> kids can be walking independently most of the time by age 2 or 2.5
One thing I've noticed, they don't walk very well while taking a nap. And you just get so much more out of a day when you don't have to return home in the middle.
With my kids it was never a problem to just let them sleep wherever we happened to be sitting (restaurant chairs, museum benches, bus seats, a patch of grass, my lap, ...). Occasionally I was stuck carrying a sleeping kid around for a while, but that was also typically fine. A stroller might be mildly more convenient on rare occasions, but it was never a big deal, and the kids becoming self-sufficient much earlier and more completely (with respect to mobility) than most of their peers was more than worth any trouble. YMMV.
And criminals will just send selfies of themselves, with their encrypted message hiding in least-significant-bit noise. Good luck proving there's a hidden message.
Cool story and nice part that GDPR being toothless is not true:
*In April 2023, Helsinki District Court did sentence the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, to a three-month suspended sentence. It found him guilty of a data protection crime mandated in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).*
- An attempt to claim force majeure to get out of their gas contract with Germany so that Germany can't seize their frozen Russian funds for non delivery.
Also, one shouldn't assume that an apparatus which blundered its way into this costly Ukraine quagmire for no benefit is acting 100% rationally.
A commonly missed detail is that only one of the two Nordstream 2 pipes was blown up. After the event, Putin reiterated that he was "ready" to resume gas deliveries, if only the EU would play ball:
Blowing up one of the Nordstream 2 pipes was the remaining way to put even more pressure on Germany ahead of the heating season. Germany had already decided not to certify Nordstream 2, so from Russia's point of view there was only economic upside to whacking it: a finite chance of Germany caving vs both pipelines remaining unused for the foreseeable future.
On top of that, there was an obvious security-related upside. By demonstrating the vulnerability of Western energy and communications infrastructure, the event delivered a not-so-subtle threat. The choice of locations was also "interesting": in the economic zone of NATO candidate Sweden, close to its electric cable to Poland, and in the economic zone of Denmark, close to the new pipeline from Norway to Poland.
Hi there. I shall make changes to the style sheet soon. When I first published this page in 2006, I never encountered any issues or had any complaints about the font sizing until now. I had completely forgotten that I used 'vw' and in fact had to look up what it even did. I must've had my reasons at the time...
I see what you mean now. Not sure what's more infuriating, the weird hardcoded font size that doesn't get overridden by zooming, or the two methods of zooming in a browser view that seem to work entirely independent of each other.
Businesses don't actually pay VAT, they just act as collectors for it. If the VAT balance for some business is negative, they actually get it returned by the tax authority.
Invoiced VAT, zero VAT, reverse charges in B2B are just an implementation detail that doesn't affect bottom line.
I do heavy dev work on an 8GB M1 Mac. Like, dozens of Chrome tabs, multiple IDEs, Notion, Slack, etc. Works great. MacOS does a good job at compressing memory and using swap. The SSD on an M1 Mac is basically DDR2 speed, so even if you're mostly running on swap programs still execute fast enough.
>> I gave up Sublime because of memory usage, but the alternatives aren't much better. I'm getting ready to trade in my 8gb Mac for 24gb to help with this, and if I could get more without having to pony up for a CPU I don't need, I'd get 32gb, or even 64gb.
> To be fair, 8gb hasn't been quite enough for most dev work since containers and VMs became a standard way for local builds and runs.
It's 2023, and as a typical software developer, I think it's pretty reasonable to require a minimum of 16GB of RAM to just edit text. /s
> “You silly kids and your 16GB of RAM! Back in my day, we got by with 32KB!”
Did I say everything should run in 32KB of RAM? I did not. Perhaps now you can be serious instead of sarcastically and tendentiously avoiding the topic of discussion?
It's reasonable for a text editor to use far more than 32KB of RAM, but it's not reasonable for one to not run well on a system with 8GB of RAM (unless the user is editing some massive files).
> The reality is that software is increasingly more complex...
That's true, but also vastly overstated as an excuse for laziness and lack of care.
> ...and even simple tasks require more and more resources as the cruft builds up.
Now you're getting somewhere. There's no good excuse for most modern programs requiring so many resources.
The reason is software engineers are actually terrible at their jobs, and the profession (and its backers) embrace a lot of terrible ideas and excuses. Among other things, the end result is programs that (seemingly more often than not) expand to waste the resources available until performance drops to the minimum acceptable.
The alternative isn’t always “people just need to be better at their job”. Sometimes the alternative is that the thing you like to use never gets built at all because the cost of building it “right” would be prohibitively expensive. It’s always a balance.
It seems to me that they're about to force the users to hand out personally identifiable information that is not strictly necessary for the product to work (as evidenced by the fact that it did work without for several years). So there should be an opt-out.
One thing I've noticed, they don't walk very well while taking a nap. And you just get so much more out of a day when you don't have to return home in the middle.