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Sounds very similar to the Elan School: https://elan.school/

It's distressing that such schools and centers can exist and thrive.

I can't help but wonder if these policy changes were completely by design to constrain supply and increase the value of existing housing as a favour to the politician's buddies and corporate overlords.

Social and affordable housing is competition to private market housing. Without it, a power vacuum was left in its place and the market went nuts and speculation took over. REITs bought up tons of housing, much of it previously affordable housing, and since these REITs are publicly listed companies, they need to continue making increased returns so they continue buying everything up and driving up prices, thereby, putting pressure on the rental markets. Years of low interest rates made it very lucrative for investors and REITs to just buy everything making housing affordability worse for everyone.

It doesn't take a genius to see that Canada and probably the rest of the Western world is heading into very dangerous waters with the ridiculous rise in costs for the essentials of life. What is going to happen to our society when vast swaths of people are having trouble just surviving? It feels like this unchecked greed and short sighted profits over everything else will lead us down a very dark path.

Sounds like they might be pumping water into that shrimp. They do it for chicken breast and I think up to half the weight of the product can be water added or something ridiculous like that.

IMO Clojure really shines with a REPL-driven development, where you have a REPL to interact with a live running application. You can have a very productive workflow where you conduct little code experiments and incrementally build up functionality. Typically, in this workflow, you're also sending code (as S-expression forms) to the REPL from your editor to inspect or test the output (some tools have inline display of the output like the Calva Clojure extension for VS Code ). Any tests you come up with in the REPL can usually be turned into unit tests fairly easily (e.g. copy/paste into a tests file) and those tests can be run automatically on source change in the background as well or from the REPL itself. There are also tools on built on top of the REPL that can be used for live inspection of data structures, data visualization/exploration, creating watches on variables, etc. Although the Clojure REPL is best used when developing Clojure applications, I've also found it useful for getting familiar with Java apps such as a complex Spring Framework web app that I had to work on.

For Python, I typically use Jupyter/IPython to hash out and test the functionality I need and I find provides a much superior experience to just using the regular $ python REPL. With PyCharm, the Jupyter integration is really nice and makes the experience a lot more liquid than having to flip between a browser tab and your editor. It's not quite as nice as a REPL integrated with your live running app, but I personally find it more productive than running a debugger or just spamming print statements and modifying and rerunning my Python script 100X.

I really hope that more languages start to better support for more exploratory, experimental development workflows since sometimes I just want to play around to get familiar with using a library or tool in a sandbox. I think there's a lot of room to improve developer productivity through blending and integrating together REPLs, notebook-like environments, hot code reloading and other tools/techniques to enable rapid prototyping and faster feedback for developers. Tests and type checking are very useful when you've figured out what you need and need to have sanity checks, but can be a major hindrance in that "figuring it out" exploratory stage.

Ah I see what you mean. I had to tap on the widget and then I could select my PC and eventually see my commands. Strange change for the UI/UX as it's not very intuitive. A "tap to select PC" would be a lot more helpful than just a blank screen in the widget.

Biometric on my phone to unlock it (or PIN), but with KDE connect it's just running loginctl lock-session/loginctl unlock-session to lock/unlock the PC.

I'm not sure. Are you talking about an issue on the PC or the phone? Did you perform any updates? What distro are you using? There may have been a major update that may have wiped your settings, but without more info it's hard to tell.

It's amazing and it keeps getting better with each update. I have it set up with a number of commands to remotely from my phone lock/unlock my PC, turn Bluetooth on or off, toggle night mode, start and kill certain apps, etc. It's very handy to share links and files from my phone straight to my PC or vice versa.

Work. Software development is so much nicer on Linux and I grew to really enjoy the power and flexibility of the terminal. I started with dual boot on my PC and eventually deleted my Windows partition and went full Linux.

Many things have substantially improved significantly in the last 10 or so years such as gaming, drivers and overall desktop user experience to the point where I dread trying to use a Windows machine. Plus I'm pretty comfy now and like that I have full control over my machine when I use Linux vs whatever spyware MS is trying to shove down people's throats.

I've done something like that before with ddrescue though the example on the Arch wiki ddrescue page shows how to copy an entire drive to another drive. Here's how to backup to a file instead:

sudo ddrescue -f -n /dev/sda1 /path/to/backup.hdimage /path/to/backup.mapfile

But I'd reference the docs just to double-check: https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html

You might need to restore the image via Arch recovery mode with a bootable USB drive loaded with the Arch ISO however.

The Arch wiki has some really good info on using dd for cloning. I've done it myself successfully with dd, but double and triple check to make sure your command is correct before continuing. Both drives would need to be connected to the same machine at the same time (new drive in a USB enclosure or in a spare PCIe slot)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dd#Disk_cloning_and_restore

It might be worthwhile to check out GUI alternatives to dd if you feel more comfortable in a GUI vs terminal:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Disk_cloning

I haven't heard anything bad about Endeavor in the same way people slam Manjaro for their poor management of an Arch based distro. It'd be worth a shot I think. Rolling release distros like Arch can provide a very nice up-to-date user experience vs major releases, which I have never had much luck with on Linux.

I've never heard ofMicroOS, but have heard of OpenSUSE. It sounds like it would be useful for servers and maybe if you want to do some software development where you'd want to use containers for building and running your app. I'll have to check it out.