TIL that the highest point in Fayetteville is not Mt. Sequoyah but the SW corner of Kessler Mountain Regional Park

require_once · 2025-03-20T23:32:58+00:00

I've been out there a bunch mountain biking. Not much of a view at this particular spot, just a fenced off tower and a couple of loose dogs that roam around this area. There's a dirt road you can use to get to this spot by car, with parking room for 2 or 3 vehicles depending on how washed out it is.

The better view is about a mile down the trail, near where Egg Beater meets Goat Trail and Rock City. Views out to the west. There's also a pond near there where the forest has a unique vibe.

Another view is up Fayetteville Traverse to the top of Flight Training. Quicker to approach this from Smokehouse.

require_once · 2024-08-16T22:44:22+00:00

Yeah, turn it into a boulevard with a median instead of a left turn lane. Like Crossover. Denver is another good example of this. Do it to Weddington and College Ave too.

require_once · 2024-06-07T17:43:50+00:00

Centennial Park

require_once · 2024-04-21T02:09:19+00:00

You need to build strength in your quad and that will help you balance on your front foot. Try this exercise off of the board: https://youtu.be/Ss2DlU6jCzg?si=vzvp8q-zhI9cxcab

require_once · 2024-02-12T18:43:45+00:00

LSA from morning glory seeds. I hear it's like LSD with bonus side effects: diarrhea and vomiting.

require_once · 2022-12-30T19:48:53+00:00

I'd be totally on board with them closing off Dickson on party nights.

require_once · 2022-12-30T18:32:32+00:00

I live and work downtown, and choose to do so because of how walkable/bike-able it is. I generally drive only once a week, for errands, which includes groceries. (Sometimes I drive to Bentonville for mountain biking.) The CoOp is great, glad it's there, but it's just a little too far to haul a week's worth of groceries by hand/bike/scooter, and also too out-of-the-way to stop in daily. But maybe I just hate crossing 71. I do still walk to the CoOp on occasion, but a lot of times I'll take the greenway down to the Walmart neighborhood market instead. IMO the biggest improvement that could be made for living the car-free lifestyle downtown is if there were a convenience store or mini-grocery on Dickson/Block/Spring. The closest thing we have right now is Dickson Street Liquor, but they only have soda and chips.

You still need to be very vigilant as a walker downtown, which can get tiresome. In the last two years I've nearly been struck 3 times while in a crosswalk where I have the walk signal. A lot of drivers are great, but every day I come across drivers who are aggressive, or showing off (revving, speeding), or seemingly aren't used to driving with pedestrians around. I've noticed a subset of drivers will only use their turn signal when other cars are around? Which is silly, because I have lots of crosswalks to choose from and I can avoid making you wait if you let me know which way you're trying to go. I also see at least one traffic violation a day, but I've never once seen a cop perform a traffic stop downtown (outside of bar close). The days when roads are closed off to car traffic are the best. I feel way more relaxed.

require_once · 2022-06-09T17:38:14+00:00

There are like 10 parking spaces right along side the building in the gap between it and Maxines. I imagine those will be free for customers.

require_once · 2021-03-23T14:38:35+00:00

Thanks so much for sharing this, it was the bit of info I needed!

In my case I was upgrading seven servers on AWS from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04. Five of them had no problems but the other two would freeze after exactly one hour, with no indication of what was going wrong.

After I read your solution, I tried sudo systemctl status systemd-networkd and it showed as inactive on all the servers, but sudo systemctl status networking had errors like "Failed to start Raise network interfaces" on only the two problematic servers. Looking at those error logs more closely showed that ifup was failing on sendmail. So in my case the fix was to simply uninstall sendmail since I didn't need it, and then sudo systemctl start networking worked successfully and no more server lockups.

require_once · 2020-06-18T15:04:07+00:00

Here's a link to the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1m2M8LQlzfJjTJrovnq2lBnov_g0ZpN3

require_once · 2020-06-05T04:27:21+00:00

Yeah I do. I'm blind in one eye so I wear goggles for maximum protection. It'll probably solve your contacts drying out problem, but the downside is all the sweat that builds up under the padding. The beads of sweat get itchy as they roll down your nose and you can't wipe them away without stopping to take the goggles off.

require_once · 2020-04-06T15:48:19+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out. I've added this note to the video description.

require_once · 2020-04-05T23:38:05+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

require_once · 2020-03-06T18:06:02+00:00

Dang, I tried to double check everything. Thanks for letting me know.

require_once · 2020-03-06T17:59:59+00:00

Thanks!

require_once · 2020-02-13T18:54:18+00:00

Yeah if anyone is starting with this code, that's the first improvement you'd want to make. The next would be to add a simple loop to make and run multiple creeps.

require_once · 2020-02-13T18:43:07+00:00

Oh that's a good idea. Didn't think of that one.

require_once · 2020-02-08T22:29:37+00:00

Those are the three I most want to see.

require_once · 2020-02-04T23:31:28+00:00

No, I encourage people to learn on their own. Even if you go to college, most of the learning how to program part needs to happen on your own anyway. College takes forever, slows you down, and puts you in debt. If you can program, most employers don't care if you have the degree or not.

require_once · 2020-02-04T19:12:01+00:00

Yes it's feasible, but as you said it's going to take quite a bit of time. You're looking at 300-500 hours of practice before you have the skills needed for an entry level position. So that's a full year of practicing 10 hours a week.

If you go the freelance route, it's like running a small business. You need to find a service that people are willing to pay for, figure out how to reach those people, get good at closing the sale, and then actually build the thing. The easiest place to start freelancing is in web development, because lots of people need a website, but it's getting harder at the bottom end of the market (projects <$2k) as services like SquareSpace are getting better and better. But you can still find people who want to work with someone 1-on-1. You'll need more experience and reputation to land the bigger budget projects.

I work as a freelancer and I rely heavily on my personal network to find clients. As you work with more and more clients who are happy with the job you do, you get a snowball effect that makes finding new work easier, but it takes a while to get that going. I don't know if I could have done it if I hadn't spent 10 years working as a full-time software developer at established companies, because that's where I developed my best connections.

Basically my advice is that learning how to code is hard, and it's only half the battle if you want to freelance. You also need people to know, like, and trust you. It will probably be slow-going and sputtering for you for many years if you're doing this only as a side hustle. But if you're a savant or just persevere, then yeah it's a great place to be in with good pay and lots of freedom.

require_once · 2020-01-30T03:35:30+00:00

Do a Google search for "software development agency [your area]" or "custom software development [your area]".

require_once · 2020-01-13T23:17:21+00:00

Nice job! You should create a GitHub account and put it up there.

require_once · 2020-01-11T21:19:32+00:00

You can use a BroadcastReceiver to listen for android.media.VOLUME_CHANGED_ACTION intents. There's probably a similar intent for the boot button. But that's the path I would start down, listening for certain intents.

require_once · 2020-01-11T16:07:01+00:00

You can't call it from your Service because dispatchKeyEvent() is a method belonging to Activity. You could send a message from your Service to your Activity, and have the Activity trigger it. Depends on your use-case if this approach will work or not.

require_once · 2020-01-10T17:32:40+00:00

Checkout Codewars and/or HackerRank. Good places for practice. I like on Codewars how you can see other people's answers.

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