Because social networks are boring without users.

Hopefully the future me is able to relate to this, because I really feel like I'm in a rut when it comes to working on personal projects.

I have many ideas that I want to build, but I'd have to learn new languages, yet I just can't sit and go through the documentation every day like I should. Still haven't finished the rust book.

The other way is start building already, and if you come across a block, then learn about that thing and move on, but I feel uncomfortable having gaps in my knowledge, AI exists but I don't want to use it to generate code for me because I wanna enjoy the process of writing code rather than just reviewing code.

Basically I'm just stuck within the constraints I put for myself :(, I'm not sure why I wrote this here, probably just wanted to let it out..

Fun fact, the US has always had some of the highest wages in the world- even dating back to colonial times before 1776. Adam Smith did a detailed accounting of them, going occupation-by-occupation and noting that American colonist wages were higher than on the British mainland. (I'm excited because I literally just read this last night. I would link if I could to the specific pages in my book).

I believe the standard explanation is that most of the colonists were British (already a high-wage country at the time), and you really had to pay skilled labor to get them to leave & settle on a new continent. Plus labor mobility between the proto-state governments of the time (Virginia, Massachusetts, etc.)

My recipe for large files: 3 copies. Right now, 1st copy on external 8 to 16TB NTFS desktop hard drives, and 2nd copy on 14 to 16TB internal ext4 drives. Theses drives I power up only for copy purposes, once a month or so. At present time, my drives are 5 to 7 years old, and still good.

Main working copies I keep on 4 to 8TB NTFS SSDs (mix of sata and nvme), plugged into a PC I'm using regularly, but intermittently.

Telecoms know if a number is spoofed or not. All I want is for them to wholesale steal the original Twitter "verified" check, and use it to confirm that a call is not spoofed.

The general advice I give is:

Don't trust incoming calls, text messages or emails.

Don't trust caller ID on your phone.

If someone calls you asking for information or to do something, ask for a case id or reference number. Hang up, call back on a number you get from a previous bill, back of your credit card, or by googling the company.

If anyone is pushing for something to be done urgently, stop. Hang up, don't take any action. Call a trusted other person and talk to them about it.

Fun site to check from time to time: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

I'm extremely curious about the nationality and residence of a person who uses Braintree (a town in Essex UK with a silly name) as an example but purchases things in dollars

Thumbs up, plus a well-maintained Makefile that I share among my projects. Never had any issues. Github matricx test runners ensure that everything works across platforms, Python and dep versions, ...

We’ve already taken quite a few manufacturers off the list for this reason, including GM. Vote with dollars people. Take my data without permission, lose my business.