itsbenweeks

Much better to have the world disappear from the bag.

I wouldn't. The numerous miscarriages that my grandmother had while living in a mill town, and the cancer diagnoses that followed family who worked at the mill taught me to stay upstream of mill towns.

I'm guessing so, given the breadth of the outage.

(It's always dns.)

Curious why you're looking to switch from KeeWeb. Been using KeeWeb for several years and have been really happy with it for my desktop.

My way around this that's less than $500/mo and indefinite wait times is to have an EC2 image running as a jump box. Then anything downloaded is already on AWS's network, making ECR uploads much faster.

I'm curious if you could desolder and use one of the resistors further down the trace to avoid having to scrape off the mask.

Agree. Having this function exit if any arguments are passed to it seems like a good safety measure.

That fair. I suppose its about the same as a graduate certificate until you take the extra steps to get a degree.

Its even less than that. This micro masters is sold as an entry point for a full-fledged masters program. The order of operations is something like:

1. Complete the micromasters courses at your speed.

2. Get a passing grade in a proctored exam.

3. Get accepted to a masters program with 1/2 of your credits taken care of.

4. Finish the masters degree on-campus.

I was originally worried at how dishonest seemed to faculty and TAs who have spent years creating many textbooks' worth of content for edX. Something akin to MIT Press selling their catalog to Elsevier or Pearson wouldn't be tolerated by the faculty. But, in the press release they do mention that MIT faculty can opt-out and operate in a MIT-only instance & fork of the Open edX platform:

"MIT will continue to offer courses to learners worldwide via edX, as well as on a new platform now known as MITx Online. MIT’s Office of Digital Learning will build and operate MITx Online as a new world-facing platform, based on Open edX, that MIT is creating for MITx MOOCs.

MIT faculty may choose to continue to offer their courses through the new edX after the transaction is completed, or move them to MITx Online."

With that in mind, it seems that Open edX development will be under a new non-profit held by MIT and Harvard. I hope this new non-profit will be less at odds with itself in respect to maintaining openness while creating profitable pay2play courses.

Seems like there's too much bait-and-switch happening here to trust GitLab anymore. They enacted an account-locking change to their MFA reset policy without so much as an e-mail to effected users over the summer, and now they're increasing their pricing. There must be a way for GitLab to grow that doesn't involve them inconveniencing existing users like this.

Anybody else having their browser history busted by visiting the link? Looks like it opens a new window for this page, and then closes the old one.

I wish it was just this. A friend of mine works in an upscale deli here in Boston. Their employer doesn't partner with DoorDash, yet GrubHub --interchanged because they both do this-- still lists them. What happens instead of a printed order from their system? They instruct the delivery person to place an order at the counter, wait for it, and then deliver it. All this seems fine, if DoorDash wants to hire people to proxy face-to-face interactions so they can up-charge 20% for a caprese sandwich on ciabatta bread, more power to them. I understand the value of it. But it gets squishy in places.

What happens if an ordered and paid for item is out of stock? My friend's deli has excellent ciabatta and it sells out daily. DoorDash leaves this problem to the delivery-person, and delivery people can't cancel orders.

Why can't delivery people on GrubHub cancel orders? For the same reason that Uber Drivers can't see their fare's destination until they get in the car. DoorDash doesn't want their delivery people to cherry-pick only the costliest orders with the choicest tips. That would leave a good portion of customers without food.

So, the delivery people are left to call whoever ordered on their phone about this. If there's any confusion from the delivery person and their ability to convey the nuances of this problem --that GrubHub promised something they couldn't deliver-- then the delivery person is left to pay for orders that DoorDash users don't cancel.

My friend has been given more than one upset delivery person's phone which has an angry GrubHub customer on the other end. So, while a DoorDash customer may have wanted to avoid a phone call, the customer is now hungrier and upset at somebody who would have been able to sell them their sandwich for 16% less and had actual knowledge about what kind of bread was still available because they wanted to avoid the phone call that they're now having. Usually not a big deal, but if you're already working a crowded deli-counter during the lunch rush; it certainly cements the uselessness of these platforms.