How did you do this? I once tried and it seemed impossible.

icloudpd - https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

for the rest of the migration I had to take it piece by piece, luckily my iPhone had enough storage, I got iCloud to download everything to my iPhone, then syncthing-ed everything to another machine. I then backed up everything that I just downloaded from iCloud to a Hetzner Storage Box via restic.

Thanks, man! Appreciated

What are you talking about? Germany would be more energy independent if it had adopted solar and wind power when Greenpeace was advocating it fourty years ago, like China is showcasing today!

The question is not if renewables can replace nuclear. Obviously it is technically possible. The question is how many times bigger should be installed peak power of renewables. 20x? 50x? And of course if it’s economically viable. Because China does not gamble with renewables. They build nuclear capacity at unprecedented levels.

Check latitutes of largest cities in Germany, and compare them to largest cities in China. Have you noticed how all of major German cities are much further north than major Chinese cities?

You can't ignore physics and climate.

Your argument is basically "It's only 80% as efficient as another country" so it has to be bad?

what if it's already 50% better than any alternative? Solarpunk is alive and well and economies of scale of panels and batteries will make it even more affordable and viable.

China connected 5 solar panels every second of last year. This is happening.

There is a significant difference in term of dependency when it comes to solar vs gas/oil. Solar panels are not consumables when int comes to energy production- oil and gas are. China can shutdown the supply of solar panels, but not the energy generation with existing panels. This gives you time to start building other supply channels.

> in term of dependency when it comes to solar vs gas/oil.

I don't agree. Oil and gas can be sourced from many different countries, you don't have to rely only on Russia. Russia is just the obvious choice if you are in the middle of Europe, but there are many other producers.

If China stops the supply of solar panels today, you are only good if you have already achieved 100% energy needs coverage with solar. No large country is going to be at that level anytime soon.

If time is stored in UTC, the result is correct even if the timezone database is corrupted, because timezone is only metadata and doesn't affect time.

Depends what you're actually storing. There are plenty of cases where the timezone is not metadata; it defines how the datetime should be interpreted.

For example: your local mom and pop corner store's daily opening and closing times. Storing those in UTC is not correct because mom and pop don't open and close their store based on UTC time. They open and close it based on the local time zone.

You conflate different concepts here. The actual moment of opening and closing can be stored in UTC, because it's proper time. Scheduling algorithm is an algorithm, not time. You can use DSL similar to time to code this algorithm, but being DSL it can go only so far to implement it.

Storing them in UTC is valid here also, but their IANA time zone string should also be stored ‘somewhere’.

You don't need to store the timezone anywhere, you just need to know the current local timezone when the stored UTC time is used. And that's why storing in UTC is better, because it only takes one conversion to represent it in some arbitrary local time.

If you stored it as a local time (ie: with TZ), then if it's ever later translated to a different local time (different TZ), you're now dealing with all the quirks of 2 different timezones. It's great way to be off by some multiple of 15 minutes, or even a day or two!

Heck, even if it's the same exact location, storing in local time can still require conversion if that location uses daylight savings! You're never safe from needing to adapt to timezones, so storing datetimes in the most universal format is pretty much always the best thing to do.

Why posting something only for subscribers?

That's a fun game! I found out I have muscle memory for j/k meaning up/down, instead of w/s.

Vim keybinds? Sadly never invested enough energy to get used to those.

It's not really that hard.

You can just download Vim plugin on the code editor you're already using and play with it 10 minutes a day. It would work like MAGIC.

What do you mean with licensing? What’s the difference to a university degree?

The paper ceiling is a silly gatekeeping done by those who have made it.

I would be in favor of licensing knowing it would probably exclude me unless of course it does not require a university degree. I was not born into a family of means and being autodidactic allowed me to excel beyond my upbringing.

The best path would be to have journeyman type of pathway.

No.

You'd still need to interview people because there's no license that will tell you who the good/great candidates are

And now you've moved the job of administering and evaluating coding tests to an organization that only does that.

Who would want to work at such a place? Why would I trust the opinions of people who work at such a place?

It is good enough for plumbing, bricklaying, food service etc. Why not coding.

I'm going to make the extremely controversial statement that writing software is a lot more difficult than all of those things.

I acknowledge that some feel their contributions are at that level, but that doesn't mean it's the norm.

That’s not a standard format. ISO format is yyyy-mm—dd. Also, sorts nicely by time if you sort alphabetically.

Yes, I know. But for your personal file names, you can pick whatever you feel like.

After reading that piece, I’ll do my best to avoid flying with a Boeing airplane. I hope the author survives his article.

I was wondering how „bob@[rocket]“ works… Thank you for clarifying.