I do backups with a Raspberry Pi with a 1TB SD card and leave it on all the time. The power draw is very small and I think reasonable for the value of offsite backups.

My personal experience with WOL (or anything related to power state of computers) is that it’s not reliable enough for something offsite. If you can set something up that’s stable, awesome, but if your backup server is down and you need to travel to it, that suuuucks.

Buy all the shit now. You won’t have the mental capacity to make purchasing decisions that well after you’re a parent. Buy and store the crib now. Stroller.

Get one of those log books and diligently record the feedings, diaper changes, medicines, etc. it’s invaluable to refer to for doctor and midwife follow-ups. You’ll know when you don’t need to record that level of detail anymore and can stop.

Read a few parenting books. Take them with a grain of salt. “Expert parents” have had a few genetically similar children. “Experts” have studied, at arm’s length, a bunch of children that weren’t theirs. Their opinions and experiences do NOT necessarily apply to your child. It’s a starting point and nothing more, despite the absurd promises the make in their introductions.

A routine is super important. Stick to one, especially for sleep. If baby sleeps, YOU SLEEP. An irregular sleep cycle seeps into your whole life quickly.

Your job is to safely raise your child to adulthood and hopefully not turn out to be an asshole. The romantic notion of “shaping” a child to be a better version of you is a fantasy. Resist those feelings and act and speak based on what you think your child needs for their development/understanding RIGHT NOW.

Set up boundaries with family early. Stick to them. That includes enforcing how they speak to your child. I don’t care if that’s how grandma was raised, telling a 1 year old their hand will get chopped off if they touch an electrical outlet is not helpful.

The child’s nap schedule is probably more important than any social obligation. If going to a lunch means your kid misses their nap and is a screaming, miserable monster for the rest of your day, then that lunch is OPTIONAL. Don’t go if it’s going to ripple through the rest of your day.

Child proof things in your home in increments. The kid won’t be walking for the first year - focus on padding for under 2’. Reassess when they’re walking and growing for new dangers. You won’t be able to do it all at once.

If you don’t have a ton of space, make it clear to friends and family that you don’t want any big gifts. If we get one more fucking stuffed animal…

Babies nap best in total dark. Make sure their sleeping area is as close to pitch black as you can get it. (This varies with the child, but I read it in a parenting book and it was absolutely true for us)

You will have far less money and mental capacity once you’re a parent - front load everything you can now!

And one clown, as the old joke goes.

The thing that’s helped pull people back from AI dependency at work has been to frequently ask “how much time did AI save on the whole thing?”

I mean, ChatGPT is amazing at writing bash scripts. But if you spend 40 minutes iterating over a solution before the clanker gives a usable solution, didn’t AI just cost time?

People refuse to accept they aren’t gaining anything from AI until they repeatedly look at the big picture.

My in laws have a second home in the US and have been faithfully going back and forth pretty regularly to maintain it.

Now we’re finally getting to the point where they’re uncertain about going and talking about selling it.

I think there’s a lot of people coming a bit late to the party. I don’t think we’ve stabilized those numbers yet.

“So what was the problem in the end?”

“Man, I don’t fucking know.”

• me, every goddamn time

I wonder what they spent paying people to implement and communicate this change.

At 600k for a company that size this cost them more money than just paying the extra 4 cents.

I’m not sure if it automatically does the metadata lookup or if it just reads embedded metadata from the epubs I’ve downloaded. It for sure does a poor job of setting up the series name and book number fields if you read a lot of series.

I use a combination of calibre-web-automated for metadata management and calibre-web-automated-book-downloader for downloading from Anna’s Archive. Book read progress and status is synced from my Kobo.

It works really well but you need to manually request books one at a time. The readarr feature I miss was the ability to subscribe to a GoodReads list.

I’m pretty sure it’s just a bunch of guys each awkwardly holding like 40 of those green laser pointers off AliExpress. They all wave them around vaguely in the direction of the aircraft and figure one of them is gonna hit.

Polite: “Thanks.”

Less polite: “Thank you for your feedback.”

My fave: “UNSUBSCRIBE”

But please also repost this to /c/lemmyshitpost with this original title!

There’s a few free vpn providers out there. You could do a little homework and see if they are a good option. I tend to mistrust free services like that (if I’m not paying, who is, and what are they paying for?), but if you’re in a pinch it’s something to research.

Another option is to look for deals. Sometimes VPN providers will have a super sale a few times a year. I think once I got a NordVPN subscription for THREE YEARS for like $60. It’s more expensive than a single month of anything, yes, but if you can afford a onetime expense it’s nice not to have to worry about a recurring monthly cost.

Your other option is to not use torrents. Usenet is still the grand daddy of file sharing and is pretty much anonymous. Most Usenet hosts are paid, but back in the day even ISPs ran their own servers. It could be worth looking and seeing if there’s any free or low cost providers there.

Wandering the desert?

Nay, vibe travelling.

They didn’t release their methods, so I can’t be sure that most of those aren’t just frustrated users telling the LLM to go kill itself.

Why does Doug have to do anything? Donny is an autocrat, right? Can’t he just phone the American broadcaster airing the ads and demand they stop airing it.

Big Strong Men shouldn’t just go crying on their pet social network when another country is being mean. They should be Big enough and Strong enough to deal with it themselves.

I feel like admitting that would have led to him getting a bullet in the head.

The machines obviously aren’t interested in reconnecting him - they grow humans by the thousand in their facilities. Like you’re not going to hike for a day to pick up lost carrot when you have them growing in your garden.

The only way the machines would consider reconnecting him would be as part of a deal for something significantly more valuable than one human. If Morpheus is on the table? Sure, now that’s worth it. Which isn’t to say they wouldn’t have betrayed and killed him once they had Morpheus anyway. Our only assurance that they would honour an agreement is a throwaway line from the Architect at the end of Reloaded.

And if there’s no going back, what does a terrified resistance do when one of their fighters starts talking about joining the enemy? He’s too dangerous - he’s gotta go.

Half my visits to Wikipedia are because I need to copy and paste a Unicode character and that’s always the highest search result with a page I can easily copy and paste the exact character from.

They have (had?) a fairly generous free tier that works well for people starting out.

I ended up buying a license after evaluation because the UI provides everything I reasonably want to do, it’s fundamentally a Linux server so I can change things I need, and it requires virtually zero fucking around to get started and keep running.

I guess the short answer is: it ticks a lot of boxes.

You can’t do much preparation since you don’t know what they’re going to ask. You can assume there will be some “basic” programming questions, but that’s really as far as you can take it in advance.

My advice here is for during the interview: keep talking. You should always be talking. That’s how the interviewer assesses you. They want to know how you are deconstructing a problem and how you want to solve it. Sitting there silent for 5 minutes and then banging out some code isn’t giving them anything.

“Ok, I need to modify this array and I should try to do that in place. I need to look up the syntax for that because i rarely need to do this…”

“I don’t remember what a splurgenarf is. Can you give me a quick definition before I get started?”

“I’m going to just slop this incomplete code in and run it once to see the output. It won’t work but I want to see if the first part is on the right track.”

“I think you’re asking me to write a wrapper around a basic network call so that it will _______. Is that right?”

Oh, and you’ll always home your first interview if it’s been a few years. Don’t sweat it, and don’t make your first interview at a place you really really want to work because of that. You need to go through a couple of interviews before your brain remembers how to function in a coding interview because it’s so far divorced from how a developer usually works.