Simple, really. Abs(x-y) is the difference between the two numbers, absolute, so positive value. So, adding abs(x-y) to the smaller of the two numbers turns it into the bigger number. Plus the bigger number, now you have 2 times the bigger number

Bin jetzt kein Deutscher, deswegen hab ich nicht so Ahnung. Inwiefern respektiert die AfD denn die Demokratie nicht? Sowas hab ich jetzt noch nie gehört.

Hab vor 3 Jahren in der Schweiz Transprk gemacht - in einer richtigen Aufenklinik - also nicht irgendeinem Laser Zentrum. Das war mir wichtig - und ich habe dafür dann halt auch mehr bezahlt.

War die ersten paar Tage juckend, danach n paar Wochen leicht verschwommen (weil Heilung) und jetzt sehe ich besser als zuvor mit Brille korrigierbar war. Hatte - 6 und 4cyl, also schon ziemlich krass.

Aus gutem gewissen musst du das auch nicht. Wenn du denkst, dass da in der Wohnung des Nachbars was brennt, du die Feuerwehr rufst, und es doch nur der Nachbar war der sein Essen verbrennt hat, musst du nicht zahlen. Wenn du aber extra den Nachbarn nerven willst und einfach mal sagst dass sein ganzes Haus lichterloh am brennen sei, wirst du dafür belangt.

I wouldn’t call 1tb storate for 4$ and 1tb egress for 7$ “dirt cheap”. Hetzner storage boxes are cheaper.

See Heise for example, they have their own instance for their news posts. It’s great.

For remote backup, always keep your data in multiple ‘importance levels’. There’s replaceable, irreplaceable and very important.

Replaceable is non-niche movies and all kinds of other things that are commonly available, data not ‘exclusive to you’. Irreplaceable is data that is (probably) only owned by you - photos, videos, source code, documents and so on. Very important are the few documents you really can’t afford to lose. Security keys, banking info and so on.

I don’t bother backing up replaceable data - I keep one local and one off site backup for the irreplaceable data and very important data (1tb hetzner storage box is enough for me), and I keep a few encrypted physical usb sticks and sd cards strewn around at my parents and at work for the irreplaceable data that periodically get updated.

If you think a block of code needs a comment, turn it into a method and give it a proper name instead.

Really depends. Yes, if someone doesn’t get what’s wrong with this statement, they should. But you shouldn’t wrap something in a method all the time just because. Sure, maybe you can make it an inline method, but usually, a method call takes time, and while it’s not a lot of time, in constrained or complex system that can accumulate. A lot. Sure, the compiler might optimize stuff away, but don’t just go blindly trusting your compiler.

Sure, a method call for something that gets called once a second is not a problem. But when you suddenly have thousands and thousands of method calls when say, you click a button, which calls method x which calls method x1 which calls y1 and y2 which call z1-10 and so on, then the method calls can suddenly turn into a problem.

Maybe not on a fast, modern device, but on an older or more constrained device. If your code never runs on there, sure, don’t bother.

At that point, it’s not FOSS, just OSS. Free means that it also uses a license that is ‘Free’ - as RMS would put it ‘libre’. So -, you can - under stipulations, do whatever you want with the Source code.

Im fairly sure they manage because they have so many subscriptions from people that barely use it.

They basically pay out per song played - and server costs are also largely dependent on active users. So they balance out a very active person that might incur 15$ in cost with 5 inactive people that incur not even a dollar.

Meine Google Home Minis sind Wecker, Timer, Musikboxen und Handyfinder (wenn ichs mal wieder irgendwo hingelegt habe). Sonst nix. Der ganze Automations-Smarthome Kram bringt effektiv nicht viel.

Actually, my employer honestly does not care. My department specifically uses unmanaged devices, which we’re also explicitly allowed to use privately. The data on them is ours, we are encouraged to encrypt it with a personal key. ‘Non-personal’ data is stored on onedrive or our own gitlab instance.

But I agree with you that most employers would :)

That’s what obsidian state, yes.

