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My existing bean-to-cup machine is wearing out (at around 10,000 brews). I have a niche requirement (separate hoppers/containers for regular beans and decaf beans because I drink one and herself prefers the other). I'd like to browse in-person and get expert advice rather than buy on-line. Any recommendations for a good shop (reasonably easily reachable from County Dublin, ideally) to go to? Thanks!
My existing bean-to-cup machine is wearing out (at around 10,000 brews). I have an unusual requirement (need separate hoppers/containers for regular beans and decaf beans). I'd like to browse in-person and get expert advice rather than buy on-line. Any recommendations for a good shop to go to? Thanks!
I'd like my kids to understand Spinal Tap when they watch it[1]. I suppose they should have seen an example of what's being satirised before seeing the satire. What should they watch first?
The analogy in my mind (accurate or not...) is to watch Bond before Austin Powers.
[1] Basically I want to make dad jokes about exploding drummers and get groans rather than mystified looks.
I've just finished The Regicide Report. The narrative mentions some events that had recently happened in Washington, and things that had happened to the team who went there.
I didn't know about this. Did I somehow miss a book, novella or short story somehow? Or is the retrospective mention in The Regicide Report the only thing Charles Stross has written (so far) about them?
[Tagged with the spoiler tag because although the question doesn't contain a spoiler, the answers might.]
I read some of the comments on the post "My (F32) friend (F32) has been lying about being a nurse for 10 years" (note: if you follow the link please make sure you are aware of the sub's rules about e.g. brigading). I found some of the comments every bit as interesting as the posted story.
People saying they were or had been pathological liars talking about why they do it (I've known a few, and always wondered that) and, in some case, why they stopped. I found some of those ones in particular engaging and a bit uplifting.
Then ... I had a "... what, what?" moment. As if h
Right now I run Sonarr and related tools on a small collection of VMs running locally in my home. They're not publicly accessible. The VMs are all Debian 12 (I'm a long-time Linux power user) right now, so they are due for an upgrade. I'm running:
I am fed up with doing all this manually every time.
Specifically I want to be able to do this:
I am looking for an Irish charity which works in suicide prevention to donate to. There are some "obvious" answers but some comments about them gave me pause. So I'd like to get input from Irish folks about which ones would be good. Ideally focusing on adult men under 40, but I'd rather donate to an effective charity with no specialisation than a bad one which does specialise.
I already donated to Papyrus UK (following the wishes of the immediate family of a relative who we recently lost to suicide) but since I'm here I also wanted to act locally, too.
I did some research before posting. Here are some things I found:
Is there any open-source parcel tracker?
I did some searching and I found some related or incomplete things, but nothing that both seemed relevant and worked. Here's what I did find:
| What | Comments |
|---|---|
| Org-Mode extension for package tracking by Dr. Óscar Nájera | Tracks parcels about which you've received an email, collects updates even if there isn't another email. But, supports only DHL. If this worked for other logistics companies, this would be nearly ideal for me. |
| parcelsapp.com | Not open-source but claims to support a number of logistics companies, including quite a few I |
What are some historical examples of more junior levels of a job/profession being eliminated (or mostly eliminated)? What happened to the junior folks whose roles had dwindled? Did they leave the field or somehow jump to the more senior roles in the same career? If the latter, what are some examples of how they did this? For folks previously in-training for the junior roles, what did they end up doing instead?
In cases where this change happened, how was it understood at the time, and how did understanding of those events evolve subsequently? If I want to continue to research this question myself, what are the relevant keywords and concepts I should investigate to drive my own learning?
What are some historical examples of more junior levels of a job/profession being eliminated? What happened to the junior folks whose roles had dwindled? Did they leave the field or somehow jump to the more senior roles in the same career? If yes, what are some examples of how they did this? For folks previously in-training for the junior roles, what did they end up doing instead?
I'm going to put my question in context in the hope this helps people find the most relevant examples.
There's a lot of talk in the computer programming sector right now about whether or not AI will replace early-career programmers, leaving behind today's more-experienced programmers who guide AIs through
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