, I'd demand LED since the longer term will cost less.
I replaced all of my lighting with LED in my home. I'm renting.
In my basement I replaced three 4ft florescent light fixtures (with 2 tubes each) in my basement with LED tubes by rewiring the light enclosure (ie. cutting out the ballast, and wiring directly to the tombstones, yes with landlords consent). Went from 6 fluorescent tubes to 3 LED tubes and I'm getting even better light output. The electricity usage went from ~200W (32W x 6, plus whatever the ballast wasted) to ~54W (18W x 3).
My favourite part? Instant on lights! I guess the electricity savings are pretty cool, too.
Agreed. Don't buy bargain bin crap from Walmart or Costco.
I buy Philips exclusively and they are fantastic. Cost about $5.50/bulb. Have 20 of them and never an issue.
I exclusively use Philips branded 8.5W (60W equiv), 5000K, 800 lumen bulbs inside my house. Outside I have 4 floodlights (two in the back yard, two in my car port, all on motion sensors).
I'm down to 20 bulbs for my whole house. There's at least 9 empty sockets now since I get much better light output from these bulbs.
LED lighting has also paved the way for Solar powered lights. My front door has a solar powered LED light (Mpow brand from Amazon), and a couple of solar/led garden lights in my front yard for the driveway/walkway. I'm looking for some more for my back yard/garden now.
Unfortunately in the winter these solar lights don't perform well (batteries cold + much less sun). At least the 4 months or so of summer weather we get around here saves some money. :-)