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Re:Xiaomi has provided official support for Home Assistant on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:22PM (#42437041)
As an alternative to host network mode, you can give the container a dedicated IP on your network using the macvlan driver.
Re:Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:08PM (#35646359)
Not a designer, but for me it would help if breaks were distinguished visually from exercises–both types of screens look the same.

A different background color, font, or something visual in addition to text clues would go a long way for me. I definitely paid more attention to the timer & beeps on break screens than the text.

Not wanting to help juniors so they're left to struggle the way you did seems incredibly devoid of empathy. I could describe my career the same way you have, but mentoring juniors is now my favorite part of the job. When you were a junior, would you have been satisfied regurgitating a senior's answer without understanding it, or would you have wanted to learn? If you were into learning, why assume nobody else will be?

When pairing with juniors, I avoid directly solving problems for them as much as possible–lessons tend to stick better when you ask leading questions and let them discover solutions for themselves. Perhaps this technique would also work to filter out "lazy" questions.

Working with a mix of super competent developers at all levels has really driven home for me that everyone is better at something, and worse at something, than you are. I've learned lots of new things from developers with less experience than me. I've also worked with many devs with senior titles who were worse off than most juniors.

Ultimately it's okay to find mentoring unenjoyable, but if this describes you, please stick to teams with most/all seniors and don't agree to mentor even if pressured. Attitudes like this can really exacerbate imposter syndrome for juniors, and I've seen it damage several careers.

Re:A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:22PM (#28485318)
Check my other reply, Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material supports this. No affiliation, just started using it myself.
Re:A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:20PM (#28485299)
Similar project, but allows watching in the browser & downloading to your client machine:

https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material

Re:Pin repositories to your GitHub profile on Thursday June 16, 2016 @05:58PM (#11919192)
I hope they revert this; the columns visualized decidedly different metrics (personal projects vs community contribution) and each was useful in its own right. Pinning each section separately would have made more sense.