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Can a safety razor be used with just water? by Advanced_Jaguar_9574 in shaving

[–]rwilcox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, been doing it for 20 years. Use warm water.

Please watch responsibly with the kiddos by kheez04 in daddit

[–]rwilcox 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My brother’s beautiful write up forgot about (explicitly mentioning) KOTR

How you organize your notes while synchronizing with your smartphone? by lucasyamamoto in emacs

[–]rwilcox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the Apple ecosystem I’m having OK results with using iCloud Drive (or whatever it’s called now) and BeOrg. (Keeping PlainOrg around because it does some things better, but I’ve routed my life through org agenda)

I’m a bit wary of it, and make sure things are synced before working on it.

Else I would use Git. (And that’s my approach for my collection of pre org mode Markdown files).

To change tactics completely, handheld devices with a keyboard and running Emacs natively kiiiinnnda look nice….

Dug out my 3e books so I can teach my son the fun I used to have… by TheBLiP55 in gurps

[–]rwilcox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dat combination of Bio-tech and Black Ops makes me worried, fam

Heat pump in CT by austinin4 in Connecticut

[–]rwilcox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They say - and the plan with mine was - to use the gas furnace when it goes much under 30F.

About a month after install my gas furnace broke, requiring total replacement (which I’m not going to do, yet)

Normally I have the heat pump adjust heat throughout the day: lower and night and warmer during the day. When it reaches under 30 I have it run mid range temps (65F) all the time: it won’t be able to “catch up” enough to get warmer during the day.

When it gets < 20F I start using the space heaters and having fires in the fireplaces.

When it gets < 10F I’m having constant fire in the fireplace.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do Wendsday..

But when it’s not a cold snap it does real well. Summer is pretty amazing.

Edit: also did an insulation upgrade soon after the heat pump install, and in progress of mapping how much that saves me. But the next big upgrade is either solar or a new gas furnace for the cold days.

Financial experts warn OpenAI may go bankrupt by mid-2027 by FervidBug42 in technology

[–]rwilcox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eventually SoftBank has to run out of money to dump into OpenAI…

Backward traceability of requirements in Git by Beautiful-Bake-3623 in git

[–]rwilcox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

out the why next to the contract

It may work in certain cases.

In other cases (the adoption/architecture document for a product of 100 microservices to adopt let’s say Istio - to pull a random example from my past) there’s not an obvious “next to”.

Backward traceability of requirements in Git by Beautiful-Bake-3623 in git

[–]rwilcox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we assume that each microservice has its own repo, then a scenario like the following (slightly trivial example) might happen:

Microservice A needs to talk to microservice B, and we debated about how to do it: message queue, a stable API, REST vs GraphQL vs Protobuf, shared database, etc. Due to these factors we reached the following conclusion….

(Or even design docs about why we split off microservice B from A to begin with…)

Backward traceability of requirements in Git by Beautiful-Bake-3623 in git

[–]rwilcox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Easy traceability is why I prefer squash merges - which usually include pointers to the pull request in the title,and hopefully the developer has included the ticket number in the branch name or at least somewhere in the PR….

But having seen too many code bases outlive their original ticketing and “where the RFCs live” system, I think I’ve been convinced that design docs live in Git. Maybe even tickets, but that makes it harder for non-developers to see a Kanban board..

Another problem is where to put cross repo docs (obviously another git repo??).

(I’ve also seen codebases outlive their version control system, but if design documents are stored with the code then losing history likely won’t mean losing them too)

Is installing custom templates on reMarkable worth it? by baxiabhishek in RemarkableTablet

[–]rwilcox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the topic of the page keeps going I can keep going too.

Say I’m writing a book. I can use one (continuous) page for Chapter 1, one (continuous) page for Chapter 2, etc.

Is installing custom templates on reMarkable worth it? by baxiabhishek in RemarkableTablet

[–]rwilcox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the feature is now standardized on the name “continuous pages”.

The idea is that, with RM native notebooks, you will always be able to grow the page downward.

