I don't use Docker locally except for building/testing production containers. I also found them not helpful for development.

That said, I recently discovered that VS Code has a feature called "Dev Containers"[0] that ostensibly makes it easy to develop inside the same Docker container you'll be deploying. I haven't had a chance to check it out, but it seems very cool.

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers

For the backend rails app my docker-compse mounts the work directory like so, which means I don't have to develop inside that container except for when I need to use the rails console.

    web:
      image: rubylang/ruby:3.0.1-focal
      volumes:
        - .:/myapp

I didn't know people used the term "ion" like this, either.

This happened to me in New York, City in 2015 or so. Fun times. Really nice to understand after all these years what happened!

This story is like the opposite, amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bG9q1JqjS4

I've never had a problem upgrading macOS... I've never had a noteworthy problem with Macs in general.

Same. It's easy to say I don't like the software when that's the ecosystem you're living in. Go do windows for a month, hell, even my ubuntu certified laptop has issues with Ubuntu. There is no perfect experience but I would argue the alternatives are vastly worse.

> they send someone to my door to pick up the return

Where is this? I have never seen this as an option.

Depends on the size of the package. If it's large enough that it cannot be dropped off they'll send a UPS van.

Twitter was really pretty solid for what it was, had lots of great accounts and even with the stock UI was pretty operable for me. Even advertising on Twitter was pretty fun. You could reach people all over the world at reasonable cost and get feedback on your product and messaging.

Most recently I used Twitter pretty much exclusively for following the war in Ukraine, and it’s been a big loss for me—Telegram is a good source for primary content, Twitter was great as a human-driven social redux. I followed a person in Mariupol, some people in Russia and Belarus, lots of people in Ukraine and Europe. It was a great for keeping up with such a terrible thing.

RIP Twitter.

tbh, I haven't noticed much change on Twitter. I think for the average user it's BAU.

I meant for me, I should have been clear.

aaah, that's fair enough.

My wife is still on, I peek from time to time, it seems disorienting with the new blue check semantics. But I guess you get used to that?

Yeah, the blue checkmark means nothing anymore. That I do find annoying. But I ignore it as best I can.

Unfortunately it takes a lot, and I mean a lot, to overcome network effects when something like Twitter is involved. The only way it goes under is if they are losing revenue and they actually go bankrupt at some point.

Elon has already been muzzled quite a bit and I haven't seen much out of him recently, so I imagine as long as that keeps being the case going forward we're going to see Twitter do just fine.

To be clear, I meant "RIP Twitter" for me personally. I wouldn't bet on Twitter failing. I think he'll make it work one way another.

> The only way it goes under is if they are losing revenue and they actually go bankrupt at some point.

That said,

> According to press reports, Twitter requires more than a billion dollars a year just to maintain its debt service and anything that endangers loan repayment or workforce security could endanger the business.

it won't be easy.

"much out of him" is a relative qualifier. At the least his tweets haven't been making news unlike the week where he was taking polls whether he should step down and unban journalists.

By recently I mean the last few weeks and by much out of him I mean stupid tweets.

I find it hilarious when people say stuff like this. Every day, Twitter shambles ever closer to the distant, cobweb-laden corridors in which you can find Myspace, LiveJournal, or DeviantArt. Yeah, they're still out there, technically operating, but with not even a fraction of the social/cultural relevance they once held.

There is a commercially available digital format/medium that has higher res than CD? Like, there are 96kHz discs being sold out there? And there are labels out there mastering and producing these discs? Sorry this is news to me! I thought 96kHz encodes were upsamples or homemade rips from analog formats.

Most hi-res audio is being sold as digital downloads. I don't think there's a currently-sold physical medium that contains digital data that's higher quality than a CD.

SACD (DSD format) is higher than CD but still not as high as 24/96k available on sites like Qobuz.

SACD, HD-Audio, Blu-Ray Audio.

I own music only discs in each of these formats. I think the last Blu-Ray Audio disk I bought (Yello Point Dolby Atmos release) was shipped in 2021.

Granted, they are fairly sparse. That disc was an import.

Yes, obviously, its called SACD and its a couple of decades old. Even DAT is better than cd, if you're only comparing sampling rate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD

Also DVD-Audio, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio.

Aac on an SSD or on the internet?

Wouldn’t something like Grammarly be a better fit for that usecase?

How was the 5G hotspot though?

If you are in the right location it's a viable alternative to fibre. Here's mine, elsewhere in the UK (not in Newcastle):

https://www.speedtest.net/result/14185051949

Cheaper than fibre and 30-day rolling contract. Unlimited data.

Thanks for sharing. This seems totally fine, if not more than acceptable? How much does this cost?

£28pm. It's great, I originally intended to use it temporarily while potentially waiting for fibre to be connected, but it was so good I didn't bother with fibre in the end.

Which provider is that?

3

It was great. £50/month and I used 1TB of data with no throttling. Two people working from home full time. Only occasionally slow. Not great latency though.