The networking aspect will likely be the trickiest, but if you’re already interested in administrating a VPS you can absolutely do it.

1. Have an ISP that doesn’t block inbound connections. So far both Comcast and Verizon have been cool to me in that regard.
2. Configure your router to always give your host machine the same internal-network IP address.
3. Configure your router to forward any relevant ports (TCP/80 for insecure HTTP, e.g.) to the internal address you assigned to your host.
4. Go to ifconfig.me or similar to ascertain your public Internet IP address.
5. Buy a domain (Namecheap has been good to me for a decade) and change its A record to point to that address!

Not hard, but not exactly uncomplicated either.

It’s hilarious! My favorite Bale performance easily. Willem Dafoe is excellent too. I love the whole over-the-top 80s NYC yuppie caricature.

It’s also a scathing nightmare parable about the raw pursuit of wealth and influence.

A million to one of course.

edit: but still, they come!

Binary speed is really the least reason to do it. Whether it’s worth it or not is up to the individual, but there are a lot of little reasons Gentoo is uniquely powerful.

Benefits specific to compiling:

• fine-grained control of features and dependencies with USE flags
• very easy package maintenance (writing ebuilds)
  • much simpler to add your own custom local packages when you need them
  • less workload on the gentoo team which is good for repository health and breadth
• control of compile flags (yes speed, but more practically hardening for secure systems)
• the same gentoo is available on way more platforms and architectures than any binary distro

Yep, Kraken’s been a big player in the exchange space for a long time.

Oh, so it’s Hashcash; cool to see that idea getting real use.

Combine them into a blazing fast 14.4 MB RAID 0.

Plus having any rendering engine have a monopoly is terrible for the web long term.

Religion hasn’t had its time so much as it is rapidly evolving along with the rest of society.

Religion does not have to mean sky daddy or even have to imply belief in the supernatural.

And the whole human body, brain and all, can run on ~100 watts. Truly astounding.

Bad code, yes, calling it ‘shit’, no.

Stuff like this is a big part of why software circles are seen as so hostile and unwelcoming to outsiders.

You can be completely clear and frank without resorting to insult, mild though it may be. Just because you and people most like you understand that calling their work ‘shit’ doesn’t reflect on them personally, doesn’t mean it’s not significantly exclusionary.

Now, obviously you can get to know your reports well enough to understand whom would take ‘shit’ well, but that doesn’t mean it’s not generally important to temper criticism with kindness. Kindness never has to mean holding back criticism, just avoiding stooping to insult.

“You’re dumb” is disrespectful, but “your code is shit” isn’t? How does the latter not reasonably imply the former?

Being respectful is taking the time to moderate “your code is shit” to something like “your code is not acceptable”. You might even go a modicum further into kindness with “there are aspects of your code I need you to improve”.

All express the same idea, some will leave the listener more open to internalizing the criticism.

Sign language is speech, it’s just non-verbal speech.

Oh D-VHS, we didn’t deserve you.

The repair cost is ultimately the most significant, that’s true.

We’ll have to see how statistics play out in the long run: that’s where the non-anecdotal evidence for Toyota’s supremacy comes from.

Cheap cars definitely are more reliable if you pick the right brands. On all the other points it just doesn’t make enough of a difference to me to justify the enormous cost increase.

Our $10k used Camry is still kicking ass over ten years later and hasn’t ever needed work more extensive than replacing leaking struts. The reliability truly is astounding.

EDIT: But, let’s not talk about my camera-buying habits lol

For podcasts and audiobooks and even incidental music listening $10 panasonic buds go the distance for me.

When I’m sitting down to enjoy music at home, then it’s the $80 sony studio monitors. Still excellent value.

Give me my headphone socket back, phone makers :(

That’s super interesting. I adore RPN on caclulators and had never heard any drawbacks well-articulated.

Well, YHWH, but hopefully he doesn’t begrudge us picking some reasonable vowels so we can say it.

I’m blessed to be the kind of pleb who is happy with built in DACs and $9 Panasonic earbuds. Headphone jack for life!