Motorcycle might be hard, through they might contribute.

Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there’s literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.

That’s what Xmas is for. Being asked what I want by family is frustrating because I don’t really want things, and few things I do, I just buy.

So anything I might like but can’t justify buying goes into the Xmas list for other’s to buy.

Good to know that. If we move countries, we’re thinking of moving a bit permanently, so it needs to be stable for at least a few decades. It’s hard to predict things in this current climate. And every time you move you lose a lot of your assets and your social circle is reset, so it’s stressful.

Finland seems like a great country. But it’s right next to Russia, and things aren’t looking too good there.

Flood control is very close to my area of research. My research involves effect of dams on river water and I don’t get to talk about it often, so it was fun. But I haven’t actually worked on a dam control or made policies, so my work is more theoretical what ifs.

As others have mentioned they already do that to a degree they can with the uncertainty of forcast. It’s called Forcast Informed Reservoir Operation (FIRO).

Important thing is that the forecast is uncertain farther you go in future, and smaller the area you’re looking at. So the policies will have to take that into account, you can’t simply empty your reservoir because if your forcast is wrong and you don’t get enough rain, then you don’t have the precious water anymore for dry season. But if you’re wrong on the other side you get flood issue.

Satellite data and a lot of ground sensors are in place that help us better forcast the future storms along with improved computation and technology, but nothing is sure, and it might get worse with current situation. We already have problems because of previous funding cuts causing us to lose so many sensors.

Also a fun fact, we’ve had dams for so long that we don’t know the natural flows for so many rivers so we can’t calibrate our models well. Basically we built dams long before we started measuring the rivers. I’ve been meaning to publish this, but it’s just stuck in a draft for almost a year now :(

Problem I think is the API from the IRS being closed. You could still maybe use it generate pdfs and send it, but the tool allowed you to just click send. And also, no more updates from the official source could mean they get to change a few rules and make it obsolete. We could keep it up with a bunch of volunteers, but unlike other open source projects, this has a serious legal aspect that people might not be willing to take a risk.

Internet looks very different without it.

I do have a career, I am a specialist of (kinda) GIS and data analysis related to hydrology. I’m currently on the path to complete my PhD within the next year. I have been really successful at pitching my programming ideas on non-programming domain. Solve problems for clients, make applications/algorithms that can outperform what they had before. It does sometimes make me feel like I’m a bit too wide on my skillsets related to others in my field, but at least in my immediate circles, I am still as good in the core aspects of my field. But there are so many people that are better specialist than me if I search around.

But now, due to the current climate, and situation in the USA, I have been thinking I might have to move to another country before I finish PhD, and I might not be able to find a job in another country immediately, so I’m thinking of finding some small gigs I could do for some side income.

Thank you, something like this would work well, if they are small tasks that help the main contributor because they don’t have the time. I do have experience working on those for free :D

I don’t know about the big examples like the one in wiki though

I had upwork account since a long time, last time I tried (was a few years back), it just said “we have a lot of people with your skill, so no” lol

Thank you. I looked into it. I did make a profile, let’s see how it goes.

I feel like there should be something like that for sure. But I don’t really know how to find it or convince people to hire me for a problem they don’t know they have. It’s be great if I knew owners personally, but I’m not really outgoing type (who reason I got good with programming lol)

Interesting. I’ve never had anything serious than updating keyring and removing before reinstalling packages. Pacman hasn’t failed me enough to need more than

• error msg is obvious (like keyring), conflicts, fix it
• if not check archlinux.org, follow fix from there,
• new problem I need to search, mostly happens because I haven’t learned about it. Like first time I came across keyring problem.

I only read it when I get error like this to know what I shouldn’t do. Is that acceptable? Always checking the news seems superfluous because most times it goes smoothly, and packman will fail and let you know if it can’t do something.

After coming here I can’t tell how to say g and z differently. Why are they doing this :(

They had perfectly different sounds.

I mean just make a player join the game after halfway through the game, it’ll pretty much work that way. If you need more, add them a bit later.

This is why I can’t seem to even get an interview. People just apply to any and all jobs using whatever cv/experience they have or don’t have.

I mean there’s the EWMM, emacs based windows manager. So it can absolutely do anything.

But doing something because you can, vs because it’s useful is different. I like emacs fo text edit. I open images and pdf in the process of writing documents but that’s about it.