Yeah, started working for me a few hours later.

And clicking on the activation link again shows »too many tries »

I signed up, got the activation email, clicked on that which took me to the login page.

Logging in shows me a message that I am not activated.

Weird.

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I second the advice to switch to a different/previous/known good kernel. That has been the cause a most boot problems for me. I just had it happen on a VM a couple of weeks ago, so I switched to the old kernel, then removed the new kernel. I’ll wait for another kernel before upgrading.

It’s probably worth scanning your disk just in case as well.

I always plug in. I don’t know if it works with calibre server.

My unmodified kobo syncs with calibre.

I wish you both the best.

I learned the hard way about the beauty of backups and the 3, 2, 1 rule. And snapshots are the GOAT.

Even large and (supposedly) sophisticated teams can make this mistake, so dont feel bad. It’s all part of learning and growth. You have learned the lesson in a very real and visceral way - it will stick with you forever.

Example - a very large customer running our product across multiple servers, talking back to a large central (and shared) DB server. DB server shat itself. They called us up to see if we had any logs that could be used to reconstruct our part of their database server, because it turned out they had no backups. Had to say no.

Damn… I feel for you. It sounds like you are in a tough spot. There’s lots of good advice on this page, and the one thing I will add is to protect and keep working on your relationship. Money is the core component of many (or was it most?) relationship problems.

You can get through it, but (IMHO) you need your wife right there with you (or at least, I did). We were doing ok until I tried to start a business and dropped my 9-5 job. Revenue was slim, and then at one point I earned nothing for 6 months. We were on the bones of our arse - living off a meagre kindergarten teacher’s wage paying rent and food. Without my wife, we would have drowned. She did amazing things in budgeting down to the last penny, no luxuries, riding everywhere, spending time together. It was hard and there was no end in sight for a long time. We were very lucky and things turned around. But I would have not managed it without her (and her incredible budgets).

It sound like you have been deep in it for longer than we were, and I wish you all the best in working your way out.

When I look closer at the source, I can see they are using data-icon-name for the image, so it’s likely using fluent-ui, and loading these icon resources from a font.

I can see a whole lot of fonts loading, although they do show some warnings:

The resource https://res-h3.public.cdn.office.net/assets/mail/fonts/v1/fonts/segoeui-semilight.woff was preloaded using link preload but not used within a few seconds from the window’s load event. Please make sure it wasn’t preloaded for nothing.

This is repeated for a number of versions of that font. I cannot see any font resources actually failing to load.

My smaller battery MX Tesla, after 7 years, has gone from 330km to 308km. The degradation is a lot slower than you indicate.

He’s talking about the USA, so the guard could shoot your neighbour and be suspended with pay. If he wants to be extra cautious, he could yell stop resisting after shooting him.

I am one… but I’m the only one I know at my company and socially.

The lists are quite similar with a slight reordering in the top 7 or 8. I guess both lists are a representative sample of developers… But there is one interesting difference:

IEEE: Python, Java, C++, C, JS, SQL, Go TIOBE: Python, C, C++, Java, C#, JS, VB (!), SQL

In IEEE, VB is way way down the list. Do IEEE members use VB less?

I’m always amazed that C still scores so high, but I’ve been told there is a lot of embedded work still going on.

I haven’t finished the article yet - but it was making some interesting points about people in the Donbas region wanting to join Russia, and that fighters there were locals, and not (as we have been told) itinerant Russians.

That was different to what I have heard before, and he pointed to the referendum in 2022 that shows that 87% of Donbas support annexation to Russia. However… that referendum was taken after the invasion and so needs to be considered possibly suspect. Link

Maybe a better source for a referendum was from before the initial 2014 annexation of Crimea and the accelerated fighting in Donbas from then. The only one I can find dates to 1991 - and it strongly shows a desire for independence, even in Donbas where it was over 80%. Link. Interestingly lowest support for independence was Crimea at 50-60%. Overall the country was 92% for with 84% turnout. That’s a pretty strong result, although a little old.

Keep in mind that this is for « typical IEEE members », which I am pretty sure is not a great representative sample of programmers in general.

How many of you programmers out there are IEEE members?

I have one, and they are great. But wasn’t there just a scandal about a recent firmware update that applied DRM to ink?

To have library portability is a very cool feature. I hadn’t released that this was possible.

While there is a slow, but steady, stream of interesting topics, the number of responses is typically in the 10s (at most) rather than hundreds or thousands. Often its just 0. And the quality of the responses is still lacking mostly, although some of the tech channels I follow usually have one or two people with good knowledge.

Plus… waaaay too many old memes. (Yeah… I know I can block them, but I do like living dangerously and browsing all sometimes to look for interesting channels)