Now, what constitutes ‘making money’?

If you use it to keep notes for your university courses, you effectively use it to further a cause which in the future will make you money, yet I’m sure you’d agree that doesn’t fall into ‘commercial use’.

If I use it to organize the research I do - the knowledge of which I then use in a commercial project - does that constitute work use? In my opinion - yes, I get paid to do that research, but it’s knowledge for me, so no, it is not ‘work use’ to me.

Next step - use it for notes specifically for a work project. As long as I am using it for myself and myself only, only sharing snippets of text that have no relevance to obsidian, not work use. Share a canvas created with obsidian? Work use. Share/publish a whole folder/vault as a wiki? Work use.

Eh. Theoretically, maybe. Practically, this is a problem of ‘what constitutes work use’.

In my opinion, the work notes I take in obsidian are my personal notes. I found obsidian myself, and use it myself for taking notes for work. Stuff doesn’t get shared to coworkers, other than the actual text I am writing when I copy paste it out of obsidian.

OP’s use case is a work use, in my opinion, as they are using obsidian to produce the output used for work.

Same would apply if a team used obsidian for notes, encouraged use of it for everyone in the team, and/or uses shared vaults as a ‘wiki’.

Definitely. I assume the actual cost for the cable is <10$, but engineering work gets very expensive very fast if you’re small scale.

I’m interested in something - say you got an order for 1 million units, what’s the price per unit you could offer?

Edit: just looked at the DIY option - seems right now you’re just using off the shelf parts, which is fine. Clever use of them, even. Main part seems to be ‘present usb device - once the usb device gets removed, lock down the PC’. So, you specifically just need some usb device with a cord that attaches magnetically - and securely enough that it doesn’t disconnect randomly, with some mechanical way to fix it to yourself. So yeah, at million scale, seems you could definitely sell it for 10 bucks a piece.

Meh, the best programmers are probably somewhere in the middle.

This also depends on what kind of work you’re doing.

Writing some frontend with lots of Boilerplate? That’s lots of lines.

Writing efficient code that for example runs on embedded systems? That’s different. My entire master’s thesis code project on an embedded system consisted of around 600 lines of C code, and it did exactly what it should, efficiently.

A better metric to that effect would be the git activity graph. People that do important changes don’t commit 20 times a day - they push a commit usually once a day tops to once every 2 weeks

If you’re looking for a free self hosted server - I have been using the oracle cloud free tier for months - especially their Arm based server, and I’m more than happy.

However, if you end up going that route have some kind of backup strategy set up, and set it up in a way where you can reproduce the server easily, as they reserve the right to suddenly take it offline.

I’m using a hetzner storage box for backup - which I also use for my personal automated backup with borg.

To me, the main thing about writing on a phone is the lack of well, a physical, full size keyboard. There are some foldable keyboards you can get that connect over Bluetooth if you want to go for long writing sessions. Otherwise, phones work just fine, with portrait mode as well.

Your phone can play music just like an mp3 player can.

Your phone doesn’t have an e-ink screen.

That’s the whole reason.

Finde das ganze aufstechen und so ziemlich… Ineffektiv. Genau wie Klimakleber. Klar, was zu machen ist super, aber wenn man nem SUV-Fahrer die Reifen aufsticht denkt der sich wahrscheinlich nicht “Hmm, vielleicht sollte ich etwas ändern”, sondern eher “Diese dummen Aktivisten. Können sich selber kein Auto leisten und wollen Aufmerksamkeit, darum stechen sie die Reifen von meinem Armen Auto auf!”

Ja, ich verstehe, dass man irgendwie mal etwas mit Konsequenzen machen will, und dass “einfach nur reden” oft nichts zu bringen scheint, aber ich finde dass man solche Probleme nur damit lösen kann, indem man andere Leute dazu bewegt, selber ihre Meinung zu überdenken und gegebenenfalls anzupassen. Kann sehr mühsam sein, weil man scheinbar nirgends hinkommt, aber das ist halt so wie es ist.