I think people commenting need to qualify what they consider a pancake in their posts. Baking powder is definitely new to me, I'm used to { flour, eggs, milk }. With baking powder you'd get a sort of... flabby dough thing? And... pancakes for breakfast? I'm guessing its something US-specific.
And if it is a US thing, I'll just mention the pancake soup here.
Same here. Do you make soup from the leftovers the next day? For people not familiar with this, you let them dry out a bit overnight, then cut them into thin strips and cook them with chicken stock and chives.
first time hearing using them in soup, anyway there are none left, if I am not in the mood for sweet, I will just put on them some Chinese spicy sauce :-)
For 1:1 conversations I think you're right. Having multiple channels for communication is fine.
Where it breaks down is for group conversations. If Person A won't use Signal and Person B won't use WhatsApp, you can't easily have group communications. And it only gets worse as the number of people in the group goes up.
In my experience, people who use Signal usually also have WhatsApp. It's really mostly that many people absolutely refuse to install Signal on their phone. Like they have all sorts of apps (including social networks that are sometimes downright malware), but they will fight against Signal for some reason I don't understand.
A live image is an operating system image which you can boot from and use vs. an install disk which can only install, but there's no usable environment available).
A reproducable build means you can get the same source code and compile it, and it will be identical to the published image. This is important because otherwise you don't know if the published image actually used some other source code. If it used some other source code, the published image might have a backdoor, or something that you can't find by reading the source code.
Yes. Though the disappearing doesn't happen when you eject the removable media. When you first boot from the removable media, the OS loads itself into the RAM. If you want to open additional programs, then those are loaded from the media into RAM and then executed. However, you can remove the media at any point after boot, and after that you only run the programs that are already loaded into RAM.
Also we have had live images of various OSes for many decades. I seem to recall that we used to load DOS from floppy disks.
I want more space, both in my home and in my yard, than I can get in the city. I want a 2+ car garage where I can build and drive a go-kart with my kids, fix my own car and have a little workshop to do woodworking.
I want a garden that isn't blanketed by city air, and room for some fruit trees. I want room for a fire pit, and enough trees that I don't have line of sight into my neighbors windows.
I don't want a farm. I don't need country living. Somewhere between 0.25 and 0.5 acres is about right for what I want to do, and that means the suburbs.
I live in a Cologne, Germany right now. I have lived in Sao Paulo in the past. Big cities with lots to offer. I know big cities and their conveniences, and they're fine. But for the life I want to live, suburbs offer a better standard of living.
That is the thing many young people don’t see until they have a kid and realize how much more difficult urban living is with kids unless you have a lot of money. Cities eat your time when you have kids.
That is still affordability. When cities are expensive you get more for you money in a suburb. A hobby room, home office or cooking space. But the cost of suburbs are inherently expensive. So when cities are affordable you get more for your money in a city. Because you get some space but also better access to things like offices, makerspaces or restaurants.
I don't want to rant to much, but most people don't like woodworking. They even less like doing woodworking on their own. It is something they conclude they should do because they can and don't have many alternatives. I'm sure it is covered somewhere online.
The first point is reasonable enough, but the point still stands you can't find the same size house in the city for the suburb price.
Most cities simply don't have more than a handful of spacious houses with big yards.
Your second point is invalid, as you're arguing against his assumptions. It's only possible to argue againt someone's logic, arguing someones assuptions is the same as calling names. I like woodwork and have alternatives.
You don't need the same space. That is the point. Yes, if I lived in a suburb I would also want more space because everything else would be harder to do.
I'm not arguing against their assumption. I said most, that isn't them. This is exactly why I didn't want to elaborate, so I won't.
A post explaining the reasoning behind a personal preference for living in the suburbs almost made you throw up?
Your close-mindedness of the opinions that others are allowed to have makes me almost want to throw up.
The person you are responding to isn’t displaying a lack of empathy for people that can’t afford to live in the suburbs. They are explaining the very real and understandable reasoning behind a behind their preference.
That’s not selfish and privileged. That’s a preference.
Look, I understand that the fringe groups you might associate yourself with throw around the word “privilege” as an insult at anyone that does something not inline with the group’s thinking, but it’s just not the insult that you think it is outside of those fringe groups.
Just wanted to mention that what the OP is asking for is completely achievable in a great urban city.
