Apart from the payment part, this could be used entirely from a machine without a GUI. You can do the same with others using Terraform or aws-cli but it requires setup first.
I think "the Americas" means the continent(s), and America (to some extent) can mean either but it would feel more like something used as a gotcha at a pub quiz.
You're definitely right about there not being a word for someone from that continent though.
Have you never suffered from habitual reflexes? I blocked twitter for a while in my hosts file and a dozen times over those first few days I instinctively opened a new tab and typed twitter in
We all admire your absolute mastery of your own habitual reflexes and mind. For the rest of us, there is a daily battle of wits, desires, weakness, and habit.
If I could snap my fingers and break toxic habits and patterns, I would have done so decades ago :)
I was thinking that this week. We are quickly reaching a point where the quality of the code isn't as important as the test suite around it and reducing the number of tokens. High level languages are for humans to read/write, if most people aren't reading the code we should just skip this step.
This is a point I keep advocating, sure the tools aren't yet there, but it is foolish to assume we don't ever get there, generating 3GL source code is only a transition step.
We already are having visual programming tools with AI agents, with various kinds of success, see iPaaS like Boomi, Workato and similar.
Recently I have had the opportunity to be part of projects using such kind of tools.
If there is any traditional coding it is a bunch of serverless endpoints exposed as MCP tools.
In my opinion rpis have been living off their name/first to market for a long time now with exaggerated low-power usage, and there may come a point where your "too high" scenario happens.
I know I'm comparing apples to oranges here (new to used), but I started buying used 1L PCs instead (Lenovo thinkcentres) for about $20 the cost of a RPi 5 - but with the benefit of it actually coming with the cooling and storage it needs to run and is upgradable, plus runs Intel.
The amount of times I've had a Pi just self-destruct on me is ridiculous. They are known for melting SD cards, and just this week I had one blow the power regulator over USB power and still get hot enough in 2 minutes that it burnt me to touch it. They are considered cheap commodity computing and they aren't cheap enough for that any more.
I found it interesting that they know how to use strace, but not how to list open files held by a process which to me seems simpler. Again, not criticism just an observation and I enjoyed the article
Given the "(hi Julia!)" immediately after the strace shenanigans, I interpreted this as a third-party hint; the author most likely had not used strace before.
The author is both an example of and an example for how we can get caught in "bubbles" of tools/things we know and use and don't, and blog posts like this are great for discovery (I didn't know about git invoking a binary in the path like his "git re-edit", for example, until today).
I discovered that by accident, I had a script called git-pr that opened a pull request with github using the last commit message and then pushed it to slack for approval. I was trying to rewrite it to add a description and wondered why "git pr" pushed an empty message to slack
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