I only wish I had some concrete role models when I was young. It took me until I was nearly 40 before I had anyone in my life who fit that description. Fictional characters, celebrities, and media personalities never felt like role models to me or inspired me.
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Guess maybe coders needed a fucking union after all, who would have guessed that the "rockstar" programmer gravy train wouldn't last forever.
By far the easiest solution.
How dare you enjoy something different than my suggestion! /s
FooBar2000 is a classic program, wild it's been around for over 20 years and is still being developed!
Especially when you can update them with stuff like Rockbox.
I've been meaning to replace the battery on my 1st generation iPod, getting a firewire card, and putting Rockbox on it.
I can't find a documented keyboard shortcut for this.
Have you tried tapping an empty part of the Shelf bar where there are no apps using the touchpad and tapping with two fingers at once?
The only documented ways I have been able to find is the double tap on the touchpad or right-clicking then then choosing where to place the Shelf.
Same, I have astigmatism and near-sightedness, a brutal combination.
The most surprising thing is how they manage to justify it to themselves when they definitely would not have a job if it wasn't for all the low-level workers in any industry. Bezos, for example, can't deliver every Amazon Prime package nor can he deploy every Amazon Web Services server. Their jobs as CEOs would literally not exist without the laborers.
It's a serious mental illness and it needs to be fucking treated as such. If anyone needs to be institutionalized it's people like this.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/dec/22/diy-adjustable-glasses-josh-silver
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2011/may/22/joshua-silver-glasses-self-adjusting
Original article I posted didn't give a date, but the earliest articles about these glasses are from 2008-2011, so they've certainly been around for almost 20 years now.
I think they were really aimed at rural communities in poor countries, several of the articles I've read reference about 300,000 pairs being distributed.
https://www.engineeringforchange.org/solutions/product/adspecs/
Hopefully if enough of these get distributed it won't be so much of a problem except for people with astigmatism.
https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/european-inventor-award/meet-the-finalists/joshua-silver
Joshua Silver, a professor of physics at the University of Oxford, first had the idea to manufacture adjustable lenses for the poor, removing the need for expensive equipment and professionals, in May 1985 after he had created a variable focus lens out of curiosity.
His invention allows wearers to adjust the glasses to their personal prescription without the assistance of a healthcare professional. They simply look at a reading chart and adjust the glasses until they can see the letters clearly.
The glasses use durable but flexible plastic lenses, which have fluid sacs filled with silicone oil between them. These glasses can easily be adjusted by the wearer by simply adding or removing some of the oil in the sacs.
The invention is not without its limitations, however. Currently, the principle only functions successfully with circular lenses, limiting the design opportunities. Additionally, the principle can only alter the magnification of objects, so the glasses cannot treat those with astigmatism. What these spectacles lack in aesthetics, however, they make up for in spades with utility and work on non-round lenses is already underway.
His stated goal was to make the overall cost of a pair of glasses as low as $19.
They said "monetary economy" which means money, they didn't say "unbanked economy."
Salty + sweet is the best food combo imho