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I've been pretty happy with the following setup: I have a domain at namecheap, which forwards my address (say foo@bar.com) to my gmail account. I use fetchmail from my home computer to bring the …

You explained it in 2 lines that would make for great comments. It seems useful to educate C programmers who don't have "significant experience" because, well, by definition, not every …

Nobody likes to fly a plane that falls.

I don't want to minimize the work you've done with your scripts, but perhaps you don't know that all of that can easily be accomplished with TimeMachine. From your new mac, during initi…

> I would even not mind something like one-time payments for support calls, for example pay $50 for a service call to get assistance in a case like this. I just can't fathom the "no suppo…

> What's the term of the load in your calculation? What do you mean by that? The amount you can draw from the power walls? This page has a chart with specs that cover this: https://…

> The theory goes that as solar panels and battery prices drop, it will eventually make sense for homeowners to produce their own power, and "defect" from the electrical grid completely. …

Why did you use double quotes around Paris?

> the engineers frequently work from 9am-9pm and then some weekends Ironically, this could be because they have no tests...

Very timely question: I'm in the process right now because my current Model S has a sticker that expired in 2019, so I'm looking into trading in (or selling) my current S for another Tesla. …

As a Model S owner, this is one of the things that worries me a lot. I rely on my Model S to make my commute "bearable" (via Carpool lane use), which even a covered insurance rental car isn&…

In addition to the penalty you'd incur, the IRS is unlikely to dig into your deductions and credits with your fervor, so they will likely compute a number that is "quite suboptimal". Th…

> My issue is mostly with the financial situation of the company. Its clear that the $35k M3 has been relegated as a "loss leader", and there's no work on actually making the car pr…

> The tax-credit is gone, never to return... and the $35,000 car is no where to be found. Where I live (CA), both Fed & CA tax credits are still valid. Go to tesla.com and configure your M3. I …

> I do disagree that a) there are bad guys between me and the http://catpictures.com right now I don't know how one can disagree with something that can't be known one way or…

There's a few common sense recommendations, but I think I wouldn't recommend the part on white boarding: > When the whiteboarding task starts, make a quip or light joke along the lines of…

This is explained in part by the Dunning-Kruger effect (which ties into the Impostor Syndrome). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedi…

I don't know for sure since I don't know which apps you are talking about, but DNS blacklisting can be worked around by embedding your own libresolv and server configs into your app. That me…

Once you move to the front of the queue, you need this to happen too: https://youtu.be/uMM0lRfX6YI

How did you know she was distracted by her phone? I'm asking not because I don't believe you, but because my wife got rear ended about a week ago, and when the person got out of his car, he …

If you have a malicious browser publisher, you have bigger problems than the networking layer to worry about. The browser already has access to all your keystrokes and all the data it's displayin…

Was your original backup encrypted? Did you log into your iCloud account before restoring? (I don't remember if that's a step that happens prior to restoring in the new Mac setup flow) There…

Something's amiss here. You can use TimeMachine to transfer data from an old computer to a new one. I've done this a few times, and clearly the new one doesn't have any piece of hardwar…

thanks!

The kid from the $50K/year high school got an education for that price (albeit expensive) and got in through his/her own work & dedication (you could say that the expensive high school &…

> In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my job done. I usually showed up …

Could you please tell what SKU/product it was?

Note that the below makes big assumptions as to what the situation looks like. I read a lot between the lines, so take the words below with a grain of salt. I won't sugar coat it: it's a tou…