DazWilkin's comments

I agree and I would pay for this service!

IIUC the cloud solution provides cloud-based storage|copies of the quicken file and accessibility through a less-functional web-based tool and Simplifi isn't compatible.

So, thanks again for the suggestion but these solutions won't work for me.

I was unaware that there is a cloud version and will investigate, thanks!

I strongly prefer my Linux machine but use Windows mostly so that I can run Quicken. I feel doubly trapped: can't get off Quicken and thus can't get off Windows.

I'm only very slightly less reluctant to get an Apple machine (though the M* chips tempt me) and there will probably be incompatibilities between the versions of Quicken.

I think I should probably rip off the band-aid and migrate to:

+ spreadsheets (more control/future proof) + gnucash or similar (and risk that going unmaintained) + Wine + something I've not considered

I live in a community in the Pacific Northwest that was built in 2018 and (almost) every home (22/23) has (Carrier) heat pumps; for some unknown reason, the other has heated floors.

Many of us are proponents of heat pumps thanks to reduced costs and emissions *but* we've not had a generally good experience possibly (!) as a result of bad installation and definitely due to limited numbers of indoor heads (if I close my main bedroom door, the rest of my upper floor has no heating/cooling).

There's always someone in the community frustrated that their house is too cold/hot, that the condensation drains are blocked and water is running down an interior wall, that an indoor head or the condenser is having problems, or that there's unexplained coolant leak.

People moving into the community are inheriting issues with at least 2 homes having to augment/replace the system. To save breaking into the walls, this often necessitates putting the power, coolant and drainage lines on the outside of the house and then boxing the result.

We're saving money on monthly bills (probably; we don't have a comp) but many of us have spent quite some $$$ on maintenance and replacement equipment.

If there are no consequences to bad behavior, bad people will behave badly.

None of these people will ever suffer any consequences for this.

Same behavior when I run the container locally.

Issues with `get.kubefor.ge/latest`:

Manifest does not match provided manifest digest sha256:a4d6b4a9513289be1c1349afff46f7c87a5ac8513cbd8b66de350f26442d14bf

Works with:

ghcr.io/kubenote/kubeforge:latest

get.kubefor.ge@sha256:a4d6b4a9513289be1c1349afff46f7c87a5ac8513cbd8b66de350f26442d14bf

Well done!

Having user-challenges with kubefor.ge.

Clicked "Deployment" and then tried "Create metadata node" but it errors:

Missing config in qA_PQ-QAe8tznselScKge Node qA_PQ-QAe8tznselScKge has no values configured.

And:

Overlapping Nodes Node "deployment" overlaps with "undefined".

Not only are my AI chats more personal than my Google searches but with these false friends reporting this information back to Google's (and others') advertising engines, suggests to me that this will become a more accurate, more difficult to avoid and thus bigger business for Google.

Congratulations!

Having tried several times myself, I know first hand how difficult it is to make money from our things.

Well done you!

Podman uses Dockerfiles too.

Dockerfiles is the language for specifying a set of instructions for building container images.

It also happened 3 days ago!

This really resonates with me.

Your insight is helpful almost as much as knowing that other people like me are out there too.

I think (!?) I've finally let go of a project that I've been working on for a couple of years.

A key tenet of the project (which I frequently forgot) was that it was a way for me to learn|refine technical skills and to keep me entertained|occupied.

The project certainly achieved those objectives for me and I'm a better person for doing it.

Good luck to you and I hope you continue to succeed!

Insurers buy insurance (reinsurance) in an attempt to offload excess risk.

In your follow-up example, they could reinsure much of the $200B so that they're only liable for a small(er) part of the losses.

The calculation is thus whether they can pay the premiums on the excess (and accept reinsurers' contractual terms) and still make money.

Thank you!

My maternal grandmother lived with kidney disease and my mother and (maternal) aunt both had kidney disease too and have both had kidney transplants (ironically each from their partner).

A good friend had a kidney transplant too from her twin sister which means that she has negligible anti-rejection medications.

My mother's transplant was more than 10 years ago. She's had issues including, as a consequence of being immuno-supressed, cancer from Epstein-Barr virus (she recovered) but she's otherwise enjoying her 80s with her several grands and a great.

My father (her donor) continues to thrive and has had no obvious negative consequences to his life-saving gift.

They still bicker!!

My sister, cousins and I have our creatinine and potassium levels monitored.

I had an elevated potassium test recently and it's depressing to be reminded how fragile life is. In my case, a follow up test appears to indicate that the prior test was exceptional (and I think can be explained).

We have 2 kidneys but only one heart, liver etc. and so, while there's an evolutionary benefit, experience suggests that people do just fine with one kidney.

To every brave and selfless person who's donated an organ, you have my utmost respect and gratitude.

Fun fact: kidney transplant recipients generally have 3 kidneys: the OGs and the donated kidney

When I worked at Microsoft, I started blocking every Friday afternoon for "20% time" (even though it was only ~10% of my working week). My (really good) manager was supportive and my argument was that, to be most effective in my role, I needed to spend dedicated time learning.

My single piece of advice is that, if you're going to do this, be committed to it. I had a block on my calendar. I had an office (in those days) and closed my office door. I didn't respond to emails and I declined meeting requests. Consistency was key and, once everyone knew that it was my learning time, it was respected (in part because I respected it). One afternoon, my boss knocked walked in, looked at me, realized what time it was, turned around and walked back out.

After Microsoft, I worked at Google where "20% time" (had been a thing but no longer really was in the 2010s) and, once again, Friday afternoons were blocked on my calendar and I used them diligently for learning. My Google managers were consistently supportive and respected my commitment to the time.

One advantage to Friday afternoons is that they're generally very slack time. People are either leaving early or working little, emails are fewer and, in a global organization, (for US West Coast), much of the rest of the World has already entered the weekend.

I think there's no issue with permitting writers to use AI tools to participate in NaNoWriMo.

I've participated a three (or four?) times in the annual NaNoWriMo and completed twice.

When I first participated, I attended a group to help understand how to approach the project. In the group there were several aspiring writers. The group continued after the year's project began and many of the people who most wanted to be writers were already struggling to meet the daily writing quota (so that they'd reach the goal after 30 days).

I think any tools that people use that help them complete NaNoWriMo are fine. People must live with their own decisions and, if the tools write the majority of their submission, that's their decision.

Other people using AI tools doesn't impact my ability to complete the year's NaNoWriMo. It doesn't affect me in any way.

The group leader told us about a tool that she used that would begin erasing characters if she stopped typing for longer than about 5 seconds during her daily write. That's a tool I wouldn't ever use :-)

I was intrigued by this and looked through the README for examples of Afrim being used and learn more about the problem it's solving and how but didn't find these.

Correction the following refers to the created key:

  ${PWD}/${ACCOUNT}.json

Possibly created by:

  gcloud iam service-accounts create ${ACCOUNT} --project=${PROJECT}
  gcloud iam service-accounts keys create ${PWD}/${ACCOUNT}.json \
  --iam-account=${EMAIL} \
  --project=${PROJECT}

Because Google Workspace does not support IAM, no IAM roles need be assigned. Instead OAuth scopes are used.

Good point! I'll revise.