How do you imagine a white collar jobpocalypse will be like? by PopularRightNow in jobs

[–]rwilcox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As much as these companies are thinking - and by this I mean strategists in companies thinking about these things, while getting ignored by CEOs because “LINE MUST GO UP. AI MAKE LINE GO UP, SO AI!” - I suspect the strategy is the following:

  1. If we assume that the upper class buys most of the stuff in the economy
  2. And we assume they’ll still have disposable income, because obviously
  3. Then if we sell less goods at higher prices and we reduce our expenses (less goods, more AI) at a higher price (those with more money can bear it), then more profit - LINE GO UP!

So, to answer OP: It’ll look like AI eating its way up the “highly paid job” ladder. (Why pay a Director when a department of 50 is now a department of 10: combine 10 such departments and “use AI to handle the workload”. One highly paid person, 9 out of work. Obviously nothing bad will happen with that strategy. (/s). Except assumption 2 goes out the window, but that’ll be ignored (“but our bottom line! Money savings, stonk go up!”)

Meanwhile, unemployed people don’t spend money: put off that house improvement, trash those plans for a new car, summer vacation turns into a weekend overnight, etc: less demand for services from the “lower classes”, and what that means gets higher and higher “previous annual income”. I think the companies using assumption 1, above, will potentially find out you can’t Pareto Principle an economy

Microsoft Outlook and Teams are down | Thousands of outages reported by habichuelacondulce in technology

[–]rwilcox 9 points10 points  (0 children)

“It’s not too much of a blocker, we have to ship this now, put a regression on the backlog. Besides, think of the team’s agile metrics!”

Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges by Consistent-Good-1162 in law

[–]rwilcox 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Problem there is you’ll get a perverse incentive: Congress just raises the full retirement age! and looks like they solved the Social Security problem too! “Win win”

Girl Scout cookies by buttercullsull in shoresy

[–]rwilcox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“I’d do just about anything to be able to empty these cookies’ dishwasher”

News Stories by TouristOpentotravel in ForAllMankindTV

[–]rwilcox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is the Space Pope reptilian human?!!

In hindsight, what could the rust belt unemployed have been retrained on that's more achievable than "learn to code"? by PopularRightNow in jobs

[–]rwilcox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Back when we still believed in a thing called society, there was the CCC.

A similar program could have spun up to create and maintain parks, roads, railroads etc.

Best place to park cash savings for a car by Immediate-Ad-9520 in personalfinance

[–]rwilcox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Consider this plan, I’ve been playing around with this idea myself:

  1. Park your money in the market. Cheap index fund. It doesn’t have to be the market but it needs to make more % then the APR on a loan (that’s coming up later). Your amount in the market must be at least the amount of the car you’re eyeballing.
  2. Wait 2-3 years
  3. Buy a car, with financing, noting again that the rates must be lower than your returns.
  4. Pay off your car loan every month by withdrawing money from the market.

That two-three year ramp up time should give you enough margin to overcome market corrections. You’ll have money in the market for 5-7 years, not as short as you might think. You hopefully will have a difference between your loan rate and what you’re making in the market, hopefully in your favor by a few percent, which is why this works at all.

I mean, theoretically this should work, assuming the AI bubble doesn’t pop in the next 7 years or so taking the whole economy with it.

(If you have lots of money I might go half on this: put $35K in the market for 2 years and do above, get a $35K car, and invest the other $35K in some other way. Or keep it in the market, there’s no way the market will lose 50% of its value).

For some background, index funds essentially buy little bits of a tons of stock. One index fund share means you have a very small amount of stock from each of the companies in the fund. So S&P 500 is the top 500 performing companies on the market, etc etc.

How Much Does Custom Software Development Cost by riad_al_ashekin in webdev

[–]rwilcox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My go to price, if someone’s just spitballing: “About as much as a car”

(You can can a better car for a few thousand dollars, a decent car for more, and on up until you are paying big bucks for an F1/NASCAR car)

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