I use it to power CI builds (a lot of them!) and have extremely little issue with it.
Basically I’m just using the API to spin up machines, which do some work and shut down. There’s some extra machines per build job, like database containers or a headless browser for testing. Pretty smooth in my experience.
I think the only occasional issue I hit is the internal DNS being a few seconds behind reality.
Our kids were too young for school during the pandemic (thank god, it seems like it really messed up kids lives).
Now they're both in early-years of school. Attendance is kinda interesting!
We parents EXTREMELY want the kids to go to school as it's the much-needed break to get our own work done - both in basic upkeep of our lives/household, and in our careers. We need the school hours to be long. Longer than they are, in fact. (As a side note, my kindergartener only gets like 20 minutes of recess? wtf? Have you met children before?)
On the other hand, life is expensive. Being restricted to only travel during the most expensive times to travel (around school holidays) isn't ideal. We can work with our kids to make up lost school time.
I also just don't like this third party entity whose value seems to go down every year to control our lives!?
Teaching (from the teachers point of view) increasingly is geared towards meeting metrics that are divorced from the needs of the kids. The teachers incentives are being misaligned with ours.
Additionally, I think we've (royal we) grown distrustful of public school in general. Not in a "big government" sort of way, just that we need to acknowledge that US public schools are designed for conformity. Being different (e.g. having ADHD, or being "on the spectrum") is not tolerated well - you might find your kid in a special needs bucket that effectively segregates them into programs that might not fit their needs at all.
At the same time, private school costs are huge and often the ones closest to you come not only in an extreme monetary cost a culture cost - being overly religious, or not religious enough (YMMV).
So, yeah, it's hard to really want or care to "be a model citizen" to the public schools that are increasingly putting up the pressure on parents (that's a whole other topic, why aren't grandparents capable of being helpful any more? where did our support networks go?) while standards that might be outside of the school's control are lowering their ability to give quality education.
For so many reasons, we need a well functioning public school system. Where "well functioning" means serving various needs of both children and parents. All children.
The importance of education is something that liberals and conservatives actually agree on. But like so much else, it's become a pawn in the culture wars, so that the most dissonant voices at the fringes drown out the common sense concurrence in the middle.
> my kindergartener only gets like 20 minutes of recess
What? In Norwegian kidergarten (barnehage) there are no formal lessons at all. The whole point of barnehage is to turn young animals into cooperating members of society not to teach them mathematics and reading, that comes later.
So the whole day is some kind of play time with intervals of helping to lay the table for lunch, having stories read to, going for walks in the woods, and a hell of a lot of playing outside in the rain, snow, mud, climbing, falling, etc.
And also it is the most effective way to teach a language. My English speaking children were able to speak Norwegian from a standing start at three years old within six months and indistinguishable from the natives within a year with no classroom instruction at all.
In part because the US has created "pre-school", which children attend for a year or two before kindergarten. This is more like the traditional kindergarten that you describe -- it is intended to get kids to learn to get along with each other, play nicely, sing songs, etc.
This is 100% it right here. When I was young, kindergarten was preschool (sometimes actually called that) and was also not mandatory. You could start school in first grade, and some schools didn't even have kindergarten.
Now preschool has standardized tests (!!!!!) and expected outcomes and kindergarten is worse. And 3K has been invented to be what preschool (and before that, kindergarten) once was. Of course, you can't go to 3K or 4K if you're not potty trained, which puts additional time crunches and restrictions on things.
Maybe it helps overall, but I'm not entirely sure it does.
As soon as it's formally announced, It moves to the price they agreed to sell for, and then you can either sell them on the open market for that price, or hold them and convert them to shares of the company acquiring. There may be a tax benefit to you doing one or the other, so I'd consult a tax advisor.
Personally, I lost a shitload of money on HashiCorp. I've "emotionally bought" 2 stocks in my life and Hashi is one of them. I like Mitchell and Armon very much, they're actually seriously great humans, both of them, but that's an awful reason to buy a stock. If I can break even and they sell for the IPO price I'll be very pleased, but that seems impossible heh. :)
I imagine it took you awhile to understand what “stateless“ meant, because you weren’t exposed to the default state-fullness of most other languages, so didn’t realize stateless wasn’t the default.
gpu-friendly base images tend to be larger (1-3g+) so that takes time (30s - 2m range) to create a new Machine (vm).
Then there’s “spin up time” of your software - downloading model files adds as long as it takes to download GB of model files.
Models (and pip dependencies!) can generally be “cached” if you (re)use volumes.
Attaching volumes to gpu machines dynamically created via the API takes a bit of management on your end (in that you’d need to keep track of your volumes, what region they’re in, and what to do if you need more volumes than you have)
Does this help? It's related to the "Sound Sensor" but the menu setting is not called sound sensor. There's also apparently a physical switch you can turn off? I can't check that though.
I couldn’t find the physical switch on mine (the tv is hung to close to the wall and just below it is our mantle) but there was a GUI option under the settings “privacy” area!
External bluetooth transmitters/receivers are also the cure for shitty PC bluetooth stacks.
They don't switch to garbage quality mode every time an app, website, or game queries the microphone. They don't re-enable shitty defaults every software update. They don't require text config files in linux and the critical settings in those files don't get ignored due to open source politics. They don't mess up pairing every time you reboot into a different OS. They just work. $50 will banish all your bluetooth troubles to the deepest pits of the underworld, where they belong.
Yes, TOSLINK is a godsend. It's immune to ground loops and motherboard manufacturers that don't give a shit, which is all of them, even ones that brand around having decent audio (ProArt I'm looking at you).
I have a different Asus motherboard and the audio hardware is on an apparently flaky USB bus (the motherboard has several, as they do). Even with an optical connection, the audio drops out sometimes. It was maddening to me when I first got the computer, because things like this are usually "not all the CPU pins connected to the motherboard" or "you know that RAM you bought on Amazon? yeah, it doesn't remember what you store in it! savings!". But... not this time. (I can pretty much kill USB on this machine by plugging in a bunch of unused USB cables; plugged into the computer, but nothing on the other end.)
I use an external DAC and I've learned which buses break USB when looked at the wrong way. But ... of course the on-board audio is just a USB device. Can't waste a PCIe lane on that!
This is for input but my lav mic is really quiet and has a pretty high noise floor and ground loop (not too bad tho) using the motherboard's 3.5mm port. Bought a USB sound "card" for 5.99 on Amazon a year back, it’s not even close. It’s output is mediocre at best but I don’t use that.
My garage doors (purchased within the last year) have "regular" buttons / car remotes to open them, myQ was 100% optional. I basically use it as a way to alert me when the garage door opens (someone just came home, amazon is doing that semi-weird in-garage delivery thing, etc)
