1. Nobody cares. 2. Wow, 2 seconds of his face. Not a single “hmm”.

Instead of my ID, I submitted a picture of dolphins and the text “So long and thanks for all the fish!”. And never came back.

Nice try, but you don’t fool me, BigPlanta!

There are websites detecting adblockers that instruct you to disable them in order to view the website. It’s a constant game of cat and mouse between ad companies and adblockers.

And I would like to not watch and hear 3 x 10 seconds unskippable ads when one of my parents wants to show me some 30 seconds funny cat fails clip on their phone.

My friend doesn’t get it

You could also let grounds settle in the cezve and just be careful when pouring. Then you can add milk if you want. But that’s not the turkish way, it’s the east european way.

Pour it in your cup(s) while it’s hot and let it rest after making. No milk or sugar added, because it means stirring and the leftover grounds won’t deposit to the bottom of the cup. Or add the sugar along with the coffee before brewing.

As for brewing, it’s customary to bring it close to boiling until it foams (slow heating, and stirring the pot a little), pour some foam into cups, then boil it again. In any case, turkish coffee is always brought to a boil twice.

Traditionally it’s made on hot sand, which assures slow heating, and stirring the cezve by just holding the handle is easier, by doing it in broader motions.

Is Keepass there? Good. Upvote.

Hmm. I unmount mine to reduce noise. Didn’t think about endurance though, curious to see opinions too.

Is it just 2 Mw or is the article wrong?

I’m sorry, but what is the difference? If you know the subject is “thinking” of a phrase, and the algorithm translates the EEG during that time into words, isn’t it mind reading?

I want this as a painting on my wall

While I find your implants path very interesting, impressive and Cyberpunk worthy, I would’t use any externally accessible keys / fobs / etc myself. I wouldn’t want someone to unlock my stuff while I’m sleeping. Same reason I avoid face detection unlock. My mind is the best safe out there, I can memorize a very lengthy passphrase and have no problems typing it.

The rush on getting it working the first time is 👌

That’s so true, but what I think keeps us hooked in the game are the failures, the figuring out the "why"s.

Reading as a kid about virus analysis and how they work in a short column in a… newspaper. Yeah, they even listed full Windows Registry paths. Didn’t know what HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE was, didn’t own a computer, only knew about some DOS commands, but I knew I wanted to be able to do that job and decompile stuff (whatever that ment) and see how it worked. Just like dismantling (and ultimately destroying) toys to see the inner workings.

After finally owning a computer and being bored by the few games I had on Windows 95, being limited to Notepad, Internet Explorer (without an internet connection yet; or was it Netscape Navigator?) and Paint (in which I sucked, lacking any artistic talent), when I learned that I can just type stuff in Notepad, I borrowed a book about “programming” in HTML. Then Pascal, the pinnacle being a simple XOR encryption program, with a god damn white on blue “windows” interface with buttons (a la Midnight Commander). Writing TRIVIA “scripts” for mIRC channels made us gods. Then Delphi naturally followed, making my own tool to track how many hours I’ve spent on dialup a month (yes, internet was very expensive) while listening to 80’s music on Winamp. Nothing was more interesting than that. Then got a job and out of a sudden started making my own money by writing Delphi code. Up until then I wasn’t really aware that my passion would also bring food on the table. The rest is history.

Programming in those days felt unreal. Felt like The Matrix. I knew that what I want to do for the rest of my life is look at text on a screen, hit CTRL+F9, see a crash, set some breakpoints, and ponder around the room or while taking a piss about what went wrong and how to solve it. I’m no Einstein, but I understood why science people dedicate their lifes to their work and disregard completely their social life.

Deleting my social media accounts, migrating from yahoo/google mail, using a password manager, using an ad blocker, frequent backups, all kinds of scripting automations for work, Plex, home automation, learning to fix stuff around the house by myself (some plumbing, some electrical, whatever is safe and easier - it’s hard to come by a good, available specialist these days).

My take: actual, hands-on programming is way more rewarding than reading and watching tutorials.

I learned a lot at work (80% still self-tought, rest from interaction with other teams and other people better than me and with greater experience), and it usually came from needing to make my job easier, not to please the clients or management (scripting and automating things, Linux, DevOps, etc).

The other part through personal projects (again, out of need). You need to take on a project with real use to you. And you get to use the latest frameworks / technologies which you might not at your workplace, depending on the company. Working on personal projects will give you a different kind of fulfillment and will keep you remember that you love to code. Work is work, play is play.

And last, contributions to public, open-source projects. You need to read and understand other people’s code, get familiar with Github, write clean, documented code and respect the standards for the project. It will help you in the long run, and you could also add something to your CV.

As for the actual things to learn, don’t get stuck on learning just the framework, which does a lot for you out of the box by running commands or calling packages. Try to go in-depth in a programming language and play with the bare-bones, learn the intricacies. Learn for example how code runs and where. I have colleagues still thinking that queues are magical and asynchronous, they write a few lines of code and just work when deployed, without any actual knowledge of the architecture of the system they run on, this leading to no thought in optimization and speed of their code. Or they use the ORM exclusively, which, again, doesn’t help when shit hits the fan and you need to debug and optimize for bulk processing.

Also, learn a bit about cryptography and cyber security, even if only for yourself as a hobby. This is where I see a lot of developers lacking, to the point that most don’t know the difference between hashing and encryption. There is no project nowdays in the universe where security doesn’t matter.

The difference between a mediocre programmer and a good one might not be obvious during an interview, but they will show during the trial period.

Don’t buy makeup, buy yourself some backup.

Tanks for this, first time I learn about Rosie, seems promising.