For learning, VMs are fine. Spin up as many as you’d like. Install, duplicate, reinstall, delete at will. I would start there.

Then, while you’re learning, set aside since money to get an SBC or mini pc. That will allow you to keep it running as a server continuously. Phones can work for this, but to act as servers you’ll probably need to root them.

Computers are way more expensive than they used to be but within reach for most people if you can save up for it.

Check thrift stores, Facebook, eBay, the usual suspects. Watch out for PCs stripped for RAM and other shenanigans, though.

That on delete cascade is evil. I love it.

Yep. That is the simplest answer. From the link, directing stdout and stderr to a file:

nohup mycommand > mycommand.out 2>&1 &

GNU Screen is an alternative.

You can also use tmux and just disable the mouse by adding this to ~/.tmux.conf

set -g mouse off

I read that they walked it back but only partially. And the fact they tried it tells me they can’t be trusted with my data.

They also make it very difficult to move your data off their NAS once it’s on there, because everything is proprietary.

Your best option remains open source with commodity hardware. Had I known what I know now in 2023, I would have probably just built a low power PC server with TruNAS.

Synology has started enshittifying their products lately by forcing you to only use their hard drives, etc. I have a DS933+, but I’m only using it for file storage and trying not to lock myself into their apps. It works well, but to avoid lock in your only real option is open source.

Earplugs. If those fail, gently poke or push until she turns over, hopefully without waking up.

The bug was fixed, but it still adds itself as co-author by default if you as much as use code completion powered by Copilot.

Combined with the fact that this doesn’t show up in your commit message dialog, and that is nothing but blatant advertising, this is just unacceptable.

I don’t necessarily mind crediting Copilot if it did substantial amount of the work, but it also seems redundant nowadays when AI has become as ubiquitous as using an IDE. Having used it for code completion just doesn’t seem to warrant co-author credit in that context. In other words if I had been able to edit that part of the commit message I’d probably be a lot less annoyed by this.

As it is, it’s just blatant overreach by Microsoft. Microsoft doing Microsoft things. Nothing has changed since the 90s.

I do this if I get sleepy but it’s too early to go to bed. Put my noice cancelling headphones on, close my eyes, and usually nod off.

I wish I could just meditate like you, but my mind is always racing if I’m not sleeping or focused on something.

I just think you’re lucky to be able to tune everything out, not weird.

Married with five kids?

best known for his ability to roll cigarettes with his lips.

I see.

No. You should scrape off chunks but you should not rinse them off completely.

Like others I highly recommend seeking the wisdom of Technology Connections on YouTube, but if you prefer reading over video, here is an article from The Spruce that covers the main points.

Thanks for confirming they exist. I have never seen one that precise.

It depends greatly on the game. For a shooter I probably just want to jump in for a little while and blast things. A lengthy intro will just be annoying.

Even forced tutorials are annoying like that. I like when games give me the option to skip, and then to come crawling back to the tutorial when I clearly should have done it anyway.

I think games that let you pick your own style and pace work best for me. Open world games, for example, where I can go discover the story for myself, but it’s just there in the background otherwise. I’m ok with some hints though, like overhearing NPC conversations or finding random notes.

Even something we simple as Portal works. You’re solving puzzles, but you can discover the story behind it by looking for more clues. Half life, too, is really light on telling you what’s going on until you play through and discover more. But you could also just play it through without paying any attention to the story part.

I don’t think I’ve bounced off a game because it was lacking a story, but I’ve definitely given up on games because there was too much fuss to get going. I have little tolerance for long unskippable cut scenes and dialogue as well.

I have quit games I just couldn’t figure out or enjoy without taking a long time to learn how it works before even getting started. I like to learn things gradually.

Don’t get me wrong: a good story that is revealed over time to be does add a lot to the game. I just want to feel like I’m paying a game, not watching a movie or reading a book

I don’t see anyone addressing the question from the post: whether it is a problem that Docker Desktop on Linux runs in a separate VM.

The page says:

Docker Desktop on Linux runs a Virtual Machine (VM) which creates and uses a custom docker context, desktop-linux, on startup. This means images and containers deployed on the Linux Docker Engine (before installation) are not available in Docker Desktop for Linux.

To expand on what that means: If you install Docker as usual (the CLI) on Linux, it runs as a process (running as root). The process will isolate the container processes from the rest of the system using Linux kernel features, but you’re really just running processes on your host kernel that have limited access to the file system, network, etc.

