Maybe some on here have the combination of econ/finance understanding and hacker ethos to answer this well.If we are staring down the barrel at inflation, what can one do to protect their personal assets?I took out a favorable car loan, but can’t easily buy a house where I live. Too much of my money is in the bank, though I’ve been buying slowly into the stock market.Is there some creative...
I was in one of the last cohorts of my high schools shop class. I made some ambitious projects (nothing mind blowing). I learned to ship instead of starting a new project!
I learned CNC routing and plasma cutting. I learned CAD. I learned how to engage methodically with a dangerous system.
My first tech jobs were in machining and CAD. Today I’ve drifted away.
It’s hard to keep working and learning. Techshop closed. Makerspaces have soldering guns and 3D printers, no Haas mills. The few with real equipment want you to drop thousands of $$$ and 6 months of time on taking their cert classes, instead of just a safety checkout. Maybe the latter is impossible with insurance, but I’m still annoyed. I can’t afford a house in the Bay so I can’t start building my own shop.
Today I fiddle with hand tools and watch AvE and hope I’ll find a shop or mentor that works with my life. If I ever get “fuck you money”, I’ll go start taking machining courses at a trade school full time. If I ever afford a house here or move, I’ll aim to get a shop outbuilding and hire tutors to teach me the harder aspects.
Is there a better path?? I’ll read TFA and see if there’s anything actionable, but I think it will just make me sadder. I guess I could go work in CAD again...
I want to consolidate my notes and text files that I run my life with. I am at a bit of a loss for how to set this system up. Here is my wishlist:- Store a set of mainly text-based files, in total less than 100mb (annex for large files would be a nice bonus)- Version control semantics- Git/rsync style distributed architecture. Ideally I can sync to multiple filesystems like multiple personal...
Interested to see what others use for “core” business logic databases at $DAYJOB. Mostly asking about SQL, but anything goes.Industry: Industry-specific Enterprise SASS (startup)Database: PostgresTable count: About 150Application type: Web server, monolith.Use vs other data stores: We run almost all our data through postgres, dumping large objects to s3.Description: We have a core set of...
For various reasons, I have to support IE (11) in my work on a large React/Redux/Bootstrap app, using fairly standard Babel transpiration and polyfills.I’m interested to hear how others in similar situations manage this problem - questions like:Do you develop IE-first or have it as part of a testing checklist?What have you learned about performance optimization for the IE VM?Are there...