Time to upgrade to "smart" partner

Tipping should never be expected and be part of the base salary

> Tipping should never be expected and be part of the base salary

I agree. Here, the choice is between tipping and rendering that person unemployed (or underemployed) because of projected morality. I'm arguing that it's better for the people one purports to help to hand over a tip and not support reducing their work, or worse, to advocate that others not use their services.

Hmm interesting. Can you expand more. I've been using samba continuously on Mac for a few years now. It's been good for me so far. There is the need to reconnect every once in a while due to sleep and wake but other than that it's been consistently good

I've never relied on Time Machine as a sole format of backup. If I ever used it I made sure the Time Machine backups were sent to a non-apple storage device.

Carbon Copy Cloner was excellent at creating a bootable backup, and Super Duper seemed very serviceable too.

If you get from up and behind all risks are eliminated. You have to tilt forward a bit but everything else becomes easier

Have same spray bidet for 7 years. Haven't leaked a single drop. It's probability to leak is as good as any other faucet at this point

Isn't archiving on a HDD a more robust solution?

Depends on the quality of the archival media. Magnetic hard disks aren't without their own failure modes. The magnetic signals on the disk eventually fade causing errors. Motors and arms fail. Cosmic rays flip magnetic state. Or just stray strong magnets if you don't store it right.

Really good archival optical media isn't susceptible to the same cosmic ray it magnetic fade while reducing the chances of disc rot or delamination.

Stray strong magnets haven't been a problem for magnetic hard disks for 30 years. I don't think the fading of the magnetic domains on the disk is a problem over merely geological time scales either, though I'd be interested in finding out if I'm wrong. The mechanical parts are the big deal, and for recent disks (last 25 years) there are also concerns with onboard Flash or other EEPROM losing state.

Cosmic rays will eventually destroy anything that doesn't have an active repair process, including archival optical media, but the time scales are longer than when the Sun is predicted to swallow the Earth.

See also my comment yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33116760

400% rise in tech salary? Where is this happening? In your dreams?

If i have to pick just one general channel, it would be Veritasium

That's the reason why I hate it. I want my sandbox to persist. Use case: Filling once in a year tax forms with turbo tax that i can't seem to file in a single sitting

Yes, as half-heartedly as GM's EV1. Musk and the boys were really committed to the cause.