I'm having a down day.. improved a bit by listening to From Now On from The Greatest Showman. What songs make you feel better
The screen on my laptop is dying and I probably need to replace it. Any recommendations for a cheap laptop that will play nicely with Ubuntu I'm not gaming or anything exciting, and my laptop rarely leaves home so weight isn't a factor. I'm after decent storage and a laptop that will last.
I used to dual boot, but don't know whether that's still easy to set up what with all the device enshittification...
Dear authors:
Please:
1. Write your best story: well-written, well-edited.
2. Publish it in good quality print form: I'd like to share it with friends and include it in my estate.
3. Sell DRM-free EPUB e-books instead of Amazon's monopoly shit format.
4. Don't sell only through Amazon.
5. Don't spend your money on making an audio book edition. I don't do audio books.
Sincerely,
Me
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En toda casa gatuna se recogen maraas de pelos de gato
Sabes qu hermosa utilidad puedes darles
El pelo de los gatos le gusta mucho a las aves para hacer y reformar los nidos
Reglaselo y te sentirs feliz de sacarle provecho.
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9. We are not here for long but if you are living against the wind it can feel like a life-sentence. Life should not feel like a chore, it should feel like an adventure.
10. Always, always, use the things you keep for best. Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one. Today is a gift thats why we call it the present. Be peaceful, Be loved & Be Merry.
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7. Your health is obviously important but stress, fear and worry are far more damaging than any delicious food you may deny yourself. Happiness and peace are the best medicine.
8. Who will remember you and for what, become important factors as you age. Your love and your wisdom will live on far longer than any material thing you can pass down. Tell your stories, they can travel farther than you can imagine.
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5. No one really sees what you do right, everyone sees what you do wrong. When that becomes clear to you, you will start doing things for the right reason and you will start having so much more fun.
6. You will regret the years you spent berating your looks, the sooner you can make peace with the vessel your soul lives in, the better. Your body is amazing and important but it does not define you.
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3. Fighting the ageing process is like trying to catch the wind. Go with it, enjoy it. Your body is changing, but it always has been. Dont waste time trying to reverse that, instead change your mindset to see the beauty in the new.
4. Nobody is perfect and nobody is truly happy with their lot. When that sinks in you are free of comparison and free of judgement. Its truly liberating.
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10 THINGS TIME HAS TAUGHT ME
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1. Most of our life is spent chasing false goals and worshipping false ideals. The day you realise that is the day you really start to live.
2. You really, truly cannot please all of the people all of the time. Please yourself first and your loved ones second, everyone else is busy pleasing themselves anyway, trust me.
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You're a little company, now act like one
Handy guide to pass to your friends, feel free to add to it or improve it. All I ask is that you share it back so I can also share your knowledge.
Does anyone have recommendations for earplugs for very tiny earholes Every time I go to the doctor and they look in my ears, they go wow you have really small ear canals and most earplugs are moderately uncomfortable to unwearable. I had some Etymotics at the metal concert last night which definitely helped with noise reduction but also were moderately uncomfortable. Id prefer not to go the over-ear route if possible.
Hi Fediverse, I was wondering if anyone had any career advice for a senior level undergrad in computer science. I'm looking for anything I can possibly find but goal is some kind of devops work.
Any advice is good for me.
Can you recommend anything on that has no text at all other than credits Text triggers my partner's , which makes watching anything challenging.
New entry of AI-generated and added to our :
How to understand things via Big Think Shared
True intelligence isnt just about raw ability its about the discipline to investigate things creatively and directly rather than settling for shallow explanations. In this essay, writer and entrepreneur Nabeel S. Qureshi explores how great thinkers developed their insights by testing ideas from multiple angles, refusing to fool themselves, and being unafraid to look stupid.
OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level
Should I go with the grey or the purple The purple fits for a magical forest but the grey is less busy and doesnt detract focus from the Unicorn. Sorry about the quality, its 260x360 pixels and will eventually be a Twin sized blanket. I would love to know what yall think, advice is welcome! I plan to have it done by next week so I can source materials as soon as I know if I get accepted for this year.
Ok so I'm building a fence for my vegetable garden, and for the posts I'm using cedar 4x4s attached to metal anchor spikes. Do I need to treat the ends of the posts with anything to prevent rot or is their cedarness sufficient The place I live has regular rain and snow and whatnot.
Spread more joy. With words, not metrics.
That fanfic you liked That video that made you laugh Let that person know, with a real handwritten comment, not a thumbs up or a 'view'.
Especially the 'small' ones. The ones without algorithms showing them to everyone and their brother.
Just a timely reminder to all my mutuals the ultimate flex is just being YOU.