When you run in it a separate VM, which is how Docker Desktop is also run on Windows and MacOS, you are running it in a separate Linux instance (VM) that cannot communicate with the outside by default. So, if you’re running Docker on the host computer and inside a VM, those are separate Docker installs and can’t talk to each other. That is what the warning is about.

You can absolutely expose the VM to the outside, the same as if you ran it on Windows. Docker will let you expose those ports and it handles the messy bits of the networking for you. You just have to tell Docker when you run the container (on the command line or in a docker compose file) which ports to expose. By default, nothing is exposed. To do that you can use the -p option. For example:

docker run --rm -it -p 8080:80 httpd

Will run an instance of Apache HTTPd and expose it on port 8080. The container itself listens to port 80, but on the outside it’s 8080. If you then hit http://localhost:8080/ you should see “It works!”.

A note on Docker networking: from within the container, localhost is referring to the container itself, not the host. So if you try to do e.g. curl http://localhost:8080/ inside the container, your connection would be refused.

Docker Desktop is often frowned upon because you have to pay to use it in a commercial setting (there was some backlash because it used to be free), it’s quite expensive, and they require a minimum license count for enterprise licenses (I know because we bought one at work). So, I suggest exploring free alternatives like Podman Desktop. However, note that they do not always have feature parity with Docker Desktop.

I like Docker Desktop because it gives me a nice dashboard to see all my containers, resource usage, etc. I would not have requested it for work, though, if it weren’t for my IDE (Visual Studio) requiring it at the time (they have added Podman support since).

Final note: I recommend just diving into using Docker from the command line and learn that. Docker complicates networking a little bit because it adds more layers, but understanding Docker is very useful if you’re into self hosting or software development.

Yeah that makes sense. And in a pinch (no pun intended), measuring your solids by volume or even just eyeballing it is good enough for a lot of cooking (baking is a different matter).

But let’s not forget that Europe was not always metric, either. They went through the same process. They had the same units (or similar units) as US has now, with a lot of the same quirks. That was the entire point of the metric system: have one consistent set of units. United States was onboard early for metrication, but backed out before it completed it, so here we are.

Sure, I get that, and we already have dual labeling on a lot of stuff, maybe even most of the stuff. The problem there is that nobody actually reads the other labeling, so they are also not learning.

They need to go back to what they were doing before: First decide that we’re moving over so that mandates can be enforced.

Second, do what you were saying, and do dual labeling during the transition–but make metric most the prominent.

Third, educate kids in schools to use it (this already happens to a degree).

Fourth, launch massive informational campaigns to teach people how and why to use metric.

Fifth, step down the dual labeling gradually as more people are comfortable with the new units.

I expect there to be a long tail of non-metric units in use (see UK), but if we can switch more things over that is still an improvement. Heck, I’ll even take them just decimalizing and removing some smaller units (like lbs/oz).

The history of metrication in the US is as frustrating as it is an interesting read. It can certainly be done and many countries have shown it can be done, but it takes commitment and support from the highest levels.

If accuracy is not critical you can use some simple tricks to convert between them.

30C is roughly…2 x 30 + 32 = 92F which is only 6 degrees off the actual value which is 86F.

I accidentally a word. Converting recipes from Norwegian and metric to American and US customary units.

I’m aware. I have a scale, too. But most people didn’t weigh dry ingredients. So when I translate for someone else I have to use the “normal” measures they’re used to. For myself, I speak the language and just use metric, my scale, and a measuring cup with both markings.

I’ve had to translate recipes from Norwegian to American and this struggle is real. Never thought I’d need to look up material density tables for cooking.

Yeah I think at that point it would be easier to just go metric.

Most Americans actually seem to be five with metric and probably would not mind it too much if we just switched. The objections are basically: 1) it’s too expensive to switch now (okay), or 2) it’s part of our identity (doubt). I swear to God everything is a culture war with some people.

More rational people, especially in STEM where it’s already the standard, prefer it.

In general though, I would argue that Americans know metric better then Europeans know US customary, for what that’s worth

It’s mostly about what you’re used to. Americans buy soda in liters, run 5km and do drugs by the gram. But we buy gasoline and milk in gallons and our recipes call for flour by volume. It’s mostly inertia. At the end of the day you have to communicate with people around you so you use units they understand.

It’s just not that fine tuned of an instrument. The furnace also runs on intervals so it’s just going to naturally fluctuate a bit. Like with anything “it depends”, but I doubt it’s possible to keep the room within a tenth of a centigrade just with a consumer level thermostat. Maybe in a small room with resistive heating? I’d love to see actual measurements of this.