What if the kid needs it?

Lately every two years. I also have a Pixel. When a new Pixel comes out Google offers a good trade in deal where you get a $100 of store credit on top of what AFAICT is a good trade in value. Get on the Google Store mailing list to be alerted of it. The resale value on Android phones seems to drop off really sharply after 2 years. So when I calculate the long term annual cost of owning a phone I think it comes out pretty good.

I’m not shooting for the absolute cheapest. Phones are so integral to our lives, I don’t think it’s rational to cheap out on any part of the phone that matters. IMO what doesn’t matter is the difference between the Pixel a-series and a flagship phone. Battery life definitely matters so having a pretty new battery is worth some of the premium of upgrading so often.

Warning, the store credit applies to your next purchase. But I’m pretty loyal to Google and Pixels.

That’s the funny thing about Venezuela. The U.S. criticized Chavez’s election victories. So Chavez put in some of the best election infrastructure in the world. And because of that, it was abundantly clear that Maduro rigged his election.

In political science, we determine the opinion of a populace using something called elections, and well, you can see how that went…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_without_adjectives

None. God clearly wants her dead and you’re just delaying the inevitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titicut_Follies

https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/the-price-of-purity/63d2f44f2f383e40104e45f4

Someone’s running a pump and dump scheme on Myrrh. Once that bubble pops they just transition to Frankincense like it never happened.

Don’t forget swift getaways once the feds catch on on to you.

You got a little overzealous with the 9’s there. 10% of taxpayers itemize.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-itemized-deductions-and-who-claims-them

IntelliJ IDEA

It’s an IDE, a highly featureful code editor.

A lot of programmers like to use more basic text editors and pile on plugins. I feel bad for them when they share some new plugin they’re excited about and it’s a feature that’s been in IntelliJ forever and they had to put extra work in to get it. And so many other users of that editor don’t even know what’s possible.

The news aggregator service inkl specifically has a Good News section to counteract the “if it bleeds it leads” bias in media.

I ran pi-hole on my NAS. Then I pointed my router at it to make it the DNS for my whole network. The only problem was it would create issues when I had a power outage. If things didn’t start up with the right timing they would get wonky and certain devices would report as not having Internet.

That’s why I bought an OpenWRT One so I could install an equivalent to pi-hole on in directly. Though I hit a snag with that and don’t currently have that running.

I haven’t noticed much of a difference without the pi-hole running (my NAS is dead right now). I think some of my devices had their own DNS settings so they weren’t using the config from the router.

You can never hit a wall with programming. You can always keep improving your scripts. You could add observability or logging. Try different languages. Create a DSL for it.

Check out Language Oriented Programming with Racket.

Create a full test suite. Unit tests. Integration tests.

Where are you running your scripts? Do you have a deployment pipeline?

Workflow tools like Apache Airflow make for nice observability.

No one with a cast iron pan would ask this question

Actually sushi has to have rice by definition so sashimi isn’t sushi.

Hop water

For the sake of argument I think you could say that you’re depriving a scavenger of a meal. I don’t know if that’s how veganism is usually framed.