Now that summer is arriving, here's some practical clothing advice I've picked during my transition so far :rosahajtransheart:
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I, for one, welcome any unsolicited advice (given nicely of course LOL) in my feed. I don't know everything (or anything, really), and someone somewhere always has something valuable to contribute (or remind me of!). Thanks in advance for making me aware of things I did not know! There are so many people here with a deeper depth of knowledge and experience in so much of the world, and that's part of why I appreciate the Fediverse so much--so much expertise in so many parts of life from so many (real) people -- not AI bots, not e-commerce sites trying to hawk goods, not big companies trying to sell you stuff. THANK YOU ALL
If you can't or won't avoid the (article mostly focused on air travel), here are some and . Boy, am I glad I am not traveling this weekend.
> Hydrate. Make lists. Leave yourself time. And other tips for reducing holiday travel stress
Public service announcement:
If you are very small sized, and eat very little, have very little/no hunger cues in your daily life, and are possibly a smoker as well = don't give eating advice to people trying to lose weight.
Eating once a day, or doing intermittent fasting, does not work for people who have more body weight, and experience hunger. You canno't fathom what that is like, so your advice will automatically sound really condecending.
I saved this a long time ago because... well it is the perfect encapsulation of the internet.
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What I Learned Photographing Boring Places via The Photographic Eye Shared
Linking Supernote and Obsidian
I remember some article telling how a company was constantly hitting AWS quotas, because their JSON payload, itself fitting into limits, was put into a string field inside another JSON object, used for communication between servers, therefore all quotes and backslashes were double-escaped as " and , increasing payload size.
String encoding is also the reason why, for example, serde (Rust de-/serialization library) can give you Cow<str> if you don't want extra allocations: when there are no character escapes, a reference to the original input can be passed, but in case we're doing "->" replacements, we need to copy this part of input anyway.
I don't say it's bad, that is how a text format works in common, not only JSON. But if you need to put some arbitrary data into objects, think twice, probably a binary format like , or even custom will be much more efficient for your task.
Also, text formats are basically not suitable for streaming, while loading a big object into RAM is a very bad idea. If it's an array, you can separate objects by newline instead of using JSON's . In other cases, search for a SAX-like library (or smth like "") for your programming language.
Now I won't give a specific example, but I'm sure there are developers doing this: encoding a file with base64 to send it inside a JSON request. Please, remember that b64 bloats payload approximately by 1.33x 1, so you should always either send a file with an additional HTTP request or use multipart form data type. Oh, or encode your objects with a binary format. Last two options are OK when you're working with small files and insist on doing everything in one request, otherwise upload data in different reqs in parallel.
1 formula for base64 string length is:4 * ceil(originallength / 3)
Another example of "how definitely NOT to do" is Piped (privacy frontend for YouTube), on some API endpoints it provides a nextpage object, containing session info used to request the next page for a channel, a playlist, search results or comments, and the problem is that it's a JSON object put inside a string as explained above: "nextpage":""url":"https
Even funnier, there are body field inside this nextpage object that contains another JSON object, encoded in base64, so there are 3 layers of text format encoding.
And when a client requests the next page, the object is sent in GET querystring parameters, so it gets urlencoded (percent-encoded), resulting in 4 layers!! Idk why browsers don't reject its long ugly URLs.
Everything before querystring is excusable if the internal YT API itself requires such format for a context/session object. Invidious doesn't care about context at all and sends a clean request, if I got it right.
And the most stupid JSON usecase is JWT, I think. It encodes already-plaintext format with base64 (intended for converting binary data to ASCII text the same as in Piped, but we forgave it), moreover, it does this to 2 objects, and stores a token with such a big overhead in cookies.
By the way, want a JSON config in your software Take a look at that is much more convenient for writing by hand.
This weeks tools to better leadership
Fast, yet flexible the demands of your work are best served by modest expectations that unsubscribe from urgency and focus on specific impacts.
Two of the three home healthcare workers helping us let my father-in-law die at home are Black women. He's an asshole, and a fucking racist, whose favorite curse includes the n-bomb.
While I think he's unlikely to drop it in their presence, and very unlikely to call them that, I wouldn't put it past him. His cognitive decline makes that more difficult to assess reliably.
Do I give them a heads-up that it might happen, and encourage them to tell us about it, so we can at least make sure there are unpleasant consequences if he does
If you're Black, and willing to advise if my warning them could be a microagression, I'd be very grateful. Advice from others accepted, too, it just won't be nearly as valuable. Of course.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: So you're thinking about getting arrested on purpose
Okay -- looking for some / from the or people who understand kids better than me -- what age is appropriate for a kid to mow a lawn (e.g., a neighborhood kid looking to earn some $$ while someone is out of town for a short time)
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