I live in an ideal mixed-use walkable neighborhood with a 2.5 car garage (that only holds one electric car). Not every house has that nor should it, but we can certainly build those features for those who want them and maintain walkability and good transit practices alongside mixed use.
The problem with the suburbs isn’t the existence of the single family home, the problem is the zoning and design of the homes.
> Man, this almost made me throw up because your post reaks of selfishness and privilege. Anyways, I hope you're at least aware of your extreme privilege.
This doesn’t convince anyone of anything and it doesn’t help us with building better transit and walkable neighborhoods. When you tell someone that what they want is “extreme privilege” and “selfish” you turn them away from the conversation. Instead we should focus on showing them how their lifestyle isn’t actually incompatible with good urban planning and good transit, because it’s not.
The future of American cities isn’t NYC, which I love and adore. We won’t have the density for that and skyscrapers and that level of density have their own problems too. Instead, we should look at mid-sized European cities and towns as a better model. We may have more single family homes and cars, but we can still build at the appropriate level of density and build different types of dwellings to meet people where they are in their life. Today it’s illegal to build an apartment building, coffee shop, restaurant, or small grocery store in the suburban neighborhood and we can’t build small, affordable units for folks either. This creates pricing imbalances and other issues.
My daughter is 11 and has been making simple games on Scratch.
There's a lot of assets (images, characters, backgrounds) already in the system. The sending signals and receiving signals wasn't intuitive for her at first, but now she's getting it pretty well.
I don't think she could/would have figured it out on her own yet. Her older sister is 14 and spent a lot of time learning Scratch last year, so she was able to help her over the hurdles (like signaling). The 14 year old was able to learn it on her own, though I did teach her some concepts like loops and variables at the very start.
+1. Scratch indeed is very flexible environment for that (even younger) age group.
Lots of interactive ideas could be easily implemented with already available assets (sprites, backgrounds, sounds), customized too. It's more tooled for platformers. There are many nice tutorials (loadable projects). Tons of books (we used 'Super skills. How to code').
The other day this 8yo even had to face first ever concurrency bug - the race condition. Alas there are no ready mutexes as such in Scratch, but we found a way to synchronize the execution.
At times I did feel that it'd be faster to just type the code, but the kid actually felt more in control doing all the needed coding with touch/mouse.
Also the projects/games are shareable, so friends can load that too.
I moved to Germany a few years ago and my kids have to use fountain pens for all their school work, even math. It's this way for grade school and high school.
Raspberry Pis also get put in to all sorts of places where an embedded board could be used, but the Pi is so much easier.
I want to build a digital picture frame with an e-ink frame that pulls photos from a server. The right way would be a low powered processor, but then I have to figure out writing the image, sleep states and wake up, setting up networking etc. in whatever programming language my embedded board supports.
Or I can just plug in a pi, and live with the always on power consumption.
It's not that I'm ignorant, but I have a limited amount of time and may prioritize project completion over doing it completely right.
I made Fastback Photo Gallery for my family and wanted to share.
We have 200,000+ family photos (including scans of parent's and grandparent's photos and slides) and needed a good way to easily enjoy them.
Fastback sorts all the photos it finds by date and lets you scroll through them. A couple of key features:
* "Rewind" button to show media taken on today's date in previous years
* Date picker to jump to a specific date
* Map which can either show where photos were taken or be used as a filter itself so that only photos in the map area are visible.
* Filter by tags - if you have been tagging photos with faces or other data, you can filter by the tags
It's old school PHP and JavaScript. It uses ffmpeg to make streamable versions of the videos and either vipsthumbnail, ImageMagick or GD to make image thumbnails.
I would love feedback. Documentation issues, installation problems, suggestions, feature requests, etc.
A room mate showed me Linux and I wanted to try it out. Yellow Dog Linux (A fork from Red Hat) was the stable/best option for PowerPC newbies.
I loved YDL but quickly realized that everything was a year or more out of date and by the end of the year I had distro-hopped my way over to Gentoo where I could get updated versions of GIMP, Inkscape and Firefox.
It took a few semesters but I did finally learn not to do any exciting upgrades the week a project was due.
Maybe that's true up until you have a kid. Once you have a kid, spending expands as the kid does.
Baby require nothing but clothes, cheap food and love.
Teenagers require all sorts of things for school and activities. I mean, technically you don't have to provide them, I guess, but if you want a well developed kid who will have their own success, you have to do some investing.
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