Modern day LinkedIn is a terrible company that violates privacy as bad as any other social media company.

Also, the content on LinkedIn is terrible and fake.

Need to start shunning these bad actors.

What is the benefit of a Mac mini for something like this?

I had a conversation with someone last night who pointed out that people are treating their Claws a bit like digital pets, and getting a Mac Mini for them makes sense because Mac Minis are cute and it's like getting them an aquarium to live in.

Pi's can be cute too tho.

Just commented in reply to someone else about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099886

Is that it? Just access to the apple ecosystem?

I dont use Apple so guess I can save some money.

It works and is plug and play. And can also work as a Mac. But getting in short supply since Apple hadn't planned for this new demand.

A mini PC is too tho.

Apple fans paying apple tax to have an isolated device accessing their profile.

How to list those? Is there a flag for git branch to sort by recently modified?

(not on my computer right now to check)

This isn't exactly the same but I've been using git-recent [0] (with `gr` alias) for many years. It sorts branches based on checkout order (which is what I usually need when switching between branches) and allows to easily choose a branch to checkout to.

[0] https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent

I do `gb` (probably "git branch" when I set that up) which apparently is an alias to `git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(refname:short)' | tac`, displays a list with the latest changed branch at the bottom. Remove the `| tac` for the reverse order.

Yes, I run something like this (PowerShell borks out unless there are double quotes inside the single quotes) in a short script when I need to review available branches:

  git fetch --all --prune --quiet
  git log origin/main --date=format:%m%d%H%M --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%ad-%h%C(auto)%d %s (%cn)' -n1 
  git log --tags --date=format:%m%d%H%M --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%ad-%h%C(auto)%d %s (%cn)' -n1
  echo ''
  git for-each-ref --count=10 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(color:yellow)%(committerdate:format:%m%d%H%M)-%(objectname:short) (%(color:green)%(refname:short)%(color:yellow)) %(color:white)%(contents:subject) (%(authorname))'

I include a [month][day][hour][minute]-[git hash] prefix as enough info to see when branches were last updated and grab them when I make a mistake creating the branch from the wrong parent or want to cherry-pick.

Hes not 'allowed'.

I could be wrong but i think that part of the game.

isn't allowed but is able to respond to e-mails

Is it possible to use a flamethrower instead of a shovel to clear your driveway?

The math there gets pretty bad pretty fast. A cubic foot of snow represents ~15 lbs of ice. That corresponds to at 144 BTU to melt a lb of ice, that means you need at a minimum 2160 BTU of fuel (assuming 100% of your heat goes to melting the snow). A gallon of gasoline represents about 114,000 BTU, so each gallon of gas could clear, in a best case scenario where you can capture 100% of the heat, only 50 cubic feet of snow. That's a 10-foot by 10-foot area covered in 6 inches of snow.

But even that's in the dream scenario where somehow your snow is in a sealed, insulated space. In the real world, snow tends to be outside, in the cold air, which is very eager to sink and replace any hot air you make at ground level. So you're losing any heat that warms the air at all. And all that air in the snow makes it a fantastic insulator, meaning the vast majority of your heat isn't going to penetrate.

Interestingly, this same phenomena makes melting snow from underneath much more effective (as the great insulating snow captures the heat). You still need to grapple with the kinda nuts amount of energy it takes to melt ice, but at least you're not wasting 90% of it.

Thank you for the detailed response!

That explains why you dont see more flamethrower driveway clearing services.

Yes, but it's nowhere near as effective as you might think. Also, due to its ineffectiveness, it ends up costing a LOT of fuel.

Airports push snow into snowmelters. Shipping container sized warming ovens to melt the snow. I've read about at least O'Hare and Logan doing this

those handheld propane torches, oft used for weedburning on asphault/concrete, are very good for clearing "post snow clean up ice patches, IE tire treads that iced over, foot prints.

Not useful for snow as you'll quickly be swimming and out of propane

xkcd explored this question. too fuel-inefficient to be practical. much better to use that same fuel to run a giant snowblower (and move the snow rather than melt it).

https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/

How is giving people information unethical?

I bet there's other factors that are correlated as well!

I for one am not going to miss wrangling over a bug at 1 in the morning.

It's a vague definition though.

All cognitive decline is not equal.

If they're able to drive they should be allowed to

Xbox zune axure...don't forget copycatting all their innovation.

also creating monopolies.

they also use shitty scammy business practices