I took a great paying remote job pre-pandemic when I was around 26 and initially planned on moving out of the city to lower COL areas (think 30-40 mins outside of a major hub). OP nailed the piece about living in true middle of nowhere adds more hurdles than value it creates, so that was always out of the question for me.
Three things stopping me from moving that haven't been mentioned yet were:
(1) I had to run out my lease (had signed a 1-year a few months before getting the job)
(2) Friends and professional network (all in the city)
(3) Fear of losing the remote job / not being able to get another one and having to move back into the city for a job
1 & 2 are fixable with time, but 3 always felt like too big of a risk. Granted, this was pre-pandemic so finding remote opportunities that paid well was harder. Not sure if I'd feel the same way if I had a similar choice in front of me today.
As cliche as it is to say – the answer to your question is probably within yourself. You feel like you're wasting your life, because you have aspirations. They may not be immediately apparent but they're there. And unfortunately I can't tell you what they are.
Uncovering them will take reflection & time. While you do that work of finding them, don't be so hard on yourself. Chances are you've had more of an impact on the world than you give yourself credit for.
Same reaction. I've anecdotally asked this same question: "man-made or natural diamonds?" to my friends in the past – mostly because I can't get past the ethical concerns, but wanted to understand the other side.
I found majority of my men friends argued it's the same diamond without the ethical concerns if you go man-made, while majority of my women friends chose natural (reasons included social pressure, the story, and so on).
Anecdotes aren't proof. But perhaps there is something to looking at this from a gendered (proxy for giving vs. receiving?) lens.
As a male giving a ring, I bought a real one. Logic was that it was cheaper and better quality once you get over ~1-1.25 carats. If lab made wants to compete more meaningfully they'll need to get better at the engagement ring size diamonds which I'm sure they will with time
I've seen sources to corroborate institutional demand, but is there a source for your claim on the link to federal monetary policy? Ideally beyond correlation to show causation.
At the moment the main difference is just price. However if I find that people are interested in Atlas as it is, I plan on adding other features and plans.
My name is Aadhi and I'm a long-time excel user. I started my journey with excel when I was working at a F500 running daily / weekly reports for management.
I found out pretty quickly that many of my reports weren't being read even though it took hours out of my week to make them. Hence the inspiration for XLpup (https://xlpup.com).
XLpup tracks the usage / traffic your excel workbook gets via some VBA code that pings a server whenever the workbook is opened. It currently only works for Windows machines - but I do plan on including Mac support in the near future as well.
I'm just getting started, so early users / feedback are greatly appreciated!
In other words: how does your product make sure people aren’t going to abuse it by distributing unique copies of their workbooks so they can track the exact times of individual recipients looking at them?
Yeah - great point. I'm actually working on a way to detect if a set of IDs are being used on the same workbook. This is possible technically via some environment variables inherent to the spreadsheet - but it opens up another can of worms on the privacy side of information I'd have to collect.
I think the short-term solution will be to throttle unique ID creation to 5 / email - not perfect, but I'm a one-man team so will have to bite at this problem step-wise :)
Hey y'all - creator here. I'm a hobbyist dev working with Python and this was my first serious attempt at building a CLI app.
fred-cli interfaces with the FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API and gives you access to the ~766K economic time series they host via your terminal. Open source and will be going forward (MIT license).
Was a ton of fun learning libraries like Click[1] and about the PyPi upload process. I do plan on maintaining the project going forward (both adding features and improving current features) - so feedback is definitely appreciated!
Not OP, but my take is that stability is usually defined as a base-state that will continue onto perpetuity unless some outside force disrupts it. Resiliency is more closely defined as the ability to recover from disruptions back to the base-state quickly.
Since the context here is that efficiency can remove layers of redundancy therefore allowing disruptions to wreck more havoc - I believe that's what OP was getting at.
I've never really worked too heavily with headless, so what would be some examples of 'real-life' applications using this API? Looking for some inspiration to maybe build a side project around this :)
Thanks for the mention (browserless.io)! Really enjoying this site, let me know if you'd like a guest post and I'd happily add something. We've gathered a few weird tricks and tips as well. Definitely a lot that can be shared!
I don't like to have my home WiFi on all the time but I want to be able to activate / desactivate it from my phone anytime so I send a SMS to my RaspberryPi (running raspisms) that launches an app that connects to my ISP router box and activate the WiFi like I would do manually.
My app is powered by Selenium but the concept is the same.
I'm actually using it in building an in-house health-check platform for our sites.
Its purpose in our case is front-end performance measurement. In short, have a script running checks in a Cron Job, published to static reports we can reference over a timeline.
Nothing overly sophisticated, but it suits our current budget ($0).
Three things stopping me from moving that haven't been mentioned yet were:
(1) I had to run out my lease (had signed a 1-year a few months before getting the job) (2) Friends and professional network (all in the city) (3) Fear of losing the remote job / not being able to get another one and having to move back into the city for a job
1 & 2 are fixable with time, but 3 always felt like too big of a risk. Granted, this was pre-pandemic so finding remote opportunities that paid well was harder. Not sure if I'd feel the same way if I had a similar choice in front